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╔══════════════════════════════ ┌─────────────────┐ ║ MTL Make Them List/Log │ D.I.S.P. │────┐ ║ │ │░░░░│ ╟────────────────────────────── │ │░░░░│ ║ (c) 1993 Robert W.van Hoeven │ Dutch │░░░░│ ╟────────────────────────────── │ Independent │░░░░│ ║ Release : 15.35 │ ShareWare │░░░░│ ║ Rel.Date: February 22th, 1993 │ Programmer│░░░░│ ╠══════════════════════════════ └─────────────────┘░░░░│ ║ | │░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░│ ║ │ MTL.EXE | └─────────────────┘ ║ │ | ┌─────┐ | ║ │ | │░░░░░│ | ║ │ | └──┬──┘ | ║ │ Lines starting with '│' are | ┌────┴────┐ | ║ │ changes to release 15.30 ------││││││ ═══│------- ║ └─────────┘ ╠═══════════════════════════════ ║ Address: Robert W. van Hoeven ║ PO. Box 131 ║ 1170 AC Badhoevedorp ║ Nederland / Holland ╚═══════════════════════════════ ┌───────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ 0 │ Table of contents │ └───────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ 1 ---- General information 1.1 Copyrights and License Agreement 1.2 Newer versions and contacting the author 2 ---- Package description and requirements 2.1 Preface 2.2 Requirements 2.3 Usage 3 ---- Installation description 3.1 Installation 3.2 Remarks on archives 3.3 MTA.CTL 4 ---- Runtime information 4.1 Running MTL 5 ---- Version information and credits 5.1 The BETA-team 5.2 Credits 5.3 Version history 5.4 Copyright, Trademarks ┌───────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ 1 │ General information │ └───────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ 1.1 Copyrights and License Agreement ──────────────────────────────────── - Users of the MTA-package must accept this disclaimer of warranty: - The MTA-package is supplied as is. The author disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability and of fitness for any purpose. The author assumes no liability for damages, direct or consequential, which may result from the use of the MTA-package; - The MTA-package is a "shareware program" and is provided at no charge to the user for evaluation. Feel free to share it with your friends, but please do not give it away altered or as part of another system. The essence of "user-supported" software is to provide personal computer users with quality software without high prices, and yet to provide incentive for programmers to continue to develop new products. - If you find this program useful and find that you are using and continue the use of the MTA-package after a 30 days trial period, you must register the MTA-package as described below; - Non-commercial can get a license for the usage up to this release of the MTA-package for a small amount of money. Look into the details in REGISTER.MTA. Previous registered users will receive a big reduction to upgrade to the newer versions. These users should look into the details in UPGRADE.MTA. For Non-commercial users there is a POSSIBILITY to submit to one of the special contracts as explained in the file REGISTER.MTA. - Commercial usage of MTA will cost somewhat more. Also, a so called 'closed' Bulletin Board System (a system where the user must pay direct to the SysOp to get full access) is has to pay more than a Non-commercial user. Both types of users should look into the details in REGISTER.MTA; - The registration of the MTA-package will license ONE copy for use on any computer at any one time, as long as the usage confirms to the type of registration you have done (so NON-commercial usage when you have a non-commercial license); - Anyone distributing the MTA-package for any kind of remuneration must first contact the Author at the address above for authorization. - You are encouraged to pass a copy of the MTA-package along to your friends for evaluation. Please encourage them to register their copy if they find that they can use it; - Support on MTA, when used in a non-commercial environment, is available by means of written letters or by entering the inter- national echomail area DISP; - Problems and suggestions can be entered in the FidoNet <tm> Echomail conference <tm> called DISP (international). Entering this echo does not exclude you of the duty to register the MTA-package, though users who evaluate the product can enter the echo for questions; - The MTA-package, all programs, the documentation and support-files is copyrighted 1990,93 by Robert W. van Hoeven, PO. Box 131, Badhoevedorp 1170AC, Holland. All rights are reserved. You may copy this package for backup purposes. Also you may copy and share unmodified copies of the whole package, providing that the copyright notice is reproduced and included on all copies. Excluded from this statement are the support-files written by other authors. Please refer to the documentation of these programs for copyrights and license agreements; - It is forbidden to modify, adapt, translate, reverse engineer, decompile and/or disassemble the software in the MTA-package. Patching the medium at places that carry the software is seen as a program change and is also forbidden. It is forbidden to create a so called 'bypass' to skip the original introduction screens and delay. Also it is forbidden to use such a 'bypass' unless supplied by the author (Robert W. van Hoeven) himself; - Performing any of the illegal actions as stated in the previous lines, is a theft and no fair