Thank you for your interest in the CompuServe Information Manager(tm) 
for Windows - WinCIM(r).

A rich context-sensitive Help feature can be accessed from any area of 
WinCIM by hitting the F1 key.

You can obtain information on the current status of WinCIM by accessing 
the GO WINCIM area on CompuServe.  This area contains information 
related to the status of WinCIM.  

You can also obtain help and support through the WinCIM Support Forum 
(GO WCIMSUPPORT).  This forum is devoted to WinCIM and is staffed by 
representatives from CompuServe's Customer Service department.


New features in WinCIM 1.3:

- Changes have been made in the way we handle the About Box.  
  They are:

	1. A "splash" screen is now displayed when WinCIM is first 
	   started. After displaying for a few seconds, the 
	   dialog will disappear automatically.

	2. The WinCIM About Box will only be displayed if the 
	   "About CIM" choice is selected from the Help pull-down menu.

	3. The General Preferences dialog box has been changed.  The
	   "About Box" option has been removed from the "Initial Desktop"
	   option.  There is no way to prevent the splash screen from
	   showing at startup.

- The Browse Services window has been redesigned to contain 
  more categories.

- A new "Connect" dialog has been implemented.  This new dialog 
  allows users to easily connect to CompuServe.  The dialog will 
  appear when the program first starts and can be disabled by 
  un-checking the "Show at Startup" option (located on the dialog).
  Choosing the option to connect causes WinCIM to access the What New
  Information.  The dialog can be displayed (if it was closed) by 
  selecting the "Connect..." choice on the File pull-down menu.

- Support for an enhanced style of menus has been implemented in 
  WinCIM 1.3.  These menus will be used in some CompuServe 
  services that will be available soon.

- A "Show Graphic Menus" preference was added to the General 
  Preferences dialog.  This controls if WinCIM will request/display
  the new enhanced menus that will appear in some services shortly.

- Carrier Detect (primarily used for modems) can now be enabled or
  disabled by clicking the "More" button on the Session Settings 
  dialog.  The default setting for this option is "ON".  If WinCIM 
  is being used with a modem that does not support Carrier Detect, 
  this option can now be disabled.

- The printer dialog is no longer displayed when users attempt to 
  set their fonts.


Important WinCIM Information:

- If you are upgrading from WinCIM version 1.0.5 (or earlier) 
  AND you have the "^" character in your password, you will 
  need to respecify your password the very first time you 
  use WinCIM 1.2.  You only need to do this if you have the 
  password stored in your session settings.
  
- WinCIM "looks" at the text in menus and articles and determines 
  if the data is column data.  If WinCIM detects that the 
  information contains column data, it will switch into a fixed 
  font (so the information will line up properly).  You can switch
  between the fixed and proportional font by choosing the 
  "Fixed Font" option from the Edit pull down menu (or you 
  can use Cntrl-T).

- Special features in WinCIM can be accessed by modifying items in 
  the WINCIM.INI file.  See the file WC-INI.TXT in the WinCIM Support
  Forum (GO WCIMSUPPORT) for additional details.

- International keyboard characters (ISO Latin-1) can be used in 
  WinCIM.  This capability allows WinCIM users to send CompuServe 
  Mail and Forum messages that contain international characters.  
  There are some known limitations to using these characters.  
  For additional information about this topic, see the file 
  WC8BIT.TXT in the "General" Library of the WinCIM Support Forum 
  (GO WCIMSUPPORT).

- WinCIM is shipped with a mono-spaced font that can be used when 
  using WinCIM's terminal emulation mode.  This font (Monospaced 821)
  can be installed through the Windows Control Panel and it will then 
  be available for use in WinCIM.  You can find this font in the
  c:\cserve\wincim directory.
  
  The default "Terminal" font can be changed in WinCIM by accessing 
  the "General Preferences" dialog and clicking on the "Fonts" button.  

- Sounds (.WAV files) can now be associated with WinCIM events (i.e.
  connecting, file transfer completion, etc.).  Sounds can be added 
  and removed through the sound module in the Windows Control Panel.

  The WinCIM install procedure does not overwrite any existing 
  sounds that may already be defined in the WIN.INI file.  If 
  WinCIM made changes to the WIN.INI file, the original file was 
  backed up and named WININI.CIM.