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CATVids
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CATVids 2.32.00 - Oct 29, 1997

Developed by

FNProgramvare
Pb 721  Krapfoss
N-1536  Moss
Norway


E-mail: fnordbak@online.no
World Wide Web: http://www.prodat.no/fnp/eng/

We appreciate and encourage all comments, suggestions, 
and bug reports. Both your registration and your comments
will help improve CATVids and keep it on the leading edge.

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Description

  CATVids is a quick, efficient, easy-to-use program for 
  organizing your video collection.

  With CATVids you can register and look up information about 
  such things as:    

  - title, format, type of content, category, length,
  - production year, release year, studio, country of origin, distributor,
  - writer, producer, director, actors,
  - rating, tape counter, recording speed, laserdisc information, location,
  - purchase date, price and current value. 

  You can add personal comments for every item. Thirteen special 
  fields enable you to customize your catalog. You can even store 
  a bitmap picture (for example of the cover).

  CATVids includes a loan module that lets you keep track of items
  on loan, who has borrowed, when they were borrowed, when they are 
  due back and how many times they have been borrowed.

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Distribution

CATVids is distributed as shareware. This means you are 
welcome to give copies of CATVids to your friends and 
colleagues. For a list of files that need to be distributed, 
please see VENDINFO.DIZ. Do not, under any circumstances, 
distribute CATVIDS.MEM. This file contains the serial number, 
and with this information we can trace the copy back to you. 
When CATVIDS.MEM is not present, CATVids runs as an 
unregistered shareware version.

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Installation

NOTE!
  If you downloaded this package from the Internet, please 
  read this paragraph very carefully: A file called 
  VBRUN300.DLL needs to be installed on your computer before
  SETUP is run. To save space, this file was not included 
  in this package. Please check your SYSTEM directory 
  (usually C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM) to see if you already have this
  file (this is very likely). If not then download, unzip and 
  copy the file to the SYSTEM directory. It is very important
  that you do this before SETUP is run!

  VBRUN300.DLL is available from most file servers, 
  including:
       
  ftp.cdrom.com/.1/simtelnet/win3/dll/vbrun300.zip
  ftp.ftp.hkstar.com/.2/simtelnet/win3/dll/vbrun300.zip
  ftp.demon.co.uk/.d5/simtelnet/win3/dll/vbrun300.zip
  ftp.uni-paderborn.de/ftp/disk1/SimTel/win3/dll/vbrun300.zip
  ftp.bitcon.no/pub/simtelnet/win3/dll/vbrun300.zip
  ftp.chem.eng.usyd.edu.au/dropbox/pgrad/utils/win31/vbrun300.zip
  ftp.edu.tw/Chinese/ifcss/software/ms-win/misc/vbrun300.zip

To install CATVids, follow these steps:

From Diskette

  1. Insert diskette number 1 into your diskette drive.
  
  2. If you are running Microsoft Windows 3.1, from the Program 
     Manager File menu choose Run.
     
     If you are running Microsoft Windows 95, from the Start 
     menu choose Run.

  3. In the text box, type the path to the installation program, 
     for example A:\SETUP, and choose OK.

  4. When requested, specify the directory where you want to 
     install CATVids. Unless you specify a different directory 
     the application will be installed in C:\CATVIDS.

  5. Choose OK to start the installation process.

From Hard Disk

  1. Ensure that all CATVids installation files are in the 
     same directory, for example C:\CATTEMP.

  2. If you are running Microsoft Windows 3.1, from the Program 
     Manager File menu choose Run.

     If you are running Microsoft Windows 95, from the Start 
     menu choose Run.

  3. In the text box, type the name of the drive and directory 
     where the installation files are located, then type \SETUP 
     (for example C:\CATTEMP\SETUP) and choose OK.

  4. When requested, specify the directory where you want to 
     install CATVids. Unless you specify a different directory 
     the application will be installed in C:\CATVIDS.

  5. Choose OK to start the installation process. 

If you have any problems with the installation, you may
install files manually by following this procedure:

  1. Start a "DOS-window" (In Program Manager double-click 
     on the MS-DOS icon).
  2. What you type at the DOS prompt depends on the file
     you want to install. For example, if you want to install
     THREED.VBX, follow these steps:

     - Insert the correct diskette (in this case diskette
       no. 1) into you diskette drive.
    
     - Type this command (you may need to substitute A for
       the letter of your diskette drive, for example B)
      
         EXPAND A:\THREED.VB_ C:\CATVIDS\THREED.VBX  <Enter>

       THREED.VBX is unpacked and copied to the program
       directory.

