This program is free for any use (except you can’t sell it obviously).
• Contents
What Bolo Finder Does
Using Bolo Finder
How It Works
Limitations
Small Print
Warranty
Fine Print
Acknowledgements
Version History
The Author
• What Bolo Finder Does
Bolo Finder connects to Mike Ellis’ Bolo Tracker and displays the output. Thats all.
• Using Bolo Finder
Launch it. It will display what it receives or a (not-very informative) error message. You can update the display with the Update command (intuitive hey? well what do you expect, its a Mac right? :-). You can set the host and port of the Bolo Tracker information using the Preferences menu.
• How It Works
Bolo Finder simply connects to the host/port specified in the Preferences menu, and displays the returned text in a window. Thats it.
• Limitations
Bolo Finder requires MacTCP, but it should work with System 6 or 7, and probably requires the 128k ROM (or later).
• Small Print
This program is Freeware, you can use it or distribute it as long as you don’t charge for it (reasonable download costs such as Compu$erve are ok I guess (although who would call Compu$erve’s download costs reasonable?)). It would probably be a good idea to keep this documentation file with the program, but I’m hardly likely to check up on you now am I! I don’t guarantee any support, but I always answer my Email. If I don’t answer Email it’s because your message didn’t get to me, or my reply bounced (so try again, and include a valid internet address if you can). It may be included on the Info-Mac CD, but not on any other CDs without my permission. It may NOT be included on any disk costing more than US$5 without my permission.
• Warranty
There is absolutely NO warranty, guarantee, hint, suggestion or anything else that would lead anyone to think that Bolo Finder does anything stated in this documentation. It usually does not destroy data (systems, hardware, etc), and has sometimes worked on my Mac with System 7.1. It will probably not work with the 64k ROM. It might work with the other models, but I don't have them all, so I don't know. If it works on your system (or especially if it doesn’t!), send me a postcard or some Email and let me know!
• Fine Print
Peter Lewis hereby disclaims all warranties relating to this software, whether express or implied, including without limitation any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. Peter Lewis will not be liable for any special, incidental, consequential, indirect or similar damages due to loss of data or any other reason, even if Peter Lewis or an agent of his has been advised of the possibility of such damages. In no event shall Peter Lewis be liable for any damages, regardless of the form of the claim. The person using the software bears all risk as to the quality and performance of the software.
• Acknowledgements
This program obviously relies on the existance of Bolo. Thanks Stuart! Pay Stuart his shareware fee or I’ll come round and break both your legs. You have been warned. Bolo Finder also obviously wouldn’t be much use with Mike Ellis’ Bolo Tracker.
FetchNews 1.0.0b - Fetch News for use with NewsWatcher’s demo mode.
MacTCP Watcher 1.1.0 - Display MacTCP’s state information.
Bolo Finder 1.0.2 - Display the results from Mike Ellis' Bolo Tracker.
Bolo RandomMap 1.1.0 - Generate a random map for Bolo.
You can get the latest development versions from redback.cs.uwa.edu.au, but please use the major archives for released version if at all possible. Redback is a long long way from most people, and using it wastes bandwidth on the Australian-US satelite link which is overly congested already. So use the versions posted to the archives (like sumex-aim.stanford.edu or mac.archive.umich.edu), and only use the development versions if you have some specific problem - in which case tell me!)
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