Diaper Calculator v 1.1 by CyberDiapered ( CyberDiapered@Sci.fi )
Please e-mail any comments, praise, feedback, and/or bug reports to the above address.

PURPOSE

When thinking about diaper stories, I've often met the question: how old of a kid would fit into what size of diapers? Most people would just shrug and guess something, but I'm of the type who wants to have everything as realistic as possible. So I downloaded a weight chart, and then visited the homepages for the different baby diaper manufacturers to get their reccomendations on which sizes of diapers you should pin on how heavy kids.

Now that I had these two, I only needed to cross-reference the weight chart and the reccomendations to find out what I wanted. However, this was still a little inconvenient, so I decided to resort to what little programing skills I had and create a program that'd tell me, when given the age of the kid and their weight percentile, what sizes of diapers they'd fit into (a spreadsheet might have been an easier solution, but I don't have Excel). I felt some of you might have an use for this, so I decided to share it.

HOW IT WORKS

The program will prompt you for the child's sex (B for boy and G for girl), age of the kid (2-16 years), and the weight percentile (1-7, with 4 being average). Then it cross-references these to find out the kid's weight, and then checks which diapers they'd fit into.

The program knows the following diapers: Pampers, Huggies, Libero (a European brand), Pampers Easy Ups, Huggies Pull-Ups, Libero Up & Go, Huggies Little Swimmers, and Good Nites. Note, though, that the weights are just the diaper manufacturer's reccomendations: in reality, the values are probably a bit off to both directions. For rough guidelines for writing diaper stories, though, they should do fine.

OPTIONS

Entering an O in any menu using letters or 99 in any menu using numbers brings up the default options screen. This menu allows you to set (or clear) default values for any of the prompts so that you won't be asked for them again: for instance, if you only use the program to generate the weights and suitable diaper sizes of boys and not girls, you can set the program to automatically assume you want to generate a boy's stats and skip the sex selection. These settings are saved in a file called Dprcnt.dta .

You can override the options and force the program to go through all the selections by starting it with the command line parameter -o . (so the DOS command for starting the program would be " DPRCNT.EXE -o ", without the quotation marks.)

VERSION HISTORY

1.0: First version out
1.1: * Fixed a bug that caused the weights for 2-year old girls to be given incorrectly
* Fixed the weirdness involving default options and invalid responses at prompts
* Added a prompt at the end asking if the user wants to generate new stats
* Made the program somewhat more efficent, smaller (reducing its size by a whole 1796 bytes, a 3.7% reduction in size!), and faster (not that anybody is going to notice, unless you're running on a 286 or something).

KNOWN BUGS & TROUBLESHOOTING

No known bugs! For now.

HOW TO GET IT

How to get it: I don't want to have the program on my website, since that might lead to people connecting my diaper interest with who I am in real life. If you want a copy of the program, e-mail me at CyberDiapered@Sci.fi , and I'll send it to you. QBASIC source code is available at request: if somebody wants to host the program at their own site, feel free to, though I'd appreciate it if you dropped me a note about it (this way I'll also mail you directly if I update the program).

LICENSE

This program is freeware. It may be freely distributed provided that it's not altered and that this readme is kept, unaltered, with it.

If you find this program useful, it'd be nice if you'd drop me a mail and told me so. :-)