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- EINet Shareware winWAIS Software Version 2.0
-
- ewais200.zip - EINet Shareware winWAIS PKZIP archive file
- OR
- ewais200.exe - EINet Shareware winWAIS self-extracting archive file
-
- This distribution provides a Wide Area Information Server (WAIS (tm))
- client for Microsoft(R) Windows (tm) plus a graphics file viewer
- application. This WAIS client may be used to contact any WAIS
- server on the Internet to perform information search and retrieval.
-
- The MCC EINet WinWAIS Version 2.0 software is distributed as shareware.
- This software may be copied and distributed freely for evaluation.
- The evaluation period is 30 days. After this time, MCC requests that
- you register your copy and obtain a license. The registration fee is
- $35.00 (US). Checks only please. Make checks payable to MCC and send
- them to:
-
- EINet Windows Shareware
- MCC
- 3500 West Balcones Center Drive
- Austin, TX 78759-6509
- USA
-
- Internet Email: license-info@einet.net
-
- You will be sent a registration key to remove the start-up reminder.
-
-
- THIS DISTRIBUTION INCLUDES:
-
- * EINet winWAIS 2.0 : WAIS Client for Windows 3.1 and Windows Sockets 1.1
-
- * gfxVIEW : A simple graphics file viewer that can be
- distributed with EINet winWAIS without having to pay
- a separate software license fee (winWAIS may be
- easily reconfigured to use your own graphics file viewer)
- * winECJ : A public domain JPEG viewer from Express Compression Labs
- (see winecj.txt).
-
-
- LEGAL RESTRICTIONS
-
- Copyright 1992,1993,1994 Microelectronics and Computer Technology
- Corporation (MCC). All Rights Reserved. Derived from WAIS Version 8b5.1.
- All other product of service marks contained in this software are trademarks
- or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
-
- The above copyright notice and other legends and markings must appear on all complete
- or partial copies of ths software and supporting documentation. If MCC's EINet WinWAIS
- is integrated in any non-commercial application, such application should display in its
- "About" dialog box or in its online help, and in its documentation, that it is using
- MCC's EINet WinWAIS and should list the above notice and legends.
-
- MCC's EINet WinWAIS MAY NOT be distributed as part of a commercial software release
- or for resale purposes without prior written permission form MCC.
-
- MCC's EINet WInWAIS is made available AS IS. MCC MAKES NO WARRANTY OR REPRESENTATION,
- EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, CONCERNING THE QUALITY OF ANY RESULTS TO BE ACHIEVED BY THE USE
- OF MCC'S EINET WinWAIS TECHNOLOGY, REPORST, KNOW-HOW, OR ANY OTHER INFORMATION
- FURNISHED HEREUNDER, OR TO ANY OTHER MATTER WHATSOEVER, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO
- ITS MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
-
-
- INSTALLATION
-
- This is an EINet PC software distribution 2.0 for use with
- Microsoft Windows 3.1.
-
- This EINet software distribution uses the Windows Sockets
- (winsock) API version 1.1 and assumes you have properly
- installed and configured the appropriate network TCP/IP
- support software. EINet winWAIS has been tested and
- works with Frontier Technologies Super-TCP Version 2.1,
- NetManage NEWT/ChameleonNFS Version 3.1, Novell LAN
- Workplace for DOS 4.1, Beame & Whiteside TCP/IP 3.0c
- (and later versions), Sun PC-NFS, and FTP Software's
- PC/TCP.
-
- This software may also work with other Windows
- Sockets 1.1 compliant TCP/IP implementations, depending
- on their adherance to the Windows Sockets 1.1 Specification.
-
- For installation from the self-extracting PKZIP archive file (EWAIS200.EXE):
- 1. Decompress the EWAIS200.EXE distribution file by placing the
- file in a temporary directory on your hard drive (other than
- the directory to which the software is being installed). Then
- run the EWAIS200.EXE file from the DOS prompt or from the Windows
- File Manager or Program Manager. The files contained within
- EWAIS200.EXE will be decompressed and placed in that temporary
- directory.
- 2. Using the Windows Program Manager's "File Run" command,
- run "SETUP.EXE" in the temporary directory. Follow the
- instructions presented by the setup procedure.
-
- For installation from distribution diskettes:
- Place the first diskette in the drive and from the Windows
- Program Manager's "File Run" command, run the SETUP program
- on that diskette (for example, "B:\SETUP"). Follow the
- instructions presented by the installation setup procedure.
-
-
- IF YOU HAVE PROBLEMS OR SUGGESTIONS:
-
- To report bugs or suggest enhancments please email to pc-shareware@einet.net.
