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THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS THE FOLLOWING IMPORTANT INFORMATION: Important Information Software License Information Warranty Information Trial Use Warranty Registered Version Warranty Getting Started Support Information What is Shareware? Registration Form Updated: January 1994 REVIEWERS: If you plan to review this software for publication, *please* contact us first to make sure you have the most recent update of the software and that the ordering information supplied to your readers will be accurate. We would appreciate receiving copies of anything you publish about this software. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I M P O R T A N T I N F O R M A T I O N Dear Software User: I want you to get the highest possible benefit from this software. If you believe you received an incomplete, outdated or damaged disk, please contact me. You do not have to be a registered user in order to write me a letter and receive a reply: Rosemary K. West R.K. West Consulting P.O. Box 8059 Mission Hills, CA 91346 For additional help, see "Support Information" below. If for any reason you are unable to reach me at the above address, please contact me through the ASP, as indicated below. FOR INFORMATION ON PRODUCT SUPPORT AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, PLEASE SEE THE ON-DISK DOCUMENTATION AND THE SUPPORT INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS DOCUMENT. S O F T W A R E L I C E N S E I N F O R M A T I O N This file contains important license information regarding the use of the subject software. This information applies to individual users who wish to evaluate or use the software, or to pass copies out to friends and associates. Disk Vendors and Distributors, BBS Sysops, User Groups, Computer Clubs, Subscription Services, Disk-of-the-Month Clubs, etc., should refer to the VENDOR.DOC file for complete information relating to them. If you charge a fee or compensation of any kind in connection with providing copies of software, you are a Disk Vendor. User License: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This software is NOT a public domain program. It is Copyright by Rosemary K. West as indicated on the program and its documentation. This software and accompanying documentation are protected by United States Copyright law and also by International Treaty provisions. Any use of this software in violation of Copyright law or the terms of this limited license will be prosecuted to the best of our ability. The conditions under which you may copy this software and documentation are clearly outlined below under "Limited Distribution License". Licensee shall not use, copy, rent, lease, sell, modify, decompile, disassemble, otherwise reverse engineer, or transfer the licensed program except as provided in this agreement. Any such unauthorized use shall result in immediate and automatic termination of this license. All rights not expressly granted here are reserved to R.K. West Consulting. Limited Distribution License: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ As the copyright holder of the software, Rosemary West dba R.K. West Consulting authorizes distribution by individuals only in accordance with the following restrictions. (Disk Vendors and Distributors, BBS Sysops, User Groups, Computer Clubs, Subscription Services, Disk-of-the-Month Clubs, etc., should refer to the VENDOR.DOC file for complete information relating to them.) Individuals are hereby granted permission by R.K. West Consulting to copy the software diskette for their own personal use or for the personal use of other individuals, ONLY when the following conditions are met. The software package is defined as containing all the material listed in the PACKING.LST text file. The software package, including all related program files and documentation files, CANNOT be modified in any way and must be distributed as a complete package, without exception. If any files listed in the PACKING.LST text file, or the PACKING.LST file itself, are missing, then the package is not complete and distribution is forbidden. Please contact us to obtain a complete package suitable for distribution. No price or other compensation may be charged for the software package. If you charge ANY kind of fee for materials or services when you make or distribute copies of the package, you are considered a disk vendor and must comply with the terms outlined in VENDOR.DOC. The software package CANNOT be sold as part of some other inclusive package. Nor can it be included in any commercial software packaging offer, without a written agreement from R.K. West Consulting. The PRINTED User's Guide may not be reproduced in whole or in part, using any means, without explicit written permission from R.K. West Consulting. No part of the disk-based documentation may be distributed in PRINTED (hardcopy) form. The software package cannot be "rented" or "leased" to others. You may not use, copy, rent, lease, sell, modify, decompile, disassemble, otherwise reverse engineer, or transfer the licensed program except as provided in this agreement. Any such unauthorized use shall result in immediate and automatic termination of this license. U.S. Government Information: Use, duplication, or disclosure by the U.S. Government of the computer software and documentation in this package shall be subject to the restricted rights applicable to commercial computer software as set forth in subdivision (b)(3)(ii) of the Rights in Technical Data and Computer Software clause at 252.227-7013 (DFARS 52.227-7013). The Contractor/manufacturer is R.K. West Consulting, P.O. Box 8059, Mission Hills, CA 91346-8059. All rights not expressly granted here are reserved to R.K. West Consulting. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ***************** IMPORTANT WARRANTY INFORMATION **************** *** PLEASE READ THIS INFORMATION CAREFULLY *** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ WARRANTY: ~~~~~~~~~ The software is provided AS IS. R.K. WEST CONSULTING MAKES NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND/OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. R.K. WEST CONSULTING SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ALL OTHER WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY AND/OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GETTING STARTED ALWAYS MAKE A BACKUP COPY of the original disk before you do anything. (See the DISKCOPY command in your DOS manual.) Put the original in a safe place, and use the copy as the master disk when you install the program. Note that in all of the following examples, if your drive letters or directory names are different, you can simply use the same command, but with your actual drive letter and directory name. For example, we refer to the floppy drives as drive A and drive B. If yours are really called drive D and drive E, then use D and E instead of A and B. In our hard disk example, the subdirectory is called WEST. But you can name it something else. For example, if you name it GAMES, just use GAMES in the command instead of WEST. INSTALLING TO A FLOPPY DISK WHEN YOU HAVE TWO FLOPPY DRIVES: Put the master disk in drive A. Put a new, formatted disk in drive B. Enter this command: COPY A:*.