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| Registration Information |
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| VENDINFO(TM) |
| Tools and Services |
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| Last updated: March 1995 |
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| Copyright 1994-95 Rams' Island Software |
| All rights reserved |
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Rams' Island Software
7644 E. Lakecliff Way _______
Parker, CO 80134-5904 (USA) ____|__ | (R)
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Voice: (303) 841-2848 | ____|__ | Association of
BBS/FAX: (303) 841-6269 | | |_| Shareware
CompuServe: 76244,324 |__| o | Professionals
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FidoNet: 1:104/333 |___|___| MEMBER
RIME: 1235
Internet: 76244.324@compuserve.com
VENDINFO Tools and Services Registration
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| REGISTRATION OF VENDINFO TOOLS |
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REGISTRATION
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You may register for any of the VENDINFO tools or services by com-
pleting the form found later in this document, and sending it to us
in either hardcopy or electronic form.
When you register VendEdit or VendPrcs, you acquire a license to use
the current version indefinitely, as well as any minor maintenance
upgrades to that version. You will receive the current version by
mail, but will not automatically receive updates (see "Auto-Upgrade
Plan", below). Major upgrades (new features) will require payment of
an additional fee, or participation in the Auto-Upgrade Plan. This
"unbundling" has been done to minimize the cost of the basic toolset
while still covering the ongoing costs of the VENDINFO system (such
as handling of Product Registry materials).
COST SAVINGS
------------
There are a number of additional VENDINFO products and services
available. You can obtain them at a reduced rate if you sign up for
them at the same time as your initial registration, since this
reduces our processing costs.
AUTO-UPGRADE PLAN
-----------------
Participation in the Auto-Upgrade Plan will allow you to receive all
new releases of your registered tools by mail for one year (or four
mailings, whichever comes first). This includes both minor main-
tenance upgrades and major upgrades (with any necessary new keys to
allow you to use them).
Authors will want to subscribe to this service, because lots of new
features are planned for VendEdit. The new features planned for
VendPrcs are less extensive, but distributors will want to be sure
they have them early, so they can handle any new versions of the
VENDINFO records as soon as they appear. Even single-line, noncommer-
cial BBSes (which pay no fee to use VendPrcs) may want to subscribe
VENDINFO Registration -2- Mar 1995
VENDINFO Tools and Services Registration
to this service to insure that they always have the current tools.
PRODUCT REGISTRY SUBSCRIPTIONS
------------------------------
Authors are encouraged to send their VENDINFO records to our central
Product Registry (and are given significant incentives to do so --
see VendEdit documentation for details). These will be made available
to subscribing distributors immediately, and will also eventuall be
available for custom queries by distributors and users (details for
custom queries are still being worked out).
Serious distributors will be interested in full-service subscriptions
to the Product Registry data, by mail, on-line access, or both. This
is a great way of discovering new products and authors, maintaining
current contact information on known authors, and noticing new ver-
sions of your existing products.
The mail subscription entitles you to monthly packages containing all
received VENDINFO records (the first package will contain the com-
plete set to-date). Due to media costs, these packages will not
include screen shots (contact us if you want to work out a subscrip-
tion arrangement that includes them).
BBS subscriptions provide on-line access to all records, including
screen shots. When our VendPrcs Plus program is ready, it will allow
off-line query preparation and very efficient on-line sessions (as
well as many other useful features).
VendLib SOFTWARE DEVELOPER'S LIBRARY
------------------------------------
The VendLib Library allows software developers to build VENDINFO.DIZ
access directly into such products as BBS programs and upload proces-
sors. It will also be very useful to distributors who write their own
customized database software, as it will allow them to directly
access all fields in each VENDINFO.DIZ file from within their own
software.
VendLib includes C source, and currently supports C/C++ applications,
as well as Windows applications via a DLL. Plans are underway to
extend support to other languages in the near future, but the source
provides a good guide for writing your own access functions, if you
prefer. Purchase of this package includes one year of support.
By special arrangement with TurboPower Software, we also offer a
license for the use of their PKZIP-v1.10-compatible UNZIP functions.
VENDINFO Registration -4- Mar 1995
VENDINFO Tools and Services Registration
Since the compression currently used in VENDINFO records is PKZIP
v1.10, this will allow extraction of VENDINFO data using an internal
decompression function, if you don't have access to this
functionality elsewhere. These functions are not PKZIP-v2.04g-
compatible, however, and are not intended for general use. Contact us
for details if you need this capability.
SITE LICENSES
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Site, corporate, and network licenses are available for the VENDINFO
tools. Contact us for details.
REGISTRATION BY E-MAIL
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If we receive your registration form by some form of secure e-mail
(e.g., CompuServe e-mail, FidoNet crash mail) and you ask us to do
so, we will send your registration keys by the same mechanism, for
fast registration. We reserve the right to add a small fee for this
(not more than $4.00), but our current policy is to charge no fee
except for international FidoNet crash mail.
ACCEPTABLE FORMS OF PAYMENT
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All orders must be prepaid, by Visa, MasterCard, checks payable in
U.S. dollars and drawn on a U.S. bank, certified bank drafts drawn in
the hard currency of the issuing bank, American Express money orders,
U.S. or International postal money orders, or cash in a hard cur-
rency. (Rams' Island Software takes no responsibility if you send
cash, and suggests that if you do so the order be sent by registered
mail.)
REGISTERED VERSIONS KEYED TO COMPANY NAME
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Please be sure you fill out the registration form completely and
legibly. In particular, write your company name exactly as you wish
it to be reflected in VENDINFO records you produce with VendEdit, or
in "Distribution Terms" outputs you produce with VendPrcs. The
registration keys for both tools are based on your company name.
VENDINFO Registration -5- Mar 1995
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| VENDINFO REGISTRATION FORM |
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Name: ________________________________________ Date: ___________
Company: ________________________________ Phone: ___________________
Address: FAX: _____________________
_____________________________________ CompuServe: ______________
_____________________________________ FidoNet: _________________
_____________________________________ RIME Nbr: ________________
_____________________________________ InterNet: ________________
Your use: Author__ BBS__ Vendor__ CD-ROM Publisher__ Other__
=================================================================
| Description Price * | Cost |
|====================================================|==========|
| VendEdit Editor $ 25 | |
|----------------------------------------------------|----------|
| VendPrcs Processor $ 20 | |
|----------------------------------------------------|----------|
| Shipping Charge outside U.S./Canada/Mexico $ 2 | |
|====================================================|==========|
| Auto-Upgrade Plan, 1 year $ 30 | |
| (if ordered with above registration) $ 25 | |
| Shipping Charge outside U.S./Canada/Mexico $ 8 | |
|====================================================|==========|
| Product Registry Mail Subscription $150 | |
| Shipping Charge outside U.S./Canada/Mexico $ 24 | |
|====================================================|==========|
| Product Registry BBS Subscription $100 | |
| (if ordered with mail subscription) $ 50 | |
|====================================================|==========|
| VendLib Developer's Library $ 50 | |
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| Colorado residents add sales tax | |
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* All prices guaranteed through Mar 1996 TOTAL | |
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| We can accept MasterCard or Visa payments. Fill out the |
| following ONLY if you are making payment by MC or Visa. |
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| MasterCard [ ] Visa [ ] Number: ____ ____ ____ ____ |
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| Name on the Card _______________________________________________ |
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| Expires _________ Signature ___________________________________ |
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(please fold on line, tape, stamp, and mail)
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Rams' Island Software
7644 E. Lakecliff Way
Parker, CO 80134-5904
USA