Digi-Star Diet Manager Full Guide - Manual (Page 5)

5 Diet Manager User’s Guide
Introduction
Welcome to the Diet Manager
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User’s Guide. Diet Manager  is a software program designed to easily
utilize the EZ3500 Indicator and DataKey ™ to track and record recipe loading and feeding. Diet Manager 
allows you to set up specific recipes and pen deliveries for your herd. The program tracks and records each
step in the process including tracking each individual operator. The program outputs the completed loading
and feeding data into over 10 easy to read reports with selectable date ranges. This provides you with the
valuable data required to optimize your feeding system on a cost/production basis.
The program is Windows  based to allow you to get up and running quickly and start understanding and
controlling your feeding costs.
Minimum System Requirements
Make certain that your PC includes the following hardware and software. These are the minimum system
requirements to run Diet Manager
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• A Pentium  100 or better PC
• Microsoft Windows98, 2000, ME, XP or NT 
• Adobe Acrobat Reader 
• 100 Meg Free disk space
• 32 Meg Ram
• 3.5” Floppy Drive
• CD Drive
• A mouse
• A serial port
• Printer
• 28.8 modem
• Internet Service Provider
A USB to Serial Port adapter can be used if your PC does not have a free serial port. The serial port must
be assigned to a port number 1 to 8. A higher comm. port setting will not work with the Diet Manager

program.
Please Note that certain programs can interfere with the operation of the serial port / Diet Manager
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.
These programs include Palm Desktop and some auto ID systems and milk monitoring programs. If these
programs are installed and running on the PC you intend to use for the Diet Manager
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system, they must
be shut off when reading / writing to the DataKey ™ . Failure to shut these programs off during this
sequence may result in errors and lost data.