This is VSH 3.3 for Linux. This program is not Public Domain, nor is it
Freeware or Shareware, it is a commercial product protected by a Copyright.
The reason that you where able to download it is that many (former) Coherent
users are asking about a version of this program for Linux and to do them a
favor I made the port and made this archive public available. So if you have
a Coherent 4.2.x license just use the program, you already paid for it.

If you don't know what Coherent is and don't have a Coherent license but you
would like to use it under Linux legaly then send me a donation for further
development of a version for Linux. I ask for US $20 (or something similar in
another currency) as a minimum, more is wellcome of course.

You have NO rights to copy or sell this program to others, as I said, this is
a commercial application. If someone wants to distribute it together with an
operating system, like Mark Williams did with Coherent, then you need my written
permission for that and you need to pay a license fee for that. It is legal to
distribute this archive from online services like CompuServe or Internet
servers, as long as the package self is not sold and only a fee for the
download is charged and as long as it's distributed without changes.

If someone wants a source license that's possible too, but I'm not interested
on selling source licenses to single persons, while OS vendors or some sort
of larger organisations are welcome. This is no discrimination, it's only that
I cannot handle endless administration tasks, I'm a software developer, not a
software dealer. This offer is more interesting for organizations with a lot
of, maybe different, UNIX systems when a unique user interface is wanted for
all the used platforms. It can be very handy is such an environment to have
a source license and be able to install it self on all the used systems,
whatever OS they are running.

You only need to pay once for the program, if you did so and download a newer
version later, it's not necessary to pay for this again. Of course if you like
the improvements and added features and would like to pay for this you are
wellcome. Software development costs money, but I think it's enough to charge
users of a software one time for it.

When you read through the documentation included in this archive you'll find
that it is not up to date and doesn't match the program in every detail. This
also just is a question of money. I haven't written this documentation, else
you probably would not like to read it anyway. It was written by Fred Butzen,
the former technical writer from Mark Williams Company. Fred doesn't write for
fun only, he needs to pay the bills too. So if you like a high quality
documentation up to date then just send money and I'll try to hire Fred then
and see that he'll improve the documentation appropriate.

I like the program but...
Like any program this one too could be improved here and there, another
feature could be added and so on. I have a TODO list for further development
and before I get lots of questions to add this and that feature I'll include
this list here. Please do me the favor and check this list before you complain,
you'll save my time then and I'll spend it with programming instead of
answering to the same complains all the time, thanks.

Directory menu:
	implement a directory move function
	implement symbolic links for OS's which does support them

File menu:
	implement a link file function
	implement a find file function
	implement symbolic links for OS's which does support them

Option menu:
	implement an user programmable menu
	implement an editor for the environment

Function keys:
	save/load of more then one function key layout

Command line:
	search command for the history

Others:
	add mouse support for usage in a xterm under X11
	add mouse support for console devices of PC UNIX OS's
	add more support for terminals without cursor keys

Where are the colors, all the other guys are so colorfull?
Color support is under active development. This version just is not compiled
with the color support because this work is not 100% done and I'm not
comfortable with the results so far my self, so you have to wait too.

I don't want to talk in english to this program, what can I do?
Well, the whole communication with humans is in one single module and
this version of the program was compiled with the english language module.
I also have a module for the german language, if you want a version compiled
with that ask about it. So far there are no other language modules available.
This is not some sort of discrimination, it simple is that I don't speak any
other languages good enough. So if someone wants another language you can get
the source for the english or german language module from me and translate
this into another language and give it back to me. I'll compile a program
with this language module then for you. Another problem is the documentation,
eighter you translate it too or you wait until enough people paid me and I
can afford to hire a technical writer/translator for this language.

Why does the program terminate with an error message when I run it in a X11
term and change the window size?
This only happens under Linux, it does work perfectly under the other OS's.
Somehow this feature is implemented different under Linux and I need to
find out first how it does work and then I might find a way to make this
feature working for Linux too. For now just don't resize the window while
vsh is running, terminate vsh, resize the window and run vsh again.

When I configure the program so that pulldown menus should be displayed
in reverse video they look strange and ugly?
This is a problem with curses and this is not unique to Linux, many curses
implementations have bugs in the terminal attribute support. I'm not very
heavy searching for workarounds against this crap, so you don't configure
the pulldown menus to be in reverse video under Linux.

VSH is Copyright (C) 1990 - 1995 by:

Udo Munk
Oberstr. 21
41460 Neuss, Germany
email: udo@umunk.GUN.de
CIS:   100021,2515
phone: yes, I have one
fax:   yes, I have one

Please, when you have questions about the program or want a version for
your Yoyodyne 9999 workstation or whatever use email to contact me, I
already don't get enough sleep. Thank you for your understanding.

And finaly the usuall statement:
THE PROGRAM IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER
EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES
OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. IN NO EVENT WILL
THE AUTOR BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY LOST PROFITS,
LOST SAVINGS OR OTHER INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF
THE USE OF THE PROGRAM.
