Circular Letter No. 385

July 18, 1994

TO: Printing and Publishing Officials and Information Resource Managers of the Federal Government

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

This is to advise all departments and agencies that the U.S. Code (updated through January 4, 1993) will be available on CD-ROM on approximately October 1, 1994. 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/XT/AT (or compatible), 386, or 486, with at least 640K memory, DOS 2.0 (or higher), and a CD-ROM drive with MS-DOS Extensions version 2.0 (or higher).

System requirements (with Windows) are access to an IBM-PC AT (or compatible), 386, or 486, 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).

In order to take advantage of the rider rate of approximately $15 per CD-ROM, your requisition to ride jacket 80-875 must be received no later than August 5, 1994. If you have any questions, please call the Congressional Printing Management Division on (202) 512-0224.

Sincerely,

ROBERT G. COX
Superintendent,
Departmental Account Representative Division

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