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Thank you for your interest in the CompuServe Information Manager(tm)
for Windows - WinCIM(r).
A rich context-sensitive Help feature can be accessed from any area of
WinCIM by hitting the F1 key.
You can obtain information on the current status of WinCIM by accessing
the GO WINCIM area on CompuServe. This area contains information
related to the status of WinCIM.
You can also obtain help and support through the WinCIM Support Forum
(GO WCIMSUPPORT). This forum is devoted to WinCIM and is staffed by
representatives from CompuServe's Customer Service department.
New features in WinCIM 1.3:
- Changes have been made in the way we handle the About Box.
They are:
1. A "splash" screen is now displayed when WinCIM is first
started. After displaying for a few seconds, the
dialog will disappear automatically.
2. The WinCIM About Box will only be displayed if the
"About CIM" choice is selected from the Help pull-down menu.
3. The General Preferences dialog box has been changed. The
"About Box" option has been removed from the "Initial Desktop"
option. There is no way to prevent the splash screen from
showing at startup.
- The Browse Services window has been redesigned to contain
more categories.
- A new "Connect" dialog has been implemented. This new dialog
allows users to easily connect to CompuServe. The dialog will
appear when the program first starts and can be disabled by
un-checking the "Show at Startup" option (located on the dialog).
Choosing the option to connect causes WinCIM to access the What New
Information. The dialog can be displayed (if it was closed) by
selecting the "Connect..." choice on the File pull-down menu.
- Support for an enhanced style of menus has been implemented in
WinCIM 1.3. These menus will be used in some CompuServe
services that will be available soon.
- A "Show Graphic Menus" preference was added to the General
Preferences dialog. This controls if WinCIM will request/display
the new enhanced menus that will appear in some services shortly.
- Carrier Detect (primarily used for modems) can now be enabled or
disabled by clicking the "More" button on the Session Settings
dialog. The default setting for this option is "ON". If WinCIM
is being used with a modem that does not support Carrier Detect,
this option can now be disabled.
- The printer dialog is no longer displayed when users attempt to
set their fonts.
Important WinCIM Information:
- If you are upgrading from WinCIM version 1.0.5 (or earlier)
AND you have the "^" character in your password, you will
need to respecify your password the very first time you
use WinCIM 1.2. You only need to do this if you have the
password stored in your session settings.
- WinCIM "looks" at the text in menus and articles and determines
if the data is column data. If WinCIM detects that the
information contains column data, it will switch into a fixed
font (so the information will line up properly). You can switch
between the fixed and proportional font by choosing the
"Fixed Font" option from the Edit pull down menu (or you
can use Cntrl-T).
- Special features in WinCIM can be accessed by modifying items in
the WINCIM.INI file. See the file WC-INI.TXT in the WinCIM Support
Forum (GO WCIMSUPPORT) for additional details.
- International keyboard characters (ISO Latin-1) can be used in
WinCIM. This capability allows WinCIM users to send CompuServe
Mail and Forum messages that contain international characters.
There are some known limitations to using these characters.
For additional information about this topic, see the file
WC8BIT.TXT in the "General" Library of the WinCIM Support Forum
(GO WCIMSUPPORT).
- WinCIM is shipped with a mono-spaced font that can be used when
using WinCIM's terminal emulation mode. This font (Monospaced 821)
can be installed through the Windows Control Panel and it will then
be available for use in WinCIM. You can find this font in the
c:\cserve\wincim directory.
The default "Terminal" font can be changed in WinCIM by accessing
the "General Preferences" dialog and clicking on the "Fonts" button.
- Sounds (.WAV files) can now be associated with WinCIM events (i.e.
connecting, file transfer completion, etc.). Sounds can be added
and removed through the sound module in the Windows Control Panel.
The WinCIM install procedure does not overwrite any existing
sounds that may already be defined in the WIN.INI file. If
WinCIM made changes to the WIN.INI file, the original file was
backed up and named WININI.CIM.