Authors Read Me!!!
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   First,  we  would  like  to  thank  all  the Public Domain, Freeware, and 
   Shareware authors that have supported the Atari TOS  computers  over  the 
   years.   One of the best features of the Atari  line  has always been the 
   quality of the independent  authors,  and based on the offerings of late, 
   this is one tradition that is still going strong!  Thanks!                
                                                                             
   With the growing popularity of CD-ROMs on the Atari marketplace, the cost 
   of obtaining your software has never been less!  With over 1,600 programs 
   on this one ($39 US) disk, the user pays less than 3 cents per program!!! 
   With such a low distribution cost, more people than ever before will have 
   access to your software.  To ShareWare authors, this means more potential 
   customers.                                                                
                                                                             
   Program Missing?                                                          
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   Due  to  the  wealth  of  software  available,  it was impossible to  put 
   everything on the first disc.  If you have software that was not included 
   on Volume 1, please send it to us.   We will  make  sure that it  gets on 
   included on a future volume!                                              
                                                                             
   Author List                                                               
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   We are in the process of compiling a list of authors, their products, and 
   current mailing address.   It is our hope  that by  maintaining a list of 
   current addresses, it will make it easier for people to get in touch with 
   you.  It should also help to  ease the minds of potential donors, knowing 
   that they have your current address, and  that  you  are still supporting 
   your product.                                                             
                                                                             
   ISO 9660 Standard                                                         
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   Thanks to  the  ISO 9660 CD-ROM  standard, Atari users  can access CD-ROM 
   discs from other platforms with ease.  This makes a wealth of information 
   available to Atari users without needing Atari specific discs.   For this 
   reason the ISO 9660 standard is wonderful.  It does, however, impose some 
   restrictions on file names.   If you want your programs to be able to run 
   from CD, keep these restrictions in mind:                                 
                                                                             
        Only upper case characters A-Z, 0-9 and the _ (underscore)  are      
        allowed in folder and file names.                                    
                                                                             
        Folders are not allowed to have extensions.  So you are limited      
        to eight character folder names.                                     
                                                                             
        CDs are limited to eight directory levels,  you  should  try to      
        use no more than five to provide for orginizational directorys.