Alley-Wall Readme First File -- (c) David Pabst 1991
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This file is just tells about any changes, what you should do first, and
a run down of Alley-Wall features.

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Features
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Alley-Wall is the most advanced, easiest to use, friendliest, and
most direct way to post public bulletins to the rest of the
bulletin board system.  These are some of the advantages of using
Alley-Wall over the next "graffiti" wall competitor:

Ansi and ASCII Visual Support
     Alley-Wall uses both ANSI and ASCII menus, bulletins, help
     files, etc...  Alley-Wall generates an ANSI bulletin for color
     users and an ASCII bulletin for non-IBM computers or slow
     modem users. 

Easy To Use Menus
     Alley-Wall has friendly, delightful menus.  These menus can be
     interrupted by the user by typing ^K at any time.  Just as
     easy it was interrupted they can be displayed again using the 
     ? key.

An Advanced Setup Program
     A new interface was designed solely for programs written by
     me.  I incorporated the new interface in the setup program   
     for Alley-Wall.

Ease Of Use
     Just hit a key, and the Alley-Wall does its thing.  No hard 
     commands to learn, no cryptic ancient languages, and rapid
     learning time.

Flexibility
     Any of the bulletins can be edited using a text editor or an
     ANSI editor such as TheDraw.

SysOp Commands
     System Operators have special commands just for them to use. 
     Such as Kill Alley-Wall File, See Who Posted What, etc...

Special Lock Out System 
     For trouble makers. The SysOp can lock them out of the door  
     using a special utility that is included with Alley-Wall.    
     This lock out system can also shut down the door for         
     temporary purposes.

Support
     When you register Alley-Wall, you get:

     A) on-line support through Compuserve E-Mail and IBMBBS forum,

     B) a formatted, Near Letter Quality Printed copy of the latest
        documentation,

     C) support through RelayNet ShareWare (unofficial support    
        base) message base,

     D) bulletin board support (names and numbers are listed      
        further in the documentation),

     E) A reduced upgrade price for all major upgrades,

     F) notification of all future releases, 

     G) A disk with the latest version of Alley-Wall, and

     H) free bug fixes for all current versions of Alley-Wall.
        
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What You Should Do First
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You should print out LAYOUT.DOC, ALLYWALL.DOC, HISTORY.DOC, README.1ST,
ORDER.FRM, VENDORS.DOC, and SHAREWRE.DOC.

Then READ README.1ST, and ALLYWALL.DOC.

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Changes and Hints
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Any references to ORDER.DOC or INVOICE.DOC that may be in the documentation
are incorrect.  Keep it in mind that it is ORDER.FRM.

If you cannot get AWSETUP.EXE to work, refer to LAYOUT.DOC.

There have been some additions to the file list that is in
the documentation.  Here are the added files:

File Name       Description
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SHAREWRE.DOC    A text file that describes Shareware.
README.1ST      A text file containing changes in Alley-Wall.
HISTORY.DOC     A text file containing the history of Alley-Wall.
VENDORS.DOC     A text file containing decriptions of Alley-Wall for
                Sharware vendors.
ORDER.FRM       The order form for Alley-Wall.