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DAILY BREAD DOCUMENTATION

DESCRIPTION:

"Daily Bread" is a Bible calendar program for the IBM PC and
compatibles. It displays today's day and date, a Bible verse for
the day, and a Bible reading. It can be run as a memory-resident
program and pop up over other programs. If you follow the Bible
readings over the course of a year, you will have read the entire
Bible. Passages are from the King James Version. (NIV version
available through registration. See below.) This is a "red-letter
edition"; sayings of Jesus are displayed in red (on a color
monitor, which is not necessary to run the program). You might
want to run "Daily Bread" from your "autoexec.bat" file so that
the program appears as a friendly greeting every time you turn on
your computer. If you do so, place the command to run the program
after your clock chip is set with today's date or after you run
the DOS date command.

THE SHAREWARE CONCEPT:

"Daily Bread" is provided as user-supported software.
User-supported software is a means for the computing community to
receive quality software and at the same time support software
authors directly. It is based on the following assumptions:

The user can best determine the value and usefulness of
software by trying it on his own system. After trying a
program one can tell whether it serves his or her
applications, needs, and tastes.

The creation of independent personal computer software can
and should be supported by the computing community.

People should be able to copy programs freely to make the
most use of the powerful tools provided by electronic
information.

If you decide to use this program, please register for $5. I
decided to offer the program as completely as possible, instead
of offering add-ons for registered users. This procedure results
in less hassle and less expense for both of us. Please see below
for getting the NIV version of "Daily Bread" and another product
that is available. Your support helps me maintain and enhance my
hardware and software. Please send registration to:

Robert S. Smith
557 Plantation Rd.
Pelican Lake, WI 54463

Copyright (C) 1988 by Robert S. Smith. All rights reserved.
Non-registered users are granted a limited license to use this
product on a trial basis, and to copy the program for trial use
by others subject to the following limitations: 1) This program
is distributed as is. 2) No fee, charge, or other consideration
is requested or accepted. Shareware distributors who charge for
disks must have written permission to distribute this program.


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OTHER PRODUCTS AVAILABLE

"Daily Bread" is also available with verses from the New
International Version of the Bible. You may receive that version
of "Daily Bread" by registering for $10. I have another
shareware program called "Bible-Q." This program is a
trivia-type game with 1200 multiple-choice questions drawn from
the pages of Scripture. The player can pick the category and
difficulty level of the questions, which are arranged in five
categories: Old Testament A, Old Testament B, Geography, Life of
Jesus, and New Testament. Send $15 and get the latest,
registered versions of both "Daily Bread" and "Bible-Q."

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:

Beyond an IBM PC or good compatible with one disk drive and 128 K
of memory, no special equipment is necessary. The game runs
equally well on monochrome or color systems.

INSTALLATION:

First you will probably want to make a backup copy of the game.
Use the "diskcopy" command or the "copy a:*.* b:" command. Then
set aside one of the disks in your archive. To start the game,
boot your computer with your DOS disk, if you have not done so
already. At the A> prompt insert your "Daily Bread" disk in the
A: drive, type "db" (no quotes), and hit enter. The game will
load automatically. If you have a hard drive, you may copy the
files to the root directory or any directory of your choice. You
must be in the directory to run the program.

Example installation for hard drive ( ' marks comment lines,
don't type these in):

' insert "Daily Bread" disk in a:
' change default drive to hard drive
cd \ ' go to root directory
md \db ' make new directory
cd \db ' go to new directory
copy a:*.* ' copy files to new directory
db ' run program

Type in commands exactly as shown and hit the key after
each line, or use the batch file that has been provided. To use
the batch file, insert your "Daily Bread" disk in the A: drive,
and at the A> prompt type "hinstall" no quotes, and hit .

Then you may want to set up an autoexec.bat file as follows:
(You may use your word processor to modify your autoexec.bat file
if it can output files in ASCII, that is, without special
characters.)

... ' other commands in the autoexec.bat file
date ' or command that sets clock chip
cd \db ' if you have db directory for this program
db ' run the program.
... ' other commands.


