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            Copyright (c) 1991 - Horizons Consulting 
 
  Please feel free to distribute this EVALUATION version of ATLAS.
 
      Horizons Consulting's Atlas program is an reference tool de-
 signed to assist anyone who needs to  research  facts  about  the
 countries of the world.  The information  contained in ATLAS  was
 collected from various Government Sources including:  the  Bureau
 of the Census, Central Intelligence Agency,  Defense Intelligence
 Agency,  Defense  Nuclear  Agency,  Department of State,  Foreign
 Broadcast  Information  Service,  Navy  Operational  Intelligence
 Center and Maritime  Administration,  Office  of  Territorial and
 International Affairs, Department of the Interior,  United States
 Board on Geographic Names, United States Coast Guard, and others.
 While significant measures have been taken to verify accuracy, no
 guarantee of accuracy is implied, or to be assumed.

 INSTALLING ATLAS
 ----------------

      Installing Atlas is very simple.   Simply copy all the ATLAS
 files contained with this readme.txt file into a common directory
 that is accessible on your PATH.  We  recommend that you  make  a
 directory off your root directory called ATLAS.  If your  disk is
 drive C:,  then it would  be  "C:\ATLAS".   Once  you  make  this
 directory, you will need to edit your AUTOEXEC.BAT  file  to  add
 the ATLAS directory to your search PATH.  Note:  It is  important
 that the ATLAS files be  accessible  from  your  PATH  statement.
 After you complete these steps, your done.  To access ATLAS, just
 type ATLAS <cr> from anywhere you happen to be.

 Operating ATLAS
 ---------------

      Great care was taken to design ATLAS to be  "user friendly",
 To select the Country, or region you want information about,  you
 can either use either the up and down arrows, Page Up,  and  Page
 Down, Home and End Keys,  or simply  start typing the name of the
 country you want information  about.  Once  your  cursor  bar  is
 over the country you want,  press  enter  to  view  an  extensive
 data synopsis about  your  selection.  You  will  find  that  the
 information contained in ATLAS is very  extensive,  if you should
 come  across  information that  you do not  understand,  there is
 a Help file available that is built into ATLAS.  If you  have the
 commercial release of ATLAS  you  can  press  <F1>  to  send  the
 information about your selection to the printer.

      If you are in school  (or have  a  child  in  school),  work
 in the media, or simply like being better  informed  about  where
 current events are happening,  then  ATLAS is a tool  you  should
 consider.  The  Commercial  version of  ATLAS  contains  complete
 information  about  all  the  countries  of  the  world,  divided
 into 6 categories:   Geography,   People,   Economy,  Government,
 Communications, Defense.  Also  included  are  workups of all the
 worlds oceans, and even Antarctica is fully documented.

     With Atlas you can determine answers to questions like:

      What European Country has the most Civil Aircraft?
      How many telephones are there is Bangladesh?
      What % of the worlds population lives in China?
      Just how big is the United States Budget deficit?
      Who is the head of state in Bolivia?
      What country in the world has the highest average income?
      Does the Soviets or the US have a larger military?
      What % of Yugoslavia is Serbian?
      How strong/weak is the economy of Panama?

  Your only limit to the usefulness of ATLAS is your imagination!

      ATLAS was developed by a  computer  professional  whose  six
 year old was constantly asking him questions after the news  each
 evening.  Before long the questions were getting deep enough that
 research was required to field them.  All of us at Horizons  have
 found  ourselves  addicted  to  doing  our  own   research  after
 we see stories of interest.  A personal example, a few days ago a
 Greek  cruise  ship  sank  off  the  coast  of  South  Africa,  I
 immediately went to atlas to find out about Greek ship  registry,
 and the military capabilities of  South  Africa.  After a  little
 more extensive reading,  I  concluded  I'm not going on any Greek
 Cruise Chips.  They have one of the worst safety records  in  the
 world.

 Using ATLAS on a Network
 ------------------------


      If you have a network, you can operate the ATLAS evaluation
 copy by multiple users at once.   To do so will require that you
 flag the ATLAS.EXE file as Shareable.   This will allow multiple
 concurrent users to run ATLAS.  If you decide to order ATLAS, be
 sure to specify that you need the network version.

 Ordering ATLAS
 --------------

      The evaluation copy of ATLAS that  accompanies  this file is
 a very limited sample  of  the  commercial  version.   If,  after
 taking some time to look at it,  you  like  what you see and want
 the complete package,  the price is $29.95 + $2.00 (shipping  and
 handling).   You can order  via  telephone  or  fax  if  you  are
 charging to your credit card.  Otherwise our mailing address is:

                      
  H O R I Z O N S 
  Consulting 
      1432 E. Commercial Street  Springfield, MO  65803 
         Phone: (417) 839-2174 - Fax: (417) 831-1329 
 
    A convenient order form has been included in this ZIP file.
 

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