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- MIDWEST SOFTWARE COMPANY
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- NOTE: Remember to register! See the Registration Form for all the
- good benefits of registration! It is well worth it to register your
- copy of DELIVERY ROUTE! If users don't register, authors look for
- other ways to market their software.
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- NOTE: About a dozen example customers and their example trans-
- actions are optionally included with DELIVERY ROUTE at installation.
- During installation, you will be asked if you wish to install the
- Example Data: answer "Yes" if you intend to do the tutorial or if you
- just want to start with some customers and transactions to help you
- learn how to use DELIVERY ROUTE.
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- ********************** LEGAL STUFF ************************
- This program is provided 'as is' and includes no warranties,
- expressed or implied, including any warranty of merchantability. The
- entire risk for its use rests with the user. In no event will the
- author or Midwest Software Company or the shareware distributor be
- liable to anyone for any damages, or any incidental or any
- consequential damages arising from the use of DELIVERY ROUTE LIGHT,
- even if caused by errors in the program and the author or Midwest
- Software Company or the shareware distributor had been advised of the
- errors and the possibilities of such damages.
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- DELIVERY ROUTE LIGHT is copyright 1993, Midwest Software Company of
- Grand Rapids, Michigan. DELIVERY ROUTE LIGHT may be copied in
- unmodified form, and distributed for any nominal fee not to exceed
- $6. It may not be used as part of another program under any
- circumstances, and it may not be distributed with other files
- intended to be used with DELIVERY ROUTE LIGHT. All other rights to
- DELIVERY ROUTE LIGHT remain the exclusive property of Midwest
- Software Company, 131 Burr Oak NE, Grand Rapids, MI 49505. Phone:
- (616) 365-2830.
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- ********************** THE SHAREWARE CONCEPT ************************
- Shareware distribution gives users a chance to try software before
- buying it. Copyright laws apply to both Shareware and commercial
- software, and the copyright holder retains all rights, with a few
- specific exceptions as stated in the documentation. Shareware
- authors are accomplished programmers, just as commercial authors are,
- and the programs are of comparable quality. (In both cases, there
- are good programs and bad ones --- the shareware distribution method
- allows you to try a program before you buy it, and so weed out the
- bad ones. Commercial distribution doesn't allow for this.) The main
- difference is the method of distribution. Shareware is a
- distribution method, not a type of software.
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- NOTE: Since DELIVERY ROUTE LIGHT does not (repeat, does NOT) include
- the program necessary to rebuild the index files in the event they
- become corrupted, we do not recommend that you use DELIVERY ROUTE
- LIGHT for anything but evaluation purposes. The omission of the
- fixdata program has helped us provide DELIVERY ROUTE LIGHT on a
- single diskette (minimizing your costs) and still maintain the appli-
- cation's "try before you buy" posture. We do not provide the fixdata
- program for DELIVERY ROUTE LIGHT as we do for DELIVERY ROUTE JUNIOR
- and DELIVERY ROUTE 1.0.
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- ********************* PRE-RELEASE SALE !!! ********************
- Register your copy of DELIVERY ROUTE or order DELIVERY ROUTE Version
- 1.0 before the scheduled release date of December 5, 1993, and save
- $5 off each copy ordered! Orders must be received in our office by
- December 5, 1993 (by either phone or mail) to qualify for this
- discount. (Credit Card orders aren't billed until the order ships.)
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- ********************** DID YOU SEE...? ********************
- Did you see the July 1993 issue of PC Computing? On page 20, Ed Bott
- wrote the Bill of Rights for the Usability Revolution. He listed
- six things we should expect from a piece of software:
- 1. The right to proper packaging.
- 2. The right to hassle-free installation.
- 3. The right to complete compatability.
- 4. The right to not read the manual.
- 5. The right to an intuitive interface.
- 6. The right to no-questions-asked support.
- This is _must_ reading! Compare this "Bill of Rights" to DELIVERY
- ROUTE, and you'll see what a truly great computer application
- DELIVERY ROUTE really is!!!
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- ******************** DOS 6.0 USERS, NOW SEE HERE! ******************
- When you install DELIVERY ROUTE LIGHT, the installation program will
- ask you if you have DOS 6.0 or above. You should answer "Yes". This
- will install a backup.exe program no longer provided by Microsoft as
- of MS-DOS 6.0. If, when you do a backup, you still get an error
- message that says "Incorrect DOS version", it's probably because you
- have a previous version of backup.exe in your DOS directory, and
- DOS' setver command is set for backup.exe. To make a long explana-
- tion short: go to the DELIVERY ROUTE LIGHT program directory (C:\DRLT
- if you accepted the default at installation), and type
- del backup.exe <Enter>
- You MUST be in the DELIVERY ROUTE LIGHT program directory when you do
- this. This should correct the "Incorrect DOS version" problem.
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- NOTE: To reset all the customers, transactions, and remarks to the
- way they were when you first installed them, simply go to the program
- directory and type
- reset <Enter>
- and all the database information will be just like it was when you
- first installed it.
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- *********************** One Last Thing... ************************
- We spend a lot of time and effort to ensure that the software we
- produce is completely problem-free. We also like to reward anyone
- who is the first to report a problem we missed.
-