** ANNOUNCEMENT ** HercPrt v1.1.0 has been released

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I am pleased to announce the release of a new softdevlabs.com product called
HercPrt.

In return I am asking that you PLEASE MAKE A DONATION.

I haven't had to do this in a long time now but current economic conditions
force me to. The meager income I was earning providing paid Hercules support
is no longer enough to pay the bills. The economic crisis the U.S. is going
through is affecting everyone and as a result my consulting income has
dropped precipitously. Thus the need to once again "whine for money"
(donations).

I don't like begging (whining) for money since I'm sure many of you (or at
least those in the U.S. in any case) are probably going through some
economic hardships of your own, but it is especially hard on people like me
who are still unemployed. For those of you who HAVE jobs and thus a
reasonably steady income, please consider sharing a small piece of it with
those less fortunate than you in the form of a donation:

   PayPal donation link:
   http://tinyurl.com/yen7p5l

In return for your donation I am offering a new product which I hope you
will find useful. It is called "HercPrt" and is a remote Hercules printer
spooler:

  http://www.softdevlabs.com/hercprt

It is a Windows program that spools the printout from a Hercules socket
printer and creates either PDF files or RTF files or HTML files or just
plain old text files in whatever directory you choose under the control of a
Job Separator Control File that enables HercPrt to split your printouts on
Job Separator Page boundary and name the file according to the actual job
accounting field values extracted directly from the separator page itself.

And it does all this without the need of any third party product being
installed beforehand. All of the PDF, RTF and HTML generating code was hand
written by myself based on the available documentation from Adobe as well as
several samples floating around the web.

Your PDF reports can be created on Green Bar paper in any of several
predefined colors (Green, Blue, Yellow and Red) or a custom color of your
own choosing.

Your PDF report can be created using any of several predefined paper sizes
(including "compact" fanfold) or using whatever custom form size desired.

You can even have is create your PDF files with realistic looking "feed
holes" if you want.

Additionally, "overlaid" printing is also fully supported, so feel free to
print those old "picture" printouts of naked ladies or Albert Einstein etc
that you've had laying around all these years. :)

As an added bonus HercPrt also comes with a command-line utility called
"txt2pdf" that will convert a text file into a nicely formatted PDF or RTF
file.

HercPrt comes with a full installer and complete context sensitive Help
support for both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows. It is the first of my products
to be released with an installer and full Help support and is meant to give
you an idea of things to come.[*]

My other products (HercGUI, CTCI-W32 (to be renamed to CTCI-WIN), AWSBrowse
and ftape) are currently still in development and will be released as each
of them are finished (by year's end I hope!).

So, PLEASE make donation, won't you?

I'm not sure we can even pay rent this month, which is why I'm whinin.. er,
*asking* (HOPING!) for some much needed DONATIONS in return for HercPrt.

   PayPal donation link:
   http://tinyurl.com/yen7p5l


Thanks everything. I really appreciate your kindness and continued patience
as I continue to work as fast as I can at getting new versions of ALL of my
products ready for release.

(But in the mean time I could sure use some money!)

Thanks. :)

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[*] ALL of my products now come (or rather WILL come [2]) with full
installers and context sensitive Help support. All of the installers are
already written and appear to be working fine. The context sensitive Help
infrastructure is in place and working well. The only thing remaining (for
the most part anyway) is to write the help files.




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It has been reported to me that the donation link I provided in my email
doesn't work:

>    PayPal donation link:
>    http://tinyurl.com/yen7p5l


I've recreated the link. It's now:

  http://tinyurl.com/ycr3bpy


I hope it works better this time. If not, there SHOULD be a good donations
link on the actual HercPrt web page itself:

  http://www.softdevlabs.com/hercprt


Otherwise, here's the complete link it all its ugliness:

https://www.paypal.com/xclick/business=fish%40infidels.org&item_name=HercPrt
+Donation&return=http%3A//www.softdevlabs.com/Hercules/thankyou.html&cancel_
return=http%3A//www.softdevlabs.com/Hercules/nothankyou.html


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