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----------------------------------------------------------------------------- File: aesop.txt Rev.: 1.1 Date: 19 September 1995 Note: For update, check OmniMedia's archive ("How to Contact the Publisher") ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------- 1. Electronic Book Title ------------------------- AESOP'S FABLES translated by George Fyler Townsend (1814-1900) (C) Copyright 1994 by OmniMedia ***** An Electronic Book Produced and Published By OmniMedia ***** This Electronic Book can be freely distributed over all electronic networks provided it is not altered in any manner and all the files are included. See the section "Copyright Notice and Other Terms" for more specific information. --------------------- 2. Table of Contents --------------------- This information file is divided into the following sections: 1. Electronic Book Title (presented above) 2. Table of Contents (this section) 3. Introduction 4. About the Translation and This Electronic Book 5. System Requirements 6. Files That Must Be Included in the Distribution Package 7. How to Obtain This Electronic Book (if some of the files are missing) 8. Viewing/Installation Instructions 9. How to Use This Electronic Book and Some Useful Features 10. Copyright Notice and Terms (which you should read carefully) 11. How to Contact the Publisher ---------------- 3. Introduction ---------------- This OmniMedia electronic book is a hypertext conversion, using the outstanding Microsoft Windows 3.1 Help engine ("WinHelp"), of the classic book "Aesop's Fables", translated by George Fyler Townsend (1814-1900). All Windows 3.1 systems can read this electronic book without any need for special software other than what is already included with this electronic book. Although this electronic book is readable at VGA resolution, using a higher resolution (e.g., 800x600 or 1024x768) is *highly* encouraged. ================================================================= NOTE TO WINDOWS 95 USERS: It has been reported by several users that this book is fully functional under the recently released Windows 95. However, since OmniMedia has not yet tested this book under Windows 95, we cannot guarantee that it will work under Windows 95 as intended. ================================================================= This book is FREE, compliments of OmniMedia! Do give it a try! -------------------------------------------------- 4. About the Translation and This Electronic Book -------------------------------------------------- The 312 Fables contained in this electronic book, "Aesop's Fables," translated by the Rev. George Fyler Townsend (1814-1900), came from a Public Domain ASCII text file that is freely available on the Internet and other electronic BBS. Several minor textual errors, such as punctuation, spelling and capitalization, were found in the ASCII text file and have been corrected in this version. For a recent book containing all the "Aesop's Fables" translated and published by Rev. Townsend (a total of 350, 38 more than are found in this electronic book version), the interested reader is referred to: "Aesop's Fables." Based on the translation of George Fyler Townsend, with an introduction by Isaac Bashevis Singer, illustrated by Murray Tinkelman. Doubleday, Garden City, New York, 1968, 215 pages. ----------------------- 5. System Requirements ----------------------- To view this electronic book, you must have an IBM-compatible PC (386 or higher is recommended), with color VGA (or better) video resolution. It must have Microsoft Windows 3.1 installed (see the note about the recently released Windows 95 in the section above entitled "Introduction"). This electronic book has been tested using the common color video resolutions of VGA, 640x480x256, 800x600x256, and 1024x768x256. For maximum clarity and readability, it is recommended that you use as high of a video resolution as your system allows, up to 1024x768x256, or even higher (however, resolutions higher than 1024x768x256 have not been tested.) For the very high video resolutions, you should consider using large size fonts if that option is available to you. Consult your Windows documentation for how to increase your resolution if that is possible for your particular video card and monitor combination. (If you feel the font size is too large, read the discussion about window/font size in the section "How to Use This Electronic Book and Some Useful Features.") No guarantee is given that this electronic book will work properly on succeeding versions of Windows (e.g., Windows 95, aka 'Chicago' and 'Windows 4.0'), or with Windows 3.1 emulators (such as Windows NT or OS/2). Contact OmniMedia for more information about upgrades for new versions of Windows and possibly other platforms. All further technical details mentioned in this file are specific to Windows 3.1 installations. Three final and important notes: First, this electronic