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This Web site is dedicated to the thousands of "users" of my programs, those who have helped test my programs over the last 23 or so years, and especially those who shared their experiences with me.
You must read this notice: This is a licensed Web site (HTML document and associated files). You must read and agree to be legally bound in contract by the Terms of Use and conditions given in the End User License Agreement ("EULA"), Legal Notices, Instructions, Warnings, Disclaimers, and all other text in "SECTION: 0" of "This Web Site" (HTML document and associated files) before reading or using any of the information, software programs, and or files, contained in, linked to, and or associated with, "This Web Site" (HTML document and associated files). Any use or "Beta Testing" of "This Web Site" constitutes your acknowledgment of your full agreement with the current End User License Agreement ("EULA") and your decision to have this current license supersede all prior and contemporaneous agreements and understandings. Information and files in "This Web Site" (HTML document and associated files) have been placed here so that long time users of "The Author's" programs DANCAD3D.COM (tm) , DANCAD87.EXE (tm), DANCINEL.EXE (tm), DANCINES.EXE (tm) , DANCAM.EXE (tm) , or DANPLOT.EXE (tm) could help proofread the text of the documentation files or screens displayed, and also help test data files, example files, and or any software programs that might be made available from time to time, to aid "The Author" in finding mistakes, bugs, and other errors, omissions, defects, mistakes, and faults. Everything in "This Web Site" (HTML document and associated files) is "Beta Test", "Beta Code", Experimental, Preliminary, requires proofreading, or is being evaluated for possible revision, and is NOT warranted to be free of defect. To help "The Author" report any bugs, foul-ups, defects, or mistakes that you find, see "SECTION: 8" for instructions. "This Web Site" (HTML document and associated files) and all other files and programs by Daniel H. Hudgins are made available "AS IS" without warranty of any kind express, expressed, or implied. All offers and specifications are subject to change or discontinuation without notice of any kind. Please look over "SECTION: 8" of "This Web Site" before contacting "The Author."
If you wish to speak to me about my programs or this Web site it is best to e-mail me at the current e-mail address given on the e-mail address page in SECTION: 8.30.0.0. Below are some guide lines about who and what such correspondence should regard. Be sure the subject line of your e-mail is clear since you do not want your mail deleted as junk mail.
Thank you for volunteering to become a "Beta Tester". I thank you for making your contributing a submission that might be helpful in furthering my goals for developing the programs and files. Support contact is available at the discretion of "The Author". Please follow the guidelines in order to avoid delays or obstructions resolution of issues.
Please make your submitted comments constructive and useful since there is only one reason for contacting me, to help me improve my works, and thereby make things better maybe for yourself and the other users of my programs. Please be polite, to the point, and begin by stating that you have entered into agreement with the current "EULA" and are or wish to be an active "Beta Tester".
Please read this section and its sub-sections before you try to contact me. These revised contact guidelines replace all previous contact guidelines and instructions.
I now prefer to conduct support just by e-mail, so I would rather that you not mail things to me, or make attachments, unless you are asked to do so. Although I give out my phone number for you to leave a message on my answering machine if you do not have e-mail, I much rather that you contact me by e-mail. It might be possible for you to e-mail me and make an appointment for a time to chat by way of AOL AIM if you think that is needed to talk you through something, but e-mail is the best way to get in contact with me since I may be out of town or something for many weeks and not get your postal mail or phone message until I get back.
Please do not send postage stamps, coupon-reponse, return postage, money, enclosures, or anything other than one of my "Correspondence Forms" by postal mail or delivery service. I do not generally wish to accept items enclosed in envelopes or packages, so please do not mail me random items of any kind, and please do not send money with requests that I do something for you or answer some particular question or request. It is an unnecessary burden for me to mail back un-requested items, so please do not send them to me in the first place. If you ignore my request not to mail odd things to me I might just return them, I might just keep them unopened, or I might just destroy them.
All guidelines, statements, procedures, and specifications are subject to change or discontinuation without notice. All support for "The Author's Creations" may become unavailable at any time.
