PsL Monthly CD Welcome to the PsL September 1993 CD. This month's CD contains nearly 700 programs received by PsL in the last 30 days. It also contains a couple of dozen bonus files selected from PsL's disk-based collection for the AICPA. To view this file, use the PgUp and PgDn and the cursor keys. To exit, press ESC. One other file will be displayed; press ESC again. Then PSL_NEWS will run. This is the program that accesses the CD. Next time, you can just run PSL_NEWS to skip seeing these files. 1. Run PSL_NEWS to read the CD-ROM usage license. 2. PsL News Files: The files PSL_NEWS.0 thru *.9 are the text of the current PsL News. These files are in the PSL_NEWS directory and are used by PSL_NEWS.EXE. They are also in the file PSL_9309.ZIP in the \DOS\ELEC_PUB directory. 3. File Format: All programs are in ZIP format. Some very large programs have also been installed on the CD so that individual users of the CD (as opposed to BBS users) can more easily try them out without having to go through a long, disk-space eating installation. The "preinstalled files" directories do not have FILES.BBS files, as they are not intended for downloading (because the same files are in ZIP format in other directories). Sysops will probably want to hide the directories of preinstalled programs. All ZIPs have FILE_ID.DIZ files in them for easier BBS use. 4. Here is the directory structure of the CD: DOS\ ;zip file directories: BUSINESS - general business apps. COMM - communications EDUCA - education ELEC_PUB - electronic publishing GAMES GRAPHICS - clip art, displays, etc. HOME - various home apps. MUS_SNDS - music and sounds and related programs. PRGMMING - programming. PRINTING - printer utilities/apps. RELIGION STATS_EN - statistics, math, engineering. UTILS - utilities. WORDS - word processing programs and utilities, editors, etc. ;preinstalled (non-ZIP) files: BCM_BCF2 - clip art CDTOONS - clip art GGLABEL - clip art MONARCH - demo PCFILE7 - PC File SSE - clip art STORM - arcade game TRIP - travel database WIN\ ;zip file directories: APPS - general applications DESKTOP - desktop tools (clocks, notepads, reminders, etc) EDUCA - education ELEC_PUB - electronic publishing GAMES GRFX_FNT - graphics, fonts, icons, BMPs, etc. PF_FM - Program Manager & File Manager replacements, enhancers, tools. PRGMMING - programming SOUNDS - WAV files and sound-related utilities. UTILS - utilities ; preinstalled files: CSHEARTS - CardShark Hearts with 4+MB of WAV files. WAV - WAVeffects WAV files. A bonus directory was included this month - the AICPA Utilities. Unlike the rest of the CD, these are NOT files received by PsL in the last 30 days. They are set of utilities - one set for DOS, one for Windows - assembled by PsL at the request of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants for their members. The AICPA sets are all in ZIP files, but do not contain FILE_ID.DIZ files. The sets are in the AICPA\DOS and AICPA\WIN directories. 5. FILES.BBS files: For BBS use, we have added FILES.BBS files listing the contents of each ZIP file directory. We have been told a dozen different formats to use, but the format we used was the most common: FILENAME.EXT -SIZE-- --DATE-- Description------------------------------------- ^1 ^14 ^22 |description continued.------------------------- ^32 6. The \SCREENS Directory The Screens directory contains screen shots of many of over 100 programs on this CD. For information about how to see the screen shots while reading PSL_NEWS, see TOGETHER.DOC in the SCREENS directory. 7. Reviews Files In the REVIEWS directory are the reviews of the more than 8000 programs in PsL's disk-based collection. (These are NOT all on this CD.) The files RVW_??.ZIP in REVIEWS\RVW_ZIP are ZIP files of the Reviews by category (with ?? being a two-letter category code). SYSOPS: Please make these files available to your callers. AH: Accounting/Finance, Home MS: Misc., Home AB: Accounting/Finance, Business MU: Music, Sounds BZ: Business Applications P1/P2: Printing CH: Church, Religion PG: Programming CM: Communications RE: Retail Product Reviews DB: Database SS: Spreadsheet DP: Desktop Publshing, Clip Art U1: Utitilies - Disk/File ED: Education U2: Utilities - Operating System GA: Games WI: Windows GR: Graphics WP: Word Processing ML: Mailing List Programs WU: WP Utilities 8. RUNTIMES The RUNTIMES directory contain run-time files required by some other programs. 9. YOU Make This CD. Your comments and suggestions are appreciated. We are striving to make this the ideal CD for sysops and vendors, as well as for individual and users. We will implement every possibly suggestion that will still allow us to produce the CD in a timely manner. If you are a programmer and want your program distributed on this CD, simply send it on disk to the address below. Public (software) Library P.O.Box 35705 Houston, TX 77235-5705 Voice: 713-524-6394 FAX: 713-524-6398 CompuServe: 71355,470