Stars of Shareware: DFÜ und Kommunikation/SOS-DFUE.ISO/programm/internet/winnetuk/read-1st.txt

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W i n N E T   (UK)   M a i l (TM)
Copyright ⌐ 1992,1993 by Computer Witchcraft, Inc.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

PC User Group Ltd
PO Box 360,
84-88 Pinner Rd, HARROW
HA1 4LQ, ENGLAND

Telephone:  [phone]
Fax      :  [phone]
Internet:   [e-mail]
            [e-mail]



(READ-1ST.TXT)

Please read this file *carefully* before installing or
attempting to use WinNET Mail.  Getting WinNET (UK) set up on
your system is quite straight-forward, but if you don't
read this file before getting started, you will overlook
important information necessary for proper operation of
the software.

CONTENTS

  Costs of Using WinNET Mail
  Setting up WinNET Mail on Your System
  Upgrading From an Earlier Version of WinNET
  Problems with WinNET Setup
  Distribution of WinNET Mail


WinNET Mail (TM) is a Windows 3.0/3.1 application for
sending and receiving Electronic Mail and News articles with
the world-wide Internet and Usenet networks using just your
Windows system and a modem.  The connection with the
Internet and Usenet is provided through Computer
Witchcraft's computer system providing WinNET (UK) (SM)
service.

COSTS OF USING WinNET (UK) MAIL

The WinNET (UK) Mail software is provided to you free of charge
for the purpose of connecting with the WinNET (UK) system.  The
WinNET (UK) system is your connection with the Internet and Usenet
networks and usage is billed to you on a connect time
basis (charges are plus vat at the prevailing rate).

The rate for on-line usage of the WinNET (UK) system is:

            £3.25 per hour (Pounds Sterling).

There is a monthly minimum charge of £6.75 while you
have an account with us.  This means that if you use less than
£6.75 worth of connect time (billed at £3.25 per hour), you
will be billed the minimum of £6.75.

There is a per account minimum charge of £6.75.  Accounts
created and then ended shortly thereafter will be billed at
minimum £6.75.

Unlike many on-line services and bulletin boards, you are
only connected to WinNET (UK) for just long enough to send or
receive any pending E-Mail at speeds as fast as your modem
will go.  This results in connection times of typically 1 to
just a few minutes.  In our experience, customers average
1.25 hours of connect time per month or just £6.75 in
charges. See TERMS.TXT for full details.

You can also add a login account to your WinNET account if your
require TELNET and/or FTP caperbilities.  This costs an additional
£7.25 per month as a FLAT fee (please mail [e-mail] for
more information or see TERMS.TXT). [Note the monthly minimum with
this option is £14.00 plus WinNET connect time for down/uploading
time to your WinNET software.]  To access your login account you will
need to use the Windows Terminal Program or other communications
program TELNET & FTP services are on the INTERNET menu.


SETTING UP WinNET MAIL ON YOUR SYSTEM

Following are instructions for setting up WinNET Mail on
your system.

STEP 1.  If you received WinNET from CompuServe or some
other electronic bulletin board, create a temporary
directory and copy the wnmail.zip file to this directory.
Run the pkunzip prgram (commonly available shareware from
PKWARE) to unzip the wnmail.zip file in this directory.

STEP 2.  From the Windows program manager File menu, or
directly from the Window's File Manage program, Run the
SETUP.EXE program supplied with the WinNET distribution.
Use the More Information button to get more information on
each screen.


STEP 3.  Run the CWI Account Setup program (ACCOUNT.EXE).
This will ask you for billing and credit card information.
The program will call the Computer Witchcraft WinNET server
and submit your account request.  After a one minute
pause, the program will call back to verify that the
account was accepted.

All account requests will be accepted unless the System
Name that you choose under SETUP is already taken by
another WinNET (UK) customer.  If the account request is not
successful, you will need to re-run SETUP, select a different
System Name, and re-run the account program.

Please NOTE that once your account is setup it will take up to
four hours to be validated before incoming mail will be forwarded
to you outgoing mail will be held until after validation and then
sent on.

Also NOTE if you correctly connect to us the first time and fail
on subsequent occasions you can recollect your new user mail by clicking
on the "Call WinNET" icon -- this will re-call us if the modems are
busy.  You only need to rerun the "Account Setup" if your call to
us is picked up but you cannot loggon (listen to your modems speaker).

STEP 4.  Now that your account has been created you can set up your
computer to call us a regular intervals.  To do this click on the
"Scheduler" icon and select the times that you wish to call us.
Once selected this program needs to be minimised so that it runs in
the background.  To ensure that it is alwasy started you may want to
make a copy of the icon and place it in the startup group (you may
also want to alter the properties so that it starts minimized).

Finally you may want to change the modem settings in the "WinNET
Mail Setup" program so that the communications paramaters for the
modem does not include M1 (speaker on till connected) but has
M0 (speaker off at all times) the standard setting would become
ATM0V1.

If your require additional help please call us or mail support
here at [e-mail].

