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4. An Accounting and Bookkeeping Primer.
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7. War of the Minds - Computer Questions
8. Duane's Download Page - programs for download by my computer customers only.
9. The College of the Mind

Most of these programs are described here and some of them will be available for download as freeware or, in some cases, shareware. Probably, eventually, those titles written in BOLDFACE will be available for download. Please let me know if you want a particular boldface program. That may encourage me to get it on the site sooner.

• Business Programs
• Personal Programs
• Utilities

Medical Programs

• MDAS - Medical Accounting System - A program package for patient accounting and billing for a physicians office in continuous use since 1985. See the more complete description here.
• EBILL - Electronic billing module for physicians. Uses disk image of HCFA 1500 billing to produce National Standard Format electronic billing file and Kentucky State format medicaid billing file for phone transmission to Medicaid, Blue Shield, and Medicare.
• HOSP - A package of 14 programs for hospital management used for about three years at a small (40 bed) rural hospital. Admissions records, census report, pre auth report, billing including HCFA 1500, UB 92, complete patient billing reports, medical records reports, supplies inventory, pharmacy inventory, and many other features.
• HOSPICD - A program for use in small hospitals in Kentucky to report ICD patients (those unable to pay but without medicaid and therefore eligible for assistance) on disk weekly.
• RX - A complete pharmacy system to keep prescription records, bill all insurance companies as well as Kentucky medicaid electronically as prescriptions are filled, keep drug inventories and ordering lists, price prescriptions, print patient profiles and a number of other price and management control functions. Revised in 1987. This system as been in continuous use since 1982. Reads in remittance advice electronically received from medicaid's computer and automatically rebills for anything not paid.
  Note: This system was completely rewritten and updated in 2001 and was updated for electronic billing for NCPDP ver. 5.1 via internet as per HIPAA in 2002.
  See these files for detailed descriptions of the system:
  1. General Overview of the Pharmacy Program.
  2. Prescription Screen.
  3. Reports.
  4. Utilities.
  5. Screen shot of prescription screen.
  6. Screen shot of patient screen.
  7. Screen shot of 3rd party screen.
  8. Screen shot of drug screen.

Accounting Programs

• PGAS - Pretty Good Accounting System - General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, and Payroll for small business use. This program package has several unique features such as extra fast data entry, ability to keep number and quantity data by account as well as dollar amounts, profit center accounting, and other features. Has an add-on inventory control module. See the more complete description here.
• RBA - A program to keep track of checks and reconcile bank accounts.
• PRCS - Periodic Rental Control System. A billing system for periodic rentals. Set rental period by day, week, month, or year. Add extra charges such as utilities etc. Program will print bills, produce aged accounts report, charge carrying charges on unpaid amounts, etc.
• DD - Development Database - A system to integrate with the SBAS accounting system to keep track of lot sales on a land development, payment schedules, and payments by buyers, and generate reports of unpaid amounts, total sales, etc.
• PRNTW2 - A program to take W-2 data from a text file created with a word processor and print W-2 forms.

Garment Factory Programs

• PPAY - Piecework Payroll System - Complete payroll system for calculating pay in garment factory, provides for piecework, time work, makeup etc., calculates withholdings, prints checks, W-2s, and complete payroll reports.
• INVT - A clothing inventory system for a garment factory to keep track of raw materials and finished products by style and pattern.
• LOT - A program for a garment factory to keep track of lots in production, quantities produced, quantities shipped, shipping dates, etc.
• TICKET - A program to print bundle tickets, soabar tickets, and sticky labels for a garment factory.

Forestry Programs

• TMBRCRUZ - For foresters, a system to input raw field data collected by sampling methods or 100% cruise and to print out stand and stock tables as well as timber value tables by selected criteria of size, species, strata, or cut, leave, cull designations. Does a statistical analysis of the collected data and calculates additional plots needed for a selected error range. I plan to expand this system to use growth models to project stand growth.
  Also a surveying and deed analyis program is planned.
  See the more complete description here.
• SURVEY - Land surveying program - uses field data from text file to balance latitudes and departures, calculate area by DMD method, calculate error and line of closure, subdivide, and export to CAD program for map.

