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The Winsock Client Listing August 1995 Introduction Winsock: a Windows Internet standard ("Windows Sockets"). The Winsock standard essentially defines an interface between Windows applications and a network such as the Internet. This is a detailed listing of Winsock based Freeware and Shareware packages used in connecting to the Internet, either through a modem or a direct network connection. I have indicated if there is a prime or preferred location where the latest version of each package is usually available. Alternatively, with the file names and associated data supplied, most of these packages can also be readily found elsewhere on the Internet with search and retrieval tools like Archie, FTP, Gopher and WAIS. At the present time the better of these are at least equivalent to and even superior to the corresponding modules in commercial packages that you can buy, although there is not really a lot in the marketplace to begin with. This situation will dramatically change over the next year or two, but for now, and in particular for the home based user, Freeware/Shareware is usually the best choice. You can try out different packages until you find the ones with the features you want, and that you are comfortable with. Where registration is required the fees are usually quite reasonable and can bring additional benefits in additional documentation, technical support and upgrades with additional or uncrippled features. Using these packages with a modem requires at a minimum: 1. Windows 3.1. 2. A "SLIP" or "PPP" account with an Internet provider. Some providers charge extra for this feature. If this is not available or too expensive from your service provider, the innovative program TIA (The Internet Adapter) provides an alternate option. 3. A special communications package or a combination of compatible packages installed on your PC which can provide the following: a. Modem dialing capability b. Support for a SLIP or PPP connection. c. Support for the Winsock standard (i.e. a winsock.dll file included). Unfortunately most of the regular commercial and Shareware communications software commonly used to access other on-line services do not currently have these features and therefore cannot be used for a Windows connection to the Internet. This is quite surprising considering how popular the Internet has become and reflects poorly on these commercial software providers. The best communications package currently available which does work is Peter Tattam's Shareware package Trumpet Winsock. It has both manual and automated dialing, supports both SLIP and PPP (in the latest versions) and includes a winsock.dll file to enable Winsock compatible programs to function. The automated dialing does require you to create a suitable and rather archaic login "script", or alternatively to use a better separate stand alone dial program. See the Index for the section providing additional information on the very popular and widely used Trumpet Winsock. I have tried to keep the terminology as simple as possible, but, as Einstein discovered, everything is relative. At the end of this listing I have included a series of chapters containing references to some supplemental reading material. For a better understanding of the Internet terms "Winsock" and "SLIP", a follow up on the suggested reading material is a beginning. Why Windows ? Typically when you sign up for an Internet account from a service provider you receive a UNIX shell account. This account on your provider's server gives you access to a mail program, Usenet news, Archie, File Transfer Protocol, Gopher, etc. Everything you will need is usually available to you through your shell account. Why then Windows? 1. Reduction in some connection charges. A shell account is an on-line account - you must be logged on to use it. Some Windows programs enable activities to be done offline. For example, while you read and compose your mail on a shell account you are paying connection charges for the time taken. Windows mail programs allow you to read and compose mail offline, connecting only long enough for uploading and downloading. 2. Windows may be a familiar environment. If you are comfortable working with Windows with other applications in the past then Windows provides a friendlier environment than UNIX based programs with their archaic keyboard commands and unfriendly and clunky interfaces. 3. Freedom of choice. There is an increasingly wide variety of Winsock software available. With this freedom of choice, if one program doesn't have the features or performance you want you can look for another to install. 4. Multimedia capabilities. Sound. Graphics. Video. 5. Multitasking. You can be downloading a file with FTP from a remote site, downloading your mail and be browsing through newsgroup postings all at the same time with Windows software. The ability to perform multiple operations with different Winsock programs simultaneously over the same single modem connection is one of the key features of the Winsock standard. The downside to all these advantages of Windows packages is the sometimes considerable setup and configuration time which may be required for each individual one. Most of the above advantages are of course equally applicable to other graphical based platforms such as Mac and OS/2 Warp. The Winsock software described in this listing is only usable with Windows, or with OS/2 Warp through its Windows interface, although not all Winsock programs will work with Warp. One final note. The Winsock standard is currently set at version 1.1. This version number refers to the documented industry standard only. Individual software programs which comply with this standard have their own separate version numbers. For example Trumpet Winsock is available in an older version 1.0 (SLIP only) and in a newer version 2.0 (SLIP/PPP). Both of these comply with the Winsock 1.1 standard. The version number of any individual program is more a reflection of its other features and capabilities and does not change the fact that it complies with the 1.1 standard. There is often confusion between the version number of the Winsock standard and the version numbers of individual programs which are designed to use that standard. Some Details About This Listing The `Life is Cruel' standard disclaimer - As with everything you use these programs at your own risk. I accept no responsibility. In virtually all cases the authors of these programs similarly accept no responsibility if their creations trash your hard drive or crash your system. Such occurrences are very rare, but they can happen. Whether the fault of the program, your failure to read and follow the documentation or unforeseen factors, in using these programs you accept full responsibility for any consequences. Feedback on this listing is always appreciated. I am constantly looking for ways to improve it and welcome suggestions as well as information on items which I may have missed and which deserve to be included. B*U*G*S. Bugs are almost in^%evitable in any kind of software under development as many of these are. Please give the author a chance. If you have carefully followed the instructions and are sure that there is a problem with a particular program which is not already mentioned in the documentation, contact the author first, AND give him some reasonable time to respond. If you don't tell him about it he can't fix it! It's rather a bit impolite and counterproductive to flame the author and his program publicly in a newsgroup for something he's not even aware of. Ultimately it may even turn out not to be his problem. Most authors include their email addresses in the program documentation for this reason and also to encourage suggestions for improvement. Looking for something? I realize that this listing is getting a bit large, and if you are looking for something in particular try using the Edit/Find menu item in MS Word or the Find command in Windows Write. Other word processors usually have something similar available. Recommended: I have added this comment to some items. This is based upon both my personal opinion and comments from others. Criteria I primarily look for are: 1. One of the leaders in its category in operation, functionality and features. This does not imply perfection. 2. Reasonable cost compared to other comparable programs. This does not mean that it's free or even cheap (although cheap is much appreciated) . 3. Supported by its authors and under continued development. This should mean that it has a future. This does not mean that other programs don't have better features or won't work better in your particular situation. All I am suggesting is that if these appear to fit your needs, they should be looked at first. They shouldn't necessarily be the only thing you look at. Current recommendations are: Winsock Trumpet Winsock - dialer, SLIP/PPP, Winsock WSARCHIE - Archie file search client WS_FTP - File transfer client (16 bit version) WSGopher - Gopher client E-Mail Connection - email Pegasus - email Free Agent (tm) - news reader News Xpress - news reader WinVN - news reader Netscape - WWW browser Non-Winsock NetDial - telephone dialer ACDSee - image viewer LView Pro - image viewer WFXCOMM.DRV - Windows 3.1 serial port replacement driver Stiletto - Tool bar application launcher Tardis - time synchronizer (Added) UU - UU decoder [DOS] (Added) SnapShot/32 - screen capture utility [32 bit] Recently removed: Chameleon Sampler, Eudora Mail, Trumpet News, WSIRC Win 32s, Windows95, and Windows NT. With the movement towards these newer 32 bit operating systems I am including more 32 bit applications in this listing. Some of these can only be run on Windows95/Windows NT, but a few of these are in fact usable on Windows 3.1/3.11 with the Microsoft's Win32s extension installed. The Win32s extension gives Windows 3.1 a limited 32 bit capability enabling it to run 32 bit programs specifically written for this extension, the best known of which is NCSA Mosaic, the World Wide Web (WWW) browser. More information on Win32s is included elsewhere in this listing. I have hi-lited references to these 32 bit operating systems in green (in the MS Word document). NEW. New items added this month are hi-lited in blue (in the MS Word version). Vbrun300.dll Many of the programs in this listing were written in Microsoft's Visual Basic and require the vbrun300.dll file in your \windows\system directory in order to run. Some programs include copies this file in case you don't already have it, and some don't because of its size (231K) and ready availability at many sites. If you happen need a copy of this it can be obtained from: ftp://oak.oakland.edu/SimTel/w in3/dll/vbrun300.dll. Latest updates of this listing under file name winterXX.zip (where XX is the version) are available from the following prime location: ftp://oak.oakland.edu/SimTel/win3/winsock/winterXX.zip NEW: An HTML version of this document is now available at: http://www.mbnet.mb.ca/winter/index.html This document is Copyright 1995 by Ed Sinkovits. It is intended for your personal use only. Further details at the end of this document. Ed Sinkovits edsink@cyberspc.mb.ca edsink@mail.mbnet.mb.ca CompuServe: 73003,3065 INDEX to Categories CLIENT LISTING 1. BUNDLED/INTEGRATED APPLICATIONS - SUITES 2. CYBERCHATTER - KEYBOARD 3. CYBERCHATTER - MISCELLANEOUS MEDIA 4. CYBERCHATTER - SOUND AND VOICE 5. CYBERCHATTER - VIDEO AND WHITEBOARDS 6. DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS 7. E-CA$H 8. FILE SEARCH AND TRANSFER PROTOCOLS 9. FINGERS 10. GAMES - MUDS 11. GAMES - OTHER 12. GOPHERS 13. HOST LOOKUP CLIENTS 14. HYPER-G 15. MAIL and MAIL ACCESSORIES 16. MAIL NOTIFICATION UTILITIES 17. MISCELLANEOUS 18. NEWS 19. NFS CLIENTS 20. NULLSOCK 21. PH CLIENTS 22. PING 23. PRINTER CLIENTS 24. RCMD, RCP, RSH, and TAR 25. SNMP 26. TCP/IP 27. TELNET 28. TIME LOGS 29. TIME SYNCHRONIZERS 30. TRACEROUTE 31. TRUMPET WINSOCK 32. WAIS 33. WEBSTER DICTIONARY, etc. 34. WHOIS 35. WORLD WIDE WEB BROWSERS 36. WORLD WIDE WEB BROWSER ACCESSORIES 37. X.500 CLIENTS 38. X-WINDOWS UTILITIES LISTING 40. ADDRESS BOOK / DATABASE PROGRAMS 41. CONTROL PANELS AND TOOLBARS 42. CONVERTERS - DOCUMENT (HELP/HTML >>> TEXT) 43. DECODERS - BINHEX, MIME, UU, XX 44. DECOMPRESSION - ZIP 45. DECOMPRESSION - OTHER 46. MODEM ACCESSORIES 47. MISCELLANEOUS UTILITIES 48. SERIAL PORT REPLACEMENT DRIVERS 49. TELEPHONE DIALERS 50. VIEWERS - DOCUMENT 51. VIEWERS - MOVING PICTURE - MPEG 52. VIEWERS - MOVING PICTURE - QUICKTIME, VIDEO FOR WINDOWS, etc. 53. VIEWERS - STILL PICTURE - GIF, JPEG, etc. 54. VIEWERS - SOUND 55. VIEWERS - VRML (3D) 56. WIN32S 57. HTML SERVER / DAEMON LISTING 59. DNS 60. FINGER 61. FTP 62. GOPHER 63. IRC 64. MAIL 65. MISCELLANEOUS 66. NEWS 67. NFS 68. TELNET 69. WAIS 70. WWW NOTES 80. INFORMATION - BEGINNER 81. INFORMATION - MORE ADVANCED, TECHNICAL 82. POPULAR LOCATIONS FOR WINSOCK PROGRAMS 83. SLIP EMULATORS: TIA 84. GROWSTUB ERROR 85. PENTIUM SERIAL PORT PROBLEMS 86. SLIP vs. PPP 87. WINDOWS95 88. WWW BROWSER COMPARISON - IMAGES. ISSUES 95. THE UNISYS / COMPUSERVE / GIF MESS 96. DICS - DOES THE END JUSTIFY THE MEANS ? 97. FTP SERV-U: ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA 98. COPYRIGHT AND THE INTERNET CLIENT LISTING 1. BUNDLED APPLICATIONS - SUITES If in the past developers focused on bringing a single application to market, in 1995 on the commercial side we're seeing considerable effort to develop integrated multi-function packages, typically with Web browser, mail, and news clients, and as often as not a built in dialer and Winsock. While this simplifies the configuration process and makes perfect sense, such efforts tend to be less than successful with weaknesses in individual clients forcing the user to search to install stand alone replacements, defeating the purpose of the package. 1.1 Chameleon Demo FUNCTION...... Suite of Internet applications. FILE SIZE........ Total approximately 5,003,764 bytes. VERSION......... January 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.netmanage.com/pub/demos/chameleon/readme.txt, chameln1.exe, chameln2.exe, chameln3.exe, chameln4.exe (5 files) STATUS........... Demo. Time crippled. DOCUMENTS.. N/A FEATURES...... This is the full featured professional package with all the clients, FTP, Telnet, Gopher, Ping, Mail, News etc. and network features like ethernet and NFS support. COMMENTS.... The readme file contains the password needed for installation. Because of the size of this package and the time and effort required to get it running, this package should only be looked at by those who are seriously interested in buying this (a couple hundred dollars and up depending on features). This commercial version is fairly complex and is intended for a network installation rather than the individual user. For others the Chameleon Sampler may be a better choice. Although it only has some basic clients, it is free, not crippled and will run forever. These are intended for use under Windows 3.1/3.11 only. NOTE: A demo version of Internet Chameleon 4.11 which includes the new WebSurfer WWW browser is available from the same location in directory /pub/demos/inet_cham. There are several files to retrieve totaling just under 4 meg. A telephone dial up access is required to activate the program. You have the choice of either purchasing the program or obtaining a free 30 day demo activation. The registration requires credit card information even if you only want the 30 day no charge demo. Again, unless you're serious, don't bother. 1.2 Chameleon Sampler FUNCTION...... Suite of Internet applications. FILE SIZE........ 1,697,021 bytes VERSION......... April 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.netmanage.com/pub/demos/sampler/websampl.exe STATUS........... Freeware for personal and educational use. DOCUMENTS.. Start up instructions and online help FEATURES...... Supports both SLIP/CSLIP and PPP and has its own built in Winsock and telephone dialer built in. WebSurfer browser and Ping client are included. COMMENTS.... Completely revised from the original very widely distributed package. This beginner's Freeware package is intended to provide an introduction to the commercial version of Chameleon and is built around their new WebSurfer browser (the original sampler didn't have a WWW client). Additional FTP and Telnet (Hey, what happened to mail?) clients can be retrieved through the browser by registering (no charge) with NetManage. This program will work with most other Winsock clients in this listing - there is no need to use the ones which come with it if all you want is the dialer and winsock connection capability. If you want to try this out and you have Trumpet Winsock installed on your system you will have to temporarily hide the winsock.dll which comes with Trumpet in a non path directory or rename it to something else to avoid conflict with the winsock.dll which is installed with this package. Quibbles. During installation the program will make changes to your autoexec.bat program (and possibly other key files) without permission and without notifying you (typical of NetManage programs). Secondly, and rather surprisingly there is no manual dial/logon capability. You must go to the trouble of setting up an automatic script first to log on to your service provider (unless you're using one of the providers they've included scripts for). If you don't get your script working you don't get to log on with this program. Documentation covering this is however quite good. SLIP/PPP support is limited to a maximum speed of 19,200 bps. 1.3 Emissary (tm) FUNCTION...... Suite of Internet applications. FILE SIZE........ 2,505,416 bytes VERSION......... beta-4 July 1995 RETRIEVAL.... http://www.twg.com/Emissary/eftp.html File name: emis_b4.exe STATUS........... This beta version will expire September 1, 1995. Registration $US 99. DOCUMENTS.. Online help. FEATURES...... Integrated Web browser, FTP, Telnet, Mail, News. COMMENTS.... Released by the Wollongong Group Inc. There's a lot of hype associated with this product ("At the heart of the architecture is a patented Client Object Linking Technology.......access to Internet resources seamless and intuitive...."). Although I haven't looked at the beta 4 version, beta 2 was a bit rough, but the the mail client in particular looked like it would be interesting once its multimedia capabilities are implemented. A recent announcement seems to indicate that Wollongong has chosen to provide most of its support efforts through the WUGNET user group's WINCON forum on CompuServe. 1.4 InterAp FUNCTION...... Suite of Internet applications. FILE SIZE........ Combined total for the 4 files, approximately 5.3 megabytes. VERSION......... June 1995 RETRIEVAL.... http://www.calsoft.com File names: disk1.zip, disk2.zip, disk3.zip, disk4.zip (total 4 files). Fill in form registration brings a return email with the pricing details, FTP site and other information. Or you can bypass this and go directly to ftp://www.calsoft.com. STATUS........... Demo, 30 days. Full price $US 99.95, with special price until August 31, 1995 of $US 49.95 with proof of purchase showing that you are switching from a competing product. DOCUMENTS.. Online help in the individual modules. FEATURES...... A complete integrated suite of applications designed to work together for a complete Internet solution: mail, news, FTP client and server, FSP client, Telnet/Async terminal, Ping, WWW browser, and a launchpad toolbar, etc. A couple of popular viewers are included such as WPLANY for sound and LView Pro for graphics. There are other features such as OLE2 support, file drag and drop, and script support. COMMENTS.... Although individually there are better clients available, this is a nicely integrated set of applications. You'll need about 12 meg of hard disk space for the installed files. A winsock application is not included. From California Software Inc. 1.5 (NEW!) NETcetera FUNCTION...... Suite of Internet applications FILE NAME..... netcetra.zip FILE SIZE........ 2,731,230 bytes VERSION......... 1.162a RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.airtime.co.uk/netcetera/netcetra.zip STATUS........... Evaluation copy, 21 day evaluation, nag screen only when loading, otherwise no crippled features. Registration £UK 49.50 or $US 79.50. DOCUMENTS.. Fairly extensive documentation including online help with a tutorial. FEATURES...... Mail, Finger. Designed for multiple users with hot switching, UUencode/UUdecode both built in to clients and stand alone, MIME, mail import module (KA9Q support). Unlimited technical support (email) for all users! The program does not include a dialer/winsock - it is designed to work with a wide variety of existing stacks, including Trumpet. COMMENTS.... At the present time there are only a couple clients included (early July) so it's a bit early to really comment on this, but the strong technical support will make this worth trying. A few days after downloading this I received a followup email from the company asking for feedback and impressions which is a nice touch. News, Telnet, Gopher, Archie, WAIS and a WWW browser clients will all be added over the coming months, probably at about monthly intervals and the next version should add spell checking and text search to the mail and news clients. 1.6 Quarterdeck InternetSuite FUNCTION...... Suite of Internet applications. FILE SIZE........ 3,226,134 bytes When downloading you are given the option of choosing this large file or 3 smaller separate files. VERSION......... Pre-release 4 (final) June 1995 RETRIEVAL.... http://www.qdeck.com File name: isuite04.exe (single large file) ftp://ftp.qdeck.com/pub/normandy/toolbox Retrieval is a bit of a nuisance since you have to go through an online registration and screening process. I subsequently was refused download access and got the boot for not having a reversible IP address (??) which I guess makes me some kind of criminal. I had to log in through my UNIX shell account and retrieve this through the lynx browser and then a Z-modem download. You can bypass the registration stuff by going directly to the ftp site but the same reversible IP address criteria applies there. STATUS........... Pre-release. This copy expires August 31, 1995. DOCUMENTS.. Considerable documentation (various files) and online help. FEATURES...... Includes SLIP/PPP dialer/winsock, Ping, WWW browser, Telnet (VT52, VT100, VT220), FTP, Mail and News. Support for proxy servers. The multi-threaded browser is capable of displaying multiple documents at the same time. Internal support for GIF, XBM and JPEG images, AIFF, AU and WAV sounds. COMMENTS.... These clients can be used either with the built in Winsock SLIP/PPP connection or with a separate program such as Trumpet Winsock. I did momentarily fall out of a tree when I noticed the unexpected "TAR/Compress" utility in the mail program to optionally supplement UUencode for file attachments. There's no mention of MIME which would be far more useful and relevant. The browser seemed very fast at retrieving and displaying documents. It has been favorably mentioned by others, but I would rate it behind the current Netscape and Mosaic. From Quarterdeck Office Systems Inc. 1.7 (NEW!) Turnpike FUNCTION...... Suite of Internet applications. FILE SIZE........ 2,287,454 bytes VERSION......... 1.03 July 1995 RETRIEVAL.... http://www.turnpike.com/ File name: evals103.zip STATUS........... Evaluation copy. Good for 10 days. Commercial version available for £UK 99 DOCUMENTS.. Installation instructions and online help. FEATURES...... Mail, News, FTP, Telnet, Ping, Finger, built in SLIP/PPP dialer and Winsock. MIME and UUdecode, drag and drop. A Web browser will be included in a future version. COMMENTS.... Turnpike was designed primarily for use in England with a preconfigured listing of service providers. I did not find this very intuitively easy to set up or use, I didn't like the interface, and I didn't like its 3d lettering. I never did figure out how to make its built in dialer/winsock work with the provider I wanted, although most functions did work (except for FTP which gave an error message) once I established a PPP connection with another program. Technically a lot of features here, but the overall result just didn't impress me. From Turnpike Ltd. 2. CYBERCHATTER - KEYBOARD Through your keyboard "talk" to others on the Internet. See also WSIRC in the CYBERCHATTER - VIDEO AND WHITEBOARDS section. 2.1 (NEW!) ALP (Asynchronous Link Protocol) [Windows 3.11 and Windows NT] FUNCTION...... RealTime World Wide Web chat/data client FILE SIZE........ 1,454,528 and 672,995 bytes VERSION......... July 1995 RETRIEVAL.... http://www.theworld.com/alp/alp.htm alp16a.exe for Windows 3.1 alp32a.exe for Windows NT STATUS........... Shareware. ?? Price not stated. An ALP server is also available for $US 585. DOCUMENTS.. Start up instructions and online help. FEATURES...... ALP users can control each others web browsers remotely, transfer files between each other, and display real time data streams such as sports scores or stock market quotes. COMMENTS.... This program requires Windows 3.11 (or did they mean WFW 3.11??? Not clear.) and must be used with a WWW browser - currently both Netscape and NCSA Mosaic/Air Mosaic have been tested with it. Released by WorldWide Net Corporation. 