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Wincode
By Ron Yost

Hi all!

In response to Craig Brougher's questions re: "Wincode" I'd like to
provide some new information.

First, I think it should be remembered that 'Wincode' is, and has
always been, FREE.  The author of Wincode, George H. Silva, has only
charged for the help file.  I admit that this is somewhat strange, but
this is the way George has chosen to distribute his wonderful program.

Wincode is now in version 2.7.2.g beta.  This version is VASTLY
improved, and includes a Help file!  I've not encountered any encoded
file that the latest version can't automatically handle.  This latest
version expires Oct.  31, 1996 (yes, Halloween!), but George has
assured users that the full version will be available from the 'Snappy'
site before the expiration date.  (fingers crossed!)

The best (and fastest) site to get Wincode 2.7.2.g beta from is:

     http://www.global200.net/users/snappy/snappy/wincode.html

           (yes, two snappy's!)

All the shareware sites have the old version until the new version is
'released' in November.

This is the "Wincode Info Page" Mirror Site and contains 8-pages of
helpful information worth printing-out, as well as a direct link to
download v. 2.7.2.g.

If you want to skip the Info page, you can download it directly from:

   http://www.global2000.net/users/snappy/ftp/wc272b16.zip

Its approximately  995k.  Note: the 'b' indicates it's a beta version.

The new, official, Snappy Software WWW Main Page is:

   http://www.global2000.net/users/snappy/snappy/index.html

This is the page to make all links to in your web pages.

Hope this helps you, Craig.  Please try this version of Wincode.  I
still use Win for Workgroups 3.11 and have no problems at all with
Wincode.  It is still a 16-bit version, though, so I cannot vouch for
the performance in Win95.

If there are problems, Snappy has two e-mail addresses of use:

     For questions: wincode@snappy.global2000.net
     For comments:  feedback@snappy.global2000.net

Ron Yost <musik@tcsn.net>



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