Crude Oil Programs

• OPAS - Oil Purchasing Accounting System - For crude oil purchasers, a complete management system to make API adjustments for run tickets, allocate payments and both purchaser and operator expenses to interest holders, withhold severance taxes, print interest holders checks with complete records by lease, interest holder, or operator, keep oil inventory and sales records, keep unallocated amounts for unidentified interest holders to be automatically allocated when the interest holder is identified, pay interest holders on various payment schedules, withhold payments for incomplete paperwork, liens, etc., electronic 1099 output, and many other features.
• APISAMP - American Petroleum Institute sample program to calculate volumes of petroleum products after adjusting for temperature, specific gravity, and b,s,&w using API specifications.

Other Business Programs

• MPS - Milk Purchasing System - A program package to keep track of milk purchases for a cheese factory, to price milk according to quality, and to make payments to milk producers.
• RESV - A Reservation Database program to keep records of reservation date blocks for facilities, list unused facilities and print reports, confirmation letters, etc.
• SDB - Student Data Base - for schools, grade cards, attendance records, class roles, homeroom roles, reports on all A's, all A's & B's, perfect attendance, recess detention, Average grades by teacher, unexcused absences, student lists, blank student enrollment forms, rolodex card printing, etc.
• SCHOOL - A program written for the local elementary school when the school board decided that students must be placed in teacher's classes at random with each parent allowed to exclude one teacher for their child. The program input is number of students, number of classes and capacity for each class as well as any exclusion number for each student. The master list of numbers for students and teachers is kept by a separate individual so that the computer operator only works with supplied numbers, not with names.
• VIDEO - Video rental store management system. Keep track of videos by title, and number including multiple copies. Search by title, actor, category, rating. Keep records of customers and rentals, add late charges, print rental slips, keep reserved records and hold tape for customer, cash register features, monthly sales reports, print late video list, historical rental records by video and customer and many other features.
• GAS - A billing and inventory program for a propane or natural gas sales business. Keeps track of metered and bulk sales, bills customers, and tracks gas inventory both in bulk storage and in customers metered tanks as well as inventory of equipment such as tanks and meters by size and location.
  Click below for screen prints of the natural gas system
  1. Natural Gas system menu.
  2. Customer Screen.
  3. Customer Screen. - with franchise screen open.
  4. Transaction Input Menu.
  5. Meter Reading Input Screen.
  6. Payment Received Input Screen.
  7. Billing Screen.
  8. Ending Month Screen.
  9. Reports Menu.
  10. Customer List Report Screen.
  11. Utilities Menu.
• WATER - Water company billing system for water and sewer billing. Keeps customer records and prints monthly customer statements. Calculates charges based on specified rate schedules and taxes. Produces daily reports and monthly summaries as well as aged accounts reports.
• LEASE - An equipment leasing system to keep track of inventories and locations of equipment leased to customers, calculate charges, print statements to customers, and generate all necessary reports.

Special Programs

• INTEREST - A program to calculate payments on money borrowed at various interest rates, repayment periods, and payment frequency. Prints amortization schedules.
• Time Card - A program to figure total time worked by times input from a time card. Useful for bookkeepers doing payroll calculations (71k). See Computer Questions page.
• Read File - A program to read all ASCII or alpha numeric characters from a binary computer file. Useful to see what's really in some of these files. Output to printer or text file. (71k) See Computer Questions page.
• RANDOM - a program to set up and maintain a list of items and when asked pick one at random.
• APPT - Appointment program. A calendar program useful for scheduling appointments up to 100 days in advance. Specifically designed to give a full screen page to keep multiple appointment details for each day.
• LABELS - A label printing program - set up label size and number across, then type in label to be printed and number to be printed.
• PSC - A very specialized program to generate annual reports required by the Public Service Commission for gas companies in Kentucky. The report is generated from their SBAS accounting system and printed in the format required by the PSC.
• STATS - Another very specialized program for a hospital lab to input statistics from samples and do a statistical analysis by time period.
• CLIENTS - A specialized report for an attorney to keep track of filing dates and other information on clients cases and generate to do lists for the current day, week, or month.
• PRNTFILE - A specialized program for a garment factory to take information from a text file of work in progress, print out a weekly report with all columns added, and save the file with the addition done.

