curtis@achilles.ctd.anl.gov (Jeffrey Curtis ) (06/21/91)
--- ANNOUNCEMENT --- Are you tired of having to take too much time out of your busy schedule to perform simple tasks like deleting or moving files? Is the LED on your floppy drive burnt out because you've been wasting time with second-rate disk utility programs? Are you envious of the "rich guys having all the fun" with their light-speed hard drives? Your time has come - time to step up and take charge of your utility needs with a revolutionary new product called Heatseeker. Heatseeker has been specially developed to meet the needs of the users who have had to put up with too much for too long. Owners of eight-bit Apple //s can now perform those same, simple commands with speed you would never have dreamed possible! Take a look at these astounding figures (performed on a standard floppy drive on an Apple //e): Copy //+ v9.0 Heatseeker v0.50b Delete one file: 13.3 seconds 3.0 seconds Delete ten files: 52.0 seconds 5.4 seconds Undelete one file: 5.5 seconds 3.5 seconds Undelete ten files: 19.0 seconds 4.0 seconds Lock ten files: 1.0 seconds 0.8 seconds Unlock ten files: 1.0 seconds 0.8 seconds Move ten files: Too long! ** 0.7 seconds .. plus much much more! ** It took Copy //+ over FOUR MINUTES just to complete HALF of this task! Heatseeker v0.50b was done in less than ONE SECOND! Clearly, the more work you need to do, the more you need Heatseeker. Can you afford NOT to own Heatseeker? How much would you expect to pay for such a product? Twenty dollars? Thirty dollars? Well, Copy //+ can be bought for twenty to thirty, so surely Heatseeker must be more expensive, right? Wrong. For a limited time, as users of the Usenet, you can obtain a copy of Heatseeker ABSOLUTELY FREE OF CHARGE! That's right, free (sorry, no ginsu knives or vegematics to convince you B^) ). All I ask is that you leave email to curtis@achilles.ctd.anl.gov with information on your hardware configuration (computer model, ROM number (if a GS), floppy drive type, and so forth). You can then expect your own copy of Heatseeker via email shortly thereafter. Heatseeker v0.50b should run on any Apple // computer capable of running ProDOS 8 (even Apple //+s!). As indicated, this is a beta-test version. Pending response from the users and testers, Heatseeker may or may not every be fully completed. See the Heatseeker documentation (included with the program when you leave me email) for full information regarding the future of this project. Thanks! Jeffrey S. Curtis Programmer and Developer, Heatseeker curtis@achilles.ctd.anl.gov [ InterNet ] B41801 AT ANLVM [ BITNET ] P.S. Please don't leave me mail asking for source code or "how I did it". At this juncture, absolutely NO information will be given out regarding source - this is currently being considered a trade secret under state law. Source may be given out later, and if it will be, I will make another announcement. Thank you.