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- VENDINFO standard v1.04, produced by VendEdit v1.30, 21-Jun-1996
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- ===== Product Information ==============================
- Product: College Aid Calculator College Financial Aid Planning Tool
- Version: 2.40
- Version Date: 20-Jun-1996
- Product Type: Software
- Basic Distribution Policy (see License, below, for details):
- Shareware, freely distributable by all channels
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- Product Description: Use College Aid Calculator 96-7 to Est. your
- costs at public & private colleges. Learn how
- to maximize financial aid. Includes all tax
- calculations--so you may play "What IF?" to
- test aid-increasing scenarios. For Parents,
- Dependent Students & Independents. CAC is an
- Essential Think Ahead Tool which comes with a
- comprehensive book "Strategies to Reduce
- College Costs." and an extensive tutorial.
- Receive the 97-8 upgrade for $49.95.
- Reason for version: new "FAST Calc" Module added - Major upgrade
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- Category: Education; High school
- Keywords: college financial aid high school guidance
- planning
- Required Packages: COLAID24
- This Package: COLAID24
- Registration Fee: 49.95 (U.S. Dollars)
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- Required Configuration
- Processor Family: Intel 80x86 (minimum 80386)
- Minimum OS: MS-DOS 3.3
- Standard RAM: 640K
- Extended Memory: 7551K
- Hard Drive Space: 9999K
- Required:
- Expanded *or* Extended Memory
- Extended Memory
- HIMEM
- Hard drive
- Floppy only
- Video Graphics Array (VGA)
- Color monitor
- Keyboard
- Mouse
- Won't Work With:
- Monochrome monitor
- Text printer (specific types may be shown below)
- Req'd Software:
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- Orders:
- Address: Think Ahead, Inc.
- PO BOX 5G
- Dresden, ME 04342
- Toll-Free Phone: 1-800-780-0513 X147
- Phone: 207-737-2802
- FAX: 1-800-780-0515
- Internet: CollegeAid@maine.com
- Other E-mail: http://www.maine.com/collegeaid
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- Support:
- Address: Think Ahead, Inc.
- P.O. Box 5G
- Dresden, Maine 04342
- Phone: 1-207-737-2802
- FAX: 1-207-737-2802
- Internet: CollegeAid@maine.com
- Other E-mail: http://www.maine.com/collegeaid
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- ===== Information for Users ("READ-ME") ================
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- Welcome to College Aid Calculator - and - "Strategies to Reduce College
- Costs." CAC and "Strategies ..." allow users to learn how to Maximize
- College Financial Aid. Since CAC also includes all tax calculations, it
- is possible to play "What IF ?" to test your personal and business
- financial plans before you implement them--to see where you may stand.
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- "Strategies ..." includes many $ saving financial aid facts. It is a
- Think Ahead, must-read, self-help electronic book for both parents and
- students--covering aid facts for both public and private colleges.
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- We encourage you to load the book into your word processor and use it as
- your "workbook" as you research how to maximize your family's financial
- aid. See the Installation Instructions for how to use "Strategies ..."
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- When using Windows, and running both CAC and "Strategies ...", you will
- find that Alt-Tabbing from one to the other will increase your efficiency
- as you formulate your plan and jot down your own ideas to test.
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- CAC 97-8 will be available by late summer 1996. You will receive a copy
- of this upgrade when you send or phone in your $49.95 registration fee.
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- Thank you.
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- Bob Fesler, Jr., author
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- ===== Packing List =====================================
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- As released by the author or publisher, this package contained the
- following files in addition to this VENDINFO.DIZ:
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- Filename Size Date Time CRC32
- READ_ME.1ST 171 20-Jun-1996 02:40a F9D97F00
- README.BAT 1430 24-Feb-1996 04:44p 2B99696D
- READ_ME.BAT 440 20-Jun-1996 02:40a D78E7783
- FILE_ID.DIZ 452 20-Jun-1996 02:40a C9BC58BC
- VENDOR.DOC 216 20-Jun-1996 02:40a 13796CEE
- SETUP.DTA 9126 21-Jun-1996 08:22a A2F449E2
- PKUNZIP.EXE 28959 1-Feb-1993 02:04a EEAAC5EA
- SETUP.EXE 114212 24-Jul-1995 10:12a 490F1CED
- 1ST_READ.ME 189 22-Feb-1996 10:16a 6B22CC38
- A4V6RT.NET 5152 19-Jul-1995 11:33a BC974E85
- README.TXT 17127 20-Jun-1996 05:39p 776650D7
- VENDOR.TXT 216 20-Jun-1996 02:40a 13796CEE
- BOOKS.ZIP 151413 20-Jun-1996 06:09p 41D24840
- COL_AID.ZIP 2413492 21-Jun-1996 07:04a DC6398A8
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- ===== Installation =====================================
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- HOW TO INSTALL COLLEGE AID CALCULATOR (CAC) AND
- THE "STRATEGIES TO REDUCE COLLEGE COSTS" BOOK
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- The combined package including the College Aid Calculator program, the
- book "Strategies to Reduce College Costs" and our tutorial is distributed
- in a compressed file, COLAID24.ZIP. To open this file, load it into a
- temporary directory, change to that directory, and use the un-zip utility
- provided by your bulletin board or CD-ROM to uncompress the basic program
- files--then type SETUP to uncompress the rest.
