Offline Read Me

Offline ReadMe Page 1 of 3 Saved: Monday, October 27, 1997 12:57:10 PM To: You, the User From: Michael Odawa <odawa@kagi.com> Subject: The Offline Reader Date: October 26, 1997 The Offline Reader Purpose ------- Offline is a reading program for downloaded Usenet news, email and other text. Internet subscribers who connect over dial-up lines (particularly with ISPs who charge by connect time) often find it more useful to download news with a program such as Newswatcher, and then read it offline after they have completed their connection session. This small-footprint program provides a comfortable interface for indexing and browsing through these downloaded files. Offline is called a smart reader because it understands a lot about text, and it adjusts its own appearance and presentation based upon what you are reading. If the file you have opened is Usenet news or email, Offline will read through the file and construct an index of articles, authors, subjects, dates, etc., through which you can page to find the information you want. If the file is just plain text, Offline formats it for display as plain text. Offline is also called a smart reader because it remembers a lot of information about your viewing habits. It knows about your favorite font, and other attributes you like to set for your reading. And it remembers where you were in any file, and scrolls to that point when you open it. If you open Offline without any documents (that is, if you double-click on the application from the finder), if will find all the documents you were reading when you last used the program, open them all, and scroll them to the last place you were reading. This latter feature is useful, because it means you can quit the program quickly (for instance, when you need to recall memory to run Microsoft programs), then resume right where you left off at your leisure and convenience. Shareware --------- Offline is shareware. That means if you use it regularly, you must register the program and pay for it. Paying for Offline is fairly simple. Open the Register program that accompanies Offline. Enter your name, your email address, and the number of single user licenses you desire for each program you wish to purchase (or Site or Word-Wide licenses). Save or Copy or Print the data from the Register program and send the data and payment to Kagi. Kagi handles my payment processing. If paying with Credit Card or First Virtual, you can email or fax the data to Kagi. Their email address is sales@kagi.com and their fax number is +1 (510) 652-6589. You can either Copy the data from Register and paste into the body of an email message or you can Save the data to a file and you can attach that file to an email message. There is no need to compress the data file, it's already pretty small. If you have a fax modem, just Print the data to the Kagi fax number. Payments sent via email…