QuipSig and OneShot
Copyright © 1997 to 2001 Rod Carty
All rights reserved.
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QuipSig is designed to change signature files for any Internet e-mail clients that use an ASCII/Text file for the signature. It also has the ability to write an Autosignature file for use in Outlook, in Rich Text Format. It chooses one tagline from the file at random and inserts it each time it is run.

QuipSig works with Eudora, Netscape Mail and News, News Xpress, Microsoft Mail and News, Outlook Express, Pegasus, and other mail clients.

QuipSig was written in Windows 95.

QuipSig gives you the ability to:
-- Add, remove or modify taglines in the database file.
-- Search by word or phrase for a particular tagline in the file.
-- Ability to modify and enable/disable misc text fields surrounding the quip as seen in the generated signature file.
-- Automatically change quip in signature file at timed intervals.
-- Automatically check for recently sent email message at timed intervals and then change quip in signature file.


Registered users have the following benefits:
-- Removal of Register Reminder screen.

-- Ability to use OneShot, which merely changes the tagline and shuts down again. Useful if you wish to only rarely change your quip, such as only when your computer is started.

-- Ability to modify startup status of QuipSig so that it starts minimized.

-- Unregistered version has a database file with 50 funny taglines; the registered version has 4,000.
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Installation: 

Run Setup.exe and follow all prompts.

New users Note:
Before running the program for the first time it is best if you make note of the path and filename of your Email client's signature file. The program requires this for proper operation and will ask for it when first run.
If you have not yet configured your Email program to use a signature file, I recommend you do that first. You can use Notepad to create a blank text file if you don't have one yet. There are detailed instructions in the help file included if you are not sure how to do this.
CAUTION: if you have a signature file already, QuipSig will overwrite it. Because of this I highly recommend you open your signature file in NotePad or some other editor before running QuipSig for the first time. Once you have the file open, run QuipSig and point it to the file. Then manually copy/paste from your original signature file into the QuipSig fields.

Upgrade users Note:
It is best to uninstall the previous version of QuipSig before you install the latest version. Before you do that, however, you should make a copy of your miscellaneous text fields file, called fields.dat. Copy it to a temporary directory somewhere, and after installation of the new version, copy it back over top of the one included with the new version.
Also, if you have a registered version of the quip file (quip.dat) or have made changes to the quip file that you wish to keep, you should do the same with it.
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Distribution:

The unregistered version is freely distributable: please share this program with others. The registration serial number is a registered product and is not freely distributable. Please do not duplicate it. See the licensing information, in the file License.txt for details.  Please contact me for permission before distributing this program by CD-ROM or other means.

Under no circumstances shall a third party charge for disribution of this product without my prior approval, except to cover costs of media for said distribution.
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Contact:

Rod Carty,
29 Bates Crescent,
Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada
  Y1A 4T8

E-Mail: mailto:rod@en-consult.ca
   WWW: http://www.en-consult.ca/quipsig/
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Registration:

Feel free to try out the program for 30 days. After that you should either register the program or stop using it and remove it from your system.

Fill out the register.txt file included in this distribution and mail it to me along with a money order for $10.00 in Canadian funds or use one of the online credit card links in QuipSig's help menu.

When I receive your money order and registration form I will email you the 2,500 quip file and your personalized serial number. If you make your payment through one of the online links you can expect your quip file and serial number within 48 hours.

If you desire the program on floppy, please include an additional $5.00 in Canadian funds in the money order to cover cost of the media and shipping/handling.

Note: If you try my program and decide not to continue using it, or decide to not register, I would be very interested to get a note from you telling me what I need to do to make my program better.
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Support:

Support for unregistered users is at the complete discretion of the author. So far I haven't turned any support requests away, and hope to be able to keep up that record. Regardless, please let me know about any installation problems or bugs you may encounter.

If you have a question or problem the help file included with the program and the self-help on the web site doesn't cover, feel free to use the email address in the Contact section above for further help.
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Upgrades:

Please send me all your suggestions on how to improve this product. If I decide to use your suggestion in an upgrade, I will send you a free upgrade containing your change. Awarding free upgrades to duplicated suggestions is at the discretion of the author. All decisions are final. You do not have to be a registered user of this program in order to qualify.

In addition, if you have humorous taglines that aren't in the registered version of the database file, I'd love to receive them by email from you. Please, no copyrighted material.
