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- !!! IMPORTANT !!! IMPORTANT !!! IMPORTANT !!!
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- READ ALL OF THIS DOCUMENT BEFORE ATTEMPTING
- TO CONTINUE EXECUTING THIS PROGRAM
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- Welcome Software Engineers!!!!
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- You have just launched version 0.1 (demonstration version) of
- SOFT_TOOLS, one of the neatest little software productivity
- tools you will ever use. SOFT_TOOLS aids you in drawing many
- of the standard software engineering diagrams:
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- Data Flow Diagrams, Nassi-Schneiderman charts,
- State Maps, Data-Dictionary syntax diagrams,
- Message sequence charts, Structure charts, etc....
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- Furthermore, this tool keeps these diagrams in a LEVELLED
- structure. This means that you can double click on a bubble
- in a DFD and the coresponding lower level DFD will pop up.
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- Diagrams can be augmented with text, Pseudo-Code, or other
- diagrams. The Tool even cross correlates Data Dictionary
- elements with DFDs, Flow Charts, Pseudo code, etc....
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- This tool is brand new, and its scope is continually
- expanding. One possible expansion path consists of creating
- a software workstation which could be networked to host
- computers such as VAXes....
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- Version 0.1 of the program is Public domain, and free. You
- may do whatever you want with it. However, since it is free,
- its capabilities are severely limited. It consists only of
- the first screen of the real program -- the desktop. Yet
- by playing with its capabilities, you will get an idea of
- what the real program can do.
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- When SOFT_TOOLS version 1.0 is released it will be a powerful
- tool, and will therefore sell for a powerful price. However
- from now until July 1, 1986, you can become a charter member
- of the SOFT_TOOLS user group for $25. This special membership
- entitles you to a fully supported copy of SOFT_TOOLS version
- 1.0 (when it is released) and a full year of free upgrades.
- It also entitles you to special discount rates for future
- ugrades and new products. As a member you will also recieve
- occasional newsletters, and pre-releases showing the
- development status of SOFT_TOOLS, and other products.
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- The source code for version 0.1 (this version right here)
- is available for $25. It features an application skeleton
- which can be used in any application simply by linking it
- in. It handles events, menus, windows, desk accessories,
- fonts, etc.... It is really, really useful.
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- The source code also contains alot of very useful utilities
- for maniupulating icons, and other graphic structures,
- handling the dimming and un-dimming of menu entries in a
- rational way, and even a little debugger.
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- There is also a very neat set of memory management utilities
- that make the problem of writing linked structures to the
- disk a snap.
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- The development system was a 512K mac with an external drive,
- running Aztec C version 1.06G.
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- Charter membership to SOFT_TOOLS user group: $25
- Disk with source code of version 0.1: $25
- If you want both:.... -20% ................. $40!!!
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- Send Check to: Robert Martin
- 12310 Lee Ave.
- Waukegan, Illinois, 60085