1. How to install.

It is recommend that you install this software (PW98), into a directory that is not your current DOS based PersonWare (PWDOS).

Assume that you install PW98 to the directory :
             c:\pw98

If you want do not wish to use the PWDOS live data files, then I would suggest that you create System and Data sub-directories in your PW98 directory. eg :

          c:\pw98\system 
          c:\pw98\data

Copy the corresponding files from your PWDOS Data and System directories into these. 

2. Executing

Run PersonaWare.Exe and you will get a dialog box asking for you to enter the directory where PersonaWare for DOS can be found. It assumes c:\pw. If yours is different or you wish to use your backup data files (eg. c:\pw98), type in the location, but remember not to add the final \.

Once you have done this, you will enter the main program. The setup dialog will only appear again if you remove PersonaWare.Ini that has now been created in the directory you are running PW98 from.

Any option that is in white text, has something done, play around.

3. Change History

Beta 1.980106

Email button on main page activated. Clicking on it will run your default email client (as defined through Netscape of Internet Explorer)

Send Email from withing the address book added.

Major file size optimations. Reduced PW98 footprint from 1meg to 550k.

Beta 1.980105
The Game trainer now runs an almost full version of the PersonaWare Game. The nasty bugs have been removed and general execution speed increased. It is still possible to run the Game in a trainer mode that uses a smaller grid than the PWDOS 19 X 9.

General re-coding of the software to improve execution speed.

Beta 1.
The Game Trainer has a nasty bug, this is due to multi-threading. If the program hangs, just kill it. When I have fixed this bug, I'll be able to write a full version of the Game. * OBSOLETE fixed in Beta 1.980105 *

The Address book is mainly there. Adding a new address works, but doesn't sort the address into the correct place, also don't delete. It works, but leaves some blank records hanging around.

If you wish to add photographs to the address book, the image has to be an OS/2 bmp file. Microsoft Paint can create these for you, do not check the option for run Length Encoding (RLE) as this will have unpredictable effects in DOS PersonaWare.

4. Future

General cleaning up and to add converters from to read/write data from other PIMs. 

All I need is a copy of the data that has been exported into Comma Delimited format and I will be abe to write a two-way conversion program. If you use a PIM from windows or anything else, if it can export/import comma delimited files, then I'd be more than willing to write a converter when I get the time, all I need is the example comma delimited file.

5. Contacting the author

This is still beta code, so any suggestions are welcomed.
email : seamus_waldron@ibm.net
web : http://apj.co.uk

(c) Seamus Waldron, 1998