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- About Argus
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- Full-new revolutionary Multinode BinkStyle Fidonet-Technology Mailer
- for Windows 95 and Windows NT, featuring Dialup (Hydra, ZModem) and
- TCP/IP (ifcico, telnet, binkp) transports, native 32-bit multithread
- processing, multinode operation, comfortable graphical user interface,
- powerful burn-in Outbound Manager and Nodelist Tree Browser, Fax
- Receiving, Powerful Event System, Scheduling.
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- Under the supervision of
- Red Gigabyte Project
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- Argus is a comprehensive FTN Mailer designed to work as a multi-line
- system using two widely used data exchange transports - Dial-up networking
- and TCP/IP - simultaneously.
- Argus interacts with remote systems using protocols and technology
- standards described in this chapter. Because Argus is built on FTN
- Technology (FidoNet Technology Network), it supports standards and
- proposals developed by FTN commitee, common standards of FTN mail
- system functions are also supported by Argus.
- This is the list of FTN standards and proposals that Argus is compliant
- to. Descriptions of those standards can be obtained from ftp.fidonet.org.
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- Nodelist (FTS-0005)
- EMSI Handshake (FSC-0056)
- WaZOO mail session and file requests (FTS-0006)
- Zmodem file transfer protocol
- Hydra file transfer protocol (FSC-0072)
- Working Time Nodelist flag (FSC-0062)
- Binkley-style Outbound
- BinkP Transfer Protocol
- List of Major Benefits by using Argus
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- True multitasking using Win32 API
- True multi-line mailing system
- Extended TCP/IP support
- True multitasking using Win32 API
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- Argus is a Win32 native application, it is written using the advantages
- of Win32 Application Programming Interface (API) designed in Windows
- NT and Windows 95. The major advantage - multitasking - gives Argus
- the possibility to use system resources with maximum performance
- (especially on multi-processor systems), because most of communication
- processes could be divided into parallel ones. At the same time,
- using separate threads for events handling, communication data reading
- and writing allows Argus to work with a minimum system load, so all
- other tasks running in a system can function without any delays.
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- Multi-line mailing system
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- Because Argus is a true multi-line mailing system, configuration
- and co-ordination of all lines is truly quick and easy. There are
- no special limitations to number of concurrent connections - it just
- depends on a users' possibilities and requirements. The data transfer
- with a node can be established either via Dial-up or TCP/IP transport
- - this is determined by transport availability.
- Dial-up lines can be started automatically at Argus start-up or manually
- by a user's request with System / Open Dial-up Line menu command.
- Each dial-up line requires a communication port, so the number of
- dial-up lines being active simultaneously is limited by the number
- of communication ports in a system.
- TCP/IP lines are created and disposed as a result of TCP/IP Daemon
- functioning. As soon as Argus detects an incoming TCP/IP connection
- or a new poll via TCP/IP in the Poll Manager, Daemon creates a new
- mailing system line and starts a mail transfer protocol. When a TCP/IP
- session finishes, Daemon closes the line and ends the connection.
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- Extended TCP/IP support
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- Argus supports protocol-independent transport interface of WinSocket
- 2.0 (which is currently included in Windows NT version 4.0). Using
- WinSocket 2.0 allows you work seamlessly with a number of transport
- protocols such as TCP/IP, X.25 etc., use protocol-independent symbolic
- host name resolution (for example, SAP, X.500 etc., not only DNS),
- Win32-overlapped input/output modes, shared sockets, conditional
- acceptance etc.
- The current version of Argus supports the most widely used WAN protocol
- - TCP/IP. In future versions we are planning to implement support
- for other protocols.
- In regard of WinSock 2.0 and Win32 use and the mulit-threaded program
- architecture, host name resolution, connection and disconnection's,
- input/output operations with TCP/IP are functioning as parallel processes;
- such way of operation provides optimal resource usage and minimum
- system load.
- TCP/IP Daemon is the centre of control for all TCP/IP operations.
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- Argus is a Shareware
- Read the license for details, mail us argus@ritlabs.com
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- Copyright - 1997 RIT Research Labs. All rights reserved.
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