Please do not ask me about using correspondence methods that are not linked to in the current contact method index at the bottom of this page. I may not reply directly to some correspondence, rather, I may answer some questions about the programs through the FAQ section of this Web site for all "Beta Testers" to read, rather than just back to the sender as a personal reply, but I may do both, one, the other, or nether.
Over the years I have probably answered thousands of letters. From my long experience of answering all of these letters I am developing some procedures and guidelines to reduce extraneous correspondence and streamline the support process. I appreciate your cooperation in helping me to streamline my support correspondence efforts, thank-you.
If you wish to speak to me about my programs or this Web site it is best to e-mail me at the current e-mail address given on the e-mail address page in SECTION: 8.30.0.0.
I thank you for your interest in my programs, files, documentation, and other creations. I always consider it a complement when someone thinks enough of my efforts to take the time to want to contact me. However, I must ask that any questions be kept primarily to the narrow scope of commands currently in my current programs. Please go over this SECTION: 8, before you contact me.
Your correspondence to me is not confidential and may be reproduced in some form in the FAQ or elsewhere to help others with the same question resolve their query.
The Appropriate Subjects for Correspondence:
Questions for the FAQ, are generally limited to asking about which command in the currently released version of the programs might be used to do something that the programs can currently do.
Bug Reports, are generally a description in detail about a program command that does not seem to be operating as described in the documentation associated with that version of the program. Bug reports can also describe mistakes in "This Web Site," the documentation, missing files, and other sorts of errors, omissions, and problems with a given program distribution. Be careful that you do not mix files from different versions or distributions since they may not be intended to work together. "Beta Testers" should for the most part only be testing the most current program versions and revisions, and so Bug Reports should relate to commands in the most current program revision.
Wish List Suggestions, are statements about things that the current programs do not do, but you think might be useful to you. Such statements let me know what areas of my programs users are interested in. I cannot promise that any of your "wishes" will come true. In submitting suggestions you are granting and assigning any suggestions, including but not limited to suggestions for changes and improvements, to be the author's property without compensation to you of any kind.
Orders, if any are being accepted would be made on the "Order" "Correspondence Form," which may or may not be available at any given time depending on what I am doing in that regard. Do not use the "Order" "Correspondence Form" if it is more that 30 days old.
I have spent a lot of time over the years answering many of the questions people have asked me about using my programs. Because some of the questions I have received during the last few years have been off the subject of the direct operation of my programs I will try in this section to give to you some guidelines as to what sorts of questions and information might be appropriate for you to include in your correspondence with me.
Always be sure to state the exact program version, program filename, the date, the time, and the file size of the *.COM or *.EXE program file. The program version codes do not change for all revisions, so I also need to know the date, time, and file size in order to try to identify which revision you are "Beta Testing". If you think you have found a bug check to see if you are "Beta Testing" the most recent revision.
Any inquiry that asks about something that the copy of the most recent revision of the programs you now have now does not do is probably going to be considered a "Wish List Suggestion," and will generally not be replied to in the FAQ. "Wish list Suggestions" and similar sorts of suggestions are not generally considered support questions since they ask about things that the programs in current release do not even do. Do not word "Wish List Suggestions" in the form of a question, they should be statements like, "I would like to see your programs someday perhaps do..." and such.
Please do not ask me about other companies products, unless I have talked about using that product with my programs in the documentation, etc. I am not an expert about some other companies products so anything I might have to say about them is just my opinion and not definitive information or instruction.
If some other company suggested that you use my programs with their product contact them if you have a problem using their product with my programs, and let me know who they are and what they said about my programs. I do not generally get payments from other companies that might have recommend my programs to you, and so I have probably not gotten a share of your payment to them. If you got a defective copy of my programs from some other company that sold you something, contact them for assistance and let me know about the problem you are having by e-mail.
If you complete and mail one of the "Correspondence Forms" to me, I do not want you to enclose any stamps, coupon-reponse, return postage, checks, money of any kind, gifts, enclosures, or anything other than the "Correspondence Forms." If you have an order form in your copy of the programs, that order form is out of date and you should not send it to me. Orders, if any are being taken at this time, will probably now be handled as may be outlined in the "Orders and Payment" sub-section below. Do not send me personal letters, in their place use the "Correspondence Forms" linked to in a sub-section linked to below.
