Category : Utilities for DOS and Windows Machines
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I don't know if you read the changes file in the previous version,
so I will summarize it. I sold my home in Santa Barbara, and moved
to a small town in Northern California to concentrate on writing
shareware full time. Well (you may ask), how's it going.

Since my program was reviewed on page 50 in the Nov. 13, 1990 issue
of PC Magazine, registrations have increased significantly.
Appearantly a lot of people read (and pay attention to) PC
Magazine. Site registrations have really increased, and I now have
some Fortune 50 customers. Banks, however, make up the bulk of
the Site Licensees.

I ran into a few tax problems (it was either pay Uncle a lot of
money, or put a lot of money into my house), so I've been
consulting pretty heavily the last year and doing major
reconstruction to my house. I think I am finally through with any
big consulting jobs (and with rebuilding my house), so now AutoCon
will be getting a lot more attention.

This is still not the release I had planned (it will probably show
up some time around July), but one of my competitors was on
Compuserve saying how much better he was than I because his program
could handle DOS 5.0's HIGH and UMB flags. I decided I needed to
add this capability to AutoCon and get out a new release before he
could cause any more problems. So with this release, AutoCon will
handle both MSDOS 5.0's HIGH and UMB flags, and it is compatible
with DRDOS which is one up on my competitor.

The 2.1 release of AutoCon will have a lot more editor
enhancements. I'm planning pull down menus (similar to the front
screen), and a split screen capability. I also intend to allow
Search/Replace operations to go automatically through all
configurations. I will also be able to use the screen size in
effect when AutoCon is started, instead of switching everything to
the 80X25 mode.

I have a support BBS online and functional. The number is (916)
623 4455, and it is in operation 24 hours a day. It has a 9600+
BAUD modem that is CompuCom CSP, V32, and V42 compatible (of course
it connects just fine at 2400 BAUD). The main function
of the BBS is (of course ) AutoCon support. If it gets busy
enough, it will grow into a full multi-line BBS. As a consequence
there are several megabytes of downloadable files on it, always
including the latest shareware release of AutoCon. I will also set
up a section for a group of Beta testers, so let me know if you are
interested in becomming one. I see several enhancements in
AutoCons future, as well as a few other programs that I have in
mind.

This is my first BBS and I'm sure there will be will be some
growing pains, so please bear with me.

I love the place I've moved to and I thank you very much for the
support you have given to AUTOCON, and for giving me the incentive
to change careers.


-Larry Weaver


  3 Responses to “Category : Utilities for DOS and Windows Machines
Archive   : AUTOCONG.ZIP
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  1. Very nice! Thank you for this wonderful archive. I wonder why I found it only now. Long live the BBS file archives!

  2. This is so awesome! 😀 I’d be cool if you could download an entire archive of this at once, though.

  3. But one thing that puzzles me is the “mtswslnkmcjklsdlsbdmMICROSOFT” string. There is an article about it here. It is definitely worth a read: http://www.os2museum.com/wp/mtswslnk/