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┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ WinPrice - Home Finance Price Evaluation Utility v1.00 │
│ SEE BELOW FOR PRODUCT INFORMATION │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ This is a VENDINFO Product Information Record │
│ │
│ This record is a means of conveying information about a software │
│ product from the author to distributors and users. It contains a │
│ normal, "human-readable" section (you're reading it now), followed │
│ by a compressed data record. The data record contains a great │
│ deal of information in a form useable by automated tools. This │
│ allows BBSes, disk vendors, etc. to test automatically for │
│ permission to distribute, and to automatically extract product │
│ information for use in BBS files databases, vendor catalogs, etc. │
│ │
│ The VENDINFO file standard is published and is freely useable. │
│ │
│ The VENDINFO toolset includes a free end-user viewer, processing │
│ tools for use by distributors (BBSes, shareware disk vendors, │
│ etc.), and the editor used by author/publishers to produce these │
│ records. These tools are either free or very-low cost shareware. │
│ The toolset can be obtained from many sources, including the │
│ originators of VENDINFO: │
│ │
│ Rams' Island Software Voice: 303-841-2848 CompuServe: 76244,324 │
│ 7644 E. Lakecliff Way BBS: 303-841-6269 FidoNet: 1:104/333 │
│ Parker, CO 80134-5904 USA RIME: RAMSISLE │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
VENDINFO standard v1.00, produced by VendEdit v1.00, 1-Feb-1994
===== Product Information ==============================
Product: WinPrice - Home Finance Price Evaluation Utility
Version: 1.00
Version Date: 10-Feb-1994
Product Type: Software
Basic Distribution Policy (see License, below, for details):
Shareware, freely distributable by all channels
Product Description: WinPrice v1.0 <ASP> - This program selects
the best pricing between two alternatives. No
more struggling with the "Is 1 liter of
GummySlurp for $1.29 a better buy than 1
gallon for $4.88?" issue!! It automatically
accounts for differences in the units used in
the two cases AND will give its results in
either metric or English units as desired.
Easy to use - educational for children.
Windows 3.1 Required - Shareware
Category: Personal finances
Keywords: WINDOWS FINANCE HOME SHOPPING WINPRICE PRICE
ASP CALCULATOR
Required Packages: PRICE_10
This Package: PRICE_10
Required Configuration
Processor Family: Intel 80x86 (minimum 80286 (AT))
Minimum OS: Windows 3.1
Standard RAM: 512K
Hard Drive Space: 100K
Required:
HIMEM
Hard drive
Orders:
Address: Open Windows
P.O. Box 49746
Colorado Springs, CO
80949-9746
Phone: 719-531-0403
AmOnLine: DickBryant
CompuServe: 75236,3243
Prodigy: BBWS09A
Internet: 75236.3243@compuserve.com
Support:
Address: Open Windows
P.O. Box 49746
Colorado Springs, CO
80949-9746
Phone: 719-531-0403
AmOnLine: DickBryant
CompuServe: 75236,3243
Prodigy: BBWS09A
Internet: 75236.3243@compuserve.com
===== Information for Users ("READ-ME") ================
Thank you for your interest in WinPrice. You will find this utility to
be extremely helpful in making day-to-day decisions involving purchases
of items where it is unclear which alternative offers the best value.
As an example, which should you purchase - liter bottles of cola for
$5.29 for four liters or quart bottles for $1.19 each? WinPrice will
quickly show the best buy to be the quart bottles. They're a little over
6 cents cheaper per quart than the liter bottles.
While you could do this calculation on your regular calculator, it would
involve many more key presses PLUS the need to remember or look up the
fact that there are 0.94634 liters in a quart. WinPrice takes care of
all the metric - English conversions as well as intermediate conversions
and displays the answer in terms of the most "sensible" unit in your
choice of English or metric systems.
===== Packing List =====================================
As released by the author or publisher, this package contained the
following files in addition to this VENDINFO.DIZ:
Filename Size Date Time CRC32
FILE_ID.DIZ 436 1-Feb-1994 01:00a 3EA3A2C6
WINPRI10.EXE 67840 1-Feb-1994 01:00a 3D3F30F1
WINPRI10.FRM 2944 1-Feb-1994 01:00a 9F6C97F2
WINPRI10.HLP 16411 1-Feb-1994 01:00a 3D394E7A
WINPRI10.REG 4992 1-Feb-1994 01:00a E2B8B637
REGISTER.TXT 1766 1-Feb-1994 01:00a A64D9B64
VENDOR.TXT 7611 1-Feb-1994 07:50p B8234F62
README.WRI 9728 1-Feb-1994 01:00a DD85AE87
===== Installation =====================================
If your package included OWSETUP.EXE on the disk, simply run this
program from within Windows and follow the instructions.
If you have downloaded PRICE.ZIP (from CompuServe) or PRICE_10.ZIP from
another BBS, or have otherwise acquired WinPrice without the
accompanying OWSETUP.EXE installation program, simply unzip (using
PKUNZIP.EXE or similar de-archiving utility) the .ZIP file into its own
directory. Then, from Windows' FileManager, drag the file WINPRI10.EXE
onto the open Program Manager group in which you wish the utility to
reside. Windows will automatically install WinPrice in this group and
the WinPrice icon will appear in this group.
To use WinPrice, simply double-click its icon. On line help is
available should you have any difficulties in using WinPrice.
===== Warranty =========================================
A registered user of any Open Windows program is entitled to a full
refund of their registration fee if they are not satisfied with the
program they have registered. Send a letter to Open Windows requesting a
refund (we'd like to hear why, but that's not a requirement) and stating
that you will discontinue all use of the program upon receipt of your
refund. It's as simple as that - no questions asked.
===== License for Use and Distribution =================
WinPrice 1.0 is a "shareware program" and is provided at no charge to
the user for evaluation. Feel free to share it with your friends, but
please give them the original PRICE_10.ZIP (or PRICE.ZIP if obtained
originally from CompuServe) file so that they will have all of the
necessary support files. The essence of "user-supported" software is to
provide personal computer users with quality software without high
prices, and yet to provide incentive for programmers to continue to
develop new products. If you find this program useful and continue to
use WinPrice 1.0 after the 30-day trial period, you must make a
registration payment of $9.95 plus $3.00 S&H to Open Windows. The
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 installed on multiple computers, so long as there is no
possibility of it being used at one location while it's being used at
another - just as a book cannot be read by two different persons at the
same time.
Commercial users of WinPrice 1.0 must register and pay for their copies
of WinPrice 1.0 within 30 days of first use or their license is
withdrawn. Site-License arrangements may be made by contacting Open
Windows.
===== Compressed Data Record Follows ===================
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