PDA Software Library/pdasoftwarelib.iso/PILOT/travel/ABROAD/README.TXT

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Abroad! 2.3 (1997/09/20)
by Yoshimitsu Kanai

<FOR REGISTERED USER ONLY>
YOU MAY INSTALL THIS VERSION OVER THE OLD ONE. IF YOU ARE USING
V1.8 or later, ALL YOUR SETTINGS AND DATA WILL WORK. ELSE, PLEASE
REGISTER YOUR COPY AGAIN. IF YOU LOST YOUR ID, PLEASE FEEL FREE
TO CONTACT ME.

<Introduction>
 Abroad! is a suite of three applications: Currency Exchange, Unit
Conversion and World Clock, and a powerful Country Information
Database, designed to help you when you go "Abroad!".

 Imagine you're travelling in Japan and you decide to have dinner
at a sushi restaurant. Currency Exchange will tell you that your
delicious "Tokujou Nigiri Set : 5,000 Yen" will set you back US$44,
or the equivalent in many other currencies, and if you order 1 "gou"
of sake Unit Conversion will tell you know what you're letting
yourself in for in US pints, Imperial pints, litres or whatever.
 And when should you call your family back home to wish them
pleasant dreams?" No problem! World Clock will tell you the
time wherever they are in the world.

 In addition, the Country Information Database provides you with
country specific information on over 260 countries and territories
world-wide, just a stylus-tap away. It includes each country's
location on the world map, the nation's capital city, currency
(code and name), time (current time, variation from GMT, DST
period) and local telephone information (country code, area code
of capital, international dialling prefix). Naturally, you can
search the information by keyword.

 Have a nice trip!

Notice: All the settings will be initialized until you register and
several restrictions in function.

<Distribution>
This manual and all accompanying files may be distributed
freely, provided that:
1. Neither text nor any other file is modified in any way. No
file may be omitted nor added in the distribution.
2. No money may be charged for the program nor for any
accompanying files, other than the usual downloading time fees
charged by commercial BBSes and online services.
3. I want to know where my application will be distributed.
Please notify me if it will be included in printed matter,
floppy, or CD-ROM before its publication. No matter what the
circumstance, I would strongly appreciate a copy of whatever
collection in which it is included. However, I do NOT permit
ASCII corp. (Tokyo, Japan) to include Abroad! in their
publication, in any format.

<version history>
v.2.3 (97/09/20)
 - improved the find command [Database]
 - corrected data and fixed bugs [Database]
 - polished English in Manual (Thanks to Mr.Paul Rubens)
v.2.2 (97/09/13)
 - added find command [Database]
 - fixed wrong spelling / data [Database]
 - rewrote manual
v.2.1 (97/08/20)
 - added currency info of most cities [Database]
v.2.0 (97/08/17)
 - expanded city database (added capital, currency info) [Database]
 - optimized the code to response more quickly [General]
 - changed the icon array [Menu]
 - fixed bugs [World Clock]
v.1.9 (97/08/04)
 - can access to country database directly from menu view [Menu]
 - expanded city database (added info of Area code and internatinal prefix
   number) [Database]
 - fixed bugs and wrong data [World Clock, Database]
v.1.8 (97/07/27)
 - prepared country data list including countries all over the world
   [World Clock]
 - country code is added to city data [World Clock]
 - inproved the way to select city from city database [World Clock]
 - DST is set automatically [World Clock]
 - support (+, -, x, /) functions in neumeric key pad
 - handled city and currency exchage data as database. This allows
   (1) user to add city data as many as he wants and (2) city/currency
   data to be hotsynced [Currency Exchange, World Clock]
 - can select date of currency rate using 'select date of rates' dialog
   [Currency Exchange]
 - expanded time offset to support all time zone (e.g. Nepal (GST 5h 45min))
   [World Clock]
v.1.7 (97/05/05)
 - prepared graphic icon, by tapping which user can enter each view.
 - Subset function of "Currency Exchange" and "World Clock" is prepared
   in the "Menu" view
 - Simple "+" function is added in the numeric key pad [Currency Exchange]
v.1.6 (97/04/19)
 - can select "About Abroad!" view as the Startup View
v.1.5b (97/04/02)
 - added units to list (from 15-17 to 19-29) [Unit Conversion]
v.1.5a (97/03/28)
 - avoided the bug in Palm OS 2.0 (PalmPilot will show fatal error
   when "FldSetFont" is called to change the preset font type of
   tFLD. This bug is newly introduced in Palm OS 2.0, and to clarify
   this I have to buy PalmPilot in addition to Pilot 5000.)
 - expanded the currency number from 9 to 10 [Currency Exchange]
 - cancel numeric keyboad by tapping "CE" when displayed number is
   "0" [Currency Exchange, Unit Conversion]
v.1.5 (97/03/19)
 - prepared "Abroad! Prefs", which user can call from "Menu" view
   by "Prefs" command.
   (1) can select startup view out of "Menu", "Currency Exchange",
       "World Clock", "Unit Conversion" and "Last Launched"
   (2) can select currency caluculation mode, "US" or "Japanese" way.
        US mode: (rate A) x (Currency A) = (rate B) x (Currency B) = ...
        JPN mode: 1 x (Currency A) = (rate A) x (myCurrency)
 - supported day light saving. Cities of DST mode are labelled with
   "*" mark in the city name [World Clock]
 - reduced initial city number to 8 to save the program size
   [World Clock]
 - prepared manual and removed "help" from Abroad! application
   to reduce the program size [General]
v.1.4a (97/03/10)
 - fixed small bug in list display [Unit Conversion]
 - added mm (millimeter) [Unit Conversion]
v.1.4 (97/03/09)
 - can use numeric keyboard by tapping "Value" [Currency
   Exchange, Unit Conversion]
 - "Temperature Conversion" is included in "Unit Conversion"
   [Unit Conversion, Temperature Conversion]
 - can select 10 units out of 15 or more [Unit Conversion]
 - can move the position of unit by pushing Up/Dn button [Unit
   Conversion]
 - use system defined day/time format [World Clock]
 - improved and fixed small bug in "World Clock Setting"
   [World Clock]
 - fixed spellings and wrong unit relative values in "ton"
   [Unit Conversion]
 - optimized the code and resource to reduce the memory requirement
v.1.3 (97/02/28)
 - can note the modified date in "Set Currency Rate" [Currency
   Exchange]
 - can add/delete cities (minimum:2, max:30) [World Clock]
 - prepared time zone list in "World Clock Setting", supporting
   user to edit city data [World Clock]
 - can select map (Asia/Oceania or US/Europe types) in "World
   Clock Setting" [World Clock]
 - added several units (stone for wool, quart) [Unit Conversion]
v.1.2 (97/02/18)
 - rounds up fractions to avoid the computation error [Currency
   Exchange, Unit Conversion]
 - restricts input value to be more than 0, to avoid bug in
   floating point routine [Currency Exchange, Unit Conversion]
 - checks edit fields in "Set Currency Rate" at application, to
   avoid invalid input [Currency Exchange]
 - user can move currencies using Up/Dn buttons in "Set
   Currency Rate" [Currency Exchange]
 - user can select 9 units out of 15 [Unit Conversion]
v.1.1 (97/02/07)
 - for people outside US, all currencies are handled equally
   (user can set his currency as the base unit) [Currency Exchange]
 - expanded the currency number from 8 to 9 [Currency Exchange]
 - changed the standard time from Washington DC time to GST
   [World Clock]
 - improved the offset time input method to cover the every
   country [World Clock]
 - expanded the city/time number from 6 to 8 (I added my
   favorite cities for the initial data) [World Clock]
 - extended to display upto two-digit under decimal point (I
   used "Long" type in calculation to avoid the bug in floating
   point routine, especailly in subtraction.) [Temperature
   Conversion]
 - show selected unit and its value in bold font [Currency
   Exchange, Unit Conversion, Temperature Conversion]
 - avoid the possibility to show the different value from that
   of input in the selected field, due to the computation error
   [Currency Exchange, Unit Conversion]
 - improved battery performance
 - fixed bugs in spellings and unit name
v.1.0 (97/01/30)
 - initial version

