ASP Monthly 1995 February/ASP_CD_ROM.iso/readme.txt

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Welcome to the February CD-ROM from ASP!  News items for this month:

First, this is the issue where Author and Publisher Members who have not
renewed their memberships for 1995 are listed.  You can find the list of
author and company names in the file DROPAUTH.LST - located in the root
directory of this disc _and_ in the \BBSVEND directory.  The files that were
on the CD-ROM disc by these authors have been removed, and they are listed as
part of the monthly DROPS.TXT list in the \BBSVEND directory.

Reminder - the DROPS.TXT file shows files that have either been removed at
the request of the author (likely due to an update or new release) as well as
the files by authors who have not renewed.  As usual, it would be best to try
to find out why these files have been dropped and update your libraries, file
listings and catalogs appropriately.

In the "friendly reminder" category, don't forget the ongoing Annual Meeting
if you're not active on CompuServe.  Revised proposal texts and ballots will
be mailed soon...

NOTE - Once again, the ASPBBS.EXE utility has been updated.  The bug that
caused file descriptions to be off by one space should now be fixed.  SORRY!
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                       USING THE ASP BBS UTILITY PROGRAM
To start the ASP BBS Utility Program, which creates listings of the files that
are available on the CD-ROM, type GOBBS and press ENTER.  This will start up
the BBS Utility package.  From that point, simply follow the prompts in the
program itself and it will guide you through the steps necessary to create
listings of the files on this CD-ROM disc, in almost any format that you need
or can imagine.  As usual, there's a *.BBS file in each directory.

PLEASE BE SURE TO NOTE that if you have saved an old configuration file from
the previous CD-ROM software, the new BBS Utility program can read in the
default information and use it to create your file listings.  If you have
written your own customized software to process file listings, then I will
apologize in advance, because that software WILL NOT WORK with this CD-ROM
disc.  Contact me and I'll give you the file format specifications so you
can correct your software.

ALSO NOTE - if the default settings worked for you before, there's a time-
saving bonus for you.  In the \BBSVEND directory, you'll find:

        PCBLNG.ZIP     Long-format listings for each file area (*.BBS)
        PCBLNG-D.ZIP   Long-format listings of CHANGED/NEW FILES (*.BBS)
        PCBSHR.ZIP     Single-line listings for each file area (*.BBS)
        PCBSHR-D.ZIP   Single-line listings of CHANGED/NEW FILES (*.BBS)
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                         USING THE ASP BROWSER UTILITY
For simply viewing and copying files, run the GOBROWSE batch file, which will
start the ASP CD-ROM Browser program.  Each display in the program has a
built-in help facility - pressing F1 (in some cases you may have to press
F1 then ENTER if the help screen doesn't pop up) will bring up detailed help
on using the ASP CD-ROM Browser.

Briefly - The UP and DOWN ARROW keys move back and forth between the file
categories.  The LEFT and RIGHT ARROW KEYS move back and forth between the
products listed in each category.

F3 will start a search for a word or phrase in the filename or description
fields of any product, displaying matches one at a time.

F4 starts the file copy routine (from ANY file display screen) to copy the
current file to another disk, drive or directory.

F5 turns ON or OFF (default is OFF) the ability to display only those files
that have CHANGED since the LAST CD-ROM disc.  If you have this turned OFF,
then each new/updated file will have a "NEW/UPDATED SINCE LAST CD!" label
on the display screen.

F10 exits the program, and F6 allows you to set colors and options.
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                          ABOUT THE DROPS.TXT FILE:

On this month's CD, in the \BBSVEND directory, you'll find a file named
DROPS.TXT which lists all products that have been removed from the CD-ROM
since last month's issue.  Some of these are because the author has resigned
from the ASP, others are due to updates where a newer version of the program
can be found on the CD-ROM disc, and a few others are products that the
author is no longer supporting.

PLEASE CHECK YOUR LIBRARIES, DOWNLOAD LISTS AND CATALOGS FOR THESE PRODUCTS
and be sure that you either get the latest update from this CD-ROM disc or
contact the author for details on why the product is no longer being offered.

Until you can confirm the reason for the product being dropped, it might be
best to simply remove them from your catalogs, file lists or libraries if
they're listed in the DROPS.TXT file.

ALSO - be sure to check the DROPAUTH.LST file (found both in the root of
the CD-ROM disc and the \BBSVEND directory) for those ASP Author and Publisher
Members who have not renewed their memberships for 1995.

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                               IN CONCLUSION:

I hope that the CD-ROM meets all your needs.  If you have comments, gripes,
suggestions, or problems with the software, PLEASE LET ME KNOW!! so that I
can try to make it right/better in the next version.  Contact me with any
comments at:

FIRST PREFERENCE:  CompuServe - Rich Harper [76670,110]
                   INTERNET   - [e-mail]

SECOND PREFERENCE: FAX to [phone]
                   US MAIL to   ASP PRESIDENT
                                777 S ROTH STREET NORFOLK 4
                                REED CITY  MI  49677

LAST PREFERENCE:   Telephone [phone].

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