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- Shareware Author (tm) Version 1.1
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- Copyright (c) 1992
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- 1.0 Introduction ............................................... 1
- 1.1 Document Layout ......................................... 2
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- 2.0 System Requirements ........................................ 3
- 2.1 Hardware Requirements ................................... 3
- 2.2 Video Adapters .......................................... 3
- 2.3 Operating System Limitations ............................ 3
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- 3.0 Installation ............................................... 4
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- 4.0 Program Options ............................................ 5
- 4.1 Add Product ............................................. 5
- 4.2 Delete Product .......................................... 6
- 4.3 Modify Product .......................................... 6
- 4.4 Select Product .......................................... 6
- 4.4.1 Add User ........................................... 7
- 4.4.2 Delete User ........................................ 7
- 4.4.3 Modify User ........................................ 8
- 4.4.4 List Users ......................................... 8
- 4.4.5 View ............................................... 8
- 4.4.6 Expenses ........................................... 9
- 4.4.6.1 Add Expense ................................... 9
- 4.4.6.2 Delete Expense ................................ 10
- 4.4.6.3 Modify Expense ................................ 10
- 4.4.6.4 List Expenses ................................. 10
- 4.4.6.5 View Expenses ................................. 10
- 4.4.6.6 Find Expense Record ........................... 11
- 4.4.7 Code ............................................... 11
- 4.4.7.1 Modify Code ................................... 12
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- 4.5 Associated Files ........................................ 12
- 4.6 BBS ..................................................... 13
- 4.7 Miscellaneous ........................................... 13
- 4.7.1 Program Colors ..................................... 13
- 4.7.2 FILE_ID.DIZ ........................................ 13
- 4.7.3 Program Setup ...................................... 14
- 4.7.4 Mouse Setup ........................................ 14
- 4.8 Extended Help ........................................... 15
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- 1.0 Introduction
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- Shareware Author is a tool that will allow authors to keep track of
- their authored products. The author will be able to keep track of registered
- users, expenses, create a 'file_id.diz' file and display reports. The
- program will allow the author to keep track of fifteen different products.
- If there is more than one entry in the list the up and down arrow keys will
- allow the user to select the product desired. Users with a mouse can
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- █████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████18:00:00█
- █ Shareware Author █
- ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
- █Product Version Date Filename Price Type █
- █Power Scanner V4.2 11/01/92 ps_v42.zip 17.00 File Manager█
- █Shareware Author V1.1 11/01/92 sa_v11.zip 17.00 User Support█
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- Shareware Author was developed in the programming language Ada and
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- 1.1 Document Layout
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- Chapter 2 - System Requirements
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- Chapter 3 - Installation Procedures
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- Chapter 6 - Shareware Author Files
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- Chapter 7 - Shareware Author Error Messages
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- Chapter 8 - List Of Bug Fixes
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- Chapter 9 - Whats New
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- Chapter 10 - Licensing
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- 2.0 System Requirements
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- This chapter describes system requirements necessary to execute
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- 2.1 Hardware Requirements
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- Shareware Author is compatible with the XT, AT, PS2 models and other
- 100% compatible systems.
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- Shareware Author has been built to run on the 8086/8088 instructions
- set. Upon request, Shareware Author can be built to run in real mode. This
- is for machines based on the 80826/80386/80486 or similar compatible systems.
- These versions tend to be smaller than programs compiled using normal
- 8086/8088 instructions. Authors must register the program to obtain a copy
- built for the 286,386 or 486 systems.
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- Shareware Author will allow the author to keep track of fifteen
- different products. The program will allow an unlimited number of registered
- users and expenses for each product. The only limitation is the capacity of
- the disk drive.
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- Shareware Author will support the mouse user. Positioning the mouse
- pointer over the function key indicator in the function key area and pressing
- the left mouse button will activate the indicated function.
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- Shareware Author will operate with all type of video adapters. It has
- been designed and tested with Monochrome, EGA, CGA and VGA adapters.
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- Shareware Author has been designed to execute on systems with DOS
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- The following procedures allow new authors to easily install Shareware
- Author on their system. The following procedures make the assumption that
- you have a hard disk as drive "c", boot from that drive and will be using
- "c:\sa" as the directory for the program and "c:\sa\database" for the data
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- 1) Create a directory on the disk where Shareware Author is to be installed.
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- 2) Create a directory where Shareware Author's database files will reside.
