WHAT IS SHAREWARE ?

    Shareware (or Freeware as some incorrectly call it), is an exciting 
    concept in purchasing computer software (also known as computer programs).
    Under the regular method, you go to your computer store or mail order 
    firm, and pay from $50.00 to $500.00 and even more for software which 
    promises to do everything you want and even more. If the software does 
    not do what you wanted, the money is gone, and your search must be 
    started again. In addition, the author(s) of the software usually 
    receive very little of the money you paid for the software. Most of your 
    cost went to marketing, pretty packages and middlemen. Then someone
    decided to write a program, give copies away to anyone who wanted it
    and said "If you like it please donate $???.?? directly to me in an
    effort to reimburse me for the countless hours and knowledge that went
    into writing it. If, however, it does not do what you need it to or
    what I say it does, pass it along to someone else and possibly it will
    do what he or she wants it to and pay NOTHING !

    When you purchase shareware disks you are NOT buying the program or the 
    rights to use the program beyond a reasonable evaluation period. You are 
    only paying a small copying and distribution charge and you are strongly 
    asked to respect the wishes of the various authors whose hours of work 
    make up the large variety of shareware that is available.

    The only way that this great concept works is if enough people who
    use these programs everyday are honest enough to pay the small amount 
    that the author asks so that he (and others) will continue to write
    programs and distribute them in this way because he /she has no idea
    who has their programs and who doesn't.  That way the authors make more
    money, you and I pay far less money for the software we use, and
    everyone is happy! Also, usually you get something else for your money 
    when you register your software. So please, make your payment today if 
    the program you received does what you want.
        
    If you use and depend on Public Domain programs, we urge you to support
    software writers with registration.  Their name, address and 
    registration amount are listed in the NOTES.TXT or like file with each 
    disk. Your registration will provided the funds to up-grade the programs
    and ensure that you are notified of any changes.

          
                           GETTING HELP

           If after reading the section GETTING STARTED and after a little
     trial and error you find that you cannot make the program work, a few
     possibilities are: 
     1. Your machine is not quite as 100% IBM-PC compatible as you previously 
     were led to believe.   
     2. The program in question has a few bugs (unfortunately we cannot test 
     every program on every possible machine to check the programs out as 
     thoroughly as we would like but we give it our best shot.)    
     3. You are making a small error in the execution of the program.
                                                  
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