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aeQuickCost is an interface to the United Parcel Service QuickCost
Calculator CGI. UPS provides this Internet-based service for determining
how much it costs to send a package. The service is free; you may view
details about the QuickCost Calculator, its interface requirements, and
other UPS Internet Tools at
The aeQuickCost application was originally designed to work with
FileMaker Pro 4, but any program that sends and receives AppleEvents may
use it. In particular, FileMaker Pro 4 users may include additional
fields in any web-enabled database and build a format file to offer
shipping options and then display the cost of those options.
aeQuickCost is provided free of charge under the terms of the GNU
General Public License. For more details, please see
General Public License document included with this distribution.
aeQuickCost is written in RealBasic 2.0, and the source project is
included in this distribution. For details on RealBasic, please visit
Please submit comments, suggestions, requests, and bug reports to
aeQuickCost has not been tested on a wide range of computers; it is
software-in-development, and as such may be very unstable. See the
Limitation of Liability at the end of this document. aeQuickCost
requires a PowerPC Macintosh running Mac OS 8.6 with an active
OpenTransport TCP/IP (LAN or PPP) connection. Running aeQuickCost
without an active TCP/IP connection may cause your Macintosh to hang or
crash. aeQuickCost has not been tested on Macintoshes running anything
earlier than Mac OS 8.6, although it should work on Mac OS 8.0 and
above. Do not taunt aeQuickCost.