PGOETZ@LOYVAX.BITNET (03/22/89)
I have two related questions for you folk:
1. Shareware: A few of my friends and I (mostly writers for COMPUTIST)
have some programs we want to market as shareware. We're planning to distribute
them on bulletin boards and networks.
Do you have any advice such as things to do, things not to do
(such as, should we take out magazine ads?), or the types of programs which
are most successful as shareware? I'm planning on asking from $10-25
for my utility programs. Is that unreasonable, or too low?
(I tried to send this question to Don Elton specifically, but the
mailer gags on "pro-carolina".)
2. Posting: I've never posted any program anywhere, nor do I have any
packing programs (UUENCODE, ShrinkIt, BINSCII, BLU, and all the other dozens of
programs which I'm supposed to be familiar with just to get a program onto
& off of a board). What program should I use to post Apple DOS 3.3
B,T, and A (binary, text, and Applesoft) files so the most people can
read them? Better yet, how can I just post a complete disk (preferably DOS 3.3)
so others can download it? This includes postings to APPLE2-L, Genie,
Compuserve, AppleLink, Delphi, and local bulletin boards. I have Kermit and
Ascii Express.
And now, for something completely different:
I've tried for the last few years, usually unsuccessfully, to get
a summer programming job. Why is it so hard for a highly-qualified person
with skills supposedly in great demand to get a summer job? I know
most local software companies (Muse, Avalon Hill, Microprose) claim that
a person can't understand one of their programs well enough to work on it
in less than 1-3 months, but that is complete bullshit.
Does anyone know a good way to find a summer programming job?
Any known job openings around Maryland that you're not saving for yourselves?
Disclaimer: Any resemblences to persons real or imaginary is very probably
intentional and malicious. So sue me.
Phil Goetz
PGOETZ@LOYVAX.bitnet
(301) 532-8240
"I'll be mellow when I'm dead" - Weird Al YankovicSEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) (03/23/89)
> (I tried to send this question to Don Elton specifically, but the >mailer gags on "pro-carolina".) Either: delton@pro-carolina.UUCP = delton%pro-carolina.uucp@PSUVAX1 or delton%pro-carolina.cts.com@nosc.mil >2. Posting: I've never posted any program anywhere, nor do I have any >packing programs (UUENCODE, ShrinkIt, BINSCII, BLU, and all the other dozens of >programs which I'm supposed to be familiar with just to get a program onto >& off of a board). What program should I use to post Apple DOS 3.3 >B,T, and A (binary, text, and Applesoft) files so the most people can >read them? Better yet, how can I just post a complete disk (preferably DOS >3.3) >so others can download it? This includes postings to APPLE2-L, Genie, >Compuserve, AppleLink, Delphi, and local bulletin boards. I have Kermit and >Ascii Express. APPLE2-L, the ftp sites, and comp.binaries.apple2 require a 7-bit version, Genie, AppleLink and the rest would prefer 8-bit. So... GET SHRINKIT and BINSCII from LISTSERV@BROWNVM (email LISTSERV@BROWNVM the command INDEX APPLE2-L to identify which files you want from the archive). Use ShrinkIT to turn a DOS 3.3 disk into a ProDOS file (leave out the DOS 'cause it'll just take space AND it isn't strictly legal to include it anyway). Upload the resulting ProDOS library file to Genie, AppleLink, etc. Use BINSCII to convert the ShrinkIT file into (several) files which you can email to APPLE2-L@BROWNVM (which will forward them to the known Universe ;-) Murph Sewall Vaporware? ---> [Gary Larson returns 1/1/90] Prof. of Marketing Sewall@UConnVM.BITNET Business School sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu [INTERNET] U of Connecticut {psuvax1 or mcvax }!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL [UUCP] -+- I don't speak for my employer, though I frequently wish that I could (subject to change without notice; void where prohibited) According to the American Facsimile Association, more than half the calls from Japan to the U.S. are fax calls. FAX it to me at: 1-203-486-5246