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         ATTEND.EXE Employee Attendance Tracking Database Program          
                              Version 4.0                                  
           Copyright 1992, 1993, 1995 Robert J. Manning, author.           
               Shareware version summary documentation 8/95                
                                                                           
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   Register your copy of ATTEND v4.0 and receive complete printed doc-     
   umentation, the fully functional version of ATTEND, discounts on        
   future upgrades, and discounts on custom versions for your business.    
                                                                           
   Avoid future price increases! See the file REGISTER.TXT for a regist-   
   ration form. Print out a copy, fill it in and mail today!               
                                                                           
            Robert Manning, PO Box 2011, Lomita, CA 90717 USA              
                                                                           
          Email: RobertM782@aol.com or 76022.1630@compuserve.com           
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      NOTE: This is not the full documentation for ATTEND. It is only a
      summary of some important functions. Full documentation for the
      program is only provided to registered users. Register ATTEND today
      for just $25.00 U.S., and receive printed documentation, the fully
      functional version, full product support, and discounts on upgrades.


      ABOUT ATTEND
      
      ATTEND is a single purpose Database program. It is designed to take 
away some of the trouble involved in finding and implementing an easy method 
of tracking and recording Employee attendance. It employs a combination of 
database and spreadsheet functions, to help format and track attendance. It 
can track approximately 200 employees per working directory, flags you when 
updates are due, computes statistics on employee leave occurrence types, as 
well as optionally storing employee personal information, allows use of 
extended comment files for making notes, and many other useful functions.
      
      Version 4.0 contains two completely new additional features: A
TimeClock program, which will perform the various time clock tracking
functions for recording actual work times, and an Import function, which
can not only import and track data from the TimeClock program, but import
ASCII text timeclock data to ATTEND from an external timeclock.
      
      ATTEND can be run on any IBM compatible system, including the oldest
systems. It requires DOS 3 or higher, and that's about it. It can be run
in a text-window within Windows on a Pentium, or on a monochrome-screen XT.

      Version 3.4 and above can be run on a network, again using at least  
DOS 3.0. SHARE.EXE must be installed in order to do so. 

      Version 3.5 and above use a 'Master Passcode' feature, intended for
system administrators. It allows you to bypass the normal password (if
it's in use), lock out normal password usage, and also allows you to change
the normal pass-word. This feature has a hardcoded master passcode, which
is unique for each registered copy. The ShareWare copy uses one non-unique
passcode. The passcode for the ShareWare version is 4FP39QN6V. When you
register your copy of ATTEND, your new registered copy will be embedded
with a unique passcode, known only to the registrant.

      The screen saver enclosed can also be used on monochrome, EGA, or VGA
screens (though the graphics routines will not work in a Window - use full
screen mode for them).
      
      Some On-line Help is available in ATTEND. See the 'Additional 
Features' menu to access this summary. This is a summary of help, however.
The full, printed documentation is only available by registering. Registered
users will also receive the fully functional version (with the nag screen 
and delay removed), and discounts on future versions of the program.

      
      WHY ATTEND?
      
      ATTEND was created to fill a niche in business management, that of
keeping an organized record of employee attendance. In todays' more
competitive work environment, it has become more critical than ever to
monitor employee work attendance habits, so that corrective measures can
be taken, ensuring an employers' profit, and the employees' continued
employment.

      The cost of employee attendance is often overlooked. It is easy to
overlook those employees who arrive a few minutes late, leave a few
minutes early, and do this on a continual basis. Consider a person making
an hourly wage of $10, and suppose this person comes in just five minutes
late every day, and leaves five minutes early. They might also take five
extra minutes during their break, and another five if there's a second
break period. That's twenty minutes a day. Whether the employee realizes it
or not, they're costing both you and themselves money.

      In a week, this twenty minutes per day costs the employer $16.67, in
a 4.3 week month $71.67, in a year $866.67! So, it costs the employer the
equivalent of 1 and 2/3 hours per week in missed productivity. Multiply
this by the number of employees, and the numbers can get large quickly.

      ATTEND can help you reduce this needless business cost. It can pay
for itself in less than a month, by showing just one employee what their lax
attendance is costing you. Version 4.0 of ATTEND can track the cost of
employee attendance to at least one hundredth of an hour. The new TimeClock
function can also reduce your workload spent tracking attendance, and the
Import function can accept ASCII text clock punch files, for reduced time
spent on data entry.

