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      Mail Grazer for Windows
     32-bit Win32S release 1.0a

          ***** BETA *****
   This build will expire on 10/1/96
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This is version 1.x of Mail Grazer (a public beta release).  This README.TXT provides information on the following topics:

- What is Mail Grazer?
- Minimum Requirements
- Bug Reports
- Requests for Features
- Support issues
- Bulk and Site license sales
- License and Legal information

SETUP.EXE will also display other important notes when you run it.
Only a few items are covered in this text file, but please read it all the way through before installing Mail Grazer.

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WHAT IS MAIL GRAZER?
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Mail Grazer is a utility that converts Internet E-mail and news into QWK format.  Once converted, you can then use a QWK mail reader like
CMPQwk, or OLX for DOS (or Windows), or Robomail---or any capable QWK reading product---to read and write Internet news and E-mail (including sending binary attachments via the Internet).

You need a QWK reader to use Mail Grazer.  If you don't have one,
try CMPQwk 1.42, our own product.  You can probably get CMPQwk from the very same site where you got this file.  The file to look for: CMP14295.ZIP.

Install CMPQwk first, and *then* install Mail Grazer (Mail Grazer will automatically detect and configure itself for CMPQwk if that program is present on the system.

If you don't want to use CMPQwk, you can use any QWK reader you like.  Mail Grazer will work with any of them.

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MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
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To use Mail Grazer, you must have the following:

-  IBM PC or compatible with a 486 or Pentium CPU.
-  Microsoft Windows 3.1 with Win32S 1.3 (or later) or...
-  Microsoft Windows 95 or...
-  Windows NT 3.5 or 4.0.
-  At least 8MB or RAM if you run Windows 3.1x or '95 (16 is better).
-  At least 16MB of RAM if you run Windows NT (32 is better).
-  Both OSes require at leat 2.5-4MB free for heavy usage.
-  Winsock 1.1 API compliant networking package.
   and something like Trumpet for Windows 3.1x).
-  A mail and/or news account with an Internet Service Provider or an 
   Internet-style network.
-  Access to your mail account via dial-up Internet-style network
   connection.


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BUG REPORTS
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We've called our first public beta 1.0 because everybody *knows* that 1.0 *anything* is beta software.  So let's be honest with each other. You find 'em and we'll fix any bugs that get discovered, and then we'll release 1.1 as the first non-beta.  We will go through a, b, c, etc., releases as required to reach 1.1.

If you discover a bug in this beta release of Mail Grazer, please send a properly-formatted bug report to: GRAZER.AUTHOR@PATCHBAY.COM. After the 1.1 release, that address will bounce back notification that we received your message and it will direct you to write to a second address (handling support after final release): GRAZER.SUPPORT@PATCHBAY.COM.

Unless we require further information about your bug, you may not receive more than an perfunctory response to a report.  If you require further support *please* be explicit in your original message.  We have limited resources, and although the programmer (grazer.author) would love to talk to everybody using the product, if he does this, he won't have the time to be fixing bugs or writing our next product, Global Reader.

So short and sweet will be the rule here.


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REQUESTS FOR FEATURES
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If you think there is a feature "missing" from Mail Grazer, (read the VERSION.TXT file first, it may explain that this is a "coming attraction") send a feature request to: GRAZER.SUPPORT@PATCHBAY.COM.  You may receive a generic response thanking you for your request, and if we need further explanation, we'll contact you.  We take all reasonable feature requests seriously, and Mail Grazer's current look and feel are the result of many feature requests made by our "official" beta team.

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SUPPORT ISSUES
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All support for Mail Grazer is done via our support BBS systems (both of which can be accessed via Telnet: bbs.patchbay.com and bbs.asacomp.com), via Internet mail sent to: GRAZER.AUTHOR@PATCHBAY.COM if we are in public beta, or via GRAZER.SUPPORT@PATCHBAY.COM if we are "out" of public beta.  If you reach the wrong address a daemon will notify you of the currently correct address.

If you require support and did not get an answer from the E-mail address, DIRECTLY CONTACT THE SUPPORT BBS system (or systems) and LEAVE A MESSAGE IN THE APPROPRIATE CONFERENCE THERE -- they are plainly marked as for Dangerous Cybernetics support.  If you leave comments in any other conferences (not called dcyber or Dangerous Cybernetics) you will probably not get a response.  We only audit our own conferences on these systems.

Please do NOT leave comments for the sysops on either system --- the sysops on these systems do NOT run our beta program or provide support for our products other than provide access to our files and message areas.

By the time version 1.1 ships we will have Web support pages up and running (they may not be enabled at all locations yet).

These sites will be: www.patchbay.com (off the main page, Dangerous Cybernetics) and www.webcyber.com /dcyber, our official WWW location for all product support.  Patchbay is a fairly slow 28.8 connection, webcyber.com is a frame relay site (56K).

Our official FTP sites are:

ftp.asacomp.com /dcyber/apps - T1 line

ftp.gremlan.org /dcyber/apps - Frame relay

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SITE and BULK LICENSES
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If your organization or user group wishes to purchase Mail Grazer in "bulk" (more than 50 copies) contact: DCYBER.SALES@PATCHBAY.COM before mailing in an order form or placing an on-line or FAX order.  We support the user group concept by offering special discounts and other offers to user groups, especially those who aid senior citizens, handicapped folks, or other such "special" individuals.  We may provide free licenses to raffle off to help your group, special discounts beyond the 10% "everybody" can get, and so forth.

We like user groups and want to help them out.  Contact us for more information.

If your corporation or company wishes to purchase a site license for Mail Grazer (at least 50 copies) you should contact this same address.  The price you will receive will be less than the plain "bulk order" 10% discount since your copies are going to a single location and will be handled in a special manner with a single license number and key number.

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LICENSE AND LEGAL INFORMATION
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The Mail Grazer software and documentation are copyrighted, with All Rights  Reserved.  Mail Grazer is the property of Dangerous Cybernetics, a privately owned company located in California, USA.  Our address and other contact information is contained in the Mail Grazer help file.

If you purchase a registration you have purchased a revocable right to use the software but you do not own it.  We retain all ownership rights "forever."

You may not release your registration codes to the public, post "hacked" copies on alt.binaries.cracks, or do other nasty things such as this.  If we catch you doing this sort of rubbish we will revoke your license to use Mail Grazer (if you have purchased one).

If you "steal" Mail Grazer by using somebody else's license and we find out about it, we will be very unhappy with you and will probably take action to prohibit your use of the software.

Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.

Mail Grazer, and Bossy the Mail Cow are trademarks owned by Dangerous Cybernetics.  The secret, "Mail Grazer Blues," music in our Easter egg screen (only available to registered users) was performed by Mike Smith, and is copyrighted property (c) 1996 partly derived from public domain sources and partly composed and owned by him.  As such it is our intellectual property and may not be extracted and used outside of Mail Grazer.

All other trademarks and service marks mentioned in this and other supporting documentation are the property of their respective owners and as such, have no connection with Dangerous Cybernetics.

Readme.txt Version 1.1 8/28/96
