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- Welcome to TrapFax 1.1!
-
- Welcome to the world of electronic faxing. With TrapFax, you
- can send faxes conveniently from your computer, directly from your
- favourite word processor, your graphics paint program and your
- desktop publishing software. You can receive your faxes with your
- Amiga, view them on screen and print them out on your own printer.
- Electronic faxing is easy. TrapFax is your gateway into this new
- and exciting world.
-
- We would like to take this opportunity to thank a few people,
- who helped us along on the way to this release version. First,
- thanks go to our beta crew, with special thanks to: Roger Nordin,
- Jürgen Hermann, Henning Schmiedehausen, Stephan Krawzinsky (did I
- get the spelling right?), Michael Hohmann, Peter Wlcek, Thomas Dorn,
- Jesper Kehlet, Arnout Grootveld, Paul Scholda, Manfred Schädler,
- Achim Karpf, Christian Bayerl, Roland Tögel, Petra Zeidler, Klaus
- Melchior, Stefan Stuntz, and whoever we may have forgotten.
-
- Many thanks also go to the crew at VillageTronic, Hannover for
- their helpful hints and suggestions -- I don't know how we would
- have been able to get our German version of the manual proofread
- so quickly and with so many very useful suggestions, were it not
- for David Göhler. Thanks a lot!
-
- Now, that was the greetings section, back to business. As
- always, especially with first public release versions, a few
- errors and ommissions sneaked into the printed manual. Here is
- where we describe the changes and amendments between the manual
- and the software on the disk. Please read the following paragraphs
- carefully and maybe even print them out so you can store them along
- with your manual.
-
- 1. The manual does not describe how to stop TFaxDoor again once
- you have started it. Simply double-click the TFaxAnswer icon
- again. The screen will flash as soon as the running copy of
- TFaxDoor quits.
-
- 2. The manual mentions that you can double-click on TFaxSpool
- if it is already running. Unless when the quiet option was
- specified, a requester will be opened asking you whether you
- wish to stop the running copy. Click on the button labelled
- "Yes" to stop TFaxSpool. As with TFaxDoor, the screen will
- flash when TFaxSpool actually terminates (which may be a bit
- later).
-
- 3. The pictures and descriptions in the German manual show the
- German localization of the software. This is only available
- under Workbench 2.1 or higher. Under Workbench versions
- below 2.1 TrapFax will only run in English.
-
- 4. There is a new program now included with TrapFax: TFaxJoin.
- The manual doesn't mention it at all, so here is a quick
- description for it:
-
- TFaxJoin is an utility for joining several faxes into
- one multi-page fax. From Workbench, simply shift-click
- all the fax icons you wish to join into one fax, then
- double-click TFaxJoin (while still holding down the shift
- key). The recipient editor window will open, allowing you
- to select the destination for the newly created fax, just
- as if you had used the printer driver to create the fax.
-
- From the shell, the template for TFaxJoin is:
-
- FILE/M/A,AS=TO/K
-
- FILE specifies all the IFF FAXX files that should be
- joined into one single multipage fax.
-
- AS=TO specifies the output file. If not given, a new
- file will be created in the Outgoing directory, and
- TFaxQueue will be called to allow you to select the
- destination for the new fax.
-
- 5. TFaxDoor supports an additional "IMMEDIATE" option, which
- was documented incorrectly in the manual. If you specify
- this option, TFaxDoor will not wait for a call, but will
- immediately tell the modem to answer the phone and take
- an incoming fax call.
-
- This can be used to start an incoming fax transfer while
- you are already on the phone.
-
- Hint: Make a copy of the icon 'TFaxAnswer' and add the
- keyword "IMMEDIATE" to the tooltypes. If you doubleclick
- this new Icon, fax receiption will be immediately started.
-
- 6. TrapFax 1.1 fixes a few minor problems in TrapFax 1.0.
- There was an error in the installation program, which
- would not always correctly install the German language
- files under AmigaOS 2.1, and two small enforcer hits in
- TFaxDoor and TFaxSpool have been fixed.
-
- 7. There's a minor problem with TFaxView: if you select a
- part of your fax and scroll the selected area completely
- off the screen, your Amiga may crash. This bug will be
- fixed in the next release.
-
- 8. TrapFax may not be used in military installations, or in
- any other area where failure of the software might cause
- danger to human life (such as medical institutions,
- hospitals etc.)
-
- 9. Take care, and have fun with TrapFax!
-
-
- Vienna, 15.3.94 Maximilian Hantsch
- René Hexel
- Martin Laubach
-