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- Wind-Mail Ver. 2.0
- by Nickleware
-
- INTRODUCTION
-
- Wind-Mail is an E-Mail and Bulletin Board system that is designed to
- keep you and your network users informed. With Wind-Mail you can send
- messages directly to another Wind-Mail user or post a bulletin on the
- Wind-Mail bulletin board for all users to read.
-
-
- REGISTRATION
-
- Wind-Mail is not public domain, nor is it free software. You are
- granted a limited license to use this product on a trial basis. You are
- also granted a license to copy Wind-Mail, along with the documentation, for
- the trial use by other users. If you wish to continue using the product,
- you must send $25 per workstation to:
-
- NickleWare
- P.O. Box 59823
- Renton, WA. 98058 USA
-
- We encourage you to copy Wind-Mail and share it with anyone who might be
- interested in better network user communication.
-
-
- GETTING STARTED
-
- REQUIREMENTS -
- Microsoft Windows 3.0 or higher
- Local Area Network configured with a shared disk drive
- IBM compatible PC 286/386 (network server and workstations)
-
-
- SERVER SETUP
-
- Wind-Mail's data files must reside on a disk drive that can be accessed
- by all of your network users. To the workstations, this server drive must
- appear as if it were another local disk drive.
-
- Before proceeding make sure that you have Microsoft Windows correctly
- installed on the server. Next create a directory called WINDMAIL on the
- server's shared disk drive and copy the Wind-Mail Administrator software
- into this directory. Add the following entry into the WIN.INI file which
- is probably in the same directory where windows is installed.
-
- [WINDMAIL]
- DBPath=[drive]:[path]
-
- The key word DBPath is set equal to the [drive] and full [path]
- including the trailing backslash, where the WindMail data file will reside.
- For example:
-
- [WINDMAIL]
- DBPath=C:\WindMail\
-
- This drive and path must be a shared device on your network as mentioned
- above. A similar entry to the one above, will also have to be added to the
- WIN.INI file on each workstation.
-
- When the above steps have been completed, Wind-Mail Administrator is
- ready to be started. Simply start Wind-Mail Administrator from the RUN...
- menu selection of the Windows Program Manager or add it to a Program Manager
- group by following the directions in the Windows 3.0 manual for creating a
- group item. Wind-Mail Administrator will then create all of the data files
- it needs to run, and place them on the drive and path that was specified in
- the above entry.
-
-
- WORKSTATION SETUP
-
- The workstation setup is much the same as the server setup with the
- exception that the Wind-Mail data files will reside on server's shared
- disk drive.
-
- First make sure that Microsoft Windows is correctly installed on the
- workstation. Copy the Wind-Mail executible file into the same directory
- where Windows is installed. Make the following entry into the WIN.INI file:
-
- [WINDMAIL]
- DBPath=[drive]:[path]
-
- The key word DBPath is set equal to the [drive] and full [path]
- including the trailing backslash, of the shared network server drive where
- the WindMail data files reside. For example:
-
- [WINDMAIL]
- DBPATH=G:\WindMail\
-
- G: is the name of the share drive and \WindMail\ is the full path name to
- where the Wind-Mail data files reside. After these steps have been
- completed on the workstation and the data files have been created on the
- shared server drive, Wind-Mail is ready to be used.
-
-
- STARTING WIND-MAIL FOR THE FIRST TIME
-
- The first time Wind-Mail Administrator is started, all of the necessary
- data files will be created. At this point the data files are emtpy and
- Wind-Mail Administrator knows nothing about who will be using the
- application. An address will have to be established for each Wind-Mail
- user, so that Wind-Mail Administrator will know where to deliver their mail.
-
- The first window to appear after starting Wind-Mail Administrator or
- Wind-Mail, is the LOGON window. A user ID and password are required to
- access the Wind-Mail application. To enter Wind-Mail Administrator for the
- first time, you will be required to enter the temporary user ID which is
- SCOOB (no password is required). With this temporary user ID, you are
- granted limited access to create user addresses. Once you have created at
- least one user address and Wind-Mail Administrator is exited, this temporary
- user ID is no longer valid.
