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^CJohn A. Abele 

    ^1PC GOURMET^0 is a database management program that allows you to store 
 your favorite recipes on disk for viewing, editing, or printing as often as 
 you wish! Special features include its ability to print recipe ingredients as 
 shopping lists, a special cooking timer, and a few sample recipes. You may 
 want to experiment with the sample recipes to become familiar with the 
 program, then delete them when you are ready to enter your own -- or keep them 
 if you like them!
 
    Retrieval of recipes in PC GOURMET is very fast because the database file
 is indexed by the title you select for your recipe. You may place each new 
 recipe in a category of your own choosing or in one of the 34 default 
 categories supplied by PC GOURMET. Think of these categories as the file 
 dividers you might find in a recipe box or indexed recipe book. 

    PC GOURMET is very easy to use. It is totally menu-driven, basic instruc- 
 tions appear on each screen, and many additional "Help" screens are available 
 at many points throughout the program by pressing [F1].  When you first run 
 the recipe program, the database file is checked and the number of recipes 
 counted. 
    
    Up to 30 lines of Ingredients, Instructions, and Follow Up Notes can be 
 added for each recipe, ten lines per screen. During VIEW-ing and DELETE-ing of 
 recipes, use of the [PGUP] and [PGDN] keys will allow "paging" between each of 
 the three screens possible for each of these types of information. 
         
    The [ESC] key is always active, i.e., no matter where you are in the  
 program, pressing this key once or twice will get you back to the Main Menu to 
 exit the program or re-start it. 

    Most program functions are requested by pressing specific function keys 
 clearly identified in a bar at the bottom of the screen.  

    Whether you are planning a three-course meal for a few people or an 
 elaborate buffet for a large party, you can select up to 20 recipes from the 
 filebox and have PC GOURMET print out a shopping list of all the ingredients 
 needed for these recipes. If your meal requires more than 20 recipes, just run 
 the shopping list option again and choose the additional recipes. The SPACE 
 BAR toggles the selected recipes on and off. 
 
    Moving your computer into the kitchen is not necessarily recommended, but 
 if you do, you will be able to use PC GOURMET's cooking timer, which can time 
 your cooking or baking up to 5 hours and 59 minutes while you are using the 
 "recipe book" to view a recipe on the screen. 

    
 HOW TO RUN PC GOURMET

    To run PC GOURMET, type the word GOURMET at the system prompt and press 
 ENTER. When the title screen appears, press any key to continue. A dialog 
 screen will then appear to request the path and filename of the specific 
 recipe file you wish to access. This screen also lists the names of the 
 recipe files stored in the current directory. If you wish to access one
 of these files, select it with the highlight bar and press ENTER. 


 THE MAIN MENU

   After ENTERing a filename, the Main Menu of PC GOURMET will appear.
 The Main Menu lists the following options:

       LOAD Recipe Filebox
        ADD Recipe to Filebox
       EDIT Recipe in Filebox
     DELETE Recipe from Filebox
       VIEW Recipe on Screen
      PRINT Recipe
       HELP!  
       QUIT to DOS


 ADDING A NEW RECIPE

   To ADD a new recipe...

      [] Select the ADD option by highlighting it and pressing ENTER.
         A dialog screen with four windows will appear.
      [] Enter the category of the new recipe, either a new one you are 
         creating for the first time, or one of the 34 categories 
         already identified by PC GOURMET.
         
         You can view the list of categories by pressing [F9]. To select one of 
         these categories, use the arrow keys to position the highlight bar on 
         the category, and press ENTER. After its selection, the category name 
         will be placed in the CATEGORY field. 
            
      [] Enter a title or name of the recipe you are adding to your on-disk 
         collection.
      [] The date of entry window will display the current date 
         only if you set the correct date when you booted your PC.
      [] If you would like to indicate the source of the new recipe, you can 
         place that information in the last dialog box.  