News about current events might be found in the What's New and Newsletter sections of this Web site, so you should refer your questions about current events to those sections.
Copies of older "Shareware" floppy disks, or old out of date articles, may be available on the internet or elsewhere, please ignore anything on those older shareware disks, or documents, that relates to the purchasing of out of date items. Please so not ask me about purchasing out of date items, or anything that is not currently listed in the "Orders and Payment" sub-section in SECTION: 8 of the current "On-Line" version of "This Web Site." The "Orders and Payment" sub-section on "CD- ROM" or other "disk" copies of "This Web Site" (HTML document) are almost certainly out of date, and so you should not try to order anything until you check the current "On-Line" text of the "Orders and Payment" sub-section of SECTION: 8.
Please do not ask questions about things the current version of my programs that you have now does not currently do, my personal situation, or questions about what I am working on or when anything might someday become available.
When you fill in the blanks of the "Correspondence Forms" please type or clearly print all of your entries, except for your signature. I prefer that you e-mail me now rather than use the postal mail for contact. Sometimes people have had illegible handwriting, using e-mail reduces that problem, and saves me time in writing replies.
If you have difficulty printing files included in the program distribution you now have, your printer may be incompatible with the programs, and therefore may not be able to be used with the programs.
If you think that you have received a defective copy of an old out of date version of my programs, or disks that have missing or altered files, you will need to contact the other party that you got the disks from for a remedy, but please e-mail me an tell me who caused you a problem and what that problem was.
The cost of mailing back my replies to letters by registered mail has been taken too large of a portion of what little money I have to spend on computer hardware and other things I might use to continue work on some of my projects. So, please just e-mail me about the programs and do not send me things that I would need to return.
Since I am not accepting registrations right now, please do not send me registration fees. Do not enclose with the "Correspondence Forms" any return postage, coupon-reponse, stamps, postage coupons, stamped envelopes, self addressed envelopes, or money for reply postage. Do not send to me any gift items by postal mail or delivery services such as floppy disks, printout, or anything else that I might have to mail back to you someday.
You probably do not need to keep writing to me personally about what new changes have been made to the programs, without your first checking what is said in the "On-Line" version of "This Web Site", like in the "What's New" section, etc.
It does little good to ask about the release dates of products that are under development, they will be done when they are done.
At this point in time I do not have a plan to offer support methods other than the ones linked to below.
I cannot be responsible for any lost or mis-delivered, misdirected, or misplaced postal mail or other lost or misguided electronic correspondence. I cannot be responsible for loss of your personal information in transmission or storage, so do not send any sensitive or private information to me.
Always include your full name and return address typed clearly in all correspondence.
My mailing address should be at the bottom of DANCAD3D (tm) v2.7's or v3.7's Main Menu. You are not allowed to visit at my mailing address in person, so please do not drop by spontaneously.
If you submit questions to be considered for the FAQ please only ask me very specific questions about the direct operation of my programs commands and their menus.
You might try searching the internet for information on other companies products by going to some external search Web sites linked to in SECTION: 9.11.95.0.
If you have found some old magazine article do not assume something that was offered years ago is still available. Please contact the other companies mentioned and do not ask me to investigate if their things are still available for you, or what price they might be charging now.
"This Web Site" (HTML document) or some version thereof that I have installed as www.DANCAD3D.com (sm) is still a work in progress, so please do not ask me about things that are not installed in "This Web site" (HTML document) right now, including files you might think should be in the download section. If you have an "abbreviated" distribution of "This Web Site" (HTML document), in a *.ZIP file for instance, some of the links to graphic, or other types of media files, may not work because some or all of the graphic files may have been omitted to reduce the number of bytes used. The "On-Line" site should not have broken links, so report any you find there.
If you make a link to my URL www.DANCAD3D.com (sm), the "On- Line" version of "This Web Site," please only link to the address http://www.DANCAD3D.com/ (sm) since the actual location of the individual files that make up the site may change from time to time.
