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Dunce v. 2.3 (c) 1996 Vector Development
ABOUT:
Dunce (or Dial-Up Networking Connection Enhancement) allows for much
easier dial-up networking than Win95 currently provides. The program
will automatically press "connect" for you on the "Connect To" dialog
box, redial your Internet Provider indefinitely (even from within
another application), and auto-reconnect if you get unexpectedly
dropped. Furthermore it can optionally run applications when you are
connected and force connections at a given time. 2.0 Also adds MSN
Support and support for international versions of Windows. Dunce will
also type in your password in the Connect To Dialog.
VECTOR DEVELOPMENT:
Vector Development is committed to creating shareware solutions for
you! We create our products on both the Macintosh and Windows/DOS
Platforms. Please, send any comments to the addresses below.
LICENSE:
You may use Dunce freely on your computer system. You may distribute
Dunce freely on Online Services. You may NOT sell copies of Dunce
(i.e. disk vendors) without express permission from Vector Development
(terms normally include a copy of the distribution disk/cd). You may
NOT decompile, reverse engineer, or modify Dunce or its resources. You
may NOT modify the dunce2.3.zip (sometimes dunce2_3.zip) file or its
contents.
WARRANTY:
USE OF THIS PROGRAM IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. YOU AGREE BY USING THIS
PROGRAM TO HOLD HARMLESS VECTOR DEVELOPMENT AGAINST DAMAGES ARISING
OUT OF THE USE OF THIS PROGRAM. EVEN IF VECTOR DEVELOPMENT WAS
NOTIFIED IN ADVANCE THAT SUCH DAMAGES MIGHT OCCUR.
DONATIONS:
Some users have asked how to make Donations to the developer of this
utility. If you would like to make a donation you can send it to.
Vector Development
3735 SW Sena Dr.
Topeka, KS 66604-1754
PLEASE MAKE ALL CHECKS PAYABLE TO: Benjamin F. Reser
INSTALLATION:
* Before you do anything if you've been using a previous copy of Dunce
delete the shortcut in the StartUp Items, just trust me on this one okay.
Also make sure that you Quit out of the old version of Dunce, you can do
this by Right Clicking on the small icon next to the clock in your taskbar
and then clicking on the Quit button.
* Now expand Dunce into a directory of its own, probably c:\dunce, with
whatever program you use to extract zip files.
* Now all you have to do is run the dunce.exe file.
* Dunce will prompt you if you want it to install it as a StartUp Item.
Please say Yes to this prompt. Dunce will only work if it is loaded.
You can load it manually whenever you want it if you want but it is so
small that there is little reason for this.
USING DUNCE:
How do I use Dunce? Well this question is easy to answer. You just
install it and then you use Dial-Up Networking the way you did before.
Dunce does *NOT* replace the dialer, it mearly interfaces with it.
Please read the rest of the documentation for setup and features.
THE MAIN DIALOG:
Now that you have Dunce installed on your system we can begin looking at its
features. When you first run Dunce a splash screen will be displayed
(this is a once per version screen so don't worry about it). After that
the main dialog is displayed. Once again this dialog is only brought up the
*VERY* first time. This dialog is the control center of Dunce everything is
either located in this dialog or can be accessed from this dialog. There are
two methods of bringing this dialog up. You may run the dunce.exe program (by
double clicking on it or selecting it from the Start Menu if you added it) or
from the Tray, which we will deal with later.
The following are the options in the main dialog and exactly what they do:
* Connect To Dialog: This checkbox controls if Dunce presses connect on the
Connect To dialog, this is really a necessity but if you don't want Dunce to
press the connect button for you it can be turned off. The edit box right
beside it sets the number of seconds Dunce waits after detecting the dialog
box before pressing connect for you.
* Force Redial if line is busy: This feature will cause Dunce to press
okay on the dialog that comes up telling you that the line is busy. The
edit box next to it again corresponds to the amount of time Dunce waits
after seeing this box, this can be useful to give modems time to reset.
Note: This should not be a replacement for the redial feature in the
Dial-Up Networking folder, this feature is really for those of you who
are using AutoDial so that when you run a program that requires a network
socket it starts the connection to your provider. When dialing in this way
Dial-Up Networking will *NOT* redial that's were Dunce comes in.
* Force Reconnect if Disconnected: This feature causes Dunce to respond
OK to the Reestablish Connection Dialog. Again the edit box sets the time
Dunce waits before responding after seeing the dialog. Note: If you want
Dunce to hit Cancel to this dialog open up the ini file make change the
ForceReconnect= setting to 2. Like: ForceReconnect=2. This may be
necessary in some cases where you are using Automated Connections and you
ISP drops on you since DUN won't allow another connection until that box
is responded to. Sorry, this doesn't have a user-interface it got thrown
in at the last minute. You have to quit Dunce and restart it before this
takes effect (the Cancel feature that is, the OK feature doesn't require
that).
* Minimize Connected Dialog: When the Connected To dialog telling you
that you have been connected to the service comes up Dunce will minimize
it after the amount of time specified in the edit box to the right of this
check box. Note: This feature really doesn't work with OSR2 so I have
disabled it if you are running OSR2.
* Expand Details: When the Connected To dialog shows up this makes
it so it automatically expands the dialog out to show you what protocol
the connection was done under. There is no edit box on this feature to
control how long after seeing the dialog it does this. However, it uses
the same time settings as the Minimize Connected Dialog feature does.
Again, this isn't really necessary with OSR2 but I left it enabled since
it works, why you got me.
* Tray Item: Yes, I know I skipped some stuff I will come back to it in
a sec. This enables a tray item. You ask what is a tray item. A tray
item is a small icon that sits on the lower right hand corner of your
taskbar (for most people) next to the clock. The tray item has three
uses. First of all it tells you Dunce is running. Second, it gives
you an easy way to turn Dunce off. Just left click on the icon and it
will toggle Dunce's features off and on. Third, you can access the Main
Dialog by Right Click on it. Cool, ehh.
* Password: This lets Dunce type in a Password for you in the Connect To
Dialog Box. Obviously the box to the right of this checkbox contains the
password that Dunce will enter. This is useful if you can't use Password
Caching built into 95 or if yours is broken (which is the case for many
people who have upgraded to Service Pack 1, see the Dunce tips WWW page
for more info on this). Note: This password and any others Dunce saves
is *NOT* secure, you cannot rely on someone not being smart enough not to
just look it up in the .ini file. Vector Development takes no responsibility
for anything that happens if someone steals your password from here. For
most home users this shouldn't be a problem. See the To Do List for the
status of Encryption on this feature.
* AutoLoad Dunce on Startup: This lets you toggle if Dunce is installed
as a program to load when Windows95 starts up in the registry. More
than likely you will always leave this checked. Note: There is no
corresponding .ini setting to this feature. Dunce looks to see if its
path matches the one in the Registry.
* Run: This checkbox toggles if Dunce will Run programs at various times
during your connection. This feature is *NOT* compatible with MSN connections,
Sorry. To configure it click on the Run Options button, infor