WinYarn

                    Copyright (c) 1994 by Stanley Wong


                           Version 0.71 Beta

WinYarn is a Microsoft Windows front-end for the Yarn program by
Chin Huang.  Yarn can be found in the SimTel collection on various
mirrors, such as oak.oakland.edu.

The WinYarn distribution is a ZIP file containing the following files:

   README.TXT          this file
   WINYARN.EXE         the WinYarn executable
   WINYARN.WRI         the WinYarn documentation
   MAKEINI.EXE         create the WinYarn.Ini file
   CHANGES.TXT         revision history
   TODO.TXT            wish list and known bugs
   TESTERS.TXT         notes to WinYarn testers
   PACKING.LST         list of files in WinYarn distribution
   FPTAB10.VBX         system file
   FPIMPRNT.VBX        system file

Complete installation instructions are in the documentation but the
first eight files should be placed in a WinYarn directory that you
create.  The last two files should be copied to your WINDOWS\SYSTEM
directory.  You also need to create a winyarn.ini file in your Yarn
directory (pointed to by the YARN environment variable), or use the
MakeIni program to assist you.  The program also requires VBRUN300.DLL
which most people usually have already (usually located in your
WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory).  If you don't have it, it can be located
on CICA and its mirrors, or services such as CompuServe.  You can
also try ftp.microsoft.com.  Before you replace any existing file,
such as the *.vbx files, make sure that the replacements have a newer
time/date stamp.

This program requires a complete and working installation of the DOS
program Yarn before you attempt to install WinYarn.  Yarn is a USENET
news and email reader written by Chin Huang.  As of this writing
WinYarn has been tested with version 0.71 through 0.75.  As of this
writing there are features in Yarn 0.78 that will be accomodated in
a future revision of WinYarn.

WinYarn is freeware.  It is not public-domain software as I retain
the copyright to the program.  WinYarn is freely distributable on a
not-for-profit basis as long as the files mentioned above remain
together and unmodified (see the program documentation for complete
details.  Offer void where prohibited).  An exception to this is if
the program is distributed as part of a large collection.  For
example, a CD-ROM of the CICA collection would qualify.

This file applies to version 0.71 of the WinYarn distribution.
I will not support earlier versions (heck, I might not even support
this version! ;-)


Stanley Wong
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s.wong@ieee.org
2/1/95