Check vMail! Welcome to Check vMail!. You will no longer need to lift that receiver to determine if you have voice mail. Let Check vMail! do it for you. Check vMail! will notify you by a dialog box with sound!. It can even page your beeper. (Registered version). So check it out! --------------------------------------------------------------------- About Stage Research --------------------------------------------------------------------- Stage Research - A group of programmers dedicated to creating useful programs. - Have fun doing what their doing. - Willing to take suggestions/criticism. - Always looking for good ideas. - Have "real" jobs programming operating systems. - Like programming in 'C' instead of ASM all the time. In general we're just a bunch of programmers who like to throw ideas around, come up with better ways of doing things, and ACTUALLY do them. We are always looking to improve our programs, and gather ideas for great new ones. If you have any questions, ideas, suggestions, etc., please feel free to contact us. Thank you for using Stage Research products. --------------------------------------------------------------------- General Description --------------------------------------------------------------------- After having to pick up my phone every time I came back from lunch, meetings, and bathroom breaks, I started to get annoyed that the voice mail system forced one to waste so much time. Thus this program, Check vMail!, by Stage Research, now does this dirty work for me and can do the same for you. In general, Check vMail! uses a modem to detect if the phone has a STUTTER tone, and then ASSUMES you have voice mail. At this time it will notify you by placing a dialog box on the screen, playing a WAV file, and/or even paging you. Check vMail! will keep looking at your phone line to determine if you have voice mail waiting. If you did have voice mail and retrieved it from a remote site, Check vMail! will reset itself and start looking for voice mail again. After you receive your first page and retrieve voice mail, Check vMail! will page you again when it detects new mail. The technology this program uses does have STRICT requirements and may not work on all systems. Please read the requirementsREQUIREMENTS section of help. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Requirements --------------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Any computer that can run Windows 3.1. Modem 9600 or better modem. Voice mail service Any voice mail service that STUTTERS the dial tone when you pick up the phone when you have voice mail. ** This program will NOT work with internal voice mail systems. Only those systems that stutters the dial tone. Pager Service Any pager service that you can call directly into your pager number. This usually is a 800 number that you dial. So if you wanted to send a page, you'll do this: Dial 1-800-xxx-xxxx Wait 2 seconds Dial 123-5678 Hang up. That's what Check vMail! does. Phone setup Phone plugged into the modem. Modem plugged into the phone jack. This phone must be the phone that has the voice mail service on it. Special notes If the phone isn't connected to the Phone Company, Check vMail! will determine that there is no dial tone and think that there is voice mail It is possible that Check vMail! will pick up the phone line when you are receiving a phone call and hang up. Please set the number of minutes between checking to a high enough number not to infringe on your callers. (Or register and get the Wait for Idle feature.) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Getting Started --------------------------------------------------------------------- First you'll need to copy all the files to the correct place on your hard drive. This program doesn't have an SETUP program. The following files must be placed into the same location. VMAIL.EXE - The main program. SR_*.DLL - Support DLL program. CTL3D.DLL - Support DLL program VMAIL.BMP - Startup graphic VMAIL.HLP - Help VMAIL.TXT - Help in TXT format. After you get all these programs in one place, just run VMAIL.EXE. The first time it is run it will determine that it doesn't have a INI file and will create one. You'll then need to fill out the options for your system, then say "OK". The next time Check vMail! is executed, one of two things may happen: 1) The setup dialog box will come up again. Either Check vMail! is not enabled or there is a copy of Check vMail! already in memory. 2) Check vMail! will activate and wait for voice mail. No dialog box. If you'd like to get the setup dialog box back, just run Check vMail! the second time and it'll pop up the options dialog. If you make any changes, you'll need to click to save them. If you click CANCEL, vMail! will unload and you'll lose your changes. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Error messages --------------------------------------------------------------------- Check vMail! will only display errors if there is a problem communication with your modem. They are: "Unable to open com port" The communication port you selected is either incorrect, or someone else is using it. "Unable to init com port" The modem is not able to handle the messages Check vMail! is sending to it. Check vMail! requires a 9600 baud or better modem. "Com port timed out" More then five seconds passed and the modem didn't respond to the initializing string. --------------------------------------------------------------------- How to register --------------------------------------------------------------------- First, why would you want to. Well, there are two options that are not enabled in the shareware version. They are: Send Page, and Wait for Idle. Send Page does just that. If Check vMail! detects you have something waiting, it'll call your pager service (see requirements), and send you a page. The Wait for Idle is purely for convenience. As you're working on your machine, every time Check vMail! checks the phone line it needs about 8 seconds to determine if you have voice mail. The Wait for Idle will wait until your machine sits idle for a period of time before it starts checking. One other thing that Wait for Idle can do: Instead of turning off Check vMail! each time the phone rings and you are talking, you'll just need to move your mouse around. If you don't turn off Check vMail! or move your mouse, Check vMail! will try to pick up the phone while your on it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Print and send this: --------------------------------------------------------------------- What we want: COMPANY _____________________________________________________ NAME _____________________________________________________ ADDRESS _____________________________________________________ CITY _____________________________________________________ STATE _______________________________ ZIP_________________ COUNTRY _____________________________________________________ PHONE _____________________________________________________ What you want: Please send me ______ copies of vMail (Registered version) and keep me on your mail list to receive future updates for one year for free. I have enclosed 40.00 USA dollars for each copy. Check or money order also accepted. (Payable to Stage Research) How you want it: ________ Send it thru eMail to account ______________________ (compuserve/internet/etc) I (purchaser) will pay for any "postage" that the eMail service charges. ________ Send it thru regular mail, 3.5inch ONLY. Either formatted 1.44meg or 720k depending on how much fits. Please include a postage and handling charge of $3.50 for each 10 copies. Send to: Stage Research 6315 Pearl Road, #301 Parma Hts, OH 44130 U.S.A. Thank you for your order. ---------------------------------------------------------------------