Availability of the U.S. Code on CD-ROM from the U.S. Government Printing Office

To: "AO - All Administrative Officers"<distribution>
cc: "Patricia A Powers, Admin. Operations Assistant, Reston, VA" <papowers>
Subject: U.S. Code on CD-ROM

Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 14:37:54 -0500
From: "Patricia A Powers, Admin. Operations Assistant, Reston, VA" <papowers>


In Reply Refer To:
Mail Stop 403

				MEMORANDUM

							February 12, 1999
To:		Administrative Officers

From:		Alice A. Sabatini
		Administrative Officer, Water Resources Division

Subject:	Availability of the U.S. Code on CD-ROM from the
		   U.S. Government Printing Office


			REPLY REQUESTED BY COB MARCH 1, 1999


CIRCULAR LETTER NO.440

This is to advise all departments and agencies that the U.S. Code (updated
through January 6, 1997) will be available on CD-ROM on approximately April
12, 1999.  This format provides users with full-text access to all 50
titles of the Federal Government's official compendium of U.S. laws as well
as a Table of Contents and the Table of Popular Names.

You will receive the U.S. Code, plus quick-start instructions for your
CD-ROM; a handy product guide with sample searches; state-of-the-art
full-text search capability; retrieval software for both IBM DOS and
Windows; and a complete software manual that is searchable on the disc.

System requirements (without Windows) are: access to an IBM PC (or
compatible) with color monitor, 386, 486, or Pentium, with at least 640K
memory, a fixed disk with 2.5 megabytes of free space, DOS 2.0 (or higher),
and a CD-ROM with MS-DOS Extensions version 2.0 (or higher).

System requirements (with Windows) are: access to an IBM PC (or
compatible), 386, 486, or Pentium, with at least 3.2 megabytes of random
access memory, a fixed disk with 2.5 megabytes 
of free space, a CD-ROM drive with MS-DOS Extensions version 2.0 (or
higher), and Microsoft Windows version 3.0 (or higher).

Submit your requirements to Patricia A. Powers [papowers] for the U.S. Code (updated 
through January 6, 1997) on CD-ROM by COB March 1, 1999.  A negative response is not 
necessary.
Failure to respond may result in not being included on this distribution.