MicroCom Systems, copyright 1987, all rights reserved.

INFO-1a,b The Chef 1.1 keyword based recipe management system.

INFO-1a: Chef, disk 1 of 2.

CHEF .EXE 31488 Recipe management system main program.
CHEFUNIT.TBL 128 Required data file.
RECIPES .1-18 nnnnn Recipe data files.

INFO-1b: Chef, disk 2 of 2.

CHEF .EXE 31488 Recipe management system main program.
CHEFUNIT.TBL 128 Required data file.
RECIPES .1-8 nnnnn More recipe data files.



Hardware: No special requirements, a hard disk would be very helpful.
Software: Dos 2.0 or later.
To start: Enter "CHEF".
To end: From the main option menu select "E".
For help: No additional help available.
Author: James J. Gillogly.

CHEF is a complete recipe database management system. Chef comes
complete with 26 recipes files containing several hundreds of recipes.
With Chef you can search through all of these recipes in several different
ways. The keyword retrieval algorithm allows selection of recipes by
assigned keywords, ingredients, and title words. In addition, once you
found a subset of the recipes with the specified keyword, you can prune the
list down by specifying a further selection criteria. So you could find
all recipes with CAKE as a title word and BERRY as an ingredient.
In addition to using these disks as a reference cookbook, you can add
your own recipes. Merely use your own editor to append the recipe you want
to the end of one of the recipes data files. Check the format of the last
recipe in the file to see where to put the title, ingredients, and keyword
lines.
Because there are too many recipes to fit on one disk, Chef is being
distributed on two. Chef runs best, and fastest, from a hard disk drive,
if one is available; copy the Chef files from the INFO-1a diskette into a
single subdirectory of the hard disk, then rename the recipes files on the
INFO-1b diskette from RECIPES.1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 to RECIPES.19,20,21,22,23
24,25,26 and copy them to the hard disk. One of the problems which Chef
does have is how it utilizes multiple floppy disks. The best way to avoid
the problem when not using a hard disk is to run Chef only from the disk
which contains the recipes you would like to refer to. To this end, the
Chef program is included on both distribution diskettes.



MICROCOM SYSTEMS

MicroCom Systems distributes Public Domain and User-Supported (PD&US) software
for the IBM PC/XT/AT and compatible computers. Our software charter specifies
that we search for the best available PD&US software and distribute it for a
nominal charge. We understand that there are literally hundreds of megabytes
of PD&US software in existence and it is our goal to distribute only the best,
which constitutes only a small fraction of all PD&US software. Our prices are
also a reflection of the fact that we are a service oriented group.

In addition to offering only the best of what is available, we DO NOT offer
lots of redundant programs, which other public domain software groups tend to
do. We try to provide the service of distributing only the best program
available for a particular need, rather than every program on the market that
meets that need. For example, we sell only ONE variable size ram-disk (the
best one) whereas some of the other groups sell more than TEN of them!


