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- A small plea
- By Les Kooyman, Caffeine-Free Software
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- The User Description System (UDS) for Fido (tm of Tom Jennings) took many
- hours to develop on the part of two programmers. Many features of DOS were
- explored and then exploited for the first time (at least by me), including
- file sharing and record locking. I'd like to receive some small compensation
- for the hours of work that have gone into the UDS. For this reason a
- donation of $10 is asked if you use the UDS and find it of value. If you
- can't or don't want to send $10, don't worry about it. If there is anything
- I *hate* it's "guiltware". Use the program, enjoy it, and pass it on to
- others who will similarly enjoy it. If your BBS callers like it, it can
- increase the attractiveness of your system in a major fashion, since
- Fido doesn't include these functions natively.
-
- Caffeine-Free Software also makes available a small utility for Fido
- (and other BBS systems using a FOSSIL for modem communication) called
- OFFHOOK. OFFHOOK is available as OFFHOOK.LZH from my system and others.
- OFFHOOK fills the need for a program that works with the FOSSIL and will
- take a BBS modem offhook so that callers will receive a busy signal
- rather than a ring-no-answer. (Fido does not answer the phone during
- an IDLE event, and it does not take it offhook. Some callers think that
- there is a malfunction on your BBS when they receive a ring-no-answer,
- but a busy signal indicates to them that your system is just busy.)
- OFFHOOK is absolutely, militantly free of charge. Use it and enjoy!
- OFFHOOK is DESQview-aware and uses well-behaved video I/O. No direct
- video memory writes!
-
- If you would like to download OFFHOOK, you can request magic name OFFHOOK
- from my system, 1:204/501. You can also request it by mail on a floppy disk.
- If you ask for it by mail, please include return postage and a floppy
- disk. If you do not have a floppy disk, please include $1 plus the postage.
- I can make a disk in either high or low density format in either the
- 3-inch or 5-inch formats.
-
- The address to write to me (or send money) is:
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- Les Kooyman
- Caffeine-Free Software
- 2228 S. El Camino Real # 124
- San Mateo, California 94403
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- Please make checks or money orders payable to me, Lester B. Kooyman.
- I can also accept payment via Visa or MasterCard. Please include:
- - The name as on the card
- - Card number
- - Expiration Date of card
- - Any other information on the card, such as name of the Bank
- - Your explicit OK to charge your card
- - Your signature
- - Your billing address as on your card account (I will send
- you confirmation via US Mail.)
- Your charge card bill will include a charge from Parkside Systems.
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- T H A N K Y O U !
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- "Caffeine-Free Software: Not Coffee-Protected!"
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