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Welcome to Notify! Intro TM, the unique new Wireless Business Card from Ex Machina. We hope you find Notify! Intro as easy to use as dialing a phone...quickly, accurately, privately, and with great detail.  This help file will guide you through any questions you may have regarding the options and operation of this product.  Congratulations and welcome to Notify! Intro!

The Notify! Intro On-Screen Pager

Different Types Of Pagers

Sending A Page

Configuring Notify! Intro

Notify! Intro Menu Options

For Help on Help, Press F1


The Notify! Intro On-Screen Pager

After completing the initial configuration, Notify! Intro presents you with a window which looks like a pager.  The window is made up of the following components:

MENU BAR - This standard Windows menu bar provides access to the various configuration options of the Notify! Intro product as well as keyboard access to all of Notify! Intros functionality.

MESSAGE AREA - Although used to display pages on a real pager, this area is used to input the message you would like to send.  What appears in this area closely resembles what will appear on the recipients actual pager.  Since Carriage Returns (Enters) and Tabs are translated to spaces by paging services, your Notify! Intro pager will also represent this translation.  Additionally, if the recipient has a numeric pager, Notify! Intro will prohibit the entry of non-numeric characters.  At the bottom of the Message Area, two indicators present the characters remaining counter and the pager type.  These present you with information regarding the particular pager to which you are sending.  For more information see Different Types of Pagers.   On some gray scale monitors, the blinking cursor in the Message Area may become difficult to see.  If this is the case, you may want to select  a Black & White Pager Style.

SEND BUTTON [image] - Pressing this button will send the message entered in the Message Area.  Depending on your Notify! Intro configuration, a status box will be displayed or the status will appear below the minimized icon at the bottom of your desktop.

SIGNATURE BUTTON [image] - By pressing this button, you can insert a signature of your choice into the Message Area.  This is often desired, since the recipient of a page has no direct way of determining who is sending a page except for the information in the message itself.  If you have not yet selected a signature, the following dialog will come up requesting that you do so at that time.

Typing your signature and clicking on OK (or pressing Enter) will save your signature and insert it into the message box.  This signature may be changed at any time by selecting the Signature... item from the Config menu selection.  The signature field cannot be left blank.  If you choose not to enter a signature, or change an existing signature, pressing the Cancel key will dismiss the dialog without committing any changes.

Tip: If the Pager is a numeric type, many people use their return phone number as this signature, since it is most likely the content of the message you wish to send.

CLEAR BUTTON [image] - Pressing the Clear Button removes all text from the Message Area.  This action is reversible through the use of the Undo option in the Edit pull down of the Notify! Intro menu.  If there is no text in the Message Area, pressing this button has no effect.


Different Types Of Pagers

NUMERIC vs. FULL TEXT PAGERS

Depending upon the paging service selected by the person for whom you configured Notify! Intro, several restrictions may be placed upon the messages you may send.  Many pagers will only accept numeric pages (i.e., the content of the message may only contain numbers).  If the recipient has a numeric pager, the text Numeric Pager will appear at the bottom left corner of the Message Area.  Notify! Intro will not allow you type characters other than numbers into the Message Area.  For your convenience, Notify! Intro will also allow the characters  ()-  which allow you to format a phone number as you may be more accustomed, however these special characters will not be sent to the recipients pager!

The growing trend in the paging industry is the use of Full Text Pagers.  There are no restrictions on which characters you may type to Full Text Pagers and, therefore, Notify! Intro enforces no special character limitations.  The words Full Text Pager will appear in the bottom of the Message Area if the recipients service can support the full character set.

CHARACTER LIMITS

Pager service providers routinely restrict the length of a message being sent to pagers on their networks.  Attempting to send messages longer than this limit will either be truncated (without warning) or rejected outright by the service.  To make this restriction a bit easier to deal with, Notify! Intro limits the message length to the predetermined character count.  Additionally, as you type in the Message Area, the Character Remaining indicator located at the bottom the Notify! Intro Message Area will indicate how many more characters you can type before reaching the limit.  If you attempt to type beyond this limit, Notify! Intro will present an informational message and give you the opportunity to modify the contents before sending.


