10/21/93
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        I'd like to announce the pending release of a new shareware
programmer's library for PowerBASIC 3.0, Powerplant for PowerBASIC.  I
am currently working on this library, and expect it to be available in
another month or two.  Powerplant will combine low, medium and high-level
functions and subroutines into one of the most comprehensive, well-rounded 
and useful shareware BASIC libraries you've seen.  At last count, I had over
300 routines developed, and am working on more.  If you liked my Menusys 
library, you'll love Powerplant.  As with Menusys, most of the routines will 
be written in PowerBASIC source, allowing you to alter them easily to fit 
your needs.  The source code to the Powerplant routines will be available to
registered users, as it is with Menusys.

        Look for Powerplant on the PowerBASIC BBS (813-629-9145), and
through the Fidonet Programmer's Distribution Network (PDN) somewhere around
or before Christmas, 1993. If you have questions or suggestions for routines 
you'd like to see included, please address them to:

Tim Gerchmez
12648 S.E. 81st Pl.
Renton, WA  98056-9121

Thanks for your interest, and once again I welcome suggestions
for routines you'd like to see included in Powerplant.