LA Times 3.3
Copyright (c) 1993-1994 by Steven Gutz


Introduction
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LA Times is an NNTP news reader for IBM OS/2 2.11 (2.1 with CSD) and TCP/IP
version 1.2.1 or later.  It has been designed to be a replacement for the
NewsReader/2 product currently shipping with TCP/IP.

It offers:

- Significant speed improvement over previous versions of LA Times, and is, in
  many cases, faster than NR/2.
- Optional Toolbars for all windows
- Subject Keyword searching (favorite subject searching)
- Automatic UUENCODE/UUDECODE of binary information, including binaries
  spanning multiple articles.
- Article body/header/both string searches
- Optional notification and higlighting of replies to articles you post
- True support for "spoiler" characters within articles
- Ability to arrange subscription window
- Multiple selects for marking, subscribing and unsubscribing.
- ROT13 support.


Files in This Release
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read.me		- this file
latimes.exe	- LA Times 3.1 executable
latimes.hlp	- help file
latimes.inf	- help file in VIEW format
latimes.mac	- macro strings for quick insertion in to postings and e-mail
latload.exe	- program loader to avoid bug in OS/2 2.1 (not need for 2.11)
news.ico	- LA Times program icon
uuencode.exe	- support exe for uuencoding binary files
uudecode.exe	- support exe for uudecoding articles
install.ini	- updated INSTALL configuration for registered users

Upgrading from Previous Versions
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- If you are upgrading from a version previous to 2.4 please contact me
  for the upgrade.

- If you are upgrading from a version 2.4 or later, you can make a new install
  disk by unzipping the contents of this zip file to a floppy.  Then copy the
  INSTALL.EXE file from your previous version onto the new floppy.  You can
  then do an install as before.

  Install LA Times 3.1 to a new directory - DO NOT install 3.1 over a version
  of LA Times previous to 3.0.  Once 3.1 is installed, you can copy *.DAT from
  your previous release as well as your .SIG, .KIL and .MAC files.

- This is a 3.x patch.  If have been using 3.0, you can place these file in
  you LA Times directory, overwritting the previous files.


General Installation Notes
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- If you are running OS/2 2.1 or older and you want to create a desktop object
  you will have to specify an object path pointing to LATLOAD.EXE rather than
  LATIMES.EXE.  This is due to a bug in the Workplace Shell, which has been
  corrected in OS/2 2.11 or the 2.1 CSD.
  Registered users who install the new version in this scenario will have to
  edit the object created by INSTALL to point to LATLOAD.EXE.

- If you are creating desktop objects for several different servers, specify
  the server name in the object's command line parameters by using the "-s"
  option and server name (i.e. -smy.news.server.com ).


Contacting me
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You can reach me at:

gutzs@crl.aecl.ca

Please view the help of INF files for further contact information

I usually read my mail between 6:30am and 3:30pm EST and I will typically
respond within an hour or two.  I will guarantee replies only to registered
users, but I will make an effort to reply to anyone who sends me mail,
particularly for bug reports.

I'm alway looking for new features so if you have a good idea let me know and
I'll see if I can squeeze it in to the next release.

If you find what you think is a bug - PLEASE contact me so I can address the
problem.  Posting messages to newgropus about bugs is not very effective
since I typically read news on a weekly basis rather than daily - email is
MUCH better.


