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- TOPICS - The E-Mail Librarian
- DEMO VERSION
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- WHAT IS TOPICS?
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- TOPICS is a program that allows you to store information you've gleaned
- from reading conference mail in e-mail networks like Fidonet or online
- services like Compuserve.
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- These e-mail resources contain tons of valuable information and when
- reading that information it would be really nice to be able to somehow
- store bits of it for later referral. TOPICS offers a convenient and
- easy way to accomplish this.
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- Any text that can be copied to the OS/2 clipboard can be dumped under
- a topic in TOPICS. So while reading your e-mail in a message reader
- like FrontDoor's Editor, Golden Compass, or any other message editor
- that runs in an OS/2 window you can have TOPICS sitting on your
- desktop ready to save and classify your information.
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- The steps to doing this are outlined in the online Help provided
- with TOPICS.
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- INSTALLING TOPICS:
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- Place all the files that came with the TOPICS package in its own
- subdirectory. Included in the package is a file called VROBJ.DLL.
- This is a dynamic link library file required by all programs
- written with VX-REXX. Place this file in a subdirectory pointed to
- in your LIBPATH statement in your CONFIG.SYS file. A convenient place
- to move this file to is C:\OS2\DLL. This way all your VX-REXX programs
- can make use of this one DLL file.
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- Included in the package is an icon for TOPICS.EXE. You can use this
- icon when setting up TOPICS.
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- RUNNING TOPICS:
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- Double click on TOPICS.EXE and away you go. The first thing you should
- do is view the sample topic that comes with TOPICS. Click on the
- topic and then click on View Topic. This message will show you a sample
- of what a topic file looks like and will direct you to read the
- online help before proceeding.
-
- The DEMO VERSION of TOPICS is restricted to only 5 topics. But this
- should give you a real feel for how TOPICS works and in itself would
- be useful if you only wanted to catalog 5 topics. Most users will find
- that they'll want far more than just 5 topics. TOPICS can hold up to
- 999 different topics that you set up and is limited really only by
- the disk space you have. Each topic file is stored in the directory
- you've install TOPICS.
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- ORDERING TOPICS:
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- TOPICS is being introduced at an introductory price of only $ 20.00 US
- until December 15th, 1993. After that, the price goes up to its
- regular $ 30US.
-
- Look at the ORDER.DOC file included with this package if you wish
- to order the full working version of the program.
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- I hope that you enjoy this product and find it as useful as I do.
- If you have any comments or suggestions or want to find out more about
- TOPICS you can reach me at:
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- Compuserve: Rene Bilodeau, 70062,3710
- Fidoent: 1:3412/1106
- Voice Phone: (604) 334-2263
- FAX Line: (604) 334-3125
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- or snailmail:
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- Rene Bilodeau
- Custom Design Software
- 3848 Warren Ave.
- Royston, BC Canada V0R 2V0
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