All statements in "This Web Site," and or any correspondence with me, as well as all offers and specifications are subject to change or discontinuation without notice. All support for the programs will someday come to a end. So do not expect anything mentioned to be available at some point in the future. Always check to see what is being offered at the current time before sending any money for an order. Consider all ordering information to be void and out of date if it is more than 30 days old.
General guidelines to follow if you correspond with me:
Do not send payment with requests or to order out of date items. If payment for something is required you will probably see instructions on what to send in the "Orders and Payment" sub-section of SECTION: 8 of the "On-Line" version of "This Web Site." If "This Web Site" is down do not attempt to order at that time. Do not order from order forms that are more than 30 days old.
Do not send postage stamps.
Do not send self addressed stamped envelopes (S.A.S.E.).
Do not send return postage or "Coupon-Reponse International".
Do not send printed matter, floppy disks, or other items as enclosures.
Do not send anything that you want back, or that I will need to return to you.
Do not send anything by postal mail other than one of my "Correspondence Forms." Please use the appropriate "Correspondence Form" rather than composing your own form of a letter.
Do not ask me questions about products made by other companies unless I have talked about them in my documentation.
Do not ask more than one "Questions for the FAQ" per "Correspondence Form." Use a separate form for each "Question for the FAQ", "Bug Report", or "Wish List Suggestion". Try not to submit more than four questions per month.
Do not ask about features that are not in the current version you now have.
Do not ask where you can get the older programs or other items that are out-of-date, etc.
Do not ask about my health, personal problems, financial situation, or family difficulties.
Ask by e-mail about purchasing things that you see currently listed for sale in the Orders and Payment sub-section of SECTION: 8 of the current "On-Line" version of "This Web Site" at URL www.DANCAD3D.com (sm) before placing an order to confirm that they are available at that time.
Send your "Correspondence Forms" only by regular un-registered mail. I cannot be responsible for replying to lost, returned, or mis- delivered mail.
You might need to wait three months or more before re- submitting a "Question for the FAQ" if you see no reply in the FAQ. I may be out of town or busy so it may take a while for me to get caught up with things. You can e-mail me to ask about your submission.
Please limit "Questions for the FAQ" that you submit primarily to the operation of my program's commands and the program's menus.
You should supply your full name, and home street address that you will receive and sign for registered postal mail at, your e-mail address, and your home phone number in all of your correspondence to me so that I can contact you if I feel I need to. I might not reply to correspondence that does not have your full name and return address on it.
Type all of your questions, bug reports, wish list suggestions, evaluations, findings, submissions, and such you are sending to me on clearly. I am not good at figuring out handwriting, please type your text and also the "To:" and "From:" addresses on the submission. People in Europe should be careful not to make their Ones look like Sevens, or your answer, if I would send you one, might end up in your neighbors mail box.
Make your "Questions for the FAQ" very specific about my program's commands and not vague. Do not ask me what this or that is "best."
You can read all of my documentation files in my program distribution ZIP files that you now have and also read any of the information in the current "On-Line" version of "This Web Site" before writing to me with questions about the program's commands so you have a better feel for what questions to ask.
If the programs will not operate properly on your computer you would need to try another computer, or boot your computer with FreeDOS FAT32 (tm) boot CD or Windows ME "rescue" boot floppy (tm) since OS higher than ME (tm) may have issues. I cannot generally compensate for changes made to the OS that are out of my control.
Please make your submitted comments constructive and useful since there is only one reason for contacting me, to help me improve my works. Please be polite, to the point, and begin by stating that you have entered into agreement with the current "EULA" and are or wish to be an active "Beta Tester". If you are not or do not wish to be a legitimate "Beta Tester" please do not contact me via the contact methods linked to below.
Always be sure to state the exact program version, program filename, the date, the time, and the file size of the *.COM or *.EXE program file. The program version codes do not change for all revisions, so I also need to know the date, time, and file size in order to try to identify which revision you are "Beta Testing".
