Home or Away Version 4.1
Copyright (C) 1996-1999 CFB Software.

http://www.cfbsoftware.com.au
info@cfbsoftware.com.au

All Rights Reserved
(Last updated: 8 August 1999)

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CONTENTS

 1. OVERVIEW
 2. ADVANCED FEATURES
 3. MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
 4. INSTALLATION
 5. DOCUMENTATION
 6. FREE LIMITED EDITION
 7. REGISTERED VERSION
 8. HOW TO REGISTER
 9. LIST OF FILES
10. LICENCE AGREEMENT
11. DISCLAIMER

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1. OVERVIEW

Do you organise sporting competitions?

  Use Home or Away to schedule your teams in a round robin
  competition at lightning fast speed. Create a basic schedule in
  just a few minutes. Just enter the names of the teams, press the
  generate schedule button and print the schedule. Home or Away
  does not force you to enter any information that it does not need
  or cannot work out for itself. 

  The schedules produced by Home or Away are balanced. As long as 
  the number of games scheduled represent a number of complete
  rounds the schedules produced have the following qualities:

  * Each team plays every other team the same number of times 
  * Each team plays every other team before any rematches
  * Each team has a fair mix of home and away games

Are your schedules more complex?

  Use Home or Away for advanced schedules as well. Schedule
  competitions for as many as forty teams with these features:

  * Dates, Times and Locations

  Specify date ranges, holiday periods, playing days, number of
  games at each time etc. with powerful date functions. Enter
  details of available times and locations and assign preferred
  home locations and playing times.

  * Modify games manually

  Manually modify the games that Home or Away schedules to handle
  exceptional situations. Home or Away preserves your changes and
  optionally reschedules the remaining games.

  * Summary

  Summarise the schedule to see at a glance how well balanced it
  is and to highlight any problems. 

  * Optimisation

  Optimise the schedule to reduce the total number or
  distribution of home or away streaks.

  * Presentation capabilities

  Customise the printed schedules by selecting font styles, sizes
  and page orientation. Export the information to spreadsheets, 
  database managers and word processors (e.g. MS Excel, Access and
  Word) to exploit their extensive data sorting, report design and
  formatting capabilities. 

  * Internet-ready schedules

  Publish your schedules on the Internet or view them with a Web
  Browser by exporting them in the web page HTML format.


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2. ADVANCED FEATURES

  * Two Scheduling Methods  

  When generating a schedule you can choose from one of two
  different scheduling methods. 

    Share Locations / Minimise Streaks
    - very fast  
    - pairs of teams can share locations
    - minimal home / away streaks

    Auto-balancing

    If you have manually modified a schedule so that two particular
    teams play each other on a certain day, the schedule will be
    rebalanced to ensure that each team still plays each other
    team the same number of times.

  * Separate Optimisation

  After a schedule is generated it can be optimised to reduce the
  number of home / away streaks. 

  * Options Menu - Days Between Games

  Specify a minimum number of days break between games.
  e.g. if you want to ensure that no team plays more than once
  on the same day set the value to 1. 

  Home or Away does not change the timeslots that you have
  entered, it attempts to reorder the games so that they are 
  further apart.

  * Options Menu - Skip Byes

  Byes, by default, occupy a timeslot. Check the Skip Byes
  option if you only want timeslots to be occupied by actual
  games for the current schedule.

  * Options Menu - Save as Default

  The current options settings are save and used as the default
  values when a new schedule is created. 

  
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3. MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

    MS Windows 95, Windows 98 or Windows NT 
    Intel 486 processor
    VGA display, 8Mb RAM
    Windows compatible mouse
    2Mb Free disk space

  A bubblejet, inkjet or laser printer is recommended.


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4. INSTALLATION

  Home or Away is distributed in the form of a self-extracting 
  installation program (SETUP.EXE). 
  Install it as follows:  
 
  1) Press the Start button and select Run from the Start Menu.
  
  2) Type the full name of the file (for example, C:\TMP\SETUP.EXE)

  3) Press the Enter key, and follow the prompts.  

  4) When the installation program completes you can run Home or
     Away by:

     selecting it from the Start menu or
     clicking on HOMEAWAY.EXE in Windows Explorer


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5. DOCUMENTATION

  All of the documentation is contained in the online Help file.
  When running Home or Away, press the F1 key for context-sensitive
  help or select Help from the menu.


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6. FREE LIMITED EDITION

  The Limited Edition of Home or Away allows you to use ALL of
  the features for an unlimited time, to create schedules for as
  many as eight teams. 
  
  You are free to distribute the Limited Edition.
  It may be given away to anyone, included on CD-ROM libraries,
  uploaded to WWW pages, ftp sites and bulletin boards, etc. as
  long as it is distributed in its complete original form. 


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7. REGISTERED VERSION

  If you register Home or Away you will be able to create schedules
  for as many as forty teams. 

  Registration also gives you the following benefits:

    * Notification of new versions by e-mail
    * Discounted upgrades for new versions
    * Technical support via email

  NOTE: DO NOT distribute registered copies of Home or Away
  without the expressed written consent of the author.

  The cost of registering Home or Away is $US65

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8. HOW TO REGISTER

  You can register online by credit card. Go to the CFB Software
  Web page at: 

      http://www.cfbsoftware.com.au

  Click on 'Home or Away' and then select 'Registration' 
  from the menu.

  Once your payment has been authorised the registration details
  will be sent to you via e-mail. This usually happens within 24
  hours.

  When you have received your registration details, start
  Home or Away, select Help | Register from the menu
  and enter the details.  


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9. LIST OF FILES

  The Home or Away package consists of the following files:

    README.TXT   This file
    SETUP.EXE    Self-extracting installation program

  The package may be freely distributed as long as all of the above
  files are included in an unmodified state.

  After running setup the following files are created in the
  directory that you specified:

    HOMEAWAY.EXE         Main Program
    HOMEAWAY.HLP         Help file
    HOMEAWAY.CNT         Help contents file
    SAMPLES\EXAMPLE.HAD  Sample Schedule
    SAMPLES\EXAMPLE.TXT  Sample Exported Schedule
    SAMPLES\EXAMPLE.HTM  Sample Internet WWW Schedule
    UNWISE.EXE           Program Uninstaller
    INSTALL.LOG          Installation log

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10. LICENCE AGREEMENT

  You should carefully read the following terms and conditions
  before using this software.  Your use of this software indicates
  your acceptance of this licence agreement and disclaimer.

  Limited Edition

  There are no restrictions to the number of computers that
  the Limited Edition of Home or Away may be installed on, or
  the number of people that can use it at any one time.

  Registered Version

  A registered copy of Home or Away may be installed on one or 
  more computers but may only be used by the single person in 
  whose name it is registered. 


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11. DISCLAIMER

  Home or Away is used entirely at the risk of the user. Although
  great care has been taken to eliminate defects during the
  development of Home or Away, it is not claimed to be fault-free.
  No claims are made regarding its correctness, reliability or
  fitness for any particular purpose. The Author shall not be 
  liable for errors contained herein or for incidental or 
  consequential damages, loss of data or personal injury in 
  connection with furnishing, performance, or use of this material.

 
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