Readme.txt

ICQ/IP  ver 1.1 - FREEWARE
Copyright 2000
Art Weiss, Jr.
artw@adelphia.net
http://home.adelphia.net/~visegrip


ICQ/IP is an add-on application to the popular ICQ program.  With ICQ/IP your 
friend's dynamic IP addresses are put into your local host table making them 
seem static.  This allows you to play games, share resources, or whatever needs 
an ip address with a static host name.

Set up
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Create a subdirectory for ICQ/IP to reside & unzip the file into it.  Make sure 
to keep the DLL file in the same subdirectory as the executable.  Once you run 
the application it will ask you for the location of your host table.  For 
Windows 9x it is c:\windows\hosts (no extention).  For Windows NT it is 
c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts.  

Application Notes
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* ICQ/IP uses the nickname displayed within ICQ as the host name.  
* SPECIAL FEATURE : If you double-click on the ICQ/IP icon, the sound is 
  instantly muted/unmuted.
* You can set ICQ to automatically launch ICQ/IP when ICQ loads.
* ICQ MUST be running for ICQ/IP to function
* If ICQ/IP seems to not be working, look to the About Box for more information
* I have received notes that ICQ/IP is given internal network IP addresses from 
  the ICQ API instead of the internet IP Addresses. Unfortunately, there is 
  nothing I can do to fix this until an updated API is released from ICQ
* If a contact has a 2 or more word ICQ nickname (ie "Big Boss Man") any and only
  one of the words can work at a time.  So, "ping Big" or "Ping Boss" will both 
  ping the same IP address.

Zip File Contents
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Readme.txt  -  This file
ICQIP.EXE   -  The ICQ/IP Application Executable
ICQMAPI.DLL -  The ICQ API DLL, ICQ/IP needs this file to communicate with ICQ

History
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1.0      Initial Release

1.1      Added some features requested from users:

         Added an "Update Now" entry to the control menu
             Use this if you would like ICQ/IP to update the host table 
	     independent of the contact list changing.
         Added a "Disable ICQ/IP"/"Enable ICQ/IP" entry to the control menu
             Use this if you would like ICQ/IP to stop updating the host table 
	     for a bit, so you do not have to exit ICQ/IP
         Added an "Edit Host Table" entry to the control menu
             Use this to launch Notepad and view/edit the host table
         Changed the whitespace in the host table between the IP addresses and 
	      the aliases from spaces to a tab