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- Powerbase 24 April 1997
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- Powerbase version 5.25 ("final" RO2 compatible version)
- Powerbase versions 6.xx (for RiscOS 3.x only)
- © Derek & Steven Haslam 1989-1996
-
- Copyright subsists in all versions of Powerbase. We reserve the right to
- withdraw support and authorisation to distribute Powerbase.
-
- No warranty, express or implied, is made about the suitability of Powerbase
- for any purpose. We can not be held responsible for any loss or damage to
- your health, wealth or marriage due to the action or inaction of Powerbase.
-
- Registration
- ------------
- Powerbase is SHAREWARE, not Public Domain software. You are welcome to try
- it without charge but, if you find you use it on a regular basis, you should
- register with us. The registration fee is £10.00 and should be forwarded to:
-
- Powerbase Support
- 112, Keighley Road
- Colne
- Lancashire BB8 0PH
-
- * Please make cheques payable to Derek Haslam, NOT to Powerbase Support. *
-
- Unregistered copies display an explanatory start-up banner for about 5
- seconds when they are run. The Info box (iconbar menu) also shows them to be
- unregistered. When you register with us you will receive a registered copy
- which displays your name in the Info box and start-up banner. The time for
- which the latter remains on screen can be altered by changing the number in
- the last line of the Config file inside the Powerbase application directory.
- Setting the value to zero suppresses the banner altogether.
-
- Distributing copies of Powerbase
- --------------------------------
- You are allowed to copy and distribute the application freely as long as you
- do not do so for any profit, and that it is kept intact and unchanged APART
- FROM THE FOLLOWING: please do NOT give away REGISTERED copies. If you are a
- registered user and wish to give a copy to a friend, we ask you to
- "de-register" the one you are giving away by Shift/double clicking on the
- application to open its directory then deleting the file called "reg". This
- results in an unregistered copy.
-
- Manuals
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- User documentation for Powerbase is supplied as a set of plain text-files
- because everybody can read these and print them put if they wish. The same
- information can also be had as a Tutotrial and a manual in Impression
- Style/Publisher format. The latter includes an index and table of contents.
- We will send these files when you register, but only if you ask for them
- since an extra disc is necessary. Users wanting these files at any other
- time are asked to send four 1st class stamps to cover the cost of disc and
- postage.
-
- We appreciate that many users possess neither Style nor Publisher but might
- still like to have these manuals. We can supply them in printed format at a
- cost of £4.00 inclusive.
-
- Contents of distribution disc
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- This disc contains five archives:-
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- Powerbase The Powerbase application itself
- Docs Documentation (inc. Tutorials) in text-file format
- Examples Example databases (!Friends, !Elements, !Boxes)
- MailMerge Sample documents to demonstrate mail-merging
- PrintLabel Label-printing application
-
- Using the files directly from the archives is NOT recommended and usually
- results in mysterious error messages. Proceed as follows:-
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- (a) Run !ArcFS.
- (b) Double-click on an archive to open it.
- (c) Drag the contents of the archive into a suitable directory on
- another floppy or, better still, on a hard disc.
-
- The file !Tutorials (in Docs) contains a Quick tutorial for complete
- beginners and a slightly more advanced one for more experienced users who
- are new to Powerbase. Each tutorial makes used of one of the databases in
- Examples: !Friends in the case of the Quick tutorial and !Elements in the
- case of the longer one.
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- Docs also contains a file !Update which briefly describes the most recent
- changes to Powerbase.
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