Introduction
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BBase7 allows you to keep track of the contents of your 
email and to locate those elusive messages that are hard
to find. Currently, it supports email from Netscape, 
Eudora Lite and Microsoft Internet Mail

You may start BBase7 as you start any other Windows 
program. The databases created by BBase7 terminate in 
the extension BRS - these files may be associated with 
BBase7.EXE so that clicking on the database starts the
application BBase7.

BBase7 is designed to use very little memory (RAM and 
disk) and to run extremely fast. Typically, a BBase7 
database requires between 1% and 10% of the space 
occupied by the email files.

Updates
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There are 2 versions of BBase7 currently available - 
the 16-bit version for Windows 3.x and the 32-bit 
version for Windows 95 and NT. Both versions are 
downloadable from http://www.ndirect.co.uk/~bibo

Importing data
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You create a BBase7 database by importing Netscape or
Eudora Lite files. Once these files have been imported, 
you may do you searches to recover the information that 
you require. The database may be saved for later use and 
periodically updated with the latest version of your 
email files.

Selecting data
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You may select messages by:

 - date
 - sender
 - receiver
 - subject
 - contents

You are stongly advised to select by content only after 
the previous search-criteria have been exhaused - 
searching by content necessitates a scan of all the 
selected messages.

Exporting Data
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Selected messages may be exported to a text file for
import to MS Access or other database applications.

The future
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BBase7 will be improved in the following ways:

 - the appearance of the user-interface will be improved.

 - proper documentation will be provided.

 - on-line help will be provided.

 - email files other than Netscape, Eudora Lite and
   Microsoft Internet Mail will be importable. For 
   example, Pegasus and other formats from America 
   Online and Compuserve may also be incorporated.

 - BBase7 will be able to update files automatically as 
   a background task.


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