This is the README file for EXlate Currency Converter INTRODUCTION EXlate (say "Euro Translate") is a small tool aimed at giving you a conversion of a price in foreign currency to your own currency. It is called so because the primary project was just to make an "EURO calculator", a small tool that is able to make conversions between the different currencies in the EURO area... ...but it burst out that the trivial math rule used to do the stuff was the same for any currency, given the base is the same, so I decided to make this tool. The base currency is EURO, but it could be Fidji Dollar as well, we just need a 'pivot' currency to get the result we want. Any way, it helps getting a precise value of what you're about to buy online, what it's gonna cost you, so you're sure to do what you aim to... INSTALLATION untar the tarball with a command like tar -xvzf exlate0.1.tar.gz change dir to the source directory: cd exlate0.1/ make the binary: make install the program make install This will copy the file exlate.conf to the /etc directory and the executable file exlate to the /usr/bin directory. if you're not happy with that, just edit the Makefile and/or the source file. TO DO - a real installation process, using the GNU tools, allowing to get a "nicer" installation process, although it runs fine on both my Sun SparcStation IPX (RedHat 6.2) and on my 486 PC (SuSE 6.2). - a "real" exlate.conf file, not just the currency conversion rates, but somethiing that says where to get these rates in a separate file. - use access rights (allow/prevent users/groups to view/add/alter rates) - a dialog box to change currency rate "on the fly", and update the table file. - something to import the new rate values (which I get from www.xe.net), from a external file and update in the main database. - a server and a client, so multiple client may use the same currency database server; it should be easy to achieve through sockets, but this is less urgent than making a "useable" config file. I can even imagine a complete protocol with RFCs and so on to access currency servers on the web... ...but this is a dream... BUG REPORTS, FEATURE REQUESTS, SUGGESTIONS AND COMMENTS: send to regis.leclerc@usa.net
