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- I don't know if you read the changes file in the previous version,
- so I will summarize it. I sold my home in Santa Barbara, and moved
- to a small town in Northern California to concentrate on writing
- shareware full time. Well (you may ask), how's it going.
-
- Since my program was reviewed on page 50 in the Nov. 13, 1990 issue
- of PC Magazine, registrations have increased significantly.
- Appearantly a lot of people read (and pay attention to) PC
- Magazine. Site registrations have really increased, and I now have
- some Fortune 50 customers. Banks, however, make up the bulk of
- the Site Licensees.
-
- I ran into a few tax problems (it was either pay Uncle a lot of
- money, or put a lot of money into my house), so I've been
- consulting pretty heavily the last year and doing major
- reconstruction to my house. I think I am finally through with any
- big consulting jobs (and with rebuilding my house), so now AutoCon
- will be getting a lot more attention.
-
- This is still not the release I had planned (it will probably show
- up some time around July), but one of my competitors was on
- Compuserve saying how much better he was than I because his program
- could handle DOS 5.0's HIGH and UMB flags. I decided I needed to
- add this capability to AutoCon and get out a new release before he
- could cause any more problems. So with this release, AutoCon will
- handle both MSDOS 5.0's HIGH and UMB flags, and it is compatible
- with DRDOS which is one up on my competitor.
-
- The 2.1 release of AutoCon will have a lot more editor
- enhancements. I'm planning pull down menus (similar to the front
- screen), and a split screen capability. I also intend to allow
- Search/Replace operations to go automatically through all
- configurations. I will also be able to use the screen size in
- effect when AutoCon is started, instead of switching everything to
- the 80X25 mode.
-
- I have a support BBS online and functional. The number is (916)
- 623 4455, and it is in operation 24 hours a day. It has a 9600+
- BAUD modem that is CompuCom CSP, V32, and V42 compatible (of course
- it connects just fine at 2400 <or less> BAUD). The main function
- of the BBS is (of course ) AutoCon support. If it gets busy
- enough, it will grow into a full multi-line BBS. As a consequence
- there are several megabytes of downloadable files on it, always
- including the latest shareware release of AutoCon. I will also set
- up a section for a group of Beta testers, so let me know if you are
- interested in becomming one. I see several enhancements in
- AutoCons future, as well as a few other programs that I have in
- mind.
-
- This is my first BBS and I'm sure there will be will be some
- growing pains, so please bear with me.
-
- I love the place I've moved to and I thank you very much for the
- support you have given to AUTOCON, and for giving me the incentive
- to change careers.
-
-
- -Larry Weaver
-