2.2 (NEW!) Global Chat (tm) FUNCTION...... IRC client FILE SIZE........ 191,257 bytes VERSION......... Beta .95 July 1995 RETRIEVAL.... http://www.prospero.com/globalchat/ File name: gc0712.exe STATUS........... Trial version. License to use this expires once (and if) a commercial version is released. DOCUMENTS.. Basic startup instructions. Online handbook available online at their Web site. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... Global Chat is designed to work through a Web browser. It enhances standard IRC keyboard communications by adding sound and graphics capabilities. This program works on Windows 3.1, Windows95 and Windows NT. Released by Prospero Systems Research Inc. 2.3 Internet TeleCafe FUNCTION...... Keyboard chat program FILE SIZE........ 662,417 bytes VERSION......... 1.01 May 1995 RETRIEVAL.... http://idirect.com/TeleCafe/index.html File name: teleconf.exe STATUS........... Shareware. "VIP membership" required. Annual fee $US 29 or $CDN 35. DOCUMENTS.. Online help. Documentation describes the functionality of the control buttons but nowhere (initial announcement, program documentation or home page) could I find much mention of what this program actually does and where it connects to (the Big Picture details) which was a bit annoying. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... A proprietary keyboard chat program with sound and other special effects. You can move around to different rooms and interact with other members. Very well done graphical interface and an interesting program once you get into it. Easy to use and well worth trying. There are limitations on unregistered users. From ComputerLink OnLine Inc. Note: This current version only works with Trumpet Winsock. 2.4 IRC4WIN FUNCTION...... Internet Relay Chat II (IRC II) client. FILE SIZE........ 91,039 bytes VERSION......... 1.10 beta October 1994 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.cyberspace.com/pub/win95/winsock/irc4win.zip STATUS........... Shareware $US 50 single user, $US 450 site license DOCUMENTS.. Very minimal, with nothing much included in this unregistered version. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... An upgrade of this program from David Elkind. 2.5 mIRC FUNCTION...... IRC client FILE SIZE........ 209,981 bytes VERSION......... 3.42 June 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/ibmpc/winsock/apps/mirc/mirc342.exe STATUS........... Freeware DOCUMENTS.. Start up instructions and online help FEATURES...... Includes DCC Send/Get/Chat, some basic fonts, a Finger client. COMMENTS.... Designed to be quick and easy to use, it contains only a partial implementation of IRCII. This program has gathered very favorable comments and strong support from users. 2.6 PowWow FUNCTION...... Internet chat, file transfer and Web Browser interface program. FILE SIZE........ 98,678 bytes VERSION......... 1.5 June 1995 RETRIEVAL.... http://www.tribal.com/ File name: powwow15.zip STATUS........... Freeware DOCUMENTS.. Start up instructions and online help. FEATURES...... Allows up to five (5) people to chat, send and receive files, and browse the World-Wide Web together as a group using the Netscape browser. All you need to know to reach another PowWow user is his or her email address. You do not need to know their IP address as PowWow automatically resolves both dynamic and fixed IP addresses. It will automatically alert them that a connection has been requested; provided PowWow is running on their computer. COMMENTS.... PowWow does not work with firewalls. It does works with Windows 3.1, Windows95, or Windows NT. It has not been tested with SLIP emulators such as TIA, Slirp, or SlipKnot. Released by Tribal Voice, an organization of Native Americans, dedicated to the development of a Native American technological presence in the world of information science. 2.7 Winsock IRC FUNCTION...... Internet Relay Chat (IRC) FILE SIZE........ 96,000, 313 and 8,276 bytes VERSION......... .1 Beta RETRIEVAL.... ftp://oak.oakland.edu/SimTel/vendors/trumpet/winirc/winirc.exe, winirc.doc (Windows documentation), irc.doc (DOS version documentation). Three files. STATUS........... No mention of any charges for using this program. DOCUMENTS.. Negligible/inadequate. Only documentation is in a separate file winirc.doc (MS Word format), 313 bytes, found in the same directory as the program file which should be downloaded at the same time. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... A very basic package which does not appear to be undergoing further development. 2.8 WinTalk FUNCTION...... Two way on-line communications FILE SIZE........ 127,108 bytes VERSION......... 1.24 April 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.elf.com/pub/wintalk/wtalk124.zip STATUS........... Freeware (limited). A more advanced version called WinTalk Pro is available for $US 20 DOCUMENTS.. Installation and start-up instructions, and on-line help. FEATURES...... Uses the UNIX "ntalk" protocol. COMMENTS.... WinTalk will not work properly with older Trumpet Winsock 1.0A, (Winsock bugs) and it will generally not work with pseudo SLIP programs like TIA. Released by ELF Communications. 2.9 World's Chat FUNCTION...... Keyboard chat program FILE SIZE........ 2,835,533 bytes VERSION......... July 1995 RETRIEVAL.... http://www.worlds.net File name: wchat06c.exe STATUS........... Freeware. DOCUMENTS.. n/a FEATURES...... n/a COMMENTS.... "World's first networked 3D software.....". According to some of the literature I've read, this is a 3D virtual world with visual representations of people and rooms which you can move around in and participate in discussions taking place. Heavy hardware required: minimum 486-50 PC, 8 meg RAM, 16 bit sound card, 256 colors; recommended pentium with 16 meg RAM. Proprietary technology from World's Inc. which connects to their servers. They have indicated an intention to continue to distribute this program freely. It has been tested with a number of TCP/IP stacks, but NOT Trumpet Winsock. Future versions will add voice capability. This seems to work with Windows 3.1 only. 2.10 WS_CHAT FUNCTION...... Real time bi-directional chat program. FILE SIZE........ 499,253 bytes VERSION......... 3.00 May 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://oak.oakland.edu/SimTel/win3/winsock/ws_cha30.zip STATUS........... Freeware. DOCUMENTS.. Basic startup instructions and online help. FEATURES...... Event driven programming: uses almost no processor time when not in use. COMMENTS.... Released by Danny Brands. Source code available for $US 5. Works with Windows 3.1/3.11, Windows NT and TIA. It also should work over any TCP/IP network. 2.11 (NEW!) XTalk FUNCTION...... Ntalk (UNIX talk protocol) client/server. FILE SIZE........ 145,536 bytes VERSION......... .4 alpha June 1995 RETRIEVAL.... http://www.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca/spider/q7f192/branch/tools.html File name: xtalk04.zip STATUS........... Freeware. DOCUMENTS.. Very basic instructions. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... From George Xie. 3. CYBERCHATTER - MISCELLANEOUS MEDIA 3.1 Sticky FUNCTION...... Electronic notes exchange. FILE SIZE........ 394,232 bytes VERSION......... .8 March 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.sun.ac.za/pub/misc/sticky/sticky08.zip STATUS........... Freeware. DOCUMENTS.. Basic installation instructions and on-line help.. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... Based on 3M's yellow sticky post-it notes that are so popular. This program contains separate talk and listen modules which allows you to exchange quick notes with another PC which also has the program running. New development of this program has been taken on by John Dovey. 4. CYBERCHATTER - SOUND, VOICE From out of nowhere 6 months ago some increasingly sophisticated programs have sprung up offering two way voice communications. Quality is not up to the standards of a telephone, and these programs usually do not offer simultaneous live two way communications, but at times it certainly beats using a keyboard. For those who are deeply concerned that these voice conversations will drive the telephone companies out of business, I'm sure that your concern is appreciated by the phone company suits, but there's no need to worry. The Internet is a nice place for random conversations with strangers but for the moment at least it is likely to remain somewhat less than convenient or reliable for two people specifically wanting to communicate with each other. See also WSIRC in the CYBERCHATTER - VIDEO AND WHITEBOARDS section. 4.1 Internet Phone FUNCTION...... 2 way Internet voice communications. FILE SIZE........ 633,400 and 770,806 bytes VERSION......... Build 9 and build 13 April/June 1995. RETRIEVAL.... http://vocaltec.com File name: iphone09.exe (half duplex version for most sound cards) and iphone13.exe (full duplex version, special sound card requirements) STATUS........... Demo version. A registration code must be obtained from the VocalTec site to fully use the demo. Without it you are limited to a session of only 60 seconds of speech. Registration $US 69. DOCUMENTS.. Installation instructions and on-line help. FEATURES...... This newest build 13 supports full duplex (simultaneous two way conversation) conversations for certain sound cards. COMMENTS.... Requires sound card, microphone, and preferably a fast (486) computer with 8 meg ram. This program has created enormous enthusiasm because of its capability to allow live high quality conversations through the Internet. The time lag is small and sound quality while not at telephone standards is nonetheless reported as impressive. This program will now also run as a 16 bit application under Windows NT. One serious controversy has arisen in that Internet Phone connections (a voice communications product) were being initiated through IRC servers (intended for keyboard communications). The IRC people took exception to this extra burden and begun cutting off their uninvited guests. As a result VocalTec has had to begin setting up their own sites which are listed in a file included with the program. 4.2 Internet Global Phone Project FUNCTION...... 2 way Internet voice communications. FILE SIZE........ 89,771 and 89,727 bytes VERSION......... Internet Global Phone version 2.1 BETA UMIST distribution version 1.02 December 1994 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.cica.indiana.edu/pub/pc/win3/demo/ig16_102.zip This is the 16 bit version. An 8 bit version igp8_102.zip is also available at the same location for 8 bit sound cards. STATUS........... Limited Freeware. DOCUMENTS.. Basic start up and use instructions. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... Messages must first be recorded, compressed, then sent. Sound quality is better with a more powerful machine. Briefly popular for a few months it has now been overshadowed by the more advanced Internet Phone program from VocalTec. 4.3 Internet Voice Chat FUNCTION...... 2 way Internet voice communications FILE NAME....... ivc11.zip COMMENTS.... Avoid. IVC has been sold to a commercial company. No new Shareware registrations are being accepted and no support will be provided except to existing registered users. The author Richard Ahrens has requested FTP site administrators to remove copies of this program. 5. CYBERCHATTER - VIDEO AND WHITEBOARDS 5.1 CU-SeeMe FUNCTION...... One way / two way / multiple video(!) conferencing. FILE SIZE........ 175,557 bytes VERSION......... W.65b2 July 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://gated.cornell.edu/pub/video/PC.CU-SeeMeW0.65b2/cuseeme.zip STATUS........... Freeware DOCUMENTS.. Installation instructions and on-line help included. A Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) document is also available from the same location. FEATURES...... Audio now! 4-bit grayscale video at 160x120 pixels. COMMENTS.... Developed by Cornell University. Even if you don't have the capability to send, there are several reflector sites available where you can use this package to sneak a peek. The low data transfer speeds on modem connections are a big problem, but this is nevertheless quite interesting. Try it! 5.2 Insitu Conference FUNCTION...... Document conferencing software FILE SIZE........ 1,390,532 bytes VERSION......... 1.0 March 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.std.com/vendors/insitu/demo/iconf10.zip STATUS........... 30 day demo. Commercial price starting at $US 269 for a single user with volume price breaks. DOCUMENTS.. Start up instructions and on-line help. FEATURES...... OLE 2.0 compliant. Shared whiteboard allows group editing of any document or image. Integrated voice link (currently one to one only) through Microsoft/Intel TAPI standard. Automated installation. Some features are crippled in this demo version. COMMENTS.... From Insitu Inc. **NOT AVAILABLE** 5.3 NCSA Audible Collage for Microsoft Windows FUNCTION...... Multi-platform collaboration tool. FILE SIZE........ 203,546 bytes VERSION......... 1.2 beta 1 December 1993 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.cica.indiana.edu/pub/pc/win3/winsock/col_12b1.zip STATUS........... No mention of any charges. DOCUMENTS.. Installation and start up instructions. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... Collage is a whiteboard program which allows users to collaborate and share data across the three supported platforms: X Windows workstations, Apple Macintosh systems, and Windows systems. "You must have a Macintosh or an X-Windows workstation running a server in order to use the network collaboration capabilities." 5.4 (NEW!) Wanvas FUNCTION...... Shared whiteboard. FILE SIZE........ 258,003 bytes VERSION......... 1.00 June 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://oak.oakland.edu/SimTel/win3/winsock/wanvas10.zip STATUS........... Shareware $US 40. DOCUMENTS.. Basic startup instructions and online help. FEATURES...... Up to 11 participants working on the same whiteboard. Shared chat window, bitmap image insertions. The registered version adds a recorder function, printing capability and bitmap saving. COMMENTS.... Similar to many paint shop programs this program was very compact, easy to use, and fun. There are a few problems with it most annoying of which is if you exit the program and try to reboot it you get an error message that it's already running. This only seemed to be a problem with Windows 3.1/3.11. Released by Ember Software. 5.5 WSIRC FUNCTION...... Internet Relay Chat (IRC) keyboard, audio and video communications. FILE SIZE........ 566,557 (keyboard version), 740,269(video version) bytes VERSION......... 2.00 June/July 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://cs-ftp.bu.edu/irc/clients/pc/windows/wsirc/wsirc20.zip This contains the original keyboard based IRC client with a choice of executive files, wsirc.exe (Shareware version), and wsircg.exe (Freeware version). ftp://cs-ftp.bu.edu/irc/clients/pc/windows/wsirc/wsirc20v.zip This contains the new DCC audio/video version. Again there are two executive files wsircv.exe (Shareware) and wsircvg.exe (Freeware). Home page http://www.clark.net/pub/csamsi STATUS........... The Freeware versions are feature crippled but may be freely used forever. The Shareware (60 day evaluation) version is slightly feature crippled. The registered version has the greatest capabilities and documention. Registration: keyboard version $US 39.95, audio/video version $US 59.95. One disk and one manual are included with registration. Site licenses are also available. DOCUMENTS.. Fairly extensive with a variety of text and online help files. FEATURES...... Video version: DCC Video provides up to 1 frame every 2 seconds on a modem line. Audio is sent at 1300 bps. These numbers will improve with direct or ISDN connections. Audio is half duplex (one talks, one listens). Multiple connections supported. Uninstall button. COMMENTS.... DCC video requires an Intel Smart Video Recorder Pro video capture board and Video for Windows (version 1.1e) software or any capture board that supports Intel's Indeo video compression format. This major new version (audio/video) has just been released by Caesar Samsi. There may be some compatability problems with TIA. 6. DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS The increasing size and complexity of networks and their communications links attracts increasing problems. Fortunately, specialized tools are beginning to appear to deal with some of the problems. 6.1 Socket Wrencher FUNCTION...... Winsock testing tool FILE SIZE........ 59,345 and 6,144 bytes VERSION......... 1.0 April 1994 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.netmanage.com/pub/demos/sockwrench/socketw.exe and sockread.wri STATUS........... Free. DOCUMENTS.. Installation and start up instructions. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... "Socket Wrencher provides a suite of performance tests over TCP and UDP as well as several tests to check characteristics of a Winsock based protocol stack." Released by NetManage Inc. 6.2 TracePlus(tm) Winsock (formerly X-Ray Winsock) FUNCTION...... Winsock API trace/debugger for Windows 3.1 FILE SIZE........ 430,799 bytes VERSION......... 2.00 June 1995 RETRIEVAL.... http://www.webcom.com/~sstinc File name: tpwins.zip STATUS........... Demo version. $US 99.95 DOCUMENTS.. Installation instructions and on-line help included FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... "Traces and displays the parameters of all Winsock API functions. Works with any version of Winsock." Some features crippled on this demo version. From Systems, Software, Technology Incorporated. 6.3 Windows Socket Test FUNCTION...... Socket tester/debugger. FILE SIZE........ 83,422 bytes VERSION......... November 1993 ? RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.cica.indiana.edu/pub/pc/win3/winsock/wsatest.zip STATUS........... Unknown. DOCUMENTS.. None. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... A very interesting program. It seems fairly straightforward although some documentation would have been nice. I wish I knew more about this, including the developer's name. 7 E-CA$H 7.1 CyberCash FUNCTION...... Encryption system for secure payment across the Internet. FILE SIZE........ 591,016 bytes VERSION......... 0.8.1 June 1995 RETRIEVAL.... http://www.cybercash.com/ file name: wincyber.exe STATUS........... Free use, subject to certain conditions. DOCUMENTS.. Basic instructions. FEATURES...... There is no cost to you for the CyberCash software, and CyberCash does not impose any additional fees on credit card users for taking advantage of the CyberCash service. Fees for the CyberCash credit card service are paid by merchants as part of their standard credit card transaction costs. COMMENTS.... CyberCash encrypts the specific data regarding your credit card (card number, name, expiration and amount of transaction only) so that it can be safely transmitted over the Internet and to your financial institution. Other information will not be protected. The ability to pay cash will be covered in a future release. It works with most major TCP/IP stacks including Trumpet Winsock. It has been designed to work with Netscape, NCSA Mosaic and many of the Enhanced Mosaic versions, and may work with others by manually configuring them. Installation is a bit flaky though since the program will automatically search for such a browser and update it's .ini file with the necessary changes. Unfortunately, it does not inform you which ones it's found and updated, if any. 7.2 Ecash for Windows FUNCTION...... Encryption system for secure payment across the Internet FILE SIZE........ 414,275 bytes (international version, US version similar size) VERSION......... 2.1.1 June 1995 RETRIEVAL.... http://www.digicash.com/ecash/ecash-home.html File name: ec211i16.exe This is the international version - there is a slightly different US version. STATUS........... Beta test software. DOCUMENTS.. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... The ecash-software is only available to beta-testers participating in the DigiCash experiment, who must registering at DigiCash for a personal account. You must fill out a registration form at their Web site and then wait for about 3 days for a userid and password to be emailed to you in order to enable you to go back and download this. Ecash operates by exchanging your real money for electronics cash credits which can then be used online through a browser to purchase items from participating merchants. Ecash works with most standard TCP/IP packages, such as Trumpet, Chameleon, and the Microsoft TCP/IP stack, and with virtually all browsers. Released by DigiCash BV, the Netherlands. 8. FILE SEARCH AND TRANSFER PROTOCOLS File searches on the Internet can be done through the use of Archie programs which send queries to special Archie servers. The search can be done for a very specific file/program name or fragment of a name. The server will return information listing "anonymous" FTP sites which carry the corresponding file. Most Archie servers are located in Europe, North America and the Pacific Rim. Since Archie servers are usually backlogged with a large number of requests during the local prime time hours, knowledge of world geography and time zones comes in handy in jumping to other sites elsewhere in the world which are more likely to be available. Ah yes, this is your punishment for snoozing through those grade school geography classes. The information available on different Archie servers is not necessarily the same and sometimes a search of more than one Archie server is necessary. An Archie server is also accessible through the WWW at: http://www.pvv.unit.no/archie File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a means of transferring files between your PC and a remote server. Typically this is through so called "anonymous" FTP where you log on with user id "anonymous" and give your email address as the password. Never give your real password when logging on to an anonymous server. Anonymous FTP is a method many Internet sites use to allow users who don't have an actual account with them to access their files. An FAQ on FTP file retrieval along with a listing of all known FTP sites and some limited information about the files carried is available from: ftp://oak.oakland.edu/SimTel/msdos/info/ftp list.zip Typically you will use an Archie program to search for a known file you are looking for if you don't already know where to find it, and then an FTP program to retrieve it. The search program WSARCHIE and John Junod's file retrieval program WS_FTP (16 bit) are the standards by which ALL Archie and FTP clients should be measured. I am referring to commercial programs, not just Shareware. Not only do they have features and performance, but they work well together for a one two punch. 8.1 Auto WinNet Lite FUNCTION...... FTP file retrieval (volume oriented). FILE SIZE........ 771,295 bytes VERSION......... 1.6 June 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://oak.oakland.edu/SimTel/win3/winsock/autown16.zip http://www.computek.net/autownet STATUS........... Shareware, some features crippled. Registered users get Auto WinNet Professional for $US 69.95 by supplying the serial number from this Lite version, otherwise $US 130. The original DOS version of this program is available for $US 40 but only works with shell access and not SLIP. DOCUMENTS.. Comprehensive instructions. FEATURES...... Provides mass mailing and mailing list capabilities. Considerable flexibility for script creation to automate retrieval and sending functions. The registered version, Auto WinNet Professional provides run later script capabilities, mail ability to send up to 2000 mail messages at once, post unliminted numbers of messages across Usenet news groups (hmmm...), fax capabilities, Web page retrieval from sites (text only) and built in PKZIP, LZH, ARJ, ZOO, ARC support. COMMENTS.... Designed primarily for use by BBS operators this program enables mass file retrieval from Internet sites with minimal effort. From David Smith and Jim Husband. A heavy duty price for heavy duty users. 8.2 CuteFTP FUNCTION...... File retrieval (FTP) FILE SIZE........ 200,300 bytes VERSION......... 1.4 beta 4 July 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://papa.indstate.edu/winsock-l/ftp/CuteFTP.Betas/cftp14b4.zip STATUS........... Freeware (now). DOCUMENTS.. Basic instructions and online help. FEATURES...... Caching of recently visited directories, robust STOP command, capable of stopping any operation without loosing connection, directory tree downloads, selectable display font. COMMENTS.... A new FTP program recently released by Alex Kunadze with a file manager style interface. 