01/05/97 Dear Shareware Customer.... Welcome to the February 1997 edition of the JCS Marketing, Inc. BEST of the www.BestZips.com CD-ROM! This has been quite an issue! We have added or changed 360 programs from 150 authors. Many of the new programs are Windows based, and are much larger than the previous average. To accomodate the bigger programs, we have purged programs submitted prior to 3/31/96. The following is the distribution of submissions on the CD: Publication Issue Date #Programs Accumulated %Total(860) 23 02/97 360 360 42.6% 22 12/96 246 606 71.7% 21 09/96 55 661 78.2% 20 06/96 87 748 88.5% 19 05/96 61 809 95.7% 18 03/96 36 845 100.0% We expect that the authors will continue to submit at the rate we are experiencing, and the next issue (April 1997) may purge all except the 12/96 and 2/97 editions. Our CD is becoming VERY current. Those programs purged (1104 purged programs as of today; total on-site 1988) are still available on our web site, www.bestzips.com, and we invite you to visit and browse. To keep the size of this file at a minimum, other files are available in the main directory: CLASSDIR.TXT - Roadmap to our new directory structure ALPHA.ASC - Alphabetical program List CLASS.ASC - Program list by Numerical Classification - Plus other files ending in .ASC for author mailing lists, and other program sequences. The CD-ROM contains: a) Class subdirectories, which contain FILES.BBS and LFILES.BBS files for those who wish to directly mount the CD-ROM on a BBS. Of interest, the main directory also contains a FILES and LFILES directory for your convenience. For those wanting a single file directory, an ALLFILES.TXT and a LNGFILES.TXT file is also available. b) A file access routine, JCSD.EXE for your convenience. If an author has included a version for vendors, and another for BBSs, the access routine now allows the user to UNZIP the appropriate version. c) As a courtesy to the Author, and for the convenience of using vendors, we have included various SCREEN SHOTS supplied by the author. These files are available for UNZIPPING and use as the user sees fit. They are most easily accessed thru the access routine JCSD.EXE d) A directory "VBRUN" which contains all five VBRUNXXX files required by some windows programs. To use the CD-ROM, two options are available...... 1. Simply run from the CD-ROM, as is, by: a: Make the CD-ROM drive the current drive. b: Execute the program JCSD. c: Follow the prompts. 2. Install the programs and files to your hard disk directories by: a: Make the CD-ROM drive the current drive. b: type INSTALL x y where: x is the hard drive to which you want to install. y is the drive code of your CD-ROM drive. NOTE: DO NOT include the ":" with the drive letters example: INSTALL C F will install the files to the C: drive from the F: drive. a subdirectory \JCSD will be created and about 5.0 mb copied to it. You will be left in the directory created. c: Execute JCSD d: At later points, to execute the program, CD \JCSD, and execute JCSD. Enjoy the programs, and remember the requirement to register the programs found useful! The authors whose works are contained have paid for the distribution service, and appreciate your support of the shareware concept by registering the programs found useful. Each of the next issues of the BEST of the A2V will be accumulative, with the previous issue used as the basis for the new issue. New programs will be added, and updates will replace previous versions. We encourage you to reach us with comments, suggestions, and improvements, at the following addresses: U.S. Mail: Bud Jay JCS Marketing, Inc. P.O. Box 1216 Lakeville, MN 55044 Telephone or Fax: (612) 469-5898 INTERNET: budjay@jcsm.com WWW: http://www.bestzips.com (visit the site with your web browser for the latest in additions between issues.)