Version 1.01 March, 1993 INFORMATION Shareware, evaluation version The BBS LEGAL GUIDE Copyright 1993 Clary and Kraft The BBS world has been hit by recent police seizures of major systems. Sysops have many legal questions about adult GIF's, copyright, employer-employee relations, electronic privacy and other topics. This program through-- full text of statutes with annotations, tutorials (nuts and bolts explanations of the law), menu driven legal forms generation, and BBS screens, provides answers to the questions that real life sysops, message networks and software developers of BBS products have. This archive contains the "basic" program. Each month additional legal forms, tutorials and text are created. Depending on the registration level desired (from $ 35 to $ 129) these updates are either mailed or posted in encrypted form on support BBS systems. All updates also contain answers to our users questions. The areas of updates and upgrades are primarily chosen from user requests. The complete program manual contains the all of the details about registration. Primary Support BBS-- Thanks to Webb Blackmon of the Blue Ridge Express, Richmond, Virginia. We have our own sub-board on Webb's fine, 36 line and growing system: 2400 baud 1-804-790-1675 9600 baud/V32/bis 1-804-790-9600 9600 baud/V42/bis 1-804-790-1126 After logging on to the BBS, from the main menu enter J FRINGE to visit our sub-board. We will be pleased to answer questions from potential registered users through our support BBS systems. Our West Coast Support BBS is ATTENTION TO DETAILS. Clint Bradford's great system also accepts credit card orders. ATTENTION TO DETAILS is located in greater LA. Reach ATD at: 2400-9600 baud V32/bis 909-681-6221 You can also call our single line BBS (9600 v32/v32 bis) 1-904-656-2263 If you are a member of GENIE, in off peak hours you may send messages as a part of your basic service without extra charge. Please send GENIE mail to H.KRAFT1. Other support BBS locations will be announced. Voice 904-847-6661 (24 hours daily) Fax 904-656-6495 MORE DETAILS ABOUT THE PROGRAM: What does the program do? You really receive 4 programs in one. STATUTES The first, is a educational program to read, review and learn your legal rights by reviewing, on screen, the FULL annotated text of laws and governmental regulations. The annotations, prepared by an attorney, carefully point the out the parts of the statute that are very important for your legal rights. TUTORIALS This program also features tutorials, which are instructional texts that explain the nuts and bolts of various legal problems in an easy to understand way. In addition, the tutorials feature an on-line dictionary and the ability to examine both full text of the laws and the explanation on screen. LEGAL FORMS The program provides many legal forms that are useful for the entire BBS community. All forms are created by a menu driven program. Many of the forms may be used as BBS screens or bulletins. WORD PROCESSOR A recent addition is an on-line word processor which you can use to alter forms once completed. Features of all programs: An on line note pad, and on line help. We also have a DOS shell which allows you to perform system functions or run other program without exiting this Legal guide. THIS PROGRAM IS NOT CRIPPLED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The program requires an IBM compatible PC, XT, AT, 386 or 486 system running DOS 3.3 or higher with at least 448 K free memory with a hard drive (fixed disk) and a printer. NO GRAPHICS CAPABILITY IS REQUIRED, but a graphics adapter is recommended. Registration is available in 3 levels, which provide varying service- $ 35, basic registration $ 69, regular registration $ 129 deluxe registration WARNING: DO NOT RELY ON OUTDATED INFORMATION. LAWS CHANGE CONSTANTLY. THEREFORE, WE PROVIDE REGULAR UPDATES WARNING OF ALL CHANGES TO THE LAW TO OUR REGISTERED USERS-- CHANGES CAN EFFECT THE STATUTES, TUTORIALS OR FORMS. THIS FREELY DISTRIBUTED VERSION OF THE PROGRAM CONTAINED DATA CORRECT FOR MARCH, 1993. THE DATA MAY BE OUTDATED AT ANY TIME. If you are unfamiliar with the shareware concept of software distribution, the file, "share.txt" explains this concept.