Program Name:  Home Cookin

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Description:

An easy to use recipe database, grocery manager, and meal planning calendar
for Windows. Includes easy recipe entry, photo support, spell checking, long
filename support, powerful nested searching, batch operations, support for
informational text, and more. Import from Meal-Master, Mastercook, Computer
Chef, or any text file. Export to Meal-Master.

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Distribution:  Shareware. The trial version may be distributed freely,
               provided all original and unmodified files are included.
               Program and Documentation Copyright 1999 by Anthony Watson

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Produced by:   Mountain Software
               6911 NE Livingston Road
               Camas, Washington  98607  USA

Email #1:      support@mountain-software.com
Email #2:      awatson@pacifier.com
Web Site:      http://www.mountain-software.com

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Requirements:

Home Cookin should run on any 80486 or Pentium with Windows 3.1 or Windows 
95/98. For best performance you should have a minimum of 8 Meg of RAM, and 
standard SVGA resolution (640x480x256 colors). If you decide to use photos 
with your recipes, a true color graphics mode will provide much better 
results. You should also allow plenty of free hard drive space for the 
recipes and data files this program creates (The actual requirements depend 
on how many recipes you have, how many groceries, etc.).

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Uninstalling:

If you want to uninstall Home Cookin, simply delete all of the files in the 
Home Cookin directory. Home Cookin does not modify any system files or place 
any files in the Windows directories.

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Documentation:

Full documentation on Home Cookin is available in the file HELP.HTM. You can 
access this file by pressing function key F1 in Home Cookin, or by loading it 
into your web browser.

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Program History:

Version 3.7   - Improved compatibility of Mastercook importing.
Aug 09, 1999  - Improved Home Cookin importing and exporting.
              - Camera icon now shows up properly after editing a recipe.
              - Improved file management routines
              - Added manual file updating with function key F2
              - Improved push button response
              - New offscreen buffer handling for improved compatibility
              - Faster graphics subsystem

Version 3.6   - Fixed crashing problems with Windows 3.x
Jun 25, 1999  - Improved photo encoding/decoding for Home Cookin exports
              - Added right click file info to file selector
              - Enhanced memory management in recipe searches

Version 3.5   - Improved handling of long filenames
Jun  8, 1999  - Enlarged camera icon for recipes with photos
              - New faster font selection routines

Version 3.5a  - Fixed crashing problem when using spell check in editors
May 28, 1999  - Fixed problem when importing from other drives
              - Implemented new installation and upgrade routines
              - Redesigned the file selector
              - Redesigned the Setup menu
              - Reduced external file count and eliminated RECIPES folder

Version 3.4   - Fixed line termination in Home Cookin exports
Mar 19, 1999  - Improved font selection speed in print dialogs
              - Added full category support to import routines

Beta 3.4d     - Improved speed of file move and copy routines
Mar 12, 1999  - Modified recipe editors for improved title editing.
              - Improved long filename support
              - Improved scroll bar response to user input
              - Improved import procedures
              - New Home Cookin export format
              - Added chapter to meal-master categories with exporting
              - Added the ability to honor category descriptions with importing
              - Moved spell check options to import dialog and edit menu's
              - Default import/export paths are now the last used paths
              - Redesigned the Setup menu
              - Fixed bug in spell-check routines
              - Updated Help documentation

Beta 3.4c     - Removed recipe compression (following questionaire)
Feb 25, 1999  - New program update procedures
              - Redesigned the Setup menu

Beta 3.4b     - Recipe compression added to new file system
Feb 11, 1999

Beta 3.4a     - New file system for improved reliability and error recovery
Feb 05, 1999  - Enhanced Find system for improved search capabilities

Version 3.3   - Fixed memory allocation errors in Recipe view menu
Jan 10, 1999  - Import routines now handle illegal characters better
              - Rewrote text editor routines
              - Improved clipboard routines
              - New Move and Copy routines
              - Improved file maintenance update procedures
              - Improved Mastercook importing for wider compatibility
              - Added error detection and correction routines

Version 3.2   - Improved speed of recipe sorting routines
Nov 12, 1998  - Eliminated need for sorting when adding a single recipe
              - Added chapter titles to "special" list modes
              - Improved mouse cursor blocking in text editors
              - Enhanced dragging operations in Index and Meals menus.
              - Help system improved for Netscape compatibility
              - Bugs fixed in spell check routines

Version 3.1   - Fixed text cut off in recipe menu with large system fonts
Oct 19, 1998  - Fixed crashing problem when Merging Old Recipes
              - Field selections are now saved in Find function
              - Merge Old Recipes transfers empty chapters (ver 2.2 and later)
              - Fixed bugs in recipe move and copy routines
              - Added verification dialog to New Meal functions

Version 3.0   - New registration routines
Oct 09, 1998  - Added camera symbol for recipes with photos
              - Fixed bug in text editor copy routines
              - Fixed bugs in recipe move and copy routines
              - Fixed bugs in clipboard routines
              - Changed order form version reporting for Windows 95/98

Beta 3.j      - Added meal "dragging" to Index and Recipe screens
Sep 24, 1998  - Improved recipe marking routines
              - Fixed bug in file selector
              - Fixed bug in slider routines
              - Fixed bugs in Add Recipe routines
              - Changed to new HTML browser based help system
              - Finished documentation

Beta 3.i      - Added new splash screen
Aug 21, 1998  - Added option to disable splash screen in setup menu
              - Moved Quit menu information to setup menu
              - Replaced Quit menu with popup dialog
              - Fixed crashing problem when spell checking with no dictionary

