06/15/96 Dear Shareware Vendor.... Welcome to the 19th (June 30th, 1996) edition of the JCS Distribution Author to Vendor (A2V) CD-ROM! With this issue, we have done the long awaited split of the Business, Educational, Games Publishers, Home/Personal, and Utilities Categories. We now have 81 active Categories. The new distribution is reflected in the structure in the file CLASSDIR.TXT. This edition contains a file in the main directory, RAW_CHG.TXT. The file gives a complete file/path to each file added/changed this edition. "jcsm.com", our internet home, continues to grow. Stop in and see us! With the 5/16/96 issue, we performed our first purge. The programs submitted for our 1/31/94 issue have dropped. We regret having to do this but we simply ran out of room on the CD. The 6/30/96 issue is absolutely full, and we will have to drop the programs of issue #2, 3/31/94, for our next issue. To keep the size of this file at a minimum, other files are available in the main directory: REQFIXES.TXT - Requests for features/fixes. We will review each of these and get them to the NEWFEATS,TXT as soon as possible. BESTOF.TXT - Description of our spin-off, for sale to end users, "Best of the Author to Vendor". CLASSDIR.TXT - Roadmap to our NEW directory structure The CD-ROM contains: a) Class subdirectories, which contain FILES.BBS and LFILES.BBS files (and now FILES.PCB and LFILES.PCB files for those who need the date format with "-", rather than "/") for those who wish to directly mount the CD-ROM. 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 for disk vendors and user's groups. 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 the using vendor, 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. e) To accomodate those vendors who are also authors, we have published a set of files in the Business catagory called "2300+ Shareware Vendors". The files contain the addresses of over 2300 vendors to whom we have sent a CD for at least one of the last 3 issues. It also contains data on how to send programs to us for publication in the A2V. 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 explain to your customers the requirement to register the programs found useful! The authors whose works are contained have paid for the distribution service, and appreciate your efforts to get their shareware into the hands of individuals who will register the programs. Each of the next issues 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: CompuServe: 71543,173 U.S. Mail: Bud Jay JCS Distribution P.O. Box 1216 Lakeville, MN 55044 Telephone or Fax: (612) 469-5898 INTERNET: budjay@jcsm.com