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Orator Off Line Reader for Windows 3.1
Copyright (c) 1992,1993
Nick Dyer
EvaWare UK
No 5 Grosvenor Court
Louth
Lincolnshire LN11 9LT
UNITED KINGDOM
******* NOTE EVAWARE BBS NOW AVAILABLE *********
BBS: int+44-507-608645 FidoNet 2:252/158
UseNet/Internet: nick.dyer@almac.co.uk
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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) Note that you must have VBRUN200.DLL in your \WIndows\SYSTEM
directory.
6) 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.
7) 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.
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.
Ver 1.14
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17) 09:30 27/02/93
The new Prev/Next Buttons for conferences in Ver1.13 didn't
disable when entering List mode, causing the user to fall out of
the program when selecting these buttons. These buttons are now
correctly disabled in the List function.
18) 10:01 27/02/93
Introduction of new Email address list maintenance routine allows
the user to archive Email and Fido net addresses.
19) 07:02 01/03/93
Patch File ORA114p.zip released as complaints about the new on-line
Email address directory having too shorter fields. The fieds now
have no limit.
20) 17:09 06/04/93
Bill Edwards reported problem with Fido tags resulting in no tag at
all. This fixed. Thank you Bill.
21) 17:20 26/04/93
When message is comment from Sysop to be replied to Orator now
correctly selects private mail on reply. This reported by Karl
Brendal.
22) 18:58 26/04/93
A facility added to the configuration screen to allow users to
decide for themselves whether they wish to have the Prev/Next
buttons and Scroll bar in the Message reading form situated on
the left or the right of the page. Some users would prefer the
scroll bar to be in the more normal windows position on the right.
Known Bugs
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Not many known to report.
Work goes on...... :-)
Regards
Nick Dyer
EvaWare UK