
                              InterSquish NNTP Server
                             Version 1.2.1 of 10.08.1999
                                  Brief description

1. Purpose.
     InterSquish converts an echoconferences stored in Squish echoprocessor
    format to News-format. As a matter of fact, InterSquish is a NNTP server,
    keeping messages in Squish base. The major usage of InterSquish is a gating
    Fidonet echos to newsgroups and back.

2. System requirements.
2.1 Program environment.
     InterSquish was tested under Windows NT with ParmaTosser 1.06.
    News-clients - MS Outlook Express, Netscape Messenger.
    The author considers the possibility of InterSquish functioning under
    Windows 95, with other squish-like tossers and NNTP-clients.
    The TCP/IP protocol is required.

2.2 Hardware requirements.
     InterSquish will run on any machine, where Windows NT
    (Windows 95/98) runs.

3. Some features and limitations.

3.1 General info.
     InterSquish is a multi-thread Win32 application, able to work as 
    Windows NT service, each cnnection to InterSquish is served by
    separate thread.
     To resume conflicts with joint base access with other program
    (tosser, editor) InterSquish has a timeout mechanism - InterSquish
    will be trying to open the base in a loop until some of the following
    appears:
        - Other program releases the base;
        - Clients breaks a connection;
        - InterSquish breaks a connection by timeout.
3.2 Posting.
     Registered version of InterSquish supports posting. It is realized by
     converting the incoming article to .PKT, that'll be given to tosser.
     
4. Installing.
    After unpacking the archive you have to set params if config files
    is.cfg and users.cfg to correspond your requirements and program 
    environment. To avoid errors all the paths should be full, including disk
    name.

5. Command-line keys.
    /Install - Register as Windows NT service
    /Uninstall - Remove InterSquish from Windows NT services list
    /Win9X - Start InterSquish in Windows 95, 98.

6. Future versions.
    Planned for future versions:
    -Fix the errors that will appear
    -transferring incoming netmail by POP3
    -Some adoption to Internet working;

7. Support.
    Author guaranties a registered users support.
    An unregistered users support is not guarantied.

8. Author.
     The InterSquish server author is Ivan Uskov. You can contact author by
    the following addresses:
    2:5055/101.3@fidonet 2:5055/114@fidonet
    citousers@interdacom.ru

    HomePage:
    http://intersquish.da.ru
