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HISTORY
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After more than a year of developement and over 200,000 lines of all new
source code, Thumper Technologies proudly announces the release of
EZ-Reader 2.00. EZ-Reader 2.00 is more than just a reader, it IS the
Ultimate Mail Manager. EZ-Reader 2.00 offers you the most powerful and
flexible features of ANY offline mail reader. Since it's introduction,
EZ-Reader has been the reader by which all others have been measured.
With the release of EZ-Reader 2.00 the others have a lot of catching up
to do.EZ-Reader 2.00 BLOWS AWAY the competition!
MOUSE & KEYBOARD FEATURES
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* Four mouse support modes and great keyboard support if you don't use a
mouse.
* Extended keyboard supported (F11 & F12) in the Hot Keys.
* 72 user definable Hot Keys enable you to run DOS applications and issue
DOS commands from within EZ-Reader. Hot Keys can also be defined as
keyboard macros.
* The Switch! feature swaps all but a small portion of EZ-Reader to EMS
or disk to give you the largest DOS shell available.
VIDEO FEATURES
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* EZ-Reader supports 25, 43, and 50 line video modes. It will use your
current video mode without changing your display.
* Supports multiple fonts with EGA and VGA. Quoted lines in messages can
be displayed in italics, bold, or any of the many other available
fonts.
* User selectable colors.
* Modifiable color palette with EGA and VGA.
MAIL FORMATS SUPPORTED
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* Supports these mail doors: Qmail, MarkMail, CMPMail, DJMail, KMail,
RAMail, TomCat!, MjrMail, and other QWK format mail doors. Plus PC
Board Capture files, ProDoor ZIPM files, XRS, TAPCIS (Compuserve), MCI
Mail, and others!
* Others are very easily added!
MAIL & CONFERNECE HANDLING
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* Enhanced mail packet handling facility gives you the ability to move,
copy, delete, and rename mail packets. Old mail packets can be
automatically renamed and moved to a holding directory.
* More sorting options for mail packets and conferences.
* Mail is kept in an internal message database for easy archiving and
retrieval.
* Support for up to 65,531 conferences.
* Support for up to 16.7 million messages per conference. Do you have
that much disk space? Can you read that many messages? <grin>
* Copy and Move messages across conferences and even BBSes!
* Create your own conferences for mail archiving.
* Mail can be selected from an index for faster reading or "brute force"
it from beginning to end.
* View multiple messages simultaneously.
* Create replies to any message. EZ-Reader gives you the ability to
re-edit any of your replies.
HOT NEW FEATURES!
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* Several methods of quoting replies. Including "Intelligent" quoting
that does not force the text of the message off the screen.
* Full ANSI support in bulletins, news, messages, etc.
* Print and save old bulletins, file listings, and news.
* Complete on-line context-sensitive hypertext-like help is available at
every point in EZ-Reader and it's support programs. The help system may
be disabled to save on memory.
* Greatly enhanced warning and error message system. Every Warning and
Error message comes with context sensitive help to provide you more
information to diagnose and correct problems.
* Print mail to disk, printer, or fax it!
* Enhanced address book, providing addressing for private mail and
telephone numbers for fascimile support.
* Message base utilities (compress, recover, delete, etc.)
* On screen clock.
* Time and date format options (MM-DD-YY, YY-MM-DD, etc).
* Form feed or no form feed after printing a message.
* Mix and match up to five internal and external editors.
* Internal editor with 120,000 word spelling checker.
* Built-in spelling checker can check spelling of mail created with
external editors.
* Mail addressed to you is placed in the Personal Mail conference. This
is a configurable default that can be set for any and all conferences.
* Mail addressed to ALL can be placed in the Personal Mail conference.
This is a configurable default that can be set for any and all
conferences.
* Set the number of days to keep mail. Plus the ability to delete that
mail if you've not read it. This is a configurable default that can be
set for any and all conferences.
* Included tagline manager. Aside from the default tagline file you can
assign tagline files to conferences and BBSes.
* Support for the John Hancock tagline manager is also provided.
* Mail can be copied, deleted, moved, saved, and printed in bulk. Simply
set the options and EZ-Reader will perform the desired operation on
those messages that meet your criteria.
* Added the ability to search for text strings.
* Cooperates with DESQview and other multitasking operating systems.
EZ-Reader gives up unused cycles to other programs.
* Added digitized sound to give a little zip to opening and closing
windows and other actions. Supports the IBM internal speaker, Covox
Speech Thing, Covox Voice Master, Covox Sound Master, Creative Labs
Sound Blaster, Adlib Personal Music System, Tandy EX/TX/SX/HX internal
sound chip, and the Tandy SL/TL internal sound chip.
* Or use the non-digitize sound options! Turn them all on or off with a
single switch.
* Utilizes Borland's VROOMM overlay memory management technology to allow
the larger program to run in less memory.
* The EZ-Reader system is setup to run seamlessly with such automated
mail transfer programs as RoboComm, TAPCIS, AutoMate, and others.
SUPPORT
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* EZ Updates - You can update version 2 by downloading directly from your
local BBS, no more need for the EZUPDATE door.
* Documentation - Complete documentation is written by a team of
professional technical writers. Documentation is provided in a text
file with each release of EZ-Reader. Printed and bound documentation
may be purchased seperately. Printed documentation includes many
extras, such as a user's guide for many of the mail doors available on
bulletin boards, how to interface EZ-Reader with Word Perfect, etc.
* Phone Support - Thumper Technologies is proud to announce two hours of
free telephone support for registered users of version 2.00.
* BBS Support - Thumper Technologies runs a 24 hour 2 line EZ-Reader
support Bulletin Board. Registered users have 60 minutes access to all
file and message areas. Mail is echoed through the ILINK echo mail
network.
* Netmail Support - EZ-Reader support is provided on these netmail
networks: ILINK, RIME, SmartNet, UN'I, and NANET. If you are part of a
network that Thumper Technologies is not aware of please contact us and
we will pick up that network for EZ-Reader support.
* Quarterly Newsletter - Thumper Technologies publishes a quarterly
newsletter for the support of EZ-Reader. The EZ-Reader newsletter
brings you the latest and greatest news concerning EZ-Reader and the
world of electronic mail.
* Documentation & Program Updates - Printed documentation, program
updates, and new utility updates may be purchased seperately. Timely
updates to the documentation, program, and utilities are mailed to
those who subscribe to the Super Support Package.
RELEASE DATE
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EZ-Reader 2.00 is entering the final stages of beta testing. All the bugs
are getting worked out and the documentation is being written and
critiqued. We expect to release version 2 before the end o