SETTING UP STOCK SYSTEM AT RISE UP
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1. SET UP FOLLOWING DIRECTORIES

MD \STOCK
MD \STOCK\UPDATE
MD \STOCK\WORK
MD \OLDSTOCK

2. CHANGE TO THE STOCK DIRECTORY AND COPY DOWN THE SYSTEM

CD \STOCK
COPY A:*.*

3. THE PROGRAM IS STOCK.EXE, AND IS RUN FROM WITHIN THE STOCK DIRECTORY

STOCK

4. THE DATA FILES ARE THOSE ENDING SIGNIFIED BY *.DBF AND *.MEM

   THE RELATED INDEX FILES MAY BE RECREATED AT ANY TIME BY RUNNING THE
   OPTION 9.1 Reindex Master Files

5. WHEN THE FILES ARE BEING UPDATED, A SECURITY COPY IS STORED IN THE
   \STOCK\UPDATE DIRECTORY. IN CASE OF A POWER FAIL IN THE MIDDLE OF
   THE UPDATE, THESE FILES WILL BE COPIED BACK TO THE \STOCK DIRECTORY
   AUTOMATICALLY WHEN THE POWER IS RESTORED AND YOU REENTER THE STOCK
   SYSTEM.

   ALL FILES STORED IN THE \STOCK\WORK DIRECTORY ARE TEMPORARY FILES ONLY.

   AT THE END OF YEAR, THE HISTORY TRANSACTIONS FILE, STKTRANS.DBF,  HAS 
   A COPY TAKEN OF ALL TRANSACTIONS FOR THE PREVIOUS CALENDAR YEAR.
   THESE TRANSACTIONS ARE PLACED IN THE \OLDSTOCK DIRECTORY. THE FILE
   STKTRANS.DBF IS THEN PURGED OF THESE RECORDS. 
