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CnvPMQ 1.00 Copyright (C) 1993 by Rainer Gassen

I'll try to keep this short and sweet - here's the documentation...

So there you are sitting in your office, having collected some good quotes for
use as a variable  signature file in Pegasus Mail,  the World's premier E-Mail
package, and everything's  fine until the new version 3.x is released and  the
format of  PMail's quote file is changed (for the better, I might add!).  Same
applies if you want to use WinPMail, the Windows version of Pegasus Mail.

Until recently you
1.) wanted to continue the use of your signature file
2.) didn't want to rearrange the whole thing manually
3.) had a problem combining those two.

Now you've got CnvPMQ. This stands for Convert Pegasus Mail Quotes. And that's
all this  program is capable of - converting.  Sorry, feature hunters, nothing
more  to expect from it -  *absolutely*  nothing!!!  But then again, it does a
perfect job transferring your collection into the new file format.

Handling is very straightforward:
After your usual backup procedure  (just in case...) enter  CNVPMQ  at the DOS
prompt  with two parameters:  The first represents  the source file name which
includes the old quotes.  The second  parameter will be used  as file name for
your  newly created  quote file.  Include drive  letter and/or  path name,  if
necessary. If anything goes wrong, an error message will be displayed.

You want an example, here is one:
CNVPMQ C:\TESTCNTR\PMAIL\QUOTES.SRC M:\UTIL\RQUOTES.R

QUOTES.SRC, which is located in \TESTCNTR\PMAIL on drive C:, will be converted
to the 3.x format file RQUOTES.R. This will be put under \UTIL on drive M:

All that's left to you now is to compile the .R file into a .RSC/.PMS resource
file. Use David Harris'  RESCOM.EXE  for this task - documentation is included
in  the PMail/WinPMail distribution archives,  see RQUOTES.R from RESOURCE.ZIP
for an explanation. I just don't want to retype David's docs.

Some additional information:
I used  Borland Pascal 7.0  to compile this program.  Took me about an hour to
write it (w/o documentation). I did *not* use the Protected Mode for this as I
wanted the  distribution archive to be as small as possible.  No problems with
large quote files, though (at least at my site). Future versions? We'll see...

Now for the legal stuff:
CnvPMQ is licensed  'as is'  without any warranty of  fitness for a particular
purpose,  performance or otherwise.  All warranties are expressly  disclaimed.
By using  CnvPMQ you  agree that I,  the author of  this program,  will not be
liable  to  you  or  any  third party  for  any  use (or inability to use)  or
performance of CnvPMQ, and damages whatsoever incurred by the use of CnvPMQ or
any  financial  liability  incurred  by  the  use  of  CnvPMQ,  even  if  such
possibilities are mentioned in advance.

Distribution/Registration/Payment:
CnvPMQ is distributed as freeware.  If you use it, you don't owe me anything -
no registration, payment or whatever. It is not in the Public Domain,  I still
own the copyright. Use it on as many computers as you like.  You may give away
complete, unmodified copies to anyone who wants it.  But, please remember: You
may *not* charge anything for it! Sorry, source code will not be released.

If you got any comments, questions and suggestions, my adress on the  Internet
is [e-mail]. I don't think you'll have them, but bug reports may also
be send to the same adress :-)

Pegasus Mail Copyright (C) 1990-93 David Harris
Borland Pascal Copyright (C) 1983-92 Borland International Inc.