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- VENDINFO standard v1.04, produced by VendEdit v1.30, 15-Dec-1996
-
- ===== Product Information ==============================
- Product: MagTrack
- Version: 1.1
- Version Date: 16-Dec-1996
- Product Type: Software
- Basic Distribution Policy (see License, below, for details):
- Shareware, subject to distribution restrictions
-
- Product Description: MagTrack provides an efficient way to track
- information about your favorite articles,
- stories, and blurbs. Have you ever read an
- interesting article, needed it 3 months
- later, and discovered that you must sort
- through a stack of magazines to find it?
- MagTrack runs on Windows 3.1 & Windows 95.
- Registration cost is $25 plus $4 S&H.
- Registration entitles you to free technical
- support.
- Reason for version: Initial release of product.
-
- Category: Data; Other
- Keywords: MAGAZINES ARTICLES STORIES NEWSLETTERS
- DATABASE INDEX ORGANIZE
- Required Packages: MAGTRK11
- This Package: MAGTRK11
- Registration Fee: 25.00 (US dollars)
-
- Required Configuration
- Processor Family: Intel 80x86 (minimum 80486)
- Clock Speed: 33 MHz
- Minimum OS: Windows 3.1
- Standard RAM: 8K
- Hard Drive Space: 900K
- Required:
- Hard drive
- Keyboard
- Won't Work With:
- Floppy only
- Req'd Software: Installs Borland's Redistributable Database
- Engine if not present.
-
- Orders:
- Address: Pik A Program (tm)
- 13 Saint Marks Place
- NY, NY 10003
- USA
- Toll-Free Phone: (800) 867-3447
- Phone: (212) 598-4939
- FAX: (212) 228-5879
- CompuServe: 74777,3233
- Internet: sales@pik.com
- Other E-mail: http://www.pik.com
-
- Support:
- Address: SureHand Software
- 8816 Manchester Rd, Box 193
- St. Louis, MO 63144
- AmOnLine: SureHandSw
- CompuServe: 74401,176
- Internet: 74401.176@compuserve.com
-
-
- ===== Information for Users ("READ-ME") ================
-
- MagTrack, release 1.1, Copyright 1996 by Surehand Software, all rights
- reserved.
-
- Are you presented with the need to buy life insurance and can't remember
- which of your investment newsletters contains the article comparing the
- pros and cons of term and whole life insurance?
-
- Are you the type of person who spots a special project in a craft
- magazine and sets the magazine aside for later? Then you discover that
- you've saved dozens of such magazines and can't find the article when
- you need it most?
-
- Have you participated in a heated discussion with a colleague and, to
- prove your point, rush back to your office for that certain back issue
- of a scientific journal, only to be confronted with five years worth of
- reading material?
-
- Does your HMO send a quarterly newsletter crammed with helpful and
- healthful stories and words of advice? You want to save the newsletter
- but know that it will be a daunting task to find it when you need it?
-
- With the help of MagTrack, you can avoid such situations:
-
- 1. Easily store key information about your favorite stories, articles,
- and periodical tidbits.
-
- 2. Categorize articles as you see fit.
-
- 3. Use the Search facility to quickly find those articles when you need
- them most. Search by magazine, category, keyword, or a combination
- of all three.
-
- 4. Print a hardcopy listing of your articles or selected sets of
- articles.
-
- MagTrack is distributed as shareware. You may try MagTrack for 30 days
- and enter up to 50 articles to determine if it is of use to you. If
- you continue to use it beyond that period, you must register it.
-
-
-
- ===== Packing List =====================================
-
- As released by the author or publisher, this package contained the
- following files in addition to this VENDINFO.DIZ:
-
- Filename Size Date Time CRC32
- _FILES.1 1002551 15-Dec-1996 07:27p 865E7147
- _SETUP.1 242430 15-Dec-1996 07:24p 020AF584
- READ_ME.1ST 171 18-Nov-1996 01:10a F9D97F00
- _FILES.2 478431 15-Dec-1996 07:26p D9D42D28
- SETUP.EXE 191084 15-Dec-1996 07:24p 1AA67A4E
-
-
- ===== Installation =====================================
-
- To install MagTrack from diskette, do the following:
-
- 1. Copy the following files onto diskette 1: SETUP.EXE, _SETUP.1,
- _FILES.1.
-
- 2. Copy the following files onto diskette 2: _FILES.2.
-
- 3. Place the first of the two diskettes into your A: or B: drive.
