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- The UNITS CONVERTER Version 1.0
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- Program Description
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- There are several unit converter programs out on
- the PC-market. I've always wanted a good one. My criteria
- for good includes the following features and capabilities:
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- o The program should allow the user to select an unit
- with the mouse, enter a value for that unit, and instantly see
- a scrollable screen that displays the values of all related
- units of the same type.
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- o The program should work concurrently with several
- other programs, allowing the user to cut & paste numbers
- across different applications such as wordprocessors and
- spreadsheets.
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- o The program should include temperature con-
- version such as Fahrenheit to Celsius etc.
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- o The number of engineering, business and scientific
- units grow each year. A good unit conversion program must
- allow the user to input new units and/or modify the values of
- old ones.
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- I created the Units Converter version 1.0 to address
- these features. The multitasking graphical environment of
- Microsoft Windows 3.0 (tm) is an excellent platform with
- which to satisfy the first two features. I've reserved the third
- feature (and other enhancements) for version 3.0 of the
- Units Converter. If you like version 1.0, in order to keep us
- ShareWare programmers alive, ver. 3.0 is only available to
- registered users who have paid the $ 25 registration fee.
- Please see the "Registration" section below for additional
- details.
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- INSTALLATION
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- Create a units directory on any drive using the mkdir
- command:
- mkdir /units
- Change to this directory::
- cd /units
- Copy all of the supplied files to the units directory:
- copy a:*.*
- Start Windows and activate the Main window. Use the
- "Windows Setup" command to finish installing the "Units
- Converter" program.
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- PROGRAM OPERATION
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- One example should make the program operation "intuitively
- obvious even to the most casual observer". Let's suppose
- that you have just driven from San Francisco, Ca. to Los
- Angeles and found that the distance was 396 miles. A
- foreign exchange student, that you know, wants to make the
- same journey but asks you for the distance in kilometers.
- Your sister, who lives in San Francisco, also plans to join you
- next week. She drives like Captain Kirk!
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- Start the program by double clicking the "Units Converter"
- icon from Windows. Work from left -to-right on the program
- window. Use your mouse to scroll the units type window
- pane and select "Length" by clicking it. Move the mouse to
- the next pane and click "miles". A message window opens
- asking you for the number of "miles", its default value is 1.0.
- Enter 396 and click "OK". The far right window-pane now
- displays the equivalent of 396-miles in several scientific,
- international and engineering units. Scroll the right pane to
- locate the "kilometer" value of 637 km. Also, tell your sister
- that light takes only 0.002 seconds to make the same journey.
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- A FEW ADDITIONAL NOTES
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- Clicking in the right window will change it to a yellow-back-
- ground with black-foreground. Some people, and their
- dogs, claim that this is more readable.
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- Accepting the default value of 1.0 for a selected unit displays
- the relative values of the other units.
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- You can copy your calculations to the clipboard for use by
- other Windows applications via the "Edit" menu bar.
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- THE ADDITIONAL FEATURES OF VERSION 3.0
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- "The Units Converter 3.0"
- is an expanded version 1.0.
- It also features the following
- enhancements:
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- 1. Hundreds of additional
- international units.
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- 2. You can add any new
- units of your choice.
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- 3. Number conversions;
- such as Octal, Hex, etc.
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- 4. Physical science, math,
- engineering, and
- other constants.
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- TO REGISTER AND ORDER VERSION 3.0
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- send $25, your name and address to:
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- HAP: Software Co.
- attn: R. W. Hoard
- 269 Joyce Street
- Livermore, California 94550
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- or phone in your order at:
- (415) 294-9366
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