       ACTUARIAL MODELER FOR OS/2 WARP

General Description

    An actuarial program for valuing many
    types of annuities and pension benefits,
    including immediate and deferred
    single and joint life pensions that may
    have various associated guarantees and
    death benefits.

    This version is public domain freeware
    and has the capability of valuing
    annuities and pensions based on general
    mortality levels in the Canadian
    population (which are roughly equivalent
    to general levels in the United States).

Installation Instructions

    To install, move all of the enclosed files
    to a working directory or diskette and run
    the command:

           INSTALL

    Actuarial Modeler for OS/2 Warp does not
    change or make any entries in any system
    or .INI files, but will rather create its
    own .INI file (called ACTUARY.INI) when
    run.

Should You Have any Problems

    One assumption that has been made is that
    your the LIBPATH variable in your CONFIG.SYS
    file has an entry for the current directory
    (usually denoted by a ';.;' substring)

    If this is not the case, then you'll either
    have to add it manually, or move the file
    ACTUARY.DLL to the directory where other
    system files are found.

    I strongly suggest that you create a
    desktop icon for Actuarial Modeler during
    the install process and then move it to
    the folder of your choice (with perhaps a
    shadow on the LaunchPad).


Miscellaneous

    Actuarial Modeler was developed on a 486
    with 16 megs of memory, but should run
    fine on a machine with 8 megs of memory.

    With only 4 megs of memory there may be a
    bit of swapping going on :).

    For printouts and listings, everything
    seems to work OK on my HP Laserjet and has
    been tested with the IBM ProPrinter X24 driver
    that comes with Faxworks for OS/2.

    I've used fairly general printer methods, but
    there may be something I've missed on some
    other types of printers.

    Should you have any comments, suggestions,
    difficulties, or ideas for any new functions
    that could be added, I'd really appreciate
    any feedback.

          Robert Bland

          Internet E-Mail:  rbland@ibm.net
