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                        WebWilly Watch 3.0a for OS/2
                      InnoVal Systems Solutions, Inc.
                               August 7, 1998


WebWilly Watch has many features which allow parents to guard their children
against some of the practices that are rampant on the world wide web today.
It can prevent a child from entering private information such as their
street address, on web-based forms and in chat rooms. It can prevent a child
from viewing sexually explicit web pages, web pages which contain 1-900-
phone numbers, and many other possibilities. For additional information
about the parental guidance features, see http://www.webwilly.com/ and the
online help in the parental options notebook.

Besides those features, WebWilly is also a web browser add-on program for
everyone who surfs the web. It adds great functionality and usability to
your browser, whether you run the Netscape Navigator, or IBM's WebExplorer,
or both. (Note: WebWilly's browser-enhancing features work fine with the
WebExplorer, but some of WebExplorer's ways of doing things make it far less
than ideal for use with the Parent Watch options. We recommend you rely on
the Parent Watch options only if Netscape is the only browser you use.)

The first time you open WebWilly, please review at least the Introduction
page of the online help for information regarding its capabilities and how
to interact with it.


Installing
----------
If you are installing this program for the first time, simply unzip it into
an empty directory, using an unzip program which unzips subdirectories (such
as InfoZip's UNZIP.EXE, or PKUNZIP.EXE with its "-d" parameter), and run the
included INSTALL.CMD to create a program object on your OS/2 desktop. That's
all there is to it.

Please keep a copy of the WILLYO30.ZIP or WILLYO3D.ZIP file in a safe place
(perhaps a labelled diskette) in case you ever need to reinstall. But there
is no need to keep it on your hard drive once the installation procedure is
complete.


Upgrading from NetExtra
-----------------------
If you are upgrading from an older version (called NetExtra), you should
unzip this package into the same directory where your old version is.

The following is a logical order in which to execute the necessary steps:

1.  Make sure the old version of the program is not running.

2.  Make a backup of the existing program directory and all of its
    subdirectories.

3.  Unzip the WILLYO30.ZIP or WILLYO3D.ZIP file into the directory, using an
    unzip program which unzips subdirectories (such as InfoZip's UNZIP.EXE,
    or PKUNZIP.EXE with its "-d" parameter).

4.  As each file is unzipped, if a file by that name already exists in the
    directory, your unzip program will ask you whether to overwrite the
    existing one or not. Say yes to each one, unless you know that you have
    deliberately made changes to any of them, such as any of the *.CMD
    files, or MASTHEAD.GIF. Be aware that the old *.CMD files may not work
    properly with the new program version; so if you need to keep your old
    ones that you've customized, you need to also incorporate into them
    whatever changes were made to the new ones!

5.  Run INSTALL.CMD to create a new program object on your OS/2 desktop.

6.  If you have not rebooted your computer since the last time you ran the
    old version of the program, do so before you run the new version!

7.  The program's executable file has changed from NETEXTRA.EXE to
    WEBWILLY.EXE. Please make sure you do not ever run NETEXTRA.EXE again,
    without first replacing the WebWilly *.DLL files with your backup copies
    of the NetExtra ones, because unpleasant results will very likely occur
    if you run NETEXTRA.EXE with the WebWilly versions of the same-named
    *.DLL files. You should delete your NetExtra icon from your desktop,
    launchpad, etc. so that you can't run it accidentally.

8.  The following files can be deleted from the directory once you're
    comfortable with the new version, since WebWilly does not use them:
       NETEXTRA.EXE
       NETEXTRA.HLP
       NETEXTRA.INF
       NETEXTRA.INI
       OLDICONS.ZIP
       MYICONS
       REGISTER.TXT
       WHATSNEW.TXT
       *.ICO
    After you ensure that the upgrade has been successful, you may also
    delete the LOG\BACKUP subdirectory. WebWilly creates this directory to
    hold backup copies of all your NetExtra log files, when it converts them
    to the encrypted WebWilly format.

