Stairway Software Inc. Announces Version 2.0 of MergeMaster
Now Supports Popular DOS and Windows Databases.

(June 30, 1993) - MergeMaster 2.0, a major upgrade to the popular software
utility that makes database information available to word processors, is
now shipping from Stairway Software Inc.

MergeMaster 2.0 works with both Windows and DOS versions of the most
popular word processors and database managers, including WordPerfect,
Word, dBASE, and Paradox.

MergeMaster 2.0 opens up new opportunities for both the business and home
office by making it easy to produce personalize letters, billing
statements, reports, sales literature, membership solicitations, and more.
MergeMaster eliminates the frustrating, complex, and error-prone process
of converting database information to a word processor's specific merge
file format. With a menu-driven interface and context sensitive help,
MergeMaster 2.0 provides a quick, easy and accurate solution for producing
secondary merge files (called merge data files by some word processors).

MergeMaster allows the user to select a database file and then choose the
fields to be translated. With Version 2.0 the user can then translate
those fields from every record, or from a user-defined range of records.
Then the user simply selects their word processor and the secondary merge
file is automatically created.

For more advanced applications, MergeMaster 2.0 combines ease-of-use with a
powerful record selection capability. Logical operators allow the user to
easily define record selection criteria to target any cross-section of the
database. Supported operators include: =, < >, >, > =, <, < =, AND, OR,
text string and text substring, where text substring is any occurrence of
a text string in a field. By using logical operators, the user can, for
example, target a sales letter to "all clients over 30 who live in Florida
and purchased in the past twelve months".

MergeMaster 2.0 includes the added benefit of automating repeated
translations with script file processing. This eliminates the need to
repeatedly enter file names, selection criteria and word processor
formats. Instead, the user just executes a script and MergeMaster 2.0
automatically creates the secondary merge file using the selections saved
from a previous session. Scripts can be executed from MergeMaster's simple
and intuitive menus as well as from the command line.

Additional new MergeMaster 2.0 capabilities include:

* Support for latest releases of popular databases.
* Support for the new WordPerfect 6.0.
* Page Up/Page Down for file selection.
* New date formats.

MergeMaster now supports: WordPerfect 4.2/5.0/5.1/6.0, Microsoft Word
(comma and tab formats), WordStar 3.0 and above, XyWrite III, Volkswriter
3, IBM Displaywrite 3/4, PFS:Professional Write, and five common ASCII
formats.

MergeMaster 2.0 also supports the following databases: all DOS and Windows
versions of dBASE and Paradox including 4.0, all DOS and Windows version
of FoxBase, FoxBase+, and FoxPro, all DOS and Windows versions of Clipper,
including 5.x. MergeMaster also supports any other database capable of
producing a dBASE or Paradox file format such as Alpha 3/Alpha 4, SBT
Accounting, Champion Accounting, Real World Accounting, and AccountMate.

MergeMaster 2.0 is published by Stairway Software Inc., makers of
ScreenExtender for WordPerfect. MergeMaster 2.0 can be purchased directly
for $79.95. Stairway products are also sold through standard retail
channels and are distributed by Kenfil Distribution and Software Resource.
Upgrades to version 2.0 are available for $29.95 only through Stairway
Software.

Stairway Software Inc.
913 First Colonial Rd, Suite 102, Virginia Beach, VA 23454
(800) 782-4792 (U.S.A.), (800) 992-4792 (Canada) or 
(804) 437-7000, FAX (804) 437-7077

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