There is no on-line help other than assistance, prompts, and explanations of the federal standard that are issued as the user navigates the menus, as mentioned above . MS-DOS based personal computers. It requires two megabytes of disk space is for the program and support files. In addition, version 2.0 runs on machines that do not have math co-processors. We ran it in a DOS window under Windows 3.1 and Windows95 with no problem.
Menus seem to be hard coded into the application.
Source code was not provided. There appears to be no error handling integrated into the system. Error messages when they happen are printed haphazardly on the screen and never erased by conventional methods. While entering the data in the citation section, after the program had been running for long enough to enter the previous section of data, several blinking random characters appeared in the background screens. This did not appear to affect program operation, but we were wary of possible memory leaks or other dynamic memory allocation problems.