Sending A Page

Sending a page with Notify! Intro is as easy as typing a message into the Message Area and pressing the Send Button.  Notify! Intro will take care of the rest!  Notify! Intro knows all there is to know with regards to sending pages to the particular recipient.  You need only tell Notify! Intro your current area code and any dialing prefix required at your location.  Then sit back and watch the action!  Of course, Notify! Intro doesnt lock up your machine while the page is being sent, you can feel free to do whatever else youd like to...Notify! Intro will let you know when the page is finished.


Configuring Reach Me! (The Configure Menu Item
Configuring Notify! Intro (The Configure Menu Item)

When you click on the Setup option (or press Alt-S), the following items appear:

Subscriber Information...

Service Information...

Dialing Information...

AutoConfigure...

Advanced Settings...

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Signature...

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Remember Last Message

Minimize Upon Sending

Exit After Sending


AutoConfiguration

 AutoConfiguration is a revolutionary way to configure your copy of Notify! Intro for use with a particular paging service without needing to know anything about modems and communication protocols.  The autoconfiguration process will determine the port to which your modem is connected, the type of modem it is, and the command set it understands.  It will then make some test calls to the recipients paging service to optimize compression and speed.  The process need be done only once for any given modem and takes about 5 minutes.  We strongly recommend you utilize this feature of Notify! Intro

The settings you make from this screen (Modem Type, Com Port, etc.) will be used as clues by the autoconfiguration process.  If you have more than one modem attached to your computer, you may need to set the com port prior to autoconfiguration to assure that the correct modem is used.

IMPORTANT: Before Auto Configuration can be used it is important to properly set your

dialing settings.  This information can be set through the Dialing Information menu item.

Extensive research has been put into Notify! Intro to allow it to autoconfigure for most, if not all modems.  For this reason, we recommend you simply press the OK button on the Autoconfiguration Panel and let Notify! Intro do the work.  If, however, you want to deal with port settings, modem init strings, baud rates, parity bits, stop bits, and data bits, they can be accessed using the Advanced Features menu item.  Be aware! - the settings on the Advanced Features panel are effected not only by your modem, but by the paging service on the other end of the phone!  Incorrectly setting these fields may cause Notify! Intro to no longer send pages.  If the settings are incorrect, please use AutoConfigure to reset them.

On some gray scale monitors, it may become difficult to see the blinking cursor.  If this is the case on your monitor, check the Use Black and White Pager Style checkboxThe black and white pager may not look as nice, but it will correctly show the cursor on these types of monitors.


Notify! Intro Menu Options

The Notify! Intro menu provides four options:

File

Edit

Setup

Help


Remember Last Message

When checked, Notify! Intro will remember the last successful message upon startup.  This feature is of particular value when sending to recipients with numeric pagers where the message text is usually a return phone number.  If this options is unchecked, Notify! Intro will always start with a blank Message area.  The last message can still be retrieved, however,  by pressing CTRL-F2.  This option is turned ON by default.


Minimize Upon Sending

When checked, this option will minimize the Notify! Intro program to an icon immediately after you've pressed the Send button.  Status for the message is given in the text directly below the minimized icon.  If unchecked, or whenever the application is opened, a status window will appear presenting status and an option to cancel the page in progress.  This option is turned OFF by default.


Setting Your Signature

A signature is often desired, since the recipient of a page has no direct way of determining who is sending a page except for the information in the message itself.   Notify! Intro provides a signature button which inserts the signature into the Message Area.  Selecting this menu item pops up a dialog into which you may enter text for your signature.   You should choose a short enough string so as not to use up too many characters, but long enough to identify yourself.


Modem Type

Notify! Intro provides an extensive list of modem types.  It matches the modem type with the recipients service to determine several keys to the communications settings.  Notify! Intro will also use this information as a clue to its AutoConfiguration process.  If you can find your exact modem on this list, select it and autoconfigure.  If not, choose Unknown Modem Type and autoconfigure.


