* Known bugs are listed at the end of this document.

RELEASE NOTES FOR VERSION 1.0c9
-------------------------------
We are almost complete in removing an internet protocol
library which has caused us nothing but problems with
the multi-threading.  Most of the crashing with the
previous version should be gone now.

The FTP drop-box temporarily will not process FTP files
(only HTTP files).  This is due to the replacement of the
internet protocol library mentioned above and will be
finishing in the next week or two.

There are a number of new user interface issues which
have been added to support use within a company/network
environment.  The tray icon can now be enable/disabled
and the program itself can be password protected when
bringing it up from a hidden state.  Both of these
options are in the File-->Properties dialog box.


RELEASE NOTES FOR VERSION 1.0c8
-------------------------------
Updated Weather Map action to support The Weather
Channel's URL changes.  Check out the new map types.

Fixed problem which was causing occasional crashes.

Added many new Toolbar buttons.

Enhanced status reporting.


RELEASE NOTES FOR VERSION 1.0c6
-------------------------------
More than doubled the number of available comic-strips
and added a randomize feature for the comic wallpapers.

Added User-Defined Variables which are settable using
the new "Set User Variable" action and are accessable
using the new $0 - $9 replacement tags.

HTTP downloads now correctly display the progress of
the download.


RELEASE NOTES FOR VERSION 1.0c5
-------------------------------
Added Comic-Strip wallpaper action.

Added Control characters for the Replacement Tags.  You
can use $^? for control characters (eg: $^X for <Ctrl-X>).

Added new weather map types to the Weather Wallpaper action.


RELEASE NOTES FOR VERSION 1.0c4
-------------------------------
Added The Weather Channel wallpaper maps action.  Auto-Bot
will download current US satellite maps and use those
maps as Win95 wallpaper.

Fixed bugs related to editing Jobs/Actions.  For example,
there were times when a job would be "undeletable".

Fixed a problem which caused the job/action list text to
not be updated.  This caused waiting email counts to
not be displayed correctly.


RELEASE NOTES FOR VERSION 1.0c3
-------------------------------
Fixed some bugs related to FTP Drop-Box.  There also
was a bug which caused a FTP Synchronize Directory
to crash when running a job for each file.

Fixed a problem which prohibited a user from added
sub-actions to an FTP or Telnet group.


RELEASE NOTES FOR VERSION 1.0c2
-------------------------------
Fixed some bugs related to making Auto-Bot multi-
threaded.  Should stop any GPFs or crashes you may
be having.


RELEASE NOTES FOR VERSION 1.0c1
-------------------------------
The FTP drop-box now support HTTP downloads.

The shareware version will run for about 30 days and
then timeout.  At this point, jobs will not run.  A
registration number can be obtained for $29.95 by
contacting STARBASE-21 at http://www.starbase21.com/
or calling us at 214/504-6632.  See the help file for
more information on registering.

Released a new "revamp" of the help file.  We will
continue enhancing the detail in the help file over
the next few releases.

Added a "Last Error" message bar at the bottom of the
window.  This will display the last error and is
helpfull when you have the "Ignore All Errors" option
checked.

The beta expiration date has been removed.


RELEASE NOTES FOR VERSION 1.0b1
-------------------------------
Extended the beta expiration date to February 1, 1997.

Added an option on the connection page to cause jobs
to run using "Only Exisiting" connections.  This can
be used to setup a job that check for waiting email
every 5 minutes, but only when connected.

Added FTP Drop-Box.  This new feature hooks into your
browser (Netscape is currently the only supported),
and when you click on an FTP file link, it will ask
for a download location and saves the information in
Auto-Bot's FTP Drop-Box.  Then, when a job with the
associated action ("Download FTP Drop-Box") is run,
it will download the FTP files.


RELEASE NOTES FOR VERSION 0.9r
------------------------------
Extended the beta expiration date to January 1, 1997.

Fixed a bug which caused the MailBox counts to not be
updated in the list after checking for waiting mail.

Added an Enable/Disable option for the scheduler. The
'A' tray icon will display a large red 'X' when it is
disabled.

