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- @6 The F1-Aminet Pick 'n' Mix Scheme@2
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- What is the Aminet?@2 #7 !PLEASE NOTE, THIS IS A UK SERVICE ONLY!@5
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- Aminet is the worlds largest software archive of freely distributable
- software for the Amiga range of computers. Access to the Aminet is usually
- via the Internet or through quartly released CD-Roms, leaving users with no
- modem or CD-player in the lurch, this is where we come in.
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- On our Aminet catalogue we have content listings of 8 Aminet CD's that's a
- whopping 8 Gigabytes (over 8000 disks) of software.
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- How does it work?@2
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- You can pick up to 820K of programs per floppy disk, each program's size in
- K is given in the catalogue disk.
- The cost of each floppy disk is just £1.00 with a minimum order of 5 disks.
- Postage is 75p for any size order.
- An easy to use order form is provided with your Aminet catalogue disk.
- To obtain your Aminet cat disk please send us TWO first class stamps.
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- What are archives?@2
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- When you recieve your Aminet archives you may be dismayed to learn that
- all the files are NOT runnable, you have to decompress them first, yukk!
- But this is why Aminet is so popular, you get 2-3 times more on a disk
- this way. The compression used is called 'LHA' and the program you need
- to 'extract' the files from the archive is also called 'LHA'.
- LHA is supplied on the cat disk and a step by step guide on how to use it.
- What LHA actually does is roll a file or lots of files and drawers
- into a single file called an archive and compresses it to a fraction of the
- original files size.
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- Beginners beware!@2
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- LHA,is quite scary first time you use it, but it is not that hard once you
- know what to do.
- A full step by step tutorial is provided on the Aminet cat disk on how
- to extract your archives.
- If you get really stuck you can always give me a call, send me a letter
- (with an sae) or contact me by e-mail for help, though I am very busy so
- please keep it brief and to the point, this is why I have taken the trouble
- to write the help file on the cat disk, to save explaining the process
- hundreds of times.@6 Steve Bye, August 96.
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