8.3 (NEW!) FSP4WIN FUNCTION...... FSP client. FILE SIZE........ 206,461 bytes VERSION......... .70 beta March 1995. RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.cica.indiana.edu/pub/pc/win3/uploads/fsp4win.zip Note: This will eventually be moved to the /winsock directory. STATUS........... Freeware. When final version 1.0 is released it will be Shareware at $US 15. DOCUMENTS.. Very minimal. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... This is the first new Windows based FSP client in 2 years. Released by Ben Youngdahl. 8.4 (NEW!) FTP-GM FUNCTION...... File retrieval (FTP) FILE SIZE........ 90,935 bytes VERSION......... 1.0 June 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp:oak.oakland.edu/SimTel/win3/winsock/ftpgm10.zip STATUS........... Shareware $US 12 or $CDN 15 DOCUMENTS.. Basic start up instructions. FEATURES...... File search/filter capabilities. COMMENTS.... Nice distinctive graphics for those who are tired of the usual gray. The program however is too lean. It can not be expanded to full screen and there's no provision for storing repetitive sites or log in information - having to manually typing the site, user id and password with every login gets rather tiring. Released by Guy Michaud. 8.5 NetRover FUNCTION...... Automated FTP, Finger, Gopher, and WWW (text) retrieval. FILE SIZE........ 61,879 bytes VERSION......... 1.1b June 1995 RETRIEVAL.... http://www.aquila.com/kent.behrens/netrover.htm File name: netrover.zip STATUS........... Shareware $US 25. The event scheduling function does not work in the unregistered version. DOCUMENTS.. Basic instructions are not overly detailed, but the program is fairly easy to figure out. FEATURES...... Completely adjustable for a one time execution, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, etc., with activation date and time settings. For functions such as FTP files can be sent or received. COMMENTS.... A very interesting program which allows you to automatically schedule an event such as the retrieval of a certain WWW page at a certain date and time, or for example to perform repetitive Finger checks at specified intervals. Released by Kent D. Behrens 8.6 WINFSP FUNCTION...... File Service Protocol (FSP) FILE SIZE........ 57,956 bytes VERSION......... 1.2 August 1993 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.cica.indiana.edu/pub/pc/win3/winsock/winfsp12.zip STATUS........... Freeware DOCUMENTS.. Brief setup and use instructions. Information about FSP can be found in the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) document available from: ftp://ftp.germany.eu.net/pub/network/inet/fsp/FAQ. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... This was the first Windows FSP file retrieval program, and it appears to have been abandoned. FSP is sometimes nicknamed "File Slurping Protocol" and is only usable on certain servers which support it. FSP operates similar to a Web browser - it only logs on to a site long enough to retrieve necessary information and thus provides a minimal burden on that site. Once tooted as a potential replacement for FTP, it just doesn't seem to be going anywhere. 8.7 WinFTP FUNCTION...... File retrieval (FTP) FILE SIZE........ 177,738 bytes VERSION......... Jan. 1994 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.cica.indiana.edu/pub/pc/win3/winsock/winftp.zip STATUS........... Released to Public Domain. DOCUMENTS.. Installation instructions, but no on-line help. FEATURES...... Based on an earlier version of WS_FTP with some added features . Program contains both 16 and 32 bit execution versions, (winftp.exe and win32ftp.exe). COMMENTS.... Quite usable, but a bit dated now. 8.8 WSARCHIE FUNCTION...... File search client (Archie) FILE SIZE........ 255,724 bytes VERSION......... alpha .8 July 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/ibmpc/winsock/apps/wsarchie/wsarch08.zi p ftp://oak.oakland.edu/SimTel/win3/winsock/wsarch08.zip STATUS........... No charge for non-commercial use. DOCUMENTS.. Installation instructions and on-line help included. FEATURES...... Display shows file sizes and file dates. This latest version now has the capability to save search results to a text file for later viewing. COMMENTS.... Visually well laid out and functioning main screen. Can be configured to work with WS_FTP to retrieve files. Recommended 8.9 WS-FTP FUNCTION...... File retrieval (FTP) FILE SIZE........ 122,850 bytes VERSION......... July 1995. Note: Unfortunately the various versions to date are indistinguishable by file name, but latest version is always in the site listed below. RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.usma.edu/pub/msdos/winsock.files/ws_ftp.zip This site can be hard to access. STATUS........... No charge for non-commercial use by individuals or for use by US government organization. DOCUMENTS.. Installation instructions and on-line help included. FEATURES...... Can store repetitively used locations/directories for easy call up, and comes pre-configured with a number of the more popular sites. Can be set to a number of "redials" if unable to connect although there is unfortunately no time delay allowed between these redials. Supports firewalls. Multiple copies of this program can be activated for simultaneous downloads. COMMENTS.... The best and most popular FTP program in use today. This site is rather small and difficult to access but worth the effort since all of John Junod's latest versions of his various programs are here. See also the matching file search package WSARCHIE above. Recommended 8.10 WS-FTP32 [Win32s, Windows95, Widows NT, version by John Junod] FUNCTION...... File retrieval (FTP) FILE SIZE........ 154,333 bytes VERSION......... July 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.usma.edu/pub/msdos/winsock.files/ws_ftp32.zip STATUS........... No charge for non-commercial use by individuals or for use by US government organizations. DOCUMENTS.. Installation instructions and on-line help included. FEATURES...... Contains similar features to the 16 bit version, WS_FTP. COMMENTS.... John Junod has ported his latest code to a 32 bit version for Windows NT. The latest release of this version also now runs on Windows 3.1 with the Win32s 32 bit extension installed (see the Non Winsock section), Windows NT, and Windows95. There is no data transfer speed advantage in running this 32 bit version in a 16 bit machine even with Win32s. File transfers will not be faster although there may be other feature differences and advantages of the 32 bit version over the 16 bit one. 8.11 WSFTP32 [Windows NT version by Larry Kahn] FUNCTION...... File retrieval (FTP) FILE SIZE........ 309,513 bytes VERSION......... July 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.cica.indiana.edu/pub/pc/win3/uploads/wsftp32.zip Note: This program will eventually be moved to either the /nt or /winsock directories to replace older versions there. STATUS........... Freeware. DOCUMENTS.. Installation and startup instructions but no on-line help. FEATURES...... This latest version now supports drag and drop. COMMENTS.... This is an updated and recompiled version for Windows NT based on WS_FTP source code from December 1993 originated by John Junod. Some bugs have been fixed and some features added by the new author Larry Kahn who created this version. Technically, in many ways this is a superior version in many ways to John Junod's 32 bit version because, just for starters it supports long filenames and can display large text files (30k +) with the NT notepad (things Junod's version can't do). Unfortunately it does have some offsetting shortcomings beginning with the inability to enlarge its window to full screen size. Neither program is significantly superior to the other and both are under active development. 9. FINGERS No, not the kind you give other motorists. A program such as Finger is used to check servers for information about the users logged on at a particular location. Sometimes little more than their real name is available, and sometimes a brief profile. The Finger function can also be found included in some other packages such as more recent versions of Eudora, a popular mail program. A few service providers have begun to shut down their Finger servers because of concerns that the information provided could be misused by outsiders. For a combined Finger / Ping / Echo client, see also WSNWUTIL in the PING section. 9.1 CFinger FUNCTION...... Finger and Echo client/daemons, Whois client. FILE SIZE........ 153,464 VERSION......... 1.1 beta March 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.cica.indiana.edu/pub/pc/win3/winsock/cfing11.zip STATUS........... Shareware $US 5. DOCUMENTS.. Installation instructions and on-line help. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... A nicely done Windows implementation just released by Charles Wells. Full featured and not crippled. 9.2 Finger: A Windows Socket Finger Client FUNCTION...... Finger query FILE SIZE........ 68,108 bytes VERSION......... 3.1 March 1993 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.cica.indiana.edu/pub/pc/win3/winsock/finger31.zip STATUS........... No mention of any charges for using this program. DOCUMENTS.. Minimal, but little required. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... Contains two executables, one for Berkeley style synchronous blocking (finger.exe), the other for asynchronous Winsockets (mfinger.exe). 9.3 FINGER 3.0 FUNCTION...... Finger query FILE SIZE........ 70,135 bytes VERSION......... 3.0 February 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://oak.oakland.edu/SimTel/win3/winsock/finger30.zip STATUS........... Shareware $US 10. Volume discounts available. DOCUMENTS.. Start up and use instructions. FEATURES...... Enables multiple finger sessions at the same time - includes timer for re-fingering opened finger sessions every 1-60 minutes. COMMENTS.... From Zoran Dukic, a contribution from Europe. Fairly straight forward and easy to use as are most finger clients. 9.4 Finger32 [Windows NT] FUNCTION...... Finger query FILE SIZE........ 37,196 bytes VERSION......... May 1994 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.cica.indiana.edu/pub/pc/win3/nt/finger32.zip STATUS........... No information - not specified by the author. DOCUMENTS.. Nil. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... This is a 32 bit version of the program Finger. It does appear to work with Windows 3.1 with the Win32s upgrade. 9.5 Finger and Host Lookup (2 programs) FUNCTION...... Finger query and host name to IP number lookup/converter. FILE SIZE........ 17,017 bytes VERSION......... January 1994 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.cyberstore.ca/pub/Windows/Apps/iwork.zip STATUS........... Freeware. DOCUMENTS.. Minimal. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... 9.6 (NEW!) Fingerer/32 [ Win32s, Windows95, Windows NT ] FUNCTION...... Finger , Whois, CCSO Ph, ICMP Ping, Name/IP number lookup. FILE SIZE........ 483,249 bytes VERSION......... .31 beta July 1995 RETRIEVAL.... http://www.pitt.edu/~akist1 File name: fing031b.zip STATUS........... Shareware, 10 day evaluation. Registration $10 pre release price until August 30, 1995 or until final release of version 1.0, whichever comes first. DOCUMENTS.. Start up instructions and online help. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... This is an impressive and convenient combination of a handful of Winsock lookup clients well worth the current asking price if you have a 32 bit operating system. The nag screen is a bit of a pain in the unregistered version. The Ping client only will not function with Win32s. From AKI Software Solutions. 9.7 FingerPlan FUNCTION...... Finger support utility (but not a Finger client) FILE SIZE........ 46,296 bytes VERSION......... 2.0 beta 4 July 1995 RETRIEVAL.... http://www.ior.com/lamplight File name: fp2_0b4.zip STATUS........... Shareware $US 20. Time crippled. A code must be obtained by email in order to activate the program. DOCUMENTS.. Basic instructions. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... A unique program designed to solve a problem caused by dynamic IP addresses. FingerPlan provides a means of making a user's current dynamic IP address readily available so that it can be fingered by other users. From Scott Chapman. 9.8 IE's Finger (Imagination's End) FUNCTION...... Finger client and basic Finger daemon. FILE SIZE........ 345,786 bytes VERSION......... .98 May 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS/winsock/iefngr098_com plete.zip STATUS........... Almostfreeware. Send the author some feedback on the program. DOCUMENTS.. Basic start up instructions. FEATURES...... Batch capabilities. COMMENTS.... 9.9 WS Finger FUNCTION...... Finger and Whois query FILE SIZE........ 65,584 bytes VERSION......... 1.5 April 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://sparky.umd.edu/pub/winsock/wsfngr15.zip STATUS........... Shareware $US 10 DOCUMENTS.. Installation instructions, on-line help. A list of Whois servers is also included. FEATURES...... A major new rewrite. Support now included for Finger, Whois and command line fingers, Finger address book, history, save to file, etc. COMMENTS.... From Tidewater Systems, Shareware as of version 1.2. Previous versions Freeware. 9.10 XFINGER FUNCTION...... Automatic finger query FILE SIZE........ 194,106 bytes VERSION......... .6 July 1995 RETRIEVAL.... http://www.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca/spider/q7f192/branch/tools.html File name: xfing06.zip STATUS........... Freeware. DOCUMENTS.. Basic info. FEATURES...... Automatic fingering at adjustable intervals (default 40 seconds), useful if you want a running check made to see if a friend has logged on. Can be configured for a number of targets. COMMENTS.... As mentioned in the documentation excessive hammering on a host may affect your popularity with the systems administrators. Released by George Xie. 10. GAMES - MUDS One interpretation from the introductory text in MUD Man: "MUD, short for Multi-User Dungeon, is a fantasy world where people can interact and fight monsters, go on quests, etc..." And then there's MUSH, a "Multi-User Shared Hallucination". And then there's MOO........ 10.1 AvPlay FUNCTION...... MUD client FILE SIZE........ 451,714 bytes VERSION......... 4.01 beta July 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.avalon.co.uk/AvPlay_Windows/avw_401.zip STATUS........... No information. DOCUMENTS.. Online help. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... Although specially designed for Avalon (a mythical world MUD) it can be used elsewhere. Intended for use with Trumpet Winsock. Released by Dave Austin. 10.2 GeNewIc Mud Client for Winsock [Win32s, Windows95, Windows NT] FUNCTION...... MUD client FILE SIZE........ 126,001 bytes VERSION......... 1.0 beta July 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://papa.indstate.edu/winsock-l/mud/gmd3210d.zip STATUS........... Shareware $US 20 DOCUMENTS.. Very basic instructions, not very much information. FEATURES...... Separate input and output windows, Multiple hosts in different windows active simultaneously, Scroll back buffer, Macros, and a dockable/floating macro bar, user selectable fonts. COMMENTS.... 10.3 MUD Man FUNCTION...... MUD client FILE SIZE........ 78,834 bytes VERSION......... 1.2 August 1994 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.cica.indiana.edu/pub/pc/win3/misc/mudman12.zip STATUS........... Shareware $US 9, non-USA users $US 15. Registration benefits include an upgraded version of the program. DOCUMENTS.. Basic start up instructions and on-line help included. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... According to author Samuel Ross: " The goal of MUD Man is to end the laborious typing required to move around and perform actions. Once initialized, every command can be issued from the click of a button." 10.4 MudWin (Mud Windows Client) FUNCTION...... MUD client FILE SIZE........ 74,368 bytes VERSION......... 1.0.6 beta January 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.microserve.com/pub/msdos/winsock/mudwin.zip STATUS........... Copyright by the author but no mention of any charges for use. DOCUMENTS.. Extensive start up and usage information. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... Nice graphical toolbar. Continued development by author Sam Denton. 10.5 MUDManager [ Win32s, Windows NT ] FUNCTION...... MUD client FILE SIZE........ 160,492 bytes VERSION......... 2.0 May 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS/winsock/mudmgr20.zip ftp://ftp.uwp.edu/pub/incoming/games/mudmgr20.zip STATUS........... Shareware $US 10 DOCUMENTS.. Basic instructions and online help. FEATURES...... Multiple document interface allowing you to connect to several sites at once, dockable toolbar for quick access to common functions, true 32-bit performance, automatic connecting to host sites when enabled, connect string logic allowing you to configure your system to automatically log you on, printing, splitter windows, etc. COMMENTS.... A major rewrite from Bill Hyman. The program should also work with Windows95 but for some reason doesn't appear to at the moment. A commercial version of this program will be released towards the end of June. 10.6 MUTT(tm) Lite (Multi-User Trivial Terminal client) FUNCTION...... MUD/MUSH/MU* client. FILE SIZE........ 49,905 bytes VERSION......... .1j February 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://caisr2.caisr.cwru.edu/pub/mud/mutt_01j.zip ftp://ftp.graphcomp.com/pub/msw/mutt/mutt_01j.zip STATUS........... Freeware (limited). DOCUMENTS.. Installation and start up info in a file "readme.bnd". No on-line help and none planned for the Lite version. FEATURES...... Multiple character connections with an MDI presentation. Separate send and receive windows with dialogue logging. Drag & drop support for sending files and command-streams. User-definable hot keys, including cursor key definitions. COMMENTS.... The is the first public release of MUTT(tm) Lite, a client that provides Winsock access to MU* hosts. Design criteria: the executable will remain below 32K in order to minimize Internet traffic and FTP site impact and therefore features are limited. A full featured version called MUTT(tm) Elite is planned for future release by the author Bob Free. More information on MUTT is available through the WWW from: http://www.gr aphcomp.com 10.7 VWMUD Master FUNCTION...... MUD client FILE SIZE........ 93,655 bytes VERSION......... 1.20b July 1995 RETRIEVAL.... http://vaughan.pic.net/ File name: vwmud120.zip STATUS........... Basic package now Freeware. Optional registration brings 6 months of support and updates for $US 15. Source code $US 50. DOCUMENTS.. Start up instructions and on-line help. On-line help includes Scott Geiger's listing of 340 MUDS, MUSHES and MOOS. FEATURES...... Sound support now added along with some options affecting colors and fonts. COMMENTS.... Telnet client designed specifically for "Outlaws" - players who kill other players. From author Vaughan Wynne-Jones. 10.8 WinWorld (formerly Winfugue) FUNCTION...... MU* client FILE SIZE........ 72,771 bytes VERSION......... .2 alpha November 1994 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.mgl.ca/pub/winworld/wworld02.zip STATUS........... Donationware - contributions welcome but not mandatory. DOCUMENTS.. Very basic start up and installation instructions. FEATURES...... Auto-login, multiple simultaneous worlds - but only one world displayed at a time (no window clutter!), definable function keys, built in bug report mailer (doesn't require any other software) COMMENTS.... Program formerly known as Winfugue. This is at an early stage of development and is being released by the author Eric Stern for further testing purposes. 11. GAMES - OTHER Perhaps because Winsock is such a new standard, outside the MUD grouping there have been few games developed so far. In time we can expect to see others. 11.1 CHESSBD FUNCTION...... Internet chess client. FILE SIZE........ 307,459 bytes VERSION......... 2.0i April 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://unixd1.cis.pitt.edu/group/chess/UTIL/slics20i.zip STATUS........... Shareware $US 5. DOCUMENTS.. Start up instructions and online help. FEATURES...... Considerable flexibility in selecting fonts and colors. COMMENTS.... This program is capable of running scripts but is primarily intended to observe/play chess on the Internet Chess Server (ICS) or on the Free Internet Chess Server (FICS). Released by Don Fong. This program only works with Winsock. It has not been tested with TIA. 11.2 COW-lite [ Win32s and Windows NT ] FUNCTION...... Netrek client. FILE SIZE........ 215,242 bytes VERSION......... 1.20 October 1994 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://esoteric.agron.iastate.edu/pub/netrek/COW-lite/bin/COW lite-1.20.Win32.zip STATUS........... Not mentioned. DOCUMENTS.. Extensive documentation on using the program and the game in general. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... Netrek is a multiplayer team based Internet game with a Star Trek/Star Wars theme. The basic goal is to slaughter the enemy and conquer the galaxy (naturally!). There is a newsgroup specifically devoted to this game, rec.games.netrek. This Windows port of this program was done by Jonathan Shekter. 11.3 First International Backgammon Server For Windows (FIBS/W) FUNCTION...... Backgammon server. FILE SIZE........ 218,095 VERSION......... 1.30 January 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/micro/pc-stuff/ms-windows/winsock/apps/ fibsw130.zip STATUS........... Shareware $US 40 DOCUMENTS.. Start up information and on-line help. FEATURES...... Works with dial-up dumb-terminal-server access, TCP/IP, SLIP and PPP. Built in dialer with script. COMMENTS.... An Internet server which allows users to play against human opponents all over the world. 11.4 SWINE [ Win32s and Windows NT ] FUNCTION...... Netrek client FILE SIZE........ 261,924 bytes VERSION......... 1.30 beta January 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://esoteric.agron.iastate.edu/pub/netrek/COW-lite/beta/swine 1.3beta.win32.zip STATUS........... Not mentioned. DOCUMENTS.. Extensive documentation on using the program and the game in general. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... This Windows port of this program was done by Jonathan Shekter who also did the same for COW-lite, the other Winsock based Netrek game. The documentation with both programs is very similar. 11.5 TeleChess FUNCTION...... Chinese chess. FILE SIZE........ 50,440 bytes VERSION......... 1.1 March 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.cica.indiana.edu/pub/pc/win3/winsock/tchess11.zip STATUS........... Shareware $US 15 DOCUMENTS.. Installation instructions but nothing on the game itself. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... This game is designed to be played by two people over any TCP/IP network, including the Internet. 11.6 WIGC FUNCTION...... Winsock client for the Internet GO Server (IGS). FILE SIZE........ 156,940 VERSION......... 1.3 March 1994 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/ibmpc/winsock/games/go/wigc1_3.zip STATUS........... Shareware $US 5 DOCUMENTS.. Minimal start up instructions. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... File winmgt38.zip a utility for recording GO games (and replaying games from the IGS) is also available at the same location. Information on the game GO can be obtained from: http://ltiwww.epfl.ch/~warkent/go/golinks.html 11.7 WinIGC FUNCTION...... Winsock client for the Internet GO Server (IGS). FILE SIZE........ 249,554 and 317,028 bytes VERSION......... .61 July 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.cc.umanitoba.ca/pub/umhuang4/winigc61.zip and runtime4.zip STATUS........... Shareware $US 25. DOCUMENTS.. Start up instructions and online help. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... The runtime4.zip file contains additional Microsoft and Borland dll files which you will need. They had been included in earlier versions of the program. 11.8 Winsock Chess FUNCTION...... Internet chess client. FILE SIZE........ 163,546 VERSION......... Beta test release March 1994 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.cica.indiana.edu/pub/pc/win3/winsock/wschesb1.zip STATUS........... Copyright Freeware. DOCUMENTS.. Basic usage instructions. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... Winsock Chess is a chess implementation allowing two players to play chess over a Winsock supported network. Nice clear graphical display. 11.9 (NEW!) WS Empire Client FUNCTION...... Empire client. FILE SIZE........ 124,860 bytes VERSION......... 