play to the author and, more important, to the registered users; - Bulletin Board Systems that distribute the MTA package can convert the WHOLE package to any archive-system they like but all original files must be included in the new archive. The MTA-package on the Bulletin Board can contain at the most 2 extra files. These files can only be a commercial for that Bulletin Board and/or validation data that is presented as a service to all users and shall have no other functions; - After the normal trial period of 30 days, you must register the soft- ware (see REGISTER.MTA) or you must remove it from your PC; - Comments, suggestions and bug reports are welcome and will be answered as soon I have the time to do so. You can send me a letter of leave a NetMail <tm> message named to Rob Van.hoeven (mind the point) on node 2:512/100 (RA Support, Monster, Holland, SysOp is Reinier de Groot). When you want to send me normal mail, address it to: Robert W. van Hoeven, PO. Box 131, 1171 AC Badhoevedorp, Holland; Also you can enter messages in the FidoNet <tm> DISP Echomail <tm> area; 1.2 Newer versions and contacting the author ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── The newest version of MTA is always available at the DISP-HQ on node 2:512/100. MTA is also distributed thru a number of DISP support nodes. There are three ways of obtaining newer versions of MTA: - Logging on at DISP-HQ or a support node Look into the file SUPPORT.MTA for a full list of support nodes; - Logging on to a SDS node MTA is distributed thru SDS/SDN, but only big minors (x.10, x.20 and so on) and majors (14.01, 15.01 and so on) are submitted to the SDS distribution point in Holland; - Logging on to your own BBS; Chances are, that you will find an older version (international users) because it will take some time for the new version to 'bleed' thru the net; - Update service; You can enter a special update service (read REGISTER.MTA). If you think you have found problems in MTA, or in any other case, you wish to contact the author, you can send me: - A letter to the address you can find in the header of this file; - A NetMail <tm> message to Rob Van.hoeven (please mind the point between Van and Hoeven) at 2:512/100 or (better) 2:512/100.5; - A Message in the FidoNet <tm> DISP echomail <tm> area; ┌───────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ 2 │ Package description and requirements │ └───────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ 2.1 Preface ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── MTL is an add-on utility for MTA and is distributed in the same release archive that contains MTA. This program may) NOT be distributed as a stand-alone package. 2.2 Requirements ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── MTL requires: - PC XT/AT/386 - At least 300K free memory - DOS 3.xx (4.xx not tested) (also tested under 4Dos); - HDU optional - MTA's original CTL-alike file - MTA's logging files 2.3 Usage ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── MTL comes as an add-on to MTA. MTA can create a log-file (look into the LogPath option in MTADOCEN.DOC) which contains all relevant information from previous runs. This log-file can, in time, get very large. MTL is written with two options in mind: 1) MTL can compile the information in the MTA log-file into one screen of usefull information. This information will show the number of files converted up to now (splitting most of the popular archive extensions) and the total reduction (growth) as a result of this conversion; 2) MTL can optionally strip redunant information from the log-file. When you choose to compress the log, MTL will read ALL log-file records and will create a new log-file, containing only a few lines (between 1 and 20 lines). All other information is removed. When you use a log-file that is accessed by other programs as well (mailer, BBS program and so on), you must take care of this infor- mation BEFORE you compress the log with MTL, otherwise all this information is gone. When you compress the MTA-log, MTL will also write a second log-file, containing the filenames of all files that have been compressed with MTA and that had a negative reduction (so they got bigger, not smaller). You can use this log to your own needs and throw it away (MTA.NEG) after you have (or not have) taken a look inside; MTL will also compress and clean the AV-log. This compress is ALWAYS done (so if you reply 'N' to the compress question in MTL, the AV-log will still be compressed). Compressing is done in one simple way. All records with the same AV-code AND same AV-names will be reduced to one record with the AV-code and the AV-name. After the com- press, all records will be in ascending order. MTA will append new records to this log, but with the next run of MTL, they will be sorted in place (or removed when they are duplicate). ┌───────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ 3 │ Installation description │ └───────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ 3.1 Installation ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── See the documentation for MTA (MTADOCEN.DOC). 