• SFHR - Social, Family, and Historical Relationships database. A genealogy program and more. See the more complete description here.
  I used my Family Tree computer program, SFHR, to create a 39 page book of family trees of Duane Bristow and his ancestors. The file here is only the first several pages of this book the whole book is available as a zipped text file of about 23K.
  I also used this program to create a custom family history of myself and my ancestors back to the 17th century.

• LIMERICK - returns a random limerick.
• NUGGET - returns a random nugget of wisdom.
• WORDS - type in letters to unscramble the letters of a 5 to 8 letter word picked from a 30,000 word dictionary. Score based on time, number of tries and word length.
• 100CARDS - play a game of cards guessing whether the next card from a special deck will be higher or lower than the one before. Double your winnings with each correct guess. Play against any one of several computer generated personalities.
• TUTOR - written to help drill my son on foreign language in high school, but can be used for any kind of drill of terms to be memorized. Put in terms and definitions (ex. english and german equivalents) as you learn them by chapter or other category. The program can then drill you in any of four ways:
  1. Computer gives you term
  2. Computer gives you definition
  3. You give computer term
  4. You give computer definition
  Once a large database of terms and definitions is developed this program can be useful in a number of ways.
• Shuffle - A program to shuffle the lines in an ASCII text file. (70k) See Computer Questions page.
• Binary - A program to help you learn about binary numbers. (61k)
• XMASTREE - Christmas Tree - A DOS graphic program of a Christmas Tree with rotating colored ornaments. (81k zipped)
• Diamond Mine - See the description of this game here. - (27k) MSDOS exe file.
• BMI - Body Mass Index - input your height in feet and inches and learn from the chart whether you are overweight or underweight and what is the ideal weight for your height. (24k)
• CLOK - a round analog clock (with hands) on the screen. Ticks each second and chimes on each quarter hour. Sound can be toggled off and on.
• PLAY - A program to play several TV and classical music tunes.
• SHUFSCR - A program to set up a shuffled list of picture text files from a given subdirectory to set up a script file to be used by a file viewing program for a slide show. This program was necessary to allow a slide show of pictures on the computer in random order.
• MURZIMV - A Tradewars type program in which various users maneuver though space and trade or fight.
• POPSIM - A Hammurabi type program in which rulers of two planets decide how best to spend their resources to keep their populations stable or increasing, choices include a mix of domestic expenditures plus research, trading, or making war.
• FRAC - 5 small programs to make random graphic patterns on the screen. Alien is a picture created from one of these patterns.
• CANASTA - A not very good, but interesting Canasta card game program. I think better programs of this type are available on the Internet. Although, I have planned to improve this one, I've not found time yet.
• TWDB - Trade Wars Data Base - a program designed to read in the log file from sessions of playing Trade Wars 2002 on BBSes and map the Trade Wars universe. I think Trade Wars has been updated, so this program is probably outdated.
• GENES - a simulation of genetic distribution in a population.
• LIFEB - an improved simulation of Conway's game of Life. See the description.
• FFS - Forest Fire Simulator - a game/simulator which simulates the job of dispatching fire crews to forest fires. This program was originally written on a TRS-80 computer and sold commercially nation wide years ago by the same people, Sublogic, who first published Flight Simulator. The conversion to PC format and upgrading the graphics still needs some work.
• TRIG - two programs to show graphs of the trigonometric functions.
• DFDS10 & DFES10 - Duane's File Encoding (Decoding) Scheme
  Cryptography encoding and decoding programs, version 1.0.
• PROB - A study in Probability.
• BUGS - A little experiment in graphics. This program allows you to put any 320 X 200 gif file on the screen and then little black bugs slowly eat it away at random. Can be right interesting if you use a scanned picture of a friend (or enemy).
• PETALS - A graphics experiment in drawing flower petal designs.
• WORDFIND - an experiment in inputting a series of letters and letting the computer find all possible words to be made from those letters. So far only uses a 30,000 word dictionary of 5 to 8 letter words.
• DESIGNS - draws graphics designs on the screen
• FX - A program to use a text script file to draw graphic designs on the screen in a programmed order.
• MASTER - my Mastermind game program. Not as good as some others I have seen since.
• LOTTO - Picks LOTTO numbers. Basically a waste of time. I saw so many programs like this being sold for various amounts that I thought I would see how long it would take to write one. It took one to two hours.
• MANDEL1 - draws the mandelbrot set. What else?

