========================================================================== About wsOMR °°°°°°°°°°° wsOMR is a small, fast, INTERNET/USENET/FIDONET Offline mail reader. It supports four major e-mail formats namely, Internet(RFC), SOUP, Bluewave, QWK. With wsOMR you can read and reply to your favorite BBS/Internet/USENET mail at your own leisure and manage larger volumes of mail with relative ease, send/receive files over Internet. It saves you from the pressures of online-time charge, long distance calls, etc. wsOMR is the only OMR that supports Fido and Internet at the same time. Hardware requirements for wsOMR: An IBM PC, AT, 80386, 80486, or fully compatible personal computer. A minimum of 384K of free memory. ========================================================================== REGISTRATION °°°°°°°°°°°° wsOMR is distributed as shareware. This means that you are granted a limited license to use it for a period of 30 days. If you find it useful and decide to continue using it after the trial period, registration is required. To register, just fill up the registration form in REGFORM.TXT and send to the address indicated in the file. A registration number will be sent to you by either e-mail or ordinary mail afterwards. I will greatly appreciate your registration. It is your way of encouraging me to continue developing the program. ========================================================================== Files List °°°°°°°°° READ.ME Additional info regarding current version MANUAL.TXT Manual for wsOMR HELP.ME Commonly asked questions WSOMR.EXE wsOMR executable file WSOMR.INI wsOMR configuration file WSOMR.TAG External tagline file, optional WSOMR.ADR Address book WSOMR.NEW What's new with wsOMR WSOMR.HLP help file CONFIG.EXE Installation/configuration program CONFIG.TXT Keyword documentation for WSOMR.INI INTERNET.TXT Info specific to Internet MACRO.TXT Info regarding macros used in reply and tagline WSMAIL.C The mail posting/retrieving source code for Internet WPOST Unix script file for sending/receiving mails MUNPACK.EXE MIME/UU decoding program( see mime.dos for more details ) MIME.DOS Manual & Copyright notice for Mpack/Munpack.exe ========================================================================== INSTALLATION: °°°°°°°°°°°°° copy ff. files into a directory specified in the DOS PATH. wsOMR.EXE wsOMR.INI wsOMR.HLP wsOMR.TAG (optional) wsOMR.ADR (optional) For Internet, please check internet.txt file for additional information ========================================================================== CONFIGURATION: °°°°°°°°°°°°°° run config to run the program with default .INI and Bluewave mail packet wsOMR Command line options: wsOMR [/q][/b][/s] [/iINI] [/?] /b Read Bluewave packets(default) /q Read QWK packets /i Read RFC compliant Internet mail /s Read SOUP packets( for Internet ) /f Use alternate ini file /? Display help screen ========================================================================== MAJOR FEATURES: °°°°°°°°°°°°°°° Features unique to FIDO/BBS + Easy file request, can use editor or cut & paste from new files list. - Simple offline area configuration. - Fully compatible with Bwave.exe. + Martin Pollard's Offline Mail Executive aware. - Superior Internet/Netmail support in FIDO mode no more UUCP and "To:" line required. + Bluewave style netmailing for QWK-based packet. + Retrieve fido address from origin line in netmail resulting in no more mistakes in making netmail-reply to echomail/netmail messages which is a solution to Bluewave's problem in replying to point-netmail. Features unique to Internet + Undigest listserv's digested message and monthly log files. + Sending/receiving of files over internet(MIME encoding/decoding ) Features general to Internet/FIDO - Reads Internet(RFC822)/SOUP/Bluewave/QWK mails. - Handles unlimited number of BBSes. + Replies for multiple packets can be entered at one time. + Point & shoot Address book with Fido & Internet addresses. + Point & shoot capturing of Fido/Internet address from message. + Fido to Internet address format conversion. + Databased reply folder for Internet/Fido. - UUDECODE/MIME DECODE messages. + Multiple mail packets can be opened at the same time. - On line smile symbols & acronyms. - On line context sensitive help. - Commands which work together with several popular spell checkers. + Easy configuration within a Windows style INI file. - Tagline stealing. - Well planned user interface which reduces your keystroke to a minimum. - Small & fast. - Runs well under Windows, OS/2. + PGP shell ( under development ) - FAX support ( under development ) + Japanese DOS/V ( under development ) - others to be listed later + Indicates features not found in other readers. ============================================================================= COMMENTS, SUGGESTIONS & CONTACTING AUTHOR °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°° All