You may not mention that you have sent a gift in correspondence, nor may you ask about sending gifts, nor may you express in interest in sending a gift in your correspondence.
I wish you much success in all your projects, and hope you enjoy using my programs as you are able. I regret that I might no longer be able to send personal replies to some of the submissions that I will get in the future, but you can continue to try to submit "Questions for the FAQ", "Wish List Suggestions", and "Bug Reports" by using the correspondence contact methods linked to below. If you are reading this HTML document "Off- Line" you should check the current version of this section in the "On-Line" version of "This Web Site," if it is available at that time, for any current guidelines regarding correspondence. If the "On-Line" version is not working check back since the "On-Line" version may just be out of operation temporarily.
Active "Beta Testers" may submit Questions for the FAQ since they are the people allowed to run the programs and make use of information in this Web site. See Section: 0 if you would like information on how to become a "Beta Tester".
Transfer of your Copyright and other rights for your submission is always implicit upon your making any submission or correspondence.
Questions and Answers or FAQ are located in SECTION: 2, of "This Web Site" at URL http://www.DANCAD3D.com/. The decision as to whether any given question would be suitable for inclusion would be left up to my selection, and I might edit and or reword the question to reflect my view of the subject.
FAQ guidelines might work something like this:
You submit to me a question about the commands in my current programs for the FAQ using the contact methods linked to below. Your submission should contain a statement of your acknowledgment that you are transferring all of your legal rights, copyright rights (common and statutory), and ownership for and of the contents of your questions, writings, works, and correspondence to Daniel H. Hudgins in perpetuity for Daniel H. Hudgins do whatever he wants to do with your submission, including but not limited to publication, commercial sale, and or development of derivative works. The act of submission shall be considered an acknowledgment of the transfer of all rights pertaining to the submission in the absence of a statement acknowledging the transfer of rights. If you do not acknowledge your transfer of rights upon submission, you should discontinue your "Beta Testing" since such transfer of rights is an important part of the "EULA". If you do not wish to be active "Beta Tester" operating under the current "EULA" you should not contact me by using the current contact methods.
If I think the question is appropriate, and you have completed the transfer of all of your legal rights and Copyright rights to me, I might, after a month or two, or as I have time, possibly post the question, perhaps in edited form, along with some sort of answer in the FAQ or elsewhere in a revision of "This Web Site" or another work. The answer might just be a suggestion to read some part of the documentation.
You would then, after a while, look at the "On-Line" version of "This Web Site" to see if there is an answer to your question, or some part of the subject of your question. If the question was about something that I did not create, was in the category of questions I feel are about off subject matters, or your transfer of all legal rights and Copyright rights was not acknowledged properly, I would probably just ignore the question, and no reply would be posted.
In general I now prefer that you contact me about the programs or this Web site by e-mail. If I feel your questions are of general interest I might add something relating to them in the FAQ later someday.
Normally only active "Beta Testers" should submit Bug Reports since they are the only people authorized to run the current programs and make use of information from this Web site. See Section: 0 if you would like information on how one might become a "Beta Tester". I should add that it is the duty of anyone using this Web site or my programs to report any bugs they find.
If you want to submit a "Bug Report" you might use the BUGS.TXT form linked to in the "Correspondence Forms" sub- section linked to below. Or you can e-mail me. You will never be compensated or be given money for making bug reports.
The "Bug Reports" are primarily for use to report bugs, defects, errors, omissions, spelling and grammatical mistakes, broken HTML links, and other types of faults in: "This Web Site" (HTML document), all of the various documentation files I have authored, any of the demo, batch, sample, or example files I have authored, any of the software programs I have authored, and other files or items associated with the aforementioned.
I generally cannot fix bugs that I cannot see happening on my computer, or do not know are happening on your computer.
When you submit a "Bug Report" about a bug you should not expect that the bug you report will be fixed any time soon, or ever. Some bugs may be easy to fix and an update might be posted in a few days, but it is impossible to tell you in advance how long it will take or if a bug can or will get fixed. Reporting a bug does help me learn which parts of the programs are being used, and what I might need to improve if I ever find the time to go over those sorts of things.
