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Commercial Use of CONG-II
Continued commercial use of CONG-II requires that the firm be
registered.
Site-License arrangements may be made by contacting Don Richards at
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Copyright
"Cong" is protected by both United States copyright law
and international treaty provisions.  It is not freeware
and it is not in the public domain.  It is distributed as
ShareWare.  New users are granted a 30 day license for
evaluation.  After the evaluation period, they should
register if they continue to use the product.
This version may be freely copied, duplicated and
distributed by registered users.  The screens, style
and "look and feel" are the copyrighted property of Don
Richards and may not be copied or duplicated without
written permission.
Use the program at your own risk.  The program carries
no warranty or guarantees.  The data on the Congress is
always somewhat outdated and therefore incomplete and
inaccurate to some extent.  Recognize this.
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Cong-II Associates
By registering as an Associate, an individual receives
a 50% discount on the registration fee and becomes
eligible to earn substantial rewards (as subsequently described).
To become an Associate, simply register as an Associate
and agree to show Cong-II to one or more potential new users
per month and to give each a copy if they would like one.
Associates are encouraged (but not obligated) to promptly
report to RSC the names of new users contacted, since RSC
pays a reward to an Associate commencing when five of her reported
new users have registered (and paid). (The reward amounts to 20% of
registration fees paid by the Associate's reported referrals,
including the first five.)
Associate registration is $50.00, which may be paid to RSC in
two $25 installments, the first of which is due within 30 days of
registration.
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Congressional Offices
Discount: Congressional offices can become registered
Cong-II users for the upgrade fee of $10.00, plus
$5.00 shipping and handling, by:
  1. Registering as a participating Congressional office, which requires
that an individual in the office be designated as an RSC contact
(whom we may call occasionally to verify data), and
  2. Agree (a) to notify RSC of errors or omissions in the program when
noted, and (b) to periodically recommend improvements that will
allow the program to better serve the needs of Congressional staffs.
Rewards: A site license is granted covering all staff.
Staff members may register by paying the upgrade fee,
if they so desire.  This would entitle them to
all registered user privileges as individuals.
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Educational Institutions & Libraries
Discount: Educational Institutions may receive Cong-II for the
update fee ($10.00 plus $5.00 shipping and handling)
simply by registering as a participating institution.
It is requested that Educational Institutions
periodically recommend improvements to better align the
program with the needs of their institution.
Rewards: A site license is granted covering all staff and
students.  Staff members and students may register for
for the update fee, if desired.  This entitles them
to all registered user privileges.
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Associations
 Discount: Associations may receive Cong-II at no charge by
registering as a participating association and
by agreeing to make the program available to their
membership for a minimal fee, e.g. a $15 duplication,
shipping and handling fee.
 Rewards:  The Association receives 50% of all registration fees
paid to RSC by their members.
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Participating Users
Participating users are those who play a role in distributing,
  updating or creating RSC products.  Participating users pay no
  registration fees, except possibly occasional materials and
  shipping and handling costs related to RSC shipments to them.
To become a participating user, sysops and user group
  librarians need only register, stating their organization and role.
  Others should complete the registration form, check the products of
  interest and forward it along with a brief statement of the support
  they are willing and able to provide.
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Discounts for Private Individuals
  Private individuals may earn
 and discounts
  by registering as an associate or participating
  user.
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Disclaimer.
By using CONG-II, users accept this disclaimer of warranty:
CONG-II is supplied as is.  The author disclaims all warranties,
  expressed or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties
  of merchantability and of fitness for any purpose. The author
  assumes no liability for damages, direct or consequential, which may
  result from the use of CONG-II."
Recognize that congressional data changes day-to-day.
  Therefore, the data contained in this version of CONG-II is no
  longer accurate or complete.  Utilize it with this in mind.
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RSC offers rewards and grants discounts to private
  individuals, Associations, Congressional Offices and
  Educational Institutions.
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Distribution of CONG-II
Anyone desiring to distribute CONG-II for any kind of
  remuneration must first register with RSC. Authorization is hereby
  granted to distributors recognized by the (ASP) as adhering to its
  guidelines for ShareWare distributors.  Such distributors may begin
  offering CONG-II immediately.
However, distributors must register as participating users so
  that RSC can keep them up-to-date on RSC products.
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License
CONG-II is distributed as ShareWare.  You are free to evaluate
  it at no charge for 30 days and are encouraged to share it with your
  friends and associates.  However, please do not alter the program or
  use the program, or the data contained within the program, as part of
  another program or system.  If you desire to do so, contact RSC to
  make appropriate arrangements.
If you find the program useful and find that you are using it
  regularly, you should register to obtain the latest data and
  become eligible for other benefits.
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CONG-II is ShareWare.
For Commercial user info.
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For BBS SysOp info.
