                     		PROGRAM LICENSE
                     		===============


     ProPoc 1.01 is owned and (c)Copyright 1993 by Berthold Daum.
     All Rights Reserved.

     This program is shareware. It may be freely distributed (not for resale) 
     only in its original form including this documentation.
     It may be used freely during a trial period of 3 weeks. 
     After that period you will have to register or you have to cease 
     using the program.
     For registration details see below.

     Although ProPoc has been extensively tested, the author shall not be
     responsible for any loss of any kind due to its use. It is the
     user's responsibility to establish the suitability of this
     software for any particular purpose.



				Registration
				============

The registration fee is US$30.

Please use the form 
			jpreg.txt
and send cheques made payable to an Australian bank, Eurocheques, or money orders 
 (no credit cards numbers please) to

			Berthold Daum
			21 Margate St.
			Beaumaris, Vic. 3193
			Australia
			
			CompuServe User ID: 100026,3365

Alternatively, you will be able to use CompuServe registration facilities
in a few days. GO SWREG and look for ProPoc V1.0 .


Registration gives you the following benefits:

1. Unlimited use of ProPoc on any one machine.

2. Free use of all future shareware versions of ProPoc.
   At present, upgrade versions can only be distributed via electronic
   networks.

3. Free application support for three month.
   At present, application support can only be offered via CompuServe
   and not by mail or telephone.

4. Free detailled user manual in printed form. Allow a few weeks for
   delivery.

5. Your receive a registration number which enables you to switch
   off that annoying registration prompts that appear after 
   a certain time.



		ProPoc Version 1.01 - Release Notes
		===================================

Program Description:
--------------------

ProPoc is a project planner.
It can handle multiple projects, activities, milestones, and resources.

Activities and milestones can depend on the completion of other
activities. Activities can share resources, even between
different projects.

ProPoc determines the StartDate and EndDate of each activity,
the ActualDate of each Milestone, the number of days each
activity is allowed to float, and if a activity or milestone
is critical.

The results are displayed in graphical form on screen or
can be printed in ASCII form (tables).

Explanation of terms:

File:
-----
	Each file can contain:
		7 projects
		224 activities
		56 milestones
		7 resources
		1 set of preferences

Files are totally independent from each other.
It is possible to copy activities and milestones from
one file to another by using the Copy function, closing
the first file, opening the second file, and using the
Insert function.

Project:
--------
	Insert a new project with the Insert function.
	Modify a project with the Modify function.
	Delete with the Delete function or Delete key
	(Items must be deleted first.)

	Name: 
		a unique name
	Description: 
		up to 255 characters of text
	Priority: 1 for high, 7 for low
		Priorities are unique! If you
		specify for instance priority 3
		the other projects in the file are
		pushed upwards or downwards.
		High priorities wins in resource conflicts.
	Start Date:
		Official project start date.
	Alarm advance days:
		How many days before the event you want
		to have the alarm
	Alarm for:
		Type of events generating alarms
	
	End date:
		Computed end date for project.
	Total duration:
		Difference between end date and start date
	Critical:
		List of critical activities
	Hot milestones:
		List of milestones where the actual date is
		higher or equal the planned date.

Item:
-----
	Can be both an activity or a milestone.
	Create a new one with the Insert function.
	Modify with the Edit function.
	Cut with the Delete function or Delete key.
	Delete (no Cut) with Shift/Delete.
	Copy with the Copy and Insert function.

	Project:
		to which project it belongs
	Name:
		unique name
	Description: 
		up to 255 characters of text
	Earliest date:
		Activities may depend on external
		influences, e.g. suppliers. This may
		define an earliest date for activity
		start.
	Duration:
		Duration of Activity in days.

	Usage of:
		Percentage (0-100) of how much
		the resource is used. Most important
		resource: Yourself. If some activities
		must be done in business hours, create a
		resource business hours - or split yourself
		into a business you and a home you.

	Planned date:
		Planned date for milestone. If the
		actual date exceeds the planned date,
		the activities causing this will go
		critical and the milestone will go hot.

	Links:
		List of activities the current activity
		or milestone is depending on.

	Start date:
		Computed start date for an activity.
		Activites in other projects with higher
		priority can influence the start date
		when they compete for the same resources.

	End date:
		Start date + duration

	Float days:
		Number of days, the activity is allowed
		to float.
		Activites in other projects with higher
		and lower priority can influence the float days
		when they compete for the same resources.
		An activity with null float days is called
		critical. These activities are represented 
		by fat bars in the chart.


	Actual date:
		Computed actual date for a milestone

	
Resources:
----------

	Resources are created and edited with the preference
	function (second screen). It is not possible to delete
	resources. You may only rename them.

	When no resources are defined the project planning
	process is straight forward.
	However, when resources are defined, the planning
	becomes a tricky optimisation process. We use a
	heuristic strategy (otherwise computation times
	would be enormous). This strategy may sometimes
	not lead to the shortest possible project duration.