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- 3) Copy all Shareware Author files to the directory created above.
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- 4) Change to Shareware Author directory
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- 6) Activate the setup option under the miscellaneous option to define where
- Shareware Author's database files will reside. Under the configuration
- option and then the setup option enter the following for the database
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- Users that send in the $17 shareware contribution will receive
- instructions on how to remove the time and shareware request and replace
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- This chapter will explain each of the options available with the
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- 4.1 Add Product
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- This section describes how to add a product to Shareware Author's
- database. Pressing the F1 function key from the main display will activate
- the editor. The author will be able to insert the program's name, version,
- release date, filename it is archived under, price of the product and the
- product's type. Once the data has been entered, pressing the F10 function
- key will add the record and pressing the escape key will cancel the add
- operation. The following will be presented to the author:
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- █ Shareware Author █
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- 4.2 Delete Product
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- This option will allow the author to delete a product from Shareware
- Author's database. The arrow keys are to be used to position the cursor over
- the desired product. If the user has a mouse, position the mouse pointer
- over the desired entry and pressing the left mouse button will select the
- desired entry. Before the product is deleted, the author will be required to
- verify the deletion. Once a product is deleted all of it's associated
- database files will be deleted. If the author wants to save the database
- files, then they should be saved in another directory or on another disk.
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- 4.3 Modify Product
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- This option allows the author to modify a product that already exists in
- Shareware Author's database. The arrow keys are to be used to position the
- cursor over the desired product. If the user has a mouse, position the mouse
- pointer over the desired entry and pressing the left mouse button to select
- the desired entry. Once the product that is to be modified has been
- selected, pressing the F3 function key will display that product so it can be
- edited. Pressing the escape key will cancel the operation without updating
- the product and pressing the F10 function key will update the product.
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- This option allows the author to access the registered users of the
- selected product. The up and down arrow keys are to be used to position the
- cursor over the desired product. If the user has a mouse, position the mouse
- pointer over the desired entry and pressing the left mouse button will select
- the desired entry. Once the product that is to be selected has been
- identified, pressing the F4 function key will display the registered users of
- that product. Pressing the F10 function key will return the author back to
- the main display. The data for each registered users is more than will fit
- on one screen, the left and right arrow keys can be used to scroll the screen
- left to right and right to left. Positioning the mouse pointer to the left
- or right of the "arrow indicators" and pressing the left mouse button will
- also allow the screen to scroll left and right. The small arrows on the
- third line of the display indicated which way the data can be scrolled. The
- name of the selected product will be displayed on the third line of the
- display for easy reference.
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- Home - First Page Up Arrow - Up One Entry PgUp - Page Up
- End - Last Page Down Arrow - Down One Entry PgDn - Page Down
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- █ Shareware Author █
- █Selected Product█████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
- █ Name Address City █
- █0001 Ned Miller 7504 Saffron Ct. Hanover █
- █0002 User 2 123 Main Street Anywhere █
- █0003 User 3 321 Maple Street Overthere █
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- This options will allow the author to add registered users into
- Shareware Author's database. Pressing the F1 function key will activated the
- add option. The author will be able to add a users name, address, city,
- state, zip, country and if the user paid or not. The paid field is used in
- calculating the total revenues for a product. A value of "yes" indicates
- paid and a value of "no" means the registered user did not pay.
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- With this option, the author will be able to delete a user from
- Shareware Author's database. Use the page-up, page-down and arrow keys to
- select the desired user. Pressing F2 function key from the user display will
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- This option will allow the user to modify the record of any user in
- Shareware Author's database. Use the page-up, page-down and arrow keys to
- select the desired user. If the user has a mouse, position the mouse pointer
- over the desired entry and pressing the left mouse button will select the
- desired entry. Pressing the F3 function key from the user display will
- activate the option. At this point any field in the users record may be
- modified. Pressing the F10 function key will update the record and pressing
- the escape key will cancel the operation.
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- This option will allow the author to dump all register users to a
- specified file. Once the operation is complete, this file can then be viewed
- with an editor or printed. An example of the output is given below.
