7/10/98
This is the readme file for UUDWin V1.29, which contains an overview and 
installation notes.

Overview
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UUDWin is a freely distributable multipart MIME Base64, MIME Quoted-Printable,
UUEncode, XXEncode, and Binhex4 message decoder with an easy to use interface. 
These message formats are commonly used to send data through Email & the Internet.

UUDWin supports single or multiple files.  It handles corrupted or incomplete
headers commonly found in non-MIME aware mail programs. It has provisions for
dealing with indented messages and recursively encoded messages.  It can also 
identify many file types by data alone and provide the proper file extension. 
There is no need to strip message headers or otherwise format the data that
goes in to UUDWin.

This is a Windows 3.x program that is compatible with Win95/WinNT.

UUDWin uses a simple Windows style interface, giving you two lists to work
with, a list of input files, and a list of decoded output files. You may input
data via File Open, Drag & Drop, Clipboard Paste, Command Line arguments, or
DDE. Output filenames are automatically detected from the input files. Output
files are color coded to show you at a glance the status of the decoded file.
Once processed, files may be extracted individually, all at once, or you may
double-click on the file to launch the associated application. This is handy 
when processing many messages saved from USENET newsgroups.

New features in V1.29
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- Corrected problem preventing certain accessibilty assistance programs from working
  with UUDWin.
- Correct XXdecode problem and changed compiler options again to generate stable build

New features in V1.28
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- Better support for MIME Text/Plain & Quoted-Printable encoding
- Preference added to disable duplicate part/file removal
- Multifile wildcard rename -rename a number of output files at once before extraction!
- Fixed memory corruption problem in V1.25 due to compiler settings
- Able to decode randomly wrapped Base64 files generated by several on-line services 
- Better support for application launching
- Additional filetypes detected
- Many new enhancements which make it even better at decoding files.

New features in V1.25
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- Can drag files to File Manager windows.
- Supports appending to existing files (see Extract dialog)

New features in V1.22
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- Now can decode MIME Text/Plain messages. Turn this feature on in preferences.
- V1.22 is 200% faster than version 1.18!
- You can now copy files to the clipboard for pasteing on the desktop on Win95
  and WinNT.


Contacting the author
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Bugs, comments, suggestions may be sent to the author at mark@cs.wisc.edu. 
Since UUDWin is being distributed as freeware, feel free to pass it on in it's
unmodified form. I'd like to hear from you if you find this program useful!
I work on UUDWin in my spare time, and feel it's pretty much complete, but I
am open to suggestions for future versions.

Files included in this archive:
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UUDWIN.EXE	259200 bytes  - The application
UUDWIN.HLP	 70587 bytes  - Application Help file
CTL3DV2.DL_     Support file for Windows/System directory
README.TXT      This file
MULTTEST.B64    A MIME Base64 test message with three files in 5 parts
(Development history is now part of the help file - press F1 in the About Box)


Installation  (Until the installer is done, you get this!)
------------

1.) Extract the files to the directory of choice.
2.) Run UUDWin.exe.
3.) See Options/Preferences to set any preferences
      -Be sure to set your Working directory & file associations.
4.) See the Help file for more information.

UnInstalling
------------

1.) With the windows RUN command, enter the path to UUDWin with the /uninstall argument
    such as 'C:\uudwin\uudwin.exe /uninstall'
    (UUDWin will restore original registry entries, remove any of it's own, and remove
    the uudwin.ini file.)
2.) Now delete the files in the uudwin directory. You're done!


If you need CTL3DV2.DLL, see the following instructions.

Installing CTL3DV2.DLL
----------------------
If you don't already have CTL3DV2.DLL in your windows/system directory, do
the following:

1.) From the DOS command prompt, change to the UUDWin directory.

2.) Type 'Expand ctl3dv2.dl_ c:\windows\system\ctl3dv2.dll' and press Enter.
(Replace the path above with the actual path to the windows system directory.)

Good Luck!

	Mark Spankus

