FORMULARY ========= for PSION System 5 Author: (C) Peter von Walter; 24.6.01 email: vwalter@physi.uni-heidelberg.de www: http://pi.physi.uni-heidelberg.de/~vwalter/my/homepage.html What is FORMULARY? ------------------ FORMULARY is a very powerful and flexible SYMBOL CALCULATOR. It can be seen as a general UNIT CONVERTER, it handles dynamic TABLES and EQUATIONS and it generates PLOTS. Therefore, you not only calculate with ordinary numbers but also with any symbols, like: 3 inch 10 N m/s2 1h + 30min ... ALL symbols (units) are defined in a text based database which can be viewed and modified by the user through the standard DATA application. Who needs FORMULARY? -------------------- FORMULARY converts, calculates, evaluates and plots ALL kind of units, formulas, equations and tables and is therefore especially useful for all engineers, scientists and everyone who has to deal with repetetive calculations. The applications are unlimited. You change, adapt and extend the system to your needs and build up your very personal formulary which grows with you! Installation ------------ Run FORMULARY,SIS. Two folders will be created: \System\Apps\Formulary: all program files. \Documents\Formulary: example database (UNITS) and a tutorial file. How to start ------------ The best way to learn the program, is to use it, see how the examples in the database look like and how they perform! Use the online help file! Follow the short tutorial (TUTORIAL) to get a first impression of the capabilities of the program. Registration ------------ This program is SHAREWARE! You have the possibility to test the program for a certain time (14 days) with certain limits in a demo mode. If you consider the program useless, simply delete it. If you want to continue to use the program, I ask you for a little contribution (see About..). I will send you a personal key (preferable via email) which allows you to work with the program unlimited. Please do the following: -Call "About" in the menu of the program -Open the registration dialog with "ENTER" (if in Demo-Mode) for all needed informations. -Send me the amount shown there (in DM or equivalent), directly as a bill throuh post mail (is propably the cheapest and save enough!) or send it to my account. IMPORTANT: Send me also your name, under which you would like to register the program and the "SerialNr" (number), which is given in the dialog. -Enter in "Owner" your name (see above) and in "Key" your personal key (delivered by me) and your program should immediately turn into a full working version. The program can (should) be given away only as demo versions (without key). Disclaimer ---------- THE AUTHOR SHALL NOT BE HELD LIABLE IN ANY WAY FOR ANY DAMAGE THAT MAY OCCUR TO YOU OR YOUR SYSTEM AS A RESULT OF USING THIS PROGRAM OR OTHERWISE! Each program can have errors (sorry)! Of course I will try to get rid of these in future versions. Also I will try to improve and extend the functionality of the programs, as far as I can. Registration is of course also valid for these future versions. Please feel free to contact me if you found an obvious error (Sometimes its really a bug, not a feature!) and to send me all your proposals for improvement. Version History --------------- 1.0: First public version for System 5. 1.1: Eliminated some bugs Extended scaling factors 1.2: Some more bugs killed 1.3: Bug in using "," for decimal delimiter removed Clear function implemented Help File revised