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                     Dimeric Software

                    Product Information

                 Dimeric Server Pages (DSP)

                       FULL Version

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Thank you for purchasing DSP -- we hope you will find it as
useful and reliable as we do.  If you have any questions or
comments, please vist our website...

  http://www.Dimeric.com/

or send us an email...

  Support@Dimeric.com


Release Notes
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2.1.11 - June 18, 2003

  * DSP now allows compound names where it used to allow only simple names:
    as the admin folder, and app name or an alias. For example, the following
    config file is now legal:

      [General]
      AdminFolder=Admin/Proxy

      [App:Sales/Food]
      Connections=LocalHost:5201
      HoustonName=...

      [Alias:Food]
      App=Sales/Food

  * DSP now, by default, compresses text responses using the gzip compression
    format, if the browser can accept compression (as indicated in the
    Accept-Encoding request header). See the changes mentioned below in
    Utility, DSWebServer below for more information.


Getting Started
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The easiest way to begin a new DSP project is to use the
File | New | Other | DSP Application wizard in the Delphi
IDE.  This will create a new DSP application with a single
page.  After completing the wizard, simply hit F9 to run
your application.  A console window will appear, instructing
you to hit 'B' to launch a browser, or 'Q' to quit.
Choose 'B', or point your browser to
http://localhost:PORT/ (where PORT is the port the application
is listening on; this is displayed in the console window).

You can create additional pages using the 
File | New | Other | DSP Page wizard.  You can modify the
configuration of the application by editing its .INI file
(created automatically by the new application wizard).


Documentation
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DSP comes with a help file (Delphi\Dimeric\Help\DSP.hlp) that 
integrates with Delphi's on-line help.

DSP also comes with a syntax guide, which describes the features 
of .dsp files (Delphi\Dimeric\Doc\DSP-Syntax-Guide.pdf).

Finally, the DSP Tutorial provides a good introduction to the 
features of DSP.  To run the tutorial, open the project 
(Delphi\Dimeric\Demos\DSPTutorial) and run it in the IDE.  When the
application starts up, it will offer you two choices: 'B' to launch
browser, and 'Q' to quit.  Choose 'B', or point your browser to
http://localhost:PORT/ (where PORT is the port the tutorial is 
listening on; this is displayed in the console window).


Deploying Applications Built With DSP
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DSP features royalty-free application deployment.  You may
distribute free of charge applications (EXE files) and
libraries (DLL and BPL files) built with DSP and/or DSUtil.
You may not distribute DSP or DSUtil source code (PAS, INT,
DCU and DCP files).

See the software license (License.txt) for more information.