BigSheep

Big Sheep (c)1998 Sheep Productions By Graham Parks Version 1.12 - 9th November, 1998 RevTran Protected For the Psion Siena/3a/3c/3mx Shareware (£10) *What is Big Sheep? Big Sheep is a suite of small utilities for the Siena, which do stuff missing from the Siena's ROM *What's new? v1.12 Creates prefs directory automatically. Bug in lines on "Time Between" on S3x fixed. v1.11 Bug fixes in Time Between/Add Time. Various S3x specific tweaks. A whole 120 days (Worked out with Big Sheep) after v1.0 was released, came v1.1 v1.0 was badly programmed and badly designed. This version has had most of the bad bits replaced or removed. Graph is now an entirely seperate application. It is also now Series 3a/c/mx compatible. *What does it do? REAL-TIME Unit Conversion (Area / Energy / Length / Mass / Pressure / Speed / Temperature / Volume), uses <25k disk space, Stopwatch, Countdown Timer, Tally Counter, Relative Alarm Setter, Picture Viewer, File Mover/Copier, Currency Converion, Number Base Conversion (Hex/Dec/Bin), Date/Time Addition, Name Days of Week, Calculates Days/Time between 2 dates/times, System Information, Graphical display of disk space, Battery Warnings, Configurable keys, No Psion key required, Redo last action and on-line help. Suggestions for extra features are welcome. *Installation Put BIGSHEEP.OPA into the \APP directory (You may have to create one). Press Psion-I and select BIGSHEEP.OPA. A sheep icon should appear. Select it and press Enter. *Upgrading from v1.0 Delete all Big Sheep related files, except bigsheep.cfg, register.bs, and Graph files. Then follow the instructions above. *Quick instructions (Read the on-line help for more info) Press 'Menu' to display a full list of Big Sheep's functions. The keyboard shortcuts do not need to be pressed in conjunction with the Psion key. Press 'Space' to redo the last function. Functions from the 'Calc' menu work a bit funny. They will first display a dialog. Enter the required info and press 'Enter'. The dialog will be reshown with the results attached to the bottom in bold. To exit the dialog either press 'Esc' or 'Enter' without changing any info. If info is changed, the dialog will be reshown with the results changed accordingly. The disk and battery info is redrawn each time a key is pressed. *Tech Stuff Big Sheep requires 40-45k memory free. *Disclaimer In Short: If anything breaks, it's not my fault. In Full: This software is supplied as is. Neither I nor Sheep Productions takes any responsibility for damage caused directly or undirectly to data, software, hardware, persons or hamsters. Use this software at your own risk. *Contacting me Via e-mail: sheep@ndirect.co.uk On the internet: http://surf.to/sheep/ This is an alias/shortcut/link to: http://www.cambrian.ndirect.co.uk/sheep/ By post: Sheep Productions, 1 Sand Street, Milverton, Somerset, TA4 1JN *Other programs from Sheep Productions See my website at http://surf.to/sheep *Status Big Sheep is SHAREWARE. After a trial period of usage (30 days), you must register. Registering will remove the nag screens, and put your name in the corner of the screen. *How To Register By Post: Send £10, either cash or cheque payable to 'Graham Parks', to: Sheep Productions, 1 Sand Street, Milverton, Somerset (UK), TA4 1JN. Include an SAE or e-mail address for the code, and the name you want it registered to. By Internet: Register online for US$20 at: www.reg.net/product?id=2236 Have your credit card details handy. Big Sheep can (and should) be spread freely and widely, as long as the contents of this archive are kept together and unchanged. If you include it on any kind of CD-ROM, you should send me a copy. *How do I get the source? I am not willing to give out the entire source code. I am happy to give chunks of code if people want to know how I did certain things.