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┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ NFL Forecaster for Windows v3.0w │
│ SEE BELOW FOR PRODUCT INFORMATION │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ This is a VENDINFO Product Information Record │
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│ This record is a means of conveying information about a software │
│ product from the author to distributors and users. It contains a │
│ normal, "human-readable" section (you're reading it now), followed │
│ by a compressed data record. The data record contains a great │
│ deal of information in a form useable by automated tools. This │
│ allows BBSes, disk vendors, etc. to test automatically for │
│ permission to distribute, and to automatically extract product │
│ information for use in BBS files databases, vendor catalogs, etc. │
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│ The VENDINFO file standard is published and is freely useable. │
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│ The VENDINFO toolset includes a free end-user viewer, processing │
│ tools for use by distributors (BBSes, shareware disk vendors, │
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VENDINFO standard v1.00, produced by VendEdit v1.00, 14-Jun-1994
===== Product Information ==============================
Product: NFL Forecaster for Windows
Version: 3.0w
Version Date: 1-Jun-1994
Product Type: Software
Basic Distribution Policy (see License, below, for details):
Shareware, subject to distribution restrictions
Product Description: NFL Forecaster for Windows v3.0w <ASP> Using
only scores, it ranks teams & predicts
winners & spreads. View/print five reports
with any font. 8 categories of statistics.
Includes install program. Only 10 minutes per
week are needed to enter scores. Prints NFL
schedule. Makes predictions for all games,
not just "5-star specials." Over the past 10
seasons, it correctly predicted winners 62%
of the time and spreads 54%.
Category: Football
Keywords: football, handicapping, betting, gambling,
spreads, sports, database
Required Packages: FCAST30W
This Package: FCAST30W
Required Configuration
Processor Family: Intel 80x86 (minimum 80286 (AT))
Minimum OS: Windows 3.0
Hard Drive Space: 693K
Orders:
Address: 100% Cotton Software
RR 1 Box 1622
Hop Bottom, PA 18824
USA
Phone: 717-289-4019
Support:
Address: 100% Cotton Software
RR 1 Box 1622
Hop Bottom, PA 18824
USA
Phone: 717-289-4019
===== Information for Users ("READ-ME") ================
NFL Forecaster is a copyrighted shareware product; it is not freeware or
public domain. You can try it before you buy it and are encouraged to
give copies to others (see "License" below). If you like it and use it
after 30 days, you must register the program by submitting the
registration fee to 100% Cotton Software.
When you register NFL Forecaster you will receive: (1) the latest
version of the program (with main-dta.nfl current as of shipping day)
which does not have a request-for-registration dialog box; (2)
unlimited, life-time, free (not toll-free) telephone and mail support;
(3) a complete set of archive files (10 years of scores, spreads and
rankings); (4) a 25-percent discount coupon toward the purchase of the
annual update disk ($5.25); (5) a $2.00 coupon toward the registration
of any other 100% Cotton Software product; (6) JCSM Shareware CD
certificate (thousands of shareware programs for $9.95 + S&H); (7) any
teacher who registers directly with 100% Cotton Software using his or
her school letterhead will receive a $3.00 rebate check.
You can register NFL Forecaster by sending a check or money order for
$20.00 (US dollars) to 100% Cotton Software. Orders outside of the
United States should add $3.00 for S&H. There is a registration form in
FORECAST.WRI.
Credit card orders (MC, Visa, Amex, Discover) may be made through Public
(software) Library -- phone: 800-242-4775 or 713-524-6394; fax:
713-524-6398; CIS Email: 71355,470: mail: Public (software) Library, PO
Box 35705, Houston, TX 77235-5705. Your order will be processed more
quickly and efficiently if you refer to item #11343. The PsL numbers are
for ORDERS ONLY. Any questions about the status of the shipment of the
order, refunds, registration options, product details, technical
support, volume discounts, dealer pricing, site licenses, etc. must be
directed to 100% Cotton Software (717-289-4019). To insure that you get
the latest version of NFL Forecaster, PsL will notify us the day of your
order and we will ship the product directly to you.
If you obtained NFL Forecaster after the start of the NFL season, you
need to "catch up." See the appropriate section of FORECAST.WRI.
New to version 3.0w: (1) moveable toolbar with short-cut buttons; (2)
moveable status bar/box; (3) copy to clipboard function; (4) functions
to view and print archive scores and spreads; (5) new registration
benefits. The following are changed from version 2.0w: (1) revised to
handle new 17-week NFL schedule; (2) archive files now contain scores
and spreads as well as rankings; (3) bug that prevented installation on
some systems corrected; (4) prediction algorithm improved to smooth
weekly fluctuations.
The schedule file, schedule.nfl, is not compatible with previous
versions; there are now 17 regular season NFL games instead of 18. The
weekly archive files (for example, week-09.94) are not compatible with
previous versions; scores and spreads are now saved as well as rankings.
