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READ ME FILE 
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Product Name.......: Message Parse
Version............: 1.86
Date...............: 06/28/99

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 2000. 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 1.86  Release Notes
*) We have fixed several minor bugs with the new Eudora and Netscape
capabilities. 

Version 1.82  Release Notes
*) We have added the ability to define local files at the message source. 
Specific additions are the Netscape and Eudora mailbox files. To set the 
mail source to a local file, you must edit the system options for mail 
source. 

*) We have added the ability to delete messages once they have been 
parsed. The delete functionality is a global flag and should be used with 
extreme caution. The available switches need to set in the system options 
if you want messages deleted. 

A WARNING ABOUT USING THE DELETE AFTER PARSING. 
Extreme caution should be used when using this functionality. This process 
is automatic in nature and once the messages have been deleted there is 
no way to retrieve the message or contents of the message. Caution should 
be used when parsing on one template. The delete functionality is tied to the current running process of the MpEngine. 
Be sure you intend the messages to be removed and not used by other templates 
you have created. 


Version 1.76  Release Notes
*) Fix a problem in the parsing routine that would not capture information correctly if the information is one one character long.


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. 


