SlipKnot, the graphical Web browser for PC-Windows users with UNIX shell
accounts:

 * The shareware award
 * Version 1.11 upgrade
 * Explanation of SlipKnot's market now and in the future
 * Summary description

SlipKnot was named Ziff-Davis/PC Magazine Shareware Communications Software
Winner, based on "innovativeness, quality and value." SlipKnot was also
the runner-up for Best of Year Overall category (behind CD-Quick Cache).
(This was the first time the awards committee announced a runner-up.)

In additional news, SlipKnot's just-released version 1.11 now offers OS/2
compatibility and speed improvements. Three previous upgrades since
November have added support for fill-in forms (through lynx), gopher,
telnet, modemless direct serial connections, longer job queues, a large
list of popular bookmarks, and site license customizations. Other
improvements are on the way.

Peter Brooks, SlipKnot's developer and President of MicroMind, based in New
York City, accepted the awards in Scottsdale, Arizona, June 23. Preston
Gralla, Executive Editor of Software for Ziff-Davis Interactive, said
"SlipKnot is an excellent example of the creativity and innovation
happening in shareware today."

In accepting the award, Brooks also urged other software developers in
attendance at the annual Shareware Industry Conference to follow
MicroMind's lead in donating significant portions of revenues to nonprofit
and advocacy organizations. (10% of SlipKnot's _gross_ revenues go to the
Center for Victims of Torture and the International Rescue Committee.) The
Shareware Industry Association says that shareware is a $300 million/year
business.

WHO NEEDS SLIPKNOT?

Since its release last November, SlipKnot has made World Wide Web pages,
graphics and sounds accessible to Internet users with UNIX shell accounts.
Those registering this shareware application include people:

* at educational and other institutions where it's difficult or impossible
to get SLIP or PPP or TCP/IP access;

* at companies where employees have high-speed access at work and shell
accounts at home;

* using service providers throughout the world where TCP/IP is not
available;

* seeking to benefit from a tool that allows them to use the Web for
research, queuing up documents to view, organizing and saving documents
complete with graphics in user-defined folders on local hard disks, and
browsing and demoing Web documents off-line.

What is SlipKnot's window of opportunity? Though new ways to access to the
Web are arriving, many users are slow to migrate to them. SlipKnot's
developer Peter Brooks, President of MicroMind, Inc., says "for several
years, I see a continuing demand for an application that gives graphical
Web access to PC-Windows users with UNIX shell accounts, while allowing
then to continue using their shell-based mail and news readers. Such
people are not likely to leave their hard-won UNIX knowledge and their
email homes behind. Furthermore the great majority of educational
institutions provide their users with UNIX shell accounts, and changes to
their infrastructure will be much slower in coming. And finally, some
users who also have SLIP access have written me, 'when I want to surf, I
like Mosaic or Netscape; when I'm doing real work, I use SlipKnot."

SUMMARY INFORMATION ON SLIPKNOT

SlipKnot is a graphical World Wide Web browser specifically designed for
Microsoft Windows and OS/2 users who have UNIX shell accounts with their
service providers. SlipKnot's primary feature is that it does not require
SLIP or PPP or TCP/IP services. It also allows background retrieval of
multiple documents, and and the Web browser can run completely offline
using previously stored documents. SlipKnot, now in version 1.11, from
MicroMind,Inc., is distributed as restricted shareware, with a
registration fee of $29.95 ($20 for individual users outside North
America, Europe and Japan).

The latest information is available by sending send e-mail to
<slipknot@micromind.com>

or at the SlipKnot Home Page (through any graphical browser or lynx).
<http://www.interport.net/slipknot/slipknot.html>

Users can also get it by anonymous ftp download from
interport.net/pub/pbrooks/slipknot/slnot111.zip       or
ftp.netcom.com/pub/pb/pbrooks/slipknot/slnot111.zip

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