WWW Data: a World Wide Web Data Base


WWW Data Registration

WWW Data is shareware (and not freeware). If you find WWW Data valuable you should register it.

The unregistered copy of WWW Data can only handle up to 50 records per data file. This constraint only applies to WWW Data CGI (i.e. all the other tools needed to locally create, populate and mantain the data base work normally). Moreover the text "unregistered copy" is printed in the title of every single form used by WWW Data CGI and on a "Javascript scroller" in the status line of the browser. The registered copy does not have these limitations.

The cost of the registration is:

To register WWW Data it is necessary to perform the following procedure.

1. Identify the computer

The registration allows a particular version of WWW Data to run only on a particular machine. Therefore the first step that has to be performed is identifying (in an unique way) the computer on which WWW Data is intended to run.

To do so, users must run the utility IDENTIFY. This utility will display the following output

identify: acquiring information on your system...
identify: system information acquired!
identify: Unique Identifier = "xxxx-yyyy".

where "xxxx" and "yyyy" are two exadecimal numbers.

The combination of these two numbers uniquely identifies the machine.

2. Identify the version of WWW Data

Once the machine has been identified, it is necessary to identify also the version of WWW Data that has been downloaded.

To do so, it is enough to activate the WWW Data CGI, and select the Help->About command. The WWW Data CGI will display the correct version.

In the version "string" there are two different parts:

Only new major releases will need to be re-registered.

3. Send to SW WINGS the registration

Registration is easy. The form listed hereafter must be filled

Name _______________________________________________
Company   _______________________________________________
Address   _______________________________________________
     _______________________________________________
     _______________________________________________
     _______________________________________________
Telephone number    _______________________________
Telefax number _______________________________________
e-mail address _______________________________________
WWW Data Version        _______________________________
Unique Identifier       _______________________________

and sent to:

Alessandra Scarpari
SW WINGS
Van der Weijdenlaan 26
2211 JM Noordwijkerhout
The Netherlands

Payment can be performed in two ways:

If the transfer is used, the transaction documentation must contain enough information to allow SW WINGS to identify who did the payment (i.e. at least the name). In both cases users shall expect to wait for three or four weeks before their registration is processed.

Registration requests, accompanied by the above form, can also be sent via e-mail at the following address:

registr@swwings.com

SW WINGS will start to process the users requests right after having received the order via e-mail.

4. Insert the registration information in the WWW Data CGI

Once the registration and payment have been received, SW WINGS will send to the user (via e-mail) an Enabling Code. This number will be used by the user to promote the WWW Data CGI from an unregistered copy to a registered one.

To do so, users must run the utility REGISTR. This utility will ask the user to provide the following inputs:

The utility must be executed in the directory where the WWW Data CGI object file is located. If the utility finds its target file, it will insert in this file the enabling code.

Once the target file has been modified, the WWW Data CGI application must be regenerated. This is done, by executing the command

make all

in the directory where the WWW Data "makefile" is located (it should be the same directory where the WWW Data object file is located).