RUNSALT version 1.8, July 2005
Copyright (c) 2002-2005 by Davide Bionda
e-mail: bionda@arch.ethz.ch

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FILES IN THIS DISTRIBUTION
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- This file (README.TXT)
- RUNSALT.EXE
- salt.bat
- xlisp.wks
- COPYING

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WHAT IS IT?
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RUNSALT is a front end to the program SALT included in the ECOS package as 
described in Price, C. A. (Ed.), 2000: "An expert chemical model for determining 
the environmental conditions needed to prevent salt damage in porous materials". 
European Commission Research Report No 11, (Protection and Conservation of 
European Cultural Heritage). Archetype Publications, London.

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PROGRAM AVAILABILITY
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Free of charge. See below for distribution restrictions.
Please acknowledge its use by an appropriate citation in any reports, 
publications, or other disclosure of results obtained with it.

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SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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Any 32-bit MS-Windows operating system (95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP*).

*IMPORTANT NOTE: although RUNSALT will run on Windows XP, the SALT executable 
from the ECOS distribution won't (it generates an abnormal program termination: 
stack fault CS:EIP = 000Fh:00001373h). If you plan on using the program on 
Windows XP, ask for an updated SALT executable.

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INSTALLATION
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No special installation necessary: move the RUNSALT directory to a convenient 
place on your hard disk and copy the file SALT.EXE from your personal ECOS 
distribution into it.

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PROGRAM USE
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Launch RUNSALT by double-clicking the RUNSALT icon. In addition to the 
self-explanatory menu items, Undo, Cut, Copy, Paste, Delete and Select All 
commands are available by clicking the right mouse button in the data input 
window. Clicking the mouse in the plot window will show the coordinates.
If you prefer to have the program launched with maximized window (for example 
because your monitor resolution is less than 1024 by 768 pixels), create a 
shortcut to it, change the "Run" attribute in the "Property" dialog of the 
shortcut to "Maximized", then launch RUNSALT with the shortcut.

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SAVING DATA INPUT FILES
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The files are saved in standard ASCII format and can be viewed with any text 
editor. For your convenience, save them with the *.txt extension or with the 
extension associated with your favourite text editor. Don't use an editor to 
modify them unless you know what you are doing.

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KNOWN PROBLEMS
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Pressing the ESC key while the input dialog is the active window will close it. 
This is a "feature" of the programming environment, there is no remedy at the 
time. If this happens, just quit and re-launch RUNSALT.

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AUTHOR
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Davide Bionda
bionda@arch.ethz.ch
Institute of Monument Conservation
Research Group for Conservation Science and Technology
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)
Zürich, Switzerland

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CONTACT INFORMATION
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Please send all comments, questions or suggestions to me at bionda@arch.ethz.ch

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COPYING RUNSALT
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RUNSALT is Freeware. However, RUNSALT is still Copyright (c) 2002-2005 by Davide 
Bionda. All rights reserved. You may not sell this program without the author's 
permission. RUNSALT may be distributed freely, except where noted above, 
provided it is distributed unmodified and with this README file.
RUNSALT was written in Lisp on a foundation consisting of XLISP and XLISP-STAT. 
See the file COPYING for the license agreement for XLISP and XLISP-STAT.

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DISCLAIMER
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YOU EXPRESSLY ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT USE OF RUNSALT IS AT YOUR EXCLUSIVE 
RISK. RUNSALT, ANY RELATED FILES AND DOCUMENTATION ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND 
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT 
LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A 
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.