Welcome to FirstOffice!
This is Version 1.1 Released 4/16/96

FirstOffice is shareware. Please support this wonderful 
way of trying before buying by actually buying. See 
below for how.

After unzipping the file you should have a folder 
containing this readme file, the FirstOffice application 
(1Off32.exe or 1Off16.exe), Manual.txt, Register.exe, 
Register.hlp, and three folders named Large, Medium and 
Gl. 

If this is not the case you might consider unzipping 
again using the -d option (pkunzip -d 1office.zip)

Decide on which size of FirstOffice best fits your 
needs.

GL: Basic accounting for a very small company or 
individual. General Ledger, balance sheet and profit & 
loss statements. $20.

Medium: Invoices, purchase invoices, items and 
payments. Keeps track of what your customer owes you, 
and what you owe your suppliers. Prints invoices. $50.

Large: Add inventory tracking and customer orders, 
Prints picking lists, order confirmations and reminders.
$100.

Move the 1Off32.exe or 1off16.exe program into the 
folder that matches your needs. This will be referred  
to as your "FirstOffice folder" in the text below.

Quick Start

1) Put the FirstOffice folder somewhere convenient on 
   your hard disk.

2) Double-click the FirstOffice icon to start. The 
   program will ask you for a database. Enter the name 
   you want for your database in the filename field (it 
   might be a good idea to make a few test databases 
   while you get acquainted with FirstOffice). Click OK. 
   The next dialog askes you if you want to create this 
   file. Click Yes and your database is created.

3) You're ready to go explore the system! Or read the 
   included online manual. You can print it if you 
   prefer your text on dead trees. It's perfectly OK to 
   create many company databases or copies of them and 
   switch between them if you want to try out different 
   things; just as you remember that when you register, 
   you register one copy of the database.

4) You create a new company by doing this:
* Make sure the files "Default.txt" and "Setting.txt" 
  (without the quotes) are in the same folder as your 
  FirstOffice program.
* Choose "Database" from the File menu (or click the 
  database icon in the main window).
* Set the name of the new company. You can save it in 
  the same folder as you have FirstOffice. Click OK.
* To import our settings into your new database, choose 
  "Import" from the File menu. Select the Setting.txt 
  file that is in the same folder as FirstOffice. 
* To check out our sample company, create a new company 
  (empty) and import the sample database file instead of 
  "Setting.txt".

Demoware
FirstOffice comes with a ninety-day trial period. You 
may have full use of the program for ninety days without 
paying us a penny. After that, the program will enter 
demo mode, and will not allow you to print. It will also 
put up friendly reminder dialogs each time you start. 
You can still keep working with FirstOffice, however. 
Since FirstOffice General Ledger, the smallest version, 
doesn't have any documents to print, chances are you 
won't notice. We hope that, if you like it, you will 
like it enough to pay for it anyway.

Registering
To pay for FirstOffice, you first have to make sure your 
company name, address etc are set up correctly in 
Company Info; once you register these can't be changed. 
Open up the Company Settings window, check the 
information, close the window, and then open the Enabler 
settings window. There will be something called "Control 
Code" Write this number on a yellow post-it sticker and 
tape it on your monitor. (No, bright pink will not do 
:-)

Now, start the Register application that came with 
FirstOffice. Enter the number of copies that you want to 
buy of each product, and choose a payment method in the 
popup menu. If you think we are really cool for selling 
this software as shareware, add a bonus in the "Bonus" 
field. Now, tear the yellow post-it sticker off your 
screen, click the little comment bubble to the left of 
the program name you're registering, and enter "My 
Control Code is 1234567" (except replace 1234567 with 
the number that's written on the yellow post-it sticker)
OK the dialog, make sure your correct e-mail address is 
in the field for your e-mail address, print or save the 
registration info, and mail/fax it to shareware@kagi.com.

It will take up to a week for your registration to clear 
through Kagi, and up to another week for us to provide 
you with a Key code (see below) so please don't delay 
until the last day of your 90-day trial period. (During 
holiday or high-volume season, we may get backlogged. 
At least if we get the kind of response we dream about 
on our company parties)

If you want to have a meaningful discussion with us, the 
mail address is <baltic@kagi.com> whereas our address 
for dead trees is:

Baltic Business Software, Inc.
4815 W Braker Ln Suite 502-331
Austin, TX 78759-5618

We are also active on various online forums, such as the 
Internet News group "biz.comp.accounting", Compu$erve 
and AOL.

Because of the small operations of our company, we 
cannot provide phone support. We also can't teach you 
how to manage your business, or how accounting really 
works. We hope you understand, and we're sure you will 
enjoy using FirstOffice!

Disclaimer
Although every reasonable effort has been made to make 
sure the software works more or less as described in 
the manual, we cannot accept liability for any damage, 
whether direct, indirect or consequential, resulting 
from your use of this software. You have ninety days to 
try it out with no obligation; your sole remedy if it 
doesn't perform to your satisfaction is to quit using 
the software and delete it from your hard disk. We hope 
you understand.

1996 Baltic Business Software