Actuarial Modeler for OS/2 Warp

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