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- FreeMail Rapid FreeForm Development Kit for Windows95
- distributed as a self-extracting zip file called rfdk95.exe
- Including:
- A Parent copy of Custom FreeMail
- FM Design
- A limited license to FreeMail's Web Publisher, Babylon!
-
- Copyright 1994 - 1997 by FreeMail, Inc. (406) 542-0901
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- Terms of EVALUATION of FreeMail's Rapid FreeForm Development Kit
- FreeMail products are provided for use for 30 days for evaluation
- purposes. If you use the software longer than 30 days or for any
- commercial purpose you must obtain a license by calling
- (406)-542-0901
-
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- Installation Instructions:
-
- Note: if you have a copy of FreeMail installed on your computer, when
- you install Custom FreeMail choose a DIFFERENT directory to install to.
- That is, change the default c:\freemail directory to c:\freeform
-
- If you have downloaded Custom FreeMail from a web, ftp or bbs site:
- Evaluation copies of Custom FreeMail are posted as a self-extracting zip file.
- 1) Save the self-extracting file (.exe) to any Temporary directory.
- 2) From a DOS prompt, change to the temp directory where you saved the file:
- 3) cd \temp
- 4) Type the name of the file (which might be different than this example):
- 5) rfdk95
- which will extract files from the self-extracting zip file.
- 6) From the Windows program manager, choose the 'Run' command from the 'File' menu
- 7) At the Run prompt, type
- 8) c:\temp\setup.exe
- 9) The setup program will install Custom FreeMail onto your hard drive.
- 10) To start Custom FreeMail, double click on the Custom FreeMail icon
- in the FreeMail group.
-
- If you received Custom FreeMail on a diskette:
- 1) Put the diskette into the A: or B: drive
- 2) From the Windows program manager, choose the 'Run' command from the 'File' menu
- 3) At the Run prompt, type
- 4) a:setup.exe
- 5) The setup program will install Custom FreeMail onto your hard drive.
- 6) To start Custom FreeMail, double click on the Custom FreeMail icon in the FreeMail group.
-
- If you are installing Custom FreeMail at your business, and you have both Mac and
- Windows customers, you will need both a Windows and a Mac copy of
- Custom FreeMail to create Mac and Windows 'Child' copies (to be given to
- your customers). However, you will only need to have one copy
- of Custom FreeMail running since Custom FreeMail for Mac accepts files from Windows
- and vice-versa.
-
- The most recent changes and improvements to Custom FreeMail are
- described in the on-line help system.
-
- For those of you who are not familiar with Windows on-line help
- system, you can get on-line help at any time when you are using
- Custom FreeMail by pressing the F1 key, or by selecting the 'Help' menu choice
- in the upper right of the Custom FreeMail screen. Once you are viewing the on-
- line help, you can search for any subject, print any subject, and jump to
- related subjects by Clicking the mouse pointer on any green text
- (underlined if you are not using a color display). You can move back and
- forth between Custom FreeMail and the on-line help by pressing , and then
- letting go of, the Alt and the Tab key at the same time.
-
- You can view, search and print the online help system from Custom FreeMail,
- as well as from the installed Custom FreeMail Group box. We have also included
- an introduction help system for Custom FreeMail, which is accessible from the
- Custom FreeMail Group box.
-
- Please note: do not make diskcopies of any Custom FreeMail disks (either
- Parent or Child) for the purpose of giving to other people. If you do so,
- these copies will all have the same serial number as your own copy of
- Custom FreeMail, and will complicate message sending and receiving for you. If
- you need additional Child copies of Custom FreeMail, please make them from
- the 'Create Child Diskette' button on a Custom FreeMail Parent.
-
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- Known problems
- =============================
- Custom FreeMail uses the interrupts on the modem and or the serial card in
- your computer. Most communication programs do not use interrupts,
- but instead use an inefficient method called 'polled mode'
- communications. If FreeMail can not locate or initialize your modem,
- but you are able to use other communication programs (such as
- Procomm or the Windows Terminal), most likely you have and IRQ
- conflict, which you must get resolved. Commonly, a multi-port / IDE
- disk controller cards are installed incorrectly, which will lead to IRQ
- conflicts. On these multi-port cards there are two serial ports. If you
- have an internal modem, you must make sure that one of the two ports
- on the serial card(s) is disabled.
-
- Please, if you have what appears to be an interrupt conflict, make a good
- attempt at resolving your hardware problems with the people who installed
- or sold you your computer. However, we will certainly try to help you.
-
- Other modem problems:
- We have had several tech support call from people who had the phone line
- from the wall plugged into the "phone" modem jack. Make sure that the
- phone line from the wall is plugged into the jack called "line," or "wall."
-
- If you are having trouble connecting with your other FreeMail sites,
- please locate the documentation for the modem you are using, and then
- call us.
-
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- Errors when starting Custom FreeMail.
- ====================================
- If when first starting FreeMail you receive the error(s) Error Opening
- XXXXX.NTX files, exit FreeMail. You do not have enough file handles
- to run FreeMail at this point. To correct the problem you may need to
- do either the first or both of the following items. First look at the
- line:
-
- FILES=XX
-
- in your CONFIG.SYS file. (This file is usually in your root directory
- on your C: drive.) Make sure you edit this with a simple ASCII or text
- editor. Change the value of the XX to 80 or greater.
-
- FILES=80
-
- Save and exit this file.
-
- Next, if you are running the program SHARE in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file,
- or sometimes in the CONFIG.SYS file, you need to add or
- modify the /F parameter. For example, if you have the following line
- in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file:
-
- C:\DOS\SHARE.EXE
-
- Modify it, adding the /F parameter with the following value:
-
- C:\DOS\SHARE.EXE /L:80 /F:8096
-
- You should now save the files and reboot the entire system. This should
- solve your lack of file handles problem
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