-
-
-
-
- IF YOU HAVE PROBLEMS
-
- If, while running SETUP, you encounter an error in finding or copying
- a file or a "file in use" error for a file such as: LZEXPAND.DLL or
- COMMDLG.DLL or CMDIALOG.VBX or THREED.VBX try the following:
- 1. Restart windows and run the SETUP procedure again.
- 2. If you encounter the problem again and if the file
- associated with the problem is already installed on your system,
- run EISETUP from your WINDOWS directory and follow the
- instructions presented.
- 3. If you still encounter the problem, restart windows,
- rename the problematic file as a backup file name
- (e.g. THREED.VBX -> THREED.BAK) and retry the SETUP procedure.
-
- About Windows Sockets:
- The WINSOCK.DLL Windows Sockets library is NOT a part of this
- distribution and must be obtained and installed separately.
- It is available from a wide variety of vendors.
-
- Also a note for Novell Lan Workplace for DOS owners:
- YOU must obtain their WINSOCK.DLL directly from Novell. They have made
- their beta version of WINSOCK.DLL available on the Internet. Contact
- Novell for details.
-
-
- IMPROVEMENTS MADE FROM VERSION 1.57 TO 2.00:
-
- EIconfig: New EINet Windows Application Configuration Tool.
-
- EIsetup: New EINet Windows Setup Procedure.
-
- wInvoke: The wInvoke EINet software invocation manager is
- now included with this release.
-
- gfxVIEW: Improved graphics rendering capabilities.
- Now also supports JPEG, IMG, DCX, and WPG formats. Faster
- graphics loading. More reliable viewing of 4-bit GIF files.
-
- winWAIS: Now filter <type> is optional in [waisTransform]
- section of EINET.INI. A line stating <type1>=<type2>
- designates that any WAIS documents with a data type of <type1>
- should be handled as if they were documents of type <type2>.
-
- All Applications: Copyright date notices now include 1994.
- Shareware applications containing the EINet address ZIP code
- as 78759-6509 were changed to 78759-5398.
-
- All Applications: Now look for help files in the directory
- containing the application's EXE file.
-
-
-
- IMPROVEMENTS MADE FROM VERSION 1.56 TO 1.57:
-
- winWAIS: Fixed bug in winWAIS parsing of WAIS server database
- catalogs. There was a compile/release problem that made this
- operation unstable.
-
-
- IMPROVEMENTS MADE FROM VERSION 1.55 TO 1.56:
-
- winWAIS: Changed any "Ok" buttons to "OK" buttons. (WAIS.EXE)
-
- winWAIS: Now, if the "Copy File to 'File Save' Directory Before
- Launching Viewer" option is set, the copy operation is ALWAYS
- done prior to viewing the file. Earlier versions only did the
- copy operation if an external viewer was launched. Now it is
- also done when the internal text viewer is used. (WAIS.EXE)
-
- winWAIS: The "Don't Overwrite Existing Files" option now also
- applies to saving Question files as well as for retrieved
- documents. (WAIS.EXE)
-
-
- IMPROVEMENTS MADE FROM VERSION 1.54 TO 1.55:
-
- SETUP: SETUP1.EXE was modified to disable installation of the winECJ
- program manager icon in the EINet Applications program group if the
- user opted to not install it.
-
-
- IMPROVEMENTS MADE FROM VERSION 1.53 TO 1.54:
-
- DEIUTILS.DLL: Fixed small problem in file existence check
- when using SHARE.EXE which resulted in a file-naming problem
- in assigning DOS names to WAIS documents. (DEIUTILS.C)
-
- winWAIS: Fixed problem in copying/saving files when
- SHARE.EXE may have source or destination files locked. (WAIS.EXE)
-
- winWAIS: Now reports the DOS error message if it cannot
- open/create a file when downloading a WAIS document. (WINWAIS.C)
-
- winWAIS: Fixed problem in file naming when saving retrieved
- files in a directory that has a "." in its name. (WAIS.EXE)
-
- winWAIS: Fixed problem in TCP/IP buffering that was
- causing WINWAIS.DLL software to not work over FTP Software's
- PC/TCP. recv() buffer was reduced to 1024 bytes.
