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- Indalo presents:
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- Post
-
- 1. The program's purpose:
- Post converts replies out of html-forms to a readable format.
- This is a tool for people who want to get feedback to their
- website with html-forms via email, so there are no cgi-scripts
- needed.
- Included is a sample html-page with a full featured answer form and two
- files called "formpost" and "form posted by Mozilla" wich were send
- out of this exsample-form. These files can be converted with the programm.
-
- If you run a website and get feedback out of your form continously,
- you need a mailclient like Eudorda, wich stores the form-replies in a
- attachment-directory automatically. Then you specify this directory
- in the Post-programm and all received replies can be processed in one
- stroke.
- Post itself is a simple editor with standard "file" and "edit" menu-functions.
- The special conversion-function is in the "auto"-menu.
- Before you use this function (named "convert"), you should tell the
- programm where the reply-files called "formpost"-files are stored and with what
- file filter (default is form*) they all get hit.
- Convert translates the files, and stores them into an output-textfile.
- Then the formpost-files get deleted. The output-file is named like
- 11_03_96.txt and is displayed in the editor for further processing.
-
- To try out this system follow these steps:
- - enter your email-adress in the form.htm file
- - get online
- - load the form.htm in your web-browser, fill it out and click submit
- - after your mailserver has processed this, you can check your mail-account
- - the entered infos are attached to the mail in one line. The Eudora mail-client
- stores this automatically in one file. If you have another mail-client, you have to do
- this manually. (btw: Eudora light V1.54 is freeware; about 2Mb from qualcomm.com or
- search eudor154.exe by archie)
- - then run Post, set the auto-dir, where the file is stored, the filefilter and
- click the "convert"-action.
- The replys get listed with number, date (when you received them) and a few markes
- wich tell you the status in further processing.
-
- Note that all constellations in html-forms can be processed, no matter how much,
- what type or in what order the input-tags are.
- This is also the main advantage over static cgi-scripts.
- So you can design your answer-forms how you like with no limitation or consequences
- from layout-changes.
- Post does it all!
-
-
- 2. how to install it:
- Just copy all files in one directory
-
- 3. The status of the program:
- SHAREWARE
-
- 4. The program's distribution status:
- freely distributable only under following conditions:
- - only the original ZIP-archiev shoult be distributed.
- It is not allowed to add or remove files from this or to extract it
- and distribute the files in another archiev (even if you zip it again).
- Otherwise users cant be shure about functionality or
- virus-safety of the programm.
- - only as SHAREWARE
- - distribution in other archieves or collections should be announced to Indalo
-
- 5. How to contact the author in case of questions or problems:
- per email: reiss@bonsai.de
- or andreas.reiss@graffix.de
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