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UPGRADING FROM AN EARLIER VERSION OF WINNET

The instructions for upgrading a previous version of WinNET
are basically the same as outlined in the above steps
describing a new installation.  Make sure that you put the
distribution .zip file wnmail.zip in a *temporary*
directory before you start (NOT the directory that
currently contains WinNET) and run setup from this
temporary directory.  When you are asked to specify the
directory where WinNET should be installed, specify the
same directory where your old copy of WinNET was
installed.  This will cause the setup program to overwrite
the old WinNET files with the files from the new version.
Your old setup parameters will be detected and appear as
the defaults in the setup process.

Also, if you are upgrading from a version of WinNET that
did not support WinNET News (version 1.03 or earlier),
please see the section above, (STEP 3 of "Setting up WinNET
on your System"), that describes the setting of the WinNET
WNMTZ environment variable.  This is VERY IMPORTANT for the
proper operation of this version of the software.

PROBLEMS WITH WinNET SETUP

The most likely source of problems that you may have with
WinNET Mail is the SETUP Communications Parameters:

    1.  Make sure that the COM port is set to the port that
        your modem uses.

    2.  Make sure that the interface speed it not set faster
        than your modem can handle.

    3.  Verify that the telephone number being dialed will
        work correctly from your facility and area.

        The telephone number of the WinNET server is:

                [phone]

        Which is located in HARROW in North West London.
        If you have problems with this number you can also
        try [phone] or [phone].


You can verify that these settings work for your system by
using the Windows Terminal program.  You can also check that
the modem strings supplied on the Communications Parameters
screen work with you modem as well.

Please see TROUBLE.TXT for more possibilities.

FOR THOSE WISHING TO DISTRIBUTE WinNET MAIL (TM), PLEASE
READ ON.

DISTRIBUTION OF WinNET MAIL (TM)

COMPUTER WITCHCRAFT, INC., UNCONDITIONALLY RETAINS ALL
RIGHTS PURSUANT TO THE COPYRIGHT LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.

That said, we very much encourage distribution of this
product, under the following conditions:

1.  Any person serving as a distributor of WinNET Mail (TM)
    must retain exactly the original form of the
    Computer Witchcraft, Inc., distribution by including
    ALL files in unmodified condition.

    There are 23 files that are included with the WinNET
    Mail (TM) distribution:

        READ-1ST.TXT    SETUP.EXE       ACCOUNT.EX_
        TERMS.TXT       VIEWER.EXE      DAEMON.EX_
        TROUBLE.TXT     SETUP.001       DECODE.EX_
        VENDOR.TXT      SETUP.002       ENCODE.EX_
                        SETUP.003       MAILCALL.EX_
        BWCC.DLL        SETUP.004       MAILMAN.EX_
        MEGAED.DLL      ACCOUNT.001     UUCICO.EX_
                        QUEUEED.EX_     WNMAIL.EX_
                        CLEANUP.EX_     WNMAIL.HL_
                        CLEANUP.HL_     QUEUEED.HL_

2.  Owners or operators of Electronic Bulletin Boards
    (EBB's), such as CompuServe, may acquire or accept, and
    then distribute copies of WinNET Mail (TM) through
    their EBB service, subject to the conditions above, and
    may further do so in the context of charging subscribers
    to their services a general fee for belonging to the
    membership of the service, and/or for time on-line, as
    long as these charges are not specifically related to
    overt sale of the WinNET Mail (TM) product.  This should
    in no way be construed as relinquishment, by Computer
    Witchcraft, Inc., of its copyright protection and sole
    ownership of WinNET Mail (TM).

3.  Persons wishing to contact Computer Witchcraft, Inc.,
    for the purpose of negotiating limited distribution
    rights for WinNET Mail (TM) should review the file
    VENDOR.TXT, included with this distribution, which
    contains an application form that distributors may use
    to initiate the process.

4.  Any persons possessing a bona fide copy of WinNET Mail
    (TM) as originally distributed by Computer
    Witchcraft, Inc., may freely copy and distribute the
    product to whomever they like, as long as exactly the
    original form of the distribution is retained, by
    including ALL files, in unmodified condition,
    especially but not limited to all documentation files,
    as long as they assess no fees beyond those required for
    materials needed in distributing the product, i.e.,
    matching exactly the cost of floppy disks, mailing
    materials and costs, or long-distance phone charges
    relevant to electronic distribution.

5.  With the exceptions of EBB operators, under the
    conditions described above, and that of persons entering
    into written contractual distribution agreements with
    Computer Witchcraft, Inc., other persons engaged in the
    distribution of software for profit ARE EXPLICITLY
    PROHIBITED from marketing or selling, in any form, any
    files or parts of files, or modified versions of files,
    that are part of Computer Witchcraft's distribution.

6.  Developers of software products who incorporate ANY
    portion of the binary portions of the author's product,
    or who copy features or aspects of the user-interface of
    the product subject to protection by the laws of
    copyright, SHALL BE PROSECUTED, unless they have the
    express, written permission of Computer Witchcraft,
    Inc., to do so.

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Computer Witchcraft, Inc.
Post Office Box 4189
Louisville, KY 40204

Telephone:       [phone]
Fax:             [phone]
Internet Mail:   [e-mail]
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