◊ This utility is distributed as shareware: if you like it please honor the shareware system by sending $5 to the author at the address above. Since cashing international cheques is very expensive, please send cash only (U.S. dollars are best, but any other currency is fine).
◊ If you work on the Macintosh, there are many things you can send me instead of the money. Here are some suggestions: original software (but don’t send any shareware/freeware unless you’re the author), books or computer-related magazines (any free issue or subscription will be welcome), CD-ROMs, any piece of new or used hardware, or anything else you’ve created.
◊ There’s still another thing you could do: I’ll finish my physics studies sometime in 1996 and I’m looking for a one-year job as a programmer (or maybe a scientist?) outside of Italy. Let me know if you have anything to offer.
◊ If you can’t afford any of the above an e-mail, a postcard or a letter is always welcome. I speak English, French and Italian. Please forgive me if I don’t answer to all of your letters - I am often overloaded with my school work.
• What is it?
◊ Attributor is an advanced programmer's utility designed to make life easier for programmers. Since the Code Warrior DR3 and the old Think C 5 don't provide a way to set the CODE resource attributes directly (things like "purgeable" or "preload") and because most of my applications want to unload the initialization segment, I wrote this utility to stop going into ResEdit all the time.
◊ Attributor can change the resource attributes of a specific resource or of a whole resource family in a single pass. Just create an ATTR resource inside Attributor with ResEdit and modify it to meet your needs (there's a resource template for the 'ATTR' resource inside the Attributor application). If you check the "Change All" option, the the resource ID is ignored and all resources of the specified type are changed.
◊ Attributor comes with one preset ATTR resource that makes your SIZE -1 resource purgeable.
◊ All online services and bulletin boards may make it available to their users at no charge other than the normal connection fees.
◊ All non-profit user groups may distribute it at no charge.
◊ All magazines may publish it on floppy disk without asking me first, as long as I get a copy of the issue containing my software.
◊ All CD-ROM shareware collections and CD-ROM magazines may include it without my prior consent, as long as I get either a copy of the CD-ROM or an offer to buy the CD-ROM at a discounted price.
◊ All redistribution companies such as Educorp may distribute it, as long as I get a copy of each media containing my software and a catalog of the company’s offerings (where applicable).
• Disclaimer
◊ Attributor shouldn’t cause any damage, but you’re using it at your own risk. As an independent software developer, I can make no warranties whatsoever on it.
• Have fun!
◊ And don't forget to $$$ send your contribution $$$ so that more cool utilities will see the light in the near future, at the low-low-low costs of shareware.
