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- Orator V1.12
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- (c) 1992 by Nick Dyer, EvaWare UK
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- Copyright
- Orator Copyright (c) 1992 by Nick Dyer of EvaWare UK is
- being distributed as Shareware. Under this concept you
- may use the SHAREWARE (unregistered) version for 30 days
- for evaluation after which you must register your copy or
- cease to use it.
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- Distribution
- You are encouraged to distribute Orator provided that
- all the files contained in the archive are distributed in
- their original and unregistered state. You are not under
- any circumstances permitted to distribute a registered
- copy of Orator.
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-
- Introduction
- Orator V1.12 is a new Qwk mail packet reader for Windows
- V3.x. This programming project is the first undertaken by myself
- both in the PC market and in Visual Basic (The language the
- system was written in). 1.12 is the 3rd non-beta version released
- this year.
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- I hope that you find it as much fun to use as I found to
- write. Compared to the work that I have been doing before
- this really was an interesting program to write. If you
- find Orator to be useful then please be honest and
- register this copy. There is an order form included with
- this Archive. See Registration below.
-
- Orator V1.12 features :-
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- Unlimited Conference Quantity Handling.
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- Unique Conference Sorting and Search (No More
- hunting thru lists)
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- Ansi Viewer
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- Tagline Theft
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- Remote Qmail Door Configuration
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- Orator detects Reply-To: fields and From:fields when
- replying to EMAIL received over Sparkwares UseNet Gateway.
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- NDX files are no longer needed as opposed to older versions
- so reconfigure you mail door settings if it currently includes
- NDX files.
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- Personal Mail is shown under a separate group.
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- New to 1.12 is the introduction of a folders system. This allows
- you to open your own folders with their titles and archive
- messages to them. You can then:
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- a) View them and cut them to the clipboard so that you can
- include them in replies and other applications.
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- b) Print them out.
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- c) Move them between folders if you decide to reorganise them.
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- d) and of course delete them.
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- plus lots more.
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- The unregistered version of Orator V1.12 is fully
- functional apart from taglines. If Orator is not
- registered then the following appears at the bottom of
- all your Mail Messages:
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- _ Orator V1.12 _ [Windows Qwk Reader Unregistered Evaluation Copy]
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- In addition to this there is a screen that appears every
- time Orator is started prompting you to register the
- product. This can be eliminated by registration.
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- Included in the archive is a small program called
- ORATVIEW.EXE. This is the program used together with its
- PIF file to view files in ANSI format. I myself would
- confess that this program requires a little bit of work
- carried out on it and it will be one of the first items
- to receive attention qhwn time permits.
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- Warranty
- Although rigorous testing has been carried out, bugs cannot be avoided.
- I can however guarantee that the worst that Orator could do is not read
- your mail<g>.
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- Your comments and problems are welcomed as it is only through user
- participation that this product can be made one of the greats.
- See contacting the Author below.
-
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- INSTALLATION
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- 'Unzip' the archive to a floppy or temporary directory on
- your hard drive.
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- Start Windows and from the File menu (Or File Manager) run
- the Setup Program on the floppy (Or Temporary directory on
- your hard drive)
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- The installation is self explanatory and will carry out all
- work necessary.
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- #### NOTE ####
- When you first run Orator it will inform you that no
- Configuration file has been found and that it is about to
- create one. Click on OK and proceed to Orator
- Configuration below. Note Orator stops after this initial
- configuration and must be restarted after configuration
- has been completed.
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- Orator Configuration
- A dialog box reveals the following fields to be
- completed. Note Orator attempts to build defaults into
- the fields if this is the first time you are running
- Orator. Make your changes as required and press (ENTER)
- or click on OK
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- Default QWK Path
- Enter the full path name including drive name for where
- Orator can find your QWK packets.
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- Default REP Path
- Enter the full path name including drive name for where
- Orator Can find and should place any of your REPly
- (.REP)files.
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- PKunzip (inc Path)
- Supply here the full command including path and drive
- name for your chosen archiver extract command. Use %1 to
- represent the archive name and %2 to represent the path
- for the Work files eg
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- C:\PKZIP\PKUNZIP %1 %2
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- tells Orator that the command PKUNZIP is in library PKZIP
- on Hard Disk C. When actually unzipping something the
- value of %1 is replaced with the name of the Archive to
- be 'unzipped' and %2 is replaced with the path to place
- all the files extracted into.
