                                                WaflineMail v1.00r
                                                Help Information
                                                11/23/1991

  HELP WITH WAFLINEMAIL v1.00r
        or
  [ Suggestions for Enhanced Enjoyment ]

  o Create a JOIN.WM file in your personal directory that contains a
    list of newsgroups that WaflineMail will collect for donwnloading.
    Exclude newsgroups that routinely have LARGE messages in them! Most
    notably, alt.sources, comp.binaries, etc. are better when read
    through Waffle.

  o At every prompt there is a DEFAULT command. For example, the main
    menu reads "Selection [D,t,r,u,k,q,h] ->". What that means is that
    if you press ENTER, WaflineMail assumes you want the "D" selection.
    In all cases, the capitalized command is the default selection.

  o During the scan, you may press Ctrl-K to abort back to Waffle.

  FURTHER HELP WITH WAFLINEMAIL v1.00b
        or
  [ What do these crazy sounding menu choices really *do*, anyway? ]

  [D]ownload QWK Mail

    You may select this option by either pressing the 'D' key, or by
    hitting the ENTER key. Either way you're telling WaflineMail to
    begin gathering up your mail into a QWK format archive. This QWK
    format archive is readable by several offline mail reader programs,
    including SLMR, Deluxe2, and RoseReader, and is the same format used
    by mail doors such as Tomcat!, Qmail, and RoseMail.

    WaflineMail will then check your user directory for Email, and pack
    it up if any exists. After a successful transfer, WaflineMail will
    delete all the Email that it packed up. WaflineMail will then move
    on to the newsgroups, packing up all messages it finds, until it
    either gets all new messages, or you reach your limit.

    After gathering up all your mail into the QWK archive, you'll be
    asked if your sure you want to download it, and, if so, if you want
    to hang up after the transfer is complete. Select 'Y' to download
    and then return to Waffle, 'N' to quit immediately to Waffle, or 'H'
    to hang up after the transfer is complete.

  [T]ext Download

    This is very similar to the QWK download option, except that, once
    unarchived, this is a straight ASCII text file, viewable by
    virtually anything.

  [R]news Download

    This is exactly the same as text download, except that the ASCII
    file produced can be imported into a Waffle message base by typing:

      RNEWS > FileName.Ext

    This will import the messages into the Waffle message base. See the
    Waffle documentation for further details.

    Also, such packets may be read by READMAIL 3.1 (Jeroen Schipper) by
    using the following values for the header definition (F8):

    New header  : #! rnews *
    Subject     : Subject:
    Sender      : From:
    Date        : Date:
    Lines #     : 0
  
  [U]pload Replies

    This is where you send your reply packets (either .REP or .TXT
    files). REP packets are generated by one of the above mentioned
    offline readers. Normally, messages are imported into newsgroups.
    However, you can send private email by making the message private,
    and putting it into the "Email Messages" area. The first line of the
    message contains the name of the recipiant (in the standard form),
    preceded by "To". For example, "To: validor@cybrelf.halcyon.com".
    You can have as many recipiants as you want, seperated by a space.
    WaflineMail stops when it encounters a new line, however.

    TXT files require you to do a bit more work. They are standard ASCII
    text files that contain the message to be imported by WaflineMail
    (WaflineMail can only handle one message per file, by the way). They
    ARE NOT compressed! You must add "Newsgroups:" and "Subject:"
    headers yourself - WaflineMail won't add them for you. For example,
    a message might look like this:

    Newsgroups: alt.bbs Subject: Test Message

    This is a test message!

    In which case WaflineMail would put the message in the alt.bbs
    newsgroup with the Subject "Test Message". Make sure there is a
    blank line after the "Subject:"!

    If you wish to upload Email messages by a normal TXT file, then the
    first line must contain the name of the recipiant, preceded by
    "To:", as above.

    WaflineMail will prompt you to upload the packet at the appropriate
    time. If you uploaded a TXT file, WaflineMail will ask if it's an
    Email message. If it is, answer "Y", but if it's destined for a
    newsgroup, answer "N".

    Note that, currently, WaflineMail doesn't support any offline
    configuration messages. (For example, add and drop conferences
    commands don't work.) This will possibly be added in the future.

  [K]ill Email After Download (Do/Don't)

    By default, WaflineMail WILL NOT delete your Email after a
    successful download. It's up to you to do this via Waffle. However,
    if you select this option, WaflineMail WILL delete your Email after a
    successful transfer. The state of this option is on the top line
    that reads "Deleting: ".

  [H]elp

    If you don't know what this does, then you need more help than I can
    give you...

  [Q]uit to Waffle

    This quits immediately back to Waffle.

