			Network Utilities (NETUTILS.ZIP)

Network Utility Suite v3.0 (NETUTILS.EXE)

  Vastly improved since the previous release (v1.1; v2 was never released due to major system compatability problems), this is the main utility program.
  It contains both Chat (allowing you to type messages to other users in real-time) and E-Mail for networks: there are no specific systems (that I know of) which it will not work on, since all it requires is a shared directory in which to store its files.
  New in this version:
- Existing users will be pleased to know that commas now work in both Chat and E-Mail! (A fairly major failing of the first version)
- File Management makes an easy (if rather limited at the moment) way to sort out your network files.
- Selected users can be given special "Management" priviledges, allowing them to alter the names, passwords and priviledges of other NetUtils users, or delete them altogether.

Noticeboard! v1.0 (READER.EXE and WRITER.EXE)

  A fairly simple program for displaying a series of items of text or bitmap pictures which flip past in a 'slideshow'. Designed for use as a reminder service in a school's entrance hall (at least, that's what we use it for), these programs could easily be applied to many different tasks. Messages can be displayed in any font, in any size, style and colour, and the time between changes can be altered. All this can be changed while another computer (elsewhere on the network) is displaying the messages. Give staff full priviledges to the directory, and the reader machine (or general users) read only - this means that staff can add their own messages, while the reader displays them all, but cannot be used by students to alter the messages! Again, all this requires is a shared directory.
  Though this program works under Windows 3.0, it functions better under 3.1 (but only because of truetype fonts).
  If I get sufficient response to this program, more new versions will be appearing fairly soon.

		Regards,
			Ross Collins

	Compuserve: 100101,1662
	Internet: 100101.1662@COMPUSERVE.COM

N.B. All programs included in this ZIP file are beta versions, and as such are not fully tested (though I hope they work well enough!). If you find any problems with any of them, or have any suggestions for improvements or features for future versions, I'd be happy to hear about them - don't worry, I won't be offended if you find a bug (I know there are some), I'd just like to know so I can fix it!