2.0 alpha 2 July 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.empire.net/pub/empire/player/clients/wse20a2.zip STATUS........... Donationware. DOCUMENTS.. Start up instructions and online help. FEATURES...... It supports multiple connections, automatic login, I/O redirection, a capture buffer, executing command scripts, the clipboard, printing, command repeating, command history, an adjustable size listbox for viewing I/O. COMMENTS.... A strategy game. From the FAQ: "BSD Empire is a global economic/political/military simulation game wherein players, representing national governments, make "real-time" decisions concerning resource allocation, national goals, international diplomatic efforts, etc. Extensive records are kept for all players." This is a 16 bit version for Windows 3.1 released by Jonathan Butler. A 32 bit version is in progress. Further information on the game of Empire is available in newsgroup rec.games.empire and on the WWW at: http://www.empire.net/~children/ 12. GOPHERS The gophers and ground squirrels which periodically move into my front lawn love to dig mazes of tunnels which go all over and seem to pop up everywhere. In a more benign manner the computer client called Gopher tunnels throughout the Internet for us, using a friendly menu based system to take us to places we would otherwise have difficulty reaching. The Gopher system was originally developed at the University of Minnesota. Gopher programs also provide easy access to a number of sites which contain Veronica search programs which enable you to do a broadly based search for all information, files, graphics etc. which correspond to the search word. The results of the search are listed and specific selections can then be retrieved/viewed/saved. This search and retrieval is more broadly based than the Archie/FTP system in that search words in the Gopher system do not have to correspond to a file name, and the results displayed include document based files which would not be picked up by Archie. 12.1 BCGopher (Boston College Gopher) FUNCTION...... Gopher search tool FILE SIZE........ 170,469 bytes VERSION......... .8ba3 May 1994 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://bcinfo.bc.edu/PUB/BCGOPHER/bcg08ba3.exe Note: This is not a true anonymous FTP server, you must use "guest" as the password rather than the normal email user id. STATUS........... Freeware. DOCUMENTS.. Start up information and on-line help file with a brief explanation of the term "Gopher". FEATURES...... Supports the newer Gopher+ protocol found on some servers. Support for HTML, MIME. COMMENTS.... Deserves an award for best Gopher icon I've seen. 12.2 Gopher Book FUNCTION...... Gopher search tool FILE SIZE........ 888,666 bytes VERSION......... 1.1 May 1993 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.cica.indiana.edu/pub/pc/win3/winsock/gophbk11.zip (at CICA) or gophbook.zip STATUS........... Freeware. Winjpeg image viewer, Shareware $US 20. DOCUMENTS.. Installation instructions and on-line help included. FEATURES...... Interesting concept with menus displayed as pages in a book. Image viewer Winjpeg included. COMMENTS.... A rather large package for a Gopher. Development has stopped. 12.3 HGopher (Hampson's Gopher) FUNCTION...... Gopher search tool FILE SIZE........ 199,833 bytes VERSION......... 2.4 Jan. 1994 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.cica.indiana.edu/pub/pc/win3/winsock/hgoph24.zip at CICA. Also found elsewhere as: hgopher2.4.zip, hgopher24.zip, hgopher2.zip, and goph24.zip. Take your pick. STATUS........... No charge for non-commercial use. DOCUMENTS.. Online help. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... HGopher has gone commercial and is now the property of FTP Software Inc. Although version 2.4 has officially been withdrawn and will be used as the basis for the commercial version, copies of it are still widely available on many servers. Version 2.3 will remain in the public domain but will no longer be maintained or enhanced. Translation: dead gopher, avoid. 12.4 The PNL InfoBrowser (Pacific Northwest Laboratory) FUNCTION...... Gopher search tool FILE SIZE........ 259,342 bytes VERSION......... 1.05 November 1994 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.pnl.gov/pub/pnlinfo/win/ib105.exe STATUS........... No charge for non-commercial use. DOCUMENTS.. Installation instructions and on-line help. On-line tutorial available through the PNL home site. FEATURES...... Supports the newer Gopher+ protocol found on some servers. COMMENTS.... This program was developed under contract from the US Department of Energy (why?). 12.5 WGopher FUNCTION...... Gopher search tool FILE SIZE........ 136,707 bytes VERSION......... 2.3.2 January 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.cuhk.hk/pub/gopher/PC/wgoph232.zip STATUS........... No charge for non-commercial purposes. DOCUMENTS.. Minimal, no on-line documentation yet. FEATURES...... Built in TN3270 telnet capability. COMMENTS.... This is a minor upgrade to what once was a promising Gopher client from Hong Kong. It does not support Gopher+ at present although this planned for the future. 12.6 WSGopher FUNCTION...... Gopher search tool FILE SIZE........ 367,860 bytes VERSION......... 1.2 December 1994 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://dewey.tis.inel.gov/pub/wsgopher/wsg-12.exe STATUS........... No charge for non-commercial use. DOCUMENTS.. Good. Now has an on-line help file. FEATURES...... Supports the newer Gopher+ protocol found on some servers. COMMENTS.... This is one of the better gopher clients currently available although it does not support firewalls. It also works with Windows NT and OS/2 Warp. Recommended 13. HOST LOOKUP CLIENTS Host lookup programs do things like taking alphabetical site location information (such as ftp.cica.indiana.edu) and convert them into IP addresses (like 129.79.26.27) which for some reason computers absolutely insist on having. Or vice versa. For example, if you've been using FTP to download offensive pornographic images from that notorious and secretive site 127.0.0.1 and wanted to learn more about that location, you could input these numbers into one of these programs and see what information comes back. 13.1 Hopcheck and Ghostname [ Windows NT ] FUNCTION...... Two programs: a route tracer and a get host name program. FILE SIZE........ 24,917 bytes VERSION......... May 1994 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.cica.indiana.edu/pub/pc/win3/nt/hop.zip STATUS........... No mention of any charges. DOCUMENTS.. Negligible. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... Two Windows NT programs from Larry Kahn. 13.2 Host-Scanner FUNCTION...... Name server information lookup. FILE NAME..... hscan.zip FILE SIZE........ 5,054 bytes VERSION......... April 1995 RETRIEVAL.... Available by email only. Send an email to: fileserver@tetrix.internet-eireann.ie with HSCAN.ZIP in the subject line. STATUS........... Freeware. DOCUMENTS.. Basic instructions for this easy to use program. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... Just released. More than just an IP to name lookup utility, this program does a scan on a block of numbers the first of which you must supply. Block size is adjustable. A newer twist on an old idea. From Tetrix Engineering in Ireland. 13.3 Local Host DNS-Look-Upper FUNCTION...... Host lookup. FILE NAME..... lhost.zip FILE SIZE........ 3,285 bytes VERSION......... April 1995 RETRIEVAL.... Available by email only. Send an email to: fileserver@tetrix.internet-eireann.ie with LHOST.ZIP in the subject line. STATUS........... Freeware. DOCUMENTS.. Basic instructions. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... From Tetrix Engineering. A simple utility which retrieves the name of your host. 13.4 NSLOOKUP FUNCTION...... Name server information lookup. FILE SIZE........ 110,428 bytes VERSION......... 1.1 August 1994 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/trumphurst/nslookup/nslookup.zip Note: same file name was used for version 1.0. If downloading from a different location match file size to verify correct version. STATUS........... Copyright, but no charge.. DOCUMENTS.. Installation instructions, but no on-line help. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... From Ashmount Research Ltd. 13.5 NSLOOKUP [ Windows95 and Windows NT ] FUNCTION...... Name server information lookup. FILE SIZE........ 16,840 bytes VERSION......... 1.0 February 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.usma.edu/pub/msdos/winsock.files/nslookup.zip STATUS........... Not mentioned, but presumably no charge for non-commercial use. DOCUMENTS.. Minimal. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... From John Junod. This runs in a DOS window under Windows95 and Windows NT. It bears no relation to any other programs with the same name from other authors. 13.6 Sockinfo FUNCTION...... DNS query utility FILE SIZE........ 10,747 and 307,136 bytes VERSION......... 1.1 March 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS/winsock/sckinf11.zip and bor402.zip STATUS........... Almostfreeware. Send the author some feedback on the program. DOCUMENTS.. Basic start up instructions. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... A DNS number to name converter (and vice versa). The Borland dll files required to run this are not included with the program and must be downloaded separately which can be a bit annoying if you miss them the first time around. **NOT AVAILABLE** 13.7 WORMHOLE FUNCTION...... DNS query utility FILE SIZE........ 32,256 bytes VERSION......... 1.0 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.cyberstore.ca/pub/Windows/Apps/WORMHOLE.ZIP (Do not confuse with wormhole.zip which is an unrelated and totally different program available on the Internet.) STATUS........... Not specified DOCUMENTS.. None FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... 13.8 WS Host (Windows Socket Host) FUNCTION...... DNS query utility FILE SIZE........ 5,124 bytes (gasp!) VERSION......... 1.1 October 1994 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.cica.indiana.edu/pub/pc/win3/winsock/wshost11.zip STATUS........... Postcardware (Freeware for non-commercial use - just send the developer a nice postcard.). DOCUMENTS.. Minimal, an intuitively simple program. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... This nifty compact utility can convert an IP number into a host name, or vice versa. Everyone should have one of these in their tool box. This new version makes the program fully asynchronous, correcting a shortcoming in the original version. 14. HYPER - G Hyper-G is a large scale distributed hypermedia information system very similar to the World Wide Web. It's capable of accessing the WWW, WAIS and Gopher systems, and conversely WWW and Gopher clients can access Hyper-G. The big difference between Hyper-G and other networks is that Hyper-G servers track all links in their universe. If an object is deleted, the server can find and delete all links pointing to that object. The existence of a link server provides capabilities not possible in the WWW and Gopher space. Developed in Europe it doesn't have a lot to offer in comparison with the WWW which has reached critical mass now. Not surprisingly, current development plans appear to be aimed at increasing the WWW browser capabilities of this product. 14.1 Amadeus FUNCTION...... Hyper-G browser. FILE NAME..... There are a number of zipped files in this directory to be downloaded depending on features required. Expect a total download of up to 7 megabytes. See the latest notes in the same directory. VERSION......... .87 beta July 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://iicm.tu-graz.ac.at/pub/Hyper-G/Amadeus/ STATUS........... I didn't see anything mentioned, but presumably no charge for non-commercial use. DOCUMENTS.. Extensive documentation and help files included. The separate zipped documentation file is almost 2 megabytes unzipped and will be painfully to view with a less powerful PC. FEATURES...... Automated installation with the choice of maximum, custom, or minimum install. This program comes with some familiar clients such as WS_FTP32 for FTP, and EWAN for Telnet included. COMMENTS.... Requires Win32s which is included in the program and will be installed automatically if you do not already have it. This is the only Windows browser available for Hyper-G. 15. MAIL and MAIL ACCESSORIES One writer recently gushed that electronic mail is the killer application for the 90's. He's probably right (and you thought that it was going to be the WWW). The development of electronic mail (email) and its rapid deployment and availability to the general public will have an enormous impact on our lives for years to come. System info stuff. There are two types of servers necessary in most mail systems: SMTP and POP. The SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, or as I prefer: Send Mail To People) server is primarily used to deliver mail. When you originate an email message it is sent via your local SMTP server which passes the message on to a chain of SMTP servers in other locations which route the message to the end destination. Unfortunately, the SMTP servers are only capable of delivering mail. If you are not connected to the network when delivery is attempted they will go away and try again later, perhaps repeatedly every few hours for several days or for however long they have been programmed. Eventually they just give up and bounce the mail back to the sender as undeliverable. To overcome this problem most sites also use a POP mail server (current vintage POP3). The POP (Post Office Protocol, or as I prefer: Post Office Pickup) server acts like a mailbox, receiving incoming mail and storing it until such time as the user initiates retrieval/viewing. A newer mail protocol with the potential to displace POP is IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol or Interactive Mail Access Protocol). IMAP is more of a server based protocol. Unlike POP, messages are intended to remain primarily on the server where they can be stored, filed in folders, or selectively downloaded (complete, headers only, without attachments, etc.) or archived. IMAP is particularly suitable in an environment such as a university where there might be shared machines where downloading and storing mail on a local PC is not practical anyway. It has a few other advantages in other areas including better handling of MIME mail attachments. It does permit viewing of headers and selective downloading. Perhaps the biggest advantage of IMAP is that it has equivalent POP functionality built in allowing users to retain their download, offline reading and storage habits if they wish. IMAP's biggest disadvantage is that it is server intensive for storage space and access to mail as opposed to the simpler download and delete activity common to POP. For modem users offline storage of mail on the local PC with POP is more desirable for reasons of convenience as opposed to the nuisance of having to repetitively log back on to the server to view or retrieve something (busy signal...busy signal...busy signal......). I'm not sure that I see any major advantages of IMAP here that would appeal to many service providers or dialup users and perhaps not surprisingly implementation on the Internet does not appear to have been significant (pure opinion - no statistics). Mail client programs with only POP capabilities will not work with IMAP servers and there are few Windows clients with IMAP capabilities yet, although their numbers are increasing. ------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------------- In connection with email one issue cannot be emphasized enough. There are major security risks with the current Internet mail system. There are three points worth remembering. Let's call these the three monkeys, or perhaps more appropriately, the three mail monkeys: Monkey #1. Information is not secure. There is no guarantee that any mail to or from you will not be intercepted and read by others while it is in transit. It may pass through many sites, many potential "hands" while in route. Even when it reaches its destination it may be vulnerable to hackers while stored on the POP server. For this reason confidential information such as credit card numbers should never be sent through the Internet without some type of secure encryption system which can guarantee confidentiality. Lack of any current universal standard on the Internet for this has been a limiting factor for companies trying to do business on the Internet. Monkey #2. No guarantee of delivery. There is no guarantee that any email message you send will ever reach its destination, and no guarantee that that anyone will ever be notified of the delivery failure. Normally, undelivered mail will be bounced back to the sender. Normally. Monkey #3. No user authentication. There is no guarantee that that any email message (or newsgroup posting for that matter) is really from the person listed as the sender. There is no user authentication system to confirm that person's real identity, and false identities are easily created and have been used from time to time by people on the Internet. It is worth noting that email business transactions through the Internet by themselves are of questionable legal standing since it is difficult to mutually verify the identities of the contracting parties. It is currently too easy for one party to repudiate a contract by claiming that someone had been impersonating them. And it is also too easy for this impersonation to occur. ("Not me. I didn't order those 12 pizzas.") ------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------------- One feature to watch for in email programs is the ability to send attached documents (zip files, spreadsheets, graphics, etc.) through the Internet mail system with UUencode or MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions). MIME is the newer and better Internet mail standard and is gradually displacing UUencode. MIME should be used whenever possible. Because the two systems are not compatible a good mail program should ideally have both to be able to handle sending or receiving in either format for the time being. BinHex is a Macintosh standard for file attachments, handy if you expect to be communicating with those people. The proper choice of a mail program depends upon availability of features that are important to you, and your comfort level with the mechanics of how the program works. A good beginner's program is Eudora which is easy to learn to use and very stable although the free version is lacking in features. I have removed Eudora from my recommended list and added a new program called E-Mail Connection, which has a more feature rich user interface but still a very easy to use program. Another very rated highly and popular mail program is Pegasus. It is also very feature rich, but somewhat more difficult to setup and to become familiar with. 15.1 Atis Mail For Windows FUNCTION...... Electronic mail FILE SIZE........ 1,572,877 bytes VERSION......... 1.04 May 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://oak.oakland.edu/SimTel/win3/winsock/atism104.zip STATUS........... Shareware $US 50. DOCUMENTS.. Basic installation instructions. FEATURES...... SMTP send, POP3 or Imap2/2b receive. Supports MIME mail. Built in X.500 DUA. Can also send and receive (rfc822) mail in a Novell Netware Network. Automated installation. COMMENTS.... All drop down menu commands - no shortcut toolbar icons. This program originates in the Netherlands. 15.2 E-Mail Connection (tm) Internet Edition FUNCTION...... Electronic mail FILE SIZE........ 1,355,136 bytes VERSION......... 2.5.03 June 1995 RETRIEVAL.... http://www.connectsoft.com File name: emcsetup.exe STATUS........... Free for personal use. DOCUMENTS.. Online help. FEATURES...... MIME, UUencode, spell checker. Configurable address books, folders, drag and drop, polling. COMMENTS.... Wow! Loads of features and free!!!!!!! Excellent user interface and you have a configuration choice of selecting the default simple one (recommended) or a more advanced version for power users. Only noticeable shortcoming is that it does not appear to support signatures. OOPS! Spoke too soon - they have just released a newer version 2.5.3 which fixes this. This is the Internet portion of an award winning commercial program which has now been released as Freeware by ConnectSoft. NOTE: The MAPI server provides the ability to send mail directly from a MAPI aware program such as MS Word or MS Excel. It otherwise serves no purpose and if it's existance annoyed you as much as it did me then it can be prevented from booting up by changing MapiServer=1 to MapiServer=0 in the prof0001.ini file. Recommended 15.3 Eudora FUNCTION...... Electronic mail FILE SIZE........ 292,942 and 376,851 bytes VERSION......... 1.4.4 December 1994 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.qualcomm.com/quest/windows/eudora/1.4/eudor144.exe and 14manual.exe STATUS........... Postcardware (Send the developers a nice postcard.). The upgraded commercial version $US 65.00. Further information in the Help menu under About Commercial Eudora. DOCUMENTS.. Documentation in a separate file in the same directory.. FEATURES...... POP3/SMTP protocol. BinHex and Mime capability but does not support UUencode in the free version. Built in directory services (Ph and Finger). This latest version adds the ability to have multiple messages open at the same time. COMMENTS.... A very basic and very popular mail program from Qualcomm. Not a lot of features, but easy to configure and easy to use. Latest version also now runs under Windows NT and OS2. The registered commercial version 2.0 has the capability to send and receive mail remotely via modem without SLIP. No further development seems likely for this free version. A third party HTML version manual for the PC and Mac covering versions 1.4.2 and 1.4.3b1 from Mark Branigan of the Staffordshire University, School of Computing is available through the WWW from: http://www.soc.staffs.ac.uk/eudora/contents.html A variation of the Staffordshire manual has been made available by Leopoldo Saggin covering version 1.4.4: http://www.bio.unipd.it/html/eudora/contents.html (new address!) 15.4 Mi'Mail FUNCTION...... Electronic mail FILE SIZE........ 1,395,621 bytes VERSION......... 1.04 June 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.eunet.be/pub/EUnet/dos/mimail.zip STATUS........... Demo, time crippled. Commercial Internet version $US 125. Full commercial version with additional X.500 access and DDE server $US 165. DOCUMENTS.. Start up instructions and online help. FEATURES...... MIME, UUdecode/UUencode, filters, address books, folder system, drag and drop, automated mail checking (polling), multi-user capabilities, etc. Built in X.500 DUA. Capability of identifying from incoming mail if the sender had MIME capabilities. COMMENTS.... A well done MIME compliant mail program. Nice interface and some good features. Mi'Mail works with a wide variety of TCP/IP stacks and should work with any Winsock (it does work with Trumpet). Released by IRISoft Works. A future version will have (public key) encryption capabilities. Warning: As stated in its documentation this program will automatically send the user's name and email address, server info and other non-confidential (but unspecified) information to the owners of this program for possible registration follow-up. The software also appears to have the capability to be remotely deactivated if unregistered use continues. If this offends you then avoid this program. 15.5 Pegasus Mail FUNCTION...... Electronic mail FILE SIZE........ 1,076,492 bytes VERSION......... 2.01 June 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://risc.ua.edu/pub/network/pegasus/winpm201.zip STATUS........... Free! Manuals, if required, are sold by the author to support development costs. DOCUMENTS.. Installation instructions and on-line help included. Look for a self extracting DOS (yuck!) display file wguide.exe which contains some of this information. FEATURES...... SMTP/POP3 protocol. Supports UUencode, BinHex, and MIME, and now contains a spell checker and a polling feature giving it the capability to operate in the background constantly checking for mail at specified intervals. Floating toolbar capabilities. It finally adds the ability to re-edit outgoing queued mail. COMMENTS.... Pegasus is designed as an email program for use on a Novell Netware network, or for stand alone use on a PC with a TCP/IP wWinsock such as Trumpet Winsock. The latest major upgrade to a very popular and versatile package. Most of the features you might want in at least some form. It will take longer to set up than most other mail programs. Recommended 15.6 Pronto/IP and Pronto Remote FUNCTION...... Electronic mail [Demo] FILE SIZE........ 1,124,198 and 1,430,325 VERSION......... May and February 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://commtouch.com/pub/commtouch/prontoip.exe for TCP/IP networks or SLIP dialup connections (Pronto/IP) ftp://commtouch.com/pub/commtouch/pronto.exe for UNIX shell dialup connections (Pronto Remote) There are also documentation files at the same location for each program which should be retrieved at the same time: pronto.txt and prontoip.txt etc. STATUS........... These are 30 day evaluation copies. Registration $US 69 for Pronto/IP and $US 99 for Pronto Remote. Both packages $US 139. DOCUMENTS.. On-line help and separate documentation files available at the commtouch site. FEATURES...... Pronto/IP supports MIME, UUencode and MAPI (has MAPI server capabilities). Pronto Remote supports MIME, SUN and UUencode attachments. Automated installation. Toolbar can be customized by adding or deleting toolbar icons - a rare feature in Internet programs to date. COMMENTS.... From CommTouch Software. Pronto Remote is similar to Pronto/IP but can access mail by directly dialing into your shell account - no SLIP. Some very nice features here, but not cheap. A beta version of the next release is also available at the same location under filename pip15b.exe. 15.7 RFD Mail FUNCTION...... Electronic mail FILE SIZE........ 813,495 bytes VERSION......... 