Beta 3.h      - Rewrote spell check routines
Aug 14, 1998  - Fixed bugs in import routines
              - Added new import status displays
              - Redesigned setup menu
              - Updated spell check dictionary editor

Beta 3.g      - Switched to new full time LZSS compression
Aug  7, 1998  - Added left/right cursor key functions for changing chapters
              - Updated Setup Screen

Beta 3.f      - New print routines for recipes, groceries, and help menu
Jul 24, 1998

Beta 3.e      - Rewrote meal (Calendar) menu
Jun 12, 1998  - Minor improvements to interface configuration menu
              - Enhanced how-to on getting help in Quit menu
              - Implemented New Meal buttons in Index and Recipe menu

Beta 3.d      - Redesigned interface configuration menu
May 27, 1998

Beta 3.c      - Reorganized main index menu for clearer operation
May 15, 1998  - Redesigned grocery menu

Beta 3.b      - Redesigned file selector
Apr 22, 1998  - Improved long filename support for Windows 95
              - Added clipboard support to importing and exporting

Beta 3.a      - Start of new major rewrite
Apr 16, 1998

Version 2.8   - Fixed floating point variables in resize routines
Jan 14, 1998  - Fixed floating point variables in grocery menu
              - Fixed floating point variables in print routines
              - Fixed floating point variables in bitmap display routines

Version 2.7   - Fixed inability to export or print resized recipes in view menu
Jan 09, 1998  - Added distributor and registration status to Quit menu
              - Added keyboard Cut/Paste/Copy to editable alert dialogs
              - Enlarged file selector to allow longer filenames
              - Added ability to reorganize recipes in batch menu
              - Fixed "jump-to-top" problem when moving/copying recipes
              - Fixed problem of True-Color photos not displaying properly
              - Fixed crashing problem with extended characters in filenames
              - Fixed bugs in compression routines
              - Added new interface configuration menu
              - Added Shift/Tab toggling between Ingredients and Directions

Version 2.6   - Improved font routines for faster drawing
Dec 05, 1997  - Faster scrolling routines for recipe viewer and help menu
              - New photo routines for faster rendering
              - Eliminated redundant file loading for faster response

Version 2.5   - Fixed crashing problems with Windows 3.x
Nov 12, 1997

Version 2.4   - Relocated interface bitmaps to RECIPES folder
Nov 03, 1997  - Improved handling of interface bitmap paths

Version 2.3   - New multi-level search engine
Nov 01, 1997  - New pop-up dialogs
              - New tabbed user interface
              - New Setup Menu
              - Updated Calendar Menu
              - Updated program documentation

Version 2.2   - Modified data file formats of recipes, calendar, batch, find
Aug 31, 1997  - Added support for BMP graphics
              - Improved recipe access speed
              - Optimized compression routines for speed
              - Added RIGHT click dragging for copying recipes

Version 2.1   - Fixed problem with entering extended characters from keyboard.
Jul 20, 1997

Version 2.0   - Added yield and new file to manual import menu
Jun 23, 1997  - Fixed several minor bugs throughout program
              - Added chapter scrolling when dragging recipe to new chapter
              - Official release date of version 2.0.

Beta 2.0d     - Compiled spell checker dictionary
Jun 10, 1997  - Fixed bugs in import routines
              - Added right-click clipboard dialogs to text editors.

Beta 2.0c     - Added spell checker
May 29, 1997  - Added statistics function to setup menu
              - Added file compression option to setup menu
              - Added automatic spell check options to setup menu

Beta 2.0b     - More improvements to user interface
May 21, 1997  - Simplified color adjustment menu

Beta 2.0a     - Improved keyboard processing
May 16, 1997  - Improved text editor routines
              - Added mouse cursor and blocking to text editor routines
              - Improved pushbutton operations
              - Enhanced user controls and keyboard equivalents
              - Switched to new font and updated user interface
              - Added Exclusion field to Find menu search function
              - Added long filename support (Windows 95 only)
              - Added new file selector

Version 1.4   - Fixed crashing problem when loading empty batch list
Feb 6, 1997   - Improved recipe/chapter dragging past window edge
              - Added speed regulation to most areas for faster machines
              - Improved registration routines
              - Modified internal font to allow european style characters
              - Added Help option to the windows system menu

Version 1.3   - FIND menu no longer crashes when encountering empty chapters
Jul 29, 1996  - Added users E-mail address to registration dialog

Version 1.2   - Added color adjustments to setup menu
Jun 10, 1996  - Fixed minor alignment problems in alert box
              - Increased demo capacity to 100 recipes (3 chapters/20 recipes)
              - Improved explanation of registration benefits

Version 1.1   - Store Names now can appear on right hand side of grocery list
May 19, 1996  - Smaller title font to prevent cut-off on page edges
              - Moved user support information to Function Key F8
              - F2 block marking in editor now works again.

Version 1.0   - First Official Release of Home Cookin for Windows!
Apr 2, 1996

The oldest ancestor of Home Cookin was created on an 8-bit Atari 600XL in 
1990 under the name "The Atari Cookbook". START Magazine published the full 
source code in the January 1991 issue (AKA The Antic Cookbook). In 1991 I 
rewrote the program on the Atari ST computer line and renamed it "The Recipe 
Box". In 1993 I ported "The Recipe Box" to the Commodore Amiga and Apple 
Macintosh Computers. Home Cookin was finally ported to Windows on the PC in 
1996.
