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- Amiga Beginners help line@5
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- Since I wrote my A1200 beginners guides I have often been asked for help
- from new Amiga owners who are frustrated with the bad Amiga manuals and lack
- of free technical support from elsewhere. I have always helped these people
- when I could and I enjoy the buzz I get from solving peoples problems.
-
- But MY problem is I am trying to run a business here and I only have a
- limited amount of time to deal with non-paying customers requests.
- I want to continue helping beginners but it must have some return for me
- and the business, time is money and all that.
-
- But:
- I do not want to start a club or scheme where you pay membership.
- I do not want to charge a fixed rate.
- I do not want to price people out of getting help.
-
- But I need to charge something.
-
- This is what I have come up with. I hope this is a fair scheme that anyone
- can use without the worry of money.
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- CLICK ON THE 'NEXT' BUTTON BELOW>
- @4* Send in your questions, on a floppy disk in ASCII,
- See later for explanation of ASCII.
-
- * I will need the floppy disk, because I will prob send you a utility
- or two that will help you with your problem or just some general tools
- that everyone should have and of course your reply will be on the
- disk in ASCII.
-
- * Include a 1st class postage stamp and a sticky label with your name &
- address on it.
-
- * Please send in a jiffy bag, NOT an envelope.
-
- * Give as much relevant info to your prob as possible, the more info you
- give me the easier it is fo me to help you, for example,
-
- 'my hard drive crashes when I boot up'
-
- Just isn't enough for me to go on. Tell me EXACTLY what happens.
-
- * Tell me your exact setup i.e. A1200, 2meg, 120meg hard drive, monitor
- DF1: Workench version and anything else you can think of.
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- IF YOU DO NOT DO THE ABOVE I MAY NOT HELP YOU.
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- I will do my best to answer your questions. I wil return your disk, with
- programs on it and an ASCII reply on your disk.
- Usually this will take 1-3 days. But be prepared for a max of 1 week.
-
- Now this is where the money comes in:
-
- If you are happy with the answers I would like you to make a Shareware type
- donation. If you are not happy with my help, don't send a donation and of
- course don't ask for any more help!
-
- When making a donation just send me something, it needn't be cash.
- But NO cheques please.
- You can send money or a postal order (made out to S.Bye)
-
- Here are a few suggestions, in my order of preference:
-
- Cash, ahem!
-
- UK Postal Order made out to S.Bye and NOT crossed.
-
- Post Office telephone stamps, bloody Internet is killing me!
-
- Any commercial Amiga/PC/Internet/programming book.
-
- Any original piece of Amiga or PC commercial software on floppy or CD.
-
- P.C CD-Rom cover disks off of PC magazines, I love em.
-
- Buy 1 or more of my A1200 guides.
-
- Just send something from the above that you feel you can afford and what you
- feel my service to you is worth. Most people will have one of the above
- lying around the house unwanted and unloved :-)
- If you are skint just do what you can, I understand. Any liberty takers will
- only be able to use this service once.
- I don't see how I can be fairer than that. Just make a donation.
-
-
- ****THIS SERVICE IS BY POST ONLY, DON'T HASSLE ME ON THE PHONE PLEASE****
-
- A1000, A2000. A3000 and A500/+ users I have forgotten what it is like to use
- these machines so my help my be a bit limited. A600/A1200 is my preffered
- choice now days. I have never owned an A4000 (sob) but it uses the same
- Workbench as an A1200. I have also never used Workbench 3.1, can't see the
- point in upgrading for the price asked when it has little new to offer.
-
- But I will still try to help anyone on any Amiga.
-
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- WHAT'S THIS ASCII LARK THEN?@5
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- Quick explanation of ASCII and how to send me a letter on disk,
- which I prefer.
-
- ASCII, is a text standard that will work with most software on any computer.
- It stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
-
- Most Word Processors, Desktop Publishers, Text Editers support ASCII.
- If in doubt use 'ED' to type your letter.
-
- This is how to use ED and save the ASCII file onto a disk to send to me:
-
- * Load Workbench
-
- * Insert a disk into your internal drive either formatted or with some
- space on it. See last page of this cat disk on how to format a disk.
-
- * Double click on the Shell icon (found inside the 'System' drawer on your
- Workbench disk)
-
- * Type in the following:
- Ed F1letter
-
- And press return.
-
- * Ed will now load. Just start typing your letter.
-
- * When you have finished typing select 'SAVE AS' from the pull down menu
-
- * Use the file requester to save the file to DF0: and send the disk to me.
-
- Steve Bye
- 31, Wellington Rd
- Exeter, Devon.
- EX2-9DU.
-
- You can ask any questions on any Amiga related subject you want and I will
- try to answer them. I give no guaruntee that I will be able to help you
- and take no responsibilty for any damage or mishaps that may result in using
- my advice. I am under NO OBLIGATION to perform this service, except to
- return you your disk (as long as postage is supplied).
- If you do not like these terms then do not use this service.
- Using this service is an agreement to these terms.
-
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- Also, I may compile a disk of common problems and answers for release
- and your problem may be included, but not your name. Any advice I
- type is copyrighted to myself, though I give permission to anyone who has
- made a donation for the information to use it as they please, in any form.
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- Steve Bye Nov 96.
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