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FORKEEPS MAIL & MESSAGE ARCHIVER  		  ©1996-98 Ragnar Hellspong
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Description
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ForKeeps is a software tool that puts you in charge (at last!) of that huge pile of Internet 
and CompuServe mail messages and downloaded CompuServe Forum and Usenet Newsgroup messages 
that may litter your hard disk and backup media.

Import from a variety of file formats into ForKeeps' relational databases. You can then easily 
browse, maintain and search your messages in one place, regardless of how and with which 
browser or mail program they were downloaded. 

The tools provided within ForKeeps to organize and find the information you need are superior 
to those you can find in any browser or mail program.

Browse your messages in every conceivable way, with simultaneous tree view and dynamic message 
text as you scroll! Browse your mail partners or the participants in your favourite newsgroup 
- ForKeeps creates a separate person file automatically!

The Professional extension adds some very powerful features for the demanding user: indexing of 
every word in every message for lightening fast searches, message classification, a task manager 
for scheduled import and batch processing.

Supported Message Formats: 

Agent 
Autosig 
CISComm 
CompuServe
CSNav
DOSCIM
Eudora
GoldenCompass
MS Internet Mail
MS Internet News
MS Outlook Express Mail
MS Outlook Express News
NavCIS
Netscape Mail
Netscape News
OzCis
OzWin
Pegasus
Tapcis
Virtual Access
WinCIM 

Installation
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This download includes a self extracting install program, called FK16TL.EXE (for the 16-bit
version) or FK32TL.EXE (for the 32-bit version). The install program can be used both for making
a new installation and for upgrading a previous version of ForKeeps. The current downloaded
version is 3.4.

You can decide where to install the program, and no files will be installed or modified outside 
of this directory and it's associated subdirectories.

Shareware, registration and distribution rules
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ForKeeps can be used on a trial basis during 30 days from installation. After that you will not 
be able to access your ForKeeps databases without registering the program. You can however 
delete your databases if you so wish and reinstall, to get another 30 day trial out period.

You are free to distribute this download file as you wish to other potential users, but you 
must not change, modify or omit this Read.Me file or any other component of the program. 
Licences are personal and cannot be transferred without the author's permission.

Registration can be made on line at the ForKeeps web page on http://www.fkeeps.com and on 
Compuserve shareware registration GO SWREG. For details, see the Program registration section
in the HELP file.

System requirements
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The 16-bit version requires Windows 3.x  or WIN-OS/2 and at least 8 MB RAM for reasonable 
performance. The 32-bit version requires Windows 95 or Windows NT and at least 16 MB RAM. As
all database applications the performance of ForKeeps will increase considerably with a fast 
processor and lots of RAM memory.

Although the program itself only requires 3 MB disk space for the program files, the databases 
tend to become rather large, depending on the number and size of imported messages. As a rule of
thumb mail messages create a database of 15 MB per 10.000 messages, and newsgroup and Forum 
messages about half that size per 10.000 messages. 

Some users have very large ForKeeps databases, approaching half a million messages, and occupying
several hundred MB of disk space.

For additional information
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On the Internet:

EMail :  ragnar.hellspong@swipnet.se 
WWW   :  http://www.fkeeps.com

On Compuserve:

EMail :  Ragnar Hellspong 100044,1214
Forum :  The ForKeeps section (20) on the Peak To Peak Forum (GO PEAKTOPEAK)