      
      FILES IN SHAREWARE DISTRIBUTION
      
      This program may be freely distributed, provided that all files listed
below are included with the program. The zipped archive file ATND40S.ZIP
contains the following files:

      File Name:        Type:
             
      ATNDRUN.CFG       Configuration file
      COLOR.CFG            "  "
      EXEMPT.CFG           "  "
      HOURLY.CFG           "  "
      OTHER.CFG            "  "
      SALARIED.CFG         "  "
      TCRUN.CFG            "  "
      TEMPEMPL.CFG         "  "
      ATNRST.EXE        Utility executable
      ATTEND.EXE        Main program executable
      GRPUPDT.EXE       Utility executable
      IMPORT.EXE           "  "
      IP1.EXE              "  "
      MASTRSRT.EXE         "  "
      RUNCONFG.EXE         "  "
      SAVERSXA.EXE         "  "
      STATCFG.EXE          "  "
      TIMECLOK.EXE         "  "
      VIEWER.EXE           "  "
      ATTEND.ICO        Windows Icon
      ATTEND.PIF        Windows program information file
      DESCRIPT.TXT      Program description text file
      README.TXT        Program information text file
      REGISTER.TXT      Registration form text file
      SAVEDELA.Y        Configuration file

      If for some reason you are missing one or more of these files, please
feel free to contact the author by Email, and a replacement will be provided
by Email (This service available only by Email). Please mention where you 
obtained the program.


      RUNNING THE PROGRAM
      
      To run the program, type in ATTEND and press Enter. To set ATTEND up to
be run from within Windows, please refer to your Windows documentation for
setting up a new program item. Keep in mind that the present password is set
to BOB, and that the master passcode for the shareware version is 4FP39QN6V.

      
      INSTALLING OVER PREVIOUS VERSIONS
      
      If you have a previous version of the program, please do not directly
install this version over your previous copy. You must take care not to over-
write your configuration files:

     EXEMPT.CFG     
     HOURLY.CFG
     OTHER.CFG
     SALARIED.CFG
     TEMPEMPL.CFG

      You can over write these files, but then you will have to re-enter your
employee status configurations. Please over-write all other files.


      BEFORE YOU BEGIN
      
      Before you begin Data entry to ATTEND, it would be wise to review the
Employee Status Type configurations. Assure that the configuration adheres to
your Company policy before continuing. This configuration sets the number of
hours of Vacation and Sick leave to grant upon Anniversary. For more
frequent updating of Vacation or Sick leave, there is a Mass Update function
which can update employees in groups of status type, length of employment,
or all employees.

      Assure that your systems' Date is correct. ATTEND makes use of your
computers' internal Date to perform searches and updates. Incorrect Date may
produce undesirable results. Date and Time may be set from within ATTEND.

      Password protection can be enabled; please write the password down in a
safe place before using the function. The current password is set to BOB.
Please change this password when possible for increased security.


      THE IMPORT FUNCTION
      
      New to version 4.0, this feature allows you to enter attendance
occurrences into ATTEND from an external program. Whether it be from a
spreadsheet, word processor, or another timeclock program, ATTEND will 
accept ASCII text type files for input, and import resulting attendance
incidents to the ATTEND database. A copy of the import data can also be
placed into the employee's comment file.

      ATTEND expects a certain format for input. The text files' records
should be arranged in this order:

      Badge/ID# (8 chars maximum)
      Time of occurrence (8 chars in the format HH:MM:SS)
      Type of Occurrence (see below)
      (one blank line between each occurrence)

      Spaces should be inserted between each occurrence in this import text
file. For example, the next few lines show an example:

      12345
      07:05:00
      1

      678
      08:30:00
      3

      7654
      16:00:00
      2

      The first group shows employee #12345 clocking in at 7 a.m., and the
second group shows employee #678 clocking out to their first break at
8:30 a.m. The last group shows employee #7654 clocking out for the day at
4 p.m. Note that times are expressed in 24 hour format, and all digits are
used, even if zero.

      The types of occurrences that the import program is set to record are
as follows:

      Numeric Code:     Meaning:
      -------------     --------
      1                 Clock in for work
      2                 Clock out from work
      3                 Clockout to first break
      4                 Clockin from first break
      5                 Clockout to Lunch
      6                 Clockin from Lunch
      7                 Clockout to second break
      8                 Clockin from second break
      9                 Other

      The 'Other' fields are specified on two of the three timeclock
screens. For more detailed information on their meaning, please register
your copy of Attend. Full, printed documentation is provided only to
registered users.

