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- I don't know if you read the changes file in the previous version,
- so I will summarize it. I sold my home in Santa Barbara, and moved
- to a small town in Northern California to concentrate on writing
- shareware full time. Well (you may ask), how's it going.
-
- Since my program was reviewed on page 50 in the Nov. 13, 1990 issue
- of PC Magazine, registrations have increased significantly.
- Appearantly a lot of people read (and pay attention to) PC
- Magazine. Site registrations have really increased, and I now have
- some Fortune 500 customers. Banks, however, make up the bulk of
- the Site Licensees.
-
- Even with the increase, I still need an outside income, so I
- continue to accept small consulting jobs. I have a great hope that
- this may be the last year I have to do so.
-
- This is not quite the 2.0 release that I had planned. I had
- planned to start using a new library release to enhance AutoCon.
- The new library had a better editor, and a better menu system. A
- couple of weeks into the conversion, I realized that the price of
- the new library system was going to be a tremendous increase in the
- size of AutoCon. AUTOCON.EXE was going to grow to about 400K. I
- decided that this was not acceptable, so I have a lot more time
- invested in this release than I planned. The size (however) only
- increased about 20K. I have completely rewritten the front screen
- code, and added several enhancements to the editor. The cost is
- that this release is running about a month later than I planned.
-
- The 2.1 release of AutoCon will have a lot more editor
- enhancements. I'm planning pull down menus (similar to the front
- screen), and a split screen capability. I also intend to allow
- Search/Replace operations to go automatically through all
- configurations. I will also be able to use the screen size in
- effect when AutoCon is started, instead of switching everything to
- the 80X25 mode.
-
- I have a support BBS online and functional. The number is (916)
- 623 4455, and it is in operation 24 hours a day. The main function
- of the BBS is AutoCon support. If it gets busy enough, it will
- grow into a full multi-line BBS. As a consequence there are
- several megabytes of downloadable files on it, always including the
- latest shareware release of AutoCon. I will also set up a section
- for a group of Beta testers, so let me know if you are interested
- in becomming one. I see several enhancements in AutoCons future,
- as well as a few other programs that I have in mind.
-
- This is be my first BBS, and I'm sure there will be will be some
- growing pains, so bear with me.
-
- I love the place I've moved to (and for those of you who asked, yes
- the construction is finished, but I found that I now have to
- re-roof the rest of the house <sigh..>). I thank you very much for
- the support you have given to AUTOCON, and for giving me the
- incentive to change careers.
-
-
- -Larry Weaver
-