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DNRead.Cmd
v. 1.27
31 July 1997
Eric Walker
High Boskage House
IMPORTANT! READ THIS:
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This product is software; software, even written with the best of
intentions and expertise, is inherently liable to consequences
unforeseen and unintended by its creator or creators. Anyone who
uses any software product, including this one, must understand and
accept those risks. By using this product, you demonstrate your
agreement that you do understand and accept those risks, and that
you understand and agree that the author offers no warrantees,
express or implied, of any or all of the myriad nominally differing
types that legalists have distinguished, and that the author is not
and cannot be liable for any consequences of any kind of your using
this software. If you do not understand or agree with any of those
statements, remove this product from your computer system at once and
make no use whatsoever of any part of it.
Commentary:
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I am extremely sorry to have had to begin our relationship by wasting
your time and grossly insulting your intelligence, but I am obliged to,
for elementary self-protection, by the mores of our modern world.
What would you think if it were discovered that most producers of candy
and highly sugared foods were owned and operated by dentists? What
would your response be to an announcement that tobacco farms and
cigarette companies were largely owned and operated by surgeons? So,
what is your reaction to the well-known fact that virtually all law-
making bodies are virtually owned and certainly operated by lawyers?
Think about it for a while . . .
License (More Lawyer Stuff):
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All files and documents in this package are copyright (c) 1997 by the
author, Eric Walker. You are licensed to install and use this package
on a single computer system for a period of up to 30 days for the
purpose of examining and evaluating the performance and usefulness to
you of this package. If, by then, you decide that you do not find the
package of use to you, you agree to remove all parts of it from your
computer system and to cease making any use of any of those parts.
If at any time you decide that you want a regular use license for the
package, you can obtain one in the following way: Send a donation of
money to a charitable organization on the list in the file OKLIST.TXT
in this package, the amount of that donation to be one dollar for every
five thousand dollars of gross annual income you received in the last
complete calendar year, with the minimum donation amount, however,
being $5.00. You may, if you choose, split the total amount among the
listed charities in any pattern you like. When you have actually sent
off the money, e-mail the author of this package a note saying that you
have met the licensing donation requirements and listing the specific
charities you have donated to (without, of course, showing any amounts).
You will then be licensed to make use of all parts of this package on a
single computer system, including the right to any future enhancements
or improvements issued by the author, though no such are guaranteed to
be issued. See also the next section for more incentive.
Bonus Stuff:
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It is the author's intent at this writing to also provide registered
users with at least two other program packages, which will
automatically be similarly licensed to them for their use, but a
continuing ability to supply those packages cannot be guaranteed. The
two packages, which already exist, are these:
First, GetBins, a dedicated, special-purpose, binary-newsfile
downloader, intended to augment the capabilities of the DNReader
package (Deja News does not store the encoded portions of articles
consisting primarily of encoded binary files); this program uses your
usual news server as its source to list, obtain, and decode (using the
external decoder of your choice) binary files--such things as JPG and
GIF image files, MID and WAV sound files, ZIP and EXE executable files,
or anything else sent by Usenet in coded fashion.
Second, the MidiGrab player, which is intended to run invisibly in the
background throughout internet sessions; it downloads randomly selected
classical-music midi files from a special web site and plays them as
background music for the session.
Neither of these two programs is available except to "honorware"
registrants of the DNReader program
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