MaBaSoft Euro Assistant Pro
Version 2.0 - June 1999
Copyright © 1998-99 - MaBaSoft, Italy - All rights reserved.

Contents
 
• Introduction
Contents - General Features - System Requirements - Liability Limitations - Distribution Conditions - Acknowledgements

• Getting Started
Step 1: Language Setup - Step 2: Currencies Setup - Step 3: Rounding Setup - Step 4: Exchange Rates Setup

• Menus
Apple Menu - File Menu - Edit Menu

• Euro Assistant Pro Window
What's All in the Euro Assistant Pro Window? - Iconizing the Euro Assistant Pro Window - Keyboard Shortcuts

• Tape Window
Showing and Hiding the Tape - Clearing the Tape - Advancing the Tape - Printing the Tape - Saving the Tape - Clipping the Tape

• Currencies
Euro: the European Single Currency - EMU National Currencies - Non-EMU Currencies - Base Currency - Currencies Dialog Box - Defining a Custom Currency - Rounding Currencies - Adding, Removing and Moving Currencies

• Internet Update of Euro Rates
What's OANDA? - Update Rates Dialog Box - Updating Rates at Startup

• Calculation
National Currency to Euro Conversion - Euro to National Currency Conversion - National Currency to National Currency Conversion - Reconversion Errors - Calculating and Converting Expressions - Calculating Series Conversions: Importation - Calculation Range

• Preferences

• Version History

• Registration

• Contact Information

General Features
 
Euro Assistant Pro is a multilingual currency conversion calculator for the Macintosh. With Euro Assistant Pro you can:

• convert the 15 European Union currencies and 6 other "important" currencies (US Dollar, Canadian Dollar, Austrialian Dollar, Japanese Yen, Swiss Franc and Norvegian Krone) to euro and back;
• convert any national currency to any other national currency;
• calculate multiple conversions (up to 12 currencies can be simultaneously displayed);
• calculate and convert the result of algebraic expressions;
• specify a base currency different from euro;
• define up to 5 custom currencies;
• edit or automatically update euro exchange rates over the Internet (Euro Assistant Pro uses OANDA Foreign Exchange Protocol);
• import and automatically convert series of values stored in text files and clippings;
• log and print conversions;
• save or clip conversions to a text file. 

Euro Assistant Pro runs in 8 languages: English, German, French, Italian, Dutch, Danish, Swedish and Finnish.

System Requirements
 
Euro Assistant Pro needs 68020 processor or better with System 7.5 or higher.
Open Transport 1.1.1 or higher is needed for automatically updating euro exchange rates over the Internet. OT/PPP or any other Open Transport compatible PPP is needed for automatic dialing. 

Liability Limitations
 
Euro Assistant Pro is licensed and delivered on an "as is" basis. The authors, Barbara Canino and Marco Damaschi, aren't liable, neither implicitly nor explicitly, for the quality of their computer software product and for its fitness for any particular purpose. All risks regarding performances and effects are charged on the user.
In no case the authors, Barbara Canino and Marco Damaschi, can be considered liable for any possible damage, direct or indirect, as for instance data loss, deriving from proper or improper use of Euro Assistant Pro, even if the authors might be aware of the risk of such damage.

For the automatic update of euro exchange rates Euro Assistant Pro uses OANDA Foreign Exchange Protocol. OANDA, Inc. makes no claims concerning the validity or exactness of the provided information, and will not be held liable for any use, interpretation, or other implementation of said information. OANDA, Inc. makes no warranties, express or implied, as to results to be obtained from use of such information, and make no express or implied warranties of condition, quality, performance, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose or use. Neither OANDA, Inc., nor any of its providers of information shall have any liability to the user or anyone else for the accuracy of the information contained in the Foreign Exchange Protocol service, or for omissions therein. None of the foregoing parties shall be liable for any third party claims or losses of any nature, including, but not limited to, lost profits, punitive, consequential, special, incidental, indirect or similar damages even if advised of the possibility of such damages. 

Distribution Conditions
 
The Euro Assistant Pro package may be freely distributed, but it must remain in its unmodified entirety. It cannot be sold or distributed on payment and it cannot be inserted in commercial freeware/shareware collections without the written permisson of the authors. The latest version of Euro Assistant Pro is always available at http://www.k-inet.com/MaBaSoft/download.html.

Acknowledgements
 
MaBaSoft would like to thank:

• all Euro Assistant/Euro Assistant Pro translators - Rudi Hirschfeld, Aitor Asencor, Saulo Matute Montessori, Bernardo Cunha, José Batata, Heikki Ohvo, Marko Virkkula, Torkel Spindler, Thomas Kock - for their fine work, their patience and their suggestions;

• Troy Gaul for his Infinity Windoid 3.0, which has been used for the implementation of the System 7 Tape window;
• Ammon Skidmore for his suggestions concerning floating window implementation;

• Dave Brasgalla of Iconfactory (http://www.iconfactory.com) for the new Euro Assistant Pro icons;
• Sholby (http://www.surf.to/sholweb) for the beautiful euro PICT in the "About Euro Assistant Pro" dialog box;

• Geert Desmet for his euro web pages, a clear and extensive guide to the European single currency (http://freeusers.digibel.be/~gedesmet/euro/euroinde.htm);
• Professor Werner Antweiler for his "The EURO - Europe's New Currency" (http://pacific.commerce.ubc.ca/xr/euro/) and "Currencies of the World" (http://pacific.commerce.ubc.ca/xr/currency_list/html) web pages (the ISO codes available in the "New Currency" dialog box were taken from Professor Antweiler's "Currencies of the World" web page);
• OANDA, Inc. (http://www.oanda.com) for their 164 Currency Converter and their Foreign Exchange Protocol (FXP), which enable Euro Assistant Pro to automatically update euro exchange rates over the Internet.