HotDog Professional
Version: 1.0019 (beta)

Unless otherwise stated, this program and all related documentation is 

     Copyright 1995 Sausage Software. All Rights Reserved.

HotDog and The HotDog Web Editor are the trademarks of Sausage Software.
NetScape and the NetScape Navigator are registered trademarks of NetScape
  Communications.
Microsoft, Windows, Windows 95, Windows NT and Visual Basic are registered
  trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.
OS/2 is a registered trademark of IBM.

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Contents
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1.  What Is HotDog?
2.  Contacting Us
3.  Registering HotDog
4.  Installing HotDog
5.  System Requirements
6.  Known Bugs 8*(
7.  Modification Log


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1. What Is HotDog?
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HotDog is an HTML editor for Windows. It helps you maintain and create 
documents for the World Wide Web. HotDog makes life simple for you by
providing quick access to tags and attributes and dialogs to help you
create complex elements. It also uses a Windows 95-style graphical
interface, even if you don't have Windows 95!

HotDog is _not_ a WYSIWYG, desktop publishing-style editor (but it may 
become one at a later date). HotDog does not require any word processing
software to run.

HotDog supports HTML 3 and NetScape revisions. Note that some of the HTML 3
elements are not yet supported by the NetScape Navigator. See the help file
for more details.


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2. Contacting Us
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We provide technical support by e-mail to registered users of HotDog only.

We can be contacted at the following addresses:

http://www.sausage.com - our Web Site. This is the preferred source for all
                         information about HotDog, and for downloading the
                         software, patches, FAQs, etc.
sales@sausage.com      - if you would like more information about HotDog

We are in the process of setting up a number of mailing lists and mirror
sites for HotDog. Please see our web site for more details.


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3. Registering HotDog
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HotDog Pro costs US$79.95. A maintenance and support contract, which
entitles you to personal technical support by e-mail as well as free 
updates to HotDog for one year, costs a further US$50.00. If you do not
want the support contract, HotDog upgrades will be offered to you for a 
discounted price and technical support will be available from the
hotdog-support mailing list.

To register HotDog, please print out the file ORDER.TXT and follow the
instructions there, or search the help file for Ordering HotDog.

For more information about registering HotDog, or about the Professional
version of HotDog, please see the on-line help.


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4. Installing HotDog
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Download the file HOTDOG10.EXE, and run it from Program Manager or File 
Manager. This will install HotDog in your system.

The first time you run HotDog, a Licensing Agreement will be displayed.
Please read this carefully before you start using the program. If you
consent to the terms, click the "I Agree" button to start HotDog.

The unregistered Evaluation version of HotDog may only be used for 30 days.
At the end of the 30 day period, you will no longer be able to use HotDog.
If you need more time than this to evaluate HotDog, extensions to the time
limit are available. Contact sales@sausage.com for more information.


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5. System Requirements
======================

We recommend a 486 with 8 Mb RAM as the minimum system for running HotDog.
It has run on less than that (even a 386DX25 with 4 Mb), but will be more
"dog" than "hot". 

HotDog needs approximately 2 Mb of disk space.

You also need a suitable browser for viewing your HTML, for example NetScape
or one of the Mosaics.

HotDog has so far been run successfully on these platforms:

Windows for Workgroups 3.11
Windows 3.1
Windows NT 3.5 (Build 807) - Intel
Windows 95 beta
OS/2 Warp (Windows edition)

It has failed to run on:

SoftWindows  (HotDog will only work with enhanced-mode Windows)

If you manage to run HotDog in another environment (e.g. SoftWindows, NT on
an Alpha) please let us know.


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6. Known Problems
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* Installation Program may cause problems with some 256-color displays
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    If this happens, the HotDog files are available from our web site in a
    ZIP archive. You will need to Unzip and install these yourself.

* 3DWindows don't display properly with some video cards
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    The 3DWindows option should replace the standard window buttons with
    small, gray, Win-95 style ones. Some video cards display these buttons
    as dark blue or black, or gray but blank. If this happens we suggest you
    disable the 3DWindows option.

* Right-mouse menu behaves strangely in Win95
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    This problem seems to be restricted to Win95. Unfortunately, Win95 bugs
    are difficult for us to fix, since the operating system is not yet
    finalized. Some of these bugs will have to remain at least until the
    official release of both Win95 and the next version of the Visual Basic
    programming language.

* Positions of toolbars changes if hidden/reshown
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    If you turn the Button Bar and Element Bar off, then show them again,
    they will appear in a different order (the Element bar will be on top).
    The same thing happens with the Documents and Status bars. Restarting
    HotDog will fix this.
    We are investigating a fix for this bug.

* Documents bar cannot be scrolled when tabs go off the screen
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    We're pursuing this with VideoSoft, the authors of our tab control.

* Inactive title bar text disappears
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    This has been reported by some Windows 95 users. We have not been able 
    to reproduce this problem.

* Installation Program will not create group in Win95
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    A fix is available for this, but it will only work in later builds of
    Windows 95. It will not work in Build 347 (the "final beta").
    When Win95 is officially released we'll make this fix publicly
    available.

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7. Modification Log
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Date          Major Changes
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16 Jul 1995 - Build 019.
              Fixed bug in choose Browser before preview.
              Added Fixed Temp File Name option.
              Minor bug fixes and code tidying.
              Added FAQ section to help.
              Changed file list behaviour in setup program.

12 Jul 1995 - Build 018.
              Added Spell Checker to Tools menu.
              BACKGROUND= now wraps image in quotes.
              Catch-up changes made to synchronise Standard 022 & 023 fixes.
              Made a couple of minor HTML syntax changes.
              STRONG and EM are once again the default substitutes for bold
                and italics.
              Fixed a number of bugs in the templates code.
              Fixed some windowing bugs
              Fixed some toolbar-customising bugs.
              Changed "insert from file" behvaiour in Template fields to
                insert entire file if Field Name is blank.
              Pressing delete in the Multi-File Find/Replace Files List will
                remove the highlighted file from the list. 
              HotDog now replaces \ with / in relative and absolute file names.