1.23 September 1994 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.std.com/customers/software/rfdmail/rfdmail.zip ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/windows/comm/rfdmail.zip STATUS........... Shareware $US 29.95 DOCUMENTS.. Installation instructions and on-line help included. FEATURES...... Has direct dial (shell) mail access capabilities but creating or modifying script files for this can be very cumbersome unless you are fortunately using one of the on-line services for which script files are provided. Automatic polling (background checking for mail at scheduled intervals). COMMENTS.... This package's strength lies in it's capability for dialup email access to a wide variety of service providers, from BBS's to commercial networks like CompuServe and Genie, to the Internet, and it contains all the necessary programs, scripts, instructions, etc. to support this. SMTP/POP capability has just been added. Program seemed slow when executing commands, and more features are needed (such as MIME/UUencode capability). 15.8 Small SMTP Client For The Winsock API FUNCTION...... Electronic mail (send only) FILE SIZE........ 15,568 bytes VERSION......... 1.1 March 1993 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://dorm.rutgers.edu/pub/msdos/winsock/apps/smtp11.zip STATUS........... Public domain. DOCUMENTS.. Some introductory information. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... Of historical interest only. An example of an early, simple, mail client. 15.9 Winelm FUNCTION...... Electronic mail FILE SIZE........ 259,553 bytes VERSION......... Second release, March 1994 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.cica.indiana.edu/pub/pc/win3/winsock/winelm.zip STATUS........... No mention of any charges for using this program. DOCUMENTS.. Inadequate, none. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... This package has nothing to offer. 15.10 WS Beeper FUNCTION...... Mail (send only) FILE SIZE........ 72,563 bytes VERSION......... 2.6 December 1994 RETRIEVAL.... http://wgg.com/wgg/best/ ftp://ftp.best.com/pub/cbntmkr/wsbeeper.zip STATUS........... Shareware $US 8. DOCUMENTS.. Basic instructions. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... A simple command line style mail send program. It has very limited features and capabilities, possibly usable in special situations. From Willow Glen Graphics. 15.11 WS-Gmail FUNCTION...... Electronic mail client/server. FILE NAME..... ws_gmail.zip FILE SIZE........ 192,176 bytes VERSION......... April 03/94 COMMENTS.... No longer available. Originally developed by John Junod (noted for his popular WS_FTP package) this had both client and server capabilities. It has gone commercial now under the name IMAIL. Some early development versions including this one can sometimes still be found and are fairly functional. Not that you would ever do an Archie search to try and find it. 15.12 XFERPRO (Information Transfer Professional) FUNCTION...... Internet mail file transfer add-on feature. FILE SIZE........ 134,025 bytes VERSION......... 1.0 July 1994 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.cica.indiana.edu/pub/pc/win3/util/xferp100.zip . STATUS........... Shareware. Registration $US 10. DOCUMENTS.. Includes on-line help. FEATURES...... Fully supports Mime, UU, and XX encoding. COMMENTS.... An add-on for mail programs lacking the ability to send attached documents through the Internet. From Sabasoft Inc. 15.13 Z-Mail [Win32s, WIndows95, Windows NT] FUNCTION...... Electronic mail FILE SIZE........ 1,634,880 bytes VERSION......... 3.2.1 September 1994 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.z-code.com/pub/z-code/zmail/zm-win/w321rel.exe STATUS........... Commercial demo. The documentation gives instructions on sending away for an activation key required for installation. Up to a 30 day demo. Purchase price approximately $US 165. DOCUMENTS.. Installation instructions and online help. FEATURES...... MIME and UUencode for attachments, message sorting options, and searching capabilities, filters for automatically placing mail into appropriate folders, aliases/address book, access to program code for editing purposes, header/body printing options, etc., etc. COMMENTS.... From Network Computing Devices Inc. This is perhaps the BMW of mail programs with features (lots), performance (great) and price (oh oh!). This program (and this particular version) was chosen as a PC Mag editor's choice in a comparison of mail programs in the recent April 25, 1995 issue of PC Magazine. Excellent graphics and loads of options. For the price I was surprised to find a spell checker missing. This program includes a version of Win32s which will be required for Windows 3.1 if you do not already have it installed. The Win32s should not be installed if you are using this program under Windows95 or Windows NT. 16. MAIL NOTIFICATION UTILITIES 16.1 ChkMail [not Winsock] FUNCTION...... Mail check utility. FILE SIZE........ 35,686 bytes VERSION......... 1.2 May 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/ibmpc/winsock/apps/chkmail/chkmail.zip STATUS........... Freeware for non commercial use. DOCUMENTS.. Start up instructions. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... ChkMail is designed to notify users of Pegasus Mail of unread email. It is intended mainly for stand alone machines shared by several users, such as the members of a family. It avoids the need to run Pegasus for each user in turn to see if anything has been received. It is aimed mainly at people using Pegasus and WinDIS (which has a built in Pegasus gateway). From Barry Savell. 16.2 E-Mail Notify [ Win32s, Windows95, Windows NT] FUNCTION...... Mail notification and header retrieval (only) FILE SIZE........ 210,352, 211,230, and 211,230 bytes VERSION......... .99.7 July 1995 RETRIEVAL.... http://olympe.polytechnique.fr/~zic/english/email.html Files: e966w32s.zip [Win32s], e997w95.zip [Windows95], e997nt35.zip [Windows NT] STATUS........... Freeware, but use must stop once final version is released. DOCUMENTS.. Startup instructions and online help. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... New, just released by Ludovic Dubost. This program is designed to run automatic checks on a mail server and notify you if there is mail waiting. The headers may be retrieved, but the program cannot retrieve full messages or delete mail on the server and as such is intended to supplement a normal mail program. These are 32 bit versions for each of the 3 Microsoft flavors. 16.3 Ladybird FUNCTION...... Mail notification FILE SIZE........ 85,704 bytes VERSION......... 1.2 July 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp:// 139.175.1.10/UPLOAD/jenwen/lbird12x.exe http://www.seed.net.tw/~jenwen/ladybird.htm STATUS........... Shareware. $US 5 in local postage stamps (new). This version expires August 31, 1995. Program may not be reposted to other sites without permission. DOCUMENTS.. Basic instructions. FEATURES...... Chinese version also available. Sound alert added now. COMMENTS.... Released by Jenwen, Chien-Wen Huang. 16.4 Pegasus New Mail Check FUNCTION...... Add on mail notification for Pegasus mail. FILE SIZE........ 20,138 bytes VERSION......... March 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.xmission.com/pub/users/o/orenp/pegachck.zip STATUS........... Freeware, source code included. DOCUMENTS.. Basic start up instructions. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... This utility was written to enhance the mail polling (automatic checking for mail at regular intervals) capability of Pegasus mail version 1.22. Released by Oren Peli. 16.5 (NEW!) P.O. (Post Office) FUNCTION...... Mail notification FILE SIZE........ 167,449 bytes VERSION......... 1.24 beta2 July 1995 RETRIEVAL.... http://www.cis.ksu.edu/~novak/po.html File name: po_124b2.zip STATUS........... Shareware $US 5 DOCUMENTS.. Basic instructions. FEATURES...... An email notification program designed specifically to operate with a low (less than 3%) burden on system resources. Adjustable polling to keep a connection alive, visual and audio alarms, message count reported and icon can change to show the presence of new mail. Auto mail program launch on receipt of new mail. COMMENTS.... Well designed and simple to use. Released by Michael Novak. 16.6 WinBiff FUNCTION...... Windows mail notification utility (for Pegasus Mail and others). FILE SIZE........ 86,267 bytes VERSION......... 3.0 July 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://risc.ua.edu/pub/network/pegasus/misc/wnbff30.zip STATUS........... Shareware $US 15 with volume discounts and site licenses available. DOCUMENTS.. Installation instructions and on-line help included. FEATURES...... Adjustable polling (mail checking) interval. Optional audible alarm. COMMENTS.... This utility adds the ability to operate in the background periodically checking for new mail to mail clients lacking this feature. Usable with Waffle, FirstMail, Novell MHS, Mini-Host, FSUUCP, or Sendmail (with PC-NFS). Not really required for the newer Pegasus or Eudora. 16.7 (NEW!) WinBiff FUNCTION...... Windows mail notification utility FILE SIZE........ 117,687 bytes VERSION......... .3 July 1995 RETRIEVAL.... http://www.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca/spider/q7f192/branch/tools.html File name: wbiff03.zip STATUS........... Freeware. DOCUMENTS.. Minimal instructions, simple program. FEATURES...... This program runs in the background and produces a visible icon change to indicate that new mail is waiting. No sound. COMMENTS.... An unfortunate choice of names duplicating and existing program with a similar function. From George Xie. 17. MISCELLANEOUS Or more specifically, a little bit of this, and a little bit of that. 17.1 Keep Alive [Windows NT] FUNCTION...... Repetitive "ping" to server to keep connection alive; Rexec client also included. FILE SIZE........ 25,924 bytes VERSION......... August 1994 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.cica.indiana.edu/pub/pc/win3/winsock/kalive.zip STATUS........... Not stated. DOCUMENTS.. Very minimal instructions.. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... This is a 32 bit program which does not work with Windows 3.1. Command line format: "keepalive hostname interval". From Larry Kahn. The same purpose can also be accomplished with some mail programs by using their polling feature to check for mail at a set intervals. 17.2 Panda FUNCTION...... Mostly a mail program and newsreader at the moment. FILE SIZE........ 336,765 bytes VERSION......... 2.0b February 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://chop.isca.uiowa.edu/pub/Panda/WinPanda.Modem.BETA.zip STATUS........... No mention of any charges. DOCUMENTS.. Nothing with the package, but logging on as "public" with the default configuration allows you to retrieve some basic information from an Iowa server FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... New version. Panda is a multipurpose customized program being developed at the University of Iowa for campus network use. It will include a Gopher, Usenet, mail, FTP, etc. 17.3 Tcpmeter FUNCTION...... Unknown. FILE SIZE........ 19,200 VERSION......... October 1994 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://papa.indstate.edu/winsock/tcpmeter.exe STATUS........... No information. DOCUMENTS.. None. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... From Peter Tattam, the Trumpet Winsock author. This provides a chart recorder type graphical readout of bi-directional data flow. Received bytes/second are shown from the top down in green and send bytes/second are from the bottom up in red. Clicking right and left mouse buttons increases or decreases the vertical display scale from the default 1 kbyte/second. Possibly useful for monitoring the effective data transfer rates while communications settings are being adjusted. The graphics are kind of neat. This is designed to work only with Trumpet Winsock. Note: This version was only intended for the various Trumpet Winsock 2.0 versions. A newer version of this was created for the Trumpet 2.1 versions and is included with that package. According to the author Peter Tattam the two versions should only be used with the stacks they were intended for. Mixing them apparently introduces a risk of "corrupting stacks & windows etc...". 17.4 WINAPPS2 FUNCTION...... A comprehensive client startup package. FILE SIZE........ 169,370 VERSION......... 2.1f July 1995 Released to coincide with the release of the newest Trumpet Winsock version. Individual clients range in date from 1993 to the present. RETRIEVAL.... ftp://oak.oakland.edu/SimTel/vendors/trumpet/winsock/winap21f.zip ftp://ftp.trumpet.com.au/ftp/pub/winsock/winap21f.zip STATUS........... Shareware. No mention of any charges for use, but not to be resold or distributed for sale. DOCUMENTS.. Negligible. FEATURES...... Includes Telnet, Archie, Chat, IRC, FTP and viewer clients. COMMENTS.... A basic starter package from Peter Tattam, the Trumpet Winsock author. Some of these are fairly old, while a couple are newer versions. 17.5 WinLab and NetProto FUNCTION...... Advanced image processing/photo retouch with file transfer module. FILE SIZE........ 855,660 VERSION......... 3.0 October 1994 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://hp750.dibe.unige.it/pub/PHD/wlabv30b.zip (Prime site: Italy) ftp://ftp.cica.indiana.edu/pub/pc/win3/desktop/wlabv30b.zip STATUS........... Shareware WinLab: ITL 120.000 (~ 80 $US) NetProto ITL 30.000 (~20 $US) DOCUMENTS.. Start up instructions and on-line help. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... Package contains both the image processor (WinLab) and has the capability to remotely send or receive documents (NetProto) from another machine (also running NetProto) through Winsock. 17.6 Windows Sockets Net Watch [Win32s, Windows95, Windows NT] FUNCTION...... Network Monitor. FILE SIZE........ 289,418 bytes VERSION......... Alpha 21 May 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.usma.edu/pub/msdos/winsock.files/ws_watch.zip STATUS........... May be freely distributed and used, but not sold. DOCUMENTS.. Basic startup instructions. FEATURES...... Lookup, Finger and Whois tools now added. Traceroute and Ping support only if you are using the Microsoft TCP/IP 32 stack. COMMENTS.... This is a working alpha version of a graphical network monitor. It checks the status of equipment connected to a small network, primarily to determine if any sites are down. Still at an early stage of development, but interesting. 17.7 (NEW!) XPlan FUNCTION...... Dynamic IP address update to .plan file. FILE SIZE........ 129,543 bytes VERSION......... .5 July 1995 RETRIEVAL.... http://www.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca/spider/q7f192/branch/tools.html File name: xplan05.zip STATUS........... Freeware. DOCUMENTS.. Basic startup instructions. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... This program posts your dynamic IP number into the .plan file in your UNIX account which your friends can "finger" to "find" you. Released by George Xie. 18. NEWS The Usenet news system has become one of the cornerstones of the Internet Usenet is like a series of thousands of electronic bulletin boards, each oriented to a specific area or topic of interest where users can post messages or respond to other postings. You subscribe to specific groups which interest you and your news program retrieves all the articles associated with those groups. Typically Usenet news is accessed by logging onto your service provider's news or NNTP (Network News Transfer Protocol) server. There is no "best" news reader. Different programs present different strengths in areas like speed, features, stability, ease of use and "personality". There are differences in what is important to a newcomer versus what an experienced power user demands. Trumpet News and WinVN provide good overall choices in a basic online news program. Trumpet is beginning to show its age whereas WinVN is still being actively developed. Both have basic capabilities for threading (following the postings on a particular topic). A powerful new program, News Xpress, is a significant improvement over both of these in speed, threading and other features. For advanced features and performance there is also the new program Free Agent. It was especially designed for offline reading to help reduce connection costs. It enables you to retrieve all new headers in selected groups, go offline, select those of interest and then log back on to retrieve the corresponding bodies and then log off again to read them. Although usually not well documented and not always easy to use, many of the other programs do have some kind of offline capability. 18.1 AutoNews FUNCTION...... Usenet news. FILE SIZE........ 393,363 bytes VERSION......... 95.03 March 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.cityscape.co.uk/users/ay89/autonews.zip STATUS........... Commercial demo UKP 26, $US 52. This demo program "eventually stops working". DOCUMENTS.. Minimal on-line help. FEATURES...... Automated installation. COMMENTS.... Designed as an offline news reader this program has a tough sell on the price with several other equivalent or better news programs being literally given away. 18.2 dMail for Windows FUNCTION...... Usenet news, mail (send and receive) FILE SIZE........ 339,018 bytes VERSION......... 1.0b (July 1994) RETRIEVAL.... ftp://papa.indstate.edu/winsock-l/mail/dmailwin.zip STATUS........... Freely distributed for testing purposes. DOCUMENTS.. Installation instructions and on-line help included. Terminology sometimes confusing and frustrating, especially with initial setup. FEATURES...... Handles UUCP-g protocol (modem or TCP/IP), POP3, SMTP, and NNTP news reading. The news reader has UUdecoding, article sort by size, date, or subject. Drag and drop capability, etc. COMMENTS.... There is a novel replacement for the traditional hourglass cursor - a man digging with a shovel. The installation is a nuisance since an older version of Trumpet Winsock is included and will cause a conflict if you already have a newer version loaded. Since this was produced somewhere in the former Soviet Union and probably only intended for distribution there it is best avoided. 18.3 Free Agent (tm) FUNCTION...... Usenet news, mail (send only) FILE SIZE........ 734,757 bytes VERSION......... Public release 1.0 July 1995 RETRIEVAL.... http://www.forteinc.com/forte/agent/dlmain.htm File name: fagent10.zip STATUS........... Free Agent is free to individuals for personal use at home and to students or staff of educational institutions and non profit organizations. DOCUMENTS.. Brief start up instructions and on-line help. FEATURES...... Multiple configurable font colors. Single split window design with many enhancements including the ability to change screen layout. Includes the unusual and very welcome ability to extract necessary network configuration, existing newsgroup listing as well as all your subscribed group information from an existing new readers such as Trumpet or WinVN which is already installed on your system. This latest version contains flexible article purging and the much requested database compaction capability. COMMENTS.... Very impressive! This is the best off-line reader currently available for cutting your connection time costs. It is also one of the best news programs in general. Good threading capability. Decoding (pictures) has been criticized as somewhat inferior to News Xpress. Recommended Note: The commercial version Agent .99 is also available brom the same location for the special price of $US 29 until August 31, 1995, then $40 thereafter. It adds a multi-lingual spell checker and 6 months of upgrades and email technical support. The forthcoming upgrades will include the addition of basic email capabilities (August). 18.4 NEWS [Windows95 and Windows NT. A version for the Alpha platform is also included] FUNCTION...... Usenet news, mail (send only) FILE SIZE........ 594,728 bytes VERSION......... X1.0-70 June 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.ksedb.no/ftpshare/NTNews/news070.zip STATUS........... Demo version expires December 15, 1995. DOCUMENTS.. Set up instructions. FEATURES...... Built in UUdecode. COMMENTS.... Released by Olav Tollefsen. If using pkunzip use the " d" option. 18.5 News Xpress FUNCTION...... Usenet news, mail (send only) FILE SIZE........ 212,424 June 1995 VERSION......... 1.0 beta #3 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.hk.super.net/pub/windows/Winsock-Utilities/nx10b4 p.zip STATUS........... Public Domain DOCUMENTS.. On-line help. FEATURES...... Good threading capability. Supports kill and auto-selection, local folders for storing articles, and outbox for queuing posts and mails. Built in UUencode/UUdecode. Many unique features, but not always well documented. COMMENTS.... A very popular program which has consistently generated strong favorable comments from its users in spite of the fact that previous releases were usually buggy and unstable. This latest version seems to be quite different - an impressive improvement in a program which is on the bleeding edge of development in this area. For features and performance it is one of the two (Free Agent) best news readers currently available. Developed by Ken Ng as a University project in Hong Kong. Recommended 18.6 PC-Pine for Winsock FUNCTION...... Usenet news, mail (send and receive) FILE SIZE........ 528,763 bytes VERSION......... 3.91 beta October 1994 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/pcpine/pcpine_w.zip STATUS........... Copyright, but freely available. DOCUMENTS.. Installation instructions and on-line help included. FEATURES...... Supports SMTP/MIME/IMAP/NNTP protocols, but not POP3. COMMENTS.... Unfortunately this Winsock version is quite disappointing because it is not a true Windows GUI application but has the same user interface as the UNIX and DOS versions of Pine. 18.7 Qnews (tm) FUNCTION...... Usenet news, mail (send only) FILE SIZE........ 378,463 bytes VERSION......... .9b3 (beta) April 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://oak.oakland.edu/SimTel/win3/winsock/qn09b3.zip http://www.magi.com/~rdavies/qnews.html STATUS........... Shareware $US 10. DOCUMENTS.. Installation instructions and online help. FEATURES...... Built in UUencode/UUdecode. Multi-threaded execution. Messages can be read, or posted while newsgroups and messages counts continue to update in the background. COMMENTS.... From Robin Davies. 18.8 SlipStream Jet FUNCTION...... Mail and news packet downloader. FILE SIZE........ 382,290 bytes VERSION......... 1.014 (Alpha) April 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://oak.oakland.edu/SimTel/win3/winsock/sl1014.zip ftp://ftp.cts.com/pub/rwilson/SlipStream_Jet/ sl1014.zip STATUS........... Shareware. Registration $US 42. Unregistered version only allows 5 newsgroups to be selected. DOCUMENTS.. Installation instructions. Online help not available yet, but is being worked on. Nice disclaimer warning message in fairly plain English and understandable for a change - obviously this company needs to hire more lawyers. Perhaps Netscape could loan them some. FEATURES...... Uninstaller utility included (thank you!) COMMENTS.... This program downloads newsgroup postings and mail through your SLIP/PPP access, converting them to QWK format for use with separate QWK offline readers. It will upload news replies. This appears to be a well designed package (though still alpha). Price is a negative. 18.9 Tetrix Reader Plug (TRP) FUNCTION...... Usenet news, mail (send and receive) FILE SIZE........ 617,292 bytes VERSION......... 1.1.0 March 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.internet-eireann.ie/pub/ie_access/dos/winsock/trp110.zi p STATUS........... Shareware 20 Irish pounds, $US 30. Registration is for life. This unregistered version seemed to be limited to about 20 articles per newsgroup. DOCUMENTS.. Start-up information and on-line help. FEATURES...... UUencoding, many viewing filter options. Good graphics. Includes an RUIP client (Finger daemon) which supplies controlled information to anyone fingering you. COMMENTS.... This latest release is fairly stable and works well but a lack of so many features makes this a tough sell. No threading, no sorting, no display font control, no adjustment of display window sizes, etc. 18.10 Trumpet News Reader FUNCTION...... Usenet news, mail (both send and receive) FILE SIZE........ 96,305 bytes VERSION......... 