Added support for proxy servers to the FTP Group
actions.

*** NOTE *** You must edit each FTP Group action and
uncheck the "Use Proxy" flag the first time you run
Auto-Bot after installing 0.9r.

Added an option in the FTP Upload, FTP Download and
FTP Synchronize Directory actions to remove any
partially transmitted files.

Added an option to ignore ALL errors (even the
important ones).  Use this option sparringly.

Enhanced the scheduling to handle running every 'X'
minutes, even greater than 59 minute cycles.

Fixed a scheduler problem using Weekly Scheduling.


RELEASE NOTES FOR VERSION 0.9p
------------------------------
Enhanced the FTP Upload/Download/SyncDirectory actions
to display their status and multi-task better.

Added $F and $P Tag Replacements.  The $F is the last
filename processed (no path) and the $P is the last
path processed (no filename).  These tags are only
setup currently to be used by the FTP Synchronize
Directory.

Added an option to run a job after each file uploaded
or downloaded by the FTP Synchronize Directory action.

Added an option in the Send/Receive Email action to
process even if the program is already loaded.  Be
warned that this might cause problems if you are in
the middle of using your email program, such as
reading or writing mail.


RELEASE NOTES FOR VERSION 0.9o
------------------------------
Added a feature to our Time/Date tags.  Between the
'$' and the letter, you can place a '+' or a '-' and
a number.  This number, or "offset", will add-to, or
subtract-from the value you are displaying.

Added FTP Synchronize Directory action.  This action
will optionally download and/or upload any files
required to bring the other directory up-to-date.

Added action Log File Entry which adds a line/entry
in the log file specified in the program Properties
dialog.

Added action Popup Message which will pop-up a
message box and wait for a keypress.


RELEASE NOTES FOR VERSION 0.9n
------------------------------
Just a reminder, the command lines which are user
specified (such as for actions: Run External Program,
and Send/Receive Email) MUST use double-quotes around
any individual parameters or paths which use Long
Filenames.  This is done automatically anywhere you
specify just a filename.

Fixed bug which caused a fault when adding/editing a
Compuserve Check-for-Mail Action.

Completed support for FTP Actions.

Fixed a bug in the Decompress File action.

Updated the installation program to new release.

Extended the beta expiration date to December 1, 1996.

RELEASE NOTES FOR VERSION 0.9m
------------------------------
Fixed an occasional scheduling problem.

Added an action for Tetranet Software's Linkbot v2.0.


RELEASE NOTES FOR VERSION 0.9k
------------------------------
Fixed a bug which caused a crash when attempting to
display certain dialog boxes (such as Check Email
action).  This bug was introduced by a compiler
version upgrade and slipped by our testing.


RELEASE NOTES FOR VERSION 0.9j
------------------------------
The beta expiration date has been extended to
November 1, 1996.

Added the function to "Copy Job".  This allows you to
create a new job, starting with a copy of an existing
job.

We have modified the waiting mail notification process
to only notify you when you have a message count which
is greater than zero AND different from the last check.

We have fixed a problem with the window being displayed
off of the screen.


RELEASE NOTES FOR VERSION 0.9i
------------------------------
The beta expiration check has been changed to 10/1/96.
Keep in mind that the final release will NOT have this
beta expiration check!

RELEASE NOTES FOR VERSION 0.9h
------------------------------
Due to a potential trademark infringment, we have decided
to change the name of our application to Auto-Bot.

Added is support to checking compuserve mail and down-
loading that mail using WinCIM.  The checking is done
by telnetting to CServe.  This support is in early
beta and currently seems to work fine, but might
occasionally fail.  Please let us know if you
experience any problems.

We have also verified that this version works with the
new Eudora Pro v3.0 beta release 11.  We can't guarantee
that it will continue to work with future releases, but
it more than likely will.

The support for Pegasus Mail has only been checked with
the Single-User mode.

The included FTP actions now work properly.  These actions
include renaming files, deleting files, making directories
and removing directories.  The next release will include
retrieving and storing files.

