Decide for Windows Demo v1.0 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NOTE: BEFORE USING, YOU MUST READ AND ABIDE BY THE SOFTWARE LICENSING AGREEMENT AT THE END OF THIS FILE Thank you for trying Decide! Decide is a powerful decision analysis tool used to draw decision trees using Windows 3.1 or greater. Decide allows you to: 1) Quickly and easily construct decision trees 2) Work on multiple trees at once 3) Copy tree images into other Windows applications 4) Perform sensitivity analysis on your decisions This demo program has all of the features included in the regular version, except you cannot save or print files. You may, however, open the included "Bid.tre" file. For those of you that ordered this demo copy direct from Software Inventions, Bid.tre is the example tree covered in the manual. For information on using the Decide demo, see the on-line help. ================================ Pricing: Student Version: $45 (can save/print/copy, but is limited to opening one decision tree file at a time, and has a limit of 50 end nodes) Regular Version Price: $295 (Can work on multiple trees at once. Tree sizes limited only by available memory) Both versions include full documentation. ================================ Our Compuserve ID is 71052,352. For orders call: (800) 770-6346 For questions, or problems call: (907) 345-6347 or write to: Software Inventions, Inc. 7400 Hillside Way Anchorage Alaska 99516 Mastercard, VISA accepted ================================ Installation: To install Decide, insert the Decide program disk into the proper disk drive on your computer. To install Decide using the program manager, select the File/Run command and type in a:install or b:install (depending on which drive the disk is in) and click on the "OK" button. 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