CURRENT OFFERINGS AS OF DECEMBER 14, 1987

BUSINESS 1 ... EZ-Forms D.15 menu driven form authoring, completion & printing.
BUSINESS 2 ... ExpressGraph v1.02 business graphics. Plot your data! Color.
CAD 1ab ...... FingerPaint 1.3 and Altamira 1.0 object drawing.
(Two disks. The cost is double that of a single disk.)
CAD 2ab ...... DanCad3D 1.3 advanced 3D/2D drafting. 640k&color req.
(Two disks. The cost is double that of a single disk.)
CAD 3 ........ PC Flow 1.0, computer aided flowchart generation. Color req.
COMM 1abcd ... The ever popular Qmodem SST 3.1 windowing modem prog.
(Four disks. The cost is four times that of a single disk.)
COMM 2ab ..... Procomm 2.42 an excellent modem prog. w/term. emulation.
(Two disks. The cost is double that of a single disk.)
COMM 3 ....... Compression/decompression, archival utils for communications.
COMM 4abcde .. RBBS 14.1d Bulletin Board System for information exchange.
(Five disks. The cost is five times that of a single disk.)
DATABASE 1ab . File Express v3.8 menu driven general purpose database mgr.
(Two disks. The cost is double that of a single disk.)
DATABASE 3 ... pBase 1.50, a powerful relational db manager with query lang.
EDUCATION 1 .. Dos Tutor 4.2 for beginning DOS users, and DOS cmd reference.
EDUCATION 2 .. Learn the Presidents, States (and capitals) and more. Color.
EDUCATION 3 .. PC Fastype 3.01 typing tutor, all levels of typists. Color req.
EDUCATION 5 .. Learn Origami, the Japanese art of paper folding. Color req'd.
EDUCATION 6 .. 17 Lesson Turbo Pascal tutorial with sample programs for each.
EDUCATION 7 .. PC Professor interative Basic tutorial. Learn to program!
EDUCATION 8 .. Spanish Teacher 1.1 and a Spanish Verb Conjugator 1.13
EDUCATION 9 .. French Teacher 1.1 and a French Verb Conjugator 1.13
EDUCATION 10 . German Teacher 1.1 drills on vocabulary and verbs.
FINANCES 1ab . PC Accountant 2.0, personal bookkeeping/finance manager.
(Two disks. The cost is double that of a single disk.)
FINANCES 3ab . ExpressCalc 3.12 powerful spreadsheet program.
(Two disks. The cost is double that of a single disk.)
FINANCES 4 ... AM Tax, federal tax preparation software for 1986 tax year.
GAMES 1 ...... Chess, 3 D PacMan, Flightmare, Kong and more! Color req.
GAMES 2 ...... Qubert, Pango, Centipede, and more arcade style games! Color.
GAMES 3 ...... Blackjack, Arm chair Quarterback, Empire, and more!
GAMES 4 ...... Startrek, the original colossal caves Adventure, and Castle.
GAMES 5 ...... The amazing Hack 3.6 adventure from the universities. Large!
GAMES 6 ...... PacMan, Othello, Pinball, Dragons, and more! Color req.
GAMES 7 ...... Backgammon, Centipede, Firefighting and more. Some req. color.
GAMES 8 ...... Risk 1.1 world domination and Striker 1.2 arcade game. Color.
GAMES 9 ...... EGARisk 1.1, world domination, and EGARoids, PC/AT and EGA req'd.
GAMES 10 ..... Solitaire, Golf, and Sailing in the Bermuda Triangle. Color.
GAMES 12 ..... Backgammon, select from among three computer adversaries.
GRAPH 1 ...... Present, sophisticated computer ""slide"" show facility. Color.
GRAPH 2abc ... Surfmodl 1.2 3-Dimensional surface modelling, includes shading!
(Three disks. The cost is three times that of a single disk.)
HUMOR 1 ...... Practical, impractical & other jokes. Amusing PC pastimes.
INFO 1ab ..... The Chef 1.1 keyword based recipe management system.
(Two disks. The cost is double that of a single disk.)
INFO 2ab ..... Zip Phone V1.4, U.S. zipcode/state/areacode cross reference.
(Two disks. The cost is double that of a single disk.)
LANGUAGE 1 ... PDProlog 1.91a Artificial Intelligence language.
LANGUAGE 2 ... The Small C v1.1 compiler and a Small C Interpreter v1.1.
LANGUAGE 3ab . A86 v3.09 macro asmblr/interactive debug for 8088/86/286s.
(Two disks. The cost is double that of a single disk.)
LANGUAGE 4 ... 370 Assembler, linker and emulator for IBM mainframe fans.
