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- Thank you for downloading EZDialup v1.71.
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- You will find a complete user's manual in EZDIALUP.HLP and EZDIALUP.WRI.
- Both the server and client software can be tested immediately. See the
- Server Installation page of the Help file for step-by-step instructions.
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- NON-PROGRAMMERS
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- Installation of an EZDialup system is geared toward someone who can
- install a modem, use a text editor, etc. Programming experience is
- not necessary to create and maintain a dialup system, using EZDialup's
- original Script Mode (Mode A). And day-to-day use of EZDialup is
- geared toward anyone who can start a Windows program!
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- Please see SCRIPT MODE below for a non-techical expanation of the
- EZDialup system.
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- DEVELOPERS
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- EZDialup lets you write programs that access both EZDialup Servers AND
- most other dialup hosts, like BBS's, CompuServe, etc. You can integrate
- the software seamlessly into your program, which appears to be doing all
- the work!
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- EZDialup handles everything - it opens the comm port, inits the modem
- and makes sure it's responding, dials the number, then lets your program
- know when it's connected and ready, or if a busy signal or some other
- problem occurred.
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- When your program connects to an EZDialup server, it can direct it to
- transfer, zip, unzip or delete files, run programs or perform other
- functions - every option available in Script-Mode.
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- When your program connects to a BBS, API routines let it:
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- -access all incoming characters
- -send individual characters or entire strings
- -request automatic Xmodem, XModem 1K and Ymodem file transfers
- -setup automatic reponses to expected input ("Login: ", etc.)
- -also setup notification to your program when these input strings
- occur
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- A test program (TESTBED.EXE) and its Pascal source code demonstrate the
- use of the extended API.
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- Use of the toolkit (when registered) is royalty-free.
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- Visual Basic and Pascal interface source code examples are included, but
- any development language that can call DLL routines and react to Windows
- messages (some development platforms call these TRIGGERS) can use the API.
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- Please see the EZDIALUP.HLP or EZDIALUP.WRI for addtional details.
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- SCRIPT-BASED EZDIALUP
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- Here's the idea: dedicate a Windows-running PC to handle dialup
- requests for information. One PC can handle up to four modems,
- each controlled by an instance of EZDialup (running in server mode).
- On a two-line installation, for example, you'd see two EZDialup icons
- running on the server PC. Other tasks should be able to run on this PC,
- but your results, of course, may vary.
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- Remote PC's use client-mode EZDialup to call in and request that a
- script file be executed, providing a password as it does so. If
- the specified script file (which contains commands to zip, unzip,
- upload, download, etc.) can be located, and the password checks out,
- the script file is executed. When all the commands in the script have been
- executed, the connection is broken, the client side shuts down, and the
- server side resets for the next call.
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- Ad-hoc download requests and file directory requests are intentionally not
- supported by either mode of EZDialup, so security is automatically tight.
- Only the file-transfer scripts found on the server side can take place.
- If a remote user loses security rights (leaves company, etc.) you just
- wipe their password file or the scripts or even the user's network directory,
- making their remote EZDialup software useless.
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- The remote user just launches (double-clicks) an icon (in Program Manager,
- or one of the several ways Windows 95 can start a program) to call in,
- and therefore the program absolutely could not be easier to use. A Cancel
- button lets the user interrupt the session and hangup.
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- The only piece of information that changes with any frequency for a roaming
- (laptop-toting?) remote user is the complete phone number dialing sequence,
- which might, for example, need a prefix of "8," when dialing from a
- hotel, or "9," when dialing from an office with a typical PBX, or "*70,"
- when calling from a call-waiting-equipped phone at home, etc. For
- the convenience of the user a "Change Phone Number" button lets the user
- take a short cut to changing the dialing sequence.
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- EZDialup is not freeware. This shareware version can do everything the
- registered version can, but a registration reminder pops up each time the
- program ends on the client side. Registration is $65-$75, which covers all
- the server and client nodes you need to install.
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- Compuserve can bill your account and notify us immediately that you are
- registered, at which point we can immediately e-mail to you the registration
- codes. To do this, GO SWREG and search for software title #7676.
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- A Visual Basic interface example is now included. The files are found in
- the included file EZ4VB.ZIP.
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- Again, we appreciate your interest and hope you find EZDialup useful.
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- This version (v1.71) is completely compatible with all versions 1.6 or higher.
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