- (UI.C)
-
-
-
- IMPROVEMENTS MADE FROM VERSION 1.52 TO 1.53:
-
- winWAIS: Now permits 5-digit port numbers in WAIS Source
- Definition Dialog. This was previously restricted to a
- maximum of 4-digits (WAIS.EXE)
-
- winWAIS: Now displays number of matching candidate documents
- that are returned in a query. (WAIS.EXE)
-
- winWAIS: Under certain conditions at program exit, winWAIS
- might attempt to delete files in its "temp file directory"
- but if there were no files, an error would occur. This was
- fixed. (WAIS.EXE)
-
- winWAIS: When the DOS SHARE.EXE or other file sharing/locking
- software was running, the winWAIS application would terminate
- upon attempting to highlight text in the internal text viewer.
- (WAIS.EXE)
-
- winWAIS: When retrieving and viewing a document that has a
- WAIS document type that has no associated viewer designated
- in EINET.INI, winWAIS previously just gave the user the option
- to save the file locally. Now, winWAIS attempts to determine
- the file name extension of the retrieved file and checks to
- see if Windows has a viewer associated with it. If it does,
- the user is given the option of setting that viewer as the
- default viewer for WAIS documents of that type. (WAIS.EXE)
-
- *.DLL: New smaller EINet DLL's with more optimized execution.
- (Compiled using Microsoft C/C++ Compiler 8.0).
-
- setup: In environments where there is no "Program Manager"
- running: fixed minor problem in dialog brought up at end of
- setup process when SETUP1.EXE attempts to activate the Program
- Manager.
-
-
-
- IMPROVEMENTS MADE FROM VERSION 1.51 TO 1.52:
-
- All VB apps: Upgrade to Visual Basic 3.0.
- All versions changed to 1.52 and SETUP.LST was changed
- to reference VBRUN300.DLL instead of VBRUN200.DLL.
-
- winWAIS: VB 3.0 change required font3d property to be set to
- 0 for the winWAIS status window. (WAIS.EXE)
-
- winWAIS: Fixed bug in WAIS source view/edit dialog when
- "Check Host" is selected and the user closes the dialog while
- the "ping" is in progress. "Close" is now disabled until
- the "Check Host" command completes or is cancelled. (WAIS.EXE)
-
- winWAIS: COMPLETELY NEW text search feature for internal
- text viewer! (WAIS.EXE)
-
- winWAIS: Text viewer's relevance feedback commands were
- consolidated under its "Edit - Relevance Feedback" menu. (WAIS.EXE)
-
- winWAIS: "Choose Printer Font" menu command changed to
- "Print Setup Font" to be a little more consistent with
- several other Windows programs. (WAIS.EXE)
-
- winWAIS: Added autoHighlightKeyword= option in [wais] section
- of EINET.INI for specifying whether text files viewed with the internal
- text viewer should automatically highlight the first occurrence
- of a search keyword. (WAIS.EXE)
-
- winWAIS: Added "Auto highlight first search keyword in retrieved document"
- option to User Preference editing dialog. (WAIS.EXE)
-
- winWAIS: A check is now done at program startup to ensure that there are
- no WAIS source definitions with identical names. (WAIS.EXE)
-
- winWAIS: Added "File - Delete Question" command. (WAIS.EXE)
-
- winWAIS: Fixed bug in selecting lines in the internal text
- viewer for relevance feedback. (WAIS.EXE)
-
- winWAIS: User preferences dialog changes: "Question Directory" was
- added. "Default Question File" was added. "Default Source" was added.
- (WAIS.EXE)
-
- winWAIS: Fixed bug in file datatype translation. There was an error
- in the detection of errors! (WAIS.EXE)
-
- winWAIS: Added set_tab_stops function to WINWAIS.DLL API to support
- expansion of ASCII text file tabs using the designated tab stop specification.
- This is potentially useful for tab expansion when there are bugs in text
- viewers (as was the case in the earlier version of MHFPST.VBX).
- (WINWAIS.DLL)
-
- winWAIS: Updated MHPFST.VBX to fix bug in library.
-
- winWAIS: Text viewer now shows document headline at top of window.
-
- winWAIS: Text viewer now shows line numbers at bottom of window.
-
- winWAIS: Text viewer size is now constrained to be no smaller than
- a minimum size.
-
- winWAIS: Fixed bug in minimizing text viewer window.
-
- winWAIS: Text viewer now remembers its size and position (within a
- single winWAIS session) so that it won't resize itself every time
- a new file is viewed.
-
- gfxVIEW: Fixed bug in error message reporting.
-
- gfxVIEW: Now inappropriate menu items are disabled unless a file
- is opened successfully.
-
- EISOUND.DLL: Fixed bug in sound file conversion from AU to WAV formats.
-
- All files: Changed to release version 1.52.
-
- Help files: Updated as appropriate.