LANGUAGE 5 ... Turbo Pascal utilities. Interactive debugger and more!
LANGUAGE 7 ... Visible Pascal, compiler and interactive debugger.
LANGUAGE 8 ... Xlisp 1.7, the standard for AI programming languages.
LANGUAGE 9 ... Icon 5.9 string and structure oriented programming language.
LANGUAGE 10 .. Augusta 1.1a, subset of the DOD's new ADA programming language.
LANGUAGE 11ab. Forth 83, 2.1, compiler, decompiler, and source editor.
(Two disks. The cost is double that of a single disk.)
LANGUAGE 12 .. Vanilla Snobol4 v2.04 high level pattern programming language.
MUSIC 1 ...... Many clever tunes, and an exc. color graphics music editor.
MUSIC 2ab .... PianoMan 3.04 polyphonic music recording/playback. PC Dos.
(Two disks. The cost is double that of a single disk!)
ORGANIZER 1 .. Sidekick like DeskTeam 1.04 and Judy 1.02, your PC secretary.
ORGANIZER 2 .. Project management using critical path scheduling.
ORGANIZER 3 .. PC Outline 3.22SW memory resident windowing outline editor.
ORGANIZER 4 .. DBS Kat 1.3 disk cataloging/archival program.
PICTURE 1 .... From Darth Vader to Snoopy, printer and screen graphics.
PICTURE 2 .... High resolution digitized graphics pictures. Graphics req'd.
PINUP 1 ...... Provocative printer graphics pinups for your computer room.
PINUP 2 ...... Provocative high resolution digitized pinups. Graphics req'd.
PRINTER 1 .... The compete printer kit: spooler, banner maker, and much more.
PRINTER 2 .... ImagePrint 1.01 near letter quality from Epson compat. printers.
SHELL 1 ...... Still River Shell v2.24 full screen DOS windowing environment.
SHELL 2 ...... Unix type programs, includes a C shell, Emacs, wc and more.
SHELL 3 ...... Z80 emulator, ver 3.1. Run Z80 and CP/M programs under DOS!
SHELL 4ab .... Automenu 4.0 cust. menu sys. & HDM 4.04 hard disk menus.
(Two disks. The cost is double that of a single disk.)
SIMULATION 1 . Maze making, MIT's Life simulation, starfields, etc. Color.
SIMULATION 2 . The Super Mandelbrot ultra powerful microscope, v2.0. Color.
SIMULATION 3 . Birdsongs, Astronomy, Wallpaper for the Mind, and more. Color.
UTILITIES 1 .. A collection of invaluable general purpose DOS utilities.
UTILITIES 2 .. More of the best general purpose utils. An absolute must!
UTILITIES 3ab. A comprehensive set of debugging and diagnostic utilities.
(Two disks. The cost is double that of a single disk.)
UTILITIES 4 .. The Ultra File Utilities for advanced diskette manipulation.
UTILITIES 5 .. Hard disk utilities, including Autopark, and Disk Organizer.
UTILITIES 6 .. Advanced DOS utils including Dpath, Pushdir and Popdir, etc.
UTILITIES 7 .. More advanced utils inc. Masterkey (undel for hard disks), etc.
WORD 1ab ..... PC Write 2.71 sophisticated word processing program.
(Two disks. The cost is double that of a single disk.)
WORD 2 ....... Script 2.01, IBM's popular text formatter, comes to the PC!
WORD 3 ....... Writing analysis programs PC Style 1.0 and PC Read 2.5.
WORD 4 ....... Spell checking with customization ability. 26000+ word dict.

The content and availability of the above disks is subject to change without
notice.


COMPATIBILITY

The programs we distribute generally require PC-DOS versions 2.0 or later
(including 2.1, 3.0, 3.1, and 3.2) A few programs may not work on some
compatibles. The basic programs distributed require IBM BASIC or BASICA, but
in most cases are compatible with GWBASIC, and Compaq's BASICA.


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interpreter, such as GWBASIC) followed by the program name.

The programs distributed may be in subdirectories. To access a program in a
subdirectory, execute the DOS command "CHDIR (directory name)". This will then
make the specified directory the current one and the programs in it will be
directly accessible.


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