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- The Moon Viewer 3.0
- Windows Moon Background 1.0
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- Shareware
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- The Best Moon Shareware Package
-
- Copright (C) 1996 By Lorenzo Pasqualis
- All rights reserved
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- This is a free trial version. You may try this program
- for free for 21 days, then you may purchase the complete
- registered version.
-
- If you want the most updated version of this software you
- can find it at:
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- http://saatel.it/users/lore/moon.html
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-
- The package
- -------------
-
- Please, apologize for my english. You will probably find
- many english errors in .TXT files. My first language
- is Italian. I'm sure that the quality of this software
- is more important and will satisfy you more than my
- english! If you wish to help me to translate in a correct
- english these files, just contact me.
- I will be VERY happy if you help me! :)
-
- This package contain:
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- MOON.EXE ........ The binary file of the Moon Viewer.
- MOON.TXT ........ A short guide to Moon Viewer.
- BLUEMOON.TXT .... Answer to FAQ: What is a Blue Moon ?
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- TIMEDIFF.TXT .... Time Zones. Check yours here !
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- WMOONBG.EXE ..... Windows Moon Background binary file.
- WMOONBG.DAT ..... Windows Moon Background data file.
- WMOONBG.TXT ..... How to install Windows Moon Background.
- MOONBG.BMP ...... An example of image generated with WMoonBG.
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- FILE_ID.DIZ ..... A short description of the package.
- README.TXT ...... This file.
- LICENSE.TXT ..... Shareware license & Disclaimer.
- VENDOR.TXT ...... For vendors.
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- REGISTER.TXT .... How to register this software. Read this first.
- EMAIL.TXT ....... Step-by-step procedure for register via email.
- FAX.TXT ......... Step-by-step procedure for register via fax.
- POSTAL.TXT ...... Step-by-step procedure for register via Postal Mail.
- PURCHASE.TXT .... Step-by-step procedure for register via Purchase order.
- MISTAKES.TXT .... Step-by-step procedure: Common mistakes!
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- REGISTER.EXE .... Windows program needed to register.
- REGISTER.HLP .... The Windows Help file of REGISTER program.
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- What you need to use Moon Viewer
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- All computers are able to run Moom Viewer! You just need a
- VGA, a 286 or more, 500 Kb of free memory and about 800 Kb
- of free disk space!
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- How to Install
- ----------------
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- To install the package you just have to create a directory
- for it, and uncompress the package inside that directory.
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- You must be sure to have set the environment variabile TZ
- to the right time zone. TZ mean Time Zone and must be set
- to the right time difference between your time and the
- Greenwich Mean Time.
-
- To check if this environment variabile is already set just
- type, on DOS command prompt, the command:
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- SET TZ
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- If the answer is similar to "GMT-7" or something, then you
- don't have to do nothing, the program can work correctly.
- You should just check that the value is correct (see the file
- TIMEDIFF.TXT) for your position.
- If the variabile is not in the environment you should add to
- your autoexec.bat, for example, the command:
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- SET TZ=GMT+1
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- You should check your time zone difference between your time
- and the Greenwich Mean Time in the file TIMEDIFF.TXT
-
- Nothing else is required.
-
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- Features
- ----------
-
- The Moon Viewer 3.0 software has the following features:
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- - You can see the actaual moon, second by second, and know
- many interesting datas about the moon.
-
- - You can have all these information about the moon in
- a certain date and time between 9999 B.C. to 9999
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- - Day by day step animation, to see how the Moon change
- every day! Very interesting to see !!
-
- - Possibility to select the animation speed.
-
- - A very impressive graphics reproduction of the Moon. The
- best never seen in a shareware software.
-
- - Calcolous of the Easter Date available from 1583 to 9999
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- - Calcolous of Blue Moons (see bluemoon.txt).
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- - Two visualization mode: draft and picture. The first one
- for a schematic rapresentation, the second one for a very
- realistic rapresentation.
-
- - You can export the Moon Picture in standard not compressed
- BMP format.
-
- - You can see and export the calendar of the Moon for a
- certain year between 9999 B.C. to 9999. The calendar give you
- date and time (yes, time too!) of New Moons, First quarters,
- Full Moons and Last quarters. Very accurate calculous of
- these datas!!
-
- - You can export the calendar of the Moon in BMP,HTML or TXT
- format. The HTML export is very useful to add a very
- interesting page on your home page on internet.
-
- - Very nice graphics interface, very easy to use.
-
- - Very accurate mathematical base
-
-
- The Moon Windows Background software has the following features:
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- - The same Moon Engine of the Moon Viewer, so a very accurate
- mathematical base. Very fast to generate the Moon picture.
-
- - A really impressive graphic result. The BMP generated is a
- 256 colors picture. The Shadow on the Moon is smoothed to give
- a very real apparence.
-
- - Since you have to run this program in your autoexec.bat batch
- file, Windows Moon Background don't take CPU-time to compute
- the Moon Picture during your Windows session. Just one time on
- every bootstrap!!
-
- Shareware limitations
- -----------------------
-
- The trial version of the Moon Viewer has the following
- limitations:
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- - You cannot use it for more than 21 days without register.
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- - Allowed date of the moon limited from 1900 to 9999
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- - An annoing message that remaind you that your license is only
- 21 days long, and that you are using the program from X days.
- Sorry!
-
- The trial version of the Windows Moon Background has the
- following limitations:
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- - An annoing "Please, register WMoonBG" written on the picture
- generated. Sorry again!
-
-
- Many good reasons to register this software. Please, note that
- register this software is very cheaper! Only $10 for two packages!!!
- You should consider to register!!
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- Read the file REGISTER.TXT for more information.
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- The author:
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- Lorenzo Pasqualis
- Casella Postale 173
- 50012 - Bagno a Ripoli (FI)
- Italy
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- e-mail 1: <lorenzo@kagi.com>
- e-mail 2: <lorenzo@saatel.it>
- Home Page: <http://saatel.it/users/lore/>
- WWW Moon: <http://saatel.it/users/lore/moon.html>
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