============================= README.TXT ================================== Welcome to the Travel Adventure CDROM, May 1994 edition! These photos, by professional photographer Nick Shears, are stored as super sharp GIF files with 1024 x 768 resolution and 256 colors. Versions at 640 x 480 are also included for faster viewing and printing. And for high-end color separations and desktop publishing, all images are also stored as 1024 x 768 TIF files with 16.8 million colors. Best of all, the photos on this disc are distributed entirely royalty-free. You may print these images again and again in anything from brochures to magazines -- all for much less than the cost of renting a single stock photo. You are also free to transmit the images to and from bulletin board systems (BBSs) or manipulate them in graphics programs. (You are not allowed to include these on any floppy disc or CDROM product.) Finally, for ease of use the disc also contains VPIC software so you can enjoy breathtaking slide shows that run unattended on your PC. Captions for each photo are also supplied so you can identify the subject and location of each image. Enjoy! =============================================================================== Important Files and Directories: readme.txt Text: This text file index.txt Text: Index file of all of the images index.zip Text: Index file of all of the images (ZIPPED) index.gz Text: Index file of all of the images (GZIPPED) view.exe Executable: The menu interface for this disc for MSDOS. Just type "VIEW" at your CDROM drive prompt! _bbs/ Directory: Index files and programs for BBS use. text/ Directory: Text files describing the pictures images/city/ Directory: Cityscape images (*) images/land/ Directory: Landscape images (*) images/mountain/ Directory: Mountainscape images (*) images/ocean/ Directory: Oceanscape images (*) (*) Each of the images/{city,land,mountain,ocean} directory contain the following directories within them: biggif/ GIF images: 1024 x 768 (8 bit color) smallgif/ GIF images: 640 x 480 (8 bit color) tif/ TIF images: 1024 x 758 (24 bit color) To get an idea of what an image may look like, take a look in the smallgif/ directories for a quick view at 256 colors and 640x480 resolution. The images within biggifs/ are also at 256 colors but are at a high resolution 1024x768 -- great for uses not requiring a lot of colors. Use the 16.7 million color, high resolution 1024x768 TIF images in your professional applications! ============================================================================== USING THE VIEW PROGRAM To use this disc, merely change drives to your CD-ROM drive, then type "VIEW" in the root directory of the CD-ROM drive, then press enter. The VIEW program will then display a listing of the subdirectories and their description on the disc. Use the cursor keys to move the highlight bar up and down the screen, then press ENTER to change into any of the subdirectories. The VIEW program will then display a list of files within that particular subdirectory. (To return back to the subdirectory listing, press the ESCAPE key.) While in the list of files, the VIEW program can let you read a text file, uncompress a zipped file, or copy a file onto another drive. To read a text file, merely position the highlight bar onto the line with the filename you wish to read, then press ENTER. While reading the document, if you wish to search for a string, press either the "S" key, CONTROL-S (type "S" while holding down the Control key), or F9 then enter the string for which you wish to search. For further occurrences of the string, merely press the S key, CONTROL-S, or F9 key. You may do reverse searches by pressing R, CONTROL-R, or F10 in the same manner. To copy a file, position the highlight bar onto the line with the wish to copy, then press ENTER. The screen will change to ask you to where you wish to copy the file, the default being a directory on your C: drive. If you wish, you may edit this destination box. Press ENTER to copy the file, or press ESCAPE to abort. ============================================================================== This disk conforms to the level 1, ISO-9660 format. All the filenames are limited to eight single-case characters, with an extension of up to three characters. Most directories have an index file named 00_index.txt that contains a description of each file in the directory. ============================================================================== Walnut Creek CDROM is an approved vendor and associate member of the Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP). ASP wants to make sure that the shareware principle works for you. If you are unable to resolve a shareware-related problem with an ASP member by contacting the member directly, ASP may be able to help. The ASP Ombudsman can help you resolve a dispute or problem with an ASP member, but does not provide technical support for members' products. Please write to the ASP Ombudsman at 545 Grover Road, Muskegon, MI 49442 or send a CompuServe message via CompuServe Mail to ASP Ombudsman 70007,3536. ============================================================================== Walnut Creek CDROM makes no warranty about any file on this CDROM, including any written by Walnut Creek. You, not Walnut Creek CDROM, assume all risk of using any of the files on this CDROM. We reserve the right to limit any effort on our part to rectify problems with any file on this CDROM. Please check individual files for copyrights and distribution restrictions. ============================================================================== Walnut Creek CDROM Suite 260 1547 Palos Verdes Mall Walnut Creek CA 94596 USA +1 800 786-9907 +1 510 674-0783 +1 510 674-0821 FAX info@cdrom.com ============================================================================== This disc copyright (c) 1994 Walnut Creek CDROM. We claim compilation copyright on the collection and individual copyright for all images published on CDROM. ============================== README.TXT ====================================