-
- Each user will be required to have a user ID and password. The first
- time a new user logs on to Wind-Mail, they will enter their user ID, leave
- the PASSWORD field blank and enter a new password in the NEW PASSWORD field.
- The user will then be prompted to confirm the new password. From this point
- on the user will be required to log on with their user ID and password.
-
-
- CHANGING THE PASSWORD
-
- During the logon, a user may change their password. To change a
- password, simply enter the user ID and the current password. Then enter
- the new password in the NEW PASSWORD field. Wind-Mail will prompt the user
- to re-enter the new password to confirm what was entered the first time.
- Once the new password has been entered and confirmed, the old password is
- removed.
-
-
- GETTING AROUND
-
- All of Wind-Mail's functionality is accomplished by selecting making
- selections from the FILE menu. For example, to create a new topic, you
- would select TOPIC from the FILE menu and NEW from the secondary cascading
- menu under the TOPIC selection. This will present the TOPICS entry window.
- Once all of the data has been entered into the appropriate fields, click on
- the SAVE pushbutton in the upper left corner of the TOPIC window. The new
- topic will then be saved in the database. When OPEN is selected from the
- secondary cascading menu, a list box will be displayed that contains all of
- the currently defined records for the selected item. After making a
- selection from the list box, the record is retrieved from the database and
- presented in an entry window.
-
-
- BULLETIN BOARD AND MAIL WINDOWS
-
- The BULLETIN and MAIL entry windows contain two push buttons which
- allow the user to relate a bulletin or mail message with one or more topics
- or addresses respectivly. The ADD button will move the selected item from
- the TOPICS or ADDRESS list box to the RELATED TOPICS or SEND TO list box .
- The user may choose one or more selections from the list box to relate to
- the current topic or mail message. Any one of the selections that are
- displayed in the RELATED TOPICS or SEND TO list box, may be removed by
- highlighting the selection and clicking on the REMOVE push button in the
- entry window.
-
- READ BULLETIN - After choosing READ from the secondary cascading
- under the BULLETIN selection, the TOPICS list box is presented with all of
- the currently defined topics. Choose a topic by highlighting the selection
- and clicking on the SELECT push button. The BULLETINS list box will be
- presented with all of the bulletin titles that currently have the selected
- topic assigned to them. Choose a bulletin in the same manner as described
- above for TOPICS. The complete bulletin will be displayed in the BULLETIN
- display window. At any time the TOPICS list box or BULLETINS list box may
- re-displayed by clicking on the LIST or BULLETIN push button.
-
- NEW MAIL LIST - Whenever mail is sent to a user, the receiver's
- Wind-Mail application title bar will begin to flash. The user can read the
- mail by selecting READ from the secondary cascading menu under MAIL menu
- selection. The NEW MAIL list box will be displayed with the most recent
- mail displayed first. To read or reply to the mail, highlight a selection
- by clicking on it, and then click on a READ or REPLY push button.
-
- If the READ push button is selected, the READ MAIL display window will
- be presented. This window will display the mail message as well as who sent
- it and the time and date the mail was sent. The REPLY push button will
- present the NEW MAIL window with the SEND TO list box containing the reply
- address and the SUBJECT field containing the mail subject. The user may
- then enter a reply and send it as described above.
-
-
- ADVANCED FEATURES
-
- CLIPBOARD - The clipboard is a convienent way of transfering data
- between Wind-Mail and other Windows application or between different
- Wind-Mail windows. To use the clipboard functions simply highlight any
- text that is displayed in an entry field, pull down the EDIT menu and choose
- COPY or CUT. The COPY function will place a copy of the highlighed text on
- the Windows clipboard. The CUT function also places the highlighed text on
- the clipboard and also removes it from the entry field. To restore text
- from the clipboard, place the I-beam cursor at the position inside an entry
- field where the clipboard text should be inserted or appended. The pull
- down the EDIT menu and choose PASTE. The clipboard text will be placed in
- the entry field at the cursor position.
