                     The Student Aid Readme file
                     (c) 1995 By Bob Howard

1.  Student aid is Freeware. That means it may be distributed freely and 
copied as many times as you wish as long as two things don't happen:

-Reverse engineering, or changing the actual program (Including this file)
in any way.
-Charging a fee for distribution. In other words, trying to make money off
my work.

Also keep in mind that FREEWARE and PUBLIC DOMAIN are two different things
alltogether. This is FREEWARE, so my copyright stays intact.

2. Introduction to Student aid: Student Aid is a little program that I am
quite proud of. It can archive your notes, grades, average your grades,
spit out assignment sheets, quiz you on stuff, print out your custom made
homework sheets, remind you of homework or other importent school related
events. I managed to win some special awards in computer science in my 
Science Fair competition this year, so I guess you can say it's an award
winner too. I wrote it using QuickBASIC and compiled it using Visual BASIC
for DOS's built in compiler.

3. How to use Student Aid: First of all, here are the system req.
IBM or 100% compatible
black and white or color monitor
MS-DOS (most any recent version should work)
*PRINTER*  - You can run it without one but many of the programs's feature's                 
would then be pointless.

Here is what the Student Aid main menu ought to look like:

S T U D E N T  A I D
Version 1.XXX                                  (c) By Bob Howard

DATE: XX-XX-XX               TIME: XX.XX.XX
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------


M A I N  M E N U

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and so on. If the screen doesn't even look remotely close, then, well, someone
has modified it. erase it. Inform the guy you got it from or the sysop where you
downloaded it. 

Well, this program's feature's are self explanetory, so I'll leave it at that.
However, the usefullness of this program increases significantly if you use
it on a notebook computer!

4. TROUBLESHOOTING
Here are some quirky stuff that'll happen to you in Student Aid:
-When you select the Delete old .txt files option, and enter in a file name
that doesn't exhist, the program WILL crash. Type more carefully next time.
-When using the on-line quiz or the homework sheets, the questions and answers
shouldn't exceed one line.
-If you know anything about BASIC you already know this- if you press 
control+c the program will break and you will be back at DOS. 
-If the program crashes or doesn't print when you select any option that
requires printing, then your printer isn't connected properly, or there
is a hardware conflct.

5. Contacting the author: If you have questions, comments, critisisms or
witticisms regarding Student Aid, you can reach me the following ways:
FAX: 419-943-2062    Snail Mail:  P.O. box 86, Leipsic, OH 45856
Internet e-mail: howard@brutus.bright.net

6. Source Code: If you are programming in BASIC and would like the Student
Aid source code, you can get it by sending ten American dollars to my mailing
address mentioned above. Make sure to include a note saying 'gimme source 
code' or whatever.

Well, that's it! Enjoy Student Aid!!


-Bob Howard                                      "Hey, who's scruffy lookin?"
                                                        -Han Solo
