Germering, 7-Jul-92 General notes to freely distributable programs by Martin Kuhne. The program(s) and the related documentation are copyrighted by Martin Kuhne, but may be freely distributed and copied for non-commercial purposes only. Under NO circumstances may you redistribute a modified version of one or more files or the archive. Neither may any redistribution for profit be made. The program(s) and the related documentation may not be included in a commercial or shareware package or any Public Domain collection without the written permission of the author. License: -------- If you use the program(s) included in the archive this text was extraced fron, you do this entirely at your own risk. The program(s) are provided 'as is' without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied. The entire risk as to the results and performance of the program is assumed by you. You agree to cease distributing and/or using the program and data involved if requested to do so by author. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Most of these have been written because I needed them and a similar and/or working program didn't exist. Many have grown with the time and received advanced features I didn't even think of when I started the project. Some of them only work in a special environment or require much memory. Some others are ugly from the programmer's point of view because they were started when I was still learning 'C' and haven't been touched since. All of them require OS 2.04 or higher. Most of the programs are also for free. You needn't pay for them, but you mustn't sell or modify them. As I said already, they were created out of a personal need. Don't expect much support - I usually try to answer all personal mail that reaches me, but remember computers are still a hobby and studying computer science is not all that easy. And besides, it's for free. If I run short of time, I will surely still support FFRS, my only shareware project so far. Especially if you are working and earn money yourself, I would greatly appreciate a donation if you regularly use one/some of the Freeware utilities. Please send whatever you find appropriate. I spent lots and lots of time on them... A word about bug reports: If you encounter a crash or strange things happen on your system, don't forget to include * Your system's configuration (OS version, CPU, BBS/Mailer/Tosser/Editor/other Software you run) * A detailed description of what happens. Set you log level to somewhere high (if possible) and - IMPORTANT - make note of what was last happened/was displayed before the error occurred. * If you are skilled with programmer's tools, install the enforcer and mungwall on your system. * Get SnoopDos ('snoopdos -l -w') or Spy somewhere (should be available at local BBSes) and look what files are (un-)successfully accessed. * Send your configuration file (if required) along with your bug report. +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ Ok... enough said. You can reach me at FidoNet 2:246/71 and /72 MAX 91:5150/1 KultNet 23:100/13 Usenet: mkuhne@heavenly.lm.sub.org BBS: Heavenly City +49-89-8948072, +49-89-8948055 Voice: +49-89-8401608 Snail Mail: Martin Kuhne, Oberfeldstr. 10, 8034 Germering, Germany. Bank account: Raiffeisenbank Germering, BLZ 701 693 80 Acct. 93254 Please be careful with ALL these adresses if this text is more than half a year old when you receive it. Special Thanks go to (no order): Manfred Buesing, Christian Buchner, Stefan Hochmuth, Amely Mueller, Harry Mantke, Dominik Mueller, Maximilian Hantsch, Stefan Kaspar, Tommy Roeder, Peer Hasselmeyer, Stefan Stuntz, Maurizio Fabiani, Ralf Kuffner, Stefan Schulze, Christian Haarstick. Martin.