     Normally, files with the extension VBX or DLL should be 
     installed in the SYSTEM directory (usually 
     C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM). Do not copy files to this directory 
     yourself. If, however, you do, please make a copy of the 
     original file first. You might overwrite a newer version, 
     and as a result some other application might not work.

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CHANGES
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2.32.00 - Oct 29, 1997
          - CATVids can now ignore the tape type when you search for
            tapes to records on (Find Tape dialog box - select ALL 
            from the drop down list).
          - By default, CATVids now uses four digits for the year 
            for all date fields.
          - Fixed problem with margins in all reports (in previous
            versions all margins were rounded to the nearest
            inch/centimeter!).

2.31.04 - Aug 7, 1997
          - Fixed problem with defining margins in reports.

2.31.03 - Jul 28, 1997
          - Fixed a seach problem.

2.31.02 - Jun 25, 1997
          - Fixed problem with "Illegal Function Call" if the date
            setting in Control Panel was non standard.

2.31.01 - Jun 21, 1997
          - Fixed problem with sorting when you choose to sort on
            Catalog Numer in the Returned to Library dialog box.

2.31.00 - Jun 4, 1997
          - You can now specify the locale setting that affects
            the sort order (choose File/Compress to change this
            setting).
          - You can now specify the date (number of days from today) 
            that is automatically entered into the Date Due field 
            when you register a video as 'on loan'. To do this, choose 
            Preferences from the File menu, select the Data entry tab 
            and type the value in the Date Due - days from today text box.
          - Updated contact and registration information.

2.30.00 - Mar 31, 1997
          - A new loan module that lets you keep track of items 
            on loan, who has borrowed, when they were borrowed, 
            when they are due back and how many times they have 
            been borrowed. There are four new reports that are 
            linked to the loan module: By Borrower (items borrowed 
            grouped by borrower), By Title (items borrowed grouped 
            by title), On Loan (items currently on loan) and 
            Statistics (counts the number of times each book has 
            been borrowed).
          - There is no limit to the number of Directors/Writers 
            pr. movie.
          - You can use TAB to move from folder to folder in the 
            Active Record window.

2.20.05 - Mar 07, 1997
          - Updated the shareware-version.

2.20.04 - Feb 16, 1997
          - Added the option "Keep on same page" to the line 
            report.

2.20.03 - Feb 07, 1997
          - Fixed problem with memo fields.

2.20.02 - Feb 05, 1997
          - Fixed problem with compression.

2.20.01 - Feb 01, 1997
          - You can now show "Sort By" in the Browse window.

2.20.00 - Jan 17, 1997
          - You can define a fixed size for the Picture window.
          - The field Tape Number is renamed to Catalog Number.
          - The field Sound is renamed to Audio.
          - The field Memo is split in three: Comments, Synopsis 
            and Review.
          - The field Company is obsolete. Use Distributor or 
            Studio instead.
          - You can register more than one director.
          - The windows Active Record 1 and Active Record 2 are 
            merged into one window (Active Record). Tabs are 
            used to group the fields: Basic, Library, Laser, 
            Tape, People, Special and Awards. Four of the fields 
            are always visible: Title, Catalog Number, Production 
            Year and Release Year.
          - New fields:
               Studio           Video Standard
               Special Edition  Directors Cut
               Trailer          Rare
               Out of Print     Purchased Where
               Personal Rating  Last Viewed
               Laser Format     Widescreen Format
               Aspect Ratio     Letterboxed
               AC-3	        CX Noise
               Close Captioned  THX
               Bilingual        Cut Out
               Number of Discs  Number of Sides
               Recording Speed  Writer
               Producer         Music
               Award            Nomination

2.10.03 - Nov 27, 1996
          - In the List report dialog the Remove button on 
            line 2 is now visible.
          - The Cancel button is renamed to Close in the List 
            report dialog.
          - In the List and Summary reports actor-names are 
            now printed using the format "Firstname Lastname".

2.10.02 - Oct 28, 1996
          - It is now possible to save the export layout.
          - It is now possible to save the import layout.
          - You can now specify separator when importing more
            then one actor.          

2.10.01 - Oct 21, 1996
          - Added the "User's Guide" to the help file.
          - Changed "Egendefinert" (Norwegian) to "User-defined"
            in the dialogs "Change Sort Order" and "Browse Layout".
          - Fixed problemes with OR in search criteria.

2.10.00 - Oct 7, 1996
          - Version 2.1 released.


