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Updating / Installation:
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If you use an older version, I suggest strongly that you unzip this archive
into a new directory instead of copying the new files over the old ones!
| NOTE THAT THE ORIGINAL ARCHIVE HAS BEEN PACKED USING DIRECTORY INFOR-
| MATIONS! THUS YOU SHOULD USE "PKUNZIP -D ANIVGA12.ZIP C:\ANIVGA12\"
| (OR WHATEVER PATH IS SUITABLE FOR YOU) TO INSTALL IT!
| IF YOU OMITTED THE "-D" SWITCH, REDO THE INSTALLATION NOW!
After that, make sure TPC.EXE is on your path and just start MAKE.BAT to
compile the units and examples (read the starting section of ANIVGA.DOC
for more information, if necessary).
If you are updating from a former version (or just curious..), then run
WHATSNEW.EXE and read CHANGES.TXT.
Reaching me -- and you!:
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My normal Internet & Bitnet addresses remain valid, but are subject to change
sometime in 1993:
Internet: S_ROHRBACHER@IRAVCL.IRA.UKA.DE
Bitnet : UKB8@DKAUNI2.BITNET (aka UKB8@IBM3090.RZ.UNI-KARLSRUHE.DE)
FIDO : 2:241/7451.7
SubNet : kai.rohrbacher@logo.ka.sub.org
(Note that due to the German putsch in FIDONet, you won't be able to reach
me at the 2:241/7451.7 address if you are writing from outside Germany!
If you don't have any other connection than FIDO, the only way to get
through will probably be a crash-mail at 2:241/7451 (+49-7251-87289) ).
If you are one of those pitiable guys without e-mail access, you can reach me
by snail-mail, too:
Kai Rohrbacher Banking account:
Talstrasse 24 account# 5.355.494
76689 Karlsdorf-Neuthard BLZ# 660 908 00
Germany bank Badische Beamtenbank,
Karlsruhe/Germany
Until now, I tried to answer every mail that reached me. However, a few mails
bounced. So if you don't get an answer after a _reasonable_ amount of time
(say 2 weeks), try again and supply enough address information for a reply!
Money, a forward glance and some "no"'s:
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As you may have noticed, I mentioned my bank account in the last paragraph,
so we are going to talk a few words about money...
No, ANIVGA is still freeware in this version, although I can't gurantee that
for future versions -- just as I can't guarantee that there will be any
further versions *at all*!
No, that's not because I'm running out of ideas (quite the opposite is
true!!!), but maintaining and enhancing ANIVGA takes a lot of time, presumably
more time then you might think now. Besides that, answering all your questions,
suggestions and comments takes its toll, too -- especially because I'm paying
for mail on my own! As I'm both short in time and money, I have seriously con-
sidered to let die ANIVGA as a freeware project, sell it to a local software
company or do any further developments only for my own without publishing new
versions. I didn't. Instead, I'm asking you for a small fee (I suggest equi-
valent to $15..$30) to support further development of ANIVGA. (If you can't
transfer directly, then go to your local post office and get an international
postal money order -or mail cash in your national currency). -- Oh yes, and
don't forget to add your email-address!
No, this is no blackmail -- I just can't answer hundreds (!) of mails, paying
for all of them with _my_ time and money, I hope you understand that! (BTW: til
the day, I answered _all_and_every_ mail of you that reached me and *I* am
willing to continue that!)
Thank you - and now have fun using ANIVGA V1.2!
-> start MAKE.BAT
-> run WHATSNEW.EXE
-> run the EXAMPL*.EXE's
-> look into ANIVGA.TUT & ANIVGA.DOC
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| Kai Rohrbacher, Karlsruhe/Germany | "Nothing in this world is as |
| Internet: S_ROHRBACHER@IRAVCL.IRA.UKA.DE | strong as an idea which time |
| Bitnet : UKB8@DKAUNI2.BITNET | has come!" |
| FIDO : 2:241/7451.7 | (Victor Hugo) |