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                             BCI Associates
                             Jeff Bankston
                        3401 Eland Downe RT113
                        Phoenixville, Pa. 19460
                        610-933-2132 voice/fax
                        CompuServe 72040,2041
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This program is being published as shareware. This means you get the chance
to use the program for up to 30 days, free of charge. If you decide to use
the program after the initial 30 days, you are required to register it with
the author..... me!

This program is of the highest quality, fully functional, and as bug-free 
as possible. While that was a task in itself, it did involve quite a bit of 
my time to bring you this software. Hence, we authors appreciate your 
patronage and the small registration fee which is depending on the product
you want to license:

SPTEST - $20.00 - Serial port Diagnostic
LPTRST - $15.00 - Parallel port/printer status detection
LETTER - $10.00 - How many drive letters are assigned
CATCVT - $25.00 - FoxPro v2.0 application to convert CIS catalogs
CATDB  - $25.00 - dBase IV v2.0 version of CATCVT converter


Registering the product will get you the following:

        - 2 updates sent to you automatically
        - automatic notice of new BCI Associates products
        - troubleshooting assistance for product-related matters
        - automatic free upgrades for bug fixes
        - discounts for registering multiple BCI Assoc. products
        - lifetime support of the product
        - my undying gratitude


Terms of Support
BCI Associates will actively support any _registered_ user of our products
with either CompuServe email or telephone support. This does not, however,
include troubleshooting your hardware and/or software problems not directly 
related to our products. If you need such support, BCI Associates offers
that support as a separate chargeable item. Contact BCI Associates at the
methods above if you desire this additional support.

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Program Updates
BCI Associates updates their products periodically to support new features
and functions. When these updates occur, we post them on the CompuServe
Information Service, and on the ZiffNet Information Service which can be
accessed either thru CompuServe, or directly into ZiffNet. Users may go to
a number of forums to download the software, or BCI Associates will email
the update directly to them thru CompuServe Mail as a binary transfer.

For those users obtaining BCI Associates products via bulletin boards, or
in any non-CompuServe medium, we will mail the update for a nominal handling
fee of $5.00 per update. 

Each registered user will recieve 2 updates in between major releases. The
cost of these updates will be 30% of the original cost of the product plus
any mailing fees, if required. When major new releases are issued, it is
treated as if it was newly posted. The new fee would be announced at that
time.

Example:  User registers SPTEST. Initial fee is $20; each of the 2 updates
                recieved would cost $6 (30% of the initial fee) plus any
                mailing costs.

CompuServe offers an online registering of programs. You may register thru
them for any of our products, or send payment directly to us. Checks or
Money Orders drawn upon a US bank is accepted. Pennslyvania residents add 6%
state tax. If you choose to register the product online, you will be billed
to your CompuServe account for the amount of the product. The cost of the
updates are not reflected in the online cost. You should send update fees
directly to us at the address above as CompuServe charges you for the whole
product, not updates.


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General Disclaimer

BCI Associates warrants that this program will perform the task to which it
was specifically designed to do. This software is licensed on an AS-IS basis.
BCI disclaims all other warranties, either expressed or implied, as to the
fitness or merchantability of the software for any other useage. In no way
will BCI be liable for direct, indirect, incidental, or consequential
damages resulting from a defect in the software.

Some avenues of recourse do not allow the exclusion of limitation of implied
warranties of liability for incidental or consequential damages, so the
above limitaions may not apply to you.
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Licensing terms
Paying the above license fee allows use of the software on _one_ PC only.
Additional licenses are available by contacting BCI Associates for discount
rates. If this software is to be used on a network, it must be licensed on
a per-user basis. You may not sub-license the software, assign, or transfer
the software/license except as expressly granted by this paragraph.

To transfer the software, you (the licensee) must give the software, any
archives you have made, the documents (paper or electronic), and any other
associated files to the new owner. Then, you must contact BCI Associates and
inform them of the old/new owners of the software to continue proper
registration. Any deviation of this policy will be considered piracy of the
product. When notifying BCI Associates, include the name, complete address,
software title and version number of both old and new owners. That's all
there is to it! No other fees or anything.
