Welcome to JOB Mail.

If you need to advertise for staff, this program is for you.  It will allow
you to prepare and post your listing for insertion in JOB SEARCH's Jobs and 
Contracts database.  And the listing is FREE.

Summary of steps:
	» Use this program to create/edit a job listing
	» Press F9, fill in fields and save as QMAIL format file
	» Use your comm program to upload file to mail door on your BBS
	  (if part of NANET - Trans Canada Jobs Conference) or to
	  Job Search Board at 416 588-9690.
	» Requires PKZIP, and a modem and communications program.

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    JOB SEARCH is an online jobs listing service.  We provide a comprehensive
    base of current job and contract listings for the Toronto area.  We also
    carry listings for other areas in our Trans Canada Jobs area, as well as
    in our Foreign Jobs listings.


Using this program, you can easily prepare job listings for Permanent, Part
Time or Contract staff, and then send or upload it to JOB SEARCH, where it
will be automatically inserted in our jobs database.

Best of all, you may either call our board directly at 416 588-9690, or you
can send it to us via your local BBS, provided it is part of the North
America Network (NANET) of Bulletin Board Systems and echoes the Trans Canada
Jobs Conference.

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│   Any message posted in the Trans Canada Jobs conference on any BBS      │
│   which is part of NANET and addressed to "JOB SEARCH" will find its way │
│   to the JOB SEARCH BBS.  Provided the message is in the right format    │
│   (as generated by this program), it will then be automatically          │
│   included in our Jobs database - all messages are screened for          │
│   acceptable content.                                                    │
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To use this service/program you will also need:
     √ a modem,
     √ a communication program with file upload capability,
     √ PKZIP ( a file compression program),
     √ the BBS you access must have a QMAIL-compatible mail door,
     √ the BBS must be part of NANET and echo Trans Canada Jobs.


Technically this is what happens:

     1. You use the text editor portion of this program to prepare the
	text for your job listing, or load a job listing previously prepared.
	Listings prepared with WordPerfect or other word processor, must be
        saved in ASCII/Text format - see WordPerfect below.

	Use menu option Listing/Create or File/New to create a totally new
	listing and file.  Use File/Open to edit an existing text file.

	If you want only part of the text file included in the listing, mark
	that part using the Shift and Arrow keys.

	There is a limit of 90 lines per message.  If you are listing
	multiple positions, please mark each individually and generate a
	separate message for each (by pressing the F9 key).

     2. Using the Listing/Create QWK menu option (F9), you fill in how and
     	where you want the listing sent.  You must specify your user id for 
	the system to which you will be uploading the message (Mail door 
	programs ignore messages whose From: field does not match the user id
	that uploaded that message.

     3. JOBMAIL then prepares a file that is known as a mail packet.  Please
	note that a packet is generated for a specific system.  If you decide
	to upload the message to a different system, you will have to re-
	generate the message (F9 key).

	The file is created in the current directory.

     4. JOBMAIL uses PKZIP to compress the mail packet (e.g. COFFEE.REP)

     5. Then you use your communications program to access the BBS that
	you want to upload this mail packet to.

     6. On the BBS you issue the command that accesses that board's Mail
	door  (Try QMAIL, ROSEMAIL or DOOR)

     7. Inside the Door, issue the Upload command.  (If this is the first time 
	you use that BBS's mail door, you may have to go through a few setup 
	steps first.)

     8. The Mail door will then ask you to upload your mail packet.  This
	is the file that we created in step 2.  Use your communication
	program's upload command (might be PgUp key).
	If JOBMAIL was run from the C:\JOBMAIL directory, and you were
	calling the Job Search Board directly, the file name you specify
	here would be C:\JOBMAIL\COFFEE.REP

    9.	Verify that the Mail Door acknowledges receipt of your file and
 	also has successfully inserted your message (job listing) in the
	Trans Canada Jobs conference.


The one thing you will need to know is the Qmail packet name for the BBS that
you will be calling.  In many cases this name corresponds to the BBS name.  In
some cases (such as for JOB SEARCH) it will differ (e.g. our Qmail Packet
name is COFFEE).  Your BBS will not accept your mail packet unless the name
you specified is the correct one for that BBS.


WordPerfect etc.

If you want to use a job listing that was previously prepared using a word
processing program such as WordPerfect or Word, you must first save it in a
format know variously as DOS Text, ASCII or Non-Document.

Word processors normally store formatting information as part of their
documents, but it is stored in a way only that program understands.

Under WP you could save it as a Dos Text File (Ctrl-F5/1/1).  Specify a
filename that is different from the one it is currently saved under, as you
do want to keep that copy and its formatting information for future use.

You can also use a WP option known as "print to disk".
Under print to disk, you use Shift-F7 to print, but select as printer your
DOS Text printer.  Use E to edit that printer's definition, then 2 to specify
the port.  For the "port" you specify "other" and the file to print to (e.g.
SPOOL.PRN).

Print to disk is a little more work, but it retains a more of your original
formatting.

We recommend that you limit your text to at most 70-80 characters per line.


Calling JOB SEARCH directly

If you prefer, you can call JOB SEARCH directly (416 588-9690) and upload
the message directly.  There is a registration procedure and you will be
asked for name, address and telephone number.  There is no charge for
this level of access.

You will be able to access our QMAIL door to upload on the first call.

Ours is a standard PCBoard system, except that we use special front end
software to operate more than one Board with the same set of telephone lines.



Warnings and Restrictions
    1.  If you are presently using a mailreader program, AND using JOBMAIL
	to prepare a packet for your own BBS, ensure that there is no
	current REP packet on your disk as this version of JOBMAIL may
	not correctly update the old packet. (It appears to do so fine, we
	just want you to be cautious - this is new code.)

    2.  This is a Beta version of JOBMAIL.  Therefor it is set to expire
	after a specific date.  The Help/About menu option will identify
	what that date is.  All functions in the program will remain
	operational.
	Our reason for doing this is that we expect in future to have to
	change the format of the messages that this program generates and
	our database accepts.  If we receive messages from an expired version
	of the program, we may not be able to process it.

	Just download and use a later version of this program.

	3.  We recommend that you select the option to make the generated
        message "Private".  That should help ensure that only pre-screened
        users of the JOB SEARCH have access to your listing. (If that is what
	you want.)  But please note that "Private" flag does not limit all
        access by others.


Legalities
	This program and its related files are copyright 1993, Master
	Programmer Group.

	You are allowed to distribute it freely and to use it freely for its
	intended purpose, that is to prepare and upload Job listings to JOB
        SEARCH.


Support.

	This a free program, so support is limited.

	If you have a question or suggestion or need a more current version,
	please call either our Software Support Board at 416 588-9690 or
	leave a message on the JOB SEARCH BOARD at 416 588-9690 or at 416
	588-3821.


ResuMail

A companion version of this program to handle the preparation and uploading
of resumes is under development.


JobMail  15 May 93