-
- BULLETIN CROSS REFERENCE - Wind-Mail's ability to assign more that one
- topic to a bulletin, allows the user to cross reference the bulletins for
- easier access and greater information availability. For example, the
- following BULLETIN/TOPIC assignments could be made:
-
- BULLETIN #1 ---> TOPIC #1
- TOPIC #2
- TOPIC #3
-
- BULLETIN #2 ---> TOPIC #2
- TOPIC #3
-
- BULLETIN #3 ---> TOPIC #1
-
- Selecting READ/BULLETINS, as described above, will present the TOPICS
- list box containing TOPIC #1, TOPIC #2 and TOPIC #3. If TOPIC #2 is choosen
- from the list box, both BULLETIN #1 and BULLETIN #2 will be displayed in
- the BULLETINS list box. If BULLETIN #1 is choosen for reading, the complete
- bulletin will then be displayed including all of the other topics that have
- been assigned to it. Notice above that BULLETIN #1 and BULLETIN #3 have
- TOPIC #1 assigned to them. This means that further information could be
- found by reading all bulletins (which includes BULLETIN #3) that are related
- to TOPIC #1.
-
-
- GLOSSARY
-
- ABOUT - Select ABOUT for more information about Wind-Mail.
-
- ADDRESS - User addresses describe each Wind-Mail user and tells
- Wind-Mail where to send the user's mail.
-
- BULLETIN - Bulletins are public messages that are posted for all users
- to read. Each bulletin is assigned one or more topics. By relating
- a bulletin to more than one topic, the bulletin's topic list can be
- used as a cross reference to other bulletins.
-
- BULLETINS - Select BULLETINS during a READ/BULLETINS operation to
- return to the bulletins selection list box for a particular topic.
-
- CLEAR - Select CLEAR to clear the selected text from an entry field.
-
- CLOSE - Select CLOSE to close an entry window.
-
- COPY - Select COPY to copy the selected text from an entry field to
- the clipboard.
-
- CUT - Select CUT to cut the selected text from an entry field to the
- clipboard.
-
- DELETE - Select DELETE to delete an already existing Topic, Bulletin,
- Mail Message or User Address.
-
- EXIT - Select EXIT to exit Wind-Mail.
-
- HELP - Select HELP the get this text.
-
- LIST - Select LIST during an OPEN or READ operation to return to the
- selection list box.
-
- MAIL - Mail messages are private messages sent to a particular user
- address or group of addresses. These messages can only be read by
- the addressee.
-
- PASTE - Select PASTE to paste clipboard text at the current cursor
- position.
-
- PRINT - Select PRINT to print a Topic, Bulletin, Mail Message or User
- Address.
-
- READ - Select READ to read an existing Topic, Bulletin, Mail Message or
- User Address.
-
- SELECT ALL - Select SELECT ALL to select all of the text in an entry
- field.
-
- SEND - Select SEND to send a new mail messasge to a user Address or
- group of user addresses.
-
- SAVE - Select SAVE to save a new or already existing Topic, Bulletin or
- User Address.
-
- TOPICS - Topics are used to categorize all of the bulletins placed on
- Wind-Mail's bulletin board. A user can create as many different
- topics as necessary.
-
- UNDO - Select UNDO to undo user input.
-
- UPDATE - Select UPDATE to update an existing Topic, Bulletin, Mail
- Message or User Address
-
-
- ENHANCEMENTS
-
- The following is a list of the new features and enhancements that have
- been included in version 2.0 of Wind-Mail:
- o Addition of Windows 3.0 Help Manager
- o Addition of cascading menus.
- o The user password on the Logon window is masked out.
- o Proportional system font.
- o Increased list box capacity.
- o Printing bugs have been fixed.
- o Dialog menus have been replaced with pushbuttons to allow for easier
- access.
- o The Divide by Zero error when pulling down the Edit menu has been
- fixed.
- o Wind-Mail is fully Windows 3.0 compatible.
- o Color icons.
-
-
- EXITING
-
- When you have finished using Wind-Mail, you should exit via the EXIT
- from the main window's FILE menu. If you forget and turn your computer off
- before exiting, Wind-Mail can not guarantee that the messages and bulletins
- have been saved completely. It is very important that you always exit
- Wind-Mail via this selection.
-
-
- NickleWare
- Copyright (C) 1990 Bradley Nicholes
- CompuServe: 72730,1002
- This documentation must accompany the Wind-Mail software.
-