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Total Control Converter for MS Windows 3.1 -- v 1.0
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Total Control Converter is yet another unit converter for Windows.
What sets TC Converter apart from the rest? Here are some of its
features:
-> Total Customizability: in the Registered Version, the user can
define his/her own quantities, units and conversion factors as
well as edit the ones that come with TCC. As many as 30 different
quantities with 50 units _each_ can be defined and used. In the
Shareware version the number of user-defined quantites was limited
to three -- which is still three times better than any other unit
converter I've used...
-> Interlinked calculation fields for powerful What-If checks: TCC
does not have a "From A to B" setup like all other unit converters;
rather, the two fields used are completely interlinked. You can
input numbers, change the represented unit or Copy/Cut/Paste text
from both fields at any time.
-> TC Converter was designed to work along with large mathematical
and numerical packages. Thus, I tried to make it as unobtrusive as
possible, both on the desktop and in the system's resources.
-> TCC can display a "reference data" text file at any moment: you
can get info like formulas, relations, constants at any time,
without hunting through your hard drive...
Requirements: MS Windows 3.1 and vbrun300.dll
About the shareware version: The 1.0s version is a "light" version.
That is, the number of user-defined quantities was limited to three from
30 -- however you can still get 50 units per custom quantity -- and the
quantities and units that were hard-coded in the shareware version are
fewer than those pre-defined in the registered version. This was done
for size as well as advertising. If you find that the s version suits
your needs, feel free to keep using it as long as you like. I will
inflict upon you no guilt trips, no nag screens, no timers... But if
you want something more powerful, well, register...
The registration fee is USD 8.00 per single-user copy, USD 40.00
per site license and USD 140.00 per organization license.
To register, send a check or money order to:
Costas Malamas,
Box 37692,
Georgia Tech Station,
Atlanta, GA 30332,
USA
No restrictions to distribution apply.
Technical Issues
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-> Since the defined units can differ in several orders of magnitude,
all calculations were let to be double-precision: round-offs should
be made by the user according to his/her needs...
-> In both the full (registered) and shareware version, temperature
was hard-coded in the source. This was done because temperature
unit conversion is the only one (to my knowledge) that requires
an offset parameter as well as a multiplication factor parameter.
Thus, to save memory, Temperature is _not_ customizable in
either version.
-> To run, Total Control Converter requires the Microsoft Visual
Basic run-time library, vbrun300.dll To conserve space in
the distributing sites this file is not included in the archive
of the shareware version. It is available, however, in most
major BBSs and all major ftp sites as vbrun300.zip Since a
number of programs may require this library, you might have it
(unknowingly) already or if you don't, it will be useful
anyway...
A final note: TC Converter was written after I spent some time
looking for a good converter utility. If you think something is
missing or not working properly, or have a good idea for another Total
Control utility, feel free to write at the address above or e-mail me
at the following Internet address:
cw459@freenet.cleveland.edu
Because FreeNet is a very busy site, please allow a week for a
responce. However, this account is likely to remain active for far
longer than any of my local site ones...
Installation
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Unzip the tcc100s.zip file into a directory of your preference,
using pkunzip 2.04g or a compatible un-archiver. The files included
in the archive are:
tcc100s.exe TC Converter executable
tcc.ini Initialization file for TCC. Defines custom
quantitites and units. See the file itself
for instructions on the syntax.
referenc.dat Reference Data text file, displayed by TCC
using the File/Reference Data option
tcc.hlp Windows help file -- complete reference for
Total Control Converter
cmdialog.vbx * Common Dialog Visual Basic Extension. It needs
to be moved/copied to your WINDOWS\SYSTEM
directory.
commdlg.dll * Common Dialog Dynamic Link Library. This too
needs to be moved to WINDOWS\SYSTEM
readme.1st This file!
Make sure you have the vbrun300.dll library in your PATH. To
access tcc.ini and referenc.dat these two files need to be in your PATH
as well (or in the same directory as tcc100s.exe).
* These two files are Visual Basic extension files, and there is a good
chance that they are already in your system. Even if this is not the case,
several Visual Basic applications may access them, so they might be useful
in the future as well...