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- Orator Off Line Reader for Windows 3.x version 1.12
-
- INSTALLATION
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- **********************************
- EXISTING USERS SHOULD NOT
- MERELY COPY THE ARCHIVES FILES
- INTO THEIR ORATOR PROGRAM
- DIRECTORY. READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS
- CAREFULLY.
- ***********************************
-
- 1) Orator no longer requires NDX files, these will be created.
-
- 2) Orator has difficulty in working together with Windows systems
- who also use EMM386 in there Config.SYS. Microsoft themselves
- advise that one doesn't use EMM386 together with Windows.
-
- 3) Ensure that you have ANSI.SYS configured in your Config.SYS. At
- the moment the ANSIVIEWER does not have an internal ANSI
- interpreter.
-
- 4) Copy all the files in this archive into a temporary install directory.
-
- 5) Start Windows and from the Program Manager (or File Manager) choose
- Run from the File menu. Type a:Setup (Or drive and path to temporary
- installation directory). Setup will then proceed to install Orator
- for you. This procedure is the same for existing users merely
- upgrading.
-
- 6) On the first time you start Orator it will run the Configuration
- routine and then return you to the Program Manager. Subsequent starts
- of Orator will actually run the Reader it is only the first time that
- runs the configuration routine.
-
- WHATS FIXED AND NEW
- -------------------
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- 1) Orator detects Reply-To: fields when replying to private EMAIL
- received over Sparkwares UseNet Gateway.
-
- 2) NDX files are no longer needed so reconfigure you mail door settings
- if it currently includes NDX files.
-
- 3) Private Mail is detected and replied to with the Reply
- Private/Public option automatically set to Private. Previous
- versions used to corrupt the private/public setting of the
- message when it was read.
-
- 4) Personal Mail is now shown first and then other conferences
- afterwards.
-
- 5) Letters could sometimes be missing in messages. This is now
- fixed.
-
- 6) New function to show Replies. Uses Windows Notepad
-
- 7) Largest change of the lot is the introduction of a folders system.
- This allows you to open your own folders with there titles and
- archive messages to them. You can then:
-
- a) View them and cut them to the clipboard so that you can
- include them in replies.
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- b) Print them out.
-
- c) Move them between folders if you decide to reorganise them.
-
- d) and of course delete them.
-
- 8) Conference Selection could crash if one clicked OK
- without first selecting a conference.
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-
- Known Bugs
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- Not many here to report.
-
- 1) If the user is running certain configurations of EMM386 or other
- expanded memory manager then Orator has difficulty in reading Window
- states and cannot tell when the archiving command and extract
- commands have completed.
-
- 2) Illegal Function Call errors (mainly when selecting the Conf button when
- reading mail) when running under Win 3.0. This appears to be a bug in
- Windows and I am rewriting code areas affected by this.
-
- Work goes on...... :-)
-
- Regards
- Nick Dyer
- EvaWare UK
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