• NAME - a file rename program that takes as arguments the name of the file to be renamed and the extension to put on the renamed file. Renames the file to a numerical name in the format mmddhhmm.ext. Great to use in batch files to archive log files and other recurring files.
• KALSCOP9 - a kaleidoscope screen saver.
• SONG - plays a few bars of music of three kinds:
  1. I - initialize
  2. W - Win
  3. L - Lose
  Use in batch files.
• Taglines - A screen saver program that uses words instead of pictures. On the command line set the name of a text file, the color, and the program speed or just accept the defaults and the program will put quotes, humor, or any other text lines you define on the screen at random locations. Includes almost 500 taglines. (80k zipped)
• FIELD - a programming aid written to take a text input file outlining a computer program file structure and set up files and fields as well as do all the basic code writing for file handling in Quick Basic format.
• UTILITY - A utility program to store and demonstrate programming subroutines and explore computer use and computer memory.
• DATETIME - A program to create a batch file to set variables in the DOS enviroment to date and time parameters according to the command line switches used. The program can set day, month, year, day of week, hour of day, minute of hour, second of minute, random numbers and increment these or compare them to given values. It can format dates and times numerically or by name. To be used in batch files.
• PICTURES - A program to read a list of files from a text file and execute a specified program by a shell to DOS with the files listed in the text file as arguments. The files can either be picked in order or at random. The most obvious use of this program is for use in a batch system to show pictures or play sounds from a file list, but it could have other uses.
• POINT - A program to read a text file of names of picture graphics files using these files as a menu on the screen and carrying out DOS commands according to the locations of mouse clicks on the pictures. A DOS version of HTML ismap function. A menu system I developed for those who wanted to click on pictures with a mouse instead of read a text menu. The poor man's answer to Windows.
• WHICH - A menu system which reads an input text file to set up a menu screen and allow complete control of applications from that menu and other submenus set up the same way or with the companion CHOOSE program. A part of my DOS system which makes windows unnecessary for most users.
• CHOOSE - A menu system to read files in a subdirectory and allow point and click actions such as viewing, executing, and deleting. A part of my DOS system which makes windows unnecessary for most users.
• PASSWORD - A program to be used in menu systems and batch files to prevent access by unauthorized persons, to log those who do access, and to allow or disallow setting up new users and changing passwords.

Windows 95/98 Wallpaper

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Clouds.

Windows and Computer Links

• Tips
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• Windows Annoyances and Windows '95 Annoyances
• Windows 95 Technical Assistance
• Yahoo! Computers and Internet:Software:Operating Systems
• Yahoo! - Windows 95
• CNET features - how to - hack your way through Windows 95
• Fractint Homepage
• A complete illustrated Guide to the PC Hardware
• Bill Gates Personal Wealth Clock
• Windows 95 - 98/NT Links - My Virtual Reference Desk -

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