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                     Dimeric Software

                    Product Information

                           Rinse

                       FULL Version

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Thank you for purchasing Rinse -- 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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2.1.17 - October 29, 2003

  * Major enhancement: Rinse now offers wizards and components!

    The wizards are on the "Rinse" tab in File New | Other.
    A new wizard, New Rinse Application, builds a complete
    Rinse app with no coding!

    The components are on the new "Rinse" tab in the component
    palette.  The tutorial has been updated to use the new
    wizards and components.

  * RinseThreadedClient now works in Delphi 5.

  * The TRinseMidasConnection and TSmartRecListView components 
    are now registered on the "Rinse" tab in the component
    palette.

  * The New Rinse Implementation wizard now adds generated units 
    to the project based on the checkboxes.

  * Fixed a problem where smart records could not contain variant
    properties (a recently introduced bug).

  * Fixed streaming problem with Enum and Sub-Range parameters.


Getting Started
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After you install Rinse, you can use the New Rinse Application 
Wizard, File | New | Rinse | Rinse Application, to create a new 
Rinse client and server application.  Also, the Tools | Rinse 
Explorer command allows you to configure the Rinse Translator 
(this command can be found on the Help menu in Delphi 5).


Documentation
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Rinse comes with extensive documentation, as well as an in-depth
tutorial (which is the best place to begin).  The tutorial can be
found in Dimeric\RinseTutorial\Tutorial.rtf.  The source code for
each step of the tutorial can be found in the folder
Dimeric\RineTutorial\Step N, where N is the step number.  These
projects represent the completed tutorial step, and are ready to
compile and run.

The Rinse documentation is Dimeric\Doc\Rinse Intro.rtf, and is
partly a reference -- the tutorial is a better place to begin.

Documentation on the units in RinseLib is located in the
Dimeric\Help folder.  The install program automatically integrates
this help file into Delphi's IDE help system.


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

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