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- MATH COMMANDO 1.01 Release Notes -- 3 May 1987
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- Overview:
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- Math Commando is a memory resident reverse polish notation calculator
- with business, statistical, computer base, and scientific functions.
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- Documentation:
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- Documentation is only available in printed format to registered
- users. We have provided some instructions at the end of this file
- to get you started.
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- Availability & Pricing:
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- Math Commando is available for $30.00 with printed documentation.
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- Your copy may be registered by sending a check or money order to:
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- Sandi & Shane Stump
- Box 13719
- College Station, Tx 77841
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- or by calling 1-(409)-776-1911 for Visa, MC, and COD orders.
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- If you have not registered your copy, please do not call us for
- support.
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- When registering, if in the continental United States, please
- provide a street address, rather than post office box, if possible.
- We normally ship orders via UPS.
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- If you are a Texas resident, please add 6.25% sales tax ($1.88) per
- Math Commando ordered.
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- For orders outside North America, please add $10 for shipping per
- order.
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- We do have a version for the Texas Instruments computer.
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- Registration is on a single user basis. What this means is that the
- $30 fee does not register an entire user group, business, company,
- corporation, government office, school district or any other
- multiple-user/computer organization. In these cases, we have
- quantity pricing as follows:
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- Number of machines/users Price per unit
- 2 - 10 $27
- 11 - 25 $25
- 26 - 50 $20
- 51 - $15
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- Site licensing is available for larger companies. Please call for
- more information.
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- Conditions for Use:
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- All new users are entitled to try this program out for a period of
- two weeks. After this period of time, to continue using this
- program legally, please send the required registration fee or
- remove all copies of the software from your machine(s).
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- This program may be distributed by anyone, as long as our copyright
- is not violated and the users agree to our conditions of use as
- described above. A distribution fee of no more than $10 may be
- charged for this program. It is up to the distributor to inform the
- user that this fee does not entitle him/her to any privileges of
- registration.
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- Benefits of Registration:
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- When you register as a user of our software, you will receive the
- latest version of the program along with printed documentation,
- phone support, and notification of new programs and versions. You
- will be given a discount on subsequent purchases of our other
- programs. Later updates will be reasonable, based primarily on
- their cost.
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- Getting Started:
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- To execute the program, type MATH at the DOS prompt. If you cannot
- read the screen clearly at this point, press ALT-SHIFT-C to go to
- the calculator screen and then press ALT-U to uninstall Math
- Commando from memory. Now run the program again by typing: MATH -c
- at the DOS prompt. This places the program into Black & White mode.
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- If you intend to run a program with CGA graphics alongside Math
- Commando, run MATH with the -g option. This option will save the
- graphics screen correctly for your return to the program.
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- Once the program has been run, press ALT-SHIFT-C to "pop-up" the
- calculator onto the screen. The functions of the calculator are
- based on function keys. We selected these keys rather than
- alphabetic keys for the simple reason that it is easy to run out of
- mnemonic keystrokes for all of the math functions.
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- This calculator's function is based on the Hewlett Packard RPN
- calculators. The stack and the first five registers are displayed
- in the upper left half of the screen.
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- To add 30 + 1.88 first type 30, press ENTER, type 1.88, then press
- the + key. To execute any function, first enter the number (or
- numbers) to be acted upon, then the function key that corresponds to
- the function that you wish to execute.
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- This calculator has more functions than originally meet the eye. To
- display the other functions available, press the M-Mode key. This
- key will show the other functions that you have to choose from:
- B-Bus C-Comp S-Stat U-User (this isn't displayed-it only switches
- the register mode back to user). When B or S are selected, the
- register mode is changed to display the first five registers and
- their contents for these functions.
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- The SHIFT-F7 function returns the value currently displayed in the
- calculator window to DOS or the program currently running with Math
- Commando.
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- To return to the DOS prompt or a program currently running with Math
- Commando, press ESCAPE or Q to quit the calculator. The calculator
- is still in memory.
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- To uninstall Math Commando from memory, go to the calculator screen
- (ALT-SHIFT-C) and press ALT-U. The screen should clear and display
- the message "Math Commando 1.xx terminated." and the DOS prompt.
- Any program run after Math Commando will be terminated, so close all
- files and exit before removing Math Commando from memory.
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- Disclaimer:
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- Sandi & Shane Stump make no warranty to the use of this program;
- that is, this program is distributed (sold) as is, and the user
- accepts all responsibility for consequences of use.
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- Happy Computing,
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- Sandi & Shane Stump
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