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* ELO Rater is a Club Rating Utility Program, designed to automate *
* implementing a USCF style, or Harkness style Rating system for *
* small chess clubs or groups. *
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* Copyright (C)2001-2006 James Garner *
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* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or *
* modify it under the terms of the 2nd version of the GNU General *
* Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation. *
* *
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, *
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of *
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See copy *
* of the GNU General Public License included with the source code *
* for more information. *
* *
* If you have any questions regarding this program or the source, *
* contact the author through e-mail at: james_k_garner@yahoo.com, *
* listing ELO Rater in the subject text or through regular mail at *
* 2625 Burkelaun Dr. Montgomery, Alabmam (U.S.A) *
* *
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SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:

Pentium class machine, 100 MHz or higher

MS Windows 95 or Higher

LICENSE:

This program, the executable, the database and the source code are distributed
under the 2nd version ot the GNU Gerneral Public License. THe details of that
license are contained in the GNU_GPL.TXT file that was part of this distribution
It is recommedned that you read and understand that license berfore proceeding
further. In short, you may use and distribute this software and it pieces as
you wish. ALso, you use this software at your own risk, the author makes no
claims to the safety or functionality of this software, no can the author be
held liable for damage to your system or your data by the execution of this
software.

CONTENTS:
 filename description
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README.TXT this file
GNU_GPL.TXT the license under which this software is distributed
ELORater.exe the executable file
source.zip a zip file containing the source for this program
help directory contains the program help/user's manual in HTML format

INSTALLATION:

1. Extract the contents of the ELORater.zip file to any directory.

2. Read over the user's manual (help/index.html)
3. Run the software. (That's it)

USERS MANUAL
The User's manual is provided in HTML format; point your borwser to the
index.html file in the help directory.

COMMAND-LINE USAGE

EloRater [groupname|[path]groupname.elo]

Where groupname is the name of the group to load, meaning the name of the elo
data
file to load into the program without the elo extension

Alternately, you can simply specify the datafile name with the extension. If you
specify the path, the program will use the path for the data directory. If no
path
is specified, the program will default to the current executable path.

CONTACT INFO:
If you have questions or comments, contact me at james_k_garner@yahoo.com