WSSoup 0.81 (c) Magnus Cameron 1995, All Rights Reserved.

Welcome to WSSoup.

WSSoup gathers Usenet news and mail offline via SLIP/PPP and/or WINSOCK

WSSoup is a WINSOCK compliant program that uses NNTP to retrieve and post
usenet news in the SOUP format. It also uses SMTP and POP3 to send and
retrieve personal mail.

This utility is aimed at those SLIP and PPP users that want to use SOUP but
find it difficult to get their Internet providers to set up UQWK for them.

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FILES IN WSoup081.zip

FileName        Location        Description

READ1ST.TXT     wssoup          This file
WSSOUP.WRI      wssoup          Documentation in "Write" format (double click
                                on the file from file manager to view).
WSSOUP.INI      wssoup          System configuration
GETSOUP.EXE     wssoup          Main program to collect and send news and mail
SUBSOUP.EXE     wssoup          Program to (un)subscribe to groups
COMMANDS        wssoup\outbound Example COMMANDS file
FAQ.TXT         wssoup          Frequently Asked Questions
WSSYARN.BAT     wssoup          Example of how to integrate WSSoup with Yarn.
REGISTER.TXT    wssoup          The registration form for when you have decided
                                you like it enough and it has saved you a
                                fortune.
BC450RTL.DLL    wssoup          Borland C++ RTL DLL
BIDS45.DLL      wssoup          Borland C++ Container Class DLL
OWL250.DLL      wssoup          Borland C++ OWL DLL
CTL3DV2.DLL     windows\system  Microsoft's 3D controls


RELEASE NOTES FOR THIS VERSION

    - Unsubscribing from a single news group will no longer eat all your
      subscribed groups. Sorry about that one folks!

    - There may still be a problem with some news servers. If getsoup.exe
      causes a General Protection Fault shortly after connecting to your
      news server then set the option "GetNewGroups" to "0" (zero).

INSTALLATION

WSSoup.WRI contains information on how to install the software.


NEXT RELEASE

There are currently no plans to release any future versions of this software.
I would like to implement a few nice features such as Kill files and improve
performance of message summaries. However, the small number of people who have
registered the software, the LARGE amount of time it takes to improve and test
the software and answer mail are not worth the effort.

If there are any bugs that need fixing then I will release future versions
and patches.


NOTES FOR THOSE UPGRADING FROM PREVIOUS VERSIONS

Upgrading from 0.8 to 0.81 requires changing the line in wssoup.ini
"[WSSoup 0.8]" to "[WSSoup 0.81]", in addition to installing the distribution
files.

If you are upgading from any previous version then you should either get
hold of version 0.8 first and read its instructions or just start from scratch.


KNOWN PROBLEMS

If you use PreProcess and PostProcess and the program to be executed
could not be executed for some reason (eg, the program could not be
located) no error message will be displayed.

See the section "REPORTING PROBLEMS" in the documentation for more detail.


FEEDBACK

Send any mail to magnus@world.net. Work and family commitments make it
impossible to answer all of the mail I receive but I will attempt to respond
to all mail within a week. I am happy if you just send me a note to say
"its working fine". If you don't get an answer from me don't feel offended,
just send me another message and I will try to answer that.


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