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B I O - C A L
by
Joseph L. Cousins
Sierra Consultants
P.O. Box 10488
Silver Spring, MD 20904
(301) 680-9625
CompuServe ID [70245,374]
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
The History of BIO-CAL The History of BIO-CAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
BIO-CAL Revision History BIO-CAL Revision History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
How BIO-CAL Works How BIO-CAL Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
SHAREWARE SHAREWARE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
REGISTRATION FORM REGISTRATION FORM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
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Copyright (c) 1988 by Sierra Consultants All Rights Reserved Copyright (c) 1988 by Sierra Consultants All Rights Reserved
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INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION
This program was written with the idea in mind to market it to Dealers
who would then sell the output to persons desiring the BIO-CAL charts
unique output format. Considering the available market for such an item
I realized it would also do well in the User-Supported Software
(SHAREWARE) market. I hereby submit this program for your
consideration.
BIO-CAL is NOT a public domain program and the source code is not for
sale nor will it be released. This program is Copyright(c) 1988 by
Sierra Consultants. The conditions under which BIO-CAL may be copied
are as follows:
1. Individuals are granted permission by the author to freely
copy the BIO-CAL diskette for their own use or to provide
others with evaluation copies as long as no price or other
consideration is charged.
2. Computer Clubs, User Groups, and Bulletin Board Operators are
granted permission to copy the BIO-CAL diskette or place it on
a Bulletin Board for 'Downloading'. The person receiving the
copied diskette or downloaded BIO-CAL program cannot be
charged an fee EXCEPT FOR MEDIA REPRODUCTION which is limited
to $5.00.
3. The program or any of the documentation cannot be modified in
any manner without the prior consent of the Author.
4. The BIO-CAL diskette may not be packaged along with any other
program or materials. It may not be bundled and sold as part
of any other package.
5. The BIO-CAL program may not be "rented" to others.
6. The BIO-CAL output charts are Copyright(c) and may not be sold
to anyone.
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The History of BIO-CAL The History of BIO-CAL
The basis of BIO-CAL was conceived by myself during the summer of 1975.
I believe I saw someone running a Biorhythm program on our terminal at
Litton. It generated voluminous output which was impressive but not
something you could refer to conveniently. I immediately thought of
producing an output on a 132 character wide printer paper which
consisted of months whose days were placed across the paper horizontally
and the biorhythm output would be placed under each day vertically. I
even wrote a small program in Basic to begin this process but only
managed to finish that portion which did the math calculations. I
generated the sine values for each cycle and stored the values in
tables.
The idea rolled around in this old brain of mine for many years until
the day I was using another persons computer who had a calender
presentation in a similar format to the BIO-CAL output charts. I don't
know how many times I must have looked at the calendar but this was
first time I realized I could output a calendar with the Biorhythms
imbedded in it.
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BIO-CAL Revision History BIO-CAL Revision History
09/01/87 Original program written in Basic with CRT screens
courtesies of The Software Bottling company of New York.
12/21/87 Attempted to write version in Assembly language.
03/09/88 Completed rewrite of basic version to Microsoft Pascal.
This is Ver 1.00.
04/13/88 Delivered Ver 1.31 to friends and other users for Beta
tests. They found problem with running this version on
AT class machines.
06/23/88 Version 2.01 now available. Corrects several errors in
numeric input and Leap Year calculation.
09/06/88 Version 2.11. Corrected LSTRING error. Moved Time to
lower left and added Am & Pm indicator. Moved option
select up one line.
10/10/88 Version 3.01. Converted to Turbo Pascal (V5). This
version now run on AT class machines. Uploaded to
CompuServe on 10/27/88.
11/01/88 Version 3.02. Uploaded to Compuserve again as first
upload has unknown compile errors.
01/01/89 Version 4.00 (Prelim). Modifications made to use
internally generated screens.
01/10/89 Installed the Preview screen and logic.
01/15/89 Installed configurable machines.
02/20/89 Installed Preview screen printout. Fixed negative curve
values as they never got below -8.
03/08/89 Created 'BIOCONFG' program to configure all parameters
and pass to `BIO-CAL' in file BIO-CAL.CFG.
