LiveWire/WPS 3.0
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September 18, 1995

Contents
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0 How to install
1 Product Announcement
3 Using the TAP Image Viewer (PMView)
2 Ordering LiveWire
4 Known Bugs
5 How To Submit a Bug
6 DISCLAIMER

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How To Install

Unzip the contents of disks 1 and 2 to your
hard drive, then run INSTALL.EXE from that directory.

If you are installing from disks, simply insert disk 1,
open the Drives folder, then open Disk A:, then double 
click on INSTALL.EXE.

LiveWire also includes a deinstall program (DEINST.EXE)
that will remove LiveWire completely from your system.

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Product Announcement

DataMirage Software is announcing the release version of
LiveWire 3.0 for the WorkPlace Shell.

LiveWire 3.0 for the WorkPlace Shell is an object-
oriented 32-bit multi-threaded professional communications
program for OS/2 Warp 3.0.

LiveWire 3.0 retains the great features of the text
mode version of LiveWire (version 2.2) along with
a set of new features and an excellent new interface.

Truly object-oriented, LiveWire is a collection of
familiar WorkPlace objects (Terminal, Phone Book, 
and Log) that interact loosely. More than one terminal,
phone book, and log object with its own settings can be
created and in use on your desktop!

LiveWire's intuitive and elegant interface allows you 
to get online right away. Advanced users will find
extremely pleasing the fully multi-threaded GUI.

LiveWire's feature list includes:
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- NEW! : Support for TELNET
- NEW! : Exception management avoids desktop crashes

- Object-Oriented WorkPlace Shell Interface
- Efficient and elegant multi-threaded UI
- Easy Install and DeInstall GUI programs
- Mutiple online sessions at the same time
- FAST text output, windowed or full screen
- SEAMLESS switch between full screen text and graphics modes
- Screens up to 132 characters wide and 75 deep
- Full macro facility and character translation
- Unlimited scroll-back viewer
- Configurations for 70 popular modems
- Internal protocols
	- Zmodem-32 Batch
	- Ymodem Batch
	- Xmodem
	- Xmodem CRC
	- Xmodem 1K
	- ASCII (Message transfer)
- Automatically supports many OS/2 external protocols
	- Kermit
	- P
	- M2Zmodem
	- and more...
- REXX script language support
	- Script record capability
	- REXX script control panel
- Multi-threaded phone book object
- Phone book imports many other formats, including ZOC
- Speed support up to 230,400 bps (w/ SIO)
- Named pipe support
- The following emulations:
	- TTY
	- ANSI
	- VT-102 (132 column support w/ underline & bold)
	- OS2You
	- AVATAR 0+
	- RIPterm 1.54
- Includes a handy unzip utility
- New TAP format allows the popular PMView image viewer 
  to view GIFs, JPGs, and many other formats during
  file transfers.

LiveWire 3.0 can be retrieved from one of the following
places, filename LW30.ZIP :

- ftp site hobbes.nmsu.edu
- CompUServe (GO OS2SHARE)
- DataMirage Software BBS at 1-714-856-2071

Thanks for your using this product,
Les Novell
DataMirage Software

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To order a copy, call...

 Registration information (How to purchase)
 
   You can purchase LiveWire 3.0 now by calling:
 
   Office Solutions 
   404 Termino Avenue 
   Long Beach, CA 90814 
 
   Orders: 310-439-5567
           800-897-APPS
   Fax:    310-438-7888
 
 
  There are two types of registration:
  1. Basic registration is  $43.00
      Basic registration includes: 
       - Your registration number 
       - Support through the DataMirage BBS 
 
  2. Complete registration is $73.00
      Complete registration is a shrink-wrapped package containing:
       - The latest version of LiveWire on 3.5" diskettes 
       - Information on how to obtain support through DataMirage BBS 
       - Complete printed user and script manuals 
 
  (+ Shipping costs)
 
  One registration per individual using the program, please.
  As with all other software, you must purchase one copy per person.
 
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Using the TAP Image Viewer (PMView)

PMView is a popular shareware image viewing and 
manipulation program written by Peter Nielsen. 

When installed on your system, this version of
PMView will allow you to view images while 
transferring them over the modem.

NOTE: PMView is NOT a part of LiveWire, it is a 
separate shareware product.

Peter asked me to include the following note in my
documentation. Since docs aren't complete yet, I will 
include it here:

PCX and TIFF: Formats unsuitable for serial transmission
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  Some image formats are not suitable for progressive
display, this goes especially for TIFF and 256 color PCX.
The 256 color PCX format store its color map LAST in the
file. If you're familiar with image processing you know
that the color table information is absolutely required
in order to be able to display the image. Thus, when
PMView recieves a PCX file, it will start by reading its
file header and then seek to the end of the file and
retrieve the color map. This means that the image cannot be
displayed at all until the last bytes of the file, i.e.
the complete file, has been recieved! (PMView will sit and
wait until it can read the color map, since this information
is required). Note that it is only the 256-color variant
of PCX that stores the color map last, but OTOH this is the
most common type of PCX files.
  The TIFF format is very flexible and allowes the creator
of a TIFF file to place data practicly *anywhere* in the
file. Therefore it's impossible to say whether a specific
TIFF variant will be displayed progressively or not; some may
some may not. In any case: if it only is possible to display
a file progressively, PMView will!

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