Uedit's ShareWare Policy Rick Stiles P.O. Box 666, 102 LaRue Court Washington, IN 47501 (812) 254-4986 If you purchased Uedit from your dealer or a distributer, be sure to fill out and send in the user registration form. If you are ordering Uedit by mail, print this page on your printer. Circle or mark what you are paying for and send it in with your order. ***** All payments MUST be in cash, check, or money order, in U.S. currency. NOTE: ALL CHECKS and MONEY ORDERS must have BANK ROUTING NUMBERS at the bottom of them and must be negotiable at a USA bank or post office, or else they will be returned. ***** You can order COD by phone. When you order Uedit, include the Serial Number of the Uedit you are using. You can see the serial number by selecting "Show vals" in the menu. Uedit registration options (Choose one): A. $45 for previous version of Uedit with documentation on disk. B. $59 + $3 s&h for latest Uedit with printed user reference manual. *** Foreign users, please add $3 extra for postage on all items. *** When you register, you will receive: * the fully customizable Uedit. * documentation and version of Uedit as described above. * a registered user Serial Number. * the shareware Uedit that you can distribute freely. * $15 commissions for finding new users. * automatic notice of new upgrades. When registering (only): * To receive the next upgrade automatically, $18. * Spell-checking Uedit & dictionary utilities, $15. * Uedit Quarterly Newsletter for one year, $12. Registered users (only): * Spell-checking Uedit & dictionary utilities, $15. * Latest version of Uedit (disk only), $18. * User Reference Manual, $14 + $3 s&h. * Uedit Quarterly Newsletter for one year, $12. * Extras disks, $6 per disk. Anybody, registered or non-registered: * The latest Shareware Uedit, $15. As a registered user, you will earn a commission each time somebody submits your serial number when ordering Uedit. The quarterly Newsletter discusses new upgrades and features, editing tricks, new commands, configs created by users, frequently asked questions, complaints and requested features, plans for future upgrades, bugs, and other topics. The Extras contain various configs and commands written by users or the author. Emulations are available for various popular programs, which include Ustar by Kurt Wessels, VI by Eric Kennedy, and EDT by Kent McPherson. These emulate WordStar (tm), the Unix vi (tm) editor, and the DEC Gold Key (tm) editor. (NOTE: Uedit has the handy feature of letting you Ctrl-click-load any filename in any buffer. However, early versions of the C Ltd. TimeSaver (tm) block out the Ctrl-mouse input. To get Ctrl-mouse, hold down Ctrl, touch Shift or Alt, and then click the mousebutton.) Other Programs Resource Disassembler: Glen McDiarmid, who handles Uedit in Australia, has asked me to distribute his slick, fast disassembler in the US. It is $60. Guardian Virus Detector: Leonardo Fei, who handles Uedit in Italy, wrote a very good resident virus detector that works with AmigaDOS 1.2 or 1.3 and should detect even the new viruses, because of the approach it uses. It is $6. Sharing Uedit You can give people a copy of the Shareware Uedit. When you give away copies, you must observe the following restrictions: *** You must distribute ALL of Uedit's Shareware files together: Config! Data! Help! NoName.info Uedit-Policy Uedit-Tutor UES UES.info Key-Help *** You must NOT MODIFY any files except for putting your serial number into UES. *** You must NOT distribute copies of UE or the printed or disk Manual or Uedit's command language documentation or spell-checking materials. You may distribute ONLY the Shareware directory and must NOT distribute the Private directories. *** You MUST use Uedit COPYRIGHT notices on Uedit files. *** You MUST use Uedit TRADEMARK notices on "Uedit". You may include your own files along with Uedit, put files on several diskettes, distribute files via modem, or compress files, as long as their contents remain unchanged. You may print, copy, and distribute the Help! and other text files in the Shareware directory. Amiga clubs may want to encourage their members to register off the club's registered copy, as a good way to earn money for the club. (Do NOT tell people to register by subtracting your commission from the amount they send in. If I allow people to subtract off the commission, users can be cheated out of commissions they are entitled to. You must give them a signed note to include when they register or contact me personally, so that I have got proof that you are waiving your commission.) Please encourage others to try Uedit. In distributing it and encouraging new registrations, you will be supporting good programming for Amiga Shareware. And your feedback is important too. Most of the improvements in Uedit since the beginning have been in response to feedback from its users. Revision Numbering When a new version comes out, the old version number is incremented by 0.1. Thus, if the current version is V2.4a, the next true upgrade will be V2.5a. When bugs are fixed in a version, the version letter is incremented. Thus if 2.4a has bugs, the fixed version is 2.4b. The spell-checking version uses a capitalized version letter. Thus, if 2.4a is the regular version, the spelling version is 2.4A. If you own a version such as V2.4a and bugs are found in it and a V2.4b is released, you may get V2.4b by sending in your V2.4a diskette, a self addressed mailer, and postage. Uedit and Shareware Shareware is a generous, trusting concept which treats you like an honest person, rather than presuming that you are not, as, for instance, copy protection does. Shareware programs have got to be superior, because you get to try them out thoroughly at home or in the office before buying them. Many commercial programs would not survive this acid test. You are allowed to try out a Shareware program for as long as you require, in order to decide whether you are going to use it or not. When "trying out" becomes "using", you are obliged to buy the program. Only then does the Shareware author get paid for his work and expenses for creating and supporting the program you are using. Uedit relies on: * Your honesty. * Your cooperation in safeguarding Uedit by not distributing its private files. * Your help in finding new customers. Thank you for your support!