1.0 rev B final beta #4 September 1994 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://oak.oakland.edu/SimTel/vendors/trumpet/beta/wintrump/wt_wsk .zip STATUS........... Shareware $US 40. Site licenses also available. DOCUMENTS.. Good. FEATURES...... Can decode UUencoded files. Threading capabilities, but could be better. Offline reading. If you have along list of article headers and you're searching for something in particular you can just start typing a key word and the program will jump you down to the header containing a matching word (undocumented feature). COMMENTS.... No razzle dazzle here - this last version is just a very nice general purpose news reader, fairly slow, but easy to use and stable, a good program for beginners or light users. Split window design as opposed to the more common multiple windows style. It does not seem to be under active development now. 18.11 WinDis FUNCTION...... See Features. FILE SIZE........ 246,532 and 314,181 bytes VERSION......... April 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/ibmpc/winsock/apps/windis/windis.zip [Windows 3.1, WFW 3.11] ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/ibmpc/winsock/apps/windis/windis32.zip [for Windows NT, Win32s, and Windows95] STATUS........... Freeware. Source code available. DOCUMENTS.. Help file. FEATURES...... NNTP News Client - downloads news for reading with an off-line reader. SMTP Mail Client - downloads waiting mail for an off-line e-mailer. SMTP Mail Server - uploads mail as individual e-mail, or to a news group. Finger Client - fingers servers as appropriate. Time Client - gets server time. On-line time logging, auto log out feature, built in Pegasus mail feature. COMMENTS.... This new version has just been released and has many features. 18.12 WinNET Mail and News FUNCTION...... Usenet news, mail (both send and receive) FILE SIZE........ 948,710 bytes VERSION......... 2.51 May 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://oak.oakland.edu/SimTel/win3/internet/wnmai251.zip STATUS........... Free if using WinNET Communications as your Internet provider, otherwise Shareware @ $US 39.95. DOCUMENTS.. Installation instructions and on-line help included. FEATURES...... Direct dialup to any system providing UUCP (unix-unix copy, a shell type connection) service. UUencode for attached documents supported (but no MIME). Mail server daemon can be programmed to call your Internet provider and download mail on certain days at specific times. There is search capability within a single newsgroup or across newsgroups. COMMENTS.... WinNET now supports both UUCP and PPP connections, although configuration for PPP which has been recently added must be done by directly editing an .ini file. This crippled unregistered version is limited to only 2,400 bps, the registered version goes to 57,600 bps. The price of this package has come down considerably from when I last looked at it a year ago, and the features have gone up - it is now a good value. Installation is very easy if using WinNET as the service provider, otherwise more difficult. It works with Windows 3.1, Windows NT and OS/2. 18.13 WinQVT/Net FUNCTION...... Mail (send and receive), Usenet news reader, Telnet, FTP file transfers, FTP/rcp server, network printer, SMTP server. FILE SIZE........ 395,445 and 491,759 bytes VERSION......... 3.989 January 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.cica.indiana.edu/pub/pc/win3/winsock/qvtw3989.zip [Windows 3.1 versions]. and ftp://ftp.cica.indiana.edu/pub/pc/win3/nt/qvtn3989.z ip [Windows NT version]. biochemistry.cwru.edu: gopher/pub/qvtnet (This can be a difficult site to access.) STATUS........... Shareware $US 40, only $20 for students. Registered users receive complete set of fonts, a full 85-page user manual, and upgrades for 1 year. DOCUMENTS.. Installation instructions and on-line help included. FEATURES...... VT52/VT102/VT220 terminal emulation capable of supporting up to 15 simultaneous virtual terminal sessions. SMTP/POP3 send and receive mail, with polling (timed background mail checking). Capability to also operate as a server for FTP. A basic SMTP server daemon has also been added which allows direct receipt of mail for network users who are always logged on or for those who don't have POP mail. An RCP server allows file transfers to and from the remote user's UNIX command line. COMMENTS.... This is a very full featured package. Telnet is highly rated, other modules often much less so. 18.14 WinVN FUNCTION...... Usenet news, mail (send only) FILE SIZE........ 285,470 and 303,336 bytes VERSION......... .99.05 June 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.ksc.nasa.gov/pub/winvn/win3/wv16_99_05.zip [Windows 3.1] ftp://ftp.ksc.nasa.gov/pub/winvn/nt/winvn_99_05_intel.zip [Windows95 and Windows NT] STATUS........... Public Domain. Source code available. DOCUMENTS.. Installation instructions and on-line help included. FEATURES...... Can also send (but not receive) mail using SMTP or MAPI. Built in UUdecoding which is especially useful and convenient in downloading and viewing pictures. ROT13 decoding. COMMENTS.... A fairly popular online newsreader which continues to get considerable development effort although the old code it was originally written with somewhat limits its capabilities and potential. Still, a good solid program. Recommended 19. NFS CLIENTS Ha! Fooled you! There aren't any true Winsock NFS (Network File System) clients. The current Winsock 1.1 spec apparently doesn't support NFS. Therefore there won't be any until some future time when the spec is updated (a version 2.0 of the Winsock spec is expected later this year) and the new compliant products begin to appear. Best interim solution is to try and find an NFS client specific to your TCP/IP stack. This information on NFS is condensed from a variety of newsgroup postings from People Who Know About These Things. Some good possibilities for some specific systems: 19.1 WINDOWS SOCKETS NFS CLIENT ADD-ON FOR WINDOWS FUNCTION...... NFS (Network File System) [DEMO - Function or time crippled] FILE SIZE........ 440,897 VERSION......... April 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.cica.indiana.edu/pub/pc/win3/demo/nfs-demo.zip STATUS........... Demo trial version. Registered Shareware version $US 49 per user ($30 for educational users), with volume discounts and site licenses available. DOCUMENTS.. Startup instructions and on-line help. FEATURES...... Automated installation. COMMENTS.... Runs over Microsoft Workgroups TCP/IP-32, Trumpet TCP/IP, Novell TCP/IP, TCPOpen TCP/IP, and XLink's TCP/IP. From Xlink Technology Inc. Demo version has warning messages every 20 minutes. For installation purposes the unzipped files must be located either on the main directory level of the C drive or on a diskette. If you put the files in a subdirectory on your hard disk the install program can't find them when you run it and will abort. 19.2 XFS (16 bit) FUNCTION...... NFS client FILE SIZE........ 215,698 bytes VERSION......... 1.91 January 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://papa.indstate.edu/winsock-l/Misc-Winsock/xfs191.zip STATUS........... Shareware $US 15 for educational users and $US 25 for business users. Site licenses also available. DOCUMENTS.. Start up documentation FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... XFS is a Network File System (NFS) client implementation for PC's running MS-DOS. It works with most recent versions of MS DOS. It is compatible with Trumpet Winsock, but must be loaded first. It may also be used with Microsoft Windows For Workgroups, Microsoft LAN Manager, and Novell Netware IPX & ODI. It does NOT operate over a SLIP connection. Released by Robert Juhasz. 19.3 XFS32 (32 bit) FUNCTION...... NFS client FILE SIZE........ 106,134 bytes VERSION......... 1.20 December 1994 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://papa.indstate.edu/winsock-l/Misc-Winsock/xfs32120.zip STATUS........... Shareware $US 15 for educational users and $US 25 for business users. Site licenses also available. DOCUMENTS.. Start up documentation and on-line help FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... XFS32 is an NFS client for PC's running MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows For Workgroups (WFW) and Microsoft TCP/IP-32. It does NOT operate over a SLIP connection. Released by Robert Juhasz. 20. NULLSOCK Opening most Winsock applications offline is not a problem as long as a winsock.dll (such as Trumpet Winsock) is installed in a path directory on that machine. If you attempt to open an application and it cannot find a winsock.dll available for use an error message will usually be generated. There are occasionally times when this is the case, and to overcome the error problem a dummy Winsock or nullsock can be used to fool the program into thinking that a network connection exists. 20.1 Mozock FUNCTION...... Nullsock. FILE SIZE........ 5,568 bytes VERSION......... N/A RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.mcom.com/unsupported/windows/mozock.dll STATUS........... Unsupported DOCUMENTS.. A brief note, mozock.txt is at the same location. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... Rename this file winsock.dll and place it in a path directory. Although intended primarily for Netscape it should work with just about any Winsock program (?). 21. PH CLIENTS Ph clients are used to access CSO nameservers which contain a database primarily used for the storage and retrieval of telephone and email directory information. Huh? Well, in other words, Ph is simply like an electronic phone book. Ph is another protocol similar to Finger. Ph clients are designed to access sites running a CSO server to obtain email addresses. If for example you only had a person's name and location but needed their exact email address, and there was a CSO server at that site, you could query it to obtain the necessary information. The database can also be used to store other general information such as weather data and be used for security purposes to validate users. Ph clients are increasingly being incorporated as components of other Winsock packages such as mail packages and WWW browsers. CSO was the acronym for the University of Illinois Computing Services Office which originally developed this. CCSO = Computer and Communications Services Office, formerly known as just CSO (I guess they got a promotion). 21.1 IRL CCSO Phone Windows Client FUNCTION...... CCSO Windows Ph Client FILE SIZE........ 399,110 bytes VERSION......... Beta 2.3.2 September 1994 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://papa.indstate.edu/winsock-l/Misc-Winsock/irlphwin.zip or irlph23.zip STATUS........... Freeware DOCUMENTS.. Startup instructions and on-line help included. FEATURES...... Contains both 16 and 32 bit executives, your choice, although for the 32 bit version you must have Microsoft's Win32s extension installed (and the latest version, 1.15a. See the Non-Winsock Miscellaneous section below for more info.). COMMENTS.... This program by Graeme Campbell. 21.2 PHWIN FUNCTION...... CCSO Windows Ph Client FILE SIZE........ 119,378 bytes If downloading from another location, watch the file size. For some strange reason useless fragments about 5k in size are found under this file name in many locations and should be avoided. VERSION......... beta 2.2 November 1993 RETRIEVAL.... Try: ftp://ftp.cac.psu.edu/pub/access/unsupported/windows/phwin22 .zip STATUS........... Freeware DOCUMENTS.. Startup instructions and on-line help included. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... This program by Graeme Campbell. It appears to be an early version of the IRL CCSO Phone Windows Client listed in this section. 22. PING Do you remember those old World War II movies where the crew of the submarine is huddled over the sonar watching the echoes coming back? Ping is kind of the computer equivalent of sonar. Ping clients are used to provide echo like checks of servers to confirm that a good connection exists. Basically, a Ping client sends data packets to a host which (if it supports Ping, and most do) bounces a reply packet back. Packets are numbered so that any dropout can be identified and the quality of the connection determined. Nothing at all coming back = no connection. If there is a good connection you can go ahead and launch the torpedoes. 22.1 ICMP Ping for Windows [ Windows NT ] FUNCTION...... Ping client, Trace client and Lookup (name to IP number etc.) client. FILE SIZE........ 55,980 bytes VERSION......... July 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.usma.edu/pub/msdos/winsock.files/wsping32.zip STATUS........... Free for non-commercial use. DOCUMENTS.. None FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... From John Junod, the 32 bit version of WS Ping. 22.2 WSNWUTIL FUNCTION...... Echo, Ping, FTP clients, Echo Server FILE SIZE........ 163,824 bytes VERSION......... January 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://rmii.com/pub2/mclouden/wsnwutil.zip (very latest version) STATUS........... Freeware (limited) - may not sold. DOCUMENTS.. Installation instructions and on-line help. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... Previously called WSNWDEMO this new release does not include the Finger client and server which are planned for a future release. Interesting product being actively developed by its author Mark Clouden. 22.3 WS Ping (Window Sockets Ping Client) FUNCTION...... Ping client FILE SIZE........ 60,496 VERSION......... October 1994 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.usma.edu/pub/msdos/winsock.files/ws_ping.zip STATUS........... Public Domain DOCUMENTS.. Almost none. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... From John Junod. Source code included. 23. PRINTER CLIENTS These are primarily intended to enable the sending of an output file to a remote network printer through a modem connection. See also WinQVT in the NEWS section. 23.1 CSMLPDW (Computer Software Manufaktur Line Printer Daemon for Windows) FUNCTION...... Winsock based line printer daemon [Demo] FILE SIZE........ 213,290 VERSION......... February 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.eunet.co.at/pub/vendor/csm/csmlpdw.exe STATUS........... Demo trial version. DOCUMENTS.. Basic start up instructions and on-line help. FEATURES...... Automated installation. Supports up to 10 Printer queues on your Windows PC. RFC 1179 compliant. Uses Windows Print Manager. COMMENTS.... Full functional demo which ends at 50 print requests. 23.2 NIPrint Bi-Directional Print Services for Winsock FUNCTION...... Bi-directional print utility. FILE SIZE........ 124,423 bytes VERSION......... 1.2 February 1995 RETRIEVAL.... http://www.ptgs.com/links/ni/niprint.htm File name: NIDEMO.EXE STATUS........... Demo with 21 day evaluation period. Prices starting at $US 29 / £UK 29 for a single user. DOCUMENTS.. Extensive documentation with online help. FEATURES...... NIPrint uses industry standard LPD/LPR protocol to transfer print jobs to and from remote UNIX hosts and Windows PCs. Because each NIPrint program contains both a complete server and client, any Windows PC with NIPrint installed can become a local print server for any other Windows PC or any UNIX system on the LAN. NIPrint's Local Print can receive multiple print requests - up to 32 simultaneously - from multiple UNIX hosts or Windows PCs. COMMENTS.... Some tremendous network print capabilities here according to the documentation. Works with both Windows 3.1 and Windows NT. Released by Network Instruments, LLC. 23.3 Windows LPR Spooler FUNCTION...... Network printer spooler. FILE SIZE........ 216,548 bytes VERSION......... 4.0c December 1994 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://oak.oakland.edu/SimTel/win3/winsock/wlprs40c.zip STATUS........... Shareware. 30 day evaluation. Registration cost available by contacting the authors. DOCUMENTS.. Start up and usage instructions in postscript (.ps) or text (.asc) files. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... This program allows an application to print to remote network printers, and to check the print queue, etc. 23.4 WinLPR FUNCTION...... Network printer. FILE SIZE........ 152,419 bytes VERSION......... 2.0c January 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.cica.indiana.edu/pub/pc/win3/winsock/wlpr20.zip STATUS........... Shareware. Registration cost available by contacting the authors. DOCUMENTS.. Start up instructions. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... 24. RCMD, RCP, RSH and TAR Winsock versions of UNIX functions. 24.1 Windows Socket RCP client FUNCTION...... RCP client FILE SIZE........ 55,734 VERSION......... .91 January 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://stoner.eps.mcgill.ca/pub/windows/winsock/wrcp091.zip STATUS........... Freeware. DOCUMENTS.. Basic installation and start up instructions. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... Author Steve McCauley. 24.2 WinRSH / WinRSH32 - Remote Shell for Windows FUNCTION...... Remote shell for Windows. FILE SIZE........ 146,005 bytes VERSION......... 1.6 November 1994 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://datacom.ee.ubc.ca/pub/pc/winsock/wrsh16.zip STATUS........... Freeware DOCUMENTS.. Basic start up instructions. FEATURES...... Now supports multiple simultaneous sessions. Both 16 and 32 bit execution files are included. COMMENTS.... Requires a UNIX host supporting RSH or REXEC daemon. Written by William Cheung. 24.3 Winsock RCMD.DLL FUNCTION...... Remote command function. FILE SIZE........ 67,596 VERSION......... 1.5 March 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://oak.oakland.edu/SimTel/win3/winsock/wrcmdl15.zip STATUS........... Shareware $US 29.95 DOCUMENTS.. Startup and usage instructions. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... "Winsock RCMD.DLL provides a function similar to the Berkeley Sockets "rcmd" function for Windows Sockets. This provides the ability to initiate UNIX commands from within your Windows program and process any output from that command. Winsock RCMD.DLL is a Dynamic Link Library (DLL) callable from almost any language that allows DLL calls, such as C, C++, or Visual Basic." From Denicomp Systems. 24.4 Winsock RCP.DLL FUNCTION...... RCP client FILE SIZE........ 67,596 bytes VERSION......... 1.5 March 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://oak.oakland.edu/SimTel/win3/winsock/wrcpdl15.zip STATUS........... Shareware $US 34.95 DOCUMENTS.. Startup and usage instructions. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... "Winsock RCP.DLL provides a function that allows you transparently copy files to and from remote hosts or between two remote hosts from within your programs, just like the "rcp" command. Winsock RCP.DLL is a Dynamic Link Library (DLL) callable from almost any language that allows DLL calls, such as C, C++, or Visual Basic." From Denicomp Systems. 24.5 Winsock RCP/RSH FUNCTION...... RCP/RSH clients FILE SIZE........ 119,258 bytes VERSION......... 1.5 March 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://oak.oakland.edu/SimTel/win3/winsock/wrcprs15.zip STATUS........... Shareware $US 29.95 DOCUMENTS.. Startup and usage instructions. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... "Winsock RCP, or Remote Copy, copies files from your Windows PC to a UNIX system, from a UNIX system to your PC, or between two UNIX systems. You can copy individual files or recursively copy entire directory trees. Winsock RSH, or Remote Shell, runs a specified command on the UNIX system.". From Denicomp Systems. 24.6 Winsock RSHD FUNCTION...... Remote Shell Daemon (server) FILE SIZE........ 190,046 bytes VERSION......... 1.5 March 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://oak.oakland.edu/SimTel/win3/winsock/wrshd15.zip STATUS........... Shareware $US 34.95 DOCUMENTS.. Startup and usage instructions. FEATURES...... Security mechanism to allow/deny access for hosts and users. COMMENTS.... From Denicomp Systems. It has been tested on the following TCP/IP stacks: Microsoft 32-Bit TCP/IP for Windows, Wollongong Pathway Access and Novell LAN Workplace for DOS Version 4.2 24.7 WinTAR (Windows Tape Archive) FUNCTION...... Network tape drive archiving program. FILE SIZE........ 148,789 bytes VERSION......... 1.4 January 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://oak.oakland.edu/SimTel/win3/winsock/wtar14u.zip STATUS........... Shareware. Single copy registration $US 20 or $CDN 25. Volume discounts. DOCUMENTS.. All instructions included in the on-line help. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... This program can use a Winsock connection to archive files on a network tape drive. It can either create or open files and can control the tape drive mechanism. It is not limited to just tape drives, and can also archive to a local hard drive or floppy. Nice colorful toolbar. 25. SNMP SNMP = Simple Network Management Protocol. SNMP is defined in a series of official Internet documents covering management of network services across a network such as the Internet. 25.1 NetGuardian FUNCTION...... SNMP program FILE SIZE........ 419,597 bytes VERSION......... 2.0 beta 3 February 1995 RETRIEVAL.... http://www.fc.ul.pt/software/netguard.html File name: netg2b3.zip STATUS........... Not mentioned DOCUMENTS.. Minimal start up instructions. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... NetGuardian is a SNMP package that includes a manager, an agent and a graphic analyzer. It was developed at the University of Lisbon. According to the documentation this program was tested with an older beta version of Trumpet. It will also run under the Microsoft TCP/IP 25.2 SNMP Manager FUNCTION...... SNMP network client FILE SIZE........ 143,424 bytes VERSION......... 1.1 June 1994 RETRIEVAL.... http://www.fc.ul.pt/software/snmpman.html File name: snmpman.zip STATUS........... Not mentioned. DOCUMENTS.. Minimal start up instructions. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... Supports SNMP v1 protocol. According to the documentation this program was tested with an older beta version of Trumpet 25.3 SNMPtest for Winsock FUNCTION...... SNMP tools for Windows FILE SIZE........ 98,849 bytes VERSION......... 1.02 May 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://oak.oakland.edu/SimTel/win3/network/snmpwin.zip STATUS........... Shareware DM 25 (German currency). Registered users receive a help file and other documentation and material. DOCUMENTS.. Negligible. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... Released by Martin Bayreuther. 26. TCP / IP Things primarily for network groupies. Modem users can fast forward. TCP/IP = Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. This is the networking standard used by the Internet for the transfer of data packets. It's a standard which essentially allows two computers to talk to each other. 26.1 Internet-Connect FUNCTION...... TCP/IP networking package FILE SIZE........ 956,460 bytes VERSION......... 2.2 March 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://oak.oakland.edu/SimTel/win3/winsock/inetv22.zip ftp://cais.com/pub/lvuong/ inetv22.zip STATUS........... Evaluation copy. DOCUMENTS.. Extensive installation and use information, on-line help. FEATURES...... Full support for SLIP/CSLIP/PPP. PPP has client and server modes, userid/password authentication (UPAP), dynamic address assignment, built in DNS support, etc. There is a Windows based dialer with scripting and terminal emulation utility and Windows based automatic installation program. For developers there is Winsock API trace, Winsock developers kit, SLIP and PPP data trace etc. COMMENTS.... This very, very full featured package which is intended to provide a powerful platform primarily oriented towards network professionals and developers. Compatible with Novell Netware, Novell Personal Hardware, Microsoft Lan Manager and WFW 3.11. 26.2 Microsoft TCP/IP-32 for Windows For Workgroups FUNCTION...... TCP/IP networking package FILE SIZE........ 690,031 bytes VERSION......... 3.11b July 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/clients/wfw/TCP32B.EXE STATUS........... Free to users of Windows For Workgroups 3.11. DOCUMENTS.. Online help. FEATURES...... Includes basic applications like FTP and Telnet, and diagnostic tools like Ping and Tracert COMMENTS.... For network users, this only works with WFW 3.11. New version contains additional (and enhanced) TCP/IP utilities, along with speed and performance and performance improvements. I do not believe that this supports dialup access. 