HELP CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

WHAT DO YOU NEED

INSTALLATION

HOW TO USE ECTOOL?

CREDITS

REGISTRATION

WARRANTY


INTRODUCTION

This utility was born to help email chess players to manage the games in play, to avoid  losing their game record, or forget to send their moves. (As I do frequently :))

I'm open to all suggestions of the email chess community. I promise I will try to implement most of them (If it is possible that I can do it).

In a few words, ECTOOL allows you to easily record your games, send your moves by email (SMPT), review your queued mail, send carbon copies to Tournament Directors or Archivist, send mail to anybody like another mailer, export your games to PGN format, save to text files with optional to: header, you will be able to send a ASCCII diagram in your messages, the time registers and so on.

You can get the last version at:

http://www.redestb/personal/avalverde


WHAT DO YOU NEED

ECTOOL is a 16 bit program that runs fine both under  WIN 3.X and Windows 95 and NT.

You dont need any extra runtime or database engine.

At that moment the program does not make an exhaustive legal computation of your moves, but it is enough to record them. Remember : THIS IS NOT A CHESS GAME, NOR A CHESS TEACHER PROGRAM, it is only a single database that allows you to send by email your game records.


INSTALLATION

Simply unzip the file ECTOOLXX.ZIP in the directory you choose. The program does not copy any file to your windows or system directory and neither modify your system settings.

Begin with the option FILE > CONFIG, to setup the main variables, all the fields are self explicative


HOW TO USE ECTOOL?

The use of the program is quite simple. All the MENU options and buttons present a hint message self explicative.


CREDITS

This application has been made with BORLAND DELPHI 1.0 (tm).

I have received a great help from Mike Leahy, who sent me the chess board component.

I want to say thanks to all this people who has tested the program.


REGISTRATION

This program is released under the SHAREWARE concept. My first intention was to make it FREE, but I have had to pay for different components, and I don't want to make money, but neither to lose it. Anyway, the registration will be valid for ALL  the future versions of ECTOOL, if any.

To register, please send only $15 USA

(2000 pts for Spanish orders) by postal order (or in a single envelope if you think it will come) to :

     Andres Valverde Toresano

     Pz. Ibiza 1,8º A

     04005. ALMERIA. SPAIN

Don't forget to note your email address!

I will send you by email the registration key (I presume you have an email account as you need an email utility :) ), or a non expired version,registered with your data.


WARRANTY

This program is released "as is", there is no warranty of any type. Use it at your own risk.

Andres Valverde

avalverde@redestb.es

www.redestb.es/personal/avalverde

2:345/108.5@FidoNet

ALMERIA, 5.October.1996