The more detail you can send about exactly which chain of commands you entered to produce the bug will help me try to see if I can make the same bug show up on my computer. Tell me the scale settings and other values you entered when you configured the programs. Because of the wide range of computer hardware used to run my programs there is a good chance that I will not be able to get the bug you mention to happen on one of my computers, and so I will not be able to see the bug or fix it.
If or when I decide to release a revision depends on how things go from time to time, and it might be many years between updates, if there ever is one or are some.
If you sent me a bug report by email and did not get a reply I may not have gotten your message so please remail it and see if the second try gets a reply.
With the programs as complex as my programs are becoming there is only so much testing I can do by myself. Your bug reports might be informative for me to learn more about what is going on with other users, and their different hardware. Since I cannot read minds, or know what problems you might think exist with my programs' commands, the "only" way I can know what is going on at your end is if you tell me about your experiences by submitting your "Bug Report".
In the event I do not reply to your "Bug Report," let me thank you in advance for taking the time to make one.
Active "Beta Testers" may submit Wish List Suggestions since they are able to work with the programs menus. See Section: 0 if you would like information on how to become a "Beta Tester".
If you want to submit a "Wish List Suggestions" you can use the WISHLIST.TXT form linked to in the "Correspondence Forms" sub-section linked to below. Transfer of your Copyright and other rights for your submission is always implicit upon your making any submission or correspondence.
Please do not word "Wish List Suggestions" as questions, they should be worded as statements like: "Someday I would like your programs to be able to do..." and such and not "When will your programs do..." and such.
If you want to talk about a "Wish List Suggestion" it is best to contact me by e-mail since the cost of phone calls and postage stamps is not then required.
There is currently no new order form right now, check back in the future if you would like to see if a link to an "ORDER.TXT" file has been added to the "Correspondence Forms" sub-section linked to in the index below.
No release date has been set for the availability of items not already internally linked to in the "On-Line" version of "This Web Site." Since I cannot know how long it will take me to do "things", or how much free time I will have to work on "things," I cannot tell you much more about if or when anything might someday become available, so please do not ask me about such matters.
All of the order forms in the versions of the programs that are currently in circulation are out of date, do not try to order anything listed on those old order forms or try to send the amount of payment mentioned in those old out of date order forms!
Do not send by any means: order payments, stamps, postage coupons i.e. coupon-reponse, cash, checks, money orders, gift items in a package or envelope, anything of value, anything you might want back, enclosures, or anything other than by using the contact methods that may be linked to below to "The Author" unless you have been instructed to do so in a correspondence that was sent to you by Daniel H. Hudgins and was dated less than 30 days ago. In other words do not try to order goods if more than 30 days have passed between the time the order information was sent to you, and you send your order with payment back to me.
Do not ask me about prices and what can be ordered if you do not see a link to the "ORDER.TXT" "Correspondence Form," in the "Correspondence Forms" sub-section of this SECTION: 8 of the "On-Line" version of this HTML document, indicating that ordering information is currently available. If anything was available right now you would probably see instructions for how to get, or view, a current price list in this "Orders and Payment" sub-section. Products may be introduced, suspended, and discontinued without notice. If I am revising or re-designing a product it may become unavailable for a prolonged time, and not come back in the same or compatible form, if at all.
If you are reading this section "Off-Line" from a CD-ROM, or other media, this section is almost certainly out of date and you will probably need to check the "On-Line" version of "This Web Site," or the equivalent to possibly get somewhat more current information.
There are no products listed here at this time in this version of this document, which may not be up to date if you are reading an "Off-Line" version. All offers, and product specifications, are subject to change without notice. All order forms are out of date after 30 days.
You can check SECTION: 9, the Downloads links pages, to see if something like what you are interested in, a program or other file, can be downloaded at "no charge" from there.
SECTION: 8.10 Submitting via Postal Mail Correspondence Forms.
SECTION: 8.20 Submitting via Phone Message Drop Off.
SECTION: 8.30 Submitting via E-mail Drop Off.
SECTION: 8.35 Submitting via live Instant Message chat.