[TRex documentation]

TRex version 2.1.2

User's Guide - About TRex

AUTHOR'S COMMENTS

This program was first written by Alex Hart, and is freely available. It's programmed entirely in Perl, and most of the testing of this program was done in a Linux environment on Netscape, V4.7?. It is by no means bug-free, but we're fixing it as they come. We are also sure there are some formatting problems on some systems with some browsers. The html uses a lot of javascript, and some of this breaks down in Windows, especially IE. If anyone can fix some of the javascript to work better, please send us the fixes and join to the club as developer (you can join anyway) !!!

Beginning in August 2000 this program became a coordinated effort from a group of people that considered TRex advanced enough to get it growth to the sky instead of write a new one from scratch.

This program was written to be a web based replacement for Outlook Express or Netscape Mail. As you can see from the screen shots, TRex looks more like a typical desktop mail application than do most web applications. On the main screen there are actually 4 different frames with information, all tied together with javascript.These scripts do not hand out email addresses or do any other account setup other than that needed to check and store user mail. Users need to already have a POP server account and SMTP server account to read or send mail through TRex.

Alex Hart wrote this program to improve his Perl skills and to have a good, web based email account. Email is something many people use every day, and nothing out there looked good enough. Alex wanted a web based email account without ads and without a size limit, so he tried to put in the exact features what he like to use in an e-mail program, both features seen in other mail programs, and some have never seen. This is a feature rich mail program, but there are limitations to web applications.

This is a work in progress, and probably will be forever.

PROGRAM NAME

If there is something else out there called TRex, this has nothing to do with it. If another TRex entity does exist and this has any legal ramifications, you may want to change the references to it, or at least take all mention of it off any web pages that are displayed (i.e. The TRex Login screen).

Contributors

This is a list of all the people that had contributed to TRex with time, code or any other way:

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TRex version 2.1.2

User's Guide - About TRex