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Introduction
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Welcome to SkyMap v1.2, the latest release of what will become, with
*your* help, the finest astronomy program available for Microsoft Windows.
Note that SkyMap will only run under Windows 3.1 or later - it will *not*
work with Windows 3.0, I'm afraid.
In this ZIP archive file you should have the following files:
README.1ST This file!
HISTORY.TXT A release history of SkyMap.
REGISTER.TXT A sample registration form.
SKYMAP.EXE The main SkyMap program.
SKYMAP.HLP The program's on-line help file.
SKYMAP.WRI The manual, in "Windows Write" format.
As well as these files you will also need the data files and dynamic link
libraries contained in the separate file SKYMAP1D.ZIP. If you are upgrading
from an earlier version of SkyMap you do *not* need these files - they
have not changed.
To install SkyMap, simply copy all the files into a directory - it's as
easy as that!
To find out more about SkyMap, please run "Write" and read, or print the
manual contained in the file SKYMAP.WRI. This file contains a number of
pictures. If you're using a "SuperVGA" display mode you may find that
you get an error when you try and look at the pictures; that's due to a
bug in "Write" (honestly!), *not* a problem with the file. If you
temporarily revert to the standard VGA driver you'll be able to view them
without any problems.
Legal Stuff
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Now for a bit of legal stuff. SkyMap is *not* free software, it's
"ShareWare". You can try it out for a reasonable period of time - I'll
leave it up to you to define what "reasonable" means! If you find it
useful, please send me the modest registration fee, as described in the
manual and on-line help. That will give *you* various goodies, as
described in the manual, and will give *me* the incentive to carry on
developing the software!
Feel free to distribute this shareware version of SkyMap in any way you
like, as long as you distribute the original ZIP archives, and keep all
the file together. I'd like it to get to as many people as possible!
And Finally.....
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Thank you for trying out SkyMap. As I said at the start of the file, my
humble (!) goal is to make SkyMap the best astronomy program around for
Microsoft Windows. The only way I can do that is by finding out what
people would like to see added to (or taken away from!) the program.
My address (both e-mail and surface) is contained in both the manual and the
on-line help. PLEASE do let me know what you think of the program.
I look forward to hearing from you!
Chris Marriott
7th March 1993
Warrington
United Kingdom