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- Fin Pack: the worlds cheapest financial calculator that uses fish (really!)
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- What is it:
- A simple little utility to help you do financial thinking. The calculations are simple, but tedious. So, here's a little tool to help you out.
- The FinPac has 3 modules, not all of which are enabled at the moment.
- Stocks/funds (ie investments)
- Loans
- Real Estate
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- Why is it:
- cause I tend to analyze the hell out of things, and this makes it easier. Plus it was fun/easy.
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- Who wrote it:
- me. Email me at boyle@spacsun.rice.edu
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- How is it:
- it's a first release (hence the a in the version name); it won't crash your machine
- (AFAIK), but there are some loose ends as it evolves. This version needs a ppc and a color display.
- I could make it work for 68k and b/w machines, if anyone wanted it.
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- Where is it (Distribution):
- Please do not distribute 'd' revisions without permission from the author.
- Feel free to send anyone/any archive unaltered copies of unregistered 's'
- revisions. I'll put out an 'a' rev just to let people play with it.
- Give it to your friends, neighbors, or your fish if you like.
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- LEGALESE:
- there is no warranty or assurance of any kind stated or implied for FinPac (aka Cret).
- Anyone who uses it does so at their own risk, and the author isn't liable for jack.
- If you like lawyers, go bugger yourself. If you sue me, I'll hurt you. A lot. On the
- other hand, everyone is welcome to use and enjoy this program within those
- constraints. I hope you get rich. Have fun. If you make or lose money, it's not my fault.
- Deal with it.
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- share and enjoy (or should that be 'invest and become wealthy...'?),
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- b
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- ps comments and suggestions are appreciated
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- REVISION HISTORY
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- IPR 1.0a 4/22/96
- You're welcome to play with it now, and I'll release another version when I
- add the other modules.
- It's just something I do when I have a spare hour on a weekend, so don't hold your breath...
- :)
- fix list:
- 0. fix illegible text on b/w macs due to shade chosen
- 1. (fixed) 'long ints' which wrap if you set 100% return for 60 years...
- 2. (fixed) calc error
- 3. (fixed) redraws pict on update events
- 3.5 (fixed) hog factor chopped down
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- features under consideration for the future:
- 4. more documentation and online help
- 5. change units (commas, k$, M$, etc.) (done)
- 6. add loan calculator (code is done, not happy with the interface yet)
- 7. graphing
- 8. real estate (someday...)
- 9. printing? (in another life)
- 10. boss key? nah.
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- IR 1.0d sometime in the dark ages
- Basically it works, it looks ok, and I disabled the graphics stuff. Found a
- few minor cosmetic bugs to squash.
- Actually, most of those changes occur in one routine which is **so** ugly and kludgy that
- the code police would have apopleptic seizures if they saw it. That function is due
- for a rewrite anyway. (fixed)