Fractal Time, Version 7.10
Copyright 1999,2006 Peter Meyer
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Readme.txt, last modified 2006-04-07

License Terms
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Purchase of a single-user license for Fractal Time gives the purchaser 
the non-exclusive and non-transferable right to use the supplied software 
for its intended purpose. No modification, sale or distribution by any means 
(including on CD or via the web) of the software is permitted, nor is the 
creation or distribution of any derivative work, without prior written permission
from the copyright holder and licensor, Peter Meyer. Any rights not specifically 
granted by the licensor are reserved.

Installation of Fractal Time
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Fractal Time requires no special installation.  Just copy the
executable file, frt710.exe, to a directory of your choice.

Also included is another executable file, frz670.exe.  This is 
a German version of the software.

Startup
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If running Fractal Time from Windows then simply locate the  program icon 
in Explorer and double-click on it.  You can also open a console application 
window to get a command prompt, then enter frt710.exe.

Text and graphics output
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The program was written (in the 1990s) to allow three kinds of output 
(other than to the screen): (i) Output of text data to a printer.  
(ii)  Outut of text data to a file.  (iii) Output of a particular screen 
to the clipboard (from where it can be pasted into a graphics program).  
(ii) and (iii) work when the program is run under Windows, but (i) may not.

On quitting
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When the program terminates it saves its state in a file called lastr710.scr.
Since .scr is an extension used by screen savers (which are executable programs)
this can trigger an alert by anti-virus programs such as Norton.  It is safe to
allow this file to be written, since it contains only data and is not executable.

Documentation 
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The introductory screen says that documentation (that is, the user manual)
can be found at a certain URL.  This URL is now invalid (but this text cannot 
be removed from the program).  

Full documentation for this software is supplied with the software in the file 
user_manual.zip.  Unzip this to obtain two HTML files, three GIFs and further 
files in three folders (make sure your unzip program recreates the folder structure).  
To read the manual load frt.htm into your web browser.

There is currently no user manual for the German version.

