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- ≡ Copyright (c) 1991 - Horizons Consulting ≡
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- Please feel free to distribute this EVALUATION version of ATLAS.
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- Horizons Consulting's Atlas program is an reference tool de-
- signed to assist anyone who needs to research facts about the
- countries of the world. The information contained in ATLAS was
- collected from various Government Sources including: the Bureau
- of the Census, Central Intelligence Agency, Defense Intelligence
- Agency, Defense Nuclear Agency, Department of State, Foreign
- Broadcast Information Service, Navy Operational Intelligence
- Center and Maritime Administration, Office of Territorial and
- International Affairs, Department of the Interior, United States
- Board on Geographic Names, United States Coast Guard, and others.
- While significant measures have been taken to verify accuracy, no
- guarantee of accuracy is implied, or to be assumed.
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- INSTALLING ATLAS
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- Installing Atlas is very simple. Simply copy all the ATLAS
- files contained with this readme.txt file into a common directory
- that is accessible on your PATH. We recommend that you make a
- directory off your root directory called ATLAS. If your disk is
- drive C:, then it would be "C:\ATLAS". Once you make this
- directory, you will need to edit your AUTOEXEC.BAT file to add
- the ATLAS directory to your search PATH. Note: It is important
- that the ATLAS files be accessible from your PATH statement.
- After you complete these steps, your done. To access ATLAS, just
- type ATLAS <cr> from anywhere you happen to be.
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- Operating ATLAS
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- Great care was taken to design ATLAS to be "user friendly",
- To select the Country, or region you want information about, you
- can either use either the up and down arrows, Page Up, and Page
- Down, Home and End Keys, or simply start typing the name of the
- country you want information about. Once your cursor bar is
- over the country you want, press enter to view an extensive
- data synopsis about your selection. You will find that the
- information contained in ATLAS is very extensive, if you should
- come across information that you do not understand, there is
- a Help file available that is built into ATLAS. If you have the
- commercial release of ATLAS you can press <F1> to send the
- information about your selection to the printer.
-
- If you are in school (or have a child in school), work
- in the media, or simply like being better informed about where
- current events are happening, then ATLAS is a tool you should
- consider. The Commercial version of ATLAS contains complete
- information about all the countries of the world, divided
- into 6 categories: Geography, People, Economy, Government,
- Communications, Defense. Also included are workups of all the
- worlds oceans, and even Antarctica is fully documented.
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- With Atlas you can determine answers to questions like:
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- What European Country has the most Civil Aircraft?
- How many telephones are there in Bangladesh?
- What % of the worlds population lives in China?
- Just how big is the United States Budget deficit?
- Who is the head of state in Bolivia?
- What country in the world has the highest average income?
- Does the Soviets or the US have a larger military?
- What % of Yugoslavia is Serbian?
- How strong/weak is the economy of Panama?
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- Your only limit to the usefulness of ATLAS is your imagination!
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- ATLAS was developed by a computer professional whose six
- year old was constantly asking him questions after the news each
- evening. Before long the questions were getting deep enough that
- research was required to field them. All of us at Horizons have
- found ourselves addicted to doing our own research after
- we see stories of interest. A personal example, a few days ago a
- Greek cruise ship sank off the coast of South Africa, I
- immediately went to atlas to find out about Greek ship registry,
- and the military capabilities of South Africa. After a little
- more extensive reading, I concluded I'm not going on any Greek
- Cruise Chips. They have one of the worst safety records in the
- world.
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- Using ATLAS on a Network
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- If you have a network, you can operate the ATLAS evaluation
- copy by multiple users at once. To do so will require that you
- flag the ATLAS.EXE file as Shareable. This will allow multiple
- concurrent users to run ATLAS. If you decide to order ATLAS, be
- sure to specify that you need the network version.
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- Ordering ATLAS
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- The evaluation copy of ATLAS that accompanies this file is
- a very limited sample of the commercial version. If, after
- taking some time to look at it, you like what you see and want
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