03/18/89 Completed testing and documentation for Version 4.01.
Will upload to Compuserve and GEnie on next available
sessions.
03/28/89 Fixed name entry bug, printer selection bug, backspace
prior to numeric entry bug and reloaded to compuserve as
version 4.02.
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How BIO-CAL Works How BIO-CAL Works
BIO-CAL begins by presenting the user a CRT screen which is in a menu
format. This CRT screen will continuously display the current time and
the day-date at the upper right of the screen and the current
configuration parameters at the lower left. These displays are taken
from the DOS maintained Date and Time and should be set prior to BIO-CAL
initiation. The configuration parameters are set by running the
'BIOCONFG' program. The user obtains a BIO-CAL Chart by following the
Menu steps in progression.
1. Enter Birth Date. Enter the persons birth date as decimal Month, _________________
Day, and Year (i.e., 1937 or 37). If the entered date is legal the
program computes the Julian date. It computes the Day of the Week
from the entered MM-DD-YYYY and displays it on the CRT screen.
2. Enter Chart Date. Enter the date the first or only chart is to _________________
begin. The day is forced to begin on the first of a month. Again
the Julian date is computed and the Day of the Week is displayed if
the date is legal.
3. Enter Number of Months. Enter the number of months BIO-CAL Charts _______________________
are to be produced. The range of numbers are 1 to 12. The number
will not wrap to another year. In other words you cannot produce 3
months of BIO-CAL Charts beginning in the 11th month of a year.
4. Enter Name of Person. Enter the name of the person the BIO-CAL _____________________
Chart is destined for. The length of the character field (26) is
shown by the brackets at each end. Both upper and lower case are
accepted.
5. Preview Chart. Press 5 to view the BIO-CAL computed information ______________
which is presented in a chart for each month(s) selected as three
sine waves for the three Biorhythm curves.
6. Print Charts. Press 6 to request BIO-CAL Charts to be printed on _____________
the printer type shown in the configuration window. A flashing
"Wait Working..!!" signal will be displayed next to the Print Chart
selection to indicate the data is being sent to the printer. When
the signal is no longer displayed the user may begin another
selection.
7. Quit. Press 7 to Quit BIO-CAL and return to the DOS command _____
prompt. The BIO-CAL Program is terminated at this point.
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SHAREWARE SHAREWARE
ABOUT SHAREWARE...
Shareware (also known as user supported software and other names) is a
concept not understood by everyone. The authors of Shareware retain all
rights to the software under the copyright laws while still allowing
free distribution. This gives the user the chance to freely obtain and
try out software to see if it fits his needs. Shareware should not be
confused with Public Domain software even though they are often obtained
from the same sources.
If you continue to use Shareware after trying it out, you are expected
to register your use with the author and pay a registration fee. What
you get in return depends on the author, but may include a printed
manual, free updates, telephone support, etc. Only by paying for the
Shareware you use do you enable the Shareware author to continue to
support his software and create new programs. Considering that the
Shareware registration fees are almost always far less than the purchase
price of comparable commercial software it's obvious that Shareware is a
good deal for everyone.
There are real advantages to you in the Shareware system. You get to
try out software to make sure it is compatible with your hardware and
that it fits your needs before you "buy" it with your registration.
The author saves the expense of advertising, packaging and distribution
and passes the savings on to you. Plus, most Shareware authors are
much more accessible than commercial software sources so that your
questions and suggestions are much more likely to be responded to.
Thank you for your support.
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REGISTRATION FORM REGISTRATION FORM
Information
Name: _________________________________________
Address:______________________________________________
______________________________________________
City: __________________________ State:____ Zip:________________
Phone: (___) ___-_____
BIO-CAL Serial Number:_________(leave blank if requesting a NEW (copy).
Please include the Serial Number as it helps me to know where you got
the copy from.
BIO-CAL Registration is $ 10.00 (no tax). Please send your check or
money order to:
Joseph L. Cousins
Sierra Consultants
PO Box 10488
Silver Spring, MD 20904
(301) 680-9625
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