your comments and suggestions are welcome. Enhancements to wsOMR are the result of suggestions and comments made by users. It is surely going to grow according to YOUR wishes and requests. (Your wish is my command). You can reach me by: E-mail : wang@durian.usc.edu.ph USENET : comp.misc.bbs alt.usenet.offline-reader FIDONET: OFFLINE BLUEWAVE CB-WSOMR( Phil. ) RP-COMM ( Phil. ) All your mails are guaranteed to be read, 99% to be answered. :-) ========================================================================== DISTRIBUTION °°°°°°°°°°°° Please feel free to distribute wsOMR to your friends or clients. Redistribution of wsOMR must include the software, its documentation file, order form and all supplemental files (see Files List) as a single unit without any modification. Distribution sites -- Internet FTP sites: oak.oakland.edu pub/msdos/offline ftp.dlsu.edu.ph pub/wsomr Fidonet(BBS): U.S.A. The Lunatic Fringe BBS Dane Beko - Cosysop 1-214-235-5288 HST 16.8 v32bis Dual/Standard Richardson, Texas Fido:1:124/2113 first time callers can DL after filling out a short questionnaire CANADA The Edge Craig Hackl - Sysop 1-306-382-7049 (Supra 14.4) 1-306-382-7039 (USR Sportster 14.4) 1-306-382-7038 (PCLogic 14.4) Saskatoon,Saskatchewan Fido 1:140/122 (Usr line) Ld callers can login as Dist Site there is immediate access to the program Philippines - Cebu City C.E.B.U. 24Hrs 63-32-313-797 63-32-312-259 Jojo Wan - Sysop Cebu, Philippines Fido:6:754/1 Philippines - Manila TWiLiGHT ZoNe ! 24Hrs Carlos Legaspi - Sysop 63-2-712-0329 Manila, Philippines Fido: 6:750/2 Note: there are some other ftp sites and BBSes carrying this program too, a more updated list will be provided in the future version. To SysOps: please e-mail wang@durian.usc.edu or 6:754/1.20 your BBS info if you are carrying this program, it will be included in the upcoming version. ========================================================================== DISCLAIMER °°°°°°°°°° This program is provided as is. You may use it at your own risk. There is no warranty of any kind or form, explicit or implied, covering this program. The author should in no way be held liable for any damage of any form in connection with the use or the quality of this program and any of its associated files. ========================================================================== COPYRIGHT & TRADEMARKS °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°° Simple Offline USENET Packet Format (SOUP) Version 1.2 Copyright (c) 1992-1993 Rhys Weatherley rhys@cs.uq.oz.au Last Update: 14 August 1993 wsOMR is copyrighted by Frank Wang. The Blue Wave Packet Structures is copyrighted by George Hatchew and Cutting Edge Computing. mpack/munpack version 1.5 for dos (C) Copyright 1993,1994 by Carnegie Mellon University All Rights Reserved.( please refer to mime.dos for more details ) OMX is copyrighted by SysTech & Martin Pollard. The QWK-format is copyrighted by Sparkware. PKZIP - PKWARE Inc. ARC - System Enhancement Associates LHA - Haruyasu Yoshizaki PAK - NoGate Consulting ARJ - Robert K Jung UC2 - AIP-NL. RAR - Eugene Roshal All program names mentioned in this package are either copyright or trademark of respective owners. wsOMR uses Thomas Wagner's public domain software EXEC library. ========================================================================== Thanks!!! °°°°°°°°° This program would never be there in Cyberspace without the following persons, Thanks to: Rhys Weatherley, whose SOUP specification made offline reading of USENET possible, and for his advice which was a tremendous help to the writing of this program. Steve Belczyk, author of the famous UQWK, always around in the net whenever I need his help. Kelsey Hartigan Go, whose support made USENET support in wsOMR a reality. Dane Beko, for his ideas... Roman Roger Kintanar, for his help... Jim Ayson, for his encouragement... Tiago Umm Pascoal, 'The Unstoppable Mail Machine'. Mike Schmeisser, a PITA;-) Rey Estrada, rings me up in the morning, surfing the net for information... Jojo Sybico, who brought BBSing to Cebu, an island in the Pacific Ocean, Do I miss somebody? there are too many people involved in this small undertaking, can't list them all here:(. ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ I would like to extend my deepest gratitude to the members of the wsOMR beta testing team for their tireless efforts in the develop- ment and support of wsOMR. Their superb testing and innovative sugges- tions have helped me make wsOMR what it is today...The Most Compact Off-Line Mail Reader in Cyberspace!! Mike Schmeisser Rey Estrada Lee J. Verallo - Tagline Author Michael James Kaamino Jeffrey Shelton Jude Ambrocio P. Dosado Bernie Pangilinan Mario Briones Ferdinand Yap Buzon Joy Sy Jojo Wan Ryan Chiu Roselito delos Reyes Carlos Antonio C. Alejandro Albert Lee Tiago Pascoal Dong Secuya Benson Jao