9.  If you want to rename your directory from NETEXTRA to WEBWILLY, the only
    bad effect will be that your existing (perhaps even obsolete)
    whole-folder CacheUp and Page Mining results won't work; you'll have to
    re-invoke the agents and let them retrieve new copies of the data from
    the web. Re-run the INSTALL.CMD program in your WebWilly directory, so
    it can update your desktop object with the new directory name, if you
    rename the directory after having run INSTALL.CMD once. INSTALL.CMD
    doesn't do anything except create (or update) the WebWilly object on the
    OS/2 desktop, so there are no negative effects from executing it
    multiple times.

10. Please keep a copy of the WILLYO30.ZIP or WILLYO3D.ZIP file in a safe
    place (perhaps a labelled diskette) in case you ever need to reinstall.
    But there is no need to keep it on your hard drive once the installation
    procedure is complete.

Here are the changes between NetExtra 2.0 and WebWilly Watch 3.0 for OS/2:

    Added all the Parent Watch features.

    The program now sees multiple copies of both brands of browser, instead
    of only seeing one window of one brand of browser at a time.

    Jump list maximum and minimum settings changed from spin buttons to
    entry fields, so that they can be changed to numbers higher than the
    previous versions' maximums if desired.

    The customizable icon feature had to be removed because the toolbar
    buttons had to be changed from icons to bitmaps.

    The program no longer allows a user to open SIGSITES.LOG as a Monthly
    Archive Log file, since it isn't one.

    When two Netscape windows are open, minimize one, then close the other.
    The minimized one comes back to the foreground all by itself. Fixed by
    virtue of the changes which made it possible to work with multiple
    browsers simultaneously.

    SelectAFolder window and List of Folders window both come up with
    selection bar on the first folder that starts with an alpha character,
    and with that item scrolled as close as possible to the top of the
    window. Which means that if you have enough folders for the window to
    scroll at all, and if you have folders whose names start with # or $ or
    something that comes before the letter A, then those folders are off the
    top of the window, invisible unless you notice that and scroll up to
    them. Fixed.

    SIGSITES.LOG file entry with a URL 290 characters long crashes the
    program with a SYS3175, upon startup when it tries to compile the
    entries into the SIGSITES.TOT file. Fixed.

    When page mining retrieves a .JPEG file, it names the file .JPE instead
    of .JPG. Fixed.


Controversial topics
--------------------
Please see http://www.webwilly.com/patterns/ for information about certain
words or phrases that WebWilly does not watch for unless you configure it to
do so.


Getting in touch with us
------------------------
For licensed users of WebWilly, we have put together support procedures that
we expect are both effective and efficient. We have created some
alternatives, and with your help, we will do our best to provide you with
prompt and helpful service.

Send us an email, addressed to [e-mail]. Please include the
product serial number, your phone number, your time zone and the best time
to call you if we should find it necessary to do so, and a detailed
description of the problem. Also, please provide information about your
system's configuration.

Or send us a fax at [phone]. You can eliminate the cover sheet.
Please write WebWilly Service across the top, and provide the information
requested in the prior paragraph.

If you have any suggestions for improving the product, please let us know
your ideas. The best way to do that is to send us an email at
[e-mail].


New release information
-----------------------
Watch for announcements of updated versions and other information on the
WebWilly home page - http://www.webwilly.com.


HPFS vs. FAT?
-------------
If you have an HPFS partition available, we do strongly recommend installing
our programs on it rather than on a FAT partition. Not because they can take
advantage of long filenames or anything like that, but just because of the
disk space savings and speed of access of EAs and small files on HPFS as
compared to FAT. WebWilly for OS/2 uses a lot of small files with EAs.


Users of WebWilly for Windows
-----------------------------
You may use BKMK2ASC.CMD to export one version's bookmarks to a text file
which ASC2BKMK.CMD can convert to bookmark files for the other version.

