PRESS RELEASE
                                      9 OCT 92

Trident Infotech (USA), Inc., is pleased to announce the release of WinTfmt
(pronounced WIN-T-FORMAT), a super-classed field formatting software for
Windows programmers using C/C++.  Unlike similar products, WinTfmt offers a
full range of unique features that make implementation of data-entry screens
a breeze!  Since WinTfmt was specifically developed for the programmer, it
can be easily incorporated into applications.

WinTfmt supports four types of field formats:

    - Generic, fixed-length fields (e.g., telephone numbers, Social Security
                                    numbers, etc.).

    - Dates.

    - Numeric Fields ("true" number fields with variable field lengths).

    - Currency Fields (specialized numeric fields to hold currency data).


Any application that accesses WinTfmt automatically inherits the following
formats:

      Generic, fixed-
           length formats:      U.S. Social Security Number
                                U.S. style telephone number
                                5-digit U.S. ZIP code
                                9-digit U.S. ZIP code

      Date formats:             U.S. style date (without century digits)
                                U.S. style date (with century digits)

      Numeric formats:          U.S. million style (i.e., fields supporting
                                     13 digits and 4 decimals)

      Currency formats:         U.S. million style dollar fields (i.e.,
                                     fields with "$ " supporting 13
                                     digits and 2 decimals)

WinTfmt's most salient features include...

   -  client-server methodologies to dynamically support any number of client
      applications with any number of application instances, and any number
      of Windows or fields (subject to memory availability).


   -  customized formats for application needs.  Client applications can
      customize formats -- transparent to internal inheritance mechanisms --
      for specific needs (e.g., credit card number, British style date,
      numeric weight field [accepting 5 digits and no decimals],
      British Pounds, Japanese Yen, etc.).

   -  minimal overhead.  Each new class or format used by an application
      requires a mere 80 bytes!  Because of WinTfmt's inheritance
      optimization techniques, subsequent instances of a registered client
      use only two bytes per additional registration per class/format.  Each
      field created under WinTfmt consumes only 16 bytes!  All memory
      management is performed by WinTfmt.  Memory is allocated and held in
      WinTfmt's data segment.

   -  dynamic enabling or disabling user input to a field.  With a single
      function call, applications can control events in a WinTfmt field.
      This feature is useful when data is to be displayed in a specific
      format without allowing data modification.

   -  controlling numeric and currency fields to accept signed or unsigned
      numbers.

   -  displaying negative numbers in various formats -- parenthesis around
      (finance format), signed to the right or signed to the left of the
      number.

   -  loading/retrieving data from/to a file to/from a field.  Data stored in
      files (without formatting characters) can be loaded to the screen
      transparent to the format of the field.

             For example, U.S. telephone numbers stored as 8009999468 in a
             file will be displayed as (800) 999-9468.  Dates stored in a
             file as 19921001 will be displayed in US century format as
             10/01/1992 or British century format as 01/10/1992.  Numbers
             stored in a file as 9999999.99 will be displayed in U.S. million
             format as 9,999,999.99.  Currency values stored as 9999999.99
             will be displayed in U.S. currency format as $ 9,999,999.99.

      With WinTfmt's abstracted APIs, applications can get and set data
      into data variables thereby eliminating overhead generally required to
      convert data to character strings.

   -  data comparison APIs that allow applications to compare data in a field
      with their data variables.  With abstracted comparison APIs,
      applications will call the same function regardless of field type.
      Hence, the learning curve is small -- you need learn only one set of
      APIs (IsEqual(), IsLesser(), etc.).  Additionally, generic fixed-length
      fields can be compared with and without case-sensitivity.



   -  "coloring" fields with two function calls.  Additionally, colors can be
      changed, turned on or off.  

   -  free re-distribution of the WinTfmt DLL with your application(s).

   -  comprehensive product support.

WinTfmt is offered at an introductory price of $39.95 through
December 31, 1992.  Thereafter, WinTfmt will list for $74.95.

For a demonstration of WinTfmt, download WTFDEMO.ZIP from this or other
popular CompuServe forums dealing with C/C++ / Windows.

Trident Infotech can be reached at:
80 Grand Ave., Suite 200
Oakland, CA  94612-3743
TEL: 1-800-999-WINT
FAX: 510/415-5842
CompuServe: 70760,2460