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- 2TSHOP v1.6
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- Copyright(c) 1994-95, Compu-Doc Consulting
- All Rights Reserved
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- TeleShoppe (2.13) Conversion Program
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- License to Use Agreement
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- Compu-Doc Consulting, (hereafter referred to as"CDC"), grants to
- the purchaser - and purchaser accepts - a non-transferable and
- nonexclusive license to use, on a single computer, the software
- products and accompanying materials provided to the purchaser by
- CDC. Purchaser is hereby licensed only to read the program from
- its medium into the memory of a single computer solely for the
- purpose of executing the program.
-
- CDC shall have the right to terminate this license if purchaser
- violates any of its provisions. Purchaser agrees that the
- software products and accompanying materials are the property of
- CDC and that CDC shall maintain title to and ownership of the
- software products at all times. Purchaser agrees to make no more
- than one (1) additional working copy and one (1) backup copy of
- the software products for their personal use only.
-
- CDC makes no warranties of any kind, expressed or implied, with
- respect to the quality, performance, accuracy, or fitness of the
- software products for any particular purpose. CDC assumes no
- responsibility for any decisions make or actions taken on the
- part of the purchaser because of the use of the software
- products. In no event shall CDC, or any of its representatives,
- be liable for any loss of profit or any other damages, arising
- out of the use or inability to use this product - even if CDC or
- an authorized agent of such has been advised of the possibility
- of such damages - or for any claim by any other party.
-
- CDC reserves the right to make changes, enhancements and
- improvements to the software products at any time without
- notice.
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- DISCLAIMER
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- There is made no warranty of any kind, express or implied
- including, without limitation, any warranties of merchantability
- and / or fitness for a particular purpose. CDC shall not be
- liable for any damages, whether direct, indirect, special or
- sequential arising from a failure of this program to operate in
- the manner desired by the User. CDC shall not be liable for any
- damage to data or property which may be caused directly or
- indirectly by the User of this program.
-
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- IN NO EVENT WILL CDC BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY DAMAGES, INCLUDING
- ANY LOST PROFITS, LOST SAVINGS OR OTHER INCIDENTAL OR
- CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF YOUR USE OR INABILITY TO
- USE THE PROGRAM, OR FOR ANY CLAIM BY ANY OTHER PARTY.
-
-
- TeleShoppe(tm) is a Registered Trademark of Compu-Doc Consulting
-
-
- What is 2TSHOP ?
-
- 2TSHOP is a conversion program written specifically for the TeleShoppe(tm)
- online shopping door. 2TSHOP will convert your INGRAM MICRO, MERISEL or
- MICROBIZ database over to the TeleShoppe 2.13 format and allow you to put
- literally thousands of items online instantly!.
-
- What it is not:
-
- 2TSHOP is not a database processor. It does not reverse engineer any other
- database types. This program strictly opens up the requested database and
- extracts the compatible data and then rewrites the TeleShoppe(tm) database.
-
- New Items:
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- 2Tshop will now allow you to append databases together if a TSHOP.DBF file
- exists in the current directory.
-
- Usage:
-
- Using 2TSHOP is very simple and straight forward. If you enter on the
- command line 2TSHOP without any arguments you will be presented with the
- default help screen:
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- Program Usage: 2TShop <Type File> <% of Markup> <Category|Ingram Only>
-
- Where <Type File> is either - INGRAM
- - MERISEL
- - MICROBIZ
-
- Where <% of Markup> is a percentage (ie., .20)
-
- Where <Category> is either - MAJORCAT (For INGRAM DB ONLY!)
- - VENDOR '' ''
-
- example: To convert the INGRAM MICRO database with a 20 percent markup,
- using the MAJOR categories enter: 2TShop INGRAM .20 MAJORCAT
-
- example: To convert the MERISEL database with a 10 percent markup, enter:
- 2TShop MERISEL .10
-
- example: To convert the MICROBIZ database enter: 2TShop MICROBIZ
-
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-
- First copy the 2TSHOP.EXE file to your database directory (ie., \INGRAM
- or \MERISEL, \MICROBIZ).
-
- There is (1) required command line entry for the MICROBIZ database, (2)
- for the Merisel DB and 3 for the Ingram database and they must be made in
- the following manner. The first command line entry is the TYPE of file
- you are converting. If you are using the INGRAM database your required
- entry is INGRAM, if you are using MERISEL's database your required entry
- would be MERISEL and if your using the MICROBIZ database your entry would
- be MICROBIZ.
-
- So far your command line looks like :
-
- 2TSHOP INGRAM or
- 2TSHOP MERISEL or
- 2TSHOP MICROBIZ
-
- The next command line entry is the markup percentage. This is the ACROSS
- THE BOARD markup that you want 2TSHOP to put in the database as your
- markup percentage. If you want to charge 17 percent across the board you
- will enter .17 (Don't forget the decimal point!). ( * This does NOT work
- with the MICROBIZ database. The PRICE field is used for the total cost).
-
- So now your command line would look like one of the following:
-
- 2TSHOP MERISEL .15 // Merisel with a 15% markup
- 2TSHOP INGRAM .17 // Ingram with a 17% markup
- 2TSHOP INGRAM 1 // Ingram with a 100% markup
- 2TSHOP MICROBIZ // Microbiz with standard pricing
-
- Lastly if your using the Ingrams database you have to enter what will be
- used as the category listing that is shown to your users. Normally TSHOP
- will show the users the VENDORS NAME as the categories available. If you
- desire to show these names you must put VENDOR as the last command line
- option:
-
- 2TSHOP INGRAM .17 VENDOR //Ingram with a 17% markup and vendor names
-
- If you desire 2TSHOP to read the MAJORCAT database file and assign each
- item to a major category then your required entry is MAJORCAT. Major
- categories groups items under names such as ACCESSORIES, WORD PROCESSING,
- etc....
-
- 2TSHOP INGRAM .17 MAJORCAT // Ingram with a 17% markup and major
- // category names
-
- In the conversion process, 2TSHOP will take the additional comment line
- in the INGRAM database and make a extended description out of it. The
- Merisel database contains no such extra information.
-
- and last of all, 2TSHOP is looking for the following file names:
-
- INGRAM - CATALOG.DBF, MAJORCAT.DBF
- MERISEL - MSDATA.DBF
- MICROBIZ - PRODUCT.DBF
-
- *NEW*
-
- If 2tshop finds a TSHOP.DBF file in the current directory, 2tshop will
- ask you if you want to append the databases together. This will allow
- users of Merisel and Ingrams etc, to have over 40,000 items online!
-
- To finish, you must copy the following files over to your TeleShoppe 2.13
- directory:
-
- TSHOP.DBF
- TSHOP.NDX
- TSHOP.DBT
- TSHOP.CAT
-
- End of 2TSHOP Documentation.
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