ÉÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿ º MTA Make Them Anything ³ D.I.S.P. ³ÄÄÄÄ¿ º Convert Compressed ³ ³°°°°³ ÇÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ ³ ³°°°°³ º (c) 1990 Robert W.van Hoeven ³ Dutch ³°°°°³ ÇÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ ³ Independent ³°°°°³ º Release : 14.10 ³ ShareWare ³°°°°³ º Rel.Date: 1th December 1990 ³ Programmer³°°°°³ ÌÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ°°°°³ º | ³°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°³ º | ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ º | ÚÄÄÄÄÄ¿ | º | ³°°°°°³ | º | ÀÄÄÂÄÄÙ | º | ÚÄÄÄÄÁÄÄÄÄ¿ | º ------³³³³³³ ÍÍͳ------- º ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ ÌÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ º Address: Robert W. van Hoeven º PO. Box 131 º 1170 AC Badhoevedorp º Nederland / Holland ÈÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ Prices have changed since the previous release, first because now the NON-commercial users also must pay for a license, second because the US dollar has a very low transfer rate. Copyrights and License Agreement ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ - Users of the MTA-package must accept this disclaimer of warranty: - The MTA-package is supplied as is. The author disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability and of fitness for any purpose. The author assumes no liability for damages, direct or consequential, which may result from the use of the MTA-package; - The MTA-package is a "shareware program" and is provided at no charge to the user for evaluation. Feel free to share it with your friends, but please do not give it away altered or as part of another system. The essence of "user-supported" software is to provide personal computer users with quality software without high prices, and yet to provide incentive for programmers to continue to develop new products. - If you find this program useful and find that you are using and continue the use of the MTA-package after a 30 days trial period, you must register the MTA-package as described below; - Non-commercial can get a license for the usage up to this release of the MTA-package for a small amount of money. Look into the details in this file. Previous registered users will receive a big reduction to upgrade to the newer versions. These users should look into the details in UPGRADE.MTA. For Non-commercial users there is a POSSIBILITY to submit to one of the special contracts as explained in this file; - Commercial usage of MTA will cost somewhat more. Also, a so called 'closed' Bulletin Board System (a system where the user must pay direct to the SysOp to get full access) is has to pay more than a Non-commercial user. Both types of users should look into the details in this file; - The registration of the MTA-package will license ONE copy for use on any computer at any one time, as long as the usage confirms to the type of registration you have done (so NON-commercial usage when you have a non-commercial license); - Anyone distributing the MTA-package for any kind of remuneration must first contact the Author at the address above for authorization. - You are encouraged to pass a copy of the MTA-package along to your friends for evaluation. Please encourage them to register their copy if they find that they can use it; - When you are a non-commercial user of MTA and you are depending on the software, you can consider to pay a small amount of money for service. The terms for this option can be found in the file REGISTER.MTA. - Support on MTA, when used in a non-commercial environment, is available even when you don't enter a service contract, but the payed users (both commercial users and non-commercial users with a service contract) have higher priority; - Problems and suggestions can be entered in the FidoNet Echomail conference called DISP (international). Entering this echo does not exclude you of the duty to register the MTA-package, though users who evaluate the product can enter the echo for questions; - The MTA-package, all programs, the documentation and support-files is copyrighted 1990 by Robert W. van Hoeven, PO. Box 131, Badhoevedorp 1170AC, Holland. All rights are reserved. You may copy this package for backup purposes. Also you may copy and share unmodified copies of the whole package, providing that the copyright notice is reproduced and included on all copies. Excluded from this statement are the support-files written by other authors. Please refer to the documentation of these programs for copyrights and license agreements; - Comments, suggestions and bug reports are welcome and will be answered as soon I have the time to do so. You can send me a letter of leave a NetMail message named to Rob Van.hoeven (mind the point) on node 2:512/100 (RA Support, Monster, Holland, SysOp is Reinier de Groot). When you want to send me normal mail, address it to: Robert W. van Hoeven, PO. Box 131, 1171 AC Badhoevedorp, Holland; Also you can enter messages in the FidoNet DISP Echomail area; Registration information ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ There are several ways to register the usage of the MTA-package. All is depending on the environment where MTA will be running. NON-Commercial registration ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ When you use MTA in a non-commercial environment, the registration is simple and rather cheap if you consider all the time I have put into this product. As NON-commercial user, you must pay for a Non-commercial license. Payment of the registration