FTPit 1.1 for Windows and Macintosh
2001, Comm-Unity Networking Systems - All Rights Reserved.

Before using FTPit, please read through the License Agreement
included with this archive.


Description:

FTPit is a FileMaker Pro 4.x/5.x plug-in that allows you to connect
to and transfer files between your computer and a FTP site using
the File Transfer Protocol. You do not need any external application
to send the files, only this plug-in and FileMaker Pro. For a
complete description of how to use FTPit, please consult the FTPit
Guide provided with this archive in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format.


Contents:

- Installation
- Quick Start
- Features
- Feedback
- Purchasing FTPit
- How to Contact CNS
- FTPit History
- Known Issues


Installation:

Windows:

To install the plug-in on the Windows platform, first quit
FileMaker Pro if it is open. Next unzip the contents of the
FTPit zip file into a directory. After you have unziped the
zip file into a directory, run the FTPit_Installer application.

NOTE: The installer WILL NOT run from inside an unzipping program
like WinZip. You MUST unzip the file into a directory first.

The installer will place the FTPit Plug-in file into the "System"
directory located in your FileMaker Pro 4.x/5.x directory. If you
have a previous version of FTPit installed, the installer will
overwrite it. The next time you open FileMaker Pro the plug-in will
automatically be active.

Macintosh:

To install the plug-in on the Macintosh platform, first quit
FileMaker Pro if it is open. Next unstuff the contents of the
FTPit Stuffit file into a folder. After you have unstuffed the
Stuffit file into a folder, run the FTPit_Installer application.

The installer will place the FTPit Plug-in file into the
"FileMaker Extensions" folder located in your FileMaker Pro 4.x/5.x
directory. If you have a previous version of FTPit installed, the
installer will overwrite it. The next time you open FileMaker Pro
the plug-in will automatically be active.


Quick Start:

Once you have installed the plug-in as described above, you can
go to Edit->Preferences->Application, click on the Plug-ins tab,
and double-click the FTPit plug-in to configure the Default
Settings.

Once in the configuration box, click the "Basics" tab and enter
your FTP server in the FTP Host field. You can also enter in a
Default Username and Default Password on this tab.

We have provided example databases to get you started working with
FTPit. The first database is the FTPit_Text_Upload_Example database
which shows you how to upload text from a FileMaker Pro field to
your FTP site. The documentation explains in detail how this
database works.

The second database is the FTPit_Example database which is set up
like an FTP client. This database allows you to connect to an FTP
site, browse the files and folders, and download or upload files.
To navigate the folders and to download or upload files, you
"double-click" on them. You are actually clicking twice instead of
double-clicking, but it gives the same effect.

The FTPit_Text_Upload_Example and the FTPit_Example databases are
free and are not password protected. Feel free to examine them,
however, Comm-Unity Networking Systems maintains the copyright for
the database. Feel free to use them as examples only.


Features:

- Upload or download any file you have access to on any FTP site.
- Upload a full static webpage using only FileMaker Pro and FTPit.
- Queue up multiple uploads and downloads and sit back while they
    all get uploaded or download.
- Watch everything that FTPit is doing with its Status Window.
- Catalog all the files on an FTP site using FTPit's directory
    listing functions.

For a complete description of how to use FTPit please refer to the
FTPit_Guide.pdf file. (If you do not have Adobe Acrobat, you can
download it from Adobe at
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html)


Feedback:

Comm-Unity Networking Systems would like to know how you are using
FTPit. Send us an email telling us about your solution and we will
place a link to it on our site. We will also be creating a user
solutions section to the site for you to display solutions created
with Comm-Unity Networking Systems' plug-ins.


Purchasing FTPit:

A Single License for FTPit costs $45, a Site License is $170, and
a Developer's License is $540. A Single Educational License is also
available for $35. You can evaluate FTPit for 30 days for free,
however, After 30 days, FTPit should be removed from your hard
drive. The demo version of FTPit will display a splash screen each
time you start FileMaker Pro. Once purchased, the splash screen will
not show up again. To order FTPit from our secure website,
simply go to http://www.cnsplug-ins.com/ and choose the "Purchase"
link at the top (in the grey area).  We accept Checks, Visa,
MasterCard, and AMEX.  Money made from sales will go directly back
into making other great plug-ins like FTPit.


How to Contact CNS:

Please send any suggestions or questions to
FTPit@comm-unity.net. Updates can be downloaded from
http://www.cnsplug-ins.com/. If you wish to receive product
information you can subscribe to our newsletter by sending email
to filemakertools@comm-unity.net with the word "subscribe" in the
subject (without the quotes). If you find a bug, please use our
online Bug Report form at
http://www.cnsplug-ins.com/bug_report.htm/.


FTPit History:

-- 10-4-2001 1.1.7
               - Fixed a bug with the Register function that
                   caused it to fail if a previous version
                   of FTPit had been registered on that
                   machine.

-- 9-21-2001 1.1.6
               - Fixed a bug where the line endings on Mac
                   were not correct in ASCII mode.
               - Fixed a bug where the character set of
                   Mac files was not converted in ASCII mode.
               - Fixed a bug where FTPit would completely
                   hang FMP and the OS when closing FMP under
                   Mac OS 9.2.1.

-- 9-4-2001 1.1.5
               - Fixed a bug where the Configuration Dialog
                   was not opening properly on Mac OS X.
               - Fixed a few bugs with saving the preference
                   files on Macs with more than one volume.

-- 8-3-2001 1.1.4
               - Fixed a few problems with the MacBinary
                   transfers on Macintosh.
               - Updated the FTPit logo, fixing the drawing
                   bug in the windows splash screen.

-- 7-27-2001 1.1.3
               - Added GetPathToDB function.

-- 7-26-2001 1.1.2
               - Corrected some more file list parsing bugs.

-- 7-12-2001 1.1.1
               - Corrected the file list parsing routines for
                   some FTP servers.

-- 7-8-2001  1.1.0
               - Added support for the Mac OS X version of
                   FileMaker Pro 5.5.
               - Updated the demo splash screen to include
                   our CNS logo and added code to bring up
                   the splash screen every 60 minutes. We
                   had to do this, unfortunately, because
                   some users were abusing our demos.

-- 5-21-2001 1.0.0
               - Released out of Beta
               - doFTP-Port function and Default Port field
                   added to the Configuration Dialog so that
                   a non-standard TCP/IP FTP port can be used.
               - "Advanced" tab added to Configuration Dialog.

-- 5-9-2001  1.0b6
               - Added code to clear the Queue when you
                   disconnect. If you disconnected in the
                   middle of uploading or downloading, and
                   then reconnected, you couldn't do things
                   like change directories because it
                   thought you were uploading or downloading.

-- 4-27-2001 1.0b5
               - Fixed a bug in the Macintosh version that
                   caused the Text Upload example database
                   to not work.
               - Fixed a bug in the Installer applications
                   where both the FMP4 and FMP5 checkboxes
                   were greyed-out (unclickable).
               - Fixed a few minor things in some of the
                   databases (references to .fp3 databases
                   in .fp5 databases, hiding the status
                   window on shutdown, etc.).

-- 4-22-2001 FTPit 1.0b4 released into public beta.


Known Issues:

-- Macintosh: You must close the FTPit Status Window before
closing FileMaker Pro. If you do not, FileMaker Pro will give
you an error stating that it cannot write to the disk. The
easiest way to ensure that the FTPit Status Window is closed
is to put a call to doFTP-HideStatus in a Close script that
you define in Edit->Preferences->Document for your main
database.


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