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Crock O' Gold is an offline reader for Delphi using Spectrum v2.1. It is designed
to automate your sessions with Delphi, and lets you compose and read your
messages at leisure while offline.

Please take a little time to read this file, and once you have installed Crock O'
Gold and restarted your IIgs, to also read all the entries for Crock O' Gold that
show in the !Help! NDA.

You must first install Crock O' Gold by following the 'Quick Start' instructions
below. You will need to have a fully installed copy of Spectrum v2.1 on your hard
disk, and have installed all the XCMDs that came with the program. If you are
going to connect to Delphi using Sprintnet, then that is all you will need to do.
If you plan to Telnet to Delphi using Genie or Compuserve, or some other service
provider, you will also need to read the Crock O' Gold 'Connect Files' entry in
the !Help! NDA to find out how to setup for those services.


Quick Start

Double-click the Installer file, or run the Installer script directly from
Spectrum. Follow the screen prompts to tell the Installer where to put the Crock
O' Gold application and the COG scripts folder. You will first need to enter your
Delphi User Name and Password, and you will also need to tell the Installer the
connect phone number for your service provider.

It will take one or two minutes to copy all the files, so be please be patient.
In some cases, where a file already exists, the Installer might ask you to
confirm before you overwrite it. In these cases you may keep the existing files
if you wish.

The Installer will start Spectrum if you double-click the icon, and will Quit
Spectrum when it has finished. Because some new XCMDs are going to be installed,
this action is necessary. You will need to restart Spectrum before you can use
the new XCMDs.

After the installation, you will find a file 'Installer.Log' in the Crock O' Gold
folder. This will show where all the files were installed. Once the Install
process has been completed, you will not need to keep the Crock O' Gold folder
that you installed it from.

To actually use Crock O' Gold once you have installed it, you simply double-click
the 'Crock.O.Gold' S16 application. This can be placed anywhere you like on your
hard disk, or even the desktop. The first time you run this application, it will
ask you to locate the 'Start.COG' file in the 'COG' folder, and also your working
copy of Spectrum. You will not need to tell it this information again.

If you are already within Spectrum, then you can start Crock O' Gold by running
the 'Start.COG' script.


Slower Start

You can manually install Crock O' Gold by dragging the appropriate files to the
correct places. But this is really a pointless exercise when the Installer will
do all this for you automatically. But for completeness, or for the die-hards who
hate to do things the easy way, I shall describe where all the various files
go...

COG		Place the entire folder into your Spectrum folder.

Crock.O.Gold	Place the application wherever you want on your hard disk.

Desk.Accs	Place contents into the *:System:Desk.Accs: folder. If you already
have !Help! installed, then only install the !Help! NDA if it is newer, and place
the contents of Help.Files into the existing Help.Files folder.

Icons		Place the contents in the Icons folder on your Boot drive.

Fonts		Place the contents in your *:System:Fonts: folder.

User.Logons	Refer to the 'Connect Files' entry in the !Help! NDA.

XCMDs		Place contents into the :Add.Ons:XCMDs: folder in your working
Spectrum folder replacing any exisitng XCMDs.

Spectrum.Script  Optionally place in your Spectrum.Script folder and use the
'Menu' file as a Spectrum Menufile.


Problems

Please post messages concerning Crock O' Gold to the Apple 2 Forum (A2) to the
'Spectrum' Subject in the 'Vendors & Tech Support' Topic. The starter message for
this thread is '2552'.

Alternatively, contact me on:

ewannop@tcns.co.uk ewannop@delphi.com e.wannop@genie.com ewannop@compuserve.com