PAGE 1          THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW BEFORE GETTING STARTED                                                                                                   This Program does NOT make allowances for :shortages ,breakage,shrinkage        ,rooms being out of square,roll goods not having square ends,                   narrow widths ,such as manufacturing tolerances,inaccurate measurements,        inaccurate computer input,human error of any kind or hardware malfunction       or hardware incompatibility                                                     Pattern match allows  1 match for every other seam per room ,1 match            for each piece used from 1 room to another.                                                                                                                     Patterm match is for length only and does not deal with width.                                                                                                  If additional allowances are desired, you may enter (for example)               19 or 20 inches for a 18 inch pattern match.                                    12 by 12 for a room that is 11 ft 10 inches by 11 ft 10 inches                                                                                                  IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT YOU READ ALL PAGES AND TRY SOME EXAMPLES OF YOUR OWN     TO BECOME FAMILIAR WITH THE WAY THIS PROGRAM WORKS AND HANDLES DIFFERENT        THINGS                                                                          TEST YOUR RESULTS                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Page 2                       Step 1                                                                                                                             Measure the areas you want covered length and width                             (and ceiling height if you are covering walls)                                  If you are using floor covering be sure to measure into doorways                                                                                                Measure doors and windows. Note if they are on outside walls or                 inside. Count how many of each size.                                                                                                                            If you are using carpet Measure your stairs,width,tread length                  and rizer height. Count your rizers. do this for each set of stairs                                                                                             Measure the width of material for floor covering or wall paper                  Measure the length of material if dry wall paneling parquet floor               tile ceramic tile ceiling tile blocks or bricks                                                                                                                 NOTE For ceramic concrete blocks or bricks include grout thickness                   or center to center of finished product including 1 grout thickness        Now you are ready to enter in computer files for Takeoff                                                                                                        NOTE ENTER 1 TAKEOFF FOR EACH PATTERN AND COLOR                                                                                                                 Page 3                 NOTE for L shaped rooms                                                                                                                  _______________________24 ft______________________________                      |                           *                            |                      |     For this example enter as two rooms                |                      |                  12 by 13 * and 12 by 7                |                      |                           *                           7 ft                    |                           *                            |                      |                           *                            |                      13 ft                       *                            |                      |                           *__________12 ft_____________|                      |                           |                                                   |                           | also enter 1 door 7 ft wide by ceiling            |                           | height as inside door. even if you are            |                           | not covering walls this will deduct               |                           | 14 ft from your base board or cove base           |                           |                                                   |                          6 ft                                                 |__________12 ft____________|                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Page 4                   Step 2                                                 Place Takeoff diskette in your computer in drive that has M.S. DOS (2.0 or      later )  at the DOS prompt A> type in TAKEOFF and wait for program to be        loaded. After COPYRIGHT NOTICES appears and you read screen press enter         and you will be prompted to ENTER DRIVE FOR DATA FILES ?                        FOR 1 DISK DRIVE ENTER A : FOR 2 DISK DRIVE ENTER B                             FOR FIXED HARD DISK ENTER C                                                     APROX LIMIT FOR 1 DISK DRIVE IS 75 TO 80 ROOMS FOR MATERIAL TYPE 1 AND 2        SENCE THE PROGRAMS USE MOST OF THE SPACE ON A 360 KB DISK                       APROX LIMIT FOR 2 DISK DRIVE USING 360 KB DISKETTE FOR MATERIAL TYPE 1 OR 2     IS 10 TAKEOFFS WITH 250 ROOMS EACH                                              MATERIAL TYPES OTHER THAN 1 AND 2 USE LESS SPACE ON YOUR DISK OR DISKETTE       FIXED OR HARD DISK IS LIMITED BY THE SIZE AND CAN HOLD MORE                     IF YOU ARE USING A HARD DISK IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT YOU MAKE A DIRECTORY        ON YOUR HARD DISK BY TYPING IN AT THE PROMPT C>MD\TAKEOFF                       THEN PRESS ENTER NEXT TYPE IN C>CD\TAKEOFF THEN COPY PROGRAM DISKETTE FROM      DRIVE A TO C BY TYPING A: THEN AT PROMPT A>COPY *.* C:                          AFTER ALL FILES ARE COPIED STORE THE PROGRAM DISK IN A SAFE PLACE               TYPE IN C: THEN AT PROMPT C>TAKEOFF                                                                                                                                              press enter to continue                                                                                                                        Page 5                                                                                                Step 3 Enter material type and sizes                      NOTE (added 10/86 + or - in file number will scan existing files)               Now you must enter file number for your take off.and press enter or F9          to review what is already in file. if none are on the disk you have             selected enter 1 and start entering the information requested                   by prompt and press enter. when you get to ENTER OPTION you may enter           5 to go back and make changes                                                                                                                                   Step 4 Enter room sizes                                                         When you get to ENTER OPTION you may enter 1 and press enter and go to          room size menu                                                                  If room sizes are already in file they will be displayed 16 at a time           Enter A to add if some room sizes are already in file                           Enter C and press enter to change them                                          Enter + in length ft. field to repeat size of previous room                     Press F6 or ESC in length ft. field to end changes                              press F6 or ESC to return to material type menu                                 Enter D and press enter to delete them X is delete code                         Enter N and press enter to display the next 16 rooms If in file                 Enter P and press enter to display the previous 16                                                                                                              Page 6        NOTE X in delete code in room,door,window & stairs                              does not remove the record it just de-activates it                Step 5 enter doors window and stairs                                                                                                                            From ENTER OPTION  on material type menu                                        Enter 2 and press enter to enter or edit doors                                  Enter 3 and press enter for windows                                             Enter 4 and press enter from stairs                                                                                                                             For all of these the procedure is much the same as Page 4 Step 4                NOTE for doors and windows                                                      At prompt OUTSIDE ?    