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MASSCALC
VERSION 1.01
INTRODUCTION
by Ralph W. Reid
Released: January 30, 1996
Try these programs at your own risk! Considerable effort has been put
into writing these programs to keep them from wildly rampaging through
your computer, deleting and damaging everything reachable, but
sometimes things go wrong anyway. The original author (Ralph W. Reid)
may not be held responsible for any damages or losses, including but
not limited to lost or damaged files, hardware failures, any type of
physical disability or impairment which might be associated with
computer operation, marital or other personal problems, or any other
problems or situations which might be the result of operating this or
any other computer software. RUN THESE COMPUTER PROGRAMS AT YOUR OWN
RISK!
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: This software was written in the C programming
language, and was compiled with the Turbo C compiler from Borland
International. Turbo C is a registered trademark of Borland
International.
Some of the functions included in this calculator are based on some of
the algorithms discussed in, "Applied Numerical Analysis," by Kurtis
Gerald, 1989.
OPERATING ENVIRONMENT: MASSCALC has been written and compiled to run
with the MS-DOS or PC-DOS operating systems, version 3.00 or later.
The shareware and student distributions operate completely in main
memory, while the full distribution creates temporary files (memory
overflow files) to hold some data which will not fit into a single
segment of main memory. The shareware distribution of MASSCALC was
compiled to run in any computer with the proper operating system, and a
8088, 8086, 80286, 80386, 80486, Pentium, Pentium Professional, or
compatible processor. The student distribution will run on any of the
systems the shareware distribution runs on, with the exception that a
math co-processor (80X87) must be installed. The full distribution
requires that a 80286, 80386, 80486, Pentium, Pentium Professional, or
compatible processor be installed, along with any applicable math co-
processors (80X87). The full distribution also takes advantage of hard
drive space for large arrays by storing the array numerical data in
temporary files, which are placed in the directory defined by the
operating system environment variable MASSCALCTEMP, TMP, or TEMP, or in
the current default directory.
INSTALLATION:
1. Unpack MASSCALC into its own directory to keep the demo files
(*.DEM) from overwriting any files from unrelated packages.
MASSCALC VERSION 1.01 1
2. Copy the MASSCALC.EXE file to a directory which is included in the
operating system search path (see your operating system manual for the
PATH command), or include the directory you just unpacked MASSCALC into
in your system path.
3. If you are installing the full distribution of MASSCALC (not the
shareware or student distribution), you can specify which directory the
temporary files should be written to. MASSCALC searches three
operating system environment variables for the path to use for its
temporary files in the following order: MASSCALCTEMP, TMP, TEMP. If
none of these environment variables have been defined when MASSCALC is
started, the current directory is used for the temporary files. To set
a value for an operating system environment variable, run the SET
command from the operating system prompt as follows:
SET MASSCALCTEMP=C:\TMP
Replace "C:\TMP" as needed with the proper directory path. The
directory path may be entered with or without a terminating back-slash
(\) as desired; MASSCALC will work with either format. For example,
the following operating system commands will cause MASSCALC to use the
same directories for its temporary files:
SET MASSCALCTEMP=C:\TMP
SET MASSCALCTEMP=C:\TMP\
An appropriate SET command should be added to the AUTOEXEC.BAT file (or
another batch file involved in the boot-up process) to be certain a
temporary directory is always defined for the full distribution of
MASSCALC. See your operating system manual for more information
concerning setting environment variables.
FOR MORE INFORMATION: Read the MASSCALC.doc file which should have
been included with this distribution. The author of MASSCALC and other
software can be contacted in the following ways:
EMAIL: rreid@athenon.com
WWW: http://www2.athenon.com/~rreid
SNAILMAIL:
Ralph W. Reid
125 Parmac #32
Chico, CA 95926
USA
DISTRIBUTING MASSCALC: MASSCALC is copyright 1996, and may not be
distributed by anyone other than the author Ralph W. Reid), except that
the shareware distribution may be freely distributed as a complete
unmodified package. The complete unmodified package must include the
files described in the README.TXT file which is part of the complete
unmodified package. The files listed there may only be distributed as
produced by the author (Ralph W. reid).
MASSCALC VERSION 1.01 2
HISTORY:
VERSION 1.01
Fixed a software problem which crashed some systems in some situations.
The operating manual for this version is the same as for version 1.00.
VERSION 1.00
Original public release of MASSCALC.
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