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- PKZip (Inc Path)
- As above but instead give details for the Archiver
- Archive Command. %1 will be the Archive file to be
- created and %2 will be the files inc path to be added to
- the archive.
-
- Signature File
- Is not obligatory however the contents of this text file
- are appended to all your replies before any tagline. Such
- a file might contain your name and USENET address for
- example.
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- Orator Menu/Commands
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- File
- This menu is used to Open/Close/Delete packets, Configure
- Orator or exit Orator.
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- Window
- Is only active when a packet is open. This menu is
- otherwise disabled. Submenus to this menu are only
- enabled if the relevant information is available. For
- example the Bulletins menu won't be enabled if there are
- no bulletins included in the packet you just opened.
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- Welcome - Uses ORATVIEW to show the contents of the
- Welcome File
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- Session - Uses ORATVIEW to show the contents of the
- Session.TXT
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- Messages - Starts a new form to handle the reading of
- Mail See Below
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- Replies - Starts a new form to Enter/Delete replies
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- Bulletins - Uses ORATVIEW to read any Bulletins
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- News - Uses ORATVIEW to read any BBS News included.
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- Files - Uses ORATVIEW to view the NEWFILES.DAT file.
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- Services - To read any BBS services with ORATVIEW
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- Goodbye - Uses ORATVIEW to read any Goodbye file
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- Folders
- Is used to maintain folders containing archived messages. Folders
- are created during archiving but can then be manipulated from here
- allowing archives to be examined or deleted.
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- Door
- Like Window is only active if a packet is open. At the
- present one can only configure Qmail doors remotely with
- this however future versions of Orator will definitely
- include remote configuring of other door types like
- MarkMail, RoseMail and Kmail to name but just a few.
- Clicking on Qmail reveals the following menu
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- Add a Conference
- To choose a new conference for future mail downloading.
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- Drop a Conference
- Allows you to select a conference to be dropped from
- future mail scans.
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- Reset a Conference
- To select a conference and either set it's message
- pointer to a specific message number to begin future mail
- scans from or set the pointer to the highest message in
- that conference. You can also state a number of messages
- short of the highest that scanning is to begin. A dialog
- box appears and asks you for the number of messages you
- would like the pointer to be set to short of the highest
- message in the conference. Blank means leave the pointer
- at highest for conference.
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- Set PCBoard City.
- For those Qmail doors on PCBoard systems this allows you
- to set the City field in your user profile on the board.
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- Business Phone
- For those Qmail doors on PCBoard systems this allows you
- to set the Business phone number field in your user
- profile on the board.
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- Home Phone
- For those Qmail doors on PCBoard systems this allows you
- to set the home phone number field in your user profile
- on the board.
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- PCBoard Page Length
- For those Qmail doors on PCBoard systems this allows you
- to set the page length in lines in your user profile on
- the board.
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- User Password
- Allows you to change your password on the BBS remotely.
- Remember it wont be valid until after your mail packet is
- uploaded.
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- Set Door Protocol
- Allows you to change the protocol used by the door to
- upload and download your mail.
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- READING MAIL
- Clicking on the Messages item in the Window Bar menu
- launches a new form for the reading of conferences
- containing mail. The form contains the following
- controls:
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- Next
- Shows the next message in the current conference. The
- next conference is automatically opened and viewed if you
- are already reading the last message in the current
- conference.
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- Prev
- Shows the previous message. Note if you are already
- reading the first message in the conference then the
- previous conference is NOT automatically backtracked to.
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- Print
- Prints the current message on the Windows 3.x default
- printer.
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- List
- Lists a summary of all the messages in the current
- conference. You can then choose from this list a message
- at random that you wish to read.
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- Steal
- Orator will attempt to steal the tagline from the current
- message and will allow you to view it (/amend it) before
- adding it to its database called Taglines.ORA. Taglines
- can also be stolen from the middle of messages as follows
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- 1 - Editing the TAGLINES.ORA file with the Windows
- NotePad
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- 2 - Marking the message part containing the Tagline(s)
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- 3 - Cut the marked text
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- 4 - Paste the marked text at the end of the Taglines.ORA
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- Search
- Allows you to search the message base for messages
- containing a text sample given by you. The messages found
- are stored under the active conferences for you to be
- able to read them. The current conference is
- automatically dropped and the found messages are shown.
