Thank you for trying out D-MAN.  Please note that this is a
shareware program.  If you find it useful, please send a $15
registration fee to the author:

     I. F. Carlstrom
     2769 Derbyshire Rd.
     Cleveland Hts., OH 44106

     Registered members will receive the latest version, more
complete documentation, and certain other files and utilities
that might be found useful.

     I am well aware that most people consider documentation
something to be placed in a corner and never read.  As far as
possible, D-MAN was written to accommodate such an attitude. 
Some help is available in the program by pressing the HELP key
{F3}.  Otherwise, considerable attempt was made to make familiar
methods work.  One caution should be noted!  Use a CANCEL key {F1
or ESC} to avoid taking action.  As is common in current
software, the EXIT key {F7} forces the action to be taken.  For
example, you might highlight a directory and press the ERASE key. 
You would be asked permission to delete the directory and its
contents.  If you are only exploring, press the CANCEL key at
this point!  Don't press the EXIT key and erase your directory.

     D-MAN has many competitors.  Even if you (alas!) come to
prefer some other system for many of your file management tasks,
note some of the special features of D-MAN.  You may find that it
makes it very easy to carry out certain tasks.  The file display
is also quite unique.  Various colors are used to indicate the
non-printing characters.  The resulting displays will be
colorful, informative, and fun to look at.  You will find that
you can learn a lot about the ways that data files are organized
by application programs.  Check out the PROJECTS section of the
documentation.  Here are some suggestions of ways that a
directory manager could be used to carry out more complex tasks. 
If a word processing file became damaged and could no longer be
loaded, it could be valuable indeed to be able to use D-MAN to
recover the data.  Hopefully you will find D-MAN sufficiently
useful to be worth the registration fee and will support the
continuation of this project.

     The development of a complex shareware program such as D-MAN
takes hundreds of hours.  This is initially a labor of hope, as
well as a fascination with the project itself.  In the end it is
your support that makes such projects even dimly practical.  If
you have supported other shareware projects, I thank you on
behalf of all who have kept this concept alive.  If you choose to
support this project, I would be particularly grateful.