Dawn 5.11 Readme
by Boris Zakharin
February 5 2002

Full documentation is available in the help file once Dawn is installed
and on the web at http://www.internettrash.com/users/zakharin
I can also be reached by E-Mail at zakharin@seas.upenn.edu

New in this release:
-Dawn now works properly with Windows 2000
-You can now manually edit entries 
-You can now search the addresses displayed in Classic mode 
-vCard (VCF) support 
-Outlook 2002 support 
-Simeon/Execmail support 
-Becky! support 
-Title, First Name, Middle Name, Last name are now supported in formats that support this 
-Bug fixes for the CSV format, Pegasus Mail, and others 


The Windows Installer files needed for this program can be found at
this URL: http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~zakharin/Software/msi.html
See the installation instructions below for details
The HTML Help files needed for this program can be found at
this URL: http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~zakharin/Software/htmlhelp.html
See the installation instructions below for details

Dawn converts Address Books among various Address Book Programs.
Dawn is equipped with an extraction feature. It is absolutely free to use
and distribute in the form seen here, but the source code is not freely
distributable.

Note that the following files bundled with dawn are part of mozilla and
are available freely with source at www.mozilla.org:
regExport.exe
mozreg.dll
nspr4.dll
plc4.dll
plds4.dll
xpcom.dll

Dawn works with the following programs:

-Becky!
-Corel WordPerfect Address Book 8.x 
-ExecMail
-Eudora 3.x and 4.x 
-Internet Explorer / Outlook Express / Windows Address Book (WAB) 
-Juno 
-Mozilla/Netscape 6 
-MS Outlook 98 / 2000 / 2002
-Netscape Communicator 4.x 
-Netscape Navigator 3.x 
-Opera (New) 
-Palm support through Palm Desktop (read only) 
-Pegasus Mail 3.x and 4.x
-Pine (PC and UNIX) 
-Simeon
-Other programs which can use/import/export LDAP/LDIF, Comma Separated
Value (CSV), plain text, one per line or comma separated formats, vCards,
or store addresses in a text file suitable for extraction 

System Requirements

-Pentium 90MHz or higher microprocessor 
-Windows 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP, 2002 or later
-VGA 640x480 or higher-resolution screen supported by Microsoft Windows. 
-About 1 MB of free disk space 
-Windows Installer

Installing Dawn

  Setup will successfully detect and uninstall earlier versions of Dawn back to 4.5 beta 3
  Obtain Dawn from a download site.
  Uncompress the Dawn zip file into another empty folder
  Run setup.exe. Follow the onscreen instructions. 
  If you don't already have Windows Installer (If you have Windows 2000/ME/XP you do):
    Setup will alert you and point you to the right site to download it
  Dawn should now be available in the Dawn program folder of the Start Menu 

Note

Dawn does not come bundled with some essential files that many 
people already have.
The Windows Installer files needed for this program can be found at
this URL: http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~zakharin/Software/msi.html
See the installation instructions above for details

Full documentation is available in the help file once Dawn is installed
and on the web at http://www.internettrash.com/users/zakharin

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