Category : Databases and related files
Archive   : CARFILE.ZIP
Filename : CARS.DOC
AUTOMOBILE MAINTENANCE RECORD
THIS PROGRAM PROVIDES A FACILITY FOR STORING AUTOMOBILE MAINTENANCE
INFORMATION, AS WELL AS REMINDING THE USER OF SCHEDULED MAINTENANCE WHICH MAY
BE DUE. IT WAS WRITTEN IN MICROSOFT BASIC AND COMPILED USING MICROSOFT QUICK
BASIC COMPILER VERSION 2.0.
THERE MUST BE AT LEAST ONE MAINTENANCE FILE PRESENT IN ORDER FOR THIS
PROGRAM TO WORK PROPERLY. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO EXPERIMENT WITH THE PROGRAM
BEFORE LOADING YOUR OWN DATA, TRY USING THE MUSTANG AUTO FILE WHICH IS PROVIDED
WITH THIS SOFTWARE. IF YOU ACCIDENTALLY DELETE ALL OF YOUR MAINTENANCE FILES
OR IF YOU RECEIVED THIS PROGRAM WITHOUT ANY DATA FILES, THEN YOU CAN MAKE THE
PROGRAM WORK BY CREATING A DUMMY.CAR FILE. THIS DUMMY FILE CAN BE DELETED
AFTER YOU HAVE CREATED AN ACTUAL DATA FILE.
THE GENERAL INFORMATION SCREEN SHOULD BE THE FIRST SCREEN WHICH YOU ENTER
INFORMATION ON AFTER CREATING A NEW FILE. THIS SCREEN IS USED FOR BASIC
INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR AUTOMOBILE. THE MEMO FILE SHOULD THEN BE UPDATED TO
INCLUDE ALL RECURRING, REGULARLY SCHEDULED MAINTENANCE WHICH YOU WISH TO BE
REMINDED OF. THE MAINTENANCE FILE IS USED TO ENTER ALL MAINTENANCE ACTIVITY
FOR THE VEHICLE. THE REST OF THE PROGRAM SHOULD BE SELF EXPLANATORY.T
Very nice! Thank you for this wonderful archive. I wonder why I found it only now. Long live the BBS file archives!
This is so awesome! 😀 I’d be cool if you could download an entire archive of this at once, though.
But one thing that puzzles me is the “mtswslnkmcjklsdlsbdmMICROSOFT” string. There is an article about it here. It is definitely worth a read: http://www.os2museum.com/wp/mtswslnk/