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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 NSSM: The Non-Sucking Service Manager
-Version 2.4, 2010-09-23
+Version 2.13, 2012-05-20
 
 NSSM is a service helper program similar to srvany and cygrunsrv.  It can 
 start any application as an NT service and will restart the service if it 
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ NSSM also has a graphical service installer and remover.
 
 Full documentation can be found online at
 
-                           http://iain.cx/src/nssm/
+                              http://nssm.cc/
 
 Since version 2.0, the GUI can be bypassed by entering all appropriate 
 options on the command line.
@@ -22,6 +22,16 @@ based on the exit code of the managed application.
 
 Since version 2.3, NSSM logs to the Windows event log more elegantly.
 
+Since version 2.5, NSSM respects environment variables in its parameters.
+
+Since version 2.8, NSSM tries harder to shut down the managed application
+gracefully and throttles restart attempts if the application doesn't run
+for a minimum amount of time.
+
+Since version 2.11, NSSM respects srvany's AppEnvironment parameter.
+
+Since version 2.13, NSSM is translated into French.
+Thanks François-Régis Tardy.
 
 Usage
 -----
@@ -66,12 +76,25 @@ action if/when the application dies.
 
 With no configuration from you, NSSM will try to restart itself if it notices
 that the application died but you didn't send it a stop signal.  NSSM will
-keep trying, pausing 30 seconds between each attempt, until the service is
-successfully started or you send it a stop signal.
+keep trying, pausing between each attempt, until the service is successfully
+started or you send it a stop signal.
+
+NSSM will pause an increasingly longer time between subsequent restart attempts
+if the service fails to start in a timely manner, up to a maximum of four
+minutes.  This is so it does not consume an excessive amount of CPU time trying
+to start a failed application over and over again.  If you identify the cause
+of the failure and don't want to wait you can use the Windows service console
+(where the service will be shown in Paused state) to send a continue signal to
+NSSM and it will retry within a few seconds.
+
+By default, NSSM defines "a timely manner" to be within 1500 milliseconds.
+You can change the threshold for the service by setting the number of
+milliseconds as a REG_DWORD value in the registry at
+HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\<service>\Parameters\AppThrottle.
 
 NSSM will look in the registry under
 HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\<service>\Parameters\AppExit for
-string (REG_SZ) values corresponding to the exit code of the application.
+string (REG_EXPAND_SZ) values corresponding to the exit code of the application.
 If the application exited with code 1, for instance, NSSM will look for a
 string value under AppExit called "1" or, if it does not find it, will
 fall back to the AppExit (Default) value.  You can find out the exit code
@@ -150,12 +173,25 @@ Building NSSM from source
 NSSM is known to compile with Visual Studio 6, Visual Studio 2005 and Visual
 Studio 2008.
 
+NSSM will also compile with Visual Studio 2010 but the resulting executable
+will not run on versions of Windows older than XP SP2.
+
 
 Credits
 -------
 Thanks to Bernard Loh for finding a bug with service recovery.
 Thanks to Benjamin Mayrargue (www.softlion.com) for adding 64-bit support.
 Thanks to Joel Reingold for spotting a command line truncation bug.
+Thanks to Arve Knudsen for spotting that child processes of the monitored
+application could be left running on service shutdown, and that a missing
+registry value for AppDirectory confused NSSM.
+Thanks to Peter Wagemans and Laszlo Keresztfalvi for suggesting throttling restarts.
+Thanks to Eugene Lifshitz for finding an edge case in CreateProcess() and for
+advising how to build messages.mc correctly in paths containing spaces.
+Thanks to Rob Sharp for pointing out that NSSM did not respect the
+AppEnvironment registry value used by srvany.
+Thanks to Szymon Nowak for help with Windows 2000 compatibility.
+Thanks to François-Régis Tardy for French translation.
 
 Licence
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