Canyon Software's Drag and File '95 Receives Two Awards in Annual Shareware Industry Competition.SAN RAFAEL San Rafael (săn rəfĕl`), residential city (1990 pop. 48,404), seat of Marin co., W Calif., a suburb of San Francisco on the northern shore of San Francisco Bay; inc. 1913. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 9, 1996--Canyon Software today announced that Drag and File '95, a file manager program for the Windows '95 operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. , received two awards in an annual competition for shareware programs. This competition is sponsored by the Shareware Industry Awards Foundation The Shareware Industry Awards Foundation (SIAF) was formed in 1991 by Marshall Magee (a successful shareware author), Bob Ostrander (head of Public Brand Software), Paris Karahalios (head of Trius Inc), Randy MacLean (head of FormGen, and Jim Perkins (FormGen's head of marketing) in order (SIAF SIAF Shareware Industry Awards Foundation SIAF Submissive Introverted Abstract Feeler (Jung personality type indicator) SIAF Sistema Administrativo y Financiero (Guatemala) SIAF Small Independent Action Force ), a non-profit organization A non-profit organization (abbreviated "NPO", also "non-profit" or "not-for-profit") is a legally constituted organization whose primary objective is to support or to actively engage in activities of public or private interest without any commercial or monetary profit purposes. which promotes shareware as a means of marketing software that allows consumers to try a program before buying it. Drag and File '95 was named "best utility" and "best 32-bit application" based on its extensive file searching and hard disk management capabilities. The program allows users to select files from multiple directories and work on them simultaneously; copy and drag-and-drop files from multiple windows in a single operation; tag directories and view listings across drives; and view listings of the contents of entire drives. "It's extremely satisfying to see Drag and File honored by the shareware industry, especially since there were many outstanding programs nominated," said Dan Baumbach, president of Canyon Software, upon being notified about the two SIAF Awards. "The recognition is another way we can show Windows users that our programs offer powerful, cost- effective solutions for challenges they face everyday." Drag and File '95 costs $35. It can be purchased directly from Canyon Software by phone (800/280-3691). A shareware version of the program can be downloaded from the company's World Wide Web site (http://www.canyonsw.com) and bulletin board system (415/453-4289), or from forums on America Online See AOL. (Keyword: PC World) or CompuServe (GO CANYON). Canyon Software was founded in 1988 to provide full-featured file management utilities for Windows-based environments. In addition to Drag and File, the company offers Drag and Zip, which manages compressed files and archives with extensions of ZIP, LZH (filename extension) lzh - The filename extension for a file produced by the LHA program. , GZ and TAR entirely from within Windows, and Drag and View, a file viewer Software that displays the contents of a file. File viewers are a quick way of looking into different types of files without having to open each application that created them. A general purpose file viewer is capable of displaying a wide variety of document, database, spreadsheet and that views database, spreadsheet, and word processing files, and functions within the clipboard to copy, move, or delete. Canyon Software is located at 1537 Fourth Street, Suite 131, San Rafael, CA 94901; 415/453-9779 phone, 415/453-6195 fax, info@canyonsw.com e-mail. Additional information can be obtain from Canyon Software's World Wide Web site, http://www.canyonsw.com. CONTACT: Canyon Software M.B. Fribley, 415/453-9779 75407.154@compuserve.com or Mitchell Friedman Communications Mitchell Friedman, 415/824-1466 102200.320@compuserve.com |
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