Rapid Analysis Program for Investment Decisions (www.rapidcharting.com)

I am giving away the latest version of RAPID as a gift to everyone who purchased RAPID at some time in the past and now I have extended this to anyone who wants RAPID. RAPID software displays stock and commodity charts and provides tools for analysis; trendlines, grid lines, averages, et cetera. These tools are used to make trading decisions without fundamental knowledge of a stock or commodity.

The C source code is not included with the DOS version. Get the Linux version if you want to add features to Rapid.

After the password is entered and you pushed the button "Download RAPID",
the pop up menu of "File Download - Security Warning" will show
the following message "Do you want to save this file, or find a program online
to open it ?"

Name : grnstone
Type : Unknown File Type, 298KB
From: www.rapidcharting.com
with THREE buttons of Find, Save, Cancel

Push the Save button.

Under WinXP, choose which directory you want to save the file name "grnstone".
By default WinXP will point to the directory of "My Documents".
Write down which directory you chose and save "grnstone" or take the default location.
Let us assume you saved "grnstone" under directory "My Documents".
"grnstone" will be saved under the following directory
"C:\Documents and Settings\Username\My Documents\grnstone"
*** Username will be your user name under WinXP.

RENAME :
After download is completed, use "Windows Explorer"
to find file "grnstone". Then rename it to "grnstone.exe".
After renaming the file will be
"C:\Documents and Settings\Username\My Documents\grnstone.exe"

INSTALL :
Click START button then click RUN button.
After pop up menu called run, comes up, click BROWSE button to select
"C:\Documents and Settings\Username\My Documents\grnstone.exe"
to run.

DOS installation (Who is running DOS? ...probably not you. So skip this part): Watch which subdirectory Netscape (or whatever Browser) uses when it prompts you to save the file. Copy c:\netscape\grnstone.exe a: (enter) to a floppy disk. You can then install RAPID to any DOS computer by typing (at the C\> prompt or D\> prompt),

RAPID will install itself in \rapid and it will put data in \rapid.dat. No other subdirectories are used. You can run RAPID by typing:

A known BUG in DOS RAPID:
This bug is annoying and not as serious as it looks and it is not fixed because I can't find the problem. It might be a Microsoft problem. When you go into the F5 utilities and do some data conversion and then come back out to Rapid, the whole computer reboots or you sometimes get a memory allocation error. It has something to do with running out of memory.

Solution: If you ever use F5, then exit completely by pressing F10 after you come out of F5 and then go back into Rapid fresh before continuing with anything else. This resets the memory of your computer and avoids the problem. I am going to have to write a MSwin version of at least the front menu to overcome this problem (Years later, I never did it. Maybe this is not a bug in WinXP?).

Printing with RAPID:
This version of RAPID does not print to ink-jet and laser printers yet. It does print to dot-matrix. The Linux version prints to ink-jet.

You can print to laser and ink-jet printers by using these utilities to grab a screen image and save it in GIF format. Then you can use that GIF image in e-mails and in Netscape, or photo or drawing software and you can do printing from there.

Here are the utilities to download. If you are using Microsoft's browser, you might have to rename them to the correct names before using them. Netscape doesn't have that Microsoft bug. So, renaming won't be necessary:

Just as a thank-you to everybody who bought it seventeen or more years ago. I now continue to improve it for my own use. I am a successful stock and commodity trader and RAPID has many tools that help with my trading.