book is written using the Arial TrueType font, which is part of the normal installation for all Windows 3.1 systems. If you have removed this font from your system, for whatever reason, the file will not appear as it was authored (though it may look similar or at least readable.) It is recommended that you reinstall the Arial TrueType font if you have removed it from your system (refer to your Windows documentation.) Second, a very small number of Windows users have experienced some difficulties in properly reading all of the special text characters for reasons that are not completely understood, though evidence points to bugs in a very early release of Windows 3.1 (most Windows users don't have this early release, if you do, consider upgrading to version 3.11.) The most common difficulties encountered have been left and right single and double quotes not being reproduced properly, as well as other characters not being reproduced properly such as the copyright and trademark symbols, bullets and em/en-dashes. Do contact OmniMedia if you observe any anomalies regarding characters and/or fonts that you believe are not due to running an early release of Windows 3.1. Third, the background, foreground (text), and hypertext colors have been hard-coded in this WinHelp format file. If you have color vision disabilities which make it difficult to read all or part of this electronic book, contact OmniMedia and special instructions to bypass this color eard-coding will be sent to you. ----------------------------------------------------------- 6. Files That Must Be Included in the Distribution Package ----------------------------------------------------------- To properly use this electronic book, the following files must be included in the distribution package. aesop.hlp -- The WinHelp file of "Aesop's Fables" aesop.txt -- This file read1st.txt -- How to get started book.ico -- A book icon that can be used for permanent installation -------------------------------------- 7. How to Obtain This Electronic Book -------------------------------------- This section will outline four ways by which you can obtain this electronic book if some or all of the required files are missing or corrupted. The electronic book will be packaged as a single archive file, most likely a ZIP file ('aesop11.zip' or something similar), which requires a dearchiver to extract the required files, such as PKUNZIP. It is probable that other ways to obtain this and other electronic books from OmniMedia will be implemented in the future. Contact OmniMedia for more updated information. (Note: If you will obtain this electronic book in ZIP format (the most likely archive format), you will need to use an "unzipper." If you don't have one already, we recommend that you use the authentic DOS shareware utility called PKZIP (version 2.04g), by PKWARE, Inc. There also exist several other "clone" unzip utilities (shareware and freeware) for both DOS and Windows, obtainable from many BBS and Internet sites. Here are the four ways you can presently obtain this electronic book: 1) Via the World Wide Web http://www.awa.com/library/omnimedia 2) Via Mail Server from OmniMedia's Archive. It is possible to access OmniMedia's archive via e-mail. This is a good method for those who have e-mail access to the Internet but don't have FTP or WWW (Web) access (see number 3 below for information about OmniMedia's anonymous FTP archive.) In order to use the mail server, you must have a uudecoder, since the binary ZIP file will be uuencoded into an ASCII format suitable for e-mail. Most Unix sites have a uudecode utility available, but nearly all other operating systems do not. Obviously, you cannot obtain a uudecoder for your platform via this e-mail server (since it is a binary executable), so you have to find one elsewhere, probably by downloading it from a local BBS (uudecoders for DOS/Windows do exist, but are not found at all BBS sites.) For more information on this option, send e-mail to omnimedia@netcom.com and request the file describing how to access Netcom's FTP mail server. 3) From the Internet Via Anonymous FTP. OmniMedia maintains an anonymous FTP archive at ftp.awa.com /pub/softlock/pc/products/OmniMedia In order to directly download the files from this archive, you need to have access to an Internet site with FTP capability. If you don't know how to use anonymous FTP, consult with someone who does or study the helpfile or manual at your site. Be sure to type "binary" before issuing the "get" or "mget" command. In addition, OmniMedia will attempt to upload this electronic book to other anonymous FTP archives on the Internet, for example, the CICA archive (ftp.cica.indiana.edu). 