ABOUT THE WinHelp '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 hypertext WinHelp file collectionsfor Windows, copies of the same news articles are also available in standard ASCII text file collections in the MSDOS/BAKERNWS subdirectory. The WinHelp news files here use a standard filename format of: WNWSyymm.ZIP where 'yymm' represents the year and month the news files were distributed. WinHelp news files from trade shows use a similar naming convention and generally start with a 'W' character to indicate the WinHelp format. To use this package, unzip the NEWSyymm.HLP WinHelp file from the .ZIP archive. Then simply locate the same .HLP file using the Windows File Manager and double click on the filename to activate. This assumes you have the .HLP filename associated with the WinHelp facility. If you have troubles, check the Windows documentation on how to make this association. Once started, use the standard WinHelp facilities to browse through and read or print the included news articles, add your own annotations, etc. Use the SEARCH feature to find articles listed by company name. Additional information is provided by a README.TXT file within the package and by several informational screens accessible from the starting page of the WinHelp file. 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