27. TELNET A Telnet, or terminal emulator is a program which transforms your PC into a particular brand of dumb terminal (keyboard and display but no brain) which is capable of logging on to a remote server. There are many sites which can only be accessed with a Telnet connection. The emulation is chosen to accommodate the host being accessed, and on the Internet (and probably off) this most commonly means the Digital Equipment (DEC) series of terminals VT100, VT102, VT220, etc. The best terminal emulations seem to be found on commercial communications programs, programs which unfortunately do not support a SLIP/PPP connection. For many users nothing has provided more frustration than the search for a good Shareware/Freeware Telnet program (the "Holy Grail"). A unique solution comes from David Yon, whose COMt program provides the usually powerful Telnet functions of your commercial communications program with bridge access to the Internet. For Telnet see also WinQVT in the News section. 27.1 Anzio Lite FUNCTION...... Telnet (terminal emulator) FILE SIZE........ 73,557 bytes VERSION......... 10.3d July 1995 RETRIEVAL.... http://www.teleport.com/~rsi/anzioscl.html File name: anzl103d.zip STATUS........... Shareware. Registered version with extra features, $US 25. DOCUMENTS.. Basic instructions. FEATURES...... VT100/220, SCO, ATT, Wyse 60, and Viewpoint emulation. COMMENTS.... It has been tested with a variety of winsock stacks: Trumpet, Microsoft, Novell, Wollongong, and Chameleon. Released by Rasmussen Software. 27.2 CommNet FUNCTION...... Telnet FILE SIZE........ 1,065,304 bytes VERSION......... 1.5 July 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.radient.com/cmnet15d.exe STATUS........... Demo version, with many features crippled. Registration $US 34.95 DOCUMENTS.. Startup instructions and online help. FEATURES...... VT100, ANSI, TTY emulation. Supports Y-modem and Z-modem file transfers (Z-modem over Telnet). Phonebook, built-in dialer. Drag and drop file transfers, customizable fonts, colors and sounds, multiple sessions. COMMENTS.... What appears at first to be a very simple program in fact has some nice features in a very easy to use interface. CommNet can be used for dialup access to your shell account with its built in dialer, or it can be used as a Winsock Telnet application if you have established a SLIP/PPP connection through another program. Released by Radient Software. 27.3 COMt: the Telnet Modem FUNCTION...... Modem telnet interface utility. FILE SIZE........ 115,644 bytes VERSION......... 1.05 April 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.std.com/customers/software/rfdmail/comt.zip STATUS........... Shareware $US 15.95 DOCUMENTS.. Installation instructions and on-line help included. FEATURES...... A fairly flexible package: Connect using IP addresses or host names, selectable terminal type options, baud rate options, serial port number etc. etc. Limited support for transparent TCP/IP access to modem pools. Automated installation. COMMENTS.... COMt acts as an interface permitting the terminal emulators in your commercial communications package to access the Internet. It is compatible with Trumpet Winsock. This latest version now works with CompuServe's WinCIM version 1.3, although it will not work with Reflections (HP). It comes from the same company which produces RFD Mail and is deservedly proving to be popular. 27.4 CSMRLW (Computer Software Manufaktur Remote Login for Windows) FUNCTION...... Telnet (terminal emulator) [DEMO - Function or time crippled] FILE SIZE........ 429,995 bytes VERSION......... February 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.eunet.co.at/pub/vendor/csm/csmrlw31.exe STATUS........... Demo trial version. DOCUMENTS.. On-line help included. FEATURES...... AT386 / IBM HFT(5151) / IBM 3151 / SCO (Ansi) terminal emulation. Automatic logon, windows cut and paste support, ISO to ASCII conversion. Automated installation. COMMENTS.... Not tested under Trumpet Winsock. This demo version is fully functional, but has a time limit. From Computer Software Manufaktur GmbH in Austria. 27.5 EWAN FUNCTION...... Telnet (terminal emulator) FILE SIZE........ 256,032 bytes VERSION......... 1.052 January 1995 RETRIEVAL.... http://www.lysator.liu.se/~zander/ewan.html File name: ewan1052.zip STATUS........... Freeware. Email support available for governments and institutions for a fee. DOCUMENTS.. Simple startup instructions and on-line help. FEATURES...... ANSI/VT52/VT100 emulation. Each stored site can have a customized configuration. COMMENTS.... Ewan continues to be improved by its author and has developed a strong following. A short description on how to create emulations for EWAN is available in a Windows Write format through the WWW from: http://www.lysator.liu.se/~zander/ewan.html 27.6 NCSA WinTel FUNCTION...... Telnet (terminal emulator) FILE SIZE........ 55,834 bytes VERSION......... Unsupported beta 3 1993 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.cica.indiana.edu/pub/pc/win3/winsock/wintelb3.zip STATUS........... No charge for use. DOCUMENTS.. Minimal, no on-line help. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... Not supported, not currently under development. 27.7 NetTerm [Windows 3.1 and Windows95] FUNCTION...... Telnet FILE SIZE........ 300,731 bytes VERSION......... 2.2 July 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/pub/users/z/zkrr01/ file name: neterm22.zip STATUS........... Shareware $US 20 DOCUMENTS.. Startup instructions and online help. FEATURES...... VT100 and ANSI terminal emulation, built in phone dialer with scripts, file transfers using Z-modem, X-modem, Y-modem and Kermit. Designed either for UNIX shell access to a service provider or BBS, or Telnet capabilities through a Winsock program such as Trumpet. COMMENTS.... Released by InterSoft International, Inc. 27.8 PC-340 FUNCTION...... Terminal emulator FILE SIZE........ Total 2,411,635 bytes VERSION......... 2.45 February 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.wpine.com/pub/product/demo/pc340_1.exe, pc340_2.exe, and pc340_3.exe (3 files) STATUS........... Commercial demo. It is not limited in any functional way but will expire after 30 days of use although I don't believe that this is mentioned in the documentation. Suggested retail price $US 349. DOCUMENTS.. Start up information and online help. Documentation a little weak (one screen shot in the online help didn't exactly match the real thing when I needed some help with the configuration), and Winsock support was there although I didn't recall seeing any mention in anything I read other than at the FTP site. FEATURES...... VT52, VT100, VT102, VT220, VT320, VT340, TEK4014 terminal emulation. Built in dialer. Built in default for Hayes compatible modems. It can accommodate other types but not easily. COMMENTS.... I logged onto my local provider with a PPP connection and started this up and it worked well. Good display and lots of configuration options to play around with. I'm not much of a telnet user, but I did enjoy my brief use of this package. From White Pine Software Inc. 27.9 PowerVT FUNCTION...... Telnet (terminal emulator) FILE SIZE........ 609,096 bytes VERSION......... 1.04 February 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.cica.indiana.edu/pub/pc/win3/demo/vt220.exe STATUS........... Commercial demo, 30 day trial. Purchase price not stated in the package. DOCUMENTS.. Basic startup instructions and on-line help FEATURES...... VT52 / VT100 / VT220 / TTY terminal emulation. COMMENTS.... Built in dialer for dialup shell access. A replacement for an older demo program called VT-220. 27.10 QWS3270 EXTRA FUNCTION...... Telnet (terminal emulator) FILE SIZE........ Freeware version: 73,365 bytes, Shareware ("extra") version: 117,470 bytes VERSION......... Freeware (limited): 3.2e October 1994, Shareware: 2.3 July 1995 RETRIEVAL.... Freeware: ftp://ftp.ccs.queensu.ca/pub/msdos/tcpip/qws3270.zip Shareware: ftp://oak.oakland.edu/SimTel/win3/winsock/qws3270.zip STATUS........... Shareware $US 35.00. 10 minute nag screen for unregistered users. DOCUMENTS.. Set-up instructions and on-line help FEATURES...... Shareware version has support for IBM 3270 and Tektronix 4010 terminals, 1024 character type ahead buffer and support for about a dozen foreign language character translation sets. Full customized keyboard with scripting supported and limited DDE. COMMENTS.... Both the Freeware and enhanced ("extra") Shareware versions have been circulated with the same filename and each new release of each also continues to be circulated under the exact same filename making this program in its two flavors and their various versions is very difficult to identify. For the best features get the newer Shareware version which is being very actively developed by its author, Jim Rymerson. Released by Jolly Giant Software Inc. 27.11 (NEW!) Tera Term (Japanese) FUNCTION...... Telnet (terminal emulator) FILE SIZE........ 219,202 bytes VERSION......... 1.1 July 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://utsun.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/PC/terminal/teraterm/ttermv11.lzh STATUS........... Freeware DOCUMENTS.. Start up instructions and online help. FEATURES...... VT100/VT100J/VT101/VT102/VT102J/VT220J/VT282/VT320/VT382, TEK4010 emulation. X-modem and Kermit file transfers. COMMENTS.... Ok, ok, so it's a Japanese telnet program, but there is some English in the documentation, the menus are mostly English and it's fairly intuitive to use. The error message about a missing "winnls.dll" file seemed related to the fact that I was using the North American (English) version of Windows, but I didn't notice any problems - the program seemed to work fine on the limited testing I did with it. Nice fast display. Note that I looked at version .9 and it is alraedy at 1.1 now which I have not looked at. Released by T.Teranishi. 27.12 Trumpet Telnet FUNCTION...... Telnet (terminal emulator) COMMENTS.... See Winapps2 in the Miscellaneous section. The latest version of this program is now bundled in a package with other basic Winsock applications from Peter Tattam. 27.13 UNIBOL/Desktop Terminal FUNCTION...... Telnet (terminal emulator) [DEMO - Function or time crippled] FILE SIZE........ 580,701 bytes VERSION......... March 1995 RETRIEVAL.... http://www.unibol.com/html/terminal.htm File name:unitel.zip STATUS........... Demo trial version with an expire date. DOCUMENTS.. Start up and on-line help. FEATURES...... VT100/Uniboll 100 emulation. Record/playback script capability to automate sessions, keyboard re-mapping, dual character set support. COMMENTS.... Full featured demo from Unibol Ltd. Compatible with a variety of stacks including Trumpet. There is also a program called wscheck.exe at the same location which should be retrieved. It's an interesting little program (90k) which checks for a winsock.dll on your system and checks its compatibility with Unibol's terminal program. 27.14 UW Term FUNCTION...... Telnet (terminal emulator) FILE SIZE........ Approximately 20 files, 1,261,000 bytes. VERSION......... .97g November 1994 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftphost.cac.washington.edu/pub/winsock/uwterm_0.97g An upgrade to version .97i is in the directory /pub/winsock/uwterm_0.97i and it should also be retrieved. STATUS........... Freeware. DOCUMENTS.. Good, but no on-line help. FEATURES...... VT52/VT100/VT200 emulation. Adjustable colors, fonts, save & restore of configurations, auto login. Multiple terminals can be active simultaneously. COMMENTS.... Available only as a cluster of files in a directory, all of which should be downloaded. Some of the files such as vbrun300.dl_ may create duplicates on your system and can be deleted after installation if you already have an existing equivalent version in a path directory. Slightly customized for intended use at the University of Washington and outside use is not supported by the author. Note: This program does NOT work properly with Trumpet Winsock 1.0a, but does appear to work with more recent Trumpet releases such as 2.0b. 27.15 VT420 FUNCTION...... Telnet (terminal emulator) FILE SIZE........ 438,811 bytes VERSION......... April 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.cica.indiana.edu/pub/pc/win3/demo/vt420.zip STATUS........... Demo. Sessions limited to 10 minutes. Prices starting at $US 35 for an individual user, $US 30 academic users. DOCUMENTS.. Basic start up instructions. FEATURES...... VT100, VT220, VT 320, and VT420 COMMENTS.... Released by XLink Technology, Inc. 27.16 YAWTEL (Yet Another Windows Socket TELnet) FUNCTION...... Telnet (terminal emulator) FILE SIZE........ 25,523 bytes VERSION......... .7 beta April 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.cica.indiana.edu/pub/pc/win3/uploads/yawtel07.zip . Not this latest version is actually in the /uploads directory at the moment and should hopefully be moved to /winsock to replace the older version soon.. STATUS........... No charge for now while being developed. A low cost Shareware version will eventually be available. DOCUMENTS.. Negligible, no on-line help in this early version. FEATURES...... A VT100 emulator COMMENTS.... This package was designed with Mosaic and Netscape in mind. 28. TIME LOGS If you've just gotten the bill from your Internet provider and you're having serious breathing problems, you might want to look at the programs in this section. See also ModemSta in the Modem Accessories section. 28.1 Log In Log FUNCTION...... Connection time and cost log. FILE SIZE........ 217,159 bytes VERSION......... 1.00 revision 17 June 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://oak.oakland.edu/SimTel/win3/winsock/lil1b17s.zip STATUS........... Shareware $US 15 DOCUMENTS.. Start up instructions and online help. FEATURES...... Supports multiple configurations. Configurable for local currencies, the hourly cost of phone charges during peak and off-peak hours, the timings of off-peak hours. Handles other costs such as computer rental. Connection time alarm. COMMENTS.... An easy to configure, easy to use program. This can be a handy for outside North America where phone company charges are based on connection time and are an additional factor which some similar programs can't handle. This program has been specifically designed for use with Trumpet Winsock. Released by Ray Selby of Goahead Imagination. 28.2 SLIP db FUNCTION...... Connection time and cost log. FILE SIZE........ 426,014 VERSION......... 1.01 September 1994 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ollc.mta.ca/pub/slip/slipdb10.zip ftp://ftp.cica.indiana.edu/pub/pc/win3/winsock/slipdb10.zip STATUS........... Shareware $CDN 30.00 DOCUMENTS.. Start up instructions and on-line help. FEATURES...... Automated installation. SLIP db records the date and time of each connect and disconnect from your Internet service provider. It calculates elapsed time and figures out a cost based on a per minute charge. The program has a browse mode that lets you see a log of your calls, print a report, and delete records. COMMENTS.... A nice all purpose SLIP bean counter. This program is specifically designed to work with a SLIP dialup connection such as is provided by Trumpet Winsock. 28.3 (NEW!) SmartSurf FUNCTION...... Connection time log FILE SIZE........ 207,969 bytes VERSION......... 1.1 June 1995 RETRIEVAL.... http://www.smartcode.com/freesoft.html File name: smtsrf11.zip STATUS........... Freeware. DOCUMENTS.. Online help. FEATURES...... Tracks both telephone and service charges by time unit or flat rate. Automatic totalling, reports, etc. Some of the automatic features do not work with Windows NT. COMMENTS.... Released by Oakley Data Services. The most interesting thing about this program is not the program itself but the fact that it runs on "virtual" batteries they call SmartCells which over time run down and have to be "recharged" at the developers home site. There is no charge for a recharge/replacement (well, at least not at present) but this is the first Winsock application I've seen using this concept which potentially could provide Shareware developers with another method of charging for their products - in effect a renewable useage fee. Programs could be released with initially charged batteries which the user would eventually have to recharge by logging on to a service site. The online site would use an electronic payment method to collect a fee, from which they would deduct their commission and remit the balance (with a statement) in lump sums at regular intervals to the individual Shareware authors. The need to register programs is eliminated freeing up some of the developers time. A fee for useage also potentially provides better ongoing cash flow albeit less money up front. 28.3 UpTime for Windows 3.1 FUNCTION...... Connection time log. FILE SIZE........ 29,900 VERSION......... 3.0 May 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.cica.indiana.edu/pub/pc/win3/util/uptime30.zip STATUS........... Copyright, but no mention of any charges for use. DOCUMENTS.. Basic startup and usage info. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... Very simple utility designed to track session logon time. Primarily intended for use with a dialup SLIP connection but not limited to that. Released by Creative Element. 28.4 WS-TIMER FUNCTION...... Connection time log FILE SIZE........ 199,241 bytes VERSION......... 4.05 July 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.sentex.net/pub/incoming/wstmr405.zip ftp://oak.oakland.edu/SimTel/win3/commprog/wstmr405.zip STATUS........... Freeware for non-commercial use DOCUMENTS.. Basic instructions FEATURES...... Automated installation. WS-TIMER keeps track of your time on-line and also keeps track of your daily and monthly connection history, using two separate files that can be viewed from within the program or any text editors. The registered version adds a number of features including a built in mail (send only) client. COMMENTS.... My kind of program: easy to install, easy to use, nice digital readout. It can be started and stopped from the Trumpet (or other) script. From Louis Aube. 29. TIME SYNCHRONIZERS Is the clock on your PC always wrong? Too lazy to be bothered resetting it? Here's the solution! These packages can access your local Internet server (and others) and compare their time settings to your PC, and either report the difference or, if you choose, do an automatic update for you. Features and operation vary somewhat from package to package. For most users synchronization with your local server is more than adequate for most purposes. If you have a critical requirement and are not satisfied with the accuracy of your local server, an atomic clock is available for access at location: time-A.timefreq.bldrdoc.gov (132.163.135.130). Remember though that time delays in transferring information across the Internet will probably limit the accuracy achievable to something less than the clock's one gazillionth of a second precision (Yeah, like you needed that kind of accuracy anyway). A detailed list of other high precision sites is found in the document clock.txt available by FTP from location: louie.udel.edu in directory /pub/ntp/doc. 29.1 (NEW!) Netdate FUNCTION...... Time synchronizer FILE SIZE........ 75,271 bytes VERSION......... 1.04 July 1995 RETRIEVAL.... http://www.eps.mcgill.ca/~steeve/ File name: ndate104.zip STATUS........... Freeware DOCUMENTS.. Basic instructions FEATURES...... Fairly flexible in configuring for different time zones, including "half hour" locations. COMMENTS.... An easy to use time client. Released by Steeve McCauley. 29.2 NTTardis [Windows NT ] FUNCTION...... Time synchronizer FILE SIZE........ 53,795 bytes VERSION......... 1.0 September 1994 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.cica.indiana.edu/pub/pc/win3/nt/nttardis.zip . STATUS........... Shareware $US 20 DOCUMENTS.. Start up documentation. FEATURES...... The Tardis Server for Windows NT implements the older RFC 868 (TCP only, no UDP) protocol. It acts as both a RFC 868 server and client. i.e. It can get the time from a timeserver with the `correct' time and then make the `correct' time available to local clients. Can run in the background checking at defined intervals. Contains an adjustable maximum adjustment filter. COMMENTS.... Other than the fact that both packages come from Demon country across the ocean, and they have similar names, this package has nothing in common with the Tardis, the Windows 3.1 version, listed below. Appears to be different authors. 29.3 Tardis FUNCTION...... Time synchronizer FILE SIZE........ 36,602 bytes VERSION......... 2.0a January 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.cica.indiana.edu/pub/pc/win3/winsock/tardis2a.zip . STATUS........... Shareware $US 20, site license $US 40 DOCUMENTS.. Startup instructions and on-line help included. FEATURES...... Can run in the background checking at defined intervals. Contains an variable maximum adjustment filter. COMMENTS.... Well done. A noticeably improved version from the first release. I was particularly impressed with the author's simple solution to the time zone problem this time around (a notable problem in the first release). An excellent choice for a time client. Recommended 29.4 Timesync FUNCTION...... Time synchronizer FILE SIZE........ 399,725 bytes VERSION......... 1.8 July 1994 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftphost.cac.washington.edu/pub/winsock/tsync1_8.zip STATUS........... Public domain. DOCUMENTS.. Setup instructions. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... Automated setup. Timesync is a simple Winsock app that sets your PC's clock to match the time on a remote host. The remote host must be provide the UNIX time service on port 37 (timesync does NOT use NTP). This should make the time setting accurate to at least 1 second. 29.5 Windows Time Client FUNCTION...... Time synchronizer. FILE SIZE........ 86,527 VERSION......... 1.01 August 1994 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/micro/pc-stuff/ms-windows/winsock/apps/ wstim101.zip ftp://ftp.cica.indiana.edu/pub/pc/win3/winsock/wstim101.zip STATUS........... Freeware, all source code included. DOCUMENTS.. Startup instructions and on-line help included. FEATURES...... Last five time servers accessed are added to host menu for easy access. Option to modify local system's time or simply report time returned from the time server. TCP or UDP connection option. COMMENTS.... This package can access your local Internet server (and others) and compare your PC to their time settings, and either report the difference or, if you choose, do the automatic update for you. Tested only on Trumpet Winsock, but should work on most stacks. A basic program with very limited features and options. There are better available. 29.6 WinSNTP FUNCTION...... Time synchronizer. FILE SIZE........ 157,926 and 164,465 bytes VERSION......... 1.5f November 1994 and 2.2f May 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://louie.udel.edu/pub/ntp/wsntp15f.zip [Windows 3.1] ftp://louie.udel.edu/pub/ntp/ntsntp22.zip [Windows95, Windows NT] STATUS........... Shareware $US 25 DOCUMENTS.. Startup instructions and on-line help included. FEATURES...... Will operate over a wide range of different network connections from SLIP to high speed local area networks. WinSNTP can periodically poll the NTP server in order to keep the PC clock accurate within a configurable limit. Programmable daylight savings time cut over. COMMENTS.... This program is an implementation of the Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP) and is designed to keep a computer clock synchronized to the correct time with a very high degree of accuracy for critical applications. Requires access to an NTP server. 30. TRACEROUTE When you log on to a distant server on the Internet the data packets being sent out through your modem do not go directly to the end destination, but starting with your service provider are handed off through a series of servers and routers on their way to this destination, like a stone skipping across the surface of a pond. As in any network problems can occur in certain links. Traceroute programs literally trace the route a packet of data takes as it moves through the Internet, identifying each site which handles the packet and the time taken to cross each link between these sites. A good explanation of how this process works is provided by Lutz Schroeer (reprinted by permission from a newsgroup posting): "If you send a package via TCP/IP to another host the packet contains a field called TTL (time to live). Each host on the route from the source to the destination decreases this field by one. If the field reaches the value of 0 the host sends an error message to the source (including the host's name). This is normally used to prevent packets from traveling around the net forever if they can't be delivered to the destination host (for whatever reason). Traceroute "abuses" this security feature: The first packet Traceroute sends has a TTL with a value of 1, so the first host on the route to the destination sends the error message back and we've got the name of the first host. Then Traceroute sends a packet with TTL=2 so we get the name of the second host, and so on, until we reach the destination host." (Me again:) Traceroute programs tend to be stack specific. As I understand it this is because of problems with the current Winsock spec. Thus, for example, a program which is designed to work with Trumpet Winsock will probably not work with any other. See Windows Sockets Net Watch in the Miscellaneous section. See ICMP Ping for Windows in the Ping section. See the section on Trumpet Winsock. Versions 2.1b/c include a traceroute client (trumphop). 