-
-
- IMPROVEMENTS MADE FROM VERSION 1.43 TO 1.51:
-
- winWAIS: Now reports an error when unable to parse
- a downloaded WAIS source description. (WAIS.EXE)
-
- winWAIS: Fixed bug in downloading text files with
- excessive line length (>256 bytes). This was causing
- occasional General Protection Faults in WAIS. (WINWAIS.DLL)
-
- winWAIS: Added extra check (WINWAIS.DLL) to ensure
- no overflows in WAIS source description 8192 char limit.
-
- winWAIS: Now checks host connectivity in Source Definition
- dialog by attempting connect to WAIS server and thus gives
- a more reliable report on host connectivity. (WAIS.EXE,
- WINWAIS.DLL)
-
- winWAIS: Changed host connectivity messages for command that
- checks host connection. (WAIS.EXE)
-
- winWAIS: Now has "Edit - Clear Query Info" menu command
- to clear out he current question fields (keywords and relevance
- feedback). (WAIS.EXE)
-
- winWAIS: "New Question" command now clears out the relevance
- feedback list as well as the keyword text. (WAIS.EXE)
-
- winWAIS: Now more feedback is given in status window during
- queries and retrievals. (WAIS.EXE)
-
- winWAIS: Memory management made more robust to avoid some
- errors that were causing Windows General Protection Faults
- when contacting multiple WAIS sources. (WINWAIS.DLL)
-
- winWAIS: After a qeury is made, the keyboard focus is
- automatically changed from the Ask button to the
- "Information Found" document list.
-
- winWAIS: After sources selections are changed, the keyboard focus
- is automatically set to the keyword input line.
-
- winWAIS: Put "_" under "F" in "File" menu of internal text viewer.
-
- winWAIS: Cancel button on Source Edit/View dialog did not always
- work properly. Problem now fixed.
-
- winWAIS: Restored "Control Box" to source edit/view and source
- selection dialogs.
-
- winWAIS: Now reports improperly formatted WAIS source definitions.
- At program startup gives user option to delete them.
-
- winWAIS: Fixed intermittent bug in query of multiple sources.
-
- setup: Fixed problem on installs to directory that does
- not yet exist.
-
- setup: Made [wais] autoBrowseMode default value be 0 (OFF).
-
- setup: Made [wais] autoSave default value be 0 (OFF).
-
- winWAIS: Fixed mouse cursor in WAIS Source view/edit dialog.
-
- winWAIS: Now has initial message to tell user that winWAIS is
- starting up.
-
- setup: Now includes WinECJ in the distribution.
-
- winWAIS: After source selection, keyboard focus is set to the
- keyword text edit field.
-
- winWAIS: Fixed bug in launching viewer application, when
- application path is invalid.
-
- setup: New setup/installation procedure.
-
- gfxVIEW: Much improved viewer, now uses ImageMan/VB 2.0 library.
- Different zoom mechanisms used. Printing options now include
- controlling size on the page and optional caption. Now takes
- command-line argument "/C{caption}" to indicate a caption to be displayed
- on the window and for printing.
-
- winWAIS: Now supports mapping "{headline}" to WAIS document headline
- name in [waisLaunch] and [waisLaunchKeys] sections of EINET.INI
-
- winWAIS: New "and improved" source selection dialog. Includes
- new way of selecting/editing sources.
-
- winWAIS: "Add Ref" button moved on WAIS question dialog
-
- winWAIS: EINET.INI now supports [wais] autoDeleteTemp= profile
- string for controlling whether or not winWAIS deletes files in the
- "temp" directory upon exit.
-
- winWAIS: Articles with suspicious dates no longer display the dates.
-
- winWAIS: Now marks previous query results with "(previous query)" notice
- once the search keywords or selected sources change.
-
- winWAIS: New internal text viewer now views files larger than 32K.
-
- winWAIS: EINET.INI [waisLaunch] textThreshold= values no longer used.
- Now the internal ASCII text viewer is always used unless a TEXT viewer is
- specified by [waisLaunch] TEXT={viewer name} .
-
- winWAIS: Internal text viewer now comes up with first occurence of
- first keyword highlighted.
-
- winWAIS: Documents may be dragged from the "Information Found" window
- and dropped on the "Similar to" window for selecting relevance feedback
- documents.
-
- winWAIS: Documents in the "Similar to" windows may be dragged out of
- the window in order to remove them.
-
- winWAIS: Internal text viewer has had several menu command changes
- including addition of the capability of setting the printer's font,
- marking portions or the entire file for relevance feedback, and text
- search.
-
- winWAIS: New help file to document new features.
-
-