Copyright ©1998 by Dick Whiting                      


  Standard Disclaimer: I wrote it, it works for me, I don't guarantee           
  that it will do anything productive for anyone else, etc. etc. ;-)            

  HOWEVER, if you do find a use for it: I homeschool my kids and they would
  love a postcard from where EVER you live. Instant Geography Lesson;)          

  Postcards:    Dick Whiting
                28590 S. Beavercreek Rd.
                Mulino, Oregon 97042
                USA                                                             

  Email:        Dick Whiting <dwhiting@europa.com>
  Web  :        www.europa.com/~dwhiting/


What they are:

   These use a combination of Arexx and REBOL scripts to build a currency
   conversion table, allow for lookups within it, and do currency conversions.

Installation: 

      1) create an assign for Amirc:
      2) create an assign for Rebol:
      3) copy the Rebol directory from this archive into Amirc:
      4) copy the contents of the Rexx directory into your Amirc:rexx 
      5) within AmIRC create these aliases:

         bldrates /rx bldrates
         convert /rx convert %p
         currency /rx currency %p

Usage:

   bldrates
        has no arguments. It may take a while depending on your connection.
        It reads the page at pacific.commerce and creates a currency table
        used by the others.

   currency string/A
        locates information matching a string. For example, "currency finn"
        will return "FIM Finnish Markka 0.200602" in the AmIRC list.

   convert amount/A from/A to/A
        is used to convert an amount of one currency to another. For example,
        "/convert 1 cad trl"  will return "1.00 CAD = 183716.44 TRL"


Dick

Oct 23, 1998

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