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Orator Off Line Reader for Windows 3.1 version 1.13
INSTALLATION
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EXISTING USERS SHOULD NOT
MERELY COPY THE ARCHIVES FILES
INTO THEIR ORATOR PROGRAM
DIRECTORY. READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS
CAREFULLY.
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1) Orator no longer requires that NDX files be in the QWK packet from
V1.12 onwards, these will be created by Orator when opening the QWK
packet.
2) Avoid using EMM386 in your Config.SYS. Microsoft themselves
advise that one doesn't use EMM386 together with Windows as it affects
speed.
3) Ensure that you have ANSI.SYS configured in your Config.SYS. At
the moment the ANSIVIEWER does not have an internal ANSI
interpreter.
4) Copy all the files in this archive into a temporary install directory.
5) Start Windows and from the Program Manager (or File Manager) choose
Run from the File menu. Type a:Setup (Or drive and path to temporary
installation directory). Setup will then proceed to install Orator
for you. This procedure is the same for existing users merely
upgrading.
6) On the first time you start Orator it will run the Configuration
routine and then return you to the Program Manager. Subsequent starts
of Orator will actually run the Reader it is only the first time that
runs the configuration routine.
HISTORY
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V1.12
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1) Orator detects Reply-To: fields when replying to private EMAIL
received over Sparkwares UseNet Gateway.
2) NDX files are no longer needed so reconfigure you mail door settings
if it currently includes NDX files.
3) Private Mail is detected and replied to with the Reply
Private/Public option automatically set to Private. Previous
versions used to corrupt the private/public setting of the
message when it was read.
4) Personal Mail is now shown first and then other conferences
afterwards.
5) Letters could sometimes be missing in messages. This is now
fixed.
6) New function to show Replies. Uses Windows Notepad
7) Largest change of the lot is the introduction of a folders system.
This allows you to open your own folders with there titles and
archive messages to them. You can then:
a) View them and cut them to the clipboard so that you can
include them in replies.
b) Print them out.
c) Move them between folders if you decide to reorganise them.
d) and of course delete them.
8) Conference Selection could crash if one clicked OK
without first selecting a conference.
V1.13
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9) Orator recompiled under Visual Basic 2.0 so 30-40 % faster program
load and considerable program execution speed improvement.
10) Orator no longer 'complains' so much about users having EMM386
in their config.sys. It is still however advised by Microsoft that
you don't run EMM386.SYS if you are running Windows. I found it
makes certain routines twice as slow as normal.
11) Linkage to Archivers is changed so that in theory you should be able
to run a Windows archiver as long as it supports command line hooks
telling it archive names to be opened and the path where the files
extracted should be placed.
12) Configuration option to bolt on a third party spell checker. Allows
you to spell check your replies. You need a Third Party Spell
Checker. I have been using Ray Saunders SpellChk 1.0.
13) There is now a check option to force Orator to search for an Email
address when replying to Usenet Private mail.
Selecting the check box is the same as setting the reply to Usenet
Gateway, in that Orator knows that it must then scan the message
being replied to for the Email address. This amendment was necessary
as boards running Ed Hoppers UUPCB did not require private Email
to be addressed to Usenet Gateway and so Orator did not necessarily
search the message for an email address.
14) Reply Editor now has fields to remind the user of who they are
sending mail to and whether it is private or not. There is also
a field to remind the user of which conference they are currently
messaging in.
15) The Scroll Bar in the message reading form has been moved to the
left hand side of the screen to make reading easier. It was considered
awkward when reading to have the NEXT button on the left but the
Scroll bar on the right.
16) The NEXT and PREV buttons on the message reading form have been
redesigned and two new buttons have been added to allow the reader
to hop forward and back through conferences.
Known Bugs
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Not many known to report.
Work goes on...... :-)
Regards
Nick Dyer
EvaWare UK