For Pricing info.
For Update info.
For Registration info.
For License info.
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RSC product prices:
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Product
Pre-release  Introductory
Regular
Before 1/31/93  Before 2/28/93  After 4/1/93
CONG-II (Letter writer)
$45.00
$75.00
$99.00
CONG-E (CONG-II data Editor)
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     99.00
CONG-P (CONG-P Print Book)
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Cong data (in dbf or ASCii)
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     99.00
QC (Quick Cong)
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     99.00
 Site licenses:
$10.00 per keyboard.
Data Updates:
     $10.00 (plus $5 shipping and handling)
PE (Personal letter writer)
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75.00
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Registration
To register, print the registration form (from the
main menu) and send it in.  Or, call Don at RSC.
(Check pricing and rewards and discounts first.)
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You may contact RSC as follows:
     FAX - [phone]
Voice - [phone]
Mail: RSC
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The RSC definition of ShareWare
The term ShareWare implies two things:
(1) a policy of fairness in that users are authorized to fully
  utilize a software package for a reasonable period (30 days or more)
  before deciding to buy it, and
(2) a distribution and marketing strategy that involves users
  more than the author and that thereby lowers the price of the software by
  essentially eliminating the author's distribution and advertising costs.
In the area of fairness, it is clearly not possible for you to
  determine, with any degree of certainty, that a software package will
  serve your needs until you actually use it for your intended purpose for
  some reasonable period.  The ShareWare fairness policy gives you the
  opportunity to make an informed "buy" decision after validating the
  adequacy of a software package in relation to your unique needs,
  generally for 30 to 90 days. (In my view, it is unfair to ask anyone to
  buy a software package without allowing them a full evaluation.)
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ShareWare costs less
In the area of price, ShareWare generally costs less (than an
  equivalent commercial product) because the author has been relieved
  of the burden of distribution and marketing costs.  The author
  grants to users the right to copy and distribute the software and
  urges them to do so by telling their friends and associates about
  it, by making copies available and by showing interested parties how
  to use it. Thus, a ShareWare package only becomes successful if users
  like it enough to recommend it to others.  I take it a step further
  by offering rewards to users who propagate my software.
ShareWare programs are generally of overall higher quality
  than commercial program, even when the commercial program is quite
  popular, WordPerfect being an excellent example. (I'm still trying
  to figure out how some advertised features work, but then I am a bit
  dense sometimes
The bottom line is that ShareWare not only costs less but is
  usually better than commercial software (because it has to be).
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Why is ShareWare inexpensive?
The low price of ShareWare does not mean that its capabilities or
  quality are low.  There may be essential no operational difference between
 a $399 commercial program and an equivalent ShareWare program for which
 you may pay, say, $99 when you register.  The $300 price difference
 represents distribution and advertising costs, not value added software
 development, documentation and support costs.  The cost to a distributor
 for a commercial package is on the order of 35% of the recommended retail
 price, $140 in the $399 case.  The developer's internal advertising and
 marketing management budgets probably average another $50.00 per copy
 sold, leaving something on the order of $90 as the (pro-rated)
 development cost of the $399 package.  Under the ShareWare concept,
 user support essentially eliminates the authors's advertising and
 distribution costs, thus the lower price.
In summary, there are three basic differences between commercial
 software and ShareWare software: fairness, price and when you pay.  All
 accrue to the user's advantage.
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BBS Sysops
BBS's may carry CONG-II without any special authorization, but
  must ensure that the package is complete and functional.
However, Sysops should register as a participating user (there is
  no charge) if they wish to maintain the latest ShareWare versions of
  RSC products on their board, or if they wish to become a local
  distribution point for data updates.
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Updates
Cong-II data is updated regularly and is distributed
  by mail and via BBS's.  "Regularly" means daily or
  whenever we become aware of changes. (It takes us only a
  few minutes to make changes.)
Distribution is the challenge.  So, we are setting
  up BBS's and participating users as distribution points.
  Also, associate users always know where to obtain the
  latest version and the latest data locally.
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Cong-II Info
     Overview
Uses of Cong
  License & Registration
  Rewards and Discounts
Other products
Contact Info
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ED (Editor)
ED is special purpose editor for the RSC IRE (Instant Reference
  Environment).  It features a virtual working directory, which allows
  selected files from multiple directories to appear in the virtual
  directory (with their paths) without actually being moved or copied.
  ASCii files and memo type text fields can be edited, spell checked,
  merged, parsed and converted for re-organizational purposes.
The primary usefulness of ED in relation to CONG-II is to covert
  ASCii text files to CONG-II memo fields (and to allow you to find files
  anywhere on your disk easily).
ED is simple editor designed to do some special things specifically
  in support of IRE, e.g. parse a large file into paragraphs and place the
  paragraphs in memo type fields.  It is not intended to compete with the
  many fine editors already available.
