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┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ Racontex Indexing Text Search & Database v3.25 │ │ SEE BELOW FOR PRODUCT INFORMATION │ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ This is a VENDINFO Product Information Record │ │ │ │ This record is a means of conveying information about a software │ │ product from the author to distributors and users. It contains a │ │ normal, "human-readable" section (you're reading it now), followed │ │ by a compressed data record. The data record contains a great │ │ deal of information in a form useable by automated tools. This │ │ allows BBSes, disk vendors, etc. to test automatically for │ │ permission to distribute, and to automatically extract product │ │ information for use in BBS files databases, vendor catalogs, etc. │ │ │ │ The VENDINFO file standard is published and is freely useable. │ │ │ │ The VENDINFO toolset includes a free end-user viewer, processing │ │ tools for use by distributors (BBSes, shareware disk vendors, │ │ etc.), and the editor used by author/publishers to produce these │ │ records. These tools are either free or very-low cost shareware. │ │ The toolset can be obtained from many sources, including the │ │ originators of VENDINFO: │ │ │ │ Rams' Island Software Voice: 303-841-2848 CompuServe: 76244,324 │ │ 7644 E. Lakecliff Way BBS: 303-841-6269 FidoNet: 1:104/333 │ │ Parker, CO 80134-5904 USA RIME: RAMSISLE │ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ VENDINFO standard v1.00, produced by VendEdit v1.00, 15-Feb-1994 ===== Product Information ============================== Product: Racontex Indexing Text Search & Database Version: 3.25 Version Date: 15-Feb-1994 Product Type: Software Basic Distribution Policy (see License, below, for details): Shareware, subject to distribution restrictions Product Description: RACONTEX v3.25 <ASP> Text search and retrieval system that rivals FolioViews, AskSam, Zyindex and the STAIRS mainframe product. Includes Word Proximity Search feature. Useful for legal transcript, statutes, manuals. Ideal for on-line manuals for software. Runs well over a LAN. DOS and Windows 3.x. Racontex v3.25 <ASP> Category: Freeform/text database managers Keywords: TEXT SEARCH DATABASE Required Packages: RCNTX325 This Package: RCNTX325 Required Configuration Processor Family: Intel 80x86 (minimum 8086/8088) Minimum OS: MS-DOS 3.2 Standard RAM: 256K Hard Drive Space: 500K Required: Keyboard Orders: Address: Guy Software 1752 Duchess Avenue West Vancouver British Columbia CANADA V7V 1P9 CompuServe: 71750,1036 Internet: 71750.1036@compuserve.com Support: Address: Guy Software 1752 Duchess Avenue West Vancouver British Columbia CANADA V7V 1P9 Phone: (604)926-1370 CompuServe: 71750,1036 Internet: 71750.1036@compuserve.com ===== Information for Users ("READ-ME") ================ For installation instructions, please see the file INSTALL.TXT. For registration and payment details, please see the file REGISTER.FRM. If this is an unlicensed demonstrator version you may use it for a maximum 30 day period for evaluation and you may distribute copies of it to others for similar evaluation, but you must distribute it without modification and in the form in which you received it. This means that if you downloaded it as an archive file from a bulletin board you may distribute only that unmodified archive (however re-compression of the contents using a different compressor is permissible). Unlicensed demonstrator versions will place a "commercial" at the beginning of any search performed on documents prepared by them. Licensed versions bear a code identifying the licensee, and it is a violation of copyright to make and distribute copies other than as specified in the licence. You may freely distribute RACONTEX databases, but not licenced copies of the RACONTEX programs themselves, except as detailed below. Publishers may make an arrangement to distribute the search program along with databases they may be selling, on a royalty basis (contact the author for details). To encourage the "Shareware" method of software distribution, "Shareware" authors may freely distribute the search module (files RACONTEX.EXE and RACONTEX.HLP) along with their products if they use RACONTEX to prepare on-line documentation to be distributed with the product. Racontex is a "shareware program" and is provided at no charge to the user for evaluation. Feel free to share it with your friends, but please do not give it away altered or as part of another system. The essence of "user-supported" software is to provide personal computer users with quality software without high prices, and yet to provide incentive for programmers to continue to develop new products. If you find this program useful and find that you are using Racontex and continue to use Racontex after a reasonable trial period, you must make a registration payment of $99.95(US) to Guy Software. The $99.95(US) registration fee will license one copy for use on any one computer at any one time. You must treat this software just like a book. An example is that this software may be used by any number of people and may be freely moved from one computer location to another, so long as there is no possibility of it being used at one location while it's being used at another. Just as a book cannot be read by two different persons at the same time. Anyone distributing Racontex for any kind of remuneration must first contact Guy Software for authorization. This authorization will be automatically granted to distributors recognized by the (ASP) as adhering to its guidelines for shareware distributors, and such distributors may begin offering Racontex immediately (However Guy Software must still be advised so that the distributor can be kept up-to-date with the latest version of Racontex.). You are encouraged to pass a copy of Racontex along to your friends for evaluation. Please encourage them to register their copy if they find that they can use it. All registered users will receive a copy of the latest version of the Racontex system. ASP Ombusdman Statement: "This program is produced by a member of the Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP). ASP wants to make sure that the shareware principle works for you. If you are unable to resolve a shareware-related problem with an ASP member by contacting the member directly, ASP may be able to help. The ASP Ombudsman can help you resolve a dispute or problem with an ASP member, but does not provide technical support for members' products. Please write to the ASP Ombudsman at 545 Grover Road, Muskegon, MI 49442-9427 USA, FAX or send a CompuServe message via CompuServe Mail to ASP Ombudsman 70007,3536." ===== 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 DISCLAIM. 