
Q-Blue is an offline electronic mail reader which can handle mail packets in
QWK format or Blue Wave format.  It is shareware.  This version may be freely
distributed by any means, so long as nothing is changed or removed.  If you
send $20 to the author, you get the registered version, which has your name
and serial number in it.  This version is lacking a couple of non-essential
features that the registered version has, to encourage you to register.  It
cannot use an interlaced screen or a font of a height other than 8.  These
two features can make it much nicer to use if you have a de-interlacer.  Nor
can it put more than five new messages into any one upload packet.  The
current registration price is twenty (20) US dollars.  See the "Order-form"
file for information on how to register.  If you use the program but do not
pay for a registered copy, then in the long run I will not be able to offer
low cost software that you can try before buying, and we all lose.

Q-Blue can be started from a CLI prompt or from the Workbench.  There are no
command line or tooltype options -- you just start it up and use it.  When
started from a CLI, it automatically detaches itself to run in the
background, so you get your command prompt back right away.  The most complex
part of using the program is setting it up for the first time, but even that
is, in many ways, easier to do than to describe.  The process is explained in
complete detail in the user manual, in the file Q-Blue.doc.  Once it's set
up, most of its operation is intuitively obvious.

The manual is formatted for printing on US letter size paper.  The margins
are set up on the assumption that the print head starts out ready to print
right at the top edge of the paper, a slight distance inward from the left
edge -- no more than one quarter inch or six millimeters.  If you have a
perforation skip feature on your printer you'd better turn it off.  It is 40
pages long.  It contains ANSI underlining codes, so printing it through your
regular Amiga printer driver will underline various things if your printer is
capable of doing so, as most are.  The underlining will also show if it is
typed to a console window or viewed with most text viewers such as More.

Two icon files are included with this package.  The one attached to the
program is suitable for the 1.2 or 1.3 Workbench -- to use the one designed
for the 2.0 Workbench, you can use a CLI window or a directory utility to
copy the file "icon-for-2.0.info" to "Q-Blue.info" in the directory where you
have installed Q-Blue, or you can load "icon-for-2.0" into an icon editor and
save it under the name "Q-Blue" in the appropriate directory.

The following is a copy of the shareware distribution license contained in
the manual (section 9).  Read it before using the program.

    Q-Blue is copyright (c) 1992 by Paul Kienitz, all rights reserved
    except as stated here.  It exists in two versions, one "freely
    distributable" and one "registered".  Selecting the "About"
    menu item when the program is running will produce a statement
    that declares whether the version running is freely distributable
    or registered.  The freely distributable version may be used by
    any person for occasional use or for as long as needed to decide
    whether to use the program routinely.  Permission is not granted
    to use that version routinely for longer than thirty days.
    Routine use is defined as two or more uses per week.  This version
    may be distributed by any means, commercial or otherwise, so long
    as the software package, including this manual and the file called
    "Order-form", is kept in complete and unmodified form.  The
    registered version may be purchased directly from the author, Paul
    Kienitz, and may not be distributed to other people.  If you have
    purchased the registered version, you are licensed to make
    unlimited use of the software, on one machine at any one time, so
    long as you abide by the terms of this license.  A group of people
    who share one machine may all use a single copy, as may an
    individual with two or more machines, so long as no two machines
    can be running it at the same time.  The registered version is not
    to be distributed among other users by any means, except by the
    author.  See the file called "Order-form" for information on how
    to purchase a registered copy.  For multi-user site licensing,
    please contact the author.  Q-Blue, like most software, is
    provided "as is", with no warranty of any kind.  The author cannot
    assume liability for any damage caused by the software.  Anyone
    who wilfully violates the terms set forth in this license, such as
    by distributing copies of the registered version to those who have
    not paid for it, will be deemed to have forfeited all rights and
    permissions granted here, including the right to make any use of
    the program whatsoever.  If you cannot agree to abide by this
    license, do not use the program.

The following is a list of the files included in the freeware distribution
of Q-Blue:

    Q-Blue                  the program itself
    Q-Blue.doc              the users' manual
    Blue-Wave-door.doc      manual excerpt on using the Blue Wave mail
                               door on BBSes, by George Hatchew
    Order-form              information for how to buy a registered copy
                               of Q-Blue -- print it and mail it in
    README                  this file you're reading

    fonts/cleanibm.font     three fonts using the IBM character set
    fonts/cleanibm/8
    fonts/tallibm.font
    fonts/tallibm/11
    fonts/tallibm/14

    Q-Blue.info             icons for all files outside the fonts drawer
    Q-Blue.doc.info
    Blue-Wave-door.doc.info
    Order-form.info
    README.info
    fonts.info

    icon-for-2.0.info       alternate icon for Q-Blue for Workbench 2.0+
