COOL

This program has been designed primarily for North Carolina climatic conditions. The assumed constant soil temperature is 55 F. All four walls are assumed to be exterior and constructed of the same materials. You should read Design of Room Cooling Facilities: Structural and Energy Requirements for documentation of this program.

A few notes about the program:

The program may be aborted at any time by pressing ALT-X
At any time, you may press ALT-1 or ALT-2 to use LPT1: or LPT2: for printer output.
There are two different files that can be created by the program:
Saving and Loading Inputs
The Save File and Load File options on the menu use binary data files that store all inputs. These files are optional and can ONLY be understood by this program. These files have an extension of '.bin'.
Saving Outputs
The file used to store the results of the calculations is required if you want to print or review the output and has an extension of '.txt'. This file is "printer ready", and can also be loaded into any word processor as an ASCII text file.

The program requires an IBM compatible microcomputers with at least 640K of RAM memory and DOS version 3.0 or greater. The program will operate from a floppy or hard drive.

Download the COOLZIP.EXE program (64,910 bytes). Make a directory on your hard disk called COOL.

MD C:\COOL

Copy the downloaded file to the COOL directory, for example:

COPY COOLZIP.EXE C:\COOL

Change to that directory and execute the COOLZIP file:

C:
CD C:\COOL
COOLZIP

The program will decompress itself into these files.

INSTALL  BAT           720 10-18-94   2:03a
C~~LCROP DAT         1,960 10-18-94   2:03a
C~~LDATE DAT           790 10-18-94   2:03a
C~~LHIST DAT         1,015 10-18-94   2:03a
C~~LINTR DAT         1,356 10-18-94   2:03a
C~~LRV   DAT         1,368 10-18-94   2:03a
COOL     EXE       100,574 10-18-94   2:03a

To run the program, enter COOL at the DOS prompt.

COOL documentation may be obtained by downloading the compressed self-extracting WordPerfect 5.1 file or by obtaining this compressed self-extracting Postscript file, decompressing it, and copying it to your Postscript printer, i.e.

COPY C:\COOL\COOL.TXT LPT1:

A WWW version of COOL is being considered but is not fully functional yet.

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