Certain files of the NFL Forecaster package are updated every year to
keep the package current with changes in the National Football league
(for example, the schedule). If you have a version that is over twelve
(12) months old, contact 100% Cotton Software to ensure that you have
the latest version. Version 3.0w of NFL Forecaster was released 1 June
1994. The NFL Forecaster 3.0w package, FCAST30W.xxx, replaces versions
2.0w & 2.05w packages, 4CAST20W.xxx and 4CAST25W.xxx.
===== Packing List =====================================
As released by the author or publisher, this package contained the
following files in addition to this VENDINFO.DIZ:
Filename Size Date Time CRC32
README.1ST 1019 1-Jun-1994 09:00a 45724C67
FILE_ID.DIZ 375 1-Jun-1994 09:00a 706388E4
FORC30W.EXE 266674 1-Jun-1994 09:00a AC66B043
SETUP.EXE 63488 1-Jun-1994 09:00a 99F3F791
SETUP.HLP 15234 1-Jun-1994 09:00a DB7A2E16
===== Installation =====================================
NFL Forecaster's setup program makes NO changes to your autoexec.bat,
config.sys, or win.ini files and it does not change your PATH statement
(or any other environmental variable). Therefore, you can uninstall
Forecaster simply by deleting the various Forecaster files. The setup
program's on-line help contains a complete list of files, their
functions and locations.
Setup will correctly install Forecaster from the self-extracting file
(forc30w.exe) or from the group of files (already extracted from
forc30w.exe) and from one drive and/or directory to another (that is,
for example, from a:\ to c:\forecast or from c:\temp to c:\sports or
from c:\forecast to c:\forecast).
Use Windows program Manager's "File/Run" command to execute Forecaster's
setup program. A description of each step the setup program takes is
contained in setup's on-line help. At setup's main window, press the
Help button.
Run Forecaster by double-clicking on its icon or by using Windows
Program Manager's "File/Run" command.
===== Warranty =========================================
The author believes that NFL Forecaster is able to do what its
documentation says it can do. Every good-faith effort has been made to
remove "bugs" from the program and to make the user aware of its
limitations. However, it is mathematically impossible to prove a
computer program correct. Therefore, users of NFL Forecaster must accept
this disclaimer of warranty: NFL FORECASTER IS SUPPLIED AS IS. TO THE
MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL
WARRANTIES, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND OF FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. NEITHER
THE AUTHOR NOR ANYONE ELSE WHO HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN THE CREATION,
PRODUCTION, OR DELIVERY OF THIS SOFTWARE SHALL BE HELD LIABLE FOR ANY
DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY LOSS OF PROFIT, DATA OR OTHER SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL
OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR SIMILAR CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF
THIS PROGRAM.
===== License for Use and Distribution =================
LICENSE TERMS APPLICABLE TO ALL USE AND DISTRIBUTION
NFL Forecaster and all associated software and documentation (the
package) are copyrighted products. The NFL Forecaster package is
comprised of all files contained within the FCAST30W.xxx compressed
archive file. All rights not expressly granted here are reserved to the
author. The use or distribution of these products is expressly
prohibited, except as authorized by the terms of this agreement. The NFL
Forecaster package may not be copied, rented, leased, sold, modified,
decompiled, disassembled, or otherwise reverse engineered except as
provided in this agreement.
LICENSE TERMS APPLICABLE TO TRIAL USE FOR EVALUATION
You are granted a limited license to use this program for evaluation
purposes for a period of 30 days. If you find NFL Forecaster useful and
continue to use it after 30 days, you must make a registration payment
to 100% Cotton Software. See above for registration fee, benefits,
addresses and phone numbers.
LICENSE TERMS APPLICABLE TO USE OF REGISTERED VERSION
The registration fee will license one copy of NFL Forecaster for use on
any one computer at any one time. You must treat this software like a
book. That is, this software may be used by any number of people and may
be freely moved from one computer location to another, so long as there
is no possibility of it being used at one location while it is being
used at another location (just as a book cannot be read by two persons
at the same time at two different locations). If more than one copy of
NFL Forecaster is used on more than one computer at the same time, each
copy of NFL Forecaster must be individually registered or a special
license must be obtained. Reduced-cost site, multiple-copy and school
licenses are available. Write or call for information.
LIMITED DISTRIBUTION LICENSE
Permission is granted to individuals charging no fees, and to BBSs, User
Groups, Mail-Order Disk Vendors, CD-ROM publishers, and BBS
File-Distribution Networks, regardless of fees, to distribute the NFL
Forecaster package provided they distribute a complete and unaltered
copy of the NFL Package and they make no claim of ownership of the
package.
Distribution by other channels, and distribution of modified versions,
are also allowed, but only under the terms of the attached VENDINFO data
record, which is hereby incorporated by reference. Any distribution
satisfying all the distribution requirements expressed in that data
record is hereby authorized. Permission to distribute the NFL Forecaster
package may not be transferred, assigned, sold or franchised. Each
vendor wishing to distribute the NFL Forecaster package must
independently satisfy the terms of this limited distribution license.
The author may revoke any permissions granted here at any time by
notifying you in writing.
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