There is a new "MAIL" tray icon which only displays when
you have a Send/Recv action setup with waiting mail.
Double-clicking on this tray icon will bring up the first
email program which has waiting mail.  You can then
continue double-clicking on this icon in turn to bring
up each email program which has waiting mail.

Right clicking on hew new "MAIL" tray icon which also
bring up a menu which has each email program (checkmarks
represent ones with waiting mail) and a list of all POPs
with associated Check for mail actions.

For those of you who have an ISP which "disallows" automated,
scheduled dialups, we have added the "Randomizer".  This allows
you to specify a range of seconds (plus or minus) which will
be added/subtracted to the scheduled run-time of any jobs
which you specify.  For example, a 10 minute (600 second)
randomizer value will cause Auto-Bot to generate a random
number as it schedules each "randomized" job between -300 and
300.  This random seconds will be added to the normally
scheduled time of these jobs.

We have now added a "Default Connection" method which allows
you to change all of the jobs which are using the "Default
Connection" at once.  But, you still have the ability of
defining each jobs connection method separately.

The right-click menu contains a "hot-list" of jobs which can
be manually run directly from this menu.  A checkbox in the
Job Properties determines whether or not a job is on this
list.

The Telnet Group has been fixed and should now work properly.

There is now a scheduling option to run "every xx minutes".  This
will not immediately run upon startup, but will wait "xx mintutes"
before its first run.

We've added scheduling "filters" to specify a start-time
and a stop-time within which the other scheduling option will
be valid.  Also, check-marks for days-of-the-week which the
job is allowed to run.  These two "filters" give you maximum
flexibility in your scheduling, while still attempting to keep
it somewhat simple.  Be on the looking in a future release for
a scheduling wizard.

Also, check out the right-click menu in the System Tray which
will now give you a menu item to run each of your email programs.
It also will place a checkmark next to the ones with new mail.
Keep in mind, this flag will only be cleared when you run your
email program from this menu, as Auto-Bot has no other way to
assertain whether or not you have run your email program from
some other way.

Please see the help file for additional beta notes.


TIME/DATE TAGS
--------------
The following fields in the specified actions have Tags
which can be embedded into the field.

   Action               	Field
   ---------------      	-----
   Telnet Command          Command Line

   Compress File        	Source File
                        	Destination File

   Decompress File      	Source File
                        	Destination File

	Run Program          	Program Command Line

	FTP Rename File         Source File
									Destination File

	FTP Delete File         Filename

	FTP Make Directory		Directory Name

	FTP Remove Directory		Directory Name

	FTP Sync Directory		Directory Names


The available tags are:

	$0 - $9	User Defined Tags (see "Set User Variable" action)

	$^?	Control Characters (eg: $^X is <Ctrl-X>)

	$A    WeekDay Name (Sunday, Monday, etc)
	$a    short WeekDay Name (Sun, Mon, etc)
	$B    Month Name (January, February, etc)
	$b    short Month Name (Jan, Feb, etc)
	$D    $m-$e-$y
	$d    date (00-31)
	$e    date (0-31)
	$H    hour (00-23)
	$I    hour (01-12)
	$j    day of year (001-366)
	$k    hour (0-23)
	$l    hour (1-12)
	$M    minute (00-59)
	$m    month (01-12)
	$p    AM or PM
	$R    $H:$M
	$r    $I:$M:$S $p
	$S    seconds (00-59)
	$s    seconds since January 1, 1901
	$w    day of week (0-6) 0=Sunday
   $Y    year (eg: 1996)
   $y    year (eg: 96)
   $$    $

   $F		FTP Sync Directory Last Filename Downloaded/Uploaded
   $P		FTP Sync Directory Last Pathname Downloaded/Uploaded (No trailing '\')

The replacements are done based upon the start time of the job.
This means that all tag replacements within a job will be the
same date and time.

EXISTING KNOWN BUGS/LIMITATIONS
-------------------------------
Not all actions have their old status dialog box removed.  The 'STOP'
button occasionally will not work.

There is no support for changing the order of actions in jobs.

Some problems exist with the Pegasus email actions.

Some problems exist with the Compuserve email actions.

