NATK12.TXT

"Neiki's Astro Tool Kit"  version 1.2.2 "S" (January 19, 1995)
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January 21, 1995


1. DESCRIPTION
2. REQUIREMENTS
3. HOW TO INSTALL
4. DISTRIBUTION FILES
5. SHAREWARE POLICY



1. DESCRIPTION

"Neiki's Astro Tool Kit" is a simple program to draw and print
astrology charts. Yet, it is very accurate and many of its
options can be adjusted to the needs and preferences of the
user.

Its features are:
    - high-resolution WYSIWYG ("What You See Is What You Get")
      on-screen display and printer output
    - simplified interactive help using "Help" buttons
    - 29 pages User's Manual in a Windows Write file

    - two (2) styles of birth charts:
	+ House wheel (with or without aspect table)
        + Aspects chart
    - Synastry chart: graph of interaspects between two birth
      charts
    - Transits chart (Mars to Pluto): graph of transits to a 
      birth chart

    - compute and display positions of:
        + Sun, Moon, all other 8 planet (Mercury to Pluto),
        + Mean and True Lunar Nodes
	+ Pars Fortunae
    - high precision planetary positions computation
    - six (6) houses systems: Koch, Placidus, Campanus, 
      Regiomontanus, Equal, Vehlow

    - Natal report with: planets and houses positions, summary 
      of elements and triplicities (by signs and houses), list
      of aspects (with their "weight-index", a new concept used
      to find the important aspects)
    - Synastry report: list of interaspects
    - Transits report: planets positions, list of transits

    - support all screens and printers that Windows can use
    - feature to select output for color or black & white 
      printer

    - many users defined settings, including:
        orbs of aspects (birth charts),
        orbs of transits,
        orbs of synastry inter-aspects,
        choice of where output of reports can be sent to: 
         clipboard, text file or to a preview window (font 
	 can be selected),
        and many others.

    - reasonable registration fee (see 5. SHAREWARE POLICY)



2. REQUIREMENTS

You need a 386 or 486 SX or DX PC with 4 MB of RAM, Windows 3.1
and 2 MB of disk space. A math co-processor is useful but NOT
required. 

Time to compute a chart:

    386 DX (40 MHz) without co-proc:      2.6 seconds

    486 DX (33 MHz) with co-proc:       < 0.2 second.



3. HOW TO INSTALL

There are two parts to the installation:
  - Part 1 Install the files
  - Part 2 Start the application (NATK12.EXE) for the
           first time and complete the dialog to create the 
           Program Manager Icon for the program.

*** Part 1: To install the files

   1) Create a directory for this software.
      Use either File Manager or, at the DOS prompt, type:
		c:
		cd \
		mkdir NEIKI

   2) copy all the distribution files (NATK12RT.ZIP, 
      NATK12S?.ZIP and NATK12.TXT) to C:\NEIKI

   3) Unzip both NATK12*.ZIP files. To do this with PKUNZIP,
      using the DOS prompt, do like this:
		c:
		cd \NEIKI
		pkunzip NATK12*

   4) Now the files are installed. You should copy the .ZIP
      files to a floppy disk as a backup. If you want to
      make a copy to give to a friend, please copy the ZIP
      files and NATK12.TXT: you are sure that he/she will 
      have all the needed pieces.
      (Once you are done with the installation and have copied
      the ZIP files to a floppy, you can free some space on 
      your hard disk by deleting the .ZIP files from the 
      \NEIKI directory).



*** Part 2: Starting the program and creating the icon

   You can browse on your hard disk with FILE MANAGER and
   double-click on the NATK12.EXE program file OR follow the 
   instructions below...

   NOTE: The example given here assumes that you decided to 
         copy files in the directory above mentioned, C:\NEIKI

   1) From within Windows Program Manager, choose the menu
      "File", select item "Run".

   2) Type
		c:\neiki\natk12
      and press
		ENTER

   3) Follow the instructions on screen.


3. DISTRIBUTION FILES

Excluding the description file you are reading, there are two (2)
distribution files: NATK12S?.ZIP and NATK12RT.ZIP

    NATK12S?.ZIP    contains:

                    README.TXT      installation instruction
                                    & last minute notes
                    NEIKI12.WRI     User's Manual
                    NATK12.EXE      program file
                    ASTRCAL2.DLL    computation module
                    VWSIGNON.DLL    logo & icon module
                    CHARTS1.OCH     sample charts file
                    LICENSE.TXT     text of User's License
                    REGISTER.TXT    registration form
                    LRZ5_24         ephemeris file
                    CHI_24          ephemeris file

    NATK12RT.ZIP    contains:

                    VWBAS20.DLL     run-time modules
                    VWICONS.DLL     (all are needed to
                    VWVM20.DLL       run NATK12.EXE)
                    VWHELP.DLL
                    VWDLGS20.DLL
                    VWFLOAT.DLL
                    VWABORT.DLL
                        
NOTE: When there will be a newer version of NATK, you will NOT 
      need to download the Run-Time files (NATK12RT.ZIP) again.



5. SHAREWARE POLICY

You should read the details of the license in the file LICENSE.TXT

Basically, you have the Author's permission to try this software 
for 60 days without any cost. 

If you like this software, you should send you registration with 
the specified amount of money ($38 US or $49 Canadian) at least 
three (3) weeks before the end of the sixty (60) days period. The 
program will reduce its functionalities to a minimum when the 60 
days period is over.

You can find the registration form in the file REGISTER.TXT



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