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USING DAILY BREAD

You may use the left and right arrow keys to scroll back and
forth in the calendar to see the passages and readings for other
days of the year, or simply to see what day of the week a certain
date will fall on. If you have scrolled to a different day, you
may use the PgUp key to return to today's date and information.
The PgUp command appears toward the bottom of the screen when the
calendar is not displaying today's information.

MAKING DAILY BREAD MEMORY-RESIDENT

Add the r parameter to the command line when you run the program.
For example, at the C> prompt, type "db r" and enter. There must
be a space after "db". "Daily Bread" uses disk-swapping while in
the memory-resident mode. This way it takes up only 11K of ram.
Otherwise it would take up much more. However, this means that
it is probably impractical to run "Daily Bread" in resident mode
unless you have a hard drive. This may change when the newer and
faster floppies with larger capacity come to market. When "Daily
Bread" is run in the resident mode, it creates files named V500
and V501. Do not erase these files while the program is
resident, since it may cause your system to hang the next time
you pop Daily Bread up or down.

To make "Daily Bread" resident from boot up: instead of adding
the lines as noted in the installation procedure, add these lines
to your autoexec.bat file:

cd \db
db r

This assumes that you have set up a directory named db one level
down from the root directory and that you have copied all the
"Daily Bread" files to this directory. (Use hinstall as noted
above.)

NOTE: "Daily Bread" should pop up over most text-based
applications and applications that use CGA graphics. It will not
pop up over programs that use EGA or VGA graphics, or if it does,
it will not work properly. If necessary, use "Daily Bread" as a
standalone program.

CONFLICTS WITH OTHER MEMORY RESIDENT PROGRAMS

If you run into conflicts, try altering the order in which you
install these programs. For example, I use the desktop program
from PCTOOLS in resident mode, and it works if I install it
before "Daily Bread" using the /r parameter but not the /cs
parameter on the command line. If this procedure doesn't work,
run "Daily Bread" without making it resident.



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ALTERNATE HOTKEYS

The default hotkey for popping up "Daily Bread" in resident mode
is alt x (hold down the alt key and then press x). There are
three alternate hotkeys in case alt x conflicts with other memory
resident programs you are running or with keys your application
uses. The other three hotkeys are alt d, alt f, and alt g. You
may specify these hotkeys by adding d, f, or g as a parameter to
the command line when running the program. For example, to make
Daily Bread resident with alt d as the hotkey, enter the
following at the C> prompt "db rd" (no quotes).

NOTE:

DO NOT WRITE-PROTECT THE DISK. The program needs to write to the
disk in the normal course of operations.

TANDY USERS (& other compatibles?)

If you have a Tandy 1000, you may find that the separate arrow
keys do not work properly with this program. If so, use the keys
on the number pad as follows: 4 for the left arrow key, 6 for
the right arrow key, 9 as the PgUp key, and 0 as the Ins key.

MARKING READINGS

As noted above, if you follow the Bible readings given in this
program each day for a year, you will have read the entire Bible.
However, since you probably don't run your computer every day, or
perhaps miss a day in your reading (we're all human), I have
provided a system where you can mark the last passage that you
have read. The next time you run the program, it will display
the next reading in the series. The only thing you need to
remember is to mark each reading when you are finished. Use the
Ins key to mark a reading (or the 0 key in the case of certain
compatibles). A check mark will appear by the function key
display at the bottom of the screen after you have marked a
reading.


ENDING THE PROGRAM:

Press the Esc key.











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REGISTRATION FORM
DAILY BREAD FOR THE IBM PC AND COMPATIBLES

Date: _______________


Name: __________________________________________________

Address: __________________________________________________

City _________________________ State ______ Zip _____________


Where did you obtain your copy of "Daily Bread"? _____________________

Amount __________ ($5 for KJV Daily Bread )

Version KJV ___ NIV ___

(Send $10 for NIV "Daily Bread", or $15 for both "Bible-Q" and "Daily Bread."
See documentation for description of "Bible-Q.")


Type of computer _______________________

Type of graphics card ____________________

Type of monitor _______________________


Check one:

5.25" diskette __

3.5" diskette __


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557 Plantation Road
Pelican Lake, WI 54463




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