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                        Release 6.0 - Abridged
                 Copyright 1996, All rights reserved


                             April, 1996

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Introduction
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Hello Pascal Programmers;

        Welcome to the latest/greatest edition (release number six) of the 
Pascal Programming Tool-Kit.  Sorry it took so long but a lot has been 
happening in my life. (Don't ask, it's not pretty)  Anyway, please help me 
keep it from being my last edition by kindly distributing a copy to any of 
your friends who might be the least bit interested.
        The Pascal Programming Tool-Kit is a collection of self contained
Turbo Pascal (R) code units designed to implement a variety of related
functions that you can incorporated into your Pascal programs. This update
has many more code modules which I'm sure you'll find useful for your Pascal
programming projects.

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Goals
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	The PPToolKit library provides the best possible performance with 
the most efficient and responsible use of system resources.  The code works 
cleanly, quickly and fast.  Most of these units were coded to achieve good 
performance on the lowly 8088 processor.
	The demonstration programs still don't do much justice to the sheer
power of the code.  I hope to work on that before my next release, but It 
depends on the amount of time I have and the popularity of my toolkit.  I 
also still intend to include new units in each release, so that eats up a 
lot of my time as well.
	Incidentially, I still measure the popularity by the number of 
regristrations and going by that number, I should have quit on this project
a long time ago.  For those of you connected, I've post a copy of the
library on the internet.  Hope that extends the circulation a little.  
(I'm taking no more rejection notices from the shareware publishers)

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What's new
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        I've got good news on the user's manual.  In this release, I've 
worked on trying to make it more useful and more user friendly.  I still 
can't seem to reduce it's size, what with the library growing by leaps and 
bounds every release, but I still managed to improved what I hope to be 
the very best of user manuals.  It's not by any means complete, but I'm 
still working on it.
	The user's manual is still growing at a fantastic rate, so fast 
that I've had to split it into two volumes.  I've also been forced to 
removed most of the illistrations because it was over four hundred pages 
and took up three megabytes on my system.  In the last release, I couldn't 
shrink it enough to include it in any manageable form.  So, I had to resort 
to pure ASCII text and in that form, it lost most of it's beauty.  In this 
version, I'm going to include it in both versions.  (It's written on IBM-
Works for OS/2)  Beta units will now be documented in the second section of 
each volume.
	I've gotton no responses on the graphical units which so many of 
you have expressed an interest before!  What gives?  Look for the next 
release in about three or four months.

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Licensing stuff		| Please be sure to read. |
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Pascal Programming Tool-Kit copyright 1994, 1995, 1996 P. Renaud

        This library is distributed under the TRIALWARE concept.  It allows
you to try out the software on a trial basis before you decide to purchase
the right to use it.  If you find this library useful and valuable, please
send a contribution to the author.  Any contribution amount is greatly 
appreciated, but only $20 or more constitues a full regrestration.


        Please send cash, cheque or money order to:


        P.  Renaud
        1151 West Klein Street
        Mount Morris, Michigan 48458-2359


        I welcome your comments, suggestions or praise, even if you decide
not to use PPTool-Kit.  To speed things along, you may use the registration
form in the Registra.Txt file.
         Feel free to pass along copies of this library to all your
friends.  The library is licensed and may not be sold by any one other than
the author.  User groups and selected others only are granted permission to
collect a fair distribution charge in regards to the distribution of this
library.

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Legal stuff		| At least skim through this |
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Acknowledgments
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