* GHOST.FMT @ 0, 0 SAY "+-------------------------------------------------" @ 0,50 SAY "+" @ 1, 0 SAY ": -- MESSAGE FROM THE AUTHOR'S GHOST --" @ 1,50 SAY ":" @ 2, 0 SAY ": I wrote this program because I'm interested in" @ 2,50 SAY ":" @ 3, 0 SAY ": genealogies and computers. Being on a computer" @ 3,50 SAY ":" @ 4, 0 SAY ": should make it easier to pass on to following" @ 4,50 SAY ":" @ 5, 0 SAY ": generations because updating and distributing" @ 5,50 SAY ":" @ 6, 0 SAY ": it becomes so easy. I only wonder whether" @ 6,50 SAY ":" @ 7, 0 SAY ": dbaseII and cpm will still exist when it's my" @ 7,50 SAY ":" @ 8, 0 SAY ": grand childrens turn to keep the thing up to" @ 8,50 SAY ":" @ 9, 0 SAY ": date!! They'll probobly be updating it on their" @ 9,50 SAY ":" @ 10, 0 SAY ": wristwatch or god knows what else." @ 10,50 SAY ":" @ 11, 0 SAY ": Well I wrote this thing while living in Paris" @ 11,50 SAY ":" @ 12, 0 SAY ": in 1983 and Bill Graham who organised the first" @ 12,50 SAY ":" @ 13, 0 SAY ": French Osborne user's group (Osborne was the" @ 13,50 SAY ":" @ 14, 0 SAY ": first portable computer) suggested I toss it," @ 14,50 SAY ":" @ 15, 0 SAY ": like a note in a bottle, into the seas and" @ 15,50 SAY ":" @ 16, 0 SAY ": rivers of public domaine software. Since you're" @ 16,50 SAY ":" @ 17, 0 SAY ": reading this now, it must have washed up on the" @ 17,50 SAY ":" @ 18, 0 SAY ": distant shore of your computer. If you like it," @ 18,50 SAY ":" @ 19, 0 SAY ": hate it, use it or whatever I'd like to know so" @ 19,50 SAY ":" @ 20, 0 SAY ": please send me a note in a bottle: SAM WASHBURN" @ 20,50 SAY ":" @ 21, 0 SAY ": 3 Temple Place, Andover, Ma. 01810 U.S.A." @ 21,50 SAY ":" @ 22, 0 SAY ": TYPE ANY COMMAND" @ 22,24 GET COMMAND @ 22,50 SAY ":"