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Quake Spy 1.0

This program was born out of a desire to quickly find a playable Quake
server.  I must have spent a week looking at the finger output from
[e-mail] and then manually pinging those IP addresses looking
for a server with a decent response time.  While this accomplished my
initial goal, it was hardly an acceptable solution.  Hence, the birth of
Quake Spy!

Quake Spy will attempt to finger [e-mail], parse the output,
ping those sites and display the results.  The site is pinged 4 times and
the average ping time and number of timeouts (if any) are displayed along
with the server name, map name, current number of players and the maximum
number of players on that server.

This release has been tested and (to the best of my knowledge will only)
work with Win95/NT as it uses ICMP.DLL to perform the pings.  For the time
being it is a console app.  We have plans to slap a GUI on this and spruce
it up some to allow filtering of the results and launching Quake once you
find a good server.

If you have any comments/suggestions/whatever you can send mail to:

Joe Powell, [e-mail] or
Tim Cook, [e-mail].