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To install the Slide Rule Program:
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1. Copy the slide.zip file to a temporary directory...
   (e.g. COPY A:\SLIDE.ZIP C:\TEMP)

2. Unzip the compressed slide.zip distribution file...
   (e.g. PKUNZIP C:\TEMP\SLIDE.ZIP)
   
   The following files should appear in C:\TEMP...
   README   TXT         2,929 09-11-96  10:00p
   SETUP1   EX_        59,061 08-15-95  12:00a
   VSHARE   38_         8,842 08-15-95  12:00a
   STKIT416 DL_         4,039 08-15-95  12:00a
   VB40016  DL_       580,252 08-15-95  12:00a
   OC25     DL_       306,271 08-15-95  12:00a
   CTL3DV2  DL_        14,788 08-15-95  12:00a
   VAEN21   OL_        23,044 08-15-95  12:00a
   COMDLG16 OC_        45,770 07-26-95  12:00a
   SLIDE    HL_        41,151 09-11-96  10:00p
   SLIDE    EX_       102,510 09-11-96  10:00p
   SETUP    LST         6,572 09-11-96  10:00p
   SETUP    EXE        30,656 08-15-95  12:00a

3. Start up Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher...

4. Run the C:\TEMP\SETUP.EXE program...

5. The following programs will be installed on your system...
   
   C:\SLIDE\SLIDE.EXE
   C:\SLIDE\SLIDE.HLP
   C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\VSHARE.386
   C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\STKIT416.DLL
   C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\VB40016.DLL
   C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\OC25.DLL
   C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\CTL3DV2.DLL
   C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\VAEN21.OLB
   C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\COMDLG16.OCX
   (You may delete all the files in the C:\TEMP directory at this time.)

6. Click on the Slide Rule Icon to run the program!

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Limited Warranty and Legal Issues:
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This Slide Rule program is contributed "as is" to the public domain.  The 
program, including its companion data and documentation files, is distributed 
entirely and exclusively as freeware.  As such, it is not intended for sale, 
resale, purchase, or for-profit distribution in shareware, retail, or 
direct-mail markets.

Users are free to install and run the program on any system or systems they 
wish (subject only to the program's hardware requirements).  Users are also 
free to copy and distribute the original files in any manner and via any means 
available to them.

Users are asked to distribute only the original files (preferably in their 
original compressed ZIP format).  When so distributed, it is the distributor's 
responsibility to ensure that the program files have been kept in their 
original state and format, and have not been altered, edited, patched, 
disassembled, decompiled, or recompiled in any way.

The programmer makes no warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this 
software.  In no event will the programmer be liable for any direct or indirect 
damages arising from the use of this software.

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Copyright 1996 by David A. Brown
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