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===== Product Information ==============================
   Product:             Strategies to Reduce College Costs--BOOK How to Maximize College Financial Aid
   Version:             2.50
   Version Date:        20-Jul-1996
   Product Type:        Book, as in shareware book distributed electronically
   Basic Distribution Policy (see License, below, for details):
      Shareware, freely distributable by all channels

   Product Description: Strategies to Reduce College Costs v2.5 con- 
                        tains concise $ saving financial aid facts. 
                        Learn how to: Est. and increase aid, play 
                        "What IF?" to test aid-increasing scenarios, 
                        answer aid form questions--a Think Ahead must
                        read self-help electronic book for parents 
                        and students. Strategies...covers aid info 
                        for both Public and Private colleges. Also, 
                        included: My_Plan -- your own interactive 
                        college planner.
   Reason for version:  NEW: Windows version + My_Plan--NEW 
                        Interactive College Planner

   Category:            Education; High school
   Keywords:            college financial aid high school guidance 
                        planning
   Required Packages:   STRATS25
   This Package:        STRATS25
   Registration Fee:    4.95 (U.S. Dollars)

   Required Configuration
      Processor Family: Intel 80x86 (minimum 80286 (AT))
      Minimum OS:       MS-DOS 3.3
      Standard RAM:     640K
      Hard Drive Space: 200K
      Required:
         Floppy only
         Monochrome monitor
         Keyboard

   Orders:
      Address:          College Aid Calculator (tm)
                        --companion product: $49.95
                        --New: Windows version 9/96
                        Think Ahead, Inc.
                        PO Box 5A
                        Dresden, ME 04342
      Toll-Free Phone:  1-800-780-0513 X145
      Phone:            1-207-737-2802
      FAX:              1-800-780-0515
      Internet:         CollegeAid@maine.com
      Other E-mail:     http://www.maine.com/collegeaid

   Support:
      Address:          Think Ahead, Inc.
                        P.O. Box 5A
                        Dresden, Maine 04342
      Phone:            1-207-737-2802
      FAX:              1-207-737-2802
      Internet:         CollegeAid@maine.com
      Other E-mail:     http://www.maine.com/collegeaid


===== Information for Users ("READ-ME") ================

Welcome to "Strategies to Reduce College Costs." Strategies... provides
$ saving financial aid facts. Learn how to: estimate and increase your
aid, play "What IF ?" to test your aid-increasing scenarios, and answer
aid form questions. Strategies... is a Think Ahead, must-read self-help
electronic book for parents and students. Strategies to Reduce College
Costs covers aid information for both Public and Private colleges.

This new Windows version of Strategies ... comes with My_Plan -- your own
interactive college planner. My_Plan will automaticall load when you
install Strategies ... and you will be off and running, learning how to
maximize you family's financial aid, in a matter of minutes.

Price $4.95. Think Ahead, Inc., PO Box 5A, Dresden, ME Maine 04572.
Tel: 1-207-737-2802   Orders only: 1-800-780-0513 ext. 145



===== Packing List =====================================

As released by the author or publisher, this package contained the
following files in addition to this VENDINFO.DIZ:

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        SETUP.EXE    35344   3-Nov-1995  02:55a   F4B31B31
      CACDEMO.EX_   168912  21-Jul-1996  10:27p   2CA2A65B
       FIMAIN.EX_   102332   6-Jul-1996  10:16p   E59387E8
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===== Installation =====================================

                     INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS FOR
"STRATEGIES TO REDUCE COLLEGE COSTS" and My_Plan:

Quick Windows installation: A:setup or C:\TEMP\setup

Details:
     Use your unzip utility to unpack the .ZIP file.
          or: Double click the STRATS25.EXE file.
          or: Place your installation disk in drive A:\
     Win3.1, click File, Run, type C:\TEMP\SETUP, press Enter; or
                                   A:\SETUP, press Enter
     Win95, click START, Run, type C:\TEMP\SETUP, pres
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===== Warranty =========================================

Unconditional 30-day money-back guarantee.


===== License for Use and Distribution =================

This book and My_Plan may be distributed, copied, and reproduced in any
medium, but only in its entirety, including all pages and the copyright
notices. The news media may quote limited portions of them. Users are
encouraged to load My_Plan into their word processor and to use it as a
basis for their research on college financial aid, editing it and adding
to it as necessary for their own personal use, so long as it is not
distributed in modified form. For your convenience, the STRATS25.EXE
file has been provided for you to give to friends. It contains both
Strategies ... and My_Plan and all of the windows installation files.

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