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>.margin[ left 2 ] .margin[ top 1 ] .margin[ bottom 1 ]
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:"#01: Apr 1990"
Tuesday, April 10, 1990.
UserWare on CompuServe. UserWare can now be contacted via
CompuServe. Our ID number is 71540,3660. Electronic mail
is processed between the hours of 6pm and 8pm EST.
UserWare in the News. Iris will receive a favorable plug in
Tom Easton's book review column (Analog Science Fiction and
Science Fact, June 1990). Easton tells us that he is
planning a regular spot for electronic books. If you're
distributing a book which isn't in our library, you should
send it to Easton at Analog.
Iris also received a nice mention in R.K. West Consulting's
newsletter, Read-Me.1st.
UserWare Abroad. Roleigh Martin, the ambitious publisher of
ShareWare Debate International, has been busily shipping his
Iris-based magazine to hundreds of distributors, both home
and abroad. SDI is being offered on PC-SIG's newest compact
disk, as well as ShareWare Gold's next CD collection. We're
already receiving inquiries from people who learned of Iris
through Martin's efforts. The best part of the UserWare
system is synergy. We publicize each other, and everybody
wins!
UserWare Enhancements. An interim version of Prism now
offers data compression. The supplied PackBook utility
reduces your book to half it's original size, and offers
optional data encryption. Compression and/or encryption is
detected by our other programs, and handled automatically.
HardCopy, for example, will print the text of an encrypted
book, but only to the printer (not to a file), and will
always omit the special command lines.
Also, you can now "autoload" your book by passing it's name
as a command line parameter (from a batch file, for
example).
Version 1.26 is available for $24 to new users, but upgrades
are only $8. You may also order one free book with your
upgrade.
The New Deal. Authors submitting disks to the library may
now choose their own "wholesale price". The library price
will reflect the author's wholesale price plus a $2 per disk
distribution fee. We now remit to authors on a quarterly
basis.
UserHelp.
?> I'm using HardCopy to print out an order form from within
my book, but it keeps printing an extra page at the end.
-> Hardcopy is designed to print out books, and has a
built-in "Table of Contents" feature. To disable this,
use the command
>.Execute[ HardCopy.EXE Order.FRM PRN: Table=No ]
Of course, replace "Order.FRM" with the name you your
text file. Notice that PRN: needs to be used so HardCopy
can read the Table=No option.
New Releases.
ShareWare Debate International. Premier issue of this
socio- political debate magazine. $4+$2 s&h.
Naming of Kinzel. The story of an unlikely magician by the
popular writers, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller. $4+$2 s&h.
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:"#02: Jun 1990"
Sunday, June 10, 1990.
YAU! Yet Another Upgrade. Besides data compression and
other niceties introduced in version 1.26, version 1.27
offers: online help for menu items, a popup note editor, and
online topic printing.
We've also removed our copyright notice from the initial
screen, to avoid confusion. Now, the Iris name appears only
on the closing screen, together with your own.
The online help feature makes Iris even easier to use, and
you can also add help for your own menu items, if you like.
The built-in note editor pops up over the current book
screen in it's own resizable window. It creates or revises
it's own text file with the same name as your book, but with
a .NTS extension.
With version 1.27, readers can also print the current topic
from the Escape menu, without leaving Iris. The routine is
simple, but effective, and readers do value the convenience.
If you own version 1.26, the upgrade to 1.27 is free with
the purchase of any book. Otherwise, it's $8 to upgrade from
a prior version. The new user price is $24 for the 3-disk
package, which includes Prism and MicroStar.
UserHelp.
?> I'm using a single column of items as a menu, like you
do with Iris-Doc's contents topic. But I need to use more
than 10 items, and want the menu to automatically
progress to the next item as the book is read. Is there a
way to increment letters as well as numbers?
-> If you leave the Key variable blank, it will
automatically seek the first letter of the last item
chosen for any topic. To tell Iris to goto the next item
on the list, you can use this .Macro command:
>TopicReps#>0 .Then[ .Macro[ ^@P ] ]
The "^@" part says that an "extended key" follows, and "P" is the
scan code for the down arrow key. If a BASIC manual came with
your machine, extended keys and scan codes would be explained in
an appendix. You don't need to do this for ordinary keys, just
special ones like cursor and function keys.
