ANIMAL 1.0a   (c) Lee Sumner  Visual Basic Version  Jan 1995     
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Animal is a simple guessing game based upon a question and answer style.  
You should start by thinking of an animal, then run the program.  The 
program will ask questions to try and determine the identity of your 
animal.  You simply answer Yes or No to the questions.  
If you think of an animal that the program does not know, it will ask you 
firstly for the name of the animal, then for a question to differentiate 
between the animal you were thinking of and the animal the program guessed.
The question you give the program must be answerable by Yes or No otherwise 
the logic of the program fails.

Questions such as "Does it have legs ?" or "Is it nocturnal ?" are the right 
kind of questions, Questions such as "How many legs does it have ?" are no 
use because the answer is not Yes or No.

The program then asks you for the correct answer for the new animal.
Now for the clever bit(?) - the program remembers this new animal and,
in theory, will not make the same mistake again.

When you add a new animal you are asked firstly if it should be added to
the 'list', this 'list' is held in memory while the program runs.  This 
option is given to allow you to discard a new animal if you made a typo etc.

When you choose NO to the question "Do you want another go ?" the program
checks if you have added any new animals and offers to save them to disk.

The animal database is stored in "ANIMAL.DAT" in the working directory of the program.  
If you want to make the program forget every animal it knows and start afresh, simply 
delete this file before running the program.

INSTALLATION
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To install the program simply unzip the file animal.exe into a directory.
To add an icon to program manager, create a new group by choosing File - New from the 
Program manager or open an existing group such as 'games'.  Then choose File - New and select
'new program item'.  Type in the location of the Animal.exe file and choose Ok.


FREEWARE
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********Copyright notice*******

The files that constitute Animal.zip are free shareware that should only 
be distributed in the archive Animal.zip or some other similar archive format 
and they must not be altered in ANY WAY WHATSOEVER. The archive Animal.zip is 
freely distributable but all files remain Copyright 1995 Lee Sumner. 
Lee Sumner hereby asserts his right to be recognized as the author of these files. 
The use of any other reverse translation software on any of the files 
contained within the archive Animal.zip IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN. Responsibility is 
desclaimed by Lee sumner for any damaged caused to data contained within your computer or 
any other ancillary device resulting from use of this archive any such damage being 
entirely accidental and unforseen.


I would like to hear from anybody who uses this program with any
comments or ideas.  Also, if anybody experiences difficulty in
using this program, please let me know ASAP so I can fix it.

This program is also available for the Psion3a and can be found in the Psion library of
the Palmtop forum on compuserve.

Compuserve ID: 100067,2216
Snail Mail: 21 Ivy Cottages, Cheapside, Belper, Derbys DE56 1FY