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- MAKING DISKETTE COPIES
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- We encourage you to make copies of CAC and Strategies... for yourself,
- your friends--for anyone you know with college in their future. To do
- so, before you install the program, go to the temporary directory where
- you have uncompressed the files. From there, copy all of the file to a
- disk labeled Disk 1--except for the following files which belong on disk.
- 2: col_aid.1, get_rdme.txt and getodo.bat. To install the CAC files onto
- another computer, proceed as described below.
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- COLLEGE AID CALCULATOR
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- To load CAC, you must have a minimum of:
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- 386 processor - 486 strongly recommended
- 8MB of RAM
- At least 9MB of free disk space to install, 6.3MB after installation
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- CAC has its own automatic Installer. To install CAC, in the directory
- where you have loaded the files, type SETUP and [Enter]. All you need to
- do then is to answer a few questions from the Installer and be sure that
- your AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files are configured as explained in
- the README.TXT file that appears after installation. You'll be up and
- running in no time, and ready to start learning how to save on college
- costs by qualifying for the greatest amount of aid possible!
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- You may also install directly from the set of backup disks that were
- created as described above: Place Disk 1 in your A: or B: drive and
- type SETUP and press ENTER--from Windows Program Manager, choose FILE,
- RUN and type in A: or B:SETUP and press ENTER.
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- "STRATEGIES TO REDUCE COLLEGE COSTS"
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- "Strategies..." is stored in a special compressed file called
- BOOKS.ZIP, which will be found in the directory where you installed CAC.
- We recommend that you move BOOKS.ZIP to a separate directory. Then,
- unzip the file--you will find that it contains not only "Strategies..."
- but also the CAC tutorial "COACH," which is described below.
- "Strategies..." has been stored in Rich Text Format (RTF)--a Microsoft
- standard, which may be read by Microsoft Word and many other word
- processors. Boot your word processor, Choose File, Open, File Type: RTF
- or Rich Text Format. Then, select the directory where STRATS22.RTF has
- been installed, open it and proceed as instructed.
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- If your word processor is not able to read the STRATS24.RTF file, you
- may use your word processor's ASCII file format reader to open
- STRATS24.TXT, which has also been included. This format does not retain
- all of the nice formatting codes that RTF handles, such as Font sizes,
- Bold, Underline and Italics. However, if this is your only choice, just
- use your word processor to add these attributes as you read.
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- COACH - COllege Aid Calculator Helper (TUTORIAL)
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- Think Ahead is pleased to provide "COACH," a CAC tutorial, with this new
- version of CAC. "COACH" is also included in the BOOKS.ZIP file referred
- to above. Like "Strategies...", "COACH" is also included in both Rich
- Text Format and ASCII Text formats. To open and use "COACH," follow the
- same procedures described above for "Strategies..."
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- For assistance: visit our home page at
- http:\\www.maine.com\collegeaid, e-mail us at CollegeAid@maine.com, or
- write us at Think Ahead, Inc., P.O. Box 5G, Dresden, ME 04342.
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- ===== Warranty =========================================
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- Unconditional 30-day money-back guarantee.
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- ===== License for Use and Distribution =================
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- College Aid Calculator and the accompanying book, "Strategies to Reduce
- College Costs," may be distributed, copied, and reproduced in any medium,
- but only in their entirety, and not modified in any way, including the
- copyright notices. The news media may quote limited portions of the
- "Strategies..." book. Users are encouraged to load the book into their
- word processor and to use it as a basis for their research on college
- financial aid, editing it and adding to it as necessary for their own
- personal use, so long as it is not distributed in modified form.
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- The attached VENDINFO data record is hereby incorporated by reference.
- Any distribution satisfying all the distribution requirements expressed
- in that data record is hereby authorized.
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