* B: You should see the file being copied to the disk in the B drive. When all the files have been copied, the B disk is your working disk. INSTALLING TO A FLOPPY DISK WHEN YOU HAVE ONE FLOPPY DRIVE: Put the master disk in drive A. Have a new disk ready. Enter this command: DISKCOPY A: B: The computer will display messages telling you when to put the "source disk" or the "target disk" into the drive. The "source disk" is your master disk. The "target disk" is your new disk. INSTALLING TO A HARD DISK: The first thing you need to do is create a subdirectory on the hard disk. (If the subdirectory has already been created, you don't have to create it now.) For example, if you decide to name the subdirectory WEST, you would start at your C> prompt, and use the following sequence of commands: CD\ MD WEST CD \WEST Now put the master disk in the A drive and enter this command: COPY A:*.* You should see all the files being copied. When the copying is finished, you are ready to run the program. NEED MORE SPACE? If you are running programs on floppy disks you may not have enough disk space for the data files created by the program. You can remove the documentation files, which the program does not need, from your working disk. However, these files contain important information which you will need for reference, so do not delete them from your master disk. To delete the documentation files, put the working disk in the A drive and enter this command: DEL A:*.DOC PROGRAM FILES: Program files can be identified by the extension EXE or COM after the file name. To run the program, simply type its name. For example, if you have a program named TAROT.EXE, type TAROT and press <ENTER>. DOCUMENTATION AND INSTRUCTIONS: Most of our instruction manuals are in special program files which allow you to view the manual on screen or print it. These files have the COM or the EXE extension, and have "DOC" somewhere in the filename. Simply enter the appropriate command. For example, if you have the program BY THE NUMBERS, the instruction manual would be called NUMDOC.EXE. To view the manual, type NUMDOC and press <ENTER>. You can page through the document on screen, or print it by pressing <ALT><P>. For a list of helpful commands, press <F1>. Files which have the DOC or TXT extension are ASCII format files (also called DOS Text files) which can be viewed or printed using DOS commands. For example, if you have a typical setup, you can print a document called INFO.DOC using this command: TYPE INFO.DOC > PRN To view this file on screen, you would enter: TYPE INFO.DOC | MORE (Successful use of MORE assumes that the correct DOS files are in your path. If this is not the case, you can simply use TYPE INFO.DOC, but the file may scroll up out of view.) You can also view and print this kind of file with most word processors, using "ASCII", "DOS Text" or "Non-document" format. CHANGES AND UPDATES: Sometimes changes are made in a program after the manual is completed. Information about such changes will appear on disk in a text file called UPDATE.DOC. If this file appears on your disk, you should read it to get the latest important information about the software. NEW VERSIONS: Sometimes a new version of a program will ask permission to update your data files. Do not answer "yes" unless you have already made a backup copy of your data. Don't copy the backed-up data back into the directory after the files have been updated. This backup is simply insurance against data damage or loss. You should make backups regularly. HELPFUL INFORMATION: Check your program disks for files with names like README.1ST or UPDATE.DOC. You won't always find these files, but if you do they may contain additional helpful information, including facts about troubleshooting and software support. BE SMART! Before installing new versions of any software, make backups of all the old files. This protects you in case of an error during the installation/update process. Remember that power surges, hardware failure, and user errors can all lead to data loss or damage. Make backups of your data on a regular basis. If you wonder how often you need to back up your word processing documents, mailing lists, spreadsheets, etc., ask yourself, "How many days worth of work can I afford to lose?" We recommend that you use a system of three or more sets of backup disks which you rotate on a daily basis. That way, if something unfortunate happens to one set of backups, you will have another set available. A few minutes spent making daily backups can save you hours of heartbreaking work trying to recreate lost data. BAD DISK? It seems that in hot weather we are more likely to get complaints about "bad" or unreadable disks. Floppy disks are susceptible to heat, moisture and magnetism. A disk that sits all day in a hot mailbox or truck where temperatures exceed 100 degrees is likely to be damaged. Disks which have been exposed to magnetism may become unreadable. Before assuming a disk is bad, try it on another computer. It may be that your computer's drive heads are dirty or slightly misaligned. Suspect this if you often get disk error messages with different disks. An inexpensive head cleaning kit may help solve the problem. Sometimes the round disk gets trapped inside its square casing and generates an error because it can't rotate freely. Remove the disk from the drive and tap each of the four edges sharply on the surface of your desk. This may loosen the disk. Try reading the disk again. Norton Utilities and Mace Utilities both have features that can sometimes revive unreadable disks. Any serious computer user should have one of these or a similar utility package. In any case, if we sent you an unreadable disk, we will be happy to replace it with a fresh copy of the same program. If you received a bad disk from a vendor, the vendor should replace it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ S U P P O R T I N F O R M A T I O N This software has been thoroughly tested, and complete instructions are contained in the user's manual. We do not charge any fee for this program, and therefore do not normally offer free support. Nevertheless, we will respond to brief, mailed inquiries, and will try to provide enough help to get you up and running, or respond to error messages. (However, we reserve the right to terminate contact with users who in our judgment are unreasonable or abusive, or who have system problems which transcend the scope of this software.) We appreciate receiving a self-addressed, stamped envelope with your inquiry. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ POETRY GENERATOR: Turn your computer into a poet! Using a 20,000-word vocabulary, this program creates free-verse poems at the touch of a button. Using the structure of actual poems as models, the program randomly combines words and short phrases into verses four to nine lines long. The results are fascinating. Some of these poems have actually been published in national magazines! 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