
Thank you for downloading EZDialup.  An complete user's manual is
contained in the files EZDIALUP.WRI and EZDIALUP.HLP, but this README
file has been included to help you quickly determine if you'll be able
to use this software.

Installation of EZDialup is geared toward the PC-savvy (someone who can
install a modem or modems and set up communications parameters), but
day-to-day use of EZDialup is geared toward anyone who can start a Windows
program.  Developers/consultants:  keep in mind that this developer's
edition contains a DLL that lets you integrate the client-mode operation
of EZDialup into your apps invisibly.  We do not charge royalties.

Here's the idea: you dedicate a Windows-running PC to handle dialup
requests for information.  One PC can handle up to four modems,
each controlled by an instance of EZDialup (running in server mode).
On a two-line installation, for example, you'd see two EZDialup icons
running on the server PC. Other tasks should be able to run on this PC,
but your results, of course, may vary.

Remote PC's use client-mode EZDialup to call in and request that a
script file be executed, providing a password as it does so.  If
the specified script file (which contains commands to zip, unzip,
upload, download, etc.) can be located, and the password checks out,
the script file is executed.  When all the commands in the script have been
executed, the connection is broken, the client side shuts down, and the
server side resets for the next call.

Ad-hoc download requests and file directory requests are intentionally not
supported by either mode of EZDialup, so security is automatically tight.
Only the file-transfer scripts found on the server side can take place.
If a remote user loses security rights (leaves company, etc.) you just
wipe their password file or the scripts or even the user's network directory,
making their remote EZDialup software useless.

The remote user just launches (double-clicks) an icon (in Program Manager,
or one of the several ways Windows 95 can start a program) to call in,
and therefore the program absolutely could not be easier to use.  A Cancel
button lets the user interrupt the session and hangup.

The only piece of information that changes with any frequency for a roaming
(laptop-toting?) remote user is the complete phone number dialing sequence,
which might, for example, need a prefix of "8," when dialing from a
hotel, or "9," when dialing from an office with a typical PBX, or "*70,"
when calling from a call-waiting-equipped phone at home, etc.  For
the convenience of the user a "Change Phone Number" button lets the user
take a short cut to changing the dialing sequence.

EZDialup is not freeware.  This shareware version can do everything the
registered version can, but a registration reminder pops up each time the
program ends, on both client and server modes - most importantly, this means
the server side can not reset for the next call without someone around to
deal with the reminder dialog box.  Registration is $100, which covers
all the server and client nodes you need to set up.

Compuserve can bill your account and notify us immediately that you are
registered, at which point we can immediately e-mail to you the registration
codes.  To do this, GO SWREG and search for software title #7676.

A Visual Basic interface example is now included.  The files are found in
the included file EZ4VB.ZIP.

Again, we appreciate your interest and hope you find EZDialup useful.

We hope to hear from those would decide _not_ to use EZDialup; experience
has shown that this kind of data can force the evolution of _very_ flexible
software and also create many happy users.

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