fee, entitles you to: - The license for running ONE copy of the MTA-package in a NON-commercial environment on any computer at any one time; - A diskette with the latest copy of the MTA-package on 5 1/4 or 3 1/2 inch diskette (360/720 Kb); - A special file to enter the name of the owner (company) in the header of MTA. This file can be used on subsequent releases, also those releases obtained from Shareware sources like a BBS; - The license for NON-commercial usage can not be used in any other environment than the NON-commercial environment itself. Upgrading to a commercial license or to a license for a closed BBS can be done by paying the difference in price between the current license and the new license; The license does NOT include any update service as described later nor does it include the 90 days support service. The price for a NON-commercial license is US $ 20,--. Commercial registration ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ When you use MTA in a commercial environment or when you use MTA on a so called 'closed' BBS (this is a BBS where the users must pay to the Sysop to get full access), you must pay for a license to use MTA. Payment of the registration fee, entitles you to: - The license for running ONE copy of the MTA-package in a commercial environment on any computer at any one time; - A diskette with the latest copy of the MTA-package on 5 1/4 or 3 1/2 inch diskette (360/720 Kb); - A special file to enter the name of the owner (company) in the header of MTA. This file can be used on subsequent releases, also those releases obtained from Shareware sources like a BBS; - The license for a 'closed' BBS can not be used in any other commer- cial environment than the BBS itself. Upgrading to a 'normal' com- mercial license can be done by paying the difference in price; The license does NOT include any update service as described later nor does it include the 90 days support contract. The price for a commercial license is US $ 75,-- for a normal commercial user or US $ 30,-- for a 'closed' BBS. Support contract ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ Both commercial AND non-commercial users can enter a support con- tract. Paying the fee for a support contract, entitles you to: - Free support (by Fidonet Netmail or by mail) for the first 90 days after payment; - This support consists of answering questions and fixing any program errors the owner of the support contact submits to me in person. Only program errors that can be reproduced and that interfere with the intended use of the program as outlined in the documentation (MTADOCEN.DOC) will be fixed. The author can ask you to give some special data (sometimes on a diskette) to correct the problem and can ask you to check if you own a valid copy of the MTA-package; - The author may choose not to fix any problem that is related to hardware and/or software configurations and that causes one or more of the programs in the MTA-package not to run correctly. In this case the author can be asked for a refund of the support contract for the unused part of the contract, starting the date the problem was submitted to the author and ending at the end of the 90 day period; - One special customized copy of a full-screen configuration program, so you can do your configuration of MTA with a Q&A-type of program; - The author makes no other warranties, expressed or implied, and this warranty is expressly limited to the cost of the support contract fee; After paying the support fee, you will receive a written description on how to enter problems or suggestions. The price for a support contract is US $ 25,-- for a NON-commercial environment and US $50,-- for both commercial and closed BBS environment. Update service ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ Both commercial AND non-commercial users can enter the update ser- vice. International users who use MTA commercial or non-commercial will benefit most of this feature. Paying the fee for update service, entitles you to: - Receiving every new release (minor AND major) for the period of one year or 10 releases (which ever comes first) on diskette media by first-class Airmail; - The updates will be send the same day the new release is submitted to the support BBS (2:512/100 in Holland); - The diskettes are first-class (no no-name or white diskettes) and will contain a special diskette label; The price for update service is US $ 30,-- for 5 1/2 inch (360Kb) dis- kettes and US $ 40,-- for 3 1/2 inch (720Kb) diskettes. Paying ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ - By postal money order or international money order. Normal cheques (if they are not EuroCheques) will cost me extra money to transfer, so add US $ 10,-- for transfer if you use such a cheque. Cheques that can not be collected within a reasonable time, are returned to the sender; - EuroCheque written out on : - Robert W. van Hoeven Badhoevedorp PLEASE READ EURO_CH.ME! - Giro-cheques (only dutch) written out to the name above; - Sending money directly, but please make sure you send it with some kind of safety, so you can make sure yourself that I received the money. When you send money, you can also send money in your own currency, but make sure to use a valid exchange rate. This is the exchange rate on the day you send the money to me; In NO way I can accept credit-card transfers. If you are not sure, please contact me by normal mail ! Dutch users can also pay in dutch money. Transfer the amount of dutch money in one of the above ways. Use the exchange rate on the day of transfer as found in the newspaper of that day).