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READ ME FILE 
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Product Name.......: Message Parse
Version............: 1.75
Date...............: 11/02/98

Program Status.....: Shareware
Distrubution Status: Distributable

Company Name.......: Cypress Technologies
Product Support....: support@cypressnet.com

The following Subjects are contained:

*) Introduction 
*) How to Install
*) Future plans for Message Parse Application

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INTRODUCTION 
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Message Parse is a utility that will extract information from email messages either from a MAPI compliant mail reader or from internet POP3 mail boxes. You can define templates that tell Message Parse what you want from the messages and where to store the infomation. Message Parse creates delimited text files from your messages ready to be imported into other applications like spreadsheets, accounting packages and database applications. 

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How to Install
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Message Parse requires either Windows 95 or NT 4.0 or greater as the operating system. Unzip the download file to a temporary directory. From Windows explorer find the application "setup.exe" and double click the file. Once installed you can remove the files from the temporary directory.

NOTE! To use the POP3 capabilities the following software requirements are need. 

	Windows NT4.0 - Service Pack 1 and Microsoft TCP/IP stack. 
	Windows 95 - Kernal Update (krnlup.exe) and Service Pack 1

This software can be found at the Microsoft Web Site.

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NEW IN THIS VERSION 
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Special Offers
Cypress Technologies is offering a great discount for all purchases made before Jan. 1st 1999. You can purchase Message Parse for $49.95 up to this date. This is a saving of approximately 40% of the regular price of $79.95. To reserve this special price while you take advantage of the 30-day trial period, simply send a short message to sales@cypressnet.com requesting reservation of the special price.

Cypress Technologies recognizes the extreme effort it takes to evaluate software. It times time, energy, and patience. We want to help you with this endeavor, by getting you to real life situation as fast as possible. Therefore, we are offering to put together your first template file for Message Parse absolutely for free. Along with the template that fits your specific needs, we will include details on how the template was built. This is a great way to evaluate Message Parse in a real life situation as well as speed up the learning process.  For more details and/or to request this service, simply send an email message to support@cypressnet.com

Version 1.75  Release Notes
*) This version was created due to the update of tool's that Cypress Technologies uses to create this application. This ensures that users have the same files that we have, making
support much easier.


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THE FUTURE PLANS FOR MESSAGE PARSE
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Here we announce the plans that have been made, but have not made it into the application at the time of this release. Of course, the plans could always change based on the needs of the users and we cannot tell you exactly when or even if these plans will be implemented. As a user, you can always influence these plans by letting us know what you would like to see or need from this application.

*) Multiple Line Output: 
Currently only one line of output can be defined, and there is a need to be able to define additional lines for headers and that kind of things to make msgParse useable to users that have pre-defined import requirements.

*) Direct Output to Databases:
Delimited files are great for importing but sometimes there is a need for data to be directly inputted to users databases. This would certainly add to the capabilities and functionality for users. 


