EDis V 2.0 for OS/2 (PM & OpenDoc version) (demo)
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released: 16.09.1996 as FULL and DEMO versions

This readme contains an overview of the program,
read the Users' Guide EDis.inf for further informations
regarding installing and using EDis. An online help
is also available within the program.

(Overview)
  The EDis project realizes a distributed multiuser
  editor which allows some users to edit the same text
  at the same time synchonized, protecting all changes
  against each other and transfering changes made by one
  user to every other user of the text, cross a network
  and (planned) cross different platforms such as OS/2 and
  Windows (95/NT).

  There are two versions of the program, a demo version 
  and a full version.

  - The full version can be bought from me or from an online 
    warehouse. Send me an email or go to the EDis homepage 
    to get further informations where to get the full version.
    Note: This software has to be licensed for every 
          workstation (host) it is used on.
  - The demo version can be copied and shared freely without 
    payment. It is fully functional except the fact that 
    SAVING OF TEXT IS DISABLED. Academic staff and students 
    may obtain a free registration number from me by sending
    me an email with name, address and academic grade or 
    profession. By submitting the registration number inside 
    the registry dialog, saving of text is enabled. 
    Note: Registering the software is only for academic useage
    due to the fact, that this program is also part of an
    academic project. All other people who want a full version
    of the program have to buy it.

  The editor is divided into a client part and a server part.
  The server part does the text storing and managing and is
  implemented as a collection of DSOM-classes handled by a
  DSOM-Server-Program. The editor client handles the local
  version of the text and communicates all changes made with
  the server. Till now, two clients exists, a PM client running on
  on OS/2 Warp (3 & 4) and an OpenDoc part running on OS/2 Warp 3
  with Fixpack 17 and OpenDoc from Devcon 10 or OS/2 Warp 4.
  This two clients share the 90% of the code needed for local
  text managament, only about 10% implement the code for the
  different environments. There will be a Windows 95/NT/OLE2
  client and also a Windows 95/NT server, betaing end of
  october.

  EDis serves both as a technologie demo demonstrating the
  power of combining SOM, DSOM and OpenDoc into a software
  project and as a real world application which let you
  edit text (ASCII).

  This project is part of a graduate paper about compound
  document frameworks, comparing OLE & OpenDoc and the
  following todays frameworks:

  - CDF: Compound Document Framework,   IBM,   OS/2  & Windows
  - ODF: OpenDoc Development Framework, Apple, MacOS & Windows
  - MFC: Microsoft Foundation Classes,  MS,    Windows.

  written by Martin Schwarz at IBM Deutschland GmbH,Germany 
  set by the 'Institut fr Informatik' at TU-Mnchen.

(Copyright)
  (C) by Computer-Software-Entwicklung
      Martin Schwarz
      Meisenweg 5
      84544 Aschau
      Germany

  email: schwarma@informatik.tu-muenchen.de
  http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarma/

(More Informations)
  You can obtain further informations via the official EDis homepage:
  http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarma/edis.html

(DISCLAIMER)
  THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT ANY GUARANTEES OR WARRANTIES
  WHATSOEVER. COMPUTER-SOFTWARE-ENTWICKLUNG MARTIN SCHWARZ AND ITS EMPLOYEES
  ARE NOT LIABLE OR RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER,
  INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, LOSSES OF A DINANCIAL, PHISICAL, EMOTIONAL,
  MARTIAL, SOCIAL, OR MENTAL NATURE THAT MAY RESULT FROM THE USE OR THE
  PURPORTED USE OF ANYTHING IN THIS PACKAGE, FOR ANY PURPOSE WHATSOEVER.

