
                Coming Soon from Dangerous Cybernetics!

                    Mail Grazer and Global Reader

                   Copyright 1995  by Todd Henschell

 This will  formally announce that Dangerous Cybernetics has begun the
 development of Mail Grazer(tm), our Usenet News and E-mail to QWK
 utility that will let CMPQwk users read their UseNet news and E-mail
 with CMPQwk.

 We've also completed all of the paperwork and design goals for Global
 Reader(tm), which will be underway after Mail Grazer .90 beta ships to
 the public several months from now.

 Global Reader...What is it?

 Global Reader will be the logical upgrade path for CMPQwk users who
 move to a 32-bit operating system. Global Reader will require a modern
 32 bit OS such as Windows NT 3.51 or Windows '95.  It will take full
 advantage of all of the attributes of those operating systems including
 long filenames, 32-bit memory management, multiple threads, and so
 forth.  Global Reader will very likely not be available to the public
 for at least another eight months.  Therefore, it's too soon to
 announce a release date.  Nonetheless, the project is finally--- and
 formally (legally and all that)---underway.

 Global Reader will superficially resemble CMPQwk  including those
 features which make CMPQwk a success. However it will be a more
 powerful application that should satisfy the most power-hungry users.

 Mail Grazer

 Mail Grazer is for those CMPQwk users who don't want to wait for Global
 Reader and would like to read UseNet News and E-mail with their
 favorite mail reader and do it soon.  Mail Grazer will be a small and
 simple application you can use to collect Mail through a Winsock-
 compatible link to your favorite Internet service.  It will seamlessly
 handle things such as UUEncoding and decoding.  You will attach a file
 with CMPQwk and Mail Grazer takes care of the rest.  Long messages can
 be split into a manageable size, if you like, and will be CMPQwk
 friendly. Mail Grazer should appear as a public beta within several
 months in both 16-bit and 32-bit versions. A release date is yet to be
 announced.

 Who Are the Authors?

 Both applications have been conceived and designed by Todd Henschell
 and are being programmed (the hard part) by a top-flight C++ and
 Assembler programmer, Mike W. Smith, who is working under contract to
 Dangerous Cybernetics.

 Mike has worked on low-level device drivers, programmed MIDI hardware
 and firmware, and has a popular MPU-401 dual port MIDI adapter produced
 by MIDIMan that is sold all over the world.  Given his skills at very
 low-level Assembly hardware programming,  I anticipate superb, elegant,
 and very reliable C++ code.  Both applications will also be inherently
 portable to the Mac, to OS/2, and to UNIX systems.

 Mike as a good and tolerant friend is willing to put up with most of my
 insane demands like tagline file definitions for each BBS for those who
 want to set them up, a multi-threaded background-running search engine
 with complex Boolean expressions, and a powerful unlimited-size
 DBase-compatible database engine handling the folders. These are just a
 few of the items listed in the eleven page single-spaced improvements
 over CMPQwk  as part of the design goals.

 Derek Backus, the author of CMPQwk, is not affiliated with either
 project  -for those of you who are curious about such matters.  He has
 elected to pursue other types of software such as hangman games and
 sysop utilities for Galacticomm Worldgroup.

 Beta Testing

 Once each product is ready for beta testing, it will be announced on
 the Cmpqwk RIME conference. If you wish to beta test internally for us,
 you must have an Internet connection where you can receive MIME-encoded
 attachments. For those who have expressed interest in beta testing the
 first out of the gate Mail Grazer,  e-mail me at scraz@primenet.com.
 I'll reply with an e-mail in MS Write format file for you to print,
 sign, and return to us.

 We will be accepting ten internal beta testers on a first-come, first-
 serve basis at first.  They'll receive (obviously) free registrations
 to Mail Grazer in exchange for their help during development so long as
 they follow the terms of the NDA and file regular reports.  Registered
 CMPQwk users will receive preference over ANY other applicants

 Upgrades

 Once each product is released, we will announce upgrade pricing.
 Suffice to say that I want to keep CMPQwk users in our family, and
 those users who want to upgrade and are running Windows '95 or NT 3.51
 in the case of Global Reader, will be more than welcome to do so.
 Prices to be announced.

 I'll also be posting a FAQ message that will answer many of the
 questions we've received recently about CMPQwk and Gator Edit.

 I'm looking forward to diving into both of these projects.  And both
 will be supported here in the RIME Cmpqwk conference and via Internet
 links, just as CMPQwk and Gator are supported.

 Todd Henschell is the creator of the wonderful Cmpqwk help files and
 has been intimately involved in the Cmpqwk off line reader program. Todd
 can be reached by email at henschel@patchbay.com or through  RIME ->487 .


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