******* MicroCook (C) Copyright 1993 - 1997 Written & Published by Gus Skiaker NORSKi Software P.O. Box 1802 Racine, WI 53401-1802 U.S.A. Telephone : (414) 633-9277 (6-9 P.M. CST ONLY) Also can be contacted on the following on-line services: Internet .... : norski@execpc.com or : microcook@execpc.com CompuServe.....: norski or 72713,1667 _______ ____|__ | (R) --| | |------------------- | ____|__ | Association of | | |_| Shareware |__| o | Professionals -----| | |--------------------- |___|___| MEMBER *** All Rights Reserved *** Published in the United States of America COPYRIGHT NOTICE No parts of MicroCook manual may be copied in part or in whole, except as provided in the License in the following pages. ----- Disclaimer ----- NORSKi Software and Gus Skiaker, the Author of MicroCook, makes NO warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, with respect to this software and accompanying documentation. IN NO EVENT SHALL NORSKi SOFTWARE BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES (INCLUDING DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF BUSINESS PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, LOSS OF BUSINESS INFORMATION, OR OTHER PECUNIARY LOSS) ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THIS PROGRAM, EVEN IF NORSKi SOFTWARE HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. This program is produced by a member of the Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP). ASP wants to make sure that the shareware principle works for you. If you are unable to resolve a shareware-related problem with an ASP member by contacting the member directly, ASP may be able to help. The ASP Ombudsman can help you resolve a dispute or problem with an ASP member, but does not provide technical support for members' products. Please write to the ASP Ombudsman at 545 Grover Road, Muskegon, MI 49442-9427 USA, FAX 616-788-2765 or send a CompuServe message via CompuServe Mail to ASP Ombudsman 70007,3536. LICENSE/REGISTRATION INFORMATION MicroCook is not, nor has ever been, public domain or free software. MicroCook is distributed as Shareware. Shareware is the best type of software, it's software you can try before you pay for it! Paying for Shareware is called "registering." If you bought a copy of this software through a disk vendor, paid to download the software from a BBS, or got a copy from a friend; you did NOT register it. The registered version of MicroCook may not be duplicated other than for backup purposes. A registered copy of MicroCook must be treated like a book, in that the same registered copy of MicroCook may not be used in more than one computer at the same time, just as a book cannot be handled and read by more than one person at the same time. When you register MicroCook, you are paying for the time and effort that went into, and continues to go into developing MicroCook. It is also the ONLY legal way for you to continue using the program after the 30 days trial period. To register: Select Register from the Print Menu, and select if you want to register ..by credit card from Albert's Ambry Web site. ..by check or money order through postal mail. ..if you are a CompuServe member, through SWREG ..with either MasterCard, VISA, American Express or Discover credit card, through PsL. You can receive your Serial Number and Control number for the KEY file via e-mail if you have a e-mail address. You will receive it as soon as either CompuServe or PsL notify me that you have registered, or as soon as I receive a check or money order from you. This will remove the "Please register" messages a little faster. You will still receive the disk with the KEY, MCDBFIX and the approximately 2000 recipes. The "Register MicroCook" item on Print menu is only available if MicroCook is NOT registered. You are granted a limited license to use the Shareware version of MicroCook for a limited evaluation period of up to 30 days, in order to determine if it suits your needs. Any other use of MicroCook or use past this period requires registration. You are granted a limited license to copy the Shareware version of MicroCook only for the purpose of allowing others to try it, subject to the above restrictions as well as these: MicroCook must be distributed in absolutely unmodified form, including ALL program, documentation, and other files. Distributors of Shareware, please see VENDINFO.DIZ for additional information. To print or view the documentation included with MicroCook, select "File Manager" from the Tool Menu in MicroCook. Here you will have the option to print the file you are viewing. You can also print the manual from the Print Menu. This will add a left margin to the printout so you can use a hole punch and place the manual in a 3-ring binder. If you are printing to a continuous feed printer (DOT-Matrix), you should locate the first page perforation about 1 inch above where the print head is located. This will format the text better on the page. WINDOWS 3.x users, see WINDOWS.TXT. Windows 95 users, see WINDOW95.TXT, and OS/2 users, see OS2_HOW.TXT for installation information. IMPORTANT!!! MCOOKxx.ZIP has been ZIPped with a registered version of PKZIP, and has an Authenticity Verification built in. So when you un-ZIPped the MCOOKxx.ZIP file, you should have seen a -AV after each file name, like: Inflating: MCOOK.EXE -AV and at the end of un-ZIPping these two lines: Authentic files Verified: # KEM280 NORSKI SOFTWARE The -AV mean that the file pass a checksum that was generated when I ZIPped up the file, and that it has NOT been changed since it left my PC. If you see the last two lines, it also tell you that ALL the files are exactly as they left my PC, and that the MCOOKxx.ZIP has NOT been re-ZIPped or tampered with. Only NORSKi Software has the been assigned the ID# KEM280 from PKWARE, and this number can NOT be falsified. If one of the files do NOT pass the -AV verification, or the last two lines are missing or different, SOMEONE HAS CHANGED OR RE-ZIPPED MCOOKxx.ZIP, and COULD have changed some of the files. You should then practice Safe Computing and run a virus checking program, just to be on the safe side. If you downloaded the MCOOKxx.ZIP file from a BBS, the Sysop there might have added some advertising for his/her BBS as a part of the ZIP file. Some shareware distributors also like to add their own installation programs too. In those cases, there's probably nothing else added, but be safe and do a virus check. If you downloaded MicroCook from CompuServe, the ZIP file is probably called MCOOKN.ZIP, and no version number is part of the file name.