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                            wtouch v1.0

                      a file date/time stamp 


                            11/02/1999

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                                       Copyright  1999 by F. Sadaghiani


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Introduction
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wtouch is a program that integrates directly into your Windows-based 
operating system to provide an easy means of changing the created, 
accessed and modified date and time attributes of files. This is 
accomplished by adding a menu item to the Windows Explorer context menu 
that displays a dialog (as seen above) allowing you to select the date 
and time and which attributes to modify. Windows does not support any 
built-in means of changing a file's date and time attributes. Therefore, 
wtouch is the perfect solution for this problem; it integrates seamlessly
into Windows Explorer with a common and intuitive interface providing 
a natural extension to Windows Explorer.

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Installation
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To install wtouch follow these simple instructions:

1. Create a new directory where you'd like to install wtouch. I chose
   to install the program under my \System32 directory, but you can
   place it anywhere you want.

2. Unzip the files into the directory you just created and delete the
   downloaded zip file. That is, the original package you downloaded.
   
3. Double-click the setup.exe program and press the "Register wtouch"
   button on the dialog.
   
That's it, you've just installed wtouch! You can uninstall wtouch
through the control panel applet "Add/Remove Programs".

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Distribution
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wtouch is avialable in two different versions, one for Windows 95/98 and
one for Windows NT. In terms of functionality, there is no difference
between the two versions. The difference lies in the way text is 
represented in Windows 95/98 and Windows NT. Windows NT was designed to
use Unicode text, a worldwide character-encoding standard that uses
16-bit character values to represent all the characters used in modern
computing. Windows 95/98, however, use 8-bit character values to
represent the characters used in a specific language. If you're running
Windows 95/98 you can only use the ANSI version of the program. Windows
NT users may use either version. The advantages for Windows NT users are
twofold: portability, you can use wtouch on the Chinese version of Windows,
and speed, Unicode text is "accessed" faster than non-unicode text.

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  File listing
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  readme.txt      This file
  wtouch.dll      The program DLL (dynamic link library)
  setup.exe       The program that adds/removes information 
                  from the registry needed to run wtouch.


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History
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11/02/1999 - v1.0 
 - Initial release


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License Agreement
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wtouch is copyright  1999 by F. Sadaghiani 

The author is not responsible for any damage to your computer system
or data and in no event will the author be responsible to you for any 
consequential, incidental, or indirect damages (including damages for
loss of business profits, business interruption, loss of business 
information and the like) arising out of the use or inability to use
this software, even if the author has been advised of the possibility
of such damages.

This software is freeware and freely distributable.


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Contact information
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Please contact me with any bugs, (modest) feature requests or comments.

  web:   http://members.home.com/fsadagh/wtouch/index.html
  email: fsadagh@home.com (place "wtouch" in the subject line)





