Dunce v. 1.3.2 © 1995 Vector Development USERS VERSIONS PRIOR to 1.3 PLEASE DELETE YOUR DUNCE.INI FILE!!! ABOUT Dunce (Dial-Up Networking Connection Enhancement) v. 1.3.2 allows you to connect to a Dial-Up Network with much greater ease. It will automatically press connect for you on the Connect To dialog box a very annoying feature the Microsoft Dunce's left in. It will also make the redial actually work, unfortunatly Dial-Up Networking will only redial 100 times if you start it manually and it won't redial at all if you start it from inside a program. Dunce also supports an auto-reconnect feature so if you get booted you'll get right back on. Another oversight of DUN was the lack of a run command in the scripting language, Dunce allows you to run a program on the display of the Connecting to... dialog. Furthermore Dunce will minimize the Connection Dialog. VECTOR DEVELOPMENT Vector Development is committed to creating shareware sollutions for you! We create our products on both the Macintosh and Windows/DOS Platforms. Please, send any comments to the above addresses. ICON CONTEST Thanx to David A. Karp of Creative Elements for the icon. I love it. Check out his Windows Annoyances Page it's great. Tells you how to get rid of lots of those things you just wish would go away in Windows 95. http://www.creativelement.com/win95ann/ SETUP First make a shortcut by right clicking on Dunce and selecting Make Shortcut. Then add Dunce to your Startup group (folder) by right clicking on the Start folder and selecting explore. Then go to /windows/start/programs/startup and put the shortcut of DUNCE in the folder. OPTIONS: To get to the options Dialog just click on the Start Menu. Go to Programs select Startup and then select Dunce. A Dialog will now come up that has options to turn on and off the continuous redial and auto-reconnect. It also has a text box to enter the delay after the Connect To Dialog is displayed, this must be between 1 and 60. RUN: To use the run feature make sure that the Run check box is checked and you have a valid path to a program entered. Note: After you have selected a file with the Select File Dialog Box or have typed in a path you may type in command line parrameters as well. The default path is setup for Scott Craig's Connect Time Monitor. The 1 following the path is a command line instructing the Monitor to open and start timing for connection 1. Scott Craig and his Connect Time Monitor are not related to Vector Development. The latest version of Connect Time Monitor is avaiable at: http://www.tucows.com/time95.html LICENSE You may use Dunce freely on your computer system. You may distribute Dunce freely on Online Services. You may NOT sell copies of Dunce (i.e. disk vendors) without express permission from Vector Development (terms normally include a copy of the distribution disk/cd). You may NOT decompile, reverse engineer, or modify Dunce or its resources. You may NOT modify the dunce1.32.zip (sometimes dunce1_32.zip) file or its contents. DISTRIBUTION dunce1.31.zip contains the following files, if your copy does not have ALL of these files please send me an email as to where you got it and download a complete copy from Vector's Web Site (see below for address info.) dunce.exe 80.3K dunce.txt 5.99K file_id.diz 774 bytes WARRANTY USE OF THIS PROGRAM IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. YOU AGREE BY USING THIS PROGRAM TO HOLD HARMLESS VECTOR DEVELOPMENT AGAINST DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THIS PROGRAM. EVEN IF VECTOR DEVELOPMENT WAS NOTIFIED IN ADVANCE THAT SUCH DAMAGES MIGHT OCCUR. POSTCARD OFFER Vector Development is offerent a PostCard Offer, send a PostCard to us and we will notify you of updates and new products. Include a mailing address and an email address. This service is absolutly free and does not constitute registration since there is none. We will except letters as well especially if they include comments!! Please send to: Vector Development C/O Dunce Postcard 3735 SW Sena Dr. Topeka, KS 66604-1754 TO CONTACT THE AUTHOR SEND: Internet email to: vecdev@cjnetworks.com AOL email to: ResDev OneNet Multihop: BenReser,Dave's World U.S. Mail: 3735 SW Sena Dr. Topeka, KS 66604-1754 IRC: ResDev on #winsock Fax: (913) 271-2175 Voice: (913) 271-2175 (the system will distinguish) WWW: http://www.cjnetworks.com/~vecdev/vector/vector.html Look for updates on my WWW site periodically. BUG REPORTS: When reporting a bug always include the following: 1) A copy of your DUNCE.INI 2) What version your running. 3) What other applications or items in the startup folder were running when the error occured. Doing these three things will speed up my bug fixes. DUNCE-L This is something new, Subscribing to this lists means that I will send you notification of updates and bugs as I know of them. To subscirbe send me an email at vecdev@cjnetworks.com which in the contents of it says: SUBSCRIBE DUNCE and no subject. KNOWN BUGS With this version I have cleared up all reproducable bugs. There have been some reports of Dunce not working with the Disconnect if Idle feature of DUN, I can not reproduce this bug... FUTURE PLANS 1) A more convient Control Panel interface. 2) Perhaps a smart cancel system in which if you click cancel on the Connecting to... Dialog it won't by pass the Connect To box. 4) Multiple item runs. 5) Script editing. 6) Make timing more accurate, currently 0 seconds isn't really 0 seconds. 7) Time to start and close connections. HISTORY 1.0 Dunce v. 1.0 Initial Release! 1.1 Became Freeware, added postcard offer, repaired Grayed Dialog Box Problem. Splash Screen is a one time deal now. 1.2 Added timeout adjustments for all of the features (run excluded for obvious reasons). Added the run on connect feature. Finally fixed the obnoxious bring to front bug (well sorta). 1.3 Added the minimize feature. Fixed some very stupid typos and actually fixed the bring to the front (z-order) bug. Multiple copies of the options dialog will no longer come up. 1.3.1 Fixes the GPF and adds the Quit button. 1.3.2 Repairs another GPF only one report of this. Special Thanx Thanx to mook, Nominal, Hunter, berky, mx-3, and all the others who reviewed 1.0 and made suggestions to me!!! Sorry if I left someone out I'm sure I did.