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 Some future RSC products will utilize a registration
 system along these lines.  Right now it is a convenience
 for you because it prints your name and firm on the
 registration form exactly as you entered it.  What ever you
 do will not prevent your access to this program.
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Instant Reference
IR (Instant Reference) refers to the RSC technology that allows
 developers (and end users) to automatically re-structure and format
 large bodies of text data (typically in the 1 to 1,
 megabyte range)
 into RSC IR compatible form.  Granularity is the paragraph.  Utilities
 are provided to link (cross-correlate) paragraphs (screens) to each other
 in multiple ways essentially without limits (one-to-many, many-to-one).
The IRE(Instant Reference Environment) is the RSC collection of
 tools used to create, update and refine IR applications.  The final IR
 application is a memory resident (>2K ram) retrieval engine that accesses
 one or more large IR data files on disk.  Each file is typically in the
 50 kilobyte to 5 megabyte range.
RSC is currently licensing firms to co-develop IR applications.
 Call Don Richards at RSC is you have an application in mind.
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You may print labels in the following ways:
Alt-Y  prints the left column of 2-by labels, of single
column labels.
Alt-Z  prints the right column of 2-by labels.
Alt-V  prints labels continuously with no page breaks,
which can be used to create an ASCii merge file.
Set your label size, top blank lines before the first
label and number of labels per page under the Defaults
selection on the main menu.
You will be given the opportunity to view the labels
before sending them to your printer or to a file.
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Block Operations
Mark a block:  F7 to begin marking a block.  Use the
cursor to extend the block.
Press F7 again to complete the block marking.
The block will remain highlighted.
Move or Copy the block to a new location by positioning
the cursor and then pressing Alt-M (move) of
Alt-C (copy).
Deleting:  To delete a marked block, press Alt-D
Un-marking: To unmark a block, press the Esc key or F7.
Cut & Paste: Alt-K cuts a marked block to the buffer
Alt-Y copies a marked block to the buffer
Alt-P pastes from buffer to cursor location
(Cut&Paste allows you to move text from one memo to another)
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Cursor Control Keys
cursor up
backspace
cursor down
go to next tab stop
cursor left
left to tab stop
cursor right
go left one word
  Home
go to beginning of line
go right one word
  End
go to end of line
  ^PgUp
go to top line
  PgUp
go to previous page
  ^PgDn
go to last line
  PgDn
go to next page
  ^Home
erase entire line
  Ins
toggle insert mode
  ^End
erase to end of line
  Del
erase character
  ^Enter
save & quit
  Block Operations
Other
mark block
spell check
  Alt-M  move block
  Alt-C  copy block
find & replace
  Alt-D  delete block
find & replace w verify
  Alt-Y  copy to clipboard
quit, no save
  Alt-K  cut to clipboard
Alt-T
toggle paragraph marks
  Alt-P  paste to clipboard
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Using windowed envelopes
Printing letters
Tagging and untagging
Party and body selectors
Doing Labels
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Overview
CONG-II is a congressional database and automatic
correspondence generator.  It allows you to locate
Senate and House members by name, state, district,
party, body, committee, subcommittee, etc. Once
located, contact and other information is available.
To generate correspondence, the internal editor
may be used.  Members can be tagged (to receive
a letter, note or invitation) on most screens.  The
correspondence, properly addressed, is automatically
generated by "Cong" for each tagged member.  A FAX
cover sheet will also be printed if desired.
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  You may elect to view only republicans or only democrats.  At the same
  time, you may elect to view only senators or only members of the house.
  The following keys apply:
Alt-S for Senators only.
Alt-D for Democrats only.
Alt-H for House members only.
Alt-R for Republicans only.
Alt-B for both bodies.
Alt-A for both parties again.
  You may also elect to view only tagged members, as follows:
Alt-G to show only tagged members.  Alt-G again toggles back to all.
Note that Alt-G also resets the party and body to all, so that you
in fact be viewing all tagged members (for printing).
Note: Alt-U will untag all.
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PE (Personal Cong)
PE is a personal version of Cong.  PE allows you to maintain
  a personal contact database and to quickly generate personalized
  (addressed) letters and FAX's to multiple contacts, just as
  Cong-II does for the Congress.  PE is primarily intended for addicted
  Cong-II users.
PE is designed to save you time through simplicity.  You'll have
  no trouble learning to use it, and when you use it, you'll have your
  letters or notes in the mail or in the FAX machine quickly.  Try it.
  You'll see what I mean.
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To print letters the following steps apply:
1.  Select the letter you wish to print (Alt-L).
2.  Create or edit your letter, if necessary (Alt-E).
Note thet you may copy (duplicate) an existing letter
and then edit the duplicate as a new letter.