      The bar along the bottom of the screen lists the options which are active 
      during the ADDing of a recipe. These options are:  
      
          [F1] HELP
          [F2] Enter Recipe Heading
          [F4] Enter Ingredients
          [F6] Enter Instructions
          [F8] Enter Follow Up Notes
          [F9] Category List
    [Alt][F10] Save Recipe
         [ESC] Cancel Additions and Return to Main Menu
         
      During entry of recipe information, you may switch between ingredients, 
      instructions, and follow up notes entry as often as you like by pressing 
      the appropriate function keys. When a recipe contains all necessary 
      information, press [Alt][F10] to save the recipe to disk. 
 

  EDITING A RECIPE 

      To EDIT a recipe...

      [] Select the EDIT option by highlighting it and pressing ENTER.
      [] Use the up- and down-arrow keys to select and highlight the name
         of the recipe in the list which appears.

      The bar along the bottom of the screen lists the options which 
      are active during the EDIT-ing of a recipe. These options are:

           [F1] HELP
           [F2] Edit Recipe Heading
           [F4] Edit Ingredients
           [F6] Edit Instructions
           [F8] Edit Follow Up Notes
     [Alt][F10] Accept Changes and Save Edited Recipe
          [ESC] Abort Editing, Ignore Changes, and Return to Main Menu

      During editing, you can switch back and forth between heading, 
      ingredients, instructions, and follow up notes as often as you like. 
      Just remember to press [Alt][F10] when you are ready to save the edited 
      version of your recipe to disk.


 DELETING A RECIPE

      To DELETE a recipe...

      [] Select the EDIT option by highlighting it and pressing ENTER.
      [] Use the up- and down-arrow keys to select and highlight the name
         of the recipe in the list which appears.

      The bar along the bottom of the screen lists the options which are
      are active during the DELETE-ing of a recipe. These options are:

          [F1] HELP
          [F4] View Ingredients
          [F6] View Instructions
          [F8] View Follow-Up Notes
    [Alt][F10] Delete Recipe
         [ESC] Abort Deleting and Return to Main Menu

      Before DELETE-ing a recipe, you may want to use one of the view 
      functions available during the DELETE process to confirm that the
      recipe you are about to delete is not one you want to keep. 


  VIEWING A RECIPE

      To VIEW a recipe...
 
      [] Select the VIEW option by highlighting it and pressing ENTER.
      [] Use the up- and down-arrow keys to highlight and select the name 
         of the recipe in the list which appears.

      The bar along the bottom of the screen lists the options which are
      are active during the VIEW-ing of a recipe. These options are:

          [F1] HELP
          [F3] Set/Clear Timer
          [F4] View Ingredients
          [F5] Print Recipe
          [F6] View Instructions
          [F8] View Follow Up Notes
         [ESC] Exit to Main Menu

      To set or clear the timer, press [F3] and a viewing window will appear to 
      allow you to enter the total cooking or baking time for any given recipe. 
      Once this amount of time has elapsed, the timer will sound an alarm and 
      flash a message until you press any key. If you abandon this option 
      before the designated time expires, the timer function is turned off and 
      is no longer active. 


  PRINTING A RECIPE

      To PRINT a recipe...
   
      [] Select the PRINT option by highlighting it and pressing ENTER.
         The Print Menu with its four options appears:

      [] Print a Recipe
      [] Print a Listing of All Recipes
      [] Print Ingredients Shopping List
      [] Return to Main Menu

      The options on the Print Menu are all self-explanatory, with the 
      exception of the printing of the ingredients shopping list.
      
      To print a listing of ingredients, select the appropriate option and a 
      viewing window of recipe titles will appear. You can scroll through this 
      list by pressing the up- and down-arrow keys to place the highlight 
      bar on a recipe. To mark this recipe as one of the recipes whose 
      ingedients you wish to print, press the SPACEBAR. After you have marked 
      all the recipes you wish to have ingredients lists for, press ENTER and 
      your shopping list will begin printing. 


 To run this program outside Big Blue Disk, type ^1Gourmet^0.

 DISK FILES THIS PROGRAM USES: 
^FGOURMET.EXE 
^FGOURMET.HLP 
^FRECIPES.GTN 
^FRECIPES.GTD 
    