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- Shareware Author List For XYZ Page: 1
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- 0001 (P)Ned Miller 410-766-2365 001
- 7504 Saffron Ct. 08/15/92
- Hanover MD 21076 0000001
- U.S.A. 5.25
- 0002 (P)John Doe 111-555-1234 001
- 123 Maple Street 08/16/92
- Anytown TX 12345 0000002
- U.S.A. 3.5
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- This option allows the user to obtain the total amount of revenue
- received from their shareware product. The following will be displayed for
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- Records: 2
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- Product Price: 17.00
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- Total Revenue: 34.00
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- The "records" field is the total number of registered users. "Paid
- users" is the number of registered users that have paid for the product. The
- paid field in the user's record is used to make this distinction. "Yes"
- indicates the user paid and "No" indicates the user did not pay. The Product
- price is obtain from the main display and the "total revenue" is calculated
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- 4.4.6 Expenses
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- Shareware Author provides the capability so that the author can keep a
- record of the expenses associated with each of their shareware products.
- This option is activated by pressing the F6 function key from the registered
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- █0001 Call To XYZ BBS Phone Call 11/01/92 3.65 █
- █0002 Call To ZYX BBS Phone Call 11/02/92 2.04 █
- █0003 Mail Disk Postage 11/02/92 1.08 █
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- This options will allow the author to add expenses into Shareware
- Author's database. Pressing the F1 function key will activated the add
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- With this option, the author will be able to delete an expense from
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- select the desired expense. If the user has a mouse, position the mouse
- pointer over the desired entry and pressing the left mouse button will select
- the desired entry. Pressing the F2 function key from the expense display
- will activate this option. The user will be prompted to verify the deletion.
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- This option will allow the user to modify the record of any expense item
- in Shareware Author's database. Use the page-up, page-down and arrow keys to
- select the desired expense. If the user has a mouse, position the mouse
- pointer over the desired entry and pressing the left mouse button will select
- the desired entry. Pressing the F3 function key from the expense display
- will activate the option. At this point any field in the expense record may
- be modified. Pressing the F10 function key will update the record and
- pressing the escape key will cancel the operation.
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- This option will allow the author to dump all expenses to a specified
- file. Once the operation is complete, this file can then be viewed with an
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- Shareware Author Expenses List of XYZ Page: 1
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- 0001 Programmer's Corner Phone Call 08/15/92 2.53
- 0002 Mail Disk Postage 08/21/92 0.29
- 0003 5.25 Disks Disks 09/21/92 7.02
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- This option allows the author to view the total amount of expenses for
- their shareware product. The following will be displayed for the author:
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- Records: 3
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- Expenses: 9.84
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- This options allow the author to located any entry in the registered
- users database. Upon activation of this option the following will be
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- To locate a specified expense record position the cursor at the
- "Locate:" prompt enter the desired value and press the F10 key. The program
- will position the author at the specified record.
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- To locate an expense record based upon some search criteria enter the
- desired data in one or more of the "Name:" through "Amount:" fields. Once
- the desired search criteria has been entered pressing the F10 key will search
- for the next record based on the search criteria. Pressing the F10 key will
- allow the author to search for the next occurrence.
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- This option will allow the user to keep in Shareware Author's database
- certain information about a particular product. The user can keep the
- current lines of code count, language, location of source code (disk number),
- date of code, time it takes to compile the program and 3 lines of comments.
- Pressing the F7 function key from the main display will activate the option.
- The escape key will return the author to the main display. The display will
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- Lines Of Code: 1,123
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- Language: Ada
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- Location: #243
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- Date: 12/12/92
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- Compile Time: 00:23:45
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- 4.4.7.1 Modify Code
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- This option allows the author to update the code option. Pressing the
- F1 function key from the Code display will activated the editor and pressing
- the escape key will cancel the operation and ignore any input.
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- This options allow the author to located any entry in the registered
- users database. Upon activation of this option the following will be
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- To locate a specified record position the cursor at the "Locate:" prompt
- enter the desired value and press the F10 key. The program will position the
- author at the specified record.
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- To locate a record based upon some search criteria enter the desired
- data in one or more of the "Name:" through "Paid:" fields. Once the desired
- search criteria has been entered pressing the F10 key will search for the
- next record based on the search criteria. Pressing the F10 key will allow
- the author to search for the next occurrence.
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- This option allows the author to keep within Shareware Author's database
- the list of files associated with the selected product. This is the list of
- files that would be archived together for distribution. Pressing the F5
- function key from the main display will activate this option. The following
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- 01 sa.exe
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- This option will allow the user to keep track of the BBSes where the
- selected product has been uploaded. Use the up and down arrow keys, on the
- main display, to position over the desired product, press the F6 function key
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- This option will allow the user to perform a number of miscellaneous
- functions. The user can change and set the directory for database files,
- define program's colors or create a 'file_id.diz' file.
