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The Blue Wave Offline Mail Door, Version 3.20
for Maximus-DOS and Maximus-OS/2 v3.0x
Copyright (C) 1992-1996 by Cutting Edge Computing
All Rights Reserved
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Table of Contents
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Section I Important Information
Section II New Contact and Registration Information
Section III Installation/Upgrade Instructions
Section IV Mail Door Features and Limitations
Section V Reporting Problems
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Section I: Important Information
=================================
This version of The Blue Wave Offline Mail Door will work with Maximus
v3.0 or later only. Maximus v2.x and earlier versions are not supported.
Both DOS and OS/2 executables are included.
If you are running Maximus v2.x, and would like to install The Blue Wave
Offline Mail Door, please see Section II for contact information.
BW311MAX.ZIP (DOS) and BW311MX2.ZIP (OS/2) are both still available for
Maximus v2.x systems.
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Section II: New Contact and Registration Information
=====================================================
At the time of this writing, all Blue Wave Mail System files and contact
information were available on the internet through our World Wide Web site.
Simply point your web browser at http://www.concentric.net/~bluewave to
keep up to date on the latest available versions of the mail system.
In addition to Cutting Edge Computing and our long-time registration agent
in Australia, we are pleased to be able to offer new registration agents
in Europe and South Africa. Please consult the following files for
registration details:
REGISTER.AUS Australia, New Zealand, and nearby countries
REGISTER.EUR Europe
REGISTER.RSA Republic of South Africa and nearby countries
REGISTER.BW United States, Canada, Mexico, South America, Asia, and
anywhere else in the world
As always, our BBS is available 24 hours per day at +1-810-743-8464. All
Blue Wave files are available for download on your first call. If you are
a FidoNet SysOp, you may request a list of all files available by File
Request to 1:2240/176 (request FILES).
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Section III: Installation/Upgrade Instructions
===============================================
*> If you have never installed The Blue Wave Offline Mail Door for Maximus,
you will need to follow the installation instructions included in the
main mail door documentation (Chapter 5 in BWMAIL.DOC).
*> If you currently have The Blue Wave Offline Mail Door v3.19 (Public Beta)
installed on your system, no conversion process is necessary. If you are
running Maximus-DOS, unpack the entire contents BWMAIL.ZIP over your
current program files. If you are running Maximus-OS/2, unpack the
entire contents of BWMAIL2.ZIP over your current program files. Both
BWMAIL.ZIP and BWMAIL2.ZIP are enclosed in the main distribution archive
(BW320MAX.ZIP).
*> An upgrade installation is not possible if you are using version 3.01 or
earlier. Please note the version of the mail door you are using BEFORE
attempting an upgrade! If you are using v3.01 or earlier, you must either
perform a new installation, or download BW311MAX.ZIP (DOS) or BW311MX2.ZIP
(OS/2) from our BBS (+1-810-743-8464) and perform that upgrade first.
1) If you are currently running v3.1x of the mail door *and* Maximus 3.0x
you may proceed with these upgrade instructions.
2) Make a backup of your current Blue Wave Mail Door directory.
3) You should find a file called 310TO320.EXE enclosed in this archive.
This program will work under DOS only (OS/2 SysOps, please be sure
to run this program from an OS/2 DOS session). Copy this file to
your current mail door directory.
4) Change to your current mail door directory and get a listing of all
.PRM files (dir *.prm). If you have more than one configuration file
(BWMAIL.PRM), you need to run the conversion program once for each
configuration file present. Otherwise, simply run 310TO320.EXE to
convert your current mail door configuration. (The conversion program
will attempt to convert all Max 2.x priv levels into ACS strings.)
5) After the conversion program successfully converts your configuration
file(s), you will need to unpack the new mail door support files. If
you are running the DOS mail door, unpack the entire contents of
BWMAIL.ZIP into your mail door directory, overwriting all existing
files (you have a backup, remember?). If you are running the OS/2
mail door, use the contents of BWMAIL2.ZIP.
6) At this point the mail door upgrade is complete. You may delete the
file 310TO320.EXE, as it is no longer needed.
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Section IV: Mail Door Features and Limitations
===============================================
*> The mail door fully supports all ACS (Access Control System) features
described in the Maximus documentation when determining access to message
and file areas.
*> The mail door fully supports the following MailFlags, defined in the
Maximus ACCESS.CTL file: ShowPvt, NetFree, MsgAttrAny, and WriteRdOnly.
*> The mail door 'understands' the hierarchal message/file area system that
Maximus 3.0x uses. However, the mail door does not yet present message
areas for tagging in the manner which Maximus does while a user is online.
This feature is intended to be implemented in a future release.
*> If any one message area has an 'area number' with more than 9 characters
(such as comp.os2.advocacy), the mail door will use dynamic area numbering
(1 through n). This is due to the way in which the message areas are
displayed during a message scan, and the way bundling commands need to
be used. You simply cannot fit much information on an 80-column display.
*> When scanning for new files since a user's last mail download, the mail door
skips all areas flagged as "NoNew" in the Maximus file area configuration.
This results in much faster new files scans when CD-ROMs are present on
the system.
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Section V: Reporting Problems
==============================
Please send problem reports, with as much information about the problem
as possible, to the following addresses:
Internet E-Mail: bluewave@concentric.net
Fido Netmail : 1:2240/176, addressed to George Hatchew
Fido Echomail : BLUEWAVE message echo, addressed to George Hatchew
SnailMail : George Hatchew
c/o Cutting Edge Computing
PO Box 90476
Burton, MI 48509-0476