4) From Your Local BBS. There is no doubt that, over time, this electronic book will be distributed to many BBS and online services around the world. And once you obtain this electronic book, feel free to upload it to your favorite BBS (be sure to include all the files listed in the section "Files That Must be Included in the Distribution Package.") -------------------------------------- 8. Viewing/Installation Instructions -------------------------------------- There are several ways to view, and if desired, install this WinHelp formatted electronic book on your Windows 3.1 system (see the note on Windows 95 in the section entitled "Introduction"). Two will be given below. If you are not very familiar with Windows, it is recommended that you print out this section for step-by-step instructions. Of course, it is also recommended that you consult your Windows manual should any questions arise or these instructions don't work for you. It is best not to rename the WinHelp file itself ('aesop.hlp'). Now, to view this electronic book, following are two ways to do it (it is assumed that you've already extracted the necessary files from the distributed archive file, if that's how you obtained this electronic book -- see the section "How to Obtain This Electronic Book"): ***************************************************************************** 1) The Quick and Easy Way -- If you just want to view this electronic book without permanent installation (e.g., for evaluation purposes), place ALL the files (the list of necessary files is in the section "Files That Must Be Included in the Distribution Package"), into one directory anywhere on your hard disk (you should also be able to read it directly from a diskette but it will be noticeably slower.) Then, from File Manager within Windows, locate the WinHelp file ('aesop.hlp') and click on it. The Windows Help file viewer, 'winhelp.exe', will automatically be executed and the electronic book will be displayed. Enjoy! ***************************************************************************** 2) For a more permanent installation with a convenient icon, it is advisable to first create a special directory on your hard disk and copy all the files into that directory. If you acquire more books from OmniMedia in the future and copy their files into the same special directory, you will save on disk space since several files are shared in common by all of OmniMedia's electronic books (for example, the DLL files, among others.) As an example, which will be used for the explanation below, this directory path could be named C:\WINDOWS\BOOKS . The next step is to either select or create the program group into which you will place the title AESOP'S FABLES (or whatever you want to call it -- it need not be in caps.) If you don't already have a special program group for electronic books, you need to create one. To create a new program group which could be called, for example, OMNIMEDIA BOOKS (it need not be all in caps), simply go to the FILE menu of your Program Manager, select NEW , PROGRAM GROUP , OK , and then in the box labeled DESCRIPTION, enter the string OMNIMEDIA BOOKS (or whatever else you want to call the program group), then press OK (leave the GROUP FILE box empty.) Once the program group, whether old or new, is selected, then from Program Manager select FILE , NEW , PROGRAM ITEM , OK . At this point, you have three text boxes to fill. For the DESCRIPTION box enter AESOP'S FABLES (or whatever else you want the application icon to be called -- it need not be in caps); for the COMMAND LINE box enter C:\WINDOWS\WINHELP.EXE AESOP.HLP ; for the WORKING DIRECTORY box enter C:\WINDOWS\BOOKS . Then to select the icon, click on CHANGE ICON and attach the file BOOK.ICO from the directory C:\WINDOWS\BOOKS to this application using BROWSE to locate it. Then, click OK twice to finish. Now, your selected program group should contain an icon of a book with the name AESOP'S FABLES underneath it. Just click on the book icon whenever you want to read it! Enjoy! ------------------------------------------------------------- 9. How to Use This Electronic Book and Some Useful Features ------------------------------------------------------------- Using the WinHelp viewer is intuitive and very easy. Once you are viewing this electronic book on your computer, you can learn much of what you need to know by simply experimenting with the toolbar buttons, menu commands, etc. If you do need more help in reading and using this electronic book, refer to "How to Use Help" which can be selected from the "Help" menu item found near the top of the window when viewing this electronic book. Some useful features of this electronic book include 1) Bookmark -- You can place one or more bookmarks at any location so you can later return to that location, even after exiting this book. The Bookmark feature is found in the menu. 2) Annotate -- You can add notes and comments to any topic displayed in a window (excepting temporary pop-up windows.) The Annotate feature is found in the menu under 'Edit'. 3) Topic Copy -- You can copy the entire text of a topic to the Windows Clipboard, and from there it can be pasted into most Windows-based word or text processors. This feature is done by holding down the 'Ctrl' button and pushing the 'Insert' button, i.e., 'Ctrl-Insert'. 