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ShareDebate International - A Copyrighted FreeWare Diskette Magazine
Edited by Roleigh Martin, Published by Applied Foresight, Inc.
P.O. Box 20607, Bloomington, MN 55420 USA
Copyright 1990-94, Roleigh Martin. All Rights Reserved.
(If you are reading this file by typing "TYPE READ.ME", you'll find the
file too long to read that way. Type: SEE and press ENTER instead, highlight
this file, and then read it. Your second file to read should be DBATE###.TXT
-- see next paragraph for what ### means.)
Note: in the instructions below, "###" shown in filename spellings,
actually do not appear in the real filenames. "###" refers to the issue
number and will be numbers like "009", "010" and so forth. (Issues 001-008
were packaged significantly different.)
This BBS archive (named DBATE###.ZIP or DBATE###.SDN depending on the BBS
source you've obtained it from) contains five or more files: READ.ME;
DBATE###.TXT (the beginning of the actual magazine), SI_MISC.TXT (about
ShareDebate International), SEE.EXE (a 3rd party freeware file reading/print
program), AMAZE.TXT (more about this below), plus additional files introduced
and listed in the DBATE###.TXT file. Sysops, PLEASE DO NOT reZIP or alter the
ZIP or SDN file that contains these files. It is authenticated-protected
(PKUNZIP 2.04g is needed for ZIP, ARJ 2.41 is needed for SDN). The freeware
distribution terms of this copyrighted magazine are provided in SI_MISC.TXT in
the ZIP file.
After extracting with PKUNZIP or ARJ the ZIP or SDN containing the above
files, type: SEE & press ENTER to get a list of files to read. To read any &
all of the files, highlight the file with your cursor and press ENTER. To
print any desired file, press "C" while reading the file. !!NOTE!! After
reading this READ.ME, next read the file, DBATE###.TXT.
Last, if you received this on a diskette and if there is space, there may
be added to this diskette, file(s) spelled IMPR*.ZIP. This is a collection of
the freeware magazine, Imprimis - On Line, that Applied Foresight also
publishes. Imprimis is not connected with ShareDebate International however.
Unzip this ZIP file in a newly made directory on your hard disk. If you don't
have PKUNZIP.EXE, use UNZIP.EXE that would also be on the disk (along with
instructions which can be read by typing: SEE UNZIP.DOC or typing:
MORE <UNZIP.DOC (if this is your first issue). (UNZIP is not in the BBS-file
distributed version.)
Some users don't like reading lengthy items online. They would rather
print them out. And if they have a laser printer or ink-jet printer, they
would like to use common shareware programs that will format them two "pages"
to a side of paper (in landscape mode) and print on both sides, achieving 4
pages to a sheet of paper, with the printout being foldable and stapled into a
book-like form.
There are many print utilities available to do this, among which are
4PRINT and LJBOOK. By presenting the magazine in plain ASCII form, users can
use these utilities (not bundled presently with the magazine--one has to
obtain them independently).
LJBOOK is either freeware or shareware (it's hard to tell by his license
wording) by Vernon D. Buerg, Compuserve ID: 7007,1212, 707-778-8728 fax, 139
White Oak Circle, Petaluma CA 94952. Buerg has a great file reading program
too, called LIST.COM, which you can use instead of the accompanying SEE.EXE.
4PRINT is apparently shareware, but required to be licensed in a
commercial environment (LJBOOK is too, I believe) by Korenthal Associates,
Inc., Compuserve ID: 76004,2605, 212-242-2599 fax, 511 Ave. of the Americas
#400, New York, New York 10011.
Accompanying the MS-DOS version of ShareDebate International, however, is
a freeware MS-DOS file-reader program, SEE.EXE, that supports printing, but
not in any fancy way. Use this if you like or use fancier printing utilities
elsewhere available--4PRINT or LJBOOK to name a few examples.
(In order to distribute SEE.EXE freely, the author of SEE requires one to
distribute his advertisement file, AMAZE.TXT, which is also included. I have
not seen any of the products advertised in AMAZE.TXT and its accompaniment
with this magazine is not to be construed as an endorsement in any manner.)
(If you are reading this file by typing "TYPE READ.ME", you'll find the
file too long to read that way. Type: SEE and press ENTER instead, highlight
this file, and then read it. Your second file to read should be DBATE###.TXT
-- see second paragraph from the start above for what ### means.)