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Quick Start & Installation

Installing The Retail Cashbox Program: You will

need a hard drive to install this program. Place the

program disk into the A or B floppy drive and

type either (A:) or (B:) and press

E

. This will

make your choice the active drive then type

(INSTALL) and press

E

. The program will

make a directory called \VCR\STAT and copy

files into these directories. The program will also

copy a file called CB2.BAT to your root direc-

tory. After the files have been copied type the

letter of your hard drive example (C:) and press

E

. To start the program type (CB2) and press

E

.

In order for your program to run properly the files

statement of the config.sys file will be changed to:

FILES = 65 The installation program will not do

this for you, if files do not equal 65 or greater the

program may not run properly on your computer.

You may also need to have SHARE loaded.

Consult your DOS manual.

The first screen to appear will be the authorizes

security screen. You will need to email Lightning

Bolt Computers ([email protected]) to register your program and get the access code for your copy. This will need to be done before you will

be able to run the program. Have your serial number and the security key number found on your screen ready when calling. The serial number

can be located On the program disks and on the first page of this manual. This security code will only have to be entered once at the beginning

of installation.

General Program Operation

* ARROW KEYS

QRYZ

- are used to move within menus and screens

* (+) OR (-) KEYS - are used to change date ranges

* ENTER KEY

E

- is used to execute a command or function

* ESC KEY

X

- is used to exit the program or to escape from a function or menu

* LETTER KEYS - are used to enter text or run a function

* FUNCTION KEYS - are used to run options examples would be pressing (F1)

!

to run help.

* HIGHLIGHTED - means the active command

* CURSOR - is the blinking line on the screen

* BACKSPACE KEY - will remove text from right to left

* DELETE KEY

=

- will remove item, line, or text

* INSERT KEY - is for adding text to fields

* (F1) KEY

!

- will run context sensitive help

* (F2) KEY

@

- will run calculator

* (F4) KEY

$

- will set the last item sold to a new sales person

* (F5) KEY

%

- will place counter sale in the customer section of the work screen

* (F6) KEY

^

- will open a cash drawer if present

* (F7) KEY

&

- will display amount of cash in the cash drawer

* (F9) KEY

(

- will calculate the Canadian goods and service tax and place it as last item on the main work screen

* (F10) KEY

)

- prints all reports

TECHNICAL NOTE

* Use AVERY 3 1/2 X 15/16 one up dot matrix labels.

* Set DOS Mode commands for cash drawer / receipt printer as follows MODE COMl:9600,n,8,1,p MODE LPT2=COM1 This will

redirect coml to lpt2 and be used for the serial receipt printer cash drawer combination. You can use a parallel receipt printer as long as it is