World Travel

These are the files you need. You can send them from the package contents below.

• WTRAVEL.DAT → A:\_DAT configuración 118 B
• WTRAVEL.EXE → A:\SOFT programa de DOS 47.6 KB
• WTRAVEL.ICN → A:\SOFT icono, junto a su aplicación 200 B

No need to put ALJULI.C, ALJULI.H, ASIA.MAP, ASIA.PCX, AUST.MAP, AUST.PCX, CANADA.MAP, CANADA.PCX and 24 more: they are manuals, source code or supporting material. Read them here and save 184.6 KB on a 1 MB disk.

1. Copy WTRAVEL.EXE to A:\SOFT. They are DOS programs: run them from the DOS icon, or add A:\SOFT to the PATH in C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT to call them by name.
2. Copy WTRAVEL.DAT to A:\_DAT, where the 200LX looks for configuration. Open it with Memo and adjust it before use.
3. If you edit a configuration file on the palmtop, make sure you leave a newline at the end: some programs swallow the last line without saying a word.
4. The .ICN files are icons: they go in the same folder as their application.

Derived from the package contents and the 200LX conventions. It installs to A: on purpose: C: is a RAM disk and every byte there is memory taken from the system.

Installation

Unzip the archive using pkunzip.  You can put the files in any
directory and on any disk, but the .exe, .pcx, .map, and .icn
files must all reside in the same directory.

To install World Travel in the Application Manager, go to the
Application Manager and press F2 (Add).  Fill in the fields as
follows:

Name: World Tra&vel                (I use 'v' for the hotkey)
Path: c:\wtravel\wtravel.exe|160   (use your disk:\path)
Comments: Fn-?                     (press Function-? to get the
                                    upside-down question mark)

If you TAB to the Icon window the World Travel icon should
appear. Press F10 (OK).


User Guide

Start World Travel by either launching it from the Application
Manager or from the DOS command line.  Upon startup, the
program will display the message "One moment please..." while
the custom cities are loaded from wtravel.dat and the palmtop's
built-in database of 478 cities (d:\_sys\world.dat) are read
and decompressed.  This is followed shortly by the count of
custom and standard cities and then the initial map is
displayed.

Note: World Travel uses the same convention for coordinates as
the  built in World Time application.  North latitude and west
longitude are positive.  South latitude and east longitude are
negative.  The convention for most maps is east longitude is
positive and west longitude is negative, so beware.

World Travel plots courses and computes distances using what
are known as Great Circle routes.  A Great Circle route is the
shortest distance between two points on the surface of a sphere
(technically, a Great  Circle is the circle that results from
the intersection of a sphere and a plane which passes through
the center of the sphere).  Great circle routes are used by
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Literal excerpt from WTRAVEL.DOC, exactly as it came in the package.