-
- 4. From the Windows Program Manager, run the program SETUP.EXE.
-
- SETUP.EXE unpacks and starts the installation program. The
- initial install screen displays the destination directory for
- MagTrack.
-
- 5. If you wish to change the destination directory, press the Browse
- button and specify a directory.
-
- 6. Press the Proceed button.
-
- The installation program extracts MagTrack into the destination
- directory.
-
- If your PC does not contain the Borland Database Engine (BDE), the
- installs the BDE and creates a database alias for MagTrack.
-
- The installation program asks you to name the Windows group which is
- to be created for MagTrack.
-
- 7. Enter a name for the MagTrack group. 'MagTrack' is the recommended
- name.
-
- The installation program creates the Windows group and notifies you
- that the installation is complete.
-
-
- To install MagTrack from your hard drive, do the following:
-
- 1. Make sure that the files SETUP.EXE, _FILES.1, and _SETUP.1 are
- located in the same directory.
-
- 2. From the Windows Program Manager, run the executable SETUP.EXE.
-
- SETUP.EXE unpacks and starts the installation program. The
- initial install screen displays the destination directory for
- MagTrack.
-
- 3. If you wish to change the destination directory, press the Browse
- button and specify a directory.
-
- 4. Press the Proceed button.
-
- The installation program extracts MagTrack into the destination
- directory.
-
- If your PC does not contain the Borland Database Engine (BDE), the
- installs the BDE and creates a database alias for MagTrack.
-
- The installation program asks you to name the Windows group which is
- to be created for MagTrack.
-
- 5. Enter a name for the MagTrack group. 'MagTrack' is the recommended
- name.
-
- The installation program creates the Windows group and notifies you
- that the installation is complete.
-
-
- MagTrack requires the use of the Borland Database Engine (BDE). If the
- BDE is not present on your PC, it will be added during the installation.
-
-
- ===== Warranty =========================================
-
- LIMITED WARRANTY
-
- The evaluation ("shareware") version of MagTrack is provided for
- evaluation only, on an "asi is" basis. The registered version is
- provided with a 30-day money-back guarantee, provided all materials are
- returned and/or removed from your PC.
-
- TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, SUREHAND SOFTWARE
- DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES RELATING TO THIS SOFTWARE, WHETHER EXPRESSED OR
- IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
- MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. NEITHER SUREHAND
- SOFTWARE NOR ANYONE ELSE WHO HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN THE CREATION,
- PRODUCTION, OR DELIVERY OF THIS SOFTWARE SHALL BE LIABLE FOR ANY
- INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR
- INABILITY TO USE SUCH SOFTWARE, EVEN IF SUREHAND SOFTWARE HAS BEEN
- ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES OR CLAIMS. IN NO EVENT SHALL
- SUREHAND SOFTWARE'S LIABILITY FOR ANY DAMAGES EVER EXCEED THE PRICE PAID
- FOR THE LICENSE TO USE THE SOFTWARE, REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF THE
- CLAIM. THE PERSON USING THE SOFTWARE BEARS ALL RISK AS TO THE QUALITY
- AND PERFORMANCE OF THE SOFTWARE.
-
-
- ===== License for Use and Distribution =================
-
- The software and the disks on which it is contained are licensed on a
- non-exclusive basis to you, the purchaser, for you own use. You are not
- obtaining title to the software or any copyright rights.
-
- You may use the licensed software on a single personal computer
- system, and make as many copies as needed for backup and archival
- purposes. If you need to use MagTrack on more than one computer, please
- contact SureHand Software concerning site licenses.
-
- LIMITED DISTRIBUTION LICENSE
-
- Permission is granted to individuals charging no fees, and to BBSes,
- User Groups, Mail-Order Disk Vendors, CD-ROM publishers, and BBS
- File-Distribution Networks, Networks regardless of fees, to distribute
- MagTrack, provided they convey a complete and unaltered copy of the
- shareware version of this product, and provided they claim no ownership
- of these products.
-
- The attached VENDINFO data record is hereby incorporated for reference.
- Any distribution satisfying all the distribution requirements expressed
- in that data record is hereby authorized.
-
- Permission to distribute this product is not transferable, assignable,
- saleable, or franchisable. Each vendor wishing to distribute these
- products must independently satisfy the terms of this limited
- distribution license.
-
- SureHand Software may revoke any permissions granted here, by notifying
- you in writing.
-
-
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