The jump list and monthly archive log files of the two versions are not
compatible with each other because of the date formats.  We do not yet have
a utility which will convert these files for portability between the two
operating systems.


Changes between WebWilly Watch 3.0 for OS/2 and 3.0a
----------------------------------------------------
If you install the WebWilly Watch 3.0 for OS/2 two-week demo over top of
NetExtra, it claims that it's already expired, the first time you run it.
Fixed.

When you doubleclick on a jump list entry or bookmark while the browser is
not running, WebWilly opens the browser but the browser does not go to the
URL until you doubleclick on the jump list entry or bookmark a second time.
Fixed.

Main menu says Ctrl-A will bring up parental options notebook, but it does
not. Fixed.

After opening and cancelling the "Add to bookmark folder" dialog five times,
"Help file could not be loaded" message comes up every time thereafter that
you open the dialog. Does not happen if you use the dialog instead of
cancelling out of it, those first five times. Fixed.

Problems with new Netscape Communicator 4.04 beta for OS/2, fixed in 3.0a:
    Initialization wizard chokes when the new Netscape Communicator is the
    specified Netscape browser: After it says "this browser will now be
    supported; ensure that the browser window has closed and press NEXT to
    continue", an error message comes up to say "Error executing
    initialization sequence" and the wizard folds up and goes away. Fixed.

    Netscape Communicator 4.04's title bar says "- Netscape" at the end of
    the current web page's title, instead of "Netscape -" at the beginning
    of the title like the Netscape Navigator 2.02 did. This caused a problem
    with WebWilly's determination of what a web page's title is, for making
    bookmarks and jump list entries. Fixed.

    And the above problem caused an even more serious one, since the way
    WebWilly tells when you've moved from one page to the next is by the
    browser window's title bar. Since WebWilly always thought the current
    web page's title was "Netscape", it thought the browser window's title
    bar was always unchanged, so it never made new jump list entries. Unless
    you visited a web page that happened to have a hyphen in its own title,
    in which case WebWilly would make a jump list entry for that page and
    for the next page you visited, but no more after that until the next one
    you visited with a hyphen in its title. Fixed.

    If the browser is open and you doubleclick on a jump list entry, the URL
    goes into the browser's URL entry field, but it's as if no one pressed
    the Enter key, because the browser doesn't go visit that URL. Fixed.

    If the current web page's title is so long that the "- Netscape" at the
    end doesn't show in the window list, then the program can't tell that
    there is any Netscape window open on the desktop, and starts a new
    Netscape session instead of using the already-open one when you
    doubleclick on a jump list entry or bookmark. Fixed.


Uninstalling
------------
To uninstall WebWilly Watch, all you need to do is delete the directory and
the desktop program object. (Be aware that this will also delete your
bookmarks and log files. The encrypted log files would not be usable by any
other program anyway, but you might want to use BKMK2ASC.CMD to export your
bookmarks to a text file before you delete them.) There are no CONFIG.SYS
file changes to be undone. If you have an .INI file editor, you can remove
the WebWilly entry from your OS2.INI file, also, but it won't hurt anything
to leave it behind.


Acknowledgements
----------------
WebWilly was packaged using Info-ZIP's compression utility. Info-ZIP's
software (Zip, UnZip and related utilities) is free and can be obtained as
source code or executables from various bulletin board services and
anonymous-ftp sites, including CompuServe's IBMPRO forum and
ftp.uu.net/pub/archiving/zip/*.

IBM, OS/2, and WebExplorer are registered trademarks of the IBM Corporation.
Netscape and Navigator are registered trademarks of Netscape Communications
Corporation. WebWilly and NetExtra are trademarks of InnoVal Systems
Solutions, Inc. All other brands, both cited and not cited, are trademarks,
registered trademarks, or service marks of their respective companies.
WebWilly is licensed software and is copyrighted.

(c) 1996, 1997, 1998 InnoVal Systems Solutions, Inc. All Rights Reserved.