============================== README.TXT ================================ Welcome to the Supreme Court Opinions CDROM! This CDROM contains 18,888 files in 465 megabytes relating to Supreme Court opinions from 1988 to 1994. This CDROM contains syllabi, concurring opinions, dissenting opinions, per curiam, and other pertinent text files in ASCII and WordPerfect format from 544 cases, totalling 3830 files. The original scanned briefs from 48 cases in 1991 and 1992 are included as well -- a total of 4704 images! ========================================================================== MSDOS Quick Start Change to your CDROM drive and type "view" (without quotes). 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