435 21-Nov-1993 08:15p 42FA6FFC MANUAL. 43019 17-Jan-1994 01:44p 8B356852 README. 14407 15-Feb-1994 01:31p 1C700F40 READ_ME.1ST 216 15-Feb-1994 03:15p EB5EF01B READ_ME.BAT 422 15-Feb-1994 03:15p 6A7703DA ASK.COM 256 31-Jul-1983 04:07p 747EDD08 FILE_ID.DIZ 339 15-Feb-1994 03:14p 08DEB2C5 READONLY.DOC 2205 18-Dec-1993 10:09a AFA54EE5 SYSOP.DOC 2778 15-Feb-1994 03:18p 68250480 VENDOR.DOC 216 15-Feb-1994 03:15p 8C5E6214 PSLORDER.DST 355 15-Feb-1994 02:35p 72E21EF3 INSTALL.EXE 5563 19-Dec-1993 11:38p D497875B TRANSFER.EXE 191698 15-Feb-1994 01:31p D20A0BAC TRANSWIN.EXE 22183 25-Nov-1993 02:23p 3EFD424B REGISTER.FRM 4480 15-Feb-1994 01:35p 0C9AC2AF WHATS.NEW 4911 15-Feb-1994 01:28p F37FA002 LICENCE.PGF 82 15-Feb-1994 01:39p 5ACCF2AF DESC.SDI 22 15-Feb-1994 03:15p 2713E35E DESC1500.TXT 1403 11-Jan-1994 01:48p 087AF6D8 INSTALL.TXT 2403 11-Jan-1994 01:39p C3BC0500 VENDOR.TXT 216 15-Feb-1994 03:15p 8C5E6214 ===== Installation ===================================== Welcome to the world of Racontex. To install the system on your computer, type INSTALL D: \SUBDIR where D: is the drive you wish to install to and \SUBDIR is the directory you wish to put it in. Do not forget the colon or the backslash and be sure to leave a space between the colon and the backslash. (If you are installing from a floppy disk, start from the prompt for that floppy disk i.e. if the disk is in drive A, start at the A> prompt. If you are installing from a downloaded copy, start at the prompt for the subdirectory holding the downloaded files TRANSFER.EXE, TRANSWIN.EXE, INSTALL.EXE, etc.) If you have RACONTEX in executable form on read-only media, such as a CD-ROM, please see the file READONLY.DOC. CD-ROM executable files are not compressed. The files are compressed into the files TRANSFER.EXE & TRANSWIN.EXE, and this procedure will extract them. If you wish to examine the files first you may extract them using LHA (copyright YOSHI). The compression was selected to ensure that the install procedure and the compressed files would all fit on two 360K floppy disks (or one of a bigger size). If you have the files on a single disk, and wish to transfer them to 2 disks, copy all files but TRANSWIN.EXE to the first disk and copy just TRANSWIN.EXE to the second. The INSTALL program will detect this and call for the second disk. If you have the files on two disks, and want them on a single disk, just copy them all to the same disk. If the product was downloaded as an archive file from a bulletin board, it may fit on a single 360K floppy disk since it may not include the file VBRUN300.DLL which is required for the Windows front end (not required for DOS only). The VBRUN300.DLL file is widely available on BBS systems and may be inserted into the file TRANSWIN.EXE using LHA by disk vendors who wish to distribute a full version. The install procedure will automatically invoke the RACONTEX create function to produce an on-line manual as a RACONTEX database, and this README file as another. You will see the loading process in operation, and the databases will be there for you to experiment with searches. If you have a copy of LHA you may extract the file MANUAL from TRANSFER.EXE before you do the install, and print it for revie ===== Warranty ========================================= DISCLAIMER: The supplier and the author have no liability to the licensee or any other person or entity for any damage or loss, including special, incidental or consequential damages caused by this product directly or indirectly. The software is supplied "as is" without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied. Warranties of merchantability or of fitness for any purpose are specifically disclaimed. ===== License for Use and Distribution ================= TRIAL USE LICENSE The Racontex system is NOT a public domain program. It is copyrighted by Eward Guy, doing business as Guy Software. This software and accompanying documentation are protected by Canadian and United States copyright law under the North American Free Trade Agreement and by other international treaty provisions. Guy Software grants you a limited license to use this software for evaluation purposes for a period not to exceed thirty days. If you continue using this software after the thirty-day evaluation period, you MUST make a registration payment to Guy Software. You may not use, copy, rent, lease, sell, modify, decompile, disassemble, otherwise reverse engineer, or transfer the licensed program except as provided in this agreement. Any such unauthorized use shall result in immediate and automatic termination of this license. All rights not expressly granted here are reserved to Edward Guy. LIMITED DISTRIBUTION LICENSE The following may distribute the Racontex system, completely unaltered, without further permission: members in good standing of the Association of Shareware Professionals; for other cases or to distribute in modified form, you must consult the attached data record, which is hereby incorporated by reference. Any distribution satisfying all the distribution requirements expressed in that data record is hereby authorized. Permission to distribute the Racontex package is not transferable, assignable, saleable, or franchisable. Each vendor wishing to distribute the package must independently satisfy the terms of this limited distribution license. U.S. Government Information: Use, duplication, or disclosure by the U.S. Government of the computer software and documentation in this package shall be subject to the restricted rights applicable to commercial computer software as set forth in subdivision (b)(3)(ii) of the Rights in Technical Data and Computer Software clause at 252.227-7013 (DFARS 52.227-7013). The Contractor/manufacturer is Guy Software, 1752 Duchess Avenue, West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V7V 1P9. Guy Software may revoke any permissions granted here, by notifying you in writing. All rights not expressly granted here are reserved to Guy Software. 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