Manual for Rail =============== (ñ) 1999 Werner Habel whabel@yahoo.com 1. Overall information. With Rail you can easily make your own train/bus/underground timetable and show it on your watch. You select the train, then the station and by moving the joystick down you select the hours of departure - by clicking left or right the minutes. onHand compatibility: works fine, but only with Japanese menu, that is displayed as rubbish. But it is easy to use. Explanation follows. RAIL.DAT contains the information about the trains. The file is made from a text file by the included DOS program RAILDB.EXE. 2. Editing the timetable data. To edit your own train timetable, follow the following steps: Copy the included Japanese SAMPLE.TXT to a directory. Copy the included DOS program RAILDB.EXE to the same directory. Open SAMPLE.TXT with an editor. You will see this (and more): @JR{‰êü ‰¡•l -------------------------------------------------------- #“Œ‹ž •œ“ú -------------------------------------------------------- 05 ‹ž ‹ó 21 40 -------------------------------------------------------- 06 ’à ’à 02 16 31 45 53 -------------------------------------------------------- -cut- The structure in this file is as follows: The train is indicated by a "@". So delete the Text (begining with "JR") and enter the Train you want. For example "Train Berlin->Paris". The "#" indicates the station. So write here for example "Berlin". Later you can add different stations between Berlin and Paris. The numbers coming now are the train departure times. 05 is the hour, 21 and 48 - the minutes. In this example the train goes at 5.21, at 5.40, at 6.02 and so on. Delete the strange symbols over the "minutes". You can write down additional information. For example, write a "W" here, if the train at this time goes only at weekends. You can add now more times, and more stations. If you want to add another train, or your local bus, it's the same. Begin with a "@". You have to write it all down in one file. Better follow the structure of the file. I did not test, if it works also with shorter lines of "-------", for example. You can find a complete sample of the text at the end of this file. 3. Make a custom RAIL.DAT. Now enter DOS mode and enter: raildb sample.txt rail.dat Now a new RAIL.DAT has been created. To install the program on your watch, you have to copy RAIL.EXF and RAIL.DAT to your watch. The other programs are only needed at your PC. Start the program and don't care about the Japanese menu. You have only to remember the following: With the first line you can view the selected train and station. The second let you change the train and station you want to know the times of. Here you can select easy between the entered (Western/European) data of yourself. The third is for changing the time of the watch (not recommended). And the fourth line exits the program. That's all. 4. Other EXE-files. I am not really sure. I think the the RAILCONV.EXE is for converting train timetables from a popular Japanese railway Web site to a text file that is similar to SAMPLE.TXT. And RAILDUMB.EXE is used to convert a RAIL.DAT back to TXT format. But I did not test it. This is what I understood when I read the computer translation of the Japanese description. Anyway, you do not really need them. So, have fun with this program! Feel free to add comments to this list by contacting the administrator of the Web site of this file. Please contact me in case of this. 5. Sample of Western/European SAMPLE.TXT. @Train Berlin->Paris -------------------------------------------------------- #Berlin -------------------------------------------------------- 01 48 -------------------------------------------------------- 02 WE 18 48 -------------------------------------------------------- 03 WE 18 48 -------------------------------------------------------- 04 WE 18 48 -------------------------------------------------------- #Hamburg -------------------------------------------------------- 01 35 -------------------------------------------------------- 02 WE 05 35 -------------------------------------------------------- 03 WE 05 35 -------------------------------------------------------- 04 WE 05 35 -------------------------------------------------------- #Strassburg -------------------------------------------------------- 01 44 -------------------------------------------------------- 02 WE 14 44 -------------------------------------------------------- 03 WE 14 44 -------------------------------------------------------- 04 14 44 -------------------------------------------------------- #Arrival Paris -------------------------------------------------------- 01 51 -------------------------------------------------------- 02 WE 21 51 -------------------------------------------------------- 03 WE 21 51 -------------------------------------------------------- 04 WE 21 51 -------------------------------------------------------- @Bus Center->Downtown -------------------------------------------------------- #Shopping-Center -------------------------------------------------------- 06 24 26 31 34 39 44 49 54 -------------------------------------------------------- 18 23 34 59 -------------------------------------------------------- #Elm-Street -------------------------------------------------------- 12 S S 11 22 33 44 --------------------------------------------------------