                  Random Signature Generator v1.0
                          Kevin Wells 1996
                           kewells@vt.edu
                        All Rights Reserved
 
12/29/96

Features
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- Loads & passes command line arguments to email program

- Fast generation even with large signature files

- Displays the number of the signature that is currently in use by 
  email program

- Automatic randomizing of signature


How to obtain the program & contact the author
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Visit my home page at http://www.vt.edu:10021/K/kewells/
My page will have instructions on how to obtain the program.  
This program only runs under Windows 95 & NT.

Legal issues
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This program may be freely copied and distributed.  The author 
reserves all rights to this program.  Please feel free to contact the 
author with any suggestions or improvements you have for the program.


Installation
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Run setup.exe from within Windows 95 or NT.  Follow the installation
wizard.


Structure of random signature file
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This program was initially designed to use the FORTUNES.TXT file 
supplied with Linux.  That file has the following format:

Signature1
%
Signature2
%
Signature3


You must have a % on a blank line at the end of every signature except
the last one. There is no maximum to the length of the signature file.

General Use
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The program randomizes your signature every time it loads up.  It also
loads your email program when it loads up if you prefer.  Choose the 
button with a number on it to change signatures.  If you are running
Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 95, and have RandSig hidden, you can click
on the icon in the tray bar to change the signature.  To exit the 
program, choose Options, and then exit program.


Options Dialog Box
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This dialog box sets up all of the settings for the program.

Email Program: The full path of the executable file of your email
program.  For Eudora Pro & Light users, this will be something like
c:\eudora\eudora.exe

Title bar of Email Program: The exact string of what appears on the 
title bar of your email program.  For Eudora Pro users, this is Eudora 
Pro.

Signatures: The location of the file that holds all of your 
signatures.  The format of this file is explained below.

Email program's signature file: The location of the text file your 
email program uses for its signature.  For Eudora Pro & Light users
using a version less than 3.0, the name of this file is signatur.pce.
For Eudora version 3.0 and greater, the name of this file is
standard.txt located in the Sigs\ subdirectory of the Eudora directory.

Non-changing part of signature: This field refers to the part of your 
signature that is static, or doesn't change.  For example my signature 
(before I used the random signature generator) used to be:

Kevin Wells
kewells@vt.edu
Virginia Tech Computer Engineering
http://www.vt.edu:10021/K/kewells/

What I did was to put the old signature into a text file and added a 
one or two blank lines after it (and three hyphens on a line).  After 
the random signature generator finishes it will make your email 
signature have this structure:

<non-changing part of signature>
<random signature pulled from another file>

NOTE: Make sure the nonchanging part of your signature is _NOT_ the 
same file as your email signature file!

Time between signature changes: (in seconds) Set this to zero if you
do not want your signature changed automatically.

Always on top: Self explanatory.

Exit with Mailer: Decides whether or not to close the randsig when you 
close your email program

Recount signatures: YOU MUST CHOOSE THIS EVERY TIME YOU _MODIFY_ THE 
SIGNATURE FILE.  This will rebuild the index file SIGS.IDX located in 
your email program's directory and will tally up the new signatures 
you have.  Your signatures are automatically recounted when you change 
signature files.  Any modification to the random signature file 
requires a rebuilt index.



Revision History
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v1.0    - First major release (12/29/96)
        - Cosmetic change to the About Box
        - Added setup program
        - Changed settings location in registry
        - Added dialog box for initial run of program
v0.99c  - Second Beta release (11/3/96)
        - Program does not exit anymore before Eudora 
          loads up when "exit with email" option is checked.
        - Passes command line arguments to email program
v0.99b  - First Beta release; Complied using MFC.
v0.99   - Second Alpha release; API calls only
v0.95   - Alpha release; API calls only

