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This information has been selected and made available by the Nickel
Development Institute (NiDI) from published information believed to
be reasonably representative of the individual alloys. Sources
include but are not limited to the American Society for Metals, the
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Society for
Testing and Materials, North American producers of stainless steels
and private communications with consultants to NiDI.
The data are not suitable for design but are useful for preliminary
evaluation. For design data, the user should refer to ASME and other
nationally recognized codes.
While this is a DOS program, Windows users will recognize the standard
GUI (Graphical User Interface) which allows the use of a mouse, on all
but the graphic screens. While a mouse is useful, it is not necessary
for the use of this program. In order to see the graphics, a graphic
type card is required, with best results obtained from a VGA color
display. If not available, all information can still be retrieved.
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USING THE PROGRAM WITHOUT A MOUSE
Menus:
To select any item from the Menu screen, use the cursor (arrow) keys.
To exit from the program, you should be at the main Menu. Hit Esc as
often as needed to return there. Use the TAB key to highlight the EXIT
button at the bottom right of the screen, then press ENTER. On all
other menus, use the same procedure to select an item to view, then
press ENTER. Except for the final exit, the ESC key always takes you
back one menu level.
Graphics:
When viewing graphics, touching the Space Bar, or the Escape key will
return to the menu, as the mouse is not active in the graphic mode.
In the event that a blank screen appears, when trying to run graphics,
touching any key will continue with the program.
Viewing screens:
Most information is shown in a text window which allows scrolling up and
down using the navigation keys (Arrows, PageUp, PageDown, Home, End).
Mouse users can also use the vertical scroll bar at the right of the
screen. The TAB key will change the FOCUS of the cursor to one of
three locations: the text, the Print option, or the Menu option.
When the cursor is at the Print or Menu location, the descriptive
button will have a double border, and the ENTER key will perform the
task. In addition, ESC will also return to the previous menu.
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DISPLAY AND PRINTING ANOMALIES
Strange characters on screen:
Strange characters on the screen, in addition to recognizable text, is
an indication of incomplete setup of the computer. This can readily
be remedied by placing the following line in your CONFIG.SYS file
located in the root directory:
DEVICE = C:\DOS\ANSI.SYS
assuming that the DOS files are located in the C:\DOS directory.
Strange characters on printer:
Most dot-matrix printers come with at least 2 basic fonts. One of them
is known as the IBM or Graphic mode. If you see foreign characters on
the screen, where lines should be shown, you are not in the graphic mode.
Unless you need the foreign character set, your printer should be set up
to remain in the graphics mode. On the older style printers, this was
done with small switches. With more recent printers, this can be set up
from the control panel. This configuration needs to be done only once.
With laser printers, a suitable font set should be used. With LaserJets
(Hewlett Packard), the best font choice is IBM-US for the HPII, and PC-8
for the HPIII and HP4. These options are available from the control
panel for most printers.
In all cases, the printer manual will show all the font sets available.
Select one that includes the "line draw characters".