The "TopicReps#>0" part tells Iris to skip the macro the
first time the topic is displayed.
UserNews. Iris is being used as the disk catalog for the
PrairieWare disk library: POB 265, Great Falls MT 59403,
406-454-0829. Disks are $1.95 + $2.50 s&h.
Iris has also been designated as the "official" reader for
the Writers Online bulletin board. Writers Online caters to
professional writers, and will be of interest to anyone in
the writing profession, including publishers and agents.
For more information contact Robert King, 163 Candy Circle,
Winterville GA 30683. The BBS line is 404-369-0707, N81, 24
hours daily.
If you're looking for a disk-based publisher for your new
science fiction or mystery novel, contact SoftPress, 917
Ward Lane, Cheshire CT 06410. Send a one-page inquiry for
details.
New Releases.
ShareDebate International, issue 2, Summer 1990, includes
"Entrepreneurial Democracy" by RH Martin, and "MHD"
(MagnetoHydroDynamics) by Ben Bova. Distributed by over 425
shareware outlets, world-wide. $4+$2 s&h.
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:"#03: Sep 1990"
:footnote
Monday, September 10, 1990.
UserHelp.
?> My students and I will be writing books that will make
use of "footnote" texts. But when using "hotwords" to
jump to footnotes, the .Return command doesn't always
jump back to the original screen-load.
-> The .Return command was designed for use with the popup
menu system. It will work with hotwords, but using
multiple hotwords to branch back and forth to the same
calling topic is problematic. Our best advice about your
"footnote" application is to:
1. end each "footnote" topic with the command lines:
>.pause
>.macro[^HS]
The pause command will stop the display until [Enter]
is pressed. The macro command will call the backup
menu (^H) and select the Screen item (S). This will
always return the reader to the very last screen
viewed (i.e. the one containing the *footnote).
2. limit the text for a "footnote" topic to a single
screenload. The topics citing the footnotes can, of
course, be of any length. But the citations themselves
should be no more than a screenload long. This is so
"backup by screen" will work.
UserNews. Iris received a nice writeup in Vulcan Computer
Monthly (formerly Computer Buyers Guide), and our program
description was uploaded to an Email system serving
university libraries. Both generated a number of inquiries
and registrations, for which we are grateful.
Iris was also awarded Public Brand Software's highest rating
for technical excellence. "Quite a powerful system," their
review went on to say.
Iris now boasts registered users in 31 states and
eight nations, spanning four continents. Thank you for your
support!
UserWare is issuing distribution licenses to selected,
qualified parties. Licensed Distributors are entitled to
sell books from our library on terms identical to our own.
Author royalities remain the same, and UserWare acts a
clearinghouse for these funds. Licensed Distributors now
include BPlan Virtuals and Paul Oman.
Version 1.28 of Iris and Prism introduces two new keywords:
Print and OnExit. Print allows authors to suppress online
topic printing. OnExit executes a given command line once
when the topic changes. Upgrades are $4 (or $2 for
Iris-only).
Hypertext is clearly coming into it's own. Both the Public
(software) Library and Public Brand Software have a distinct
Hypertext category.
FreeWare, National Software Labs, and PC-Shareware have been
added to our list of shareware vendors known to carry Iris.
Mentioned.
BPlan Virtuals, POB 338, Waterville ME 04901.
FreeWare, POB 496, Newtown NSW 2042, Australia, +612-519-4233.
National Software Labs, 3767 Overland Avenue #112, Los
Angeles CA 90034, 800-359-9998, $3.49/disk+$3.50s&h.
Paul Oman, PO Box 590011, Houston TX 77259.
PC-Shareware, 1763 Garnet Avenue, San Diego CA 92109,
800-447-2181, $3/disk+$4s&h.
Public Brand Software, POB 51315, Indianapolis IN 46215,
800-426-DISK, $5/disk+$5s&h.
Public (software) Library, POB 35705, Houston TX 77325-5705,
800-2424-PSL, $5/disk+$4s&h.
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