Thank you for downloading EZDialup v1.71.

You will find a complete user's manual in EZDIALUP.HLP and EZDIALUP.WRI.
Both the server and client software can be tested immediately.  See the
Server Installation page of the Help file for step-by-step instructions.

NON-PROGRAMMERS

Installation of an EZDialup system is geared toward someone who can 
install a modem, use a text editor, etc.  Programming experience is
not necessary to create and maintain a dialup system, using EZDialup's
original Script Mode (Mode A).  And day-to-day use of EZDialup is
geared toward anyone who can start a Windows program!

Please see SCRIPT MODE below for a non-techical expanation of the
EZDialup system.

DEVELOPERS

EZDialup lets you write programs that access both EZDialup Servers AND
most other dialup hosts, like BBS's, CompuServe, etc.  You can integrate
the software seamlessly into your program, which appears to be doing all
the work!

EZDialup handles everything - it opens the comm port, inits the modem
and makes sure it's responding, dials the number, then lets your program
know when it's connected and ready, or if a busy signal or some other
problem occurred.

When your program connects to an EZDialup server, it can direct it to
transfer, zip, unzip or delete files, run programs or perform other
functions - every option available in Script-Mode.

When your program connects to a BBS, API routines let it:

   -access all incoming characters
   -send individual characters or entire strings
   -request automatic Xmodem, XModem 1K and Ymodem file transfers
   -setup automatic reponses to expected input ("Login: ", etc.)
   -also setup notification to your program when these input strings
    occur
 
A test program (TESTBED.EXE) and its Pascal source code demonstrate the
use of the extended API.

---------
Use of the toolkit (when registered) is royalty-free.

Visual Basic and Pascal interface source code examples are included, but
any development language that can call DLL routines and react to Windows
messages (some development platforms call these TRIGGERS) can use the API.

Please see the EZDIALUP.HLP or EZDIALUP.WRI for addtional details.

********************
SCRIPT-BASED EZDIALUP

Here's the idea: dedicate a Windows-running PC to handle dialup
requests for information.  One PC can handle up to four modems,
each controlled by an instance of EZDialup (running in server mode).
On a two-line installation, for example, you'd see two EZDialup icons
running on the server PC. Other tasks should be able to run on this PC,
but your results, of course, may vary.

Remote PC's use client-mode EZDialup to call in and request that a
script file be executed, providing a password as it does so.  If
the specified script file (which contains commands to zip, unzip,
upload, download, etc.) can be located, and the password checks out,
the script file is executed.  When all the commands in the script have been
executed, the connection is broken, the client side shuts down, and the
server side resets for the next call.

Ad-hoc download requests and file directory requests are intentionally not
supported by either mode of EZDialup, so security is automatically tight.
Only the file-transfer scripts found on the server side can take place.
If a remote user loses security rights (leaves company, etc.) you just
wipe their password file or the scripts or even the user's network directory,
making their remote EZDialup software useless.

The remote user just launches (double-clicks) an icon (in Program Manager,
or one of the several ways Windows 95 can start a program) to call in,
and therefore the program absolutely could not be easier to use.  A Cancel
button lets the user interrupt the session and hangup.

The only piece of information that changes with any frequency for a roaming
(laptop-toting?) remote user is the complete phone number dialing sequence,
which might, for example, need a prefix of "8," when dialing from a
hotel, or "9," when dialing from an office with a typical PBX, or "*70,"
when calling from a call-waiting-equipped phone at home, etc.  For
the convenience of the user a "Change Phone Number" button lets the user
take a short cut to changing the dialing sequence.

EZDialup is not freeware.  This shareware version can do everything the
registered version can, but a registration reminder pops up each time the
program ends on the client side.  Registration is $65-$75, which covers all
the server and client nodes you need to install.

Compuserve can bill your account and notify us immediately that you are
registered, at which point we can immediately e-mail to you the registration
codes.  To do this, GO SWREG and search for software title #7676.

A Visual Basic interface example is now included.  The files are found in
the included file EZ4VB.ZIP.

Again, we appreciate your interest and hope you find EZDialup useful.

_________
This version (v1.71) is completely compatible with all versions 1.6 or higher.