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EXPRESSCHECK has a simple goal: to help you manage your checking
accounts. Without EXPRESSCHECK, you can either guess at where you spent
all your money, or you can spend long hours with a calculator. With
EXPRESSCHECK, you can find out in only a few seconds.

How much do you spend each month on food, car payments, electricity,
gas, and entertainment? How much have you given in tax-deductible
donations? Every check and deposit can be recorded with various
user-defined budget codes. This makes it possible for you to see at any
time during the year where you stand in regard to your spending.

Entering checks and deposits is fast and enjoyable. You can enter
recurring payments with two keystrokes. The screens appear the same as
real checks, deposit slips, and check registers, so you'll find the
program extremely easy to learn and use. You can define budget codes on
the fly, and windows show all currently-defined codes. EXPRESSCHECK
even prints the checks for you on any kind of tractor-fed forms.

You can print predefined reports that give you monthly or year-to-date
totals for any or all budget codes, a check register with running
balance, all transactions that have not yet cleared the bank, checks or
deposits that included certain budget codes, or all checks made out to
certain payees. Many of the figures that go on your tax return are at
your finger tips.

Disk No: 1057                                                           
Disk Title: ExpressCheck 1 of 2 (also disk 2085)                        
PC-SIG Version: S2.1                                                    
                                                                        
Program Title: ExpressCheck                                             
Author Version: 4.03                                                    
Author Registration: $34.95                                             
Special Requirements: 320K RAM.                                         
                                                                        
EXPRESSCHECK has a simple goal: to help you manage your checking        
accounts.  Without EXPRESSCHECK, you can either guess at where you spent
all your money, or you can spend long hours with a calculator.  With    
EXPRESSCHECK, you can find out in just a few seconds.                   
                                                                        
How much do you spend each month on food, car payments, electricity,    
gas, and entertainment?  How much have you given in tax-deductible      
donations?  Every check and deposit can be recorded with various        
user-defined budget codes.  This makes it possible for you to see at any
time during the year where you stand in regard to your spending.        
                                                                        
Entering checks and deposits is fast and enjoyable.  You can enter      
recurring payments with two keystrokes.  The screens appear the same as 
real checks, deposit slips, and check registers, so you'll find the     
program extremely easy to learn and use.  You can define budget codes on
the fly and windows show all currently-defined codes.  EXPRESSCHECK even
prints the checks for you on any kind of tractor-fed forms.             
                                                                        
You can print predefined reports that give you monthly or year-to-date  
totals for any or all budget codes, a check register with running       
balance, all transactions that have not yet cleared the bank, checks or 
deposits that included certain budget codes, or all checks made out to  
certain payees.  Many of the figures that go on your tax return are at  
your finger tips.                                                       
                                                                        
PC-SIG                                                                  
1030D East Duane Avenue                                                 
Sunnyvale  Ca. 94086                                                    
(408) 730-9291                                                          
(c) Copyright 1989 PC-SIG, Inc.                                         

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║ To print documentation, insert #2085 and type: PRINTDOC (press enter)   ║
║ To customize the program, type: SETUP                                   ║
║ To run the program, type: CHECK (press enter)                           ║
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ExpressCheck Version 4                     Released Jan. 8, 1990

After months of hard work, the newest version of ExpressCheck is
ready to be shipped.  Ever since version 3 was released a year
ago, we have listened to your comments and suggestions and have
incorporated them into what we now consider to be the best
personal and small business finance manager on the market today. 

One of our happy users just wrote us: "I had been using Quicken
for about a year or two and after trying out ExpressCheck for 5
minutes I dropped Quicken like it was a Hot Potato."

Responses like this are typical.  People love using Express-
Check, and we think you will love this new version even more. 


New features in version 4 include: 

Bill Reminder System

Indicate your bills and how often they are due and ExpressCheck
will actually remind you when they are coming up, and when you
say so, will automatically enter them for you and even print the
checks if you like.  You can define up to 10 Payment Groups to be
paid every week, every two weeks, twice a month, every four
weeks, every month, every quarter, twice a year, annually, or on
a variable schedule.  Those automatic withdrawals, insurance and
property tax payments won't sneek by unnoticed any more.  There
is even a small separate program that can be run as part of your
AUTOEXEC.BAT file to tell you if any Payment Groups are due when
you turn on your computer each day.  You don't even have to run
ExpressCheck to keep on top of things.

Uncleared Transactions

Automatic display of uncleared transactions is now part of the
Check Register section.  This makes reconciling your account each
month a breeze.  Just press the <S>earch key and the next
uncleared entry is highlighted.

Customizing

Expanded Setup program lets you customize every part of the
program to your personal tastes.  You can choose line styles for
surrounding windows, exploding windows, date format (MM-DD-YY or
DD-MM-YY), the ability to turn off the automatic sorting of
Budget Codes, default answers for many prompts, clear screen
background character, leading asterisks on printed check amounts,
and more.

Calculator

A pop-up Calculator is now available from anywhere in the
program by pressing <Alt-K>.  You can make quick calculations
using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.  

Enhanced Sorting

The Sort feature is now more than twice as fast as before and
allows you to sort by Amount and Input Order as well as the
previous Number, Date and Payee.