30.1 Trumpet Hopcheck FUNCTION...... Traceroute FILE SIZE........ 27,392 bytes VERSION......... 1992 RETRIEVAL.... Does not seem to be available anymore, probably because it is now included with newer Trumpet Winsock packages. COMMENTS.... This only works with Trumpet Winsock. It displays IP names, addresses and intervals for each "hop" towards the final location. 31. TRUMPET WINSOCK As mentioned in the introduction, Trumpet Winsock is essentially provides an all purpose Windows based connection to the Internet. Many of its interim releases tended to be troublesome and it is not unusual to find that users who were quick to install the latest released have been just as quickly back to the older version because of bugs. The best best of the various versions are detailed below. Version 1.0a of Trumpet Winsock is available under a couple of names (typically twsk10a.zip) from different locations. Unfortunately, apparently due to some bugs in this version, the odd Winsock client did not properly work with this version. It has however been around for a while and proven to be fairly durable and widely popular for establishing a SLIP (but to PPP) connection. There is no advantage in using this older version since contrary to some beliefs it was never "free" - it has always been Shareware $US 25. This version should no longer be used since it is no longer officially being distributed and has been replaced by version 2.0 which adds PPP connection capability for the same price. Version 2.0b of Trumpet Winsock, released in November 1994, is available from many locations including: ftp://oak.oakland.edu/SimTel/win3/winsock/twsk20b.zip 179,015 bytes The biggest advantage of this version is that it now has a functioning PPP capability if your service supplier supports it. This latest full release contains improvements in stability and operability. Worth noting: addition of PPP support (but no CHAP or LQP yet) and firewall support for SOCKS 4.2. This Shareware had a registration cost of $US 25.00. Version 2.1 of Trumpet Winsock was released June 1995 and replaces all previous versions. Unlike previous versions it is limited to 30 days use (really) without registration ($US 25). It includes online help, supposedly better error handling capabilities, and TRUMPING (Ping), TRUMPHOP (traceroute), TCPMETER (input/output performance) and TRUMPDIG (IP lookup) clients. These are probably customized for use only with Trumpet winsock. There have been some problems with this version though and some minor releases to try and fix them. In particular version 2.1d (twsk21d.zip) was seriously flawed and corrupted files during FTP downloads and should not be used. The latest version is: ftp://oak.oakland.edu/SimTel/vendors/trumpet/winsock/twsk21f.zip 307,478 bytes ftp://ftp.trumpet.com.au/winsock/twsk21f.zip Newer 32 bit operating systems such as OS/2 Warp, Windows95, and Windows NT have built in SLIP/PPP and 32 bit Winsock capabilities (for running 32 bit Winsock programs). If you have one of these newer operating systems you should use the built in capabilities. There is no reason or need to use Trumpet Winsock. For some strange reason some people have tried removing the 32 bit winsock.dll file in these operating systems and replacing it with the 16 bit Trumpet winsock.dll in order to continue using Trumpet. Limiting yourself to running 16 bit Winsock programs in a 32 bit multi-threading capable operating system is a dubious accomplishment. 32. WAIS - Wide Area Information Server The Wide Area Information Server (WAIS) project was initially started by Thinking Machines, Apple Computer, and Dow Jones News Retrieval. It is now being operated by the Clearinghouse for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval. There are about 300 servers available world wide as part of the network. WAIS is an information search system which has never became very popular. In addition to these specific clients, WAIS searches can also be done through WWW browsers which is perhaps why development of WAIS clients seems to have stopped. There are a number of ways of doing a WAIS search with your browser, one of which is through the following URL: http://server.wais.com 32.1 EINet WinWAIS FUNCTION...... WAIS search client FILE SIZE........ 1,451,068 bytes VERSION......... 2.04 June 1994 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.einet.net/einet/pc/EWAIS204.ZIP STATUS........... Shareware $US 35.00 after 30 day evaluation period. DOCUMENTS.. Startup instructions and some on-line help included. FEATURES...... Automated installation procedure. Two graphics viewers (gfxVIEW and winECJ) included, or can be configured to use your own. COMMENTS.... 32.2 USGS WinWAIS (US Geological Survey WAIS for Windows) FUNCTION...... WAIS search client FILE SIZE........ 591,071 bytes VERSION......... 2.4 March 1994 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://wais.com/pub/freeware/dos/wwais24.exe STATUS........... Free DOCUMENTS.. Start up instructions and on-line help included and includes simple basic instructions/examples on how to use. FEATURES...... Automated installation procedure. Includes a separate optional SLIP dialer, and a VT100 telnet application. COMMENTS.... No graphics viewers included. 32.3 WAIS Manager FUNCTION...... WAIS search client FILE SIZE........ 851,085 bytes VERSION......... 3.1 June 1993 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.cnidr.org/pub/NIDR.tools/wais/pc/windows/waisman3.zip STATUS........... Free for non-commercial purposes DOCUMENTS.. Includes startup instructions and on-line help. COMMENTS.... If using the DOS program pkunzip, use the "-d" option when unzipping this file to create proper subdirectories, i.e. "pkunzip -d waisman3.zip". According to information in a recent newsgroup posting this program is apparently no longer supported by its author. 33. WEBSTER DICTIONARY, etc. Spell checking and looking up word definitions can be accomplished through several methods. One is by accessing the Webster service on a server through a client package like WinWebster. Since there appears to be few sites where this can be done, another alternative is to install a dictionary package right on your PC which will work with your mail and other such programs. A fast and dirty alternative if you have a word processing with spelling, thesaurus and/or grammar checking capabilities is to cut and paste text into the program, do the checking and correcting, and then cut and paste back to the source. Well, OK, so maybe it's not that fast. 33.1 WinWebster FUNCTION...... A Webster client for accessing a network Webster dictionary server. FILE SIZE........ 40,881 bytes VERSION......... .8 July 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://stoner.eps.mcgill.ca/pub/windows/winsock/wwebst08.zip STATUS........... Postcardware - send a postcard to the author. DOCUMENTS.. Basic installation and start-up instructions. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... Written by Steeve McCauley. To use this, or even to find out if it's even usable on your local server you'll have to talk to your local support people for server and port information, if available. 34. WHOIS Whois clients use the Whois protocol for looking up people, hosts, and organizations in the database kept by the Network Information Center (NIC) at SRI International or at other Whois servers. The information available is limited. Also see the section on Finger clients for programs which also have Whois clients built in.. 34.1 WinWhois FUNCTION...... Whois identification. FILE SIZE........ 37,877 bytes VERSION......... 1.1 September 1994 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://bitsy.mit.edu/pub/dos/potluck/winsock/winwhois.zip STATUS........... Copyrighted, but no mention of any charges. DOCUMENTS.. Minimal. There is a brief explanation of the protocol and how to use it, but there are no installation instructions or on-line help. Some additional information is available from the default server by doing a Whois search on the word "help". FEATURES...... This version has a history feature, which saves up to the last 10 servers looked up in an ini file. COMMENTS.... 34.2 WinWhois 32 [ Windows NT ] FUNCTION...... Whois identification. FILE SIZE........ 24,656 bytes VERSION......... Beta version 1 May 1994 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.microserve.net/pub/msdos/windows/winsock/whois32.zip STATUS........... Copyrighted, but no mention of any charges. DOCUMENTS.. Minimal FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... A 32 bit version of this program for Windows NT by Larry Kahn. It does appear to work with regular Windows 3.1 with a Win32s upgrade. 35. WORLD WIDE WEB BROWSERS What's the most popular Web browser? If you were to go to a bookstore and read through sections in books devoted to Web browsers you would form the firm conviction that Mosaic is THE Browser to have, an overwhelming favorite on the Internet. Unfortunately, while this was true a year ago when many such books were being written, there has been a dramatic change since then. Numerous bugs in Mosaic, long intervals between new versions, and the annoyance of having to install Microsoft's Win32s 32 bit extension in order to run Mosaic (on Windows 3.1) combined with the appearance of a variety of equivalent or better competing products has led to its dramatic fall in popularity. Current the most popular Windows browser in use is Netscape Navigator, released by former Mosaic developers. Repeated user surveys have typically shown Netscape with 80%++ of the Windows market, NCSA Mosaic with at best 5 - 10% and all other browsers fighting for a share of the leftovers. Netscape's formula for success involved developing an innovative product that worked well, fast continual improvement with new features, and a willingness to take risks, setting new standards rather than being be bound by the old ones. Dramatic improvements in recent versions of Mosaic, although very welcome, are unlikely to change its status. Netscape will remain the leader and "the bellwether for future directions on the Web". 35.1 AIR Mosaic FUNCTION...... World Wide Web (WWW) Browser [DEMO - Function or time crippled] FILE SIZE........ 1,003,793 bytes VERSION......... 1.1 October 1994 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.spry.com/vendor/spry/demo/AirMosaicDemo/AMOSDEMO.EXE STATUS........... Demo trial version. DOCUMENTS.. On-line help file included. FEATURES...... Customized toolbars, pre-configured hot lists, user definable hot lists, full screen kiosk mode, etc. Automated installation looks for an already installed Winsock stack (such as Trumpet). Program includes its own nullsock.dll file for offline viewing. COMMENTS.... This is a fully functional demo except for the fact that it will only allow for the viewing of up to 6 external documents. The uncrippled 16 bit version is available for $US 29.95. A 32 bit version of this program for that price would be more desirable. NOTE: This is a licensed commercial version of the NCSA Mosaic browser developed by Spry. This demo is a regular Windows 3.1 16 bit program. Spry has just been purchased by CompuServe and will contribute to their effort to offer their customers increased Internet access. 35.2 Cello FUNCTION...... World Wide Web (WWW) Browser FILE SIZE........ 328,429 bytes VERSION......... 1.01a March 1994 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.law.cornell.edu/pub/LII/Cello/cello.zip STATUS........... No charge for non-commercial use. DOCUMENTS.. Installation instructions and on-line help included. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... Cello was at best a very basic WWW browser when it first came out. A year later it is dead dead dead. A new version has been imminent imminent imminent for some time and is overdue overdue overdue. 35.3 HotJava [Windows NT] FUNCTION...... WWW Browser FILE SIZE........ 4,009,933 bytes VERSION......... 1.0 alpha 2 May 1995 RETRIEVAL.... http://webrunner.neato.org/ filename: hotjava-alpha2 nt-x86.zip ftp://java.sun.com/pub/hotjava-alpha2-nt-x86.exe Note: The nice folk at Sun believe in l-o-n-g filenames. Unfortunately virtually all commonly used unzip programs truncate files down to the standard 8.3 format (that DOS heritage) as they unzip them which is unacceptable in this case. Unless you feel lucky (or know you are), take their hint and download the Info-ZIP program (217 kbytes) they've made available with a link on their page. It retains full filenames and directory structures when unzipping and worked just fine, unlike the other 3 programs I tried. STATUS........... May be freely used for personal, academic or internal business purposes. DOCUMENTS.. A wide variety of HTML documentation included. Be sure to read the installation instructions and other information on their home page when downloading. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... From Sun Microsystems Inc., this product has created considerable interest in that it appears to represent a leap forward in browser technology. Written in a new programming language called Java(tm) (origin: C++), HotJava goes beyond the current ability to retrieve text, sound and image date and adds the capability to retrieve and run executive files (programs). In effect this gives the browser the capability to become a dynamic and interactive application rather than just a viewing tool. This Windows NT version has just come out and is still fairly rough (beginning with no desktop icon) and is subject to crashes (sound card problems for one). It comes with some interesting documentation (HTML) on the subject of Java and HotJava and a variety of sample programs to try out. Great attention has been paid to security for HotJava since, needless to say, exec based files are an ideal host for spreading viruses. This version does not run on Windows95 - a version for that will be available later in the year. You'll need upwards of 9+ meg on your hard drive to install this; it unzips to just under a thousand files. 35.4 I-Comm [NOT Winsock- operates on normal UNIX shell] FUNCTION...... WWW Browser FILE SIZE........ 235,008 bytes VERSION......... 1.06 July 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.best.com/pub/icomm/icomm106.zip ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/ic/icomm/icomm106.zip STATUS........... Evaluation copy. Expiry date not specifically stated. DOCUMENTS.. Basic start up instructions included. FEATURES...... Supports forms, FTP and Gopher protocols. Built in sound player. Local disk caching. Can save HTML pages to disk with inline images. Does not yet support inline JPEG images. COMMENTS.... Very similar to SlipKnot in concept, it requires access to your UNIX shell account and does not require SLIP/PPP. A built in dialer/modem program is included. You must have Lynx or other WWW browser access on your shell account, or if not a separate program is mentioned and can be retrieved and placed on your shell. An FAQ is available from the same location under the name icommFAQ. From Talent communications Inc., home page at: http://www.best.com/~icomm/icomm.htm 35.5 InternetWorks Lite / GNNWorks FUNCTION...... WWW Browser, and mail. FILE SIZE........ 2,239,530 bytes VERSION......... Beta 7 February 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.cyberspace.com/pub/win95/winsock/iwbeta7.exe STATUS........... Demo preview version. This is of limited value since the company was subsequently taken over by America Online and there are unlikely to be any more freebies. See note on version 1.0 below. DOCUMENTS.. Start up instructions and on-line help. FEATURES...... Automated installation. Multitasking support with separate windows created for each activity. No news yet in this version. COMMENTS.... The browser's background color (which will be white on most machines) is tied to Windows desktop settings and is not separately adjustable. Similar to Mosaic and Netscape, InternetWorks displays text first, allowing you to begin reading immediately while the graphics are being retrieved. The default pages provided are primarily menu driven and easy to use. This demo version works with SLIP only - there is no PPP support. Note: Newer version 1.0.4 (setup24a.exe, 2,282,050 bytes, June 1995) is available from ftp://ftp.megaweb.com/beta. This newer version is intended for use with The GNNWorks Service which you are supposed to sign up with and provide with credit card info etc. This proprietary version is best avoided unless you are specifically interested in this Internet service provider. You can probably temporarily try this program out with your existing service provider by deleting the proprietary dialer/winsock.dll which comes with it and using something like Trumpet instead. InternetWorks is now owned by America Online (AOL) and with this version there has been a name change to GNNWorks. This is the version which is being distributed on diskette as part of a trial membership with their online Internet service. 35.6 Microsoft Internet Assistant For Word (Word 6.0 extension) FUNCTION...... HTML editor and WWW browser (Based on the InternetWorks browser from Booklink.) FILE SIZE........ 1,120,361 bytes VERSION......... 1.0Z April 1995 This "Z" version adds additional language capability to support French and German versions of Word 6.0a. It adds no functionality improvements over the previous "1.0" release. RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/deskapps/word/winword-public/ia/wordia.ex as a Web browser to access WWW sites. It is fairly basic and represents no threat to other existing major Web browsers. You must at least have MS Word 6.0a in order to install and use this. A 32 bit version for Windows NT will not be available until late this year. Same thing for the Macintosh version. This template provides another example of how Microsoft has succeeded in turning Word into has succeeded in turning Word into as a Web browser to access WWW sites. It is fairly basic and represents no threat to other existing major Web browsers. You must at least have MS Word 6.0a in order to install and use this. A 32 bit version for Windows NT will not be available until late this year. Same thing for the Macintosh version. This template provid╧n as a Web browser to access WWW sites. It is fairly basic and represents no threat to other existing major Web browsers. You must at least have MS Word 6.0a in order to install and use this. A 32 bit version for Windows NT will not be available until late this year. Same thing for the Maci╧n and represents no threat to other existing major Web browsers. You must at least have MS Word 6.0a in order to install and use this. A 32 bit version for Windows NT will not be available until late this year. Same thing for the Maci╧n indows NT will not be available until late this year. Same thing for the Maci╧n ave MS Word 6.0a in order to install and use this. A 32 bit version for Windows NT will not be available until late this year. Same thing for the Maci╧n and represents no threat to other existing major Web browsers. You must at le╧n Same thing for the Maci╧n and represents no threat to other existing major Web browsers. You must at le╧n isting major Web browsers. You must at le╧n owsers. You must at le╧n Same thing for the Maci╧n and represents╧n FILE SIZE........ 243,749 bytes VERSION......... 2.0 alpha 2 March 1994 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Web/Mosaic/Windows/old/wmos20a2.zip STATUS........... No charge for non-commercial use. DOCUMENTS.. Good FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... Old 16 bit version. Not compatible with WFW 3.11. See 32 bit version below. NCSA = National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Quite dated now, there is no reason to use this. 35.8 NCSA Mosaic [Win32s, Windows95 or Windows NT] FUNCTION...... World Wide Web (WWW) Browser FILE SIZE........ 1,584,886 bytes VERSION......... 2.0 final beta July 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Web/Mosaic/Windows/mos20fb.exe (self extracting) STATUS........... No charge for non-commercial use. DOCUMENTS.. Installation and setup instructions included. On-line help is precisely that, downloaded from the NCSA server as required and thus only available to you when you are logged on. FEATURES...... This final release fixes a large number of bugs and adds functionality including the ability to use background color and image information in HTML documents, substantially closing the gap with Netscape. COMMENTS.... If you have Windows 3.1 or WFW 3.11 then you must first install a special OLE compatible version of Win32s on your system before installing these newer versions of Mosaic. Details on it are in the Miscellaneous Non-Winsock/ Win32s section much further down this listing. Win32s is not required if you have a "true" 32 bit operating system like Windows95 or Windows NT. This program may not run well if you only have 4 meg RAM memory. Note from NCSA: "If you are experiencing startup problems with NCSA Mosaic for Windows 2.0 Final Beta, here is what's going on. The default mosaic.ini file has a mistake in it that assigns the initial disk cache directory to be "D:\MOSAIC\CACHE\". If your machine doesn't have a D: drive, then the program will not start. Edit your mosaic.ini file and look for "Cache Directory=". If it says "D:\..." then change it to a drive that does exist, C:, for example." (Personal comment: This is typical of the very simple and stupid bugs which Mosaic has always been notorious for - E.S.) 35.9 Netscape Navigator (tm) ("Mozilla") FUNCTION...... WWW Browser FILE SIZE........ 1,652,904 and 1,339,223 bytes VERSION......... 1.2 beta 3 July 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp2.mcom.com/pub/ns1612b3.exe [Windows 3.1] ftp://ftp2.mcom.com/pub/ns3212b3.exe [ Windows95 and Windows NT ] STATUS........... This is just an interim test version which expires in September by which time a final 1.2 version will be available. Free for use by students or members of educational institutions or charitable non-profit organizations (but not government). All others $US 39, although this program may be evaluated free for 90 days by employees of commercial companies and for an indefinite period by others. DOCUMENTS.. Basic installation instructions only. Almost all other information is available online from the Netscape home page through the help menu while logged on. FEATURES...... This latest version has an improved interface and drag and drop capabilities. The bookmark has been rewritten and it has a built in capability to import URL lists from other files, such as the hotlist from NCSA Mosaic. The 32 bit version is specially optimized for Windows95 with multi-user customized preferences and replacement of the ini file with the registry. COMMENTS.... New and impressive versions continue to be released - easy to see why this is the overwhelming leader in this area. One quibble though - the default screen color in this latest version is the Windows default screen color now - typically a blinding white instead of the traditional gray. You must go in and specifically configure a different color which most won't bother to do. This will mess up a few existing Web pages with colors chosen and optimized for the gray background. Recommended 35.10 Pythia FUNCTION...... WWW Browser FILE SIZE........ 476,065 bytes VERSION......... 2.31 June 1995 RETRIEVAL.... http://pythia.com File name: demo.zip STATUS........... Demo version, evaluation period 45 days. This browser is "site locked" to their home server only. DOCUMENTS.. Extensive. FEATURES...... Kiosk stand alone mode, database link capabilities, easy print capabilities, advances security with electronic signature, vector graphics (oh!) business graphics including bar charts, etc. Internal support for audio (WAV). COMMENTS.... This is a new browser developed by Lanark Technologies and marketed by Appian Interactive. Unlike most current browsers it is not aimed at general Internet users, but is instead oriented towards commercial and institutional customers. For this reason Pythia introduces a number of radical and new HTML extensions (oh oh!). A lot of unique features, but the execution was fairly crude by any standard in an earlier version I looked at and not of any great interest in that condition. This newer version might be better. Microsoft TCP/IP is not supported. 35.11 SlipKnot [NOT Winsock - operates on normal UNIX shell] FUNCTION...... WWW Browser FILE SIZE........ 1,270,597 bytes VERSION......... 1.11 June 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://oak.oakland.