The Athlete's Diary

Chapter 1: Software Installation

Windows 95
Windows 3.1
Macintosh

Windows 95

To install The Athletes Diary on your hard disk, first insert the diskette with The Athletes Diary into your PC. Select Run from the Start Menu. Enter A:SETUP in the Command Line box, and press OK. Follow the on-screen instructions given to you by The Athletes Diary Installer program; explanations are provided at each step of the process. If youre a novice and are unsure about about any of the answers, just click on OK each time and you should be fine.

At the end of the installation process, the on-line Help file is automatically displayed, showing any last-minute information that you should know about. When youre done reading it, you can iconify the Help window, or close the help application by selecting Exit from the File menu.

With Windows 95, you can add The Athletes Diary to your Start Menu, put a shortcut to The Athletes Diary on your desktop, or even create an "association" so that you can simply click on your log itself to open it up. Here are the instructions for doing these things:

Adding The Athlete's Diary to your Start Menu:

Select Settings...Taskbar from the Start Menu.
Select the Start Menu Programs tab, then select Add.
Type in the Command Line: C:\TAD\TADWIN.EXE [This assumes you have stored The Athletes Diary in a directory named TAD on drive C; change this as necessary]. Select Next.
Click on the folder you wish to place the shortcut in, e.g., Programs. Select Next.
Type The Athlete's Diary in the place where it says Select a Name for the Shortcut.
Select Finish, then OK.

If more than one person in your family will be using The Athletes Diary to keep a log, then each person will want separate entries on the Start Menu, so they can open their own log with a single step. After each person has started their own log and saved it (following instructions in the manual), then repeat the steps above, but at step 3, append the filename of the appropriate log to the end, e.g.,

C:\TAD\TADWIN.EXE NICKY96.DAT

(The filename for logs created by The Athletes Diary will always end with . DAT). At step 5, enter a description such as Nickys 1996 Log as the name of the shortcut (the description can have spaces and apostrophes, and is not limited to the eight-letter maximum of a DOS filename). Repeat this process as many times as appropriate, substituting a different filename at step 3 and a different description at step 5.

To start The Athlete's Diary, just select it from the Start Menu.

Creating a Desktop Shortcut:

From the Desktop, open My Computer, then C:, then the Tad folder.
Click once on Tadwin.exe (the ".exe" part may not appear, depending on how you have Windows 95 setup, so you may only see Tadwin) to select it, then from the File menu, select Create Shortcut. A new icon labelled Shortcut to Tadwin.exe will appear in the window.
Drag the new icon to your desktop.
If you want to rename the shortcut, click the right button of the mouse on the icon; select Rename from the pop-up menu which appears.The name of the icon becomes highlighted, so just start typing the name you want to appear under the icon, which might be something like Athlete's Diary or Nicky's Log or whatever you want it to say.

To start The Athlete's Diary, double-click on your newly created desktop shortcut.

Assigning an Extension in Windows 95:

The files created by The Athlete's Diary all end with the extension .DAT. This extension is also used by a number of other programs, and we intend to change this in the future to TAD to be more unique. At the moment, however, if you don't use any other programs which already use the DAT extension, you can "assign" the extension to The Athlete's Diary. This lets you simply click on any logs you see in the Explorer, without creating Shortcuts or adding things to the Start Menu as described above.

To do this:

In the Tad folder on your desktop, select Options from the View menu.
Click on the File Types tab.
Click on New Type.
In the Description of type field, type Athlete's Diary log
In the Associated extension field, type DAT
In the Action field, type Open. In the Application used to perform action field, either type C:\TAD\TADWIN.EXE, or use the Browse button and simply locate and select the Tadwin.exe file. Click on OK.
Click on Change Icon, then click on Browse. Navigate the file system to the Tad folder, and then select the file Tadlog.ico.
Click on Open, then OK, then OK again; finally click on Close.

To start The Athlete's Diary, double-click on any file ending in .DAT. The first time you want to start the program, you won't have created a log yet, so double-click on The Athlete's Diary program itself (Tadwin.exe). You may also wish to open the sample logs TESTLOG.DATor EUROLOG.DAT, so you might want to double-click on either one of those the first time you use the software.

Windows 3.1

To install The Athletes Diary on your hard disk, first insert the diskette with The Athletes Diary into your PC. Select Run in the File menu of Program Manager. Enter A:SETUP in the Command Line box, and press OK. Follow the on-screen instructions given to you by The Athletes Diary Installer program; explanations are provided at each step of the process. If youre a novice and are unsure about about any of the answers, just click on OK each time and you should be fine. One of the choices you will be given will automatically create an icon for the program in your Program Manager, we strongly recommend that you let the installer do this.

To start The Athlete's Diary, double-click on the icon in Program Manager.

Macintosh

No special installation program is necessary; just select the file or files you want and drag them to your hard disk. To make things even simpler, select the icon of The Athlete's Diary floppy disk itself, and drag it to your hard disk; this will create a new folder called The Athlete's Diary which will contain within it all the files you need.

To start The Athlete's Diary, double-click on its icon, or on any of the icons for any log (such as the sample logs in the Sample Logs folder when you're first trying out the software, or your own log once you have created one).