More Reports

New reports include monthly budget code totals over a fiscal
year, a combined Payee and Budget Code report, and an Activity
Log report that gives an account of everything you did in the
current session.  Reports printed to the screen will now pause
after every screen full if desired.

New fields

There is now a "Source" field on deposit slips where you can
record the origin of the money being deposited.  There is also a
"Used for" field on the ATM withdrawal screen.

ATM Deposit

A new ATM Deposit screen has been added to make it easier to
track deposits that have been made at an automatic teller
machine.

Expanded QuickFill

QuickFill entries that allow instant fill-in of a check have now
been expanded to include all types of transactions.  QuickFill
entries can also be tagged and executed in a batch similar to
Payment Groups in the Bill Reminder system.

Shell to DOS

You can now drop to DOS by pressing <Alt-D> from anywhere in the
program.  To return to ExpressCheck, just type EXIT at the DOS
prompt and the original screen will be restored leaving you right
where you left.

Resume Numbering

If you enter a transaction that is behind your normal numbering
sequence, you can resume the usual numbering by pressing <Alt-R>.





We are always interested in your comments and ideas concerning
our products.  If you would like to make any suggestions, please
fill out and return the RESPONSE form found on the Supplemental
Disk.  If you would like to print out a copy, make sure your
printer is ready and On-Line. With the Supplemental Disk in 
drive A, type:    COPY A:RESPONSE PRN  <Enter>


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Changes that have been made in ExpressCheck, version 4


4.01   (January 25, 1990)

Startup:
    Using /F on the command line for fast startup was ignoring any
      account name to open that was read from the profile.  This has
      been fixed.

    If monochrome mode is selected on either the command line or from
      the profile, double lines are now automatically used if "none"
      was found for the line style in the profile.  Otherwise you can't
      tell where the menu boundaries are.

    If "none" is selected for the line style in the profile, the Main
      Menu looks bad.  Because of this, the Main Menu is now always
      displayed with border lines.

Check printing:
    When setting up the QuickCheck print string, you can now include
      an FF to specify a formfeed.  This is useful for people printing
      checks on laser printers to kick out the check page.

Report Section:
    Pressing <D> to print to the Disk now changes the "P" to a "D".

    Pressing <Esc> on the prompt asking for the output filename used to
      cause an error 52.  This has been fixed.

    Report number 6 was printing report number 8 if report 8 was run
      just prior to report 6.  This has been fixed.



4.02  (February 5, 1990)

Cloning:
    Typing in the name of any existing account file is now prohibited.

    Payment Group entries are now copied to the new account.

QuickFill:
    When printing the list of QuickFill entries, the columns now line up
      correctly.    


Setup:
    The Drive / Path prompt is now longer.  

    Moved the Printer port question from page 1 to page 2.

    The #1 Space Character was being lost if Setup was run twice. Fixed.

Account Definition:
    The Account number wouldn't show up on the screen when editing
      an account definition if the user had transferred to the Report
      section or the Sort section before editing.  Fixed.

Export
    Fixed an rare problem that would cause an error 55 when exporting
      a file.

Report
    If report #8 was run with several budget codes selected, and if
      there were no records found for the first code, ExpressCheck
      would report an error 63.  Fixed.

    Running report #8 twice in a row with Combined accounts would 
      add a "4." to the beginning of the account name in the title.  
      Fixed.


4.03  (March 5, 1990)


Setup:
    The Path prompt now allows a period.

    You can now specify whether you want the spelled out check amounts
      to be centered within asterisks or left justified with trailing
      asterisks.

Payment Groups:
    Deleting a QuickFill entry from the middle of the list wasn't deleting
      the correct group assignment number.  Every entry below the deleted
      entry was being shifted to the previous group assignment number.
      Fixed.

Add:
    Entering an E followed by a number larger than 38 (e.g. E123) in the
      check number field would cause an OVERFLOW error.  Fixed


    If ExpressCheck gave a low balance warning while recording a QuickFill,
      when the "Recording" window was erased, some spurious text was 
      displayed behind it.  Fixed.

QuickCheck:
    If you transferred to the Sort or Report section, then back, and then
      added or edited your QuickCheck definition, the new definition would
      be saved to disk as a blank.  The next time you started the program,
      there would be no QuickCheck definition left.  Fixed.

Report:
    If the dd-mm-yy style of dates was being used, the date range was not
      working correctly and would miss certain dates.  Fixed
 
Maintenance:
    Deleting QuickFill entries wasn't always deleting them.  Fixed


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CHECK2   EXE    129921   3-12-90   4:03a
CHECK3   EXE     10769   3-12-90   4:03a
CHECK4   EXE     48705   3-12-90   4:03a
CHKRTM   EXE     70680   3-12-90   4:03a
FILE1057 TXT      2887   3-23-90   1:54p
GO       BAT        38  10-19-87   3:56p
GO       TXT       540   1-01-80   5:01a
README            4607   3-12-90   4:03a
REMINDER EXE      6001   3-12-90   4:03a
SETUP    EXE     31057   3-12-90   4:03a
WHATSNEW DOC      8094   3-12-90   4:03a
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