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This file contains the following information:
a) Information on our fully functional demos and our
"Registration Reminder" screens.
b) An basic, consise explanation of our disclaimers.
c) Generic installation instructions for our software,
including a section on manual installations.
d) Generic uninstall instructions.
e) Our update policy.
f) On-line support.
g) ASP Ombudsman statement.
h) The long, drawn out legalese section, software license
information, limited warranty, trademarks, etc.
i) Information on other products.
j) Information on our Premier Support Services.
k) Ordering information.
l) International Ordering Information.
m) Order Form.
REGISTRATION REMINDERS
Unlicensed copies of Wilson WindowWare products are 100% fully functional.
We make them this way so that you can have a real look at them, and then
decide whether they fit your needs or not. Our entire business depends
on your honesty. If you use it, we expect you to pay for it. We feel
that if we treat you right, you will treat us right.
Unlicensed copies of our products do have a pesky registration reminder
screen that pops up whenever you start the program. This shouldn't
really affect your evaluation of our software.
We're sure that once you see the incredible quality of our software,
you will dig out your credit card, pick up the phone, call the nice
people at our 800 number and register the software.
When you pay for the shareware you like, you are voting with your
pocketbook, and will encourage us to bring you more of the same kinds
of products. Pay for what you like, and voila, more of what you like
will almost magically be developed.
LEGAL MATTERS
Of course the usual disclaimers still apply. We are not
responsible for anything at all. Nothing. Even if we are held
responsible, the limit of our liability is the licensing fees
you paid. The full text of our license agreement is found near
the bottom of this file.
HOW TO INSTALL THIS SOFTWARE
Use our snazzy setup program...
1) Close down all extraneous Windows applications.
(You do have to be in Windows to run WSETUP.EXE)
2) Double-Click on the WSETUP.EXE program. (If you have the
WinCheck product in front of you, the setup program is still
called SETUP.EXE)
3) When the setup program asks for a directory, specify initial
directory, or accept the given default.
4) When the screen comes up that asks you what you want to
install, do your selections, or just hit the INSTALL ALL
button. Hit the OK button to continue.
******************** MANUAL INSTALL *********************
If you cannot use the snazzy setup program, and must do a manual
install.....good luck. Basically installing our products without
going through the setup program is "unsupported", as installation
of Windows products does get tricky. However as to not leave you
completely in the lurch....
1) Most files to be installed by the installation program end in
an underscore "_". The files might be compressed.
If you received the files on a DISK, the probability is HIGH
that you must expand the files with our WEXPAND (see below)
program before use.
If you received the files packaged in a ZIP file, the
probability is LOW. and you may simply rename the files to the
correct name.
If you try to expand a file that was not compressed, the expand
program will NOT give an error message, and will NOT correctly
process the file. In general, if the output from the expand
program is smaller than the file that went in, the expand program
should not be used.
By examining the files with our Browser (possibly included with
the package) program, or basically any tool that allows you to
look at the file in hex, one can quickly learn how to determine
if the file is compressed or not. If you can read *any* text
in the morass of funny looking symbols, the file is probably not
compressed. If the characters seem completely random, the it
probably is compressed.
2) The files (generally) must either be expanded into files with the
correct names, or must be renamed, prior to use.
3) In general, the DLL files should go into your WINDOWS directory,
or else some directory mentioned in your DOS path statement.
4) The BROWSER.EXE program may be used to view the *.MAN manual
files. It is recommended that you put the BROWSER program in
the same directory you put the DLL files.
5) You may want to add to the WIN.INI [Extensions] section the
following lines:
MAN=BROWSER.EXE ^.MAN
HLP=WINHELP ^.HLP
WBT=WINBATCH.EXE ^.WBT
*** USING THE WEXPAND PROGRAM ***
Example:
The installation diskette is inserted into your A: floppy drive
You wish to expand the WININFO.EX_ file. At the DOS prompt type...
WEXPAND.EXE WININFO.EX_ WININFO.EXE
Make sure the output file (WININFO.EXE in this case) is LARGER than
the imput file (WININFO.EX_), otherwise the file was not compressed,
and should be renamed as follows:
REN WININFO.EX_ WININFO.EXE
UN-INSTALL INFORMATION
The snazzy setup program will create a DOS batch file - UNINSTAL.BAT
in the target directory that will un-install the product just installed.
You may either review the batch file and perform a manual uninstall, or,
if you have not installed any products *after* installing this product,
go ahead and run the batch file.
If you have installed several products before deciding to uninstall this,
the uninstall will *generally* work successfully. The only problem that
occurs is when this product installs a file that the other products use.
In general, this will only be a problem when you install several of our
products, and will be much less of a problem if you install products from
other vendors. If problems occur, generally all that is required is to
re-install the product that is complaining about the lack of a file.
A quick review of the uninstall bat file, deleting a line or two for files
you know are used by other products may be all that is required to
successfully run the uninstall.
UPDATE POLICY
It is the policy of Wilson WindowWare to protect faithful customers, and to
derive the majority of our income via sales to new customers rather than
continually attempting to extract more funds from existing customers. Of
course we must at least cover our costs or we could not stay in business
bringing you new and updated software.
Wilson WindowWare frequently updates it products. There are various kinds
of updates, including Major updates, Minor updates, and bug-fix updates.
Minor and bug-fix updates for our shareware products are free -- subject
only to our reasonable shipping and and handling charges for disks. As we
are not in the disk selling business, you may find that shareware vendors
specializing is disk sales can easily sell disks cheaper than we can. On
the other hand, we *always* have the most recent versions of our software.
Our shipping and handling charges for update disks are as follows:
10.00 US and Canada for the first product,
5.00 US and Canada for each additional product.
9.50 Surcharge for shipping outside of US and Canada.
If you obtain a minor or bug-fix update from Compuserve or other online
service, a BBS, a shareware disk vendor or from another source, there is
no charge from us (of course you will have to