Readme.txt for COUNTRY.ZIP:

This is a Replica for windows document. The booklet, "Owner's Guide to
Planning and Building a New Home in the Country," has been published
using the Replica format. This will allow you to read and print it
with all the text, fonts and graphics exactly the same as the original
file.

You start the file from the Windows FILE/RUN menu. Double click on
Country.exe. (Extract this file from Country.zip.)

Country.exe includes a free viewer that it will ask to install to your
hard disk. You may do this or not. The viewing will be faster when it
is installed, and loading it will allow you to view other Replica
files saved without the embedded viewer.

You can print this booklet from the viewer to your own printer. If the
printer's resolution is 300 dpi (laser or good inkjet) it should print
fine. If you have a dot matrix printer, some of the letters may not be
well kerned. When I printed from this file to my Laserjet III, the
printout was indistinguishable from the original printout done in Page
Plus. I also printed to an old MT92 dot matrix and it looked pretty
bad.

Please let me know if you have problems and what you think of this
method of publication. (I'd also like to know what you think of the
booklet.)

If the booklet is helpful to you, please consider sending in a
registration of $4.95. Doing so will get you the next copy of the
Country Home newsletter and publication information on the Design kit.

Some parts of the Design kit are ready, and for a registration of
$12.95 I will send you the following:
     1. Plan scaling kit - Allows you to make copies of any plan from
	a magazine or book and scale it up to 1/8" or 1/4" and use it
	with your other designs.
     2. Solar site survey kit - Includes a do-it-yourself inclinometer
	to measure the angular height of objects and a solar sunpath
	chart - please include your latitude. These allow you to locate
	objects on your horizon and plot them on the sunpath chart.
	The two tools let you chart the sun blockage at your site
	and tell what times of the year and what times of the day your 
	location will see the sun. Also included is a chart for using
	your inclinometer as a simple surveying device and how to 
	use it to estimate the height of trees and nearby buildings.
     3. Update newsletter and information on the publication of the
	full Design kit, plus a discount for early registration.


                 John Raabe, Cooperative Design
                   POB 408, Langley, WA 98260
                    email: jraabe@whidbey.com