                  ------ WinChat version 1.2 ------
                  --  2000 by Provirta Software --


NETWORK ENHANCEMENT
Welcome to WinChat, a real-time communications application from Provirta Software that allows you to communicate with your co-workers instantly. WinChat provides powerful capabilities such as instant messaging, chat and simple email without a comprehensive setup or installation. Working with your company network, WinChat is the ultimate application for communications in the office. If you and your co-workers work in a wide area connected by a network, you should use WinChat to decrease human movement. We use it in our office so we need no PABX telephone system for our communication between room and between floors. WinChat saved our money!

In other side, we have many local area network (LAN) projects in some offices. We also install WinChat there as an application bonus. Our client love it and increase our network usage. WinChat give a new value added to our network projects. Why you don't do like this in your project or office? Use WinChat to enhance your network.

 

SYSTEM REQUIREMENT
Hardware
- 486/66 or better 
- 8 MB RAM minimum. 
Operating System
- Windows 95, 98, NT 4.0, Windows 2000 connected in a network 
- Minimum network configuration
Network card (attached to a local area network) 
TCP/IP protocol installed, configured and used as default protocol 
 


INSTALLATION
We assume you have two or more computers connected in a network. Before you install this software, there is several rule you should known.

1. Use TCP/IP as default protocol

2. Specify the IP address of all of your computers

Those first three parts of IP address should be equal.

For example, one of your computer have IP address 301.218.77.1, so the others must be 301.218.77.2, 301.218.77.3, 301.218.77.xxx, etc. with xxx is 0 until 255. Because of it, WinChat only can be used in 256 terminals (255 workstations and 1 server).

3. Prepare a public full access network folder. WinChat email files (.wce) will be installed in that folder.

If you are a network administrator, you can create that folder and set full access right for all users. When a new user runs WinChat from that folder for the first time, WinChat will create a .wce file for him/her in that folder. Every user should have full access right to create, append and modify their .wce file.

If you are not a network administrator, you can specify your local hardisk to be shared (full access) for other users. Every user load and access the .wce file from the folder you specified.

The contents of installation packages:
	- WinChat.exe, the executable WinChat application
	- WinChat.htm, the main WinChat documentation
	- Evaluation.htm, Licence Agreement for Evaluation version
	- Registered.htm, Licence Agreement for Registered version
	- Ordering.htm, Ordering information
	- Mswinsck.ocx, Microsoft Winsock control
	- Msflxgrd.ocx, Microsoft FlexGrid control
	- Richtx32.ocx, Microsoft RichText control
	- RichEd32.dll
	- MSVCRT40.dll

To install WinChat run Setup.exe and follow next displayed instruction. Install it in every workstation that you have.

While WinChat is developed using Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0, it requires VB5 runtime files and VB database runtime components in every running. All of them is not included in the WinChat Setup package.

The VB5 runtime files needed for this program can be found at this URL:
  http://www.simtel.net/simtel.net/win95/dll.html

Find this following contents:
  vb500a.zip 1.2M VB5 Runtime Modules. Self-installing 22-Sep-98 
  vb500b.zip 1.2M Visual Basic database runtime components 13-Oct-98
Download that files and intall the components to your workstation.

If you have any trouble while installing, please contact us at:

Provirta Software
winchat@telkom.net


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