Service Name

The pager network from which the recipient buys service.


Access Number

Phone number of the paging service.


Customer Service

Phone number of the paging service's customer service department.  This is not a number for help with Notify! Intro.


Pager Type

Identifies the type of paging device owned by the recipient.


Pager ID (PID)

Identification of the recipient on the paging services network.


Maximum Characters

The maximum number of characters allowed in a single page to this recipient on this paging service.  Although this field is modifiable, it is not recommended unless instructed by the recipient.  (See Pager Types)


Password

Optional field required by some paging networks.


File

Two options are on the File Menu:

SEND PAGE

Sends the message currently in the message window.  Cannot be pressed if page is in progress or no text exists in the Message Area.

EXIT

Exits the Program.  Will not exit if a page is in progress.


Edit

Edit provides the standard Windows options including Undo, Cut, Copy, Paste, and Clear.  In addition, Notify! Intro provides several extended options:

CLEAR ALL

Clears the contents of the Message Area.  This is the equivalent  	of pressing the CLEAR button on the Notify! Intro pager.

SELECT ALL

Highlights all text in the Message Area window.

PASTE SIGNATURE

Inserts the signature into the Message Area.  This is the equivalent of pressing the Signature button on the Notify! Intro pager.


Help

The help menu provides access to overall help for Notify! Intro (this file), an electronic brochure of other Ex Machina products, and information about this particular product.


Advanced Settings

Although not recommended for general use, Notify! Intro provides the capability for you to go in and configure any of the communications settings it uses, including com port, modem init string, baud rate, parity bits, data bits, and stop bits.  Be aware! - the settings on the Advanced Options panel are effected not only by your modem, but by the paging service on the other end of the phone!  Incorrectly setting these fields may cause Notify! Intro to no longer send pages.  If the settings are incorrect, please use AutoConfigure to reset them.


Exit After Sending

When checked, Notify! Intro will exit after successfully sending a page.  A dialog informing you that the page was complete will be shown after which the application will exit.  If unchecked, Notify! Intro will remain running even after the completion dialog has been dismissed.  This option is turned ON by default.


Subscriber Information

When Notify! Intro is installed you will be presented with the subscriber dialog. By entering this information and that on the Service Information panel, you are identifying a particular recipient for your pages.

The following fields are available:

Send Page To:

Pager Type:

Pager ID:

Maximum Chars:

Password:


Service Information

The Service information screen in conjunction with the Subscriber Information dialog identify the recipient of the pages to Notify! Intro.  This information must be correctly entered in order to complete your first page.  The following fields are available:

Service Name:

Access Number:

Customer Service Number:


Setting Your Dialing Settings

In order for Notify! Intro to correctly dial the paging service, information regarding the phone system at your location is required.  The Dialing Information screen provides the opportunity for you to modify this information.  As you select the options and enter the values, the sample at the bottom of the screen will change to display the number that will be dialed.  When the sample matches that which would dial successfully, press the OK, NEXT, or PREV buttons.  To include an option in the dial string, check the box to the left of the text, then type the string in the edit field on the right.  You can disable an option without deleting the value in the edit field by unchecking the box on the left.  This can be useful if you frequently travel between two areas which require different settings.  The following dialing options are available:

Outside Line Code

Long Distance Code

Dial Area Code

Tone/Pulse Dialing


Send Page To:

Specifies the name of the recipient of the page.  This informations appears on the main pager window as well as during several status messages.


Outside Line Code

Some phone systems require a code to gain access to an outside line such as 9. If a pause is required, you may enter a comma (,).  Additionally, any codes required to turn off telephone features which may interrupt a modem transmission should be entered here.


Long Distance Code

If your phone system requires a code (eg., '1') to reach long distance numbers, check the box and enter the code in the edit field.


Dial Area Code

If the area code of the number needs to be included in the dial string, check this box.


Tone / Pulse Dialing

Check the pulse button if your system does not support 'Touch Tone' dialing, otherwise it is best to select Tone dialing.