4) Hypertext -- Hypertext is nothing mystical. It is simply text which has been linked to text elsewhere in the electronic book. Clicking on hypertext will move you to the text the hypertext is linked with. In this electronic book, much effort has been made to make it clear which text is hypertext. To verify if a word or phrase is hypertext, the mouse pointer will switch from an arrow to a small hand with a pointing finger when placed on top of hypertext. One note about scrolling should be mentioned for those newcomers who are totally unfamiliar with the purpose and use of scroll bars. You may notice in this electronic book that for most windows (i.e., topics), there is a scrollbar at the right-hand-side (and sometimes at the bottom) of the viewing window. The scroll bar is there because the text of the topic is too long or too big to fit completely within the visible window. By clicking your mouse on various parts of the scroll bar, you can move ("scroll") either up or down in the text. Specifically, clicking on either the up or down arrows (which are found at the top and bottom respectively of the scroll bar), will move you either one line up or one line down in the text. You can also scroll a full window or page if you click anywhere in the scroll bar between the up or down arrows and the slider (the slider is the plain rectangular "button" that slides in the scroll bar, and indicates where the viewing window is positioned with respect to the topic text.) Another note concerns the aspect of font size. If you are using VGA (640x480) resolution, you may find the font size to be quite large, especially on bigger monitors. One solution is to maximize the window size, done by clicking on the upper right-hand button, and read the window from further away -- maximizing the window size (to fill the whole screen) will also make the electronic book look better at the 640x480 resolution with respect to the number of characters per line being similar to a typical book. (One of the reasons why this larger font was selected was to insure that this electronic book would be easily readable on laptop/notebook-sized screens -- WinHelp unfortunately does not yet allow variable font sizes depending on the video parameters, though OmniMedia is working hard with programmers to be able to do this.) If you still feel the characters are too large for your taste, consider going to a higher screen resolution if you can (since that will tend to decrease the font size.) You might even want to consider testing the large/small font options for the higher resolutions if available to you for your particular video card. ------------------------------- 10. Copyright Notice and Terms ------------------------------- This electronic book, "Aesop's Fables" (the "TITLE") is Copyright 1994, 1995 by OmniMedia and is fully protected by United States Copyright laws and international treaty provisions. This TITLE can be electronically duplicated and redistributed provided that none of the associated files (see text file 'aesop.txt' for the complete list) are omitted and/or altered in any manner. You are highly encouraged to redistribute this electronic book far and wide (such as to your favorite BBS) so that many others can enjoy it. This TITLE, is provided 'AS IS', that is, you use this title at your own risk, without warranty of any kind. This includes, but is not limited to, defects/errors with the format of this TITLE as well as defects/errors in the media used to distribute this TITLE to the supplier and/or purchaser. OmniMedia further disclaims all implied warranties including, but not limited to, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. In no event shall OmniMedia and/or any suppliers of this TITLE be liable for any damages whatsoever (including, without limitation, damages for lost profits, business interruptions, loss of business information, or any other pecuniary loss) arising from the use of or inability to use the TITLE, even if OmniMedia and/or the suppliers of this TITLE have been advised of the possibility of such damages. Because some jurisdictions do not allow exclusions or limitations of liability for consequential or incidental damages, this limitation may not apply to you. --------------------------------- 11. How to Contact the Publisher --------------------------------- OmniMedia is devoted to producing only the highest quality electronic books. For more information or advice about this electronic book or other offerings from OmniMedia, contact OmniMedia c/o Jon E. Noring 9671 South 1600 West Street South Jordan, UT 84095 (801) 253-4037 (801) 253-4036 (fax -- not always online) Internet: omnimedia@netcom.com OmniMedia's electronic books are available both via the Web and by anonymous FTP: WEB: http://www.awa.com/library/omnimedia FTP: ftp.awa.com /pub/softlock/pc/products/OmniMedia ...ENJOY!