TITLE

     Universal Message System, Public Release

VERSION

     This is Release 10.9 of the UMS distribution.
     About 20 of the included packages have been updated since 10.8
     and a couple of bugs in the installer script have been fixed.

     IMPORTANT: There are still a few updates and new packages that
                did not make it into this release! Most important,
                the included Maus and Z-Netz drivers are *not* the
                current releases. You have to get and install these
                separately. Sorry for the inconvenience.

DESCRIPTION

     The  Universal  Message  System  (short  "UMS")  is a system for
     managing   all  kinds  of  messages  ('e-mail'  and  'news')  as
     universally and efficiently as possible.

     It  uses  its own, network-independent format, thus allowing the
     user,  the  'newsreader'-  and  tool-programs  to read and treat
     messages from different networks in a unified way.

     Special  programs  called  'importers' and 'exporters' deal with
     the  specific  formats  of  all  these networks. In this release
     importers/exporters are supplied for QWK, UUCP, FidoNet, Mausnet
     (German) and Z-Net (German) as well as for a proprietary format.

     UMS supports multiple users and manages individual access-rights
     for each user.

     UMS  provides  a  common interface ("ums.library") for access to
     the  message-base,  which  is  used by all programs dealing with
     UMS.

     Developer-material for using UMS in Amiga-Oberon, ARexx, C and
     Modula-2 is included in this package.

     Also included:

      - all binaries and tools needed for the central data-base

      - two 'newsreaders' for reading and writing news and mail.
     One very nice and intuitive one (needs MUI), and one "not-so-
     intuitive" one that works on every Amiga- or VT100-console.

      - many  tools  that are useful and/or intructive in how to  use
     UMS and write other tools.

      - an  Installer  ((c) Commodore-Amiga, Inc.) script to  install
     UMS  with  any  of  the above networks in a simple setup (i.e. a
     "point"- or "leaf"-node).

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

     AmigaDOS >=V2.0, >=3 MB RAM, >=2 MB hd

     MUI (Magic User Interface, (c) by Stefan Stuntz) recommended
     (but not needed)

     a modem (:-)

DISTRIBUTABILITY

     Copyrighted, Freely Distributable, no fee

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[generic]                 4254    6752  63.0% -lh5- 39fb Oct 15  1993 AmigaGuide
[generic]                  675    1478  45.7% -lh5- fee0 Nov 17  1993 AmigaGuide.info
[generic]                 1587    3640  43.6% -lh5- 9033 Nov 17  1993 Disk.info
[generic]                60009  115144  52.1% -lh5- c22f Sep 22  1993 Install-Support/Installer
[generic]                33095   53592  61.8% -lh5- d44a Sep 23  1993 Install-Support/LhA
[generic]                12711   64625  19.7% -lh5- beee Aug  3  1994 Install-UMS
[generic]                  386     745  51.8% -lh5- 87e0 Nov 17  1993 Install-UMS.info
[generic]                  109     208  52.4% -lh5- 15c7 Jul  5  1994 MakeAssign
[generic]                  493     838  58.8% -lh5- f56a Nov 17  1993 MakeAssign.info
[generic]                 3227    7754  41.6% -lh5- 376f Aug  3  1994 ReadMe
[generic]                  409     597  68.5% -lh5- c5a1 Nov 17  1993 ReadMe.info
[generic]                26139   26139 100.0% -lh0- a1df Sep 23  1993 Tools/Bouncer.LHA
[generic]                46829   46829 100.0% -lh0- 7bfd Aug  1  1994 Tools/ConfUMS.LHA
[generic]                20728   20728 100.0% -lh0- ecbc Jul  5  1994 Tools/Expire.LHA
[generic]                14743   14743 100.0% -lh0- ba3d Sep 23  1993 Tools/FixAccess.LHA
[generic]                 5661    5661 100.0% -lh0- 9a6b Jul 14  1994 Tools/GenMail.LHA
[generic]                57536   57536 100.0% -lh0- 0f6e Jul  5  1994 Tools/ImportExport.LHA
[generic]                 9979    9979 100.0% -lh0- eb51 Jul  5  1994 Tools/ReadMessage.LHA
[generic]                10920   10920 100.0% -lh0- a31f Jul  5  1994 Tools/Receiver2Folder.LHA
[generic]                10025   10025 100.0% -lh0- 3986 Sep 23  1993 Tools/SelectMail.LHA
[generic]                70164   70164 100.0% -lh0- cadd Aug  1  1994 Tools/sumstl.LHA
[generic]                14217   14217 100.0% -lh0- 0283 Sep 23  1993 Tools/TopTen.LHA
[generic]                27055   27055 100.0% -lh0- 20a0 Jul 19  1994 Tools/UMSMM.LHA
[generic]                11753   11753 100.0% -lh0- f5ea Jul  5  1994 Tools/UMSPassword.LHA
[generic]               181935  181935 100.0% -lh0- 964c Jul 19  1994 User.LHA
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