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Complete program documentation for the
Church Database Software is available in Adobe Acrobat
.PDF version. It may be read online, but it's
better to save a copy (File->Save As...) to your computer and read from your local disk. Note: this is a long document
(1 Mbyte), so give it plenty
of time to download.
Click Here to download Church Database
Software Documentation
(1 megabyte)
Note: The installation of
this web-based distribution is slightly different from the diskette-based
version described in the program documentation.
Program and database files are loaded in the directory C:\CHURCH
by default. We recommend that you allow the installation to proceed to
this default location; you can move it at a later time if you choose.
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Download
the program distribution file from this site.
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Run the setup file, DISTA.EXE, to unpack the FoxPro runtime
engine, the application file CHURCH.APP (contains all the CHURCH database
program logic), and the prototype database files.
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The setup file will output: INSTALLATION SCRIPT FOR CHURCH DATABASE PROGRAM
INSTALLING FILES TO DIRECTORY C:\CHURCH
...HIT CONTROL-C IF THIS IS NOT CORRECT.
Hit <enter> to continue with the installation.
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The files will be copied to the C:\CHURCH directory, and a
shortcut to the CHURCH program will be placed on the desktop.
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Click on the CHURCH icon on the desktop to run the program.
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The first time you run CHURCH, the program will complain
about the system date being out of synchronization with its internal idea of
the date. Enter "N" to accept the system date as
correct. (This will not occur again unless you don't run CHURCH for a
long period of time.)
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When you get to the CHURCH main menu, immediately enter
"IZ" to create all necessary database index files.
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Refer to the program
documentation to proceed with initial setup and customization.
Here's where they go; use the Support Page
or email to ask questions for now.
The current version of the CHURCH
database software would not properly handle dates after
January 1, 2000. To enter birthdates, anniversaries, visitation dates, or
membership dates of 01/01/2000 or later, you should download the current
version of the CHURCH.APP program
file, available now.
A bug in the changes to allow any month for organizational year start
will result in failure to initialize the statistics counts at the
end of 1998. This should happen when you transfer the attendance
counts to the MEMSHIP file after the last Sunday of the Sunday
School year.
A new version of the CHURCH.APP program correcting this problem is
in the works. For now, however, if you began your Sunday School
year in September, you may download a version of the SSSTATS.MEM
file with all counts zeroed out, which is what the last Sunday
transfer should have done.
To download this file, click on SSSTATS.MEM
and "save to disk" when your browser asks. I recommend that you
back up your existing SSSTATS.MEM file (located in the \CHURCH
directory) and then replace it with the new version. Your
statistics should accrue normally from the time you install the new
file.
If you have problems with printer timeouts, insert
the following line in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file:
MODE LPT1 RETRY=P
(Don't forget that you must reboot for changes in AUTOEXEC to
take effect.)
The symptom that this fixes often occurs with Laser printers or other fairly slow
printers, resulting in a red warning screen "Printer not responding...Retry?"
when you print long jobs. This line results in infinite retries from DOS to your
printer, so it won't bother you with telling it to retry.
{An alternative approach is to add the following line to your CONFIG.FP file (found in the
\CHURCH directory):
TIME=1000000
This value will cause FOXPRO to retry the printer one million times before popping up the
red error screen.
If you are seeing strange results such as the wrong
names appearing when you do a search or reference workers or deacons, try re-indexing your
files by
Main Menu->(I)ndex->(Z) all files
It is always safe to re-index, and it may cure your problem.
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