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Farsi Screen Saver for Windows(c) 3.x
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This program (as far as I know) is the first Farsi Screen Saver
for MS-Windows. It brings up Farsi proverbs from a file (amcal.ffw)
and shows them on your PC's screen. All the proverbs used in this
program are coming from the 4 volume book of "Amca-o-Hekam" which
is one of many great works of Mr. Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda.
This program comes with more than 650 proverbs, that I personally
choosed from that book. I will try to put more and more of these
wonderful proverbs in my program, in a near feature.
Requirement:
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- An IBM(R) compatible personal computer.
- MS-DOS(R) ver. 5.0 or above.
- MS-Windows(C) 3.1 or WfW(C)3.11 (I am not sure if this program
works under NT(C) or Win95) with more than 128kByte of free memory.
- About 300k Bytes of free hard disk space.
- PKUNZIP(C) ver 2.04G (you can find it on many BBS's around the
world)
Files:
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REAME.TXT This file.
INSTALL.TXT Information on how to install this program in Swedish
and English.
AMCAL.FFW The proverb file.
FARSISCR.INI Initiation file for the screen saver.
FARSISCR3.SCR Screen Saver program.
FARSI_1.TTF A Farsi True Type font for MS-Windows.
FARSISCR.HLP Help file for this program (will be available
later).
FARSISCR.ARA An experimental version of this screensaver.
With allmost all information in Farsi.
How does it work?
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This screen saver works like the "Marquee" which comes with Windows
3.x, the only difference is that FSCRSAV3 reads its data randomly
from a file (AMCAL.FFW) and shows them on the screen by movings them
slowly from right to left.
Size, colour, speed and position of text can be changed. Colour and
position of the proverbs can be set to "Random" and then it will show
the proverbs in different colours and on different parts of your
screen.
How much does it cost?
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I wrote this program for myself, because I love Farsi proverbs and
they always remind me of my grand mother who used to tell us stories
about the meaning and origin of these proverbs. Sometimes ago when
I started my Farsi For Windows project, I thought it would be a good
idea to make a program that shows Farsi proverbs on the computer
screen. It was first in the beginning of 1994 when my Farsi editor
became stable and I could save my file without causing the system to
crash, then I started to write this program.
I am trying to increase the amount of provers in this program all
the time. There are still som functions which are not implemented
yet, which I try to when I have some "free" time from my other
projects.
Since I did not wrote this program to earn some money, I do not want
people to pay for it.
So it is free! The only thing I ask you for, is to let me know
whether you like this program or not. By sending me
a letter, a postcard with a picture of the town you
live in, or if you have access to E-mail, by writing
a few lines to give me your opinion about the program.
That would be the best payment for my job.
This means that you can install it on how many computers you want,
copy it and send it to your friends or put it on a BBS. There are
some restrictions that you must follow:
- This program is copyright of SE&SE and should not be
modified, or be included in any commercial product. No part
of this program should be used in other product, without
the written permission of SE&SE.
- All the files in this archive must be in the copy,
specially this file and the README.WRI.
- You should not charge people for this program, you should
only charge people for the cost of the media and your work,
but not more than 5 US$ or 35 Skr
- You can use FARSI_1.TTF (the truetype) font for your personal
use, you can include it in any publicdomain or freeware
program. The only restriction is to send information about
the origin of that file, with your program.
- You use this program at your own risk, I do not guarantee
it's functionality. SE&SE is not responsible for any damage
on your computer that directly or indirectly caused by using
this program. If you think this program may cause any damage
to your computer, then my advice to you is :
DO NOT USE IT!
Acknowledgement:
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I want to thank everyone who helped me to make this program as
it is, specially my dear brother, Mahmood Abdolian who encouraged me
to make this program available for everybody, and helped me to
correct my errors.
And my dear sister Sharife Abdolian, who on my 25th birthday, gave
me the best present that I've ever got : Four volumes of "Amcal-o-
Hekam".
And my dear brother Mohammad Abdolian, that I will never be able
to thank him for what he have done for me.
And all of my friends who helped to make this program better and
better. And all the people that sent me letters when I first
releaced this program to the public.
All the people who use this program from the beginning and helped
me to make it as it is. Specially those at tehran.stanford.edu
who helped me to distribute this program to people outside Sweden.
How to contact me
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I will be glad to hear from you. My mail address is:
Farhad Abdolian
SE & SE PostGiro 64 28 21 - 3
PO Box 225
721 06 - Vasteras,
Sweden
And my E-mail address (for the moment) is:
faab@drsvr1.setrc.abb.se
Where can you find this program?
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You can allways find the latest version of this program att one of
following places:
If you have access to internet:
Tehran.stanford.edu
under
Iran_Lib/windows/
And if you have access to a modem:
AROS BBS +46 - (0)21 - 35 34 42
WPUG BBS +46 - (0)8 - 54 06 52 73
Or by sending a formatted 3.5" diskett and a stamped envelope
(addressed to you) to my post address. (I will not answer to
letters by mail and I will not send you the program if the
diskett you send is not formatted!) I will also copy my latest
version of Robaiyyate KHAYYAM in Farsi/English/Swedih on
your diskett!
Or by putting 35 Skr into PostGiro 642821-3 and mark the
"inbetalnings kort" Farsi proverbs for Windows (only available
for people in scandinavia). I will also copy my latest
version of Robaiyyate KHAYYAM in Farsi/English/Swedih into
your diskett!
Or by sending 5 international reply cupones and you address to
the above address (if you live outside scandinavia).
Or by sending an e-mail to me and I will send you the UU-encoded
version of this program. You need to have acess to UUENCODE program
to be able to encode the data!
With regards,
Farhad Abdolian
18, December, 1994
VΣsterσs-Sweden
PS Please let me know if you have any suggestion and complain about
this program. I really appreciate it.
Since I am putting more and more proverbs in amcal.ffw, and I try to
complete those part which are not implemented yet, it would be a good
idea to look for new versions every now and then.
The final version of this program will be available before the
end of 1995.
COPYRIGHT
MS-Windows is registered trade mark of Microsoft Co.
Truetype is registered trade mark of Apple computer.
PKUNZIP is registered trade mark of PKWARE Inc.
3rd Feb. 1995:
I have made some chnages in my code to make it compatible to
Arabic (and Farsi) Windows.
Please refer to install.txt to for more information on how to
install it on those systems.