3.  Tag the member(s) you wish to address the letter to.
The Gray"+" key tags and untags members from the main
member lists.  Alt-U untags all. When in a committee
list, Alt-T tags all members.
4.  Use Alt-F to toggle the fax cover sheet On/Off. Note
the on-screen fax flag status (On/Off).
5.  Press Alt-P to print.  You will be given the opportunity
to view the letters before actually sending them to the printer.
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 !Products
  Quick Cong(QC)
The new memory resident Cong Pop up. Takes up less than
2k of conventional memory.  Pops up over your word
processor and allows you to copy data from the pop up
screen into your word processor text.  Developed under
the Instant Reference Environment.
  Cong-E
The Cong-II Editor.  Allows you to update Cong-II data
internally within your own organization.
  Cong-P
The Cong-II Printer.  Allows you print Cong-II data
to a printer or file for inclusion in memos, reports or
to build a notebook on the congress for distribution
within your organization and to your clients.
  Cong data
A set of congressional data for your own programs.
(Available in either dbf or asc format)
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Tagging
By tagging a member you tell the system to print a letter or
  label for that member.
At the main member screens (which list members by name or by
  state), the Gray"+" key tags and untags members.  Alt-U untags all
  members.  Alt-G will cause only tagged members to be listed on the
  main screens.  Note than Alt-G also sets the party and body
  selectors to all, so you will see all tagged members even when you
  might have one party or one body selected.
At screens that list the members of committees, the Gray"+"
  also tags members.  However, Alt-T tags all members of that
  committee, and Alt-U untags all.
The command keys that are active for a screen will usually be
  shown when you press the F1 key.
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  Alt-M to list main committees only.
  Alt-A to list all.
  Alt-S to list Senate committees only.
  Alt-H to list House committees only.
  Alt-J to list Joint committees only.
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 Alt-C will duplicate the highlighted
letter (so you can modify it
as a new letter).
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" indicates member is not retunring.
[Enter the initial characters of the member's last name
here to quickly locate the member.]
  Alt-C lists committees.
  F5 Formfeed printer.
  Alt-T lists members by state rather than by last name. F6 Linefeed printer.
  Alt-S for Senators only.
Alt-D for Democrats only.
  Alt-H for House members only. Alt-R for Republicans only.
  Alt-B for both bodies.
Alt-A for both parties again.
 Gray "+" toggles member tag for letters.
  Alt-G to show only tagged members.
Alt-G again toggles back to all.
  Alt-U to untag all.
  Alt-L to select a letter.
Alt-N  selects a fax sheet notice.
  Alt-F toggles fax cover sheet On/Off.
Alt-V prints label merg file.
  Alt-P to print tagged letters
Alt-W window envelope letter
  Alt-E to edit, add or delete letters.
Alt-Y to print labels left col.
  Alt-X to edit, add or delete fax notices. Alt-Z to print labels right col.
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" indicates member is not retunring.
[Enter the initial characters of the member's last name
here to quickly locate the member.]
  Alt-C lists committees.
  F5 Formfeed printer.
  Esc
returns to by last name.
F6 Linefeed printer.
  Alt-S for Senators only.
Alt-D for Democrats only.
  Alt-H for House members only. Alt-R for Republicans only.
  Alt-B for both bodies.
Alt-A for both parties again.
 Gray "+" toggles member tag for letters.
  Alt-G to show only tagged members.
Alt-G again toggles back to all.
  Alt-U to untag all.
  Alt-L to select a letter.
Alt-N  selects a fax sheet notice.
  Alt-F toggles fax cover sheet On/Off.
Alt-V prints label merg file.
  Alt-P to print tagged letters
Alt-W window envelope letter
  Alt-E to edit, add or delete letters.
Alt-Y to print labels left col.
  Alt-X to edit, add or delete fax notices. Alt-Z to print labels right col.
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Uses of Cong
Individuals who want to make their views known to a
group of Senators and House members will find "Cong" invaluable.
"Cong" is also intended for use by Members of Congress,
legal firms, associations and groups that interact with
the Congress and by educators dealing with congressional matters.
Anyone who interacts with the congress will find it
useful for quickly locating a member's telephone number and
office room number and for quickly sending notes or memos to
selected members.  Cong is especially useful for sensitive,
private communications since no administrative personnel need
be involved (Cong does it all
Anyone who is involved with committees and subcommittees
will find "Cong" quite useful in identifying and contacting
members according to committee and subcommittee assignments.
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Alt-W prints your letters formatted to be folded and
     mailed in windowed envelopes.  Your return address
     shows in the upper left window and the member's
     adress shows in the middle window.
Window envelopes are available from RSC.  Two sizes
are available.  The smaller fits neatly inside the
larger for mailing as a return envelope.
(For me, windowed envelopes are the only way to go.)
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