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                   Version 1.21                                              
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Welcome to NavCIS Pro 1.21 for Windows!  If you are a current 
1.1 user you will be surprised by the number of new features 
and improvements that we have in store for you.   If you are 
new to NavCIS we hope that you find it to be the best off-
line Windows navigator for CompuServe available.

This README.1ST file details information that did not make it 
into the NavCIS manual or help files.  Please read all of 
this text as it may resolve questions that you have.  We 
suggest that you print this file - use NotePad's print 
function (under the File menu) or, from DOS, type PRINT 
README.1ST.

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If you have a question about NavCIS or are having some 
technical problem, there are two places that you should look 
for an answer to your problem before asking technical 
support.

1)  The "Frequently Asked Questions" section of the NavCIS 
Help file.  Click on the big blue Help "Question mark" icon
on the NavCIS toolbar.  When the help program appears on the
screen you will see "Frequently Asked Questions" highlighted
beneath the "Help on Setting up NavCIS".  Click on the text
and you will see a short list of frequently asked questions.
Click on the question you are interested in, and help will
give you the solution to your problem.

2)  The second place to look is this file.  There are 14 
README items in this file and one of these items may solve 
your problem.

TIP:    For a detailed list of features and improvements that
have been added since version 1.1, click on the "What's New
in 1.2!" menu choice beneath the "Help" menu of the main
NavCIS menu.

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Following is a short list of changes/enhancements that have 
been added to NavCIS PRO 1.21 for Windows but did not make it 
into the manual.

1)  Hotkeys for NavCIS message reading.  When reading a 
message in the long message display mode, you can press F3 or 
PageUp to move to the previous message, or F4 or PageDn to 
move the next message.  In Thread View, you can press F5 to 
return control to the long message display (or to bring it up 
on the currently selected message if it is not currently up).

2)  If you are upgrading, you may notice a change in the way 
that NavCIS views new messages.  New messages (accessed from 
the "New: <x>" button on the forum dialog, are always shown 
in the normal (long) message display window in DATE RECEIVED 
order.  If you set your "View" mode to Short View or Thread 
View, NavCIS will only start in that mode when you use the 
"Old" button to access your messages.

3)  After installing the NavCIS 1.21 upgrade, you may find 
that you have many unread (New) messages in your forums.  
This is caused by a problem that occurred in NavCIS Pro 1.1 
that did not surface until it was identified and corrected in 
NavCIS Pro 1.21.  To mark all of these unread messages as 
having been read, double-click on the forum, press the "New: 
<x>" button on the forum dialog.  Under the "Other" menu of 
the normal message display, you will find the menu choice
"Mark All New as Read".  Click on it.

4)  If you upgrade from NavCIS PRO 1.1 (or a TE 1.1 or a SE 
1.15) you will lose many of the settings in your 
"Configuration | Options" dialog.  These settings have been 
moved to a NAVCIS.INI file to avoid this problem in the 
future.  Simply go through each of the new Configuration 
dialogs and reset your environment.

5)  When you first start NavCIS, it must make certain 
conversions to your data and it will take some time to do 
this.  The amount of time that NavCIS will take to load is 
dependent on how much data you have.  Be prepared to wait a 
while if you have more than 5M of data.

6)  NavCIS has a new feature called AutoCapture.  AutoCapture 
is the same as pressing the Capture button on your online 
screen every time you go online.  The AutoCapture default for 
NavCIS 1.21 is ON.  When NavCIS goes online, it will create a 
CAPTURE.TXT file in your Download directory, and this file 
will reach a maximum file size of 256K.  To change these 
settings, see the "Configuration | Options | Directories and 
Capture" menu.

7)  When reading the help file, note that items that have 
been added since Pro version 1.1 have BLUE titles.  This can 
help you identify a new feature.

8)  A setting has been added to the NavCIS SmartMail 
feature.  In the NAVCIS.INI file, under the [SmartMail] 
section, there is a "ConfirmFirstRun=Off" line.  If you 
change this to "ConfirmFirstRun=On", NavCIS will prompt you 
before it goes on for the first session of a day, in case you 
minimize SmartMail without wanting it to go online 
immediately.

9)  When running NavCIS 1.21 for Windows under the Windows NT 
operating system, you may find that you get consistent #229 
errors (Modem Read Buffer Overflow).  This happens when 
NavCIS cannot keep up with the data coming in over the modem.  
If this happens to you, you have two choices:  1) Under the 
"Configuration | Options | Environment" dialog, make sure 
that "Fast Mode Always" box is checked - 2) Lower your baud 
rate to 9600 or 2400 baud.

10) Contrary to the manual, you cannot do a Search by Forum
with the NavCIS File Finder.

11) Please do not let any forum accumulate more than 8000 
messages.  If you absolutely must retain more than 8000 
messages, do not use Short View, and do not explode every 
thread in NavCIS Thread View.

12) NavCIS cannot be set to retain a maximized main desktop.  
You can work around this problem by manually sizing the 
window to a large size, or if you have a Windows shell that 
is capable of it, you can force NavCIS to open maximized.  PC 
Tools for Windows has this capability.

13) NavCIS modem init strings now allow ^M (carriage return) 
characters.  

14) Note to German users:  The German login scripts are now
included with NavCIS.  They are GR-CIS.SCR, GR-DTP.SCR
(Datex P) and GR-DTJ.SCR (Datex J).  Also, for online help
in German, download GERMAN.EXE from library 6 of the Dvorak
forum.

15) NavCIS v1.21 also include the ZiffNet FileFinder.  However,
you must be a member of ZiffNet for this file finder to work.

We hope you enjoy working with NavCIS PRO 1.21!

