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

 PERMSSN    UID  GID    PACKED    SIZE  RATIO     CRC       STAMP          NAME
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[generic]                81054   81054 100.0% -lh0- 0f78 Aug  1  1994 Developer.LHA
[generic]                 1579    3640  43.4% -lh5- 2a1e Nov 17  1993 Disk.info
[generic]                61938   61938 100.0% -lh0- d894 Nov 19  1993 Drivers/Fido.LHA
[generic]                74512   74512 100.0% -lh0- b8f9 Nov 19  1993 Drivers/Maus.LHA
[generic]                26763   26763 100.0% -lh0- faee Aug  3  1994 Drivers/ums-qwk1b.lha
[generic]               188385  188385 100.0% -lh0- 7f69 Jul  5  1994 Drivers/UUCP.LHA
[generic]                66280   66280 100.0% -lh0- 5db3 Nov 17  1993 Drivers/Z-Netz.LHA
[generic]                33095   53592  61.8% -lh5- d44a Sep 23  1993 Install-Support/LhA
[generic]                  131     204  64.2% -lh5- 0721 Oct 11  1993 Install-Support/MakeFidoAlias.rexx
[generic]                  171     350  48.9% -lh5- 32a2 Oct 11  1993 Install-Support/MakeFidoDomain.rexx
[generic]                  109     208  52.4% -lh5- 15c7 Jul  5  1994 MakeAssign
[generic]                  494     838  58.9% -lh5- 2c5b Nov 18  1993 MakeAssign.info
[generic]               117513  117513 100.0% -lh0- 897c Aug  1  1994 Reader/IntuiNews.LHA
[generic]                43866   43866 100.0% -lh0- 3668 Nov 18  1993 Reader/RUMS.LHA
[generic]                 3227    7754  41.6% -lh5- 376f Aug  3  1994 ReadMe
[generic]                  408     597  68.3% -lh5- ebb3 Nov 21  1993 ReadMe.info
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 Total        16 files  699525  727494  96.2%            Aug  3  1994