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SageWords version 5.0
This file was created by the SageWords word processor on
this disk. With the exception of the file you are reading now,
all of the files on this disk are necessary. If space
considerations are important, you may delete any printer
description files (.PDF) which aren't used by your particular
printer if you only use one printer. SageWords will also create
new printer description files if the ones included on the disk do
not work with your printer.
Product support is available from the following
locations:
Cosmic Annex Software
449 Martin Avenue
Greenacres City, FL. 33463
(407)968-2274
New things about version 5.0 include the following:
SageWords assembly language routines have been re-assembled
utilizing the OPTASM 4x version 1.71 Macro Assembler from SLR.
This effectively increased SageWords' speed by a factor of five.
SageWords has now been ported from Borland's Turbo Pascal
version 5.5 compiler to the new Borland Turbo Pascal version 6.0
compiler. This has increased SageWords' speed by another factor
of five.
SageWords has now been fully tested with PC-DOS version 4.0
and found to function correctly. If you copy SageWords from a
diskette formatted DOS 4.0 to a hard disk formatted MS-DOS 3.2
your printer will no longer receive form feeds correctly.
However, copy that file back to a diskette formatted MS-DOS 3.2,
and then copy it to the hard disk formatted DOS 3.2 and the form
feeds will function correctly again. This is a bug in DOS 4.0
rather than a bug in SageWords.
SageWords can now handle up to 16 windows, vice six.
SageWords can now handle up to 40 tabs, vice 20
SageWords now has a protective security shell. This was
necessitated by two French companies who tried to pirate the
program. The shell works in this manner: As the program is
loading from disk it reads the program name and copyright author
lines and does an exclusive or (xor) against those lines' address
in memory. This produces a checksum. The checksum must match an
encrypted number in the programs source code. If the number does
not match, the program erases itself from disk, and puts a nasty
message on the screen. Otherwise, it simply continues loading
itself normally. This method does not have any effect upon the
honest user. The program can be copied using any DOS copy or
diskcopy commands, and the user never even sees that this
activity has happened. Only those adventurous individuals that
try using some editor such as Norton Utilities or PCTools to try
to change the opening screen are affected. Even then we are nice
about it. All we did was ask DOS to give us the name of the
program that was loaded, and then erase it. We could have been
really nasty and erased their whole hard disk, but we did not.
We would like to produce foriegn language versions of the
program, but this means we need to have someone translate the
program's messages into that foriegn language and then inserting
these translated messages back into the program's code and then
re-compiling. Are there any volunteers for translating? We would
gladly give a free copy of the translated program to the person
who helped us with the translation. We have registered users in
England, France, Germany, Australia, and Israel as well as all
over the United States.
For you entrepenurial types, SageWords can also be made
ROM-able. This means, for instance, that laptops could be
produced with SageWords in ROM. The author also can offer a great
deal on bundling software, for those who want to bundle software
with machines. Besides SageWords, we also produce a fast little
spreadsheet, a database manager, and communications software as
well as specialized applications, including a LAN, and a BBS
system. All of our applicatios are the absolute fastest in the
world at what they do. Speed and productivity are our bread and
butter.