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- AAAAUUGH!!! I can't stand it any more. My near-letter-quality
- program, Bradford, has been available under my company label
- (Concom Enterprises) since February 1985 at a price never above
- $39.95, and yet, because I don't have the resources to advertise
- it in major magazines, everybody is buying other programs that
- do the same thing for $99 to $180!
-
- Well, luckily, I am the sole proprietor of Concom Enterprises,
- and I wrote Bradford myself, so I can do anything with it that
- I choose to. And this is what I have chosen to do: Enclosed
- in this group of files is Bradford, its font files, and almost
- no instructions. It's still copyrighted and owned by me, but
- I hereby grant EVERYBODY IN THE WHOLE WORLD permission to use
- and copy Bradford.com and the accompanying font files.
-
- Bradford prints WordStar and ASCII files in near letter quality
- on Epson or Gemini dot matrix printers using these printers'
- graphics ability. End result: you get typeset-looking output
- from a low-end ("El Cheapo") printer. The printers that
- Bradford can use include the Epson MX (with Graftrax), FX, and
- RX printers, the IBM/Epson dot matrix printer, and the Star
- Gemini printers.
-
- You might compare Bradford to Fancy Font, Lettrix, and similar
- programs. Except that you can have Bradford for free. You can
- use it all you like. In fact, I would like nothing better than
- to receive letters from 1000 different people, all printed with
- Bradford.
-
- Now here's the deal. In addition to its ability to print in
- near letter quality with a number of different fonts, Bradford
- can also fine-tune its printout to your specifications, with a
- whole slew of "imbedded commands" -- commands that you can
- insert in your text files to tell Bradford to change fonts,
- change widths, underline, boldface, change margins, and much much
- more. But I'm not going to tell you how to use these features.
- If you like what Bradford does without the instructions -- and I
- am confident you will -- you will be AMAZED how good it is WITH
- the instructions. So, if you want the instructions -- a very
- well-written manual of about 18 single-spaced pages -- you'll
- have to send me $15.
-
- Is that too much to ask? Considering that Bradford has just
- been selling for $39.95, I think not. So use Bradford all you
- like, upload it to bulletin boards, mail copies to your friends,
- and if you can figure out some of its advanced features without
- any help, more power to you. But if you would like to have full
- control of your documents through the use of imbedded commands,
- please send the money. Here's what to send and where to send it:
-
- To receive the Bradford manual, please send a check for $15
- in U.S. funds, payable to Aaron Contorer, to:
- Aaron Contorer
- 1521 Central Avenue
- Deerfield IL 60015
- U.S.A.
- Don't forget to enclose your address and to state that the
- check is for a Bradford manual! I'd also like to know what
- kind of computer and what kind of printer you are using. If,
- for business purposes, you need to write the check to a
- company name, make it payable to Concom Enterprises.
-
- Again, please understand that I do not want to force anyone to
- buy the manual who doesn't want to. The program does quite a
- lot without instructions, and I would LOVE to hear that EVERYBODY
- who has an Epson or Gemini printer was using Bradford. But I
- hope that you'll like the program enough to be interested in
- learning to use its advanced features. I look forward to
- hearing from many of you from across the country and around the
- world.
-
- ATTENTION BULLETIN BOARD OPERATORS: If you are one of those
- diligent operators who tries to carefully ensure that no material
- on their board is copyrighted, please understand: Bradford IS
- copyrighted, but I grant unlimited permission to copy it,
- including via bulletin board. I would like to ENOCURAGE you to
- make Bradford available to as many people as possible. If you
- have any questions, contact me at the above address or via MCI
- Mail at address 114-7890.
-
- Thank you, peace on earth, and enjoy your new copy of Bradford.
-
-
-
- Aaron Contorer
- President
- Concom Enterprises
- 1985
-
-
- If you would like to buy the Bradford manual for your company
- but need an invoice before your company will write a check, just
- print out the following form:
-
-
- ------------
-
- INVOICE
-
- Concom Enterprises
- 1521 Central Avenue
- Deerfield IL 60015
- U.S.A.
-
-
-
-
-
- For one copy of the manual for Bradford, the near letter
- quality program, please remit a check for $15 (U.S.) to the
- above address. Terms: full payment in advance. Shipping
- charges included.
-
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-
-
- HOW TO USE BRADFORD WITHOUT THE MANUAL:
-
- Select the drive that contains Bradford's font files as the
- default file. Fonts that you are not going to use don't have
- to be on the drive.
-
- Run Bradford by typing 'bradford' and hitting <return>.
-
- Type the name of your text file -- for example, LETTER or
- B:TEMP.TXT -- and hit <return>.
-
- If you are using CP/M, type the user number where your text file
- is located and hit <return>.
-
- Type the number of copies you want, from 1 to 99, and hit
- <return>.
-
- Press the letter (A, B, C, or D) representing your type of
- printer, as explained by Bradford on-screen.
-
- Press a number indicating how wide you want the characters
- to be, in 20ths of an inch. (Standard pica print is 2/20
- inch, and you would press 2 for that.) Some printers cannot
- print odd-numbered widths, and Bradford will round up the number
- you typed to the next higher even number if it has to.
-
- Press a number from 1 to 9 indicating how dark you want Bradford
- to print your document. 1 is normal, 2 is dark, 3 is very dark,
- and more than 3 tends to be absurd.
-
- Press the number of the font (typeface) that you want to use
- and press <return>. Try each of the typefaces provided to find
- out which you like best and what each looks like.
-
- If you want your document printed flush left (the normal way),
- press L. If you want it flush right (the right magins lined up),
- press R. If you want each line centered, press C. If you want
- the text justified (spread out so both left and right margins are
- straight), press J.
-
- If you want your document printed with proportional spacing,
- press Y. If you want each letter allocated the same amount of
- space, press N.
-
- If you want the pages numbered at the bottom, press Y. Otherwise
- press N.
-
- If you want a pause before each page to allow you to print on
- sheets of paper, press Y. Otherwise press N.
-
- If the file you are printing is a WordStar document file, press
- Y. If it is an ASCII file, press N.
-
- If you want top and bottom margins (also known as "page breaks")
- in your printout, press Y. If you want continuous printing or
- if your text file already has page breaks in it, press N. Page
- numbering (see above) will only work if you press Y.
-
- If you want left and right margins in your printout, press Y.
- If you want the printout to fill the whole page, press N.
-
- Press RETURN, as the command character requres detailed
- explanation available only in the Bradford manual.
-
- Press Y to print, N to re-answer all the questions, or A to
- return to the operating system.
-