Orator Off Line Reader for Windows 3.x version 1.12

INSTALLATION
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EXISTING USERS SHOULD NOT 
MERELY COPY THE ARCHIVES FILES 
INTO THEIR ORATOR PROGRAM 
DIRECTORY. READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS
CAREFULLY.
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1)      Orator no longer requires NDX files, these will be created.

2)      Orator has difficulty in working together with Windows systems
	who also use EMM386 in there Config.SYS. Microsoft themselves 
	advise that one doesn't use EMM386 together with Windows.

3)      Ensure that you have ANSI.SYS configured in your Config.SYS. At 
	the moment the ANSIVIEWER does not have an internal ANSI 
	interpreter.

4)      Copy all the files in this archive into a temporary install directory.

5)      Start Windows and from the Program Manager (or File Manager) choose 
	Run from the File menu. Type a:Setup (Or drive and path to temporary
	installation directory). Setup will then proceed to install Orator
	for you. This procedure is the same for existing users merely
	upgrading.

6)      On the first time you start Orator it will run the Configuration
	routine and then return you to the Program Manager. Subsequent starts
	of Orator will actually run the Reader it is only the first time that
	runs the configuration routine.

WHATS FIXED AND NEW
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1)      Orator detects Reply-To: fields when replying to private EMAIL 
	received over Sparkwares UseNet Gateway.

2)	NDX files are no longer needed so reconfigure you mail door settings
	if it currently includes NDX files.

3)	Private Mail is detected and replied to with the Reply 
	Private/Public option automatically set to Private. Previous
  	versions used to corrupt the private/public setting of the 
	message when it was read.

4)	Personal Mail is now shown first and then other conferences
	afterwards.

5)	Letters could sometimes be missing in messages. This is now
    	fixed.

6)	New function to show Replies. Uses Windows Notepad

7)	Largest change of the lot is the introduction of a folders system.
	This allows you to open your own folders with there titles and 
	archive messages to them. You can then:
	
	a)	View them and cut them to the clipboard so that you can
		include them in replies.

	b)	Print them out.

	c)	Move them between folders if you decide to reorganise them.

	d)	and of course delete them.

8)	Conference Selection could crash if one clicked OK
	without first selecting a conference.




Known Bugs
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Not many here to report.

1)      If the user is running certain configurations of EMM386 or other
	expanded memory manager then Orator has difficulty in reading Window 
	states and cannot tell when the archiving command and extract
	commands have completed.

2)      Illegal Function Call errors (mainly when selecting the Conf button when
	reading mail) when running under Win 3.0. This appears to be a bug in 
	Windows and I am rewriting code areas affected by this. 

Work goes on...... :-)

Regards
Nick Dyer
EvaWare UK