                    Post Road Mailer Green Edition 2.0 Beta
                       1.99e (post199e.zip) July 12, 1996

Do not install any PRM 1.99 version into the same directory that already
contains a 1.03 or 1.05 version of PRM!  Install it into its very own empty
directory that has nothing in it except a previous 1.99 version!  And if you do
unzip it into an existing 1.99 directory, be sure to say "Y" to every one of the
unzip program's "Replace existing file? (Y/N)" questions!

This file contains only the Post Road Mailer components which have changed
since the 1.99a beta version.  You must unzip this file into a directory into
which you have already unzipped post199a.zip and its included postbeta.zip
file.  It doesn't matter whether that's a copy of 1.99a that's never been
executed, or whether it's one you've been using for three weeks; this
post199e.zip file contains nothing that will overwrite any of your configuration
or mail files.

If you've used another version of Post Road Mailer on your system since the last
time you installed OS/2 or used MAKEINI, then you must run the program from its
own directory.  This means that if, for example, you've installed it into a
C:\POSTR199 directory, you must be at a C:\POSTR199 prompt if you run
POSTROAD.EXE from the command line; or if you run it from an OS/2 desktop
object, that object must have C:\POSTR199 in the Working Directory line of the
Program page of the desktop object's settings notebook.

And you MUST NOT run any 1.99 version while a 1.03 or 1.05 version is also
running.  You may switch back and forth between the old one and the new one,
as long as you never try to run them both at the same time on the same machine.
Doing so is quite likely to lead to a complete system lockup, necessitating a
reboot.

If you've installed this beta into any drive or directory other than
C:\POSTR199, then you must do one tiny thing:  When you first start the program,
it will come up with an empty inbasket until you simply select "1 WELCOME" (the
pre-installed inbasket's name) from the File menu.  (Ignore this paragraph if
you're upgrading from an earlier 1.99 release.)

Then read the two letters in the WELCOME inbasket for important information
about the product and the beta cycle, if you're upgrading from 1.99a. Those
letters changed between 1.99a and 1.99b, but between 1.99b and 1.99e they have
changed in only the most trivial ways.

Also read whatsnew.txt!

If you want to "migrate" an existing inbasket's contents from a 1.03a or 1.05
version of PRM into your beta installation, select Migrate from the File menu.
Just don't try to migrate the same inbasket twice; or beware the error messages
about files which already exist, if you do.

And if you're going to create a new inbasket for yourself and use it rather than
the existing WELCOME inbasket, be sure to move the WELCOME\QUICK\PRMBETA.RPT
file to a QUICK subdirectory under your own inbasket before you delete WELCOME.
That file is the template you're supposed to use for reporting problems and bugs
and wishes to prmbeta@ibm.net.  Write to us at that address if you have any
questions, problems, concerns, etc.

The documentation still has not been updated since 1.03a, but will be done
shortly. I expect that it will be in the 1.99f version.

Please, please save us all a lot of time, and don't spend hours tracking down a
bug that was reported four weeks ago and fixed four days ago already.  You're
wasting so much time on that, and it's wonderful of you, but you wouldn't have
to do it (and I wouldn't have to wade through it in my inbasket) if you'd read
(or used your favorite text tool to search for pertinent words) the APAR list
and knew that the problem had already been solved.

To get the APAR list, just log onto your internet provider, and select Release
Information from the bottom of PRM's Help menu.  I probably won't have this
updated until the middle of the evening of July 12.

Thank you!

The Post Road Mailer was packaged using Info-ZIP's compression utility.
Info-ZIP's software (Zip, UnZip and related utilities) is free and can be
obtained as source code or executables from various bulletin board services and
anonymous-ftp sites, including CompuServe's IBMPRO forum and
ftp.uu.net/pub/archiving/zip/*.
                                                                            
IBM and OS/2 are registered trademarks of the IBM Corporation.  Post Road Mailer
is a trademark of InnoVal Systems Solutions, Inc.  All other brands, both cited
and not cited, are trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of their
respective companies.  The Post Road Mailer is licensed software and is
copyrighted.
                                                                            
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