<CopyRight>
Abroad! is SHAREWARE. This means that if you use this program
and decide to keep it, or in other terms, you have used it for
a couple of days and like it, you are required to send me a
small fee of US $10. If you send me the shareware fee once,
NO additional fee is required for the future version. I will
use the fee as a part of the annual updates of developing
tools and new machine I bought for pilot application
development last year.

<How to register>
You can send me the fee through Kagi service using
REGISTER.EXE (Windows) or Register (compressed as MACREG.SIT,
Mac user).
(REGISTRATION PROGRAM INCLUDES ALL OF MY SHAREWARES IN THE
LIST. BE CARE NOT TO REGISTER WRONG PROGRAMS.)
If you send me the fee directly, please do NOT send me US$10
with your checks. (More than $10 is charged for exchange a check
to money in Japan!) Please use postal order or US$10 bill itself
(if it is legal).

Paying for Abroad! is fairly simple. Open the Register program
that accompanies Abroad!. Enter your name, your email address,
and the number of single user licenses you desire for each
program you wish to purchase). Save or Copy or Print the data
from the Register program and send the data and payment to
Kagi. More specifics on the Register program to follow. Kagi
handles my payment processing.

If paying with Credit Card or First Virtual, you can email or
fax the data to Kagi. Their email address is [e-mail]
and their fax number is [phone]. You can either Copy
the data from Register and paste into the body of an email
message or you can Save the data to a file and you can attach
that file to an email message. There is no need to compress
the data file, it's already pretty small. If you have a fax
modem, just Print the data to the Kagi fax number.

Payments sent via email are processed within 3 to 4 days. You
will receive an email acknowledgement when it is processed.
Payments sent via fax take up to 10 days and if you provide
a correct internet email address you will receive an email
acknowledgement.

If you are paying with Cash or USD Check you should print the
data using the Register application and send it to the address
shown on the form, which is:

          Kagi
          1442-A Walnut Street #392-XA
          Berkeley, California 94709-1405
          USA

You can pay with a wide variety of cash from different
countries but at present if you pay via check, it must be a
check drawn in US Dollars. Kagi cannot accept checks in other
currencies, the conversion rate for non-USD checks is around
USD 15 per check and that is just not practical.
If you have a purchasing department, you can enter all the
data into the Register program and then select Invoice as your
payment method. Print three copies of the form and send it to
your accounts payable people. You might want to highlight the
line that mentions that they must include a copy of the form
with their payment.
Kagi can not invoice your company, you need to act on my
behalf and generate the invoice and handle all the paperwork
on your end.

Please do not fax or email payment forms that indicate Cash,
Check or Invoice as the payment method. As far as we know,
there is still no technology to transfer physical objects via
fax or email and without the payment, the form cannot be processed.
Payments send via postal mail take time to reach Kagi and then
up to 10 days for processing. Again, if you include a correct
email address, you will hear from Kagi when the form is processed.
When you pay, we tell you your registration ID with which you
can register your copy. If you do not have an email address,
please enter your complete postal address and please
remember, we do not know what country you live in so please
enter that into the postal address also.

<Restrictions>
The author will not take responsibility for any damage or loss
that occurs using this program. If you have any bug-reports
or improvements you would like to see (including my poor
English), please send them to me.

Yoshimitsu Kanai ([e-mail])