ABOUT THE ASCII 'NEW PRODUCT NEWS' ARCHIVES FROM BAKER ENTERPRISES The files in this directory are monthly news archive files from our New Product News electronic newswire service covering the PC and Macintosh markets (see below for more details). Additional news files are also included from various trade shows, where the news volume warrants separating the data from the normal monthly news. Besides these ASCII file collections, copies of the same news articles are also available in a convenient hypertext Windows WinHelp format in the WIN3/BAKERNWS subdirectory. Each archive file here provides a collection of standard ASCII files (one file per article) formatted for 80 column viewing or printing using your favorite utilities. A simple index file (INDEX.TXT or 01_INDEX.TXT) included in each package provides a list of article headings and related filenames, grouped by product category. Additional information is provided by a README.TXT or 00README.TXT file within each package. The news files have a filename of: NEWSyymm.ZIP where 'yymm' represents the year and month the news files were distributed. Special trade show news collection use a similar naming convention. You can read the news files directly from each archive file using the command: PKUNZIP -cm NEWSyymm The news articles are grouped into the following product categories: Software - Business/Productivity Professional/Engineering System/Utilities Personal/Educational Games Macintosh Specific Miscelaneous Hardware - Systems Expansion (boards, etc) Peripherals Macintosh Specific Miscelaneous General News Publications (books, audio/videos, etc.) All data is from our electronic newswire service that currently appears daily on America Online (keyword=New Products) and Delphi (GO COMPUTING PRODUCT); plus weekly via affiliated local BBS services. Any local BBS, corporate networks, or other organizations interested in carrying our weekly "New Product News" can contact BBS Press Service at the address below for full details and sample data. Note that there is *NO CHARGE* to any company/author submitting press releases or other information for our distribution. If you offer a product or service to the PC/Macintosh markets (including Shareware products), let us help tell the world about it! All company and product information is also cataloged in our PC Vendor Database that appears in our area on America Online. The same data is distributed monthly on diskette via EMS Professional Software as their PC Products Database ($25 + $5 S&H within the USA, see below for address). The database lists tens-of-thousands of products, companies and authors; including commercial and shareware software products, hardware, peripherials, accessories, books, publications, etc. with addresses, phone numbers, E-mail addresses, Internet ftp/www/gopher pointers, and more. Please address all news & database submissions, -or- inquiries concerning using our news or database information for other applications, directly to our attention: BAKER ENTERPRISES 20 Ferro Drive Sewell, NJ 08080 USA Voice: 609-582-9203 Fax: 609-582-9204 Internet: RBakerPC@delphi.com AOL/Delphi: RBakerPC For more information on our New Product News for local BBS services, contact: BBS Press Service Inc 8125 S.W. 21st St Topeka, KS 66615 USA Voice: 913-478-3157 BBS: 913-478-9239 (current news samples are available online!) For more information on our PC Products Database, contact: EMS Professional Software 4505 Buckhurst Ct. Olney, MD 20832-1830 USA Voice: 301-924-3594 Fax: 301-963-2708 Internet: eengelmann@worldbank.org