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- Pressing the F1 function key from the miscellaneous display will
- activate the program colors option. Once activated, the author will be able
- to change the colors of the foreground, background and border. Positioning
- the mouse over the appropriate function key will also allow the author to
- make modifications. The following list delineates the options the author may
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- F1 - Change Foreground
- F2 - Change Background
- F3 - Change Border
- F4 - Reset Default Colors
- F5 - Update & Log Color Settings
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- If the user is using a monochrome monitor, the message 'No Colors On
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- The author's color settings are saved in Shareware Author's
- configuration file so that every time the program is run the authors colors
- settings will remain in affect.
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- This option will allow the user to create an information file used by
- PCBoard BBSes. The contents of this file is to be a brief description of the
- shareware product. The file can contain up to 10 lines & 45 characters per
- line. Shareware Author provides the means so the user can create the file
- with very little effort. Pressing the F7 key from the main screen will
- display the miscellaneous screen. At this point pressing the F2 key will
- activate the editor. Once the desired information has been entered, pressing.
- the F10 key will create the file 'file_id.diz' & place it in the current
- directory. At this point the file can be move to a desired directory. If
- there is a 'file_id.diz' in the current directory, then it can be modified.
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- This option will allow the author to define the directory where
- Shareware Author's database files will reside. The author can have multiple
- database directories if more than fifteen products need to be tracked.
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- Mouse On/Off: On
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- O - Toggle the mouse On and Off (Driver must be load before the
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- █ Shareware Author █
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- █ █ Shareware Author Extended HELP █
- █ Add Product █ █
- █ Delete Product █ William Ned Miller █
- █ Modify Product █ 7504 Saffron Court █
- █ Select Product █ Hanover MD 21076 █
- █ Add/Mod User █ █
- █ Delete User █ Shareware Author is a shareware product released █
- █ Find User █ under the shareware concept. Support the shareware █
- █ List Users █ concept and send in your $17 payment. █
- █ Add/Mod Expense█ █
- █ Delete Expense █ █
- █ Find Expense █ █
- █ Files/BBSes █ █
- █ Program Author █ █
- █ Colors █ █
- █ Main Display █ █
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- █ Program Setup █ █
- █ Mouse Help █ █
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- │ ├────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │
- │ │ <a> │ │
- │ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │
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- This section will describe all of the files required by Shareware Author
- during execution. Some of these files are created during the execution of
- the program. The files tagged with a "*" are create while selecting various
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- 1) sa.exe - Shareware Author Main Program
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- * A $17 shareware contribution is requested for using the
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- * The author retains the sole right to sell the program.
- * The author grants users the right to copy and distribute
- the program within the following constraints:
- - All program files remain unaltered and are distributed
- together.
- - No attempt is made to sell the program, or to make
- money from it or any modified version of it.
- - The program is not bundled with any other hardware or
- software transactions without the author's permission.
- - Only the original "non-cloned" version of the program
- - Recognized user groups may charge a maximum $7
- duplication or distribution fee.
- * Special modified versions of the program can be created by
- the author for different system configurations or desires.
- Contact the author for details.
- * Continued use of the program (more than 3 weeks) by any
- individual, corporation or institution without a single
- user or site license is prohibited.
- * Single user licenses are obtained by sending in the $17
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- The author disclaims all warranties expressed or implied as to the
- quality or performance of this program. The author will not be held liable
- for any lost profits, lost savings or any other direct, indirect,
- incidental or consequential damages resulting from the use of this program.
- Your use of this program constitutes your agreement to this disclaimer and
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- The Programmer's Corner
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- 301-995-6873 through 6877
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- Shareware Author (tm) Version 1.1
- Copyright (c) 1992
- All Rights Reserved
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- William Ned Miller
- 7504 Saffron Court
- Hanover MD 21076
- (410) 766-2365
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- Single User Registration Form
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- Registration Provides:
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- 1) Notification of the next release of Shareware Author
- (Once Shareware Author has been registered the registration is good
- for all future releases of the program)
- 2) Instructions on how to remove shareware request and insert the user
- registration number and name.
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- To register your copy of Shareware Author please fill in the following
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- William Ned Miller { Please only send }
- 7504 Saffron Court { checks drawn on }
- Hanover MD 21076 { U.S. banks or }
- { postal money }
- { orders. }
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