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=====News & Views <psl_logo.pcx>
- PsL Monthly CD-ROM Feedback
- Get Into CDs for as Little as $66
- Retail Products - featuring CDs this month:
... Women of Venus CD
... Color Magic Clip Art CD
... GIF Galaxy CD #1
... Pixel Perfect Graphics CD
- New User Tip: Redirection
- More Letters
- Quick Looks explained
- <SCREENS.PCX> explained
- Program Reviews - how to find 'em
- MegaDisk Sets
- System Requirements
-----PsL Monthly CD-ROM Feedback
We appreciate all the feedback we are getting on the PsL Monthly CD. We are
making suggested changes when we can.
---CD-ROM Too Cheap?
George Margelis, Australia:
"Congratulations on the CD-ROM. It is excellent, very well done. I only
have one suggestion: I don't think you are charging enough for it. Not
complaining, mind you, but anyone would be willing to pay a lot more for it
than $20, and to be honest, I think you deserve more than that per copy."
-PsL: The people who have been spending upwards of $1000 each month to get
all the programs added to PsL are ecstatic with the new CD for $19.95, to
say the least, and of course we are losing money on them.
At the same time, a lot of people have subscribed to the PsL CD who never
bought from PsL before or who were not buying as much as $20/month from
PsL.
It appears from the early response to the CD that we will easily get enough
new people subscribing to more than offset the lost revenues from those who
used to spend more, so everyone is coming out ahead, including the
programmers, who will get their programs out to more people this way.
Aren't win-win situations wonderful?
---CD-ROM Too Late?
Some people were concerned last month because they got PsL News before the
CD.
We cannot finish the CD until after PsL News has gone to the printer. Then
the tape for the first two CDs had to be sent to a plant where it took 10
days to produce the CD and three days to ship back. That is why it is so
much later than PsL News, which is printed locally.
In the future, we plan to pay extra for 3-day turn-around time for
production (plus 3-4 days to-from the manufacturer), so you should receive
it sooner, but still not as soon as PsL News.
---No Volume Label on the CD
Frederick R. Sidell also writes:
"I could not catalog the CDs with a disk cataloging program (SmartCat)
because they do not have volume labels. Please put a distinct volume label
on each month's CD."
-PsL: We'll try to do that. Most disk cataloging programs let you manually
enter a volume label if a disk does not have one. If SmartCat does not, you
may want to look at some of the other programs in PsL. Also, look at
CDPRO3D in the DOS\COM section this month.
Alternatively, you might want to copy the FILES.BBS file out of each CD's
root directory into a directory on your hard disk. (August did not have a
FILES.BBS; instead, get FILES from the PSL_News directory for that month).
The FILES.BBS files have descriptions of all the programs, arranged by
subdirectory. You can search these files with FGREP (from the Reviews
directory) much faster than you could load and search with a catalog
program, or you can view and search them with LIST or some other file
viewer.
---PNUMER.ZIP Bad on September CD
Frederick R. Sidell, Bel Air, MD:
"The file PNUMER.ZIP on the September CD will not dearchive. I would
appreciate it if you would send me a CD without the corrupt file."
-PsL: PNUMER.ZIP is bad on all the CDs (although it was good on our
master). We will put it on the October CD again.
---Wants Programming CD
Ron Eaglin, Orlando, FL:
"What I could really use is a CD which contains the disks from your
programming section. Why yours? Because you have much more than any other
company. Having a thorough and ORGANIZED source for programming utilities
would be worth hundreds of dollars to me and other programmers. I pay $165
yearly for my subscription to Microsoft Developers Network CD for
information which is less useful to me than your programming catalog info.
Think about it."
-PsL: We are still trying to adjust to the shock of going from 250-300
program write-ups a month to 500-700. As soon as we get our heads above
water, we will definitely be tackling some other CD-ROM projects, and your
wish is one of them. Thanks for the input.
---FILES.BBS Not Quite Right
Brian Simpson:
"Well, you almost got it right! File size must END at (ie: be
right-justified to) column 21. The date must start at column 24 and end at
column 31 with "-" as separators, not "/". The first line of the
description must start at column 34 and not go beyond column 39. Long
descriptions must start with "| " in column 32."
-PsL: Whew! The specs keep getting tighter and tighter. We'll try these
changes in this month's CD and see what objections we get. We hope to avoid
multiple FILES.BBS files for different BBS systems, but we have been told a
lot of different things.
---CD Utilities for Syops
Jose Villar, Barcelona, Spain:
"The program ROMBRAIN permits sysops to have up to 99 CDs available on a
BBS at the same time, having some off-line and some on-line. It also
controls multiple CDs such as Pioneer DRV or Corel SCSI for systems with
more than one CD-ROM. To run ROMBRAIN, you will also need BRAINEX.
"I hope this information helps sysops to put the wonderful PsL CDs in their
BBSs in order to have all the collection together and helps users to see
how much is offered in the PsL CDs."
-PsL: Thanks for the tip. We followed up your letter by obtaining ROMBRAIN
and BRAINEX, which are written up in this month's Business-Communications
section and are on this month's CD.
-Clint Bradford, Mira Loma, CA:
"CD-ROM Pro is a great CD-ROM file organization utility. You will find the
author to be accessible and enthusiastic. I also want to thank you for your
openness and responsiveness. I believe we both desire to make your Monthly
CD the finest CDROM product available for shareware BBSs."
-PsL: Thanks for sending along the latest CD-ROM Pro. We have written it up
in the Business - Communications section.
-----Get into CDs for As Little As $66
We have talked to many people who are on tight budgets or who have just
sprung for an expensive new computer and are not ready to put out hundreds
more in one whack to get a CD-ROM drive, as much as they might like to have
the PsL Monthly CD.
Since we hate to see anyone miss out on the hundreds of exciting new
programs we put on each month's CD, we have come up with a special deal
that should be affordable for anyone with a computer.
Get a Mitsumi internal CD-ROM drive with interface card plus three months
of PsL Monthly CD-ROMs for a total of just $198 -- billed to your credit
card in three monthly installments of just $66 plus shipping ($7 in the
U.S.).
Or if you need an external drive, get a Sydos Personal CD drive and three
months of PsL Monthly CD-ROMs for a total of just $297 -- billed to your
credit card in three monthly installments of just $99 plus shipping ($7 in
U.S.).
The Sydos can be installed in 2 minutes - plug it into your PC's printer
port, plug your printer into the Sydos, and load the software. Everything
you need for CD-ROM use is included with either system. Both drives are
Kodak Photo-CD compatible and can also play music CDs.
With either package, you save over $100 from our already discounted prices.
So if your mouth has been watering for a CDROM drive, you'll never find a
better deal. Now's the time to go for it!
-----PhoneDisc CDs
#30401 PhoneDisc USA - Residential $79
#30402 PhoneDisc USA - Business $79
#30400 PhoneDisc USA - Res. & Biz. Reverse $199
At last, an affordable U.S. phone directory on CD!
The Residental PhoneDisc has over 75 million numbers with names and
addresses compressed onto two CDs: Western and Eastern U.S.
The Business PhoneDisc has over 9.5 million numbers, names and addresses on
one CD for the whole U.S.
The Reverse PhoneDisc comes on five CDs and covers residential and