3.2 Remarks on archives ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── MTL does not use any archivers. It will only process the MTA-log file. 3.3 MTA.CTL ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── MTL will use some of the MTA options. In general all special options in MTA (exits, CRC, Virus, includes and so on) are not used but all logging option ARE used. MTL MUST find a file called MTA.CTL somewhere in the DOS-path (later versions will fix this limitation). When you use another name for the MTA.CTL alike file, you need to copy this file to MTA.CTL, somewhere in the DOS-path to make MTL work. ┌───────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ 4 │ Runtime Information │ └───────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ 4.1 Running MTL ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── The calling syntax of MTL is: MTL {/BATCH} /BATCH : If this option is supplied, MTL will run unattended (batch mode) and no questions will be asked. If the LOGTHRESHOLD option in MTA.CTL is set, MTL will cleanup the MTA-log when the total size of the log is greater than the value you did supply with this option, MTL will compress the log. MTL will do give a warning while running unattended but without the LOGTHRESHOLD option in MTA.CTL. In unattended mode (/BATCH), MTL will make no noice (beeps and bells) when registered. ┌───────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ 5 │ Version information and credits │ └───────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ 5.1 The BETA-team ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── See the file SUPPORT.MTA for a full list of beta-testers; 5.2 Credits ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── See MTADOCEN.DOC 5.3 Version history ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ┌───────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ 15.05 │ Minor Release │ └───────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ ■ Added options to compress the MTA.AVS log (AV-log) if it is set in the MTA.CTL alike file. ■ Fixed bug in the processing of the 'negative' log. The new log that contains the negative reduced files did not display the name of the file in question. This is fixed; ┌───────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ 15.06 │ Version Release │ └───────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ ■ Only version number is changed; ┌───────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ 15.07 │ Version Release │ └───────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ ■ Only version number is changed; ┌───────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ 15.08 │ Version Release │ └───────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ ■ Only version number is changed; ┌───────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ 15.10 │ Version Release │ └───────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ ■ Only version number is changed; ┌───────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ 15.20 │ Version Release │ └───────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ ■ Changed the reports. LZS is moved to the group 'OTHER' and replaced by SQZ. The first compression of the LOG-file will add the remaining LZS files to the 'OTHER' group; ┌───────┬────────────────────────────┐ │ 15.21 │ Bug release │ └───────┴────────────────────────────┘ ■ Some new routines caused a number of cosmetic bugs. These are now fixed (registered users!!!). Also registered users should unpack the supplied MTA__REG.EXE (which contains MTAREG.EXE and MTAREG.DOC) and run the MTAREG.EXE file once; ┌───────┬────────────────────────────┐ │ 15.30 │ Major release │ └───────┴────────────────────────────┘ ■ Added command-line parameter to run MTL in unattended mode while MTL is reducing the log-files (/BATCH); ■ MTL will detect the LOGTHRESHOLD option in MTA.CTL. If MTL is run in batch-mode, it will only reduce the log-file if the total size of this file is larger than the value supplied with LOGTHRESHOLD; ┌───────┬────────────────────────────┐ │ 15.35 │ Minor release │ └───────┴────────────────────────────┘ ■ Nothing changed in this version of this program. 5.4 Copyrights, Trademarks ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── PKPAK, PKUNPAK, PKZIP and PKUNZIP are trademarks of PKWare Inc. SQZ is a trademark of Jonas I Hammarberg. PAK is a trademark of NoGate Consulting. ARC is a trademark of SEA inc. ZOO is a trademark of R. Dhesi. DWC is a trademark of Dean W. Cooper LZH and LHarc are trademarks of Yoshi; LZS and LARC are trademarks of K.Miki H.Okumura and K.Masuyama ARJ is a trademark of Robert K. Jung HYPER is a trademark of Peter Sawatzki and Klaus Peter Nischke 4Dos is a trademark of Rex Conn and JP software │MTL is written in Borland Pascal 7.0, with help of the Turbo Debugger │3.0 and makes extensive use of Object Professional 1.20 and OPCFI V │16.10. Some routines are obtained from TurboPower's Asynch │Professional 1.10. Both STRG and SYS (6.1 and 6.0a, commercial │version) are included. Sources are edited with BRIEF 3.1; Borland Pascal is a trademark of Borland International Turbo Debugger is a trademark of Borland International Object Professional is a trademark of TurboPower Inc. Asynch Professional is a trademark of TurboPower Inc. │Pascal+ is a trademark of StonyBrook software Inc. OPCFI is a trademark of Robert W. van Hoeven STRG and SYS are trademarks of Eagle Performance Software BRIEF is a trademark SolutionSystem [======================== END OF DOCUMENT ============================]