- See the on-line help for more information. See also
- Conference Hopping below.
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- Reply
- To enter a reply to the current message.
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- Confer
- See Conference Hopping below.
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- Cancel
- Quit reading Mail
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- CONFERENCE HOPPING
- Either by pressing the Confer button while reading
- messages or by pressing the 3D conference control whilst
- entering a Reply launches a form for selecting
- conferences. The form is divided into two main parts.
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- 1 - A list box called Numerical Conference Groups
- 2 - Group contents
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- a search button is also on the form.
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- Numerical Conference Groups
- Shown here are all the conferences available on the BBS
- where this packet was downloaded divided into numerical
- groups of 250 conferences.
-
- Show also in the first position is an Active group which
- contains a summary of all conferences containing
- messages. You can select a certain conference group by
- positioning the mouse over the group title and clicking
- the button. If you launched this form by pressing the
- Confer button whilst reading mail then this list box is
- disabled as you may only select conferences from the
- active section.
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- Group Contents
- Shown here is the contents of the numerical (or active)
- group you selected in the above List Box. You can then
- choose a conference to enter your reply or read messages
- in by finding it in the list and selecting it and
- clicking your mouse button.
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- Search Facility
- Search facility prompts for a text sample to find a
- conference. All conference groups are searched but only
- the first match is shown.
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- REGISTRATION
- Orator Copyright (c) 1992 by Nick Dyer of EvaWare UK is
- being distributed as Shareware. Under this concept you
- may use the SHAREWARE (unregistered) version for 30 days
- for evaluation after which you must register your copy or
- cease to use it.
-
- To register send a cheque or money order for 15.00 pounds
- sterling (17.50 pounds sterling if you live outside UK or
- Eire) to
-
- Nick Dyer
- EvaWare UK
- No 5 Grosvenor Court
- Louth
- Lincolnshire LN11 9LT
- ENGLAND
-
- When your registration form is received we will despatch
- a Key file and the latest version of the product on
- diskette to you.
-
- Alternatively you could register this product by calling Almac
- BBS in Scotland and register using your credit card. ALMAC are a
- quality BBS obtainable by dialing
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- International: +44 324 665371
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- or from within the UK & N. Ireland: 0324 665371
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- Set your communcation software to 2400 Baud 8 databits 1 stop bit
- and No-Parity. V32/V32bis is also supported.
-
- Being honest and registering this product will help me to
- be able to afford development of the next version.
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- Contacting the Author
- Obviously I can be contacted by post to the address shown
- above but I shall be maintaining a presence in the
- OFFLINE and SHWARE conferences of ILINK. I can also be
- contacted at USENET E-Mail address nick.dyer@almac.co.uk
-
- I would very much like to hear your comments about the
- package as user feedback will enable me to know what
- areas are most important to off-line users today.
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- Thanks For Help
- Have to go foremost to ALMAC in Scotland for such a great
- board whose telephone number by the way is Int +44 (0)324
- 665371. They put up with me uploading various spurious
- messages whilst testing was going on and not to mention
- pointed me in the right direction with regard to major
- requirements of a mail reader. So Thanks Guys!!!
-
- Thanks also have to go to Michael Stewart in the
- Win.App.Dev conference on Ilink for helping me with a
- routine to convert 4 byte Basic Real to long numbers.
- Thanks Michael!
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- Thanks also to my wife Anette for putting up with my long
- hours of absence from the family home during this time of
- development.
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- And finally.. thanks to you for downloading this product.
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- Copyrights and trademarks.
-
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- Orator Nick Dyer EvaWare UK
- Qmail Sparkware.
- MarkMail Mark Turner.
- TomCat Greg Hewgill.
- RAMail Randy Blackmond.
- PKZip/PKUnzip Phil Katz.
- ARC System Enhancement Associates.
- PAK NoGate Consulting.
- Zoo Rahul Dhesi.
- Lha/Lharc Haruyasu Yoshizaki.
- MS-DOS Microsoft Corporation.
- MicroSoft Windows Microsoft Corporation.
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