<h3>What is Vole 2</h3>

Vole 2 is a moderate rewrite of parts of Vole 1 to use the Unicode UTF8 coding in Vole's database.

Vole2 will look exactly like Vole 1 except it will now display messages in all foreign scripts available in Unicode. And of course, the all important Emoji if  you like that sort of thing.

Vole 2 is made available for testing purposes only at the moment.

<h3>What's available?</h3>

Vole 2.0.0 will soon be made available for testing.

<h3>What doesn't work in Vole 2.0.0</h3>

You should avoid going online to CIX, both to pickup messages and post messages.
I have not yet rewritten the relevant code that deals with this, and Vole 2 will most likely crash if you try to post messages.

To avoid going online, set your user name in Preferences to a blank string. At least it will then prompt you if you try to go online.

Acronyms do not work.  Smart folders are a bit iffy.

<h3>How can I tell if I am running Vole 2?</h3>

The window title and the status bar will both contain the text <<<<Vole 2 Alpha>>>>.  The Vole->About and Vole->Developer menus will both tell you the current version of Vole.

<h3>What can I use Vole for?</h3>

You could export your favourite conference in Vole 1 and import it into Vole 2.  Don't try to export the whole message base as it is very slow

I will soon make available a small conversion program which will load
Vole 2's database from Vole 1's.

<h3>Can Vole 1 and 2 be run at the same time?</h3>

No. You will get a warning alert it you try that.

<h3>Do Vole 1 and 2 coexist?</h3>

Yes. They use seperate databases and preference files. Mugshots and log files are shared at the moment.

<h3>Do I need to set the Preferences?</h3>

Yes. Preferences are not transferred from Vole 1. It is possible to copy the prefernces if you know what you are doing, but this is not recommended.