Doors are assumed to be outside unless Y is entered      Windows are assumed to be outside unless N is entered X deactivates record                                                                                      On both doors and windows inside means it is connected to another               room you have entered for your Takeoff                                          Allowances are made 1 time for outside 2 times for inside                       Base board or cove base is only deducted for doors                              So if you have a window that goes all the way to the floor and                  you dont want to include base for it enter it as a door                                                                                                         NOTE see page 6 for other information about doors windows and stairs            Page 7                                                                                                       NOTES                                              When your information is processed                                                                                                                              Stairs are ignored if material type is NOT 1 or 2                               CAUTION if you have entered stairs and process your takeoff for                 carpet and change material width to process for wall paper                      in the same areas you must enter 0 in number of stairs                          or you will end up with enough wall paper to cover your stairs                                                                                                  Windows are ignored if you have not entered Y to WALLS Prompt                   in areas covered                                                                If you have entered Y to prompt ARE ALL WALLS THE SAME HEIGHT ?,then ALL        ceiling heights in ALL rooms are assumed to be the same as room 1 north wall    Doors windows and stairs are ignored if material type 8 is entered              If you want to pour a slab enter material type 8                                and enter 1 room.                                                               EXAMPLE length = 17 feet  ,  width = 12 feet , ceiling height = 4 inches        Material type 6 ignores Y in FLOOR & Y in CEILING ONLY WALLS ARE PROCESSED      If you enter material type 6 each room is assumed to be a seperate              building not connected to any other room you have entered                       For material type 6 measure outside walls                                       Page 8                                                                                                      MORE NOTES                                          If material type 7 is entered material length,width and thickness               are ignored                                                                                                                                                     If material type 1 or 2 is entered material length and thickness                are ignored                                                                     If material type 1 or 2 is entered and Y is entered to FLOOR                    or CEILING or both.Results will be given for north to south                     and west to east                                                                If material type 1 or 2 is entered and Y is entered to WALLS                    North to south and west to east = vertical and horizontal                       If material type 1 or 2 is entered and Y is entered to WALLS                    and Y is entered to either FLOOR or CEILING then results will                   be given for north to south on floor and ceiling vertical on walls              west to east on floor and ceiling and vertical on walls                         Printed cross referance is only for material type 1 and 2                       "GET FROM" AND "USED IN"   Refer to room number and area                        EXAMPLE 1N = room 1 north wall 1F = room 1 floor 1C = room 1 ceiling                                                                                            If material type 3 tru 5 is entered and                                         material length = width results will be given only 1 way                        Page 9                                                                                                Processing your Takeoff                                                                                                                   From prompt ENTER OPTION on material type menu                                  enter 6 and press enter after takeoff is processed                              results will be displayed                                                                                                                                       If changes are made in material sizes or type or if you go to                   1 edit rooms  2 doors  3 windows  4  stairs                                     Changes are assumed to have been made and 6 at ENTER CHOICE                     will reprocess takeoff                                                          Otherwise 6 at ENTER OPTION will display results without                        having to re-process takeoff                                                                                                                                    FILL 1 Means 1 piece no end seams                                               FILL 2,3,4,5 or 6 means end seams may be needed                                 The above refers  to printed cross reference material type 1 & 2 ONLY                                                                                           NOTE (added 11/86 for material type 1 or 2 only you may enter price tax %            and labor price for total pricing information at screen display)                                                                                                                                                                           Page 10                                                                                                    NOTE                                                 MAXIMUM Number of room entrys that will be processed is as follows              Material types 1 tru 5                                                          FLOOR OR CEILING ONLY 250               FLOOR AND CEILING        125            FLOOR AND WALLS        50               WALLS ONLY                62            CEILING AND WALLS      50               FLOOR,WALLS AND CEILING   41                                                                                            Material types 6 tru 8      250                                                                                                                                                ***********> WARNING <*************                                                                                                              IF You have entered (for example) material type 1 with Y to FLOOR only          and you have 70 room sizes entered and change Your entry to Y to WALLS only     when You process or reprocess Yor takeoff only 62 rooms will be processed       SO if You have made entrys for DOORS,WINDOWS and/or STAIRS and some or all      of them happen to be in the 8 rooms that are not processed  *                                                                                                                  *****> RESULTS WILL BE WRONG <*******                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Page 11                                                                                             ------ LICENSE  AGREEMENT -------                                                                                                           LICENSOR  SHALL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE USE OF THIS PRODUCT                  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THIS LIMITED WARRANTY GIVES YOU SPECIFIC LEGAL RIGHTS WHICH MAY VARY FROM  STATE TO STATE        PAGE 14                                                                                                    FINAL NOTE                                                                                                                           The producer of this program has made every reasonable effort to produce        results that have the least "Patch work" with the least material                                                                                                No claims are made that results are best layout                                 They represent only 1 possibility                                                                                                                               This program is designed for use by                                                        General contractors                                                             Sub-contractors                                                                 Builders                                                                        Building owners and managers                                                    Building material suppliers                                                     And do it your self people                                           Your comments are welcome                                                       WRITE   TAKEOFF                     OR CALL  404-945-1521                               P.O.BOX 235                                                                     BUFORD,GA.                                                                      30518