Acknowledgments

BranChing was developed to facilitate my own work - but I am more than interested in other people using it.  Feel no obligation to pay money for this software.  If you use it and you have some extra money I wouldn't mind being compensated for the work I put into this program - otherwise I would appreciate hearing about what you are doing with BranChing or appropriate citation if you use BranChing to generate data used in a publication.

BranChing should NOT be commercially distributed without my permission.  I reserve all rights to BranChing.

I am indebted to the following:

My Wife and my cats - for sanity and a rich life beyond academia

Dr. F. A. Bazzaz - for providing the encouragement and opportunity to develop

this work

Dr. A. H. Fitter - for insight and support

Caveats

Disclaimer

1 - I take no responsibility for any damage done by or through
the use of this program.

2 - I reserve the rights to BranChing.  On no condition can this software be sold for a profit or be distribubed along with an item
for profit without my prior permission.

Informal Disclaimer

This version of BranChing is both refined and rough.  I have tested 
the ARCHITECTURE module algorithms and can say with confidence
that they are as accurate as reported in Plant and Soil (1992, 
140: 145-149).  BranChing has not been
tested on computers other than IIx's, IIsi's & Powerbook 230's running system 7.01 & 7.1.  In some cases BranChing will crash, but in no case should BranChing
ever result in the loss of data. I am continually working on improving the reliability of BranChing.

It is my intention to continue to improve BranChing.  If you can provide 
me with an Internet or Bitnet address I will notify you of improvements
to this software.  In the future the cost of BranChing will be the same
as it is now:  nothing.  I will not, however, pay for postage or disks.  If
you want me to send you a disk-copy of BranChing you must provide the 
disk, the envelope and the postage.  

BranChing may be distributed freely - posting on BBS's and FTP sites is fine.