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Welcome to Elemental, a shareware available demo.
This file presents user documentation to help explain how the series
works along with any last minute details.
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** SPECIAL OFFER!!! **
** **
** The ELEMENTAL program is being offered at a low, **
** one-time-only introductory price. If the ELEMENTAL **
** program is purchased before AUGUST 31, 1994, its **
** price is $29.95 plus $2.50 S&H! Place your orders **
** today! **
** **
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DISCLAIMER - AGREEMENT:
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Users of Elemental must accept this disclaimer of warranty:
The Shareware demo (trial use) version of Elemental is
provided AS IS. CleoSci MAKES NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND/OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE. CleoSci ASSUMES NO LIABILITY FOR DAMAGES, DIRECT OR
CONSEQUENTIAL, WHICH MAY RESULT FROM THE USE OF the ELEMENTAL
demo program.
About Elemental:
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The Elemental demo is a "shareware system" and is provided at no
charge to the user for evaluation. Feel free to share it with your
friends/colleagues, but please do not give it away altered or as part
of another system. The essence of "user-supported" software is to
provide personal computer users with quality software without
high prices while still providing incentive for programmers to
continue development of new products. To obtain your own copy of
Elemental - the Periodic Table for Scientists and Students, please
enclose $49.95 plus $2.50 S&H {US funds} with the order form and
return it to CleoSci. The order form can be printed by entering
"TYPE ORDER.FRM>PRN {return}"
on your computer. You may also print the order form (ORDER.FRM) from
the README file viewing program.
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The address to which to send your order is:
CleoSci
Attn: Elemental
P.O. Box 17037
St. Paul, MN 55117
The $49.95 registration fee will license one copy for use on any one
computer at any one time. You must treat this software just like
a book. An example is that this software may be used by any
number of people and may be freely moved from one computer
location to another so long as there is no possibility of its
being used at one location while it is being used at another.
This is just as a book cannot be read by two different persons
at the same time.
For more information, see the supporting file REGISTER.DOC.
The Elemental System:
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Elemental was written for use on IBM-PC family/100% compatible systems.
It is suggested that the user have at least 640K of RAM and MS-DOS
version 3.0 or newer.
Elemental is a computer periodic table program which operates in a
graphical user interface (GUI). It uses VGA graphics; XMM, EMM, or
disk swapping for memory management; and a mouse or keyboard.
IBM-PC is a trademark of International Business Machines, INC.
MS-DOS is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
LAST MINUTE INFORMATION:
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If you do any printing of the support files from the README.EXE view
program, be sure that your printer has enough paper. There are over
twenty pages in all.
In addition, if print/program execution gets stuck in mid-sentence
because you run out of paper or turn your printer off-line, you will
need to replenish the paper or go back on-line to either finish the job
or escape.
This is actually not a programming error! For some reason, MS-DOS and
the ROM BIOS do not have good "error-catching" features when printing
is stopped mid-sentence. This feature has been tested extensively on
MANY programs (including products from large, well-known retail
companies). The result is always the same. Your computer hits a state
of "suspended animation".
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Why does this occur? That's a good question! It may be related to the
significant time difference between the computer's processing speed and
the speed at which the printer can receive and print data. It takes
time for the printer to notice that it is out of paper (or off-line) and
to relay that information to the computer. Meanwhile, the computer is
still sending data. Where does this data go? It probably visits the
twilight zone until you correct the problem.
In any case, don't worry. Just keep plenty of paper on hand for print
jobs, and there should be no problem!
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CleoSci hopes you enjoy using the Elemental program. If you see ways
the program can be improved, feel free to drop us a line. Good luck,
good research, and enjoy it!
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