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Publisher

MicroSabio

6520 Platt Ave., #104

West Hills, CA 91307 USA

telephone: 805-543-2679

Authors

Jack McGregor has been developing and documenting A-Shell since 1994, and his authorship continues through the date of this publication. Ty Griffin is responsible for editing, formatting, spilling and pulbishing.

Support

MicroSabio provides good support for A-Shell and its other software products.

The first place to go with a question is the A-Shell forum, also known as the "Bulletin Board" (BBS) or the "A-Shell Network." You can search the forum by keyword, quite possibly finding the answer(s) you need. If not, then post your question there; you have to create an account to post a question, but doing so is painless and free. Email us if you have any problems or questions about signing up. All of the forums are moderated by MicroSabio, which means that if another user or developer does not answer your inquiry, MicroSabio staff will.

The main MicroSabio web site contains information about A-Shell and its various modules plus documentation, prices and related materials.

If you are not getting satisfaction via these support avenues, send MicroSabio an email message with your question and it will be answered promptly.

MicroSabio provides free email support for A-Shell operational issues to anyone with a current software maintenance contract, and also within the first 90 days of purchasing a license. If you are running a demo copy for evaluation purposes, you can obtain free support on the BBS. If you would like a free pre-sales consultation, please contact MicroSabio. Either of these avenues is also a good way to discuss or initiate a request for more advanced support than what we can provide for free, such as help with developing subroutines, custom enhancements to A-Shell, etc. We pride ourselves on providing a higher level of support than most other software developers with whom you may be familiar, so don't hesitate to take advantage of it.

Software History

Following is a table showing A-Shell versions and dates published. If you are trying to track down when some particular thing was introduced or changed, you might try searching the A-Shell History documentation available on our Documentation web page.

While Under Development			At Formal Release
	First Release			Final Release*
Version	Build	Date	Version	Build	Date
6.5	1600	Spring 2017
6.3	1500	November 2015	6.4	1545	March 2017
6.1	1300	Spring 2012	6.2	1421	Autumn 2015
5.1	1100	November 2007	6.0	1270	Autumn 2011
4.9	850	October 2003	5.0	997	Autumn 2007
4.7	796	February 2002	4.8	833	June 2003
4.5	652	November 1998	4.6	712	December 1999
4.2	507	August 1996
**	468	August 1995
4.0	463	August 1995
3.0	310	August 1993
2.0	134	June 1991
1.0	100	February 1990

* Bug fixes continue to be applied past the date of the "final" release.

** John Bown was the original developer of A-Shell, and continued through build 467. With build 468, Jack McGregor took over developer responsibilities.

Documentation History

In early 2002, a new documentation system and format was adopted, and version numbers for the documentation—as well as printed manuals—were abandoned. Between 2002 and 2010, documentation was published in the CHM format, with PDF and DOC (MS Word) files available on request. Since 2010, all A-Shell documentation has been online in a customized HTML format.