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Fuel Log
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This application was written to keep track of the fuel used to run 
vehicles, i.e. the date, amount, total cost and distance travelled.  
This application then calculates the fuel economy since the last 
fill up, and an average cost.  It supports many types of units of 
measurement, e.g. Metric, Imperial and English (US unit types).  
A summary screen is also available showing averages of your data
and grand totals.

The ability to export the currently selected vehicle category has 
been added.  Use this to get it to a desktop applicaion via HotSync
, such that charts can be made.  The data is exported in fixed 
units, please see below for some helpful conversion factors.

If you are running the shareware version of this application, it will
time out after 30 days.  A full version, as well as other applications
by the same author can be purchased at www.palmgear.com.  If you are 
running the full release version please do not distribute it further.

This application was written by Darren Franklin, and can be contacted 
at:

    darrenfranklin@yahoo.com.  

If you have any suggestions for improvements or features please let
me know.

One idea for a future version, is to add charting capability, so you can see your data over time. 

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For those upgrading
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The application will automatically update any existing entries you may have saved, when the application is run for the first time.  Unless you have a large number of these then this should not take very long to perform.  Any upgraded entries will have the cost field set to zero (0.0), which can be safely left, unless you want to go back and populate them.

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Useful conversion factors
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From km to:
miles : * 0.621371

From litres to:
UK Gallons : * 0.219969
US Gallons : * 0.264172

From km / litre to:
mpg (US) : 2.352146
mpg (UK)  : * 2.824809
litres / 100 km : 1 / km/l * 100

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Installation
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To install this application, use the PalmPilot installation tool to select the file and then hotsync.

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Disclaimer
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This program is provided as-is, with no warranty given or 
implied.  The author is not responsible for damage or loss of 
data caused by using this application.

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Release Notes
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V2.4 11 July 2001
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Added:
1. The ability to export the selected category to a Memo Pad record. Use this to get the data to your desktop machine, and hence create charts, etc.
2. When creating New records the current Category is used, rather than Unfiled.  Unless you currently have All selected as your category.

Fixed:
1. A bug existed that sometimes resulted in an existing record being overwritten.  This sometimes occured when a record was moved between categories.  This has been fixed.

V2.3 6 April 2001
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Added:
1. Grand totals have been added to the Summary screen of distance, fuel and cost.

V2.2 15 September 2000
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Fixed:
1. The alignment of the values on the main screen.  Which were out of vertical alinement if a day in a month was earlier than the 10th.

V2.1 17 August 2000
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Fixed:
1. Calculation of cost per mile/km was double converted from km to miles.  This means that users working on kilometers would have seen correct values, and those working in miles would not.

V2.0 16 August 2000
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Added:
1. A cost field, such that money spent can be tracked as well
2. Due to the cost be tracked, it is also possible to calculate the average cost per mile/km since the last fill up.  This can optionally be displayed on the main screen list.
3. Summary page added, showing an average of your consumption figures and cost per mile/km.  The average is calculated for either all entries or the last 5.

Fixed:
1. Problem fixed where an Palm OS 2 machine did not display the values correctly on the main screen.
2. Problem displaying small numbers, less than 1 on the main screen.

V1.0, 24 June 2000
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Initial version released.

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Thanks
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Many thanks to William Cashin for the suggestions for this new version.