Indalo presents:     
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Post

1. The program's purpose:
Post converts replies out of html-forms to a readable format.
This is a tool for people who want to get feedback to their
website with html-forms via email, so there are no cgi-scripts
needed.
Included is a sample html-page with a full featured answer form and two
files called "formpost" and "form posted by Mozilla" wich were send
out of this exsample-form. These files can be converted with the programm.

If you run a website and get feedback out of your form continously, 
you need a mailclient like Eudorda, wich stores the form-replies in a 
attachment-directory automatically. Then you specify this directory
in the Post-programm and all received replies can be processed in one
stroke.
Post itself is a simple editor with standard "file" and "edit" menu-functions.
The special conversion-function is in the "auto"-menu.
Before you use this function (named "convert"), you should tell the 
programm where the reply-files called "formpost"-files are stored and with what
file filter (default is form*) they all get hit.
Convert translates the files, and stores them into an output-textfile. 
Then the formpost-files get deleted. The output-file is named like 
11_03_96.txt and is displayed in the editor for further processing.

To try out this system follow these steps:
- enter your email-adress in the form.htm file
- get online
- load the form.htm in your web-browser, fill it out and click submit
- after your mailserver has processed this, you can check your mail-account
- the entered infos are attached to the mail in one line. The Eudora mail-client
stores this automatically in one file. If you have another mail-client, you have to do
this manually. (btw: Eudora light V1.54 is freeware; about 2Mb from qualcomm.com or 
search eudor154.exe by archie)  
- then run Post, set the auto-dir, where the file is stored, the filefilter and 
click the "convert"-action.
The replys get listed with number, date (when you received them) and a few markes
wich tell you the status in further processing. 

Note that all constellations in html-forms can be processed, no matter how much, 
what type or in what order the input-tags are.
This is also the main advantage over static cgi-scripts. 
So you can design your answer-forms how you like with no limitation or consequences
from layout-changes. 
Post does it all!


2. how to install it:
Just extract all files in one directory
All DLL´s but not VER.DLL and the .ocx can be placed in the windows-system-dir. 

3. The status of the program: 
SHAREWARE

4. The program's distribution status:
freely distributable only under following conditions:
- only the original ZIP-archiev shoult be distributed. 
It is not allowed to add or remove files from this or to extract it
 and distribute the files in another archiev (even if you zip it again).  
Otherwise users cant be shure about functionality or 
virus-safety of the programm.
- only as SHAREWARE
- distribution in other archieves or collections should be announced to Indalo

5. How to contact the author in case of questions or problems:
per email:  reiss@bonsai.de 
or  andreas.reiss@graffix.de

6. Payment:
All creditcards accepted. Transact 20 US$ to:
Germany: Postbank Essen
    BLZ: 360 100 43 
     Nr: 4377 78-436
  usage: your name, email, serial-number

But somtimes it is cheaper and internationally faster, to put the 20$ in notes along 
with your email-adress and serial-number in a letter to: 

Andreas Reiss
Saelhuysen 19e
47509 Rheurdt
Germany

as soon as transaction is complete, you get your registration-number for unlimited
usage per email.
