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I don't know if you read the changes file in the previous version,
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so I will summarize it. I sold my home in Santa Barbara, and moved
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to a small town in Northern California to concentrate on writing
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shareware full time. Well (you may ask), how's it going.
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Since my program was reviewed on page 50 in the Nov. 13, 1990 issue
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of PC Magazine, registrations have increased significantly.
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Appearantly a lot of people read (and pay attention to) PC
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Magazine. Site registrations have really increased, and I now have
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some Fortune 50 customers. Banks, however, make up the bulk of
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the Site Licensees.
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I ran into a few tax problems (it was either pay Uncle a lot of
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money, or put a lot of money into my house), so I've been
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consulting pretty heavily the last year and doing major
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reconstruction to my house. I think I am finally through with any
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big consulting jobs (and with rebuilding my house), so now AutoCon
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will be getting a lot more attention.
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This is still not the release I had planned (it will probably show
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up some time around July), but one of my competitors was on
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Compuserve saying how much better he was than I because his program
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could handle DOS 5.0's HIGH and UMB flags. I decided I needed to
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add this capability to AutoCon and get out a new release before he
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could cause any more problems. So with this release, AutoCon will
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handle both MSDOS 5.0's HIGH and UMB flags, and it is compatible
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with DRDOS which is one up on my competitor.
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The 2.1 release of AutoCon will have a lot more editor
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enhancements. I'm planning pull down menus (similar to the front
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screen), and a split screen capability. I also intend to allow
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Search/Replace operations to go automatically through all
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configurations. I will also be able to use the screen size in
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effect when AutoCon is started, instead of switching everything to
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the 80X25 mode.
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I have a support BBS online and functional. The number is (916)
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623 4455, and it is in operation 24 hours a day. It has a 9600+
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BAUD modem that is CompuCom CSP, V32, and V42 compatible (of course
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it connects just fine at 2400 <or less> BAUD). The main function
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of the BBS is (of course ) AutoCon support. If it gets busy
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enough, it will grow into a full multi-line BBS. As a consequence
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there are several megabytes of downloadable files on it, always
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including the latest shareware release of AutoCon. I will also set
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up a section for a group of Beta testers, so let me know if you are
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interested in becomming one. I see several enhancements in
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AutoCons future, as well as a few other programs that I have in
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mind.
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This is my first BBS and I'm sure there will be will be some
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growing pains, so please bear with me.
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I love the place I've moved to and I thank you very much for the
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support you have given to AUTOCON, and for giving me the incentive
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to change careers.
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-Larry Weaver
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