From: swbaker@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Texas Bob or Eddie Froman depending on the moon)
Newsgroups: alt.galactic-guide
Subject: NEW version of The Guide! (0.79 -- 04/11/92)
Summary: More speed, etc... get it!
Date: 12 Apr 92 17:56:05 GMT
Article-I.D.: vela.14664
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.

The Guide! is a DOS-based full-featured, multi-windowed, mouse-supporting,
pop-up and pull-down menu'ed "Project Galactic-Guide" article reading program.

People out there write articles for our own HitchHiker's Guide to the Known
Universe, and someone else edits and approves them, and The Guide! allows you
to search/query, display, print, etc these articles in the comfort of your
own <insert residental apparatus here>.  It runs on IBM-PC/286/386/486/
compatible systems, and is updated FREQUENTLY!!

In fact, a new updated version of The Guide! is available on "my" FTP site!!

*****

Release 0.79, 04/11/92

     Lots more junk changed here and there --
          * added more information in the Manual Control dialog box
          * fixed some of the weird glitches in the Update routines
            -- NOTE this involved enhansing the internal data structures,
               thus your previously-saved GuideNET data will be unusable.
               Simply re-update your system with the supplies .NEW files.
          * added nifty Print dialog box, useful for feature-toggling
          * improved the speed of the Update routines
          * added and enhansed some subtle pleasantries here and there...

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IMPORTANT:  I've changed a lot of the files included in GUIDE.ZIP, so I
            recommend that you use the [ -o ] option when unzipping, so that
            all your Guide-related files get updated.  For example:

                     C:\GUIDE>PKUNZIP -o GUIDE.ZIP

            this will (o)verwrite the existing files, so you won't have to
            answer 'yes' every time Pkunzip asks about overwriting files...

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             ----- HERE'S HOW TO GET TO THE FTP SITE -----

1. FTP here (Oakland Univ.)            [ ftp vela.acs.oakland.edu ]

2. Login w/anonymous id:               [ login anonymous ]

3. Use your own name and mail address as the password.  You won't see this
   echoed back to you, cos' the system treats this as a password, thus
   keeps it hush-hush.

4. Go to The Guide!'s directory:       [ cd pub/swbaker ]

   -- I didn't get to name this directory (the "powers that be" here @ OU
      gave me this dir. in granting my request); I would've used something
      more topical, like "guide" or something, but at least we have
      something to work with.

5. Display a directory:                [ dir ]

***** TO GET EXECUTABLE/ZIP FILES YOU MUST BE IN BINARY MODE!! *****

6. Switch into binary mode:            [ binary ]

   -- the system always defaults to ASCII, which is NOT what you want.

7. Get the stuff you want:             [ get guide.zip ]

   -- plus, you can get anything else out there which seems interesting...

To log out, type [ bye ].

Share and Enjoy!!!!  (or, in the local tounge, "Go and Stick your Head...")

Steve ( swbaker@vela.acs.oakland.edu )

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