	You can, however, use "Earliest date", dummy links,
	dummy activities, to make manual adjustments.

	You can print or display a resource schedule for the current
	project or for all projects with PSION-Z.

Preferences:
------------
	
	The preferences are file specific and can be
	modified with the Preferences function.

	Alarm time:
		Time of day when the alarms shall go off.

	Reorder:
		For small projects choose "automatic".
		For big projects it is better to use "manual"
		and to call the Reorder function from time
		to time.
		Note: During reorder (auto or manual), 
		the current project and all other projects 
		that use resources are recalculated.

Links:
------
	Milestones and Activities can depend on other activities
	in the same project. To define such a link, use the 
	Link function. Then navigate to the desired activity
	and press Enter. ESC will cancel the link mode.
	To remove links, use the Unlink function.


		
Installation:
=============

You may want to use the MCLINK command file JPINSTAL. 
First change the drive letters to your requirements, 
then call under MCLINK "@JPINSTAL". 
Then install ProPoc via PSION-I.

Projects reside in folder \PROJ and have the suffix .PRJ .

The following modules are shared with other applications:

rsset.opa with SimPoc and HyperPoc
morpheus.opa with HyperPoc
about.opa with HyperPoc and RepPoc

If you already have these modules installed you may want
to remove the appropriate lines from JPINSTAL.

You should always install MORPHEUS.OPA on the internal disk. 
MORPHEUS is the ProPoc alarm handler and always runs in the background.
If you already have installed MORPHEUS (as part of product HyperPoc)
dont need to install again. Simply ignore the next two paragraphs.

If you install it on disk A or disk B you
will have trouble when you want to reformat a disk.
Install MORPHEUS as a separate application
using PSION-I. Start it by moving the highlight to it 
and pressing ENTER. MORPHEUS prints
a protocol of the alarms set. Leave the MORPHEUS screen 
by pressing the SYSTEM key. If you want to remove 
MORPHEUS from the system screen, deinstall it with 
PSION-Y. It will still run in the background. If you 
want to stop MORPHEUS, because you don't need the alarm 
facilities any longer, reinstall it with PSION-I, 
reactivate it, and press the DELETE key.

MORPHEUS picks up the alarms set by ProPoc and passes them
to the Series 3 alarm system so that always the next ProPoc 
alarm is known to the system. It will be shown in the TIME 
application screen as a MORPHEUS alarm. 
After the alarm has gone off, MORPHEUS will pass the next alarm, etc.. 
However, it may take up to five minutes for MORPHEUS
to recognize a new alarm or an alarm update. 
MORPHEUS communicates with ProPoc via the file ALRM.$$$ 
located in the root directory of the internal disk.
If you delete this file, you will loose all alarm information. 
The ProPoc stacks do not contain any alarm information.


Contents of this disc:

Notes for Macintosh users: All files listed below must be unzipped as binary
files. Use Zipit to do so. Available in Compuserve GO PALMTOP.

Modules: 	ProPoc.opa, Morpheus.opa, about.opa, rsset.opa

Fonts:		progrph.fon

Docu:	 	readme.txt, jpinstal, jpreg.txt

Files:		ProPoc.prj


Requirements:

The system requires about 27k of disk space
plus 2k for MORPHEUS.

When active, the system requires about 27k of main memory.
MORPHEUS requires constantly 9k of memory.

We recommend to install the system (except Morpheus) on flash SSD, 
the PROJ folder on the internal disk.



				Other products
				--------------

HyperPoc is a card oriented hypertext an hypermedia system.
Cards are organised in stacks (files). Cards may be superimposed with 
backgrounds.
Cards and backgrounds can contain a variety of objects, such as:
  application, bitmap (animated), card link, clock, expainer, hotTab, 
  icon (animated), keyword, music, phone number, polyline, rectangle, text.
Functions include:
  Invocation of Series 3 applications, several navigation functions, 
  phone dialling, alarms, stopwatch.
Comes with 30 icons and 20 tunes.
Shareware.

A good complementing product for HyperPoc is PicPoc. PicPoc is a fully fledged paint program.
It allows to create icons and bitmaps up to a size of 640x400 pixels. It includes the usual
tools including spray and fill patterns (even custom fill patterns). 
Freeware.

Another complementing product is MusiPoc. MusiPoc is a graphical editor for 
musical tunes of up to 255 notes and rests. It comes with an OPL-subprogram
to play tunes from your own application or program and includes more than
20 predefined tunes. Freeware.



SimPoc is a spreadsheet application for the Series 3 computer. It can print, displays business
graphics, and scrolls fast. It is possible to call OPL-programs from formulas and formulas 
from OPL-programs. Although it includes such nifty things like lazy evaluation and result cache
it comes as freeware.

RepPoc is a report writing / mail merging application based on
WORD and DATA file formats. It provides: complex search criteria,
automated form generation, text functions. Comes with four standard
form sheets: Phone list, Labels, Letterheads, Envelope.
Shareware




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