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- ------------------------ PMail V1.0a ------------------------------------
-
- Enclosed is the new PM mailer (PMAIL) companion to nos for os/2. This
- version is pretty much fully functional at this point. the copy field
- isn't connected yet as I have not decided how best to do that. The
- addressee field can support multiple recepients though. PMail runs
- pretty much as BM does and, in fact, requires BM.RC in the root. Further,
- PMail is designed to run 24hrs non-stop. What I consider a nice feature is
- the notification system PMail uses. When not in use PMail should be
- minimized, you will notice the clever icon. When mail arrives ( or with 30
- sec in the os2nosv4 and previous versions) the icon will change giving you
- a graphical indication that new mail is present. For those less familiar
- with rural americana, the mailbox flag raises to indicate a mail pickup is
- needed. It is perfectly legal to have multiple PMail's running, each looking
- at a different mailbox. While reading mail, f7 does a read previous and f8
- does a read next. With the upcoming release of PM NOS both PMail and PM NOS
- will share, what I hope to be, a fairly robust help system. In the mean time
- I think operation should be sufficiently straight-forward that within
- seconds one can figure it all out, especially if they are already familiar
- with BM. PMail uses as hotkeys (accelerators) the same (I think) command
- line function letters as BM except they should be prefixed with the cntrl
- key, ie cntrl-h redisplays the headers, cntrl-w does a write current and
- cntrl-s does a save current. Any problems discovered, or comments should be
- address to me, I welcome good news (particularly after the os2nosv4 problems
- with os/2 v2.0). I hope you all find PMail particularly helpful.
- 73 and enjoy. Walt kz1f@kz1f.ampr.org, kz1f@wa1phy.#ema.ma or waltcy@jvnc.
- ids.net.