New Version

[Shane]

Hi Dale,

Any ideas when a new version of DHPOS is going to be released??? What features is your next version going to have?

[Dale Harris]

Shane,

I may put out a BETA test version of the program tonight depending on how much time I get today to finish it. If all goes well a release version may come out this weekend.

New features are...

"Rounding" will have a new option to round the sale to the nearest 10¢

From the main POS menu pressing [F9] will put the program to sleep. This may help reduce the system resources used by the POS program while it is asleep. Pressing any key will then awaken the program.

If your computer runs straight DOS or Windows versions 3.1 to '98 you may set the POLE display output to "DIRECT ACCESS". This means that the POLE.EXE program will not be needed to run the pole display. This is good because POLE.EXE is Windows software and will not run on a DOS only machine. However direct serial port access will not work from the POS program if your computer runs Windows versions after '98 so then you will have to use POLE.EXE.

The POS program will now be able to sell time. Actually the POS program was always able to sell time it just did not keep track of the time being sold. Now it will. By pressing [F8] from the main POS menu you will start a TIMER.EXE program that you can either set to display up to 51 timers displaying the start time and the elapsed time for up to 51 thingies or you can set it so that you can print out a start time and then later reenter the start time and it will print out the elapsed time. The first method works well if you have something like a cyber cafe where you sell time on the computers and the second method works better if you have a 500 car parking garage.