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- ║ MTA_CRC MTA Validate call │ D.I.S.P. │────┐
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- ║ (c) 1991 Robert W.van Hoeven │ Dutch │░░░░│
- ╟────────────────────────────── │ Independent │░░░░│
- ║ Release : 14.55 │ ShareWare │░░░░│
- ║ Rel.Date: 1th September 1991 │ Programmer│░░░░│
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- ║ Address: Robert W. van Hoeven
- ║ PO. Box 131
- ║ 1170 AC Badhoevedorp
- ║ Nederland / Holland
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-
- Copyrights and License Agreement
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-
- - 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 licence 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 licence 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 licence);
-
- - 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 echomaol 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 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 licence agreements;
-
- - It is forbidden to modify, adapt, translate, reverse engineer, de-
- compile 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;
-
-
-
- Newer versions and contacting the author
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- The newest version of MTA is always available on 2:512/100 (Remote
- Access Support). You can obtain MTA in three ways:
-
- - Logging on to 2:512/100.
- In this case you have the possibility to look at tons of inter-
- resting files with specialized area's for RA and so on. It is a
- so called 'closed' board. Peeking around will cost nothing, you
- must pay for full access. 2:512/100 is the real start of all
- DISP programs in the real world. DISP-HQ (2:512/100.5) is a board
- you cannot access, but my BOSS will always get the newest version
- first;
-
- - 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;
- - A Message in the FidoNet <tm> DISP echomail <tm> area;
-
-
- Description
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- This utility program is designed for a BBS-configuration, working
- with MTA, normal users won't have much fun with this program !!!
-
- When you want to include a file with CRC's of the current files
- inside the compressed file as a normal file in the compressed
- file (for viral check or something else), you can use normal
- CRC-routines like CRC.EXE or CRC32.EXE. In this case, look into
- the file MTABETWN.BAT (inside MTA__BAT.EXE).
-
- There are two problems with this kind of calls:
-
- - The number of files CRC'ed depend on the CRC-routine itself
- (can in use *.*, can output be redirected, can lower directories
- also be included in the CRC mechanism);
- - The way you work is somewhat 'non-standard';
-
- I can imagine you would like ALL files to be CRC'ed. Currently there
- is a good alternative for a somewhat 'standard' type of CRC and that
- is McAfee's VALIDATE.COM <tm>. This program has only one limitation,
- you can only validate one file at a time.
-
- MTA_CRC will create a file with output of all VALIDATE calls for all
- files in the current and lower (if the output of the compressed
- source was recursive and the target compressor supports this).
-
- MTA_CRC must be called somewhere like this:
-
- MTA_DIR filename
-
- 'Filename' must point to a full (path, name) filename in ANOTHER
- directory than the current (because otherwise 'filename' is also
- listed in the directory) and MTA_CRC's output will be redirected
- this file. DO NOT use the redirection characters. MTA_CRC will
- deal with them internally (>>filename).
-
- If you DO NOT use the parameter in the call, MTA_CRC will create
- a file VALIDATE.CRC in the current directory, containing all
- files in that (and lower) directory.
-
- Please look into MTABETWE.BAT (inside MTA__BAT.EXE) for an example
- of MTA_CRC's usage.