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	ShagOS General Information
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Copyright (c) 1996 Frank E. Barrus.  All rights reserved.


ShagOS, and most of its components, are free software for non-profit uses;
they may be freely used and distributed for non-profit purposes under the
terms of the Shagware Non-profit Public License, version 2.

SOLO, including all of its components, is free software for all uses;
it may be freely used and distributed for all purposes under the
terms of the Shagware General Public License, version 2.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED.
THE AUTHOR SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, 
INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY
AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  IN NO EVENT WILL THE AUTHOR, OR
ANYONE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE LEGAL MODIFICATION OR REDISTRIBUTION OF THIS
SOFTWARE, BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY LOST
PROFITS, LOST SAVINGS OR ANY INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, WHETHER
RESULTING FROM IMPAIRED OR LOST DATA, SOFTWARE OR COMPUTER FAILURE OR ANY
OTHER CAUSE, EVEN IF THE AUTHOR IS ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY OTHER CLAIM BY THE USER OR FOR ANY THIRD PARTY CLAIM.

You should have received a copy of the Shagware Public License along with this
program, in a file called 'COPYING'.  If this license was not received,
please contact the author and describe how this software was obtained.

The author can be reached for questions, comments, and suggestions at:

    Frank Barrus, 27 Lackawanna Blvd., Gillette, NJ 07933, USA
    email:   shaggy@mail.csh.rit.edu

    For bug reports, please read the file 'BUGS' first, then include the 
    product name and version, and the word 'bug' in the subject.

Complete, unaltered, original distributions of this and related code
may be obtained from:   http://www.csh.rit.edu/~shaggy/software.html
or:	ftp://ftp.csh.rit.edu/pub/csh/shaggy


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In a complete ShagOS distribution, the following documents should
be in the 'doc' directory, and can be read for further information:

SOLO Information:
	README.solo		information about getting started 
	STATUS.solo		current status 
	CHANGES.solo		history of past changes 
	ANNOUNCE.solo		general announcement

ShagOS Microkernel information:
	not currently available

CParse information:
	README.cparse		misc info (incomplete/temporary)

DECO information:
	README.deco		misc info (incomplete/temporary)

SHACC information:
	README.shacc		misc info (incomplete/temporary)

General information:
	readme			this file
	bugs			how to report bugs
	donations		info about donations
	credits			recognition for those that helped development
	bugfixers		recognition for those who helped fix bugs
	install			installation instructions
	standards		various standards being used in the source
	lic_spl2.txt		ShagWare Public License, version 2

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If you're using SOLO, write to me and let me know what you're using
it for, so I can get a better idea of what features are most 
important for future releases.

If you tried SOLO and decided not to use it, please write to me and
let me know why, so that I can possibly improve future releases
to be more useful to everyone.

Also tell me if you want to be on the 'solo-announce' mailing list,
to be automatically notified when there are new releases or bug fixes.

There will also be an 'sos-announce' mailing list when the new ShagOS
is finally released.  If you wish to be on it, let me know.

	 - Frank (shaggy@csh.rit.edu)


