MORSECAT for Windows

Contents:
1. Purpose
2. Installation
3. Program start
4. Program status
5. Distribution status
6. Disclaimer
7. Features
8. Uninstall

1. Purpose: The program will teach beginners Morse code and will help 
experts to improve their proficiency.

2. Installation: Simply unzip the contents of this archive to an
empty folder.

3. Program start: Run "morsecat.exe".

4. Program status: Copyrighted freeware.

5. Distribution status: Distribution is allowed (and you are invited 
to do so in order to support morse code operation on the amateur radio 
frequencies). However, you are obliged to distribute the whole archive, 
you are not allowed to sell it, to take any money for it or to make 
changes or alterations to the program, as I retain the copyright.

If you want to distribute the program on CD, you need my permission,
which you will get on request via e-mail.

Registration is not required, but if you use this program, I should 
be glad to receive a short notice via e-mail.

6. Disclaimer:

This free software comes to you as is. Use it at your own risk.
The author takes no responsability for any damage or disadvantage
caused by the installation or the use of this software.

7. Program features:

- Program runs under Windows 3.1, Windows 95 and Windows 98

- Practice receiving and sending morse code

- Oscilloscope control in send mode lets you estimate 
  dot-/dash-ratio of your sent characters visually and calculate
  the exact ratio digitally
  
- Practice receiving groups of 5 characters, plain text or 
  synthetically generated ham radio call signs
  
- Choose from which character pools the groups are built

- Practice receiving plain text from built-in editor in random word order

- Plain text can be filtered to practice only words which contain
  only characters already known to the user
  
- Speed (5 to 120 wpm) indicated in words or letters per minute

- Automatic speed variation

- Variable dot / dash / pause ratio

- Farnsworth method for lower speeds

- Sound Blaster / Adlib and speaker support*)

- Written with Borland Delphi 1.0

8. Uninstall: If you want to uninstall the program, simply delete 
the files MORSECAT.EXE, MORSECAT.INI, MORSECTD.HLP and MORSECTE.HLP 
(and, if you have copied, the README.TXT and LIESMICH.TXT files) 
from the directory where you have installed the program. 
There are no changes made to the registry or to other files 
or directories.

Vy 73

Gerald Holler, DK5CI
e-mail: dk5ci@newsfactory.net
URL: http://home.pages.de/~dk5ci

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*) If you have knowledge of how to generate FM sounds under Windows, could
you please help me. I have been reported that on some computers there is no
sound output from the sound card. I cannot reproduce this error here, on my
machine, the sound card works fine. I have collected nearly every document
I could find on the web about programming FM chips, and I have compared my
source code to several other sound generation programs, and I cannot find
the mistake. (My program is accessing the sound card's registers directly,
but this seems to work with other programs too). I should be glad to hear
from you in order to improve this program. Thank you.