			Pageant Director by James Butler
			Written with Visual Basic 5 1/31/98
			For Windows95/NT only!

This program only works with Windows95/NT. You must have Microsoft Excel
and Word programs to use one of the features of Pageant Director.

Pageant Director is a custom database frontend that keeps track of 
demographic information for contestants in a beauty pageant. It also allows
the user to startup Excel or Word from within Pageant Director so you can
use your own existing spreadsheets and word documents in the PD environment.


Unzip the pageant.zip file to a folder on your hard drive, you will then
have 3 zip files disk1.zip, disk2.zip, and disk3.zip.
Unzip each one of these to a separate diskette, you will then have the 
installation set. 

Put disk1 in your A:\ drive then click Start/Run and type A:\setup
follow the on screen instructions. If you change the default directory
the database will not work or you have to have the contestants.mdb file
in a folder on the C:\ drive named Pageant Director. If you install to 
the default directory you won't have a problem.

The help system for Pageant Director is still under development and will
be finished soon. Anyone registering before the help system is finished
will be sent an updated copy of the program at no charge.


DISCLAIMER - AGREEMENT

Users of Pageant Director must accept this disclaimer of warranty:
"Pageant Director is supplied as is.  The author disclaims all
warranties, expressed or implied, including, without limitation,
the warranties of merchantability and of fitness for any purpose.
The author assumes no liability for damages, direct or conse-
quential, which may result from the use of Pageant Director."

Pageant Director is a "beta test program" and is provided at no charge
to the user for evaluation.  Do not give it away altered or as part of
another system.  The essence of "user-supported" software is to
provide personal computer users with quality software without
high prices, and yet to provide incentive for programmers to
continue to develop new products.  If you find this program
useful and find that you are using Pageant Director and continue to use
Pageant Director after a reasonable trial period, you must make a reg-
istration payment of $10.00 to James Butler.  The $10.00
registration fee will license one copy for use on any one
computer at any one time.  You must treat this software just like
a book.  An example is that this software may be used by any
number of people and may be freely moved from one computer
location to another, so long as there is no possibility of it
being used at one location while it's being used at another.
Just as a book cannot be read by two different persons at the
same time.

Commercial users of Pageant Director must register and pay for their
copies  within 30 days of first use or their license
is withdrawn.  Site-License arrangements may be made by con-
tacting James Butler.

Anyone distributing Pageant Director for any kind of remuneration must
first contact James Butler at the address below for authorization.
This authorization will be automatically granted to distributors
recognized by the (ASP) as adhering to its guidelines for
shareware distributors, and such distributors may begin offering
Pageant Director immediately (However James Butler must still be advised so
that the distributor can be kept up-to-date with the latest
version of Pageant Director.).

You are encouraged to pass a copy of Pageant Director along to your
friends for evaluation.  Please encourage them to register their
copy if they find that they can use it.  All registered users
will receive a copy of the latest version of the Pageant Director
system.

Send registration fee of $10.00 Check or money order to:

James Butler
108 McMurray Circle
Nashville, TN. 37211

Direct all other corresspondance to jnbutler@geocities.com


