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                         Uedit's ShareWare Policy
                                Rick Stiles
                       P.O. Box  666, 102 LaRue Court
                            Washington, IN 47501
                               [phone]

                                (May, 1988)


If you purchase Uedit from your dealer or a distributer, be sure to fill out
and send in the user registration form.

If you are ordering Uedit by mail, print this page on your printer.  Circle or
mark what you are paying for and send it in with your order.
                                   *****
All payments MUST be in cash, check, or money order, in U.S. currency.  If
outside the USA, include $3 extra for postage.

NOTE:  ALL CHECKS and MONEY ORDERS must have BANK ROUTING NUMBERS at the
bottom of them.  If they do not, they'll have to be returned.
                                   *****

You can order COD by phone.

When you order Uedit, include the Serial Number of the Uedit you are using.
You can see the serial number by selecting "Show vals" in the menu.

Uedit registration is $45.  When you register, you will receive:
    * a registered user Serial Number.
    * $15 commissions for finding new users.
    * the latest Uedit-One diskette, which can be freely distributed.
    * the latest Uedit-Two diskette, which can be fully customized.
    * Extras, configs and utilities to use with Uedit. (See Extras below.)
    * full Uedit documentation on diskette.
    * automatic notice of new upgrades.

WHEN registering (only):
    * To receive the next upgrade automatically, $15.

Registered users (only):
    * Spell-checking Uedit & dictionary utilities, $10.
    * 2 diskettes, latest Uedit-One and Uedit-Two, $23.
    * Uedit Quarterly Newsletter for one year, $12.

Anybody, registered or non-registered:
    * The latest Uedit-One diskette, $15.

As a registered user, you will earn a $15 commission each time somebody
submits your serial number when ordering Uedit from me.

The quarterly Newsletter discusses new upgrades and features, editing tricks,
new commands, configs created by users, frequently asked questions,
complaints and requested features, plans for future upgrades, bugs, and other
topics.





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(NOTE:  Uedit has the handy feature of letting you Ctrl-click-load any
filename in any buffer.  However, early versions of the C Ltd. TimeSaver (tm)
block out the Ctrl-mouse input.  To get Ctrl-mouse, hold down Ctrl, touch
Shift or Alt, and then click the mousebutton.)


                               Sharing Uedit

You can give people a copy of the Shareware Uedit.  When you give away copies,
you must observe the following restrictions:

***  You must distribute ALL of Uedit's Shareware files together:
        Cheat-Sheet         Config!         Data!             Help!
        NoName.info            Uedit-Policy    Uedit-Tutor     UES
        UES.info            Key-Help

***  You must NOT MODIFY any files except for putting your serial number
        into UES.
***  You must NOT distribute copies of UE or the printed or diskette Manual
        or Uedit's command language documentation or spell-checking materials.
***  You MUST use Uedit COPYRIGHT notices on Uedit files.
***  You MUST use Uedit TRADEMARK notices on "Uedit".

You may include your own files along with Uedit, put files on several
diskettes, distribute files via modem, or compress files, as long as their
contents remain unchanged.

You may print, copy, and distribute the Help!, Cheat-Sheet and other text
files on your Uedit-One diskette.

Amiga clubs may want to encourage their members to register off the club's
registered copy, as a good way to earn money for the club.

NOTE:  Do NOT tell people to register by subtracting your commission from the
amount they send in.  This is Important:  If I allow people to subtract off
the commission, users can be cheated out of commissions they are entitled to.
You must give them a signed note to include when they register or contact me
personally, so that I have got proof that you are waiving your commission.

Please encourage others to try Uedit.  In distributing it and encouraging new
registrations, you will be supporting good programming for Amiga Shareware.

And your feedback is important too.  Most of the improvements in Uedit since
the beginning have been in response to feedback from its users.


                            Revision Numbering

When a new revision comes out, the old revision number is incremented by 0.1.
Thus, if the current revision is V2.3, the next true upgrade will be V2.4.








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When bugs are found in a new release, the fixed version will have a letter of
the alphabet after the revision number.  Thus, when V2.2 came out and bugs
were fixed, the fixed version became V2.2a.  When more fixes were required,
the new fixed version became V2.2b.  And so on.

If you own a version such as V2.3 and bugs are found in it and a version
V2.3a is released, you can obtain V2.3a by sending in your V2.2a diskettes, a
self addressed mailer and postage.


                           Uedit and Shareware


Shareware is a generous, trusting concept which treats you like an honest
person, rather than presuming that you are not, as, for instance, copy
protection does.

Shareware programs have got to be superior, because you get to try them out
thoroughly at home or in the office before buying them.  Many commercial
programs would not survive this acid test.

You are allowed to try out a Shareware program for as long as you require, in
order to decide whether you are going to use it or not.

When "trying out" becomes "using", you are obliged to buy the program.

Only then does the Shareware author get paid for his work and expenses for
creating and supporting the program you are using.

Uedit relies on:
        * Your honesty.
        * Your cooperation in safeguarding Uedit by not distributing its
          private files.
        * Your help in finding new customers.



                    Purchasing Uedit from other Sources


Recently I decided to start distributing Uedit through Amiga dealers and
distributers.  Only a few distributing sources are selling it at the moment.
More will be distributing Uedit as time goes by.

Uedit is still a Shareware program.  The most successful Shareware authors on
the most popular microcomputers work through dealers.

I hope that you will help me by encouraging your local dealer to carry Uedit.

Thank you for your support!








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Here are the Extras on Uedit's 2 main diskettes (Note:  These are NOT being
sold by me.  They are shareware or public domain and are merely included on
Uedit's diskettes as extras.  Your payment is strictly for Uedit, not for
these.):

    * Hayes Haugen's BlitzFonts ($10) shareware program that speeds up text
        displaying.  (Speed up the text on your Amiga and send Hayes $10
                      for his good program.)
    * Kurt Wessels' UStar config, emulates WordStar (tm).
    * Eric Kennedy's VI configuration that emulates the Unix's vi editor.
    * UE-DU Directory Utility config which uses V2.1 or later.
    * Spooler, print spooler.
    * D, directory program.
    * CRC, data checker program.
    * Transactor Magazine's Tiny Window Manager, TWM, by Nick Sullivan.
    * XE, Transactor Magazine's calculator program that uses TWM.

Uedit's diskettes are packed.  Soon more Extras disks will be offered.  Send
in your configs, if you want them included in the Extras.





































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