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DISTRIBUTION PROCEDURES FOR DISK VENDORS
Shareware from CrossCourt Systems,
including TextCon, TextOut/5 and ConvDW
Please delete this file from the disk before distribution to your
customers!
How to Package These Programs for Your Customers
The files on this disk are in the form intended for bulletin board
users. Each program and its documentation and related files are
combined into a single ZIP file. We do not supply an installation
program, a program for unzipping, or any additional instructions for
the user, because most bulletin board users do not need this, and
because our programs don't require a formal "installation" or
"configuration".
As a disk vendor you probably have your own preferred disk
organization methods, such as the choice of using compressed,
self-extracting, or uncompressed files. You provide the first-line
support for users who have trouble figuring out how to uncompress,
how to get the files into a directory, how to find the documentation
files, etc. You know your customers and how you can best help them
get started with a new piece of shareware. These are some of the
services you provide your customers in return for the disk fees they
pay you.
For these reasons, we provide you only the plain ZIP files, just as
we do for bulletin boards. If you feel your users are
computer-literate enough to use these files, you may wish to
distribute the files as-is. If you feel your customers will need
additional help, you may "repackage" the programs, within certain
limits, so your users will find them to be as easy to use as
possible.
Our only restriction is that you keep all of the files for each
program intact, either in a single "archive" or subdirectory, and you
do not add any files to that archive or subdirectory. You may, of
course, add other files to the disk, such as help files, batch files,
decompression programs, etc., to provide needed assistance to the
purchaser. You may also combine our programs on a disk with other
similar programs, as long as each of our programs is alone in its own
archive or subdirectory.
How to Classify These Programs
In your catalog, TextOut/5 and ConvDW should be in the "Word
Processing Utilities" section. TextCon could be categorized with the
other two, but technically it belongs in the "Text File Utilities"
section. It is primarily an ASCII-to-ASCII "filter" program that
intelligently combines functions of many other programs in this
category, such as carriage-return removal, tab-to-space and
space-to-tab conversion, stripping of leading, trailing and embedded
blanks, double-to-single-spacing conversion, and more.
CrossCourt Systems
1521 Greenview Ave.
East Lansing MI 48823
(517) 332-4353