-=> Quoting George Fliger to Tony Pater <=-

 GF> On 31 Oct 99 12:51pm, Tony Pater wrote to All:
 
 TP>  Excuse me,  know this may sound like a daft question.
 TP>  I'm trying to use a beta of ICQ for OS/2 (icq153beta)
 
 

 GF> You need to go over to www.mirabilis.com (I believe I spelled that
 GF> right) and register with them to get an ICQ ID.  Once you have that
 GF> you should be able to run your ICQ client and fill in your ID
 GF> information from what mirabilis.com gave you when you registered. 
 GF> After that, you're home free.
 GF> George


 Did go to the http address George (thanks), however, the procedure
 is different (It may be true for Windows/Macs, but it's simpler
 with this prog).
 Basically I had to tell ICQ that I didn't have an ID whilst on
 the Web. A minute or so later a pop-up message appeared on the
 screen advising my ICQ ID number. There was nothing to indicate
 that this ICQ beta as doing this, so I was rummaging around 
 Mirabilis.com with the java enabled browser. Mirabelis doesn't 
 have a specific script to get an ID number which is what threw me
 before. 
 Apparently the Windows version of ICQ which comes on a CDrom
 does all this automatically. This OS/2 beta doesn't go into
 an explanation of how to get an ID ...... it's a background
 process and nothing to indicate it's handshaking with Mirabelis
 to obtain an ID for a new user.

 Thanks for helping me out here ..... it was a real puzzler and
 the Mirabelis web pages (being Windows centric) ... no help.

 GF> ... Party at Chez Tony!

 Hey .... I'm a real killjoy 

 Zaijian
 Tony
 Sydney, Oz
 Sat 11-13-1999  1:07:27 am

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