      Before actually importing text, you must set up the import utility
dataset. This dataset contains normal clock times, work week hours, and so
forth. It can be accessed from the import menu. Information for all
employees in your ATTEND database will need to be entered into the import
configuration.

      Note that there is no date specified for these records. The date for
all records in an import text file comes from the file name. The import
utility will automatically look for a file using the date as a filename
whenever you try to import text. If it does not find one, it will ask for
one. For example, on August 1st, 1995, it will look for a file named 
08011995.DAT. The file should be placed into the same working directory
with Attends' records.

      The shareware version of the program will not actually finish sending
this data to Attend. This is a reserved feature for those who purchase the
program (register). However, the data will remain in the import dataset,
and may be sent to ATTEND using the Registered version of the program. You
will not lose any data; it will remain in the import dataset.

      
      THE TIMECLOCK FUNCTION
      
      Also new to version 4.0 is the addition of a timeclock function.
This feature can replace a normal mechanical timeclock, allowing clock
punches and attendance information to be more easily recorded and tracked.
ASCII text file output is standard; the registered version can also send
the clock punch information directly to the Import utility dataset,
bypassing the text import step.

      Passwords for each employee can be enabled; the first password for
each employee will be taken from the last four digits of the employees'
Social Security number, as entered in Attend. Three different clock
screens can be used, small/large text and graphical.

      Passwords can be changed by the administrator, in the event one of
your employees forgets their password. Note that employee passwords in the
configuration function are visible; take care to only let a responsible
party use the function. This function can also be used to automatically
set up the timeclock configuration using Attends' master file.

      For more information on this utility, please register your copy of
Attend.


      REGISTRATION AND PRODUCT SUPPORT
      
      Many hundreds of hours went into the development and preparation of
ATTEND. ShareWare is a type of distribution, not a type of software. You
may 'Try out' a shareware program for 30 days, before paying for it - this
is the main feature of ShareWare. Most ShareWare programs are equal in
quality - if not superior - to their commercially distributed counterparts.
In addition to being able to try out a program before purchasing it, you
save on the cost of the program, as the author saves on costs associated
with commercial distribution. Thus, ShareWare benefits both the user and
the author alike, cutting the middleman and his costs.

      The main menu of ATTEND will report the first date the program is
used. This is a reminder to register your copy in 30 days, should you be
using the program at that time. Please do not continue to use ATTEND
beyond 30 days without purchasing the registered version. Only by legally
purchasing ATTEND can the author be convinced to continue to develop and
enhance the program. The program will not cease to function at 30 days - it
is not expireware. However, a few features are reserved for the registered
version, as is full program documentation.

      ATTEND is *not* free software. I regret that in addition to the
printed manual as a registration incentive, that I have reserved parts of
the new 'Additional Features' for people who pay for (register) ATTEND.
You can try out the TimeClock and Import features, but they will not per-
form all of their functions in the shareware distribution version.

      Registering ShareWare usually brings the purchaser additional benefits,
such as documentation, program support, enhanced or updated versions, and
discounts on future versions of the program. These are all true for ATTEND.

      This file is not the full documentation for Attend. It is only a
short summation, distributed with the shareware version. Upon your
registration, you will receive by return mail the complete, printed
documentation for the program (not found in the shareware version),
a new copy of ATTEND with all reserved features fully functional, full
support by Email, telephone, and post mail, and a 50% discount on future
upgrades.

      If you find that the program does not meet your needs, no problem.
Simply delete it from your computer system. If you would be so kind as to
send a short Email message to the author, your review of ATTEND would help
to further develop the program.

      Registered users of ATTEND receive full product support. The author
can't support unregistered users, and disclaims any and all liability for
any mishaps, errors, omissions, or any other problems that may arise out of
the use of the program, for the ShareWare version.
      
      Contact the author by Email or post, concerning customized versions
of ATTEND for your particular business.
      
      Please see the file REGISTER.TXT for a registration/purchase form for
ATTEND version 4.0. Thank you for trying out ATTEND!

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  ATTEND V4.0 Employee Attendance Tracking Database Program Registration   
                                                                           
  Send completed registration form along with check or money order for     
  $25 (U.S.) to:                                                           
                                                                           
      Robert J. Manning, PO Box 2011, Lomita, CA 90717 (Current 8/95)      
                                                                           
      Email inquiries may be sent to the following addresses:              
                                                                           
      America Online: RobertM782       Compuserve: 76022,1630              
      Internet: RobertM782@AOL.COM                                         
                                                                           
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