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Archive : MMWCALC.ZIP
Filename : README.TXT
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MMW SYSTEM CALCULATOR
Copyright (c) GM Hughes Electronics, 1990.
HARD DISK INSTALLATION
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To run the Calculator from your hard disk, follow these steps...
1. Go to the disk on which you intend to install the program:
C:
2. Create a subdirectory to hold the program.
MD MMW
3. Go into the new subdirectory.
CD MMW
4. Put the disk in a floppy drive and copy the files.
COPY A:*.*
5. Start the program.
MMW
You'll find it will execute much more quickly, since the calcu-
lations are stored in a database.
PRINTING RESULTS
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To print the results of a calculation, just press the
copy of your calculator to your printer. For this to work well,
your printer must support the IBM character set.
CONFIGURING YOUR SYSTEM
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The Calculator program takes a considerable amount of RAM (About
400k). If the program is locking up or erroring out, try running
it without any RAM-resident programs in memory.
It's also possible that your configuration file has an insuffi-
cient number of files and buffers allocated. For the Calculator
to function adequately, your CONFIG.SYS file (located in the root
directory) should contain the following statements:
FILES = 20
BUFFERS = 8
These numbers are minimums; the program will work fine with
larger file and buffer assignments.
SETTING THE SCREEN MODE
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Some video boards simulate color on a monochrome monitor through
the use of grey-scales, particularly in the case of laptops.
However, many of these grey-scale mappings render the Calculator
program unreadable. To force the program to display in mono-
chrome mode, type the following statement from DOS:
SET SCREEN=MONO
Rather than re-type this statement each time, you might put it in
your AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
UNSOLVEABLE PROBLEMS
====================
If, after reconfiguring your system and eliminating RAM-resident
programs from memory, the Calculator program still doesn't work,
feel free to call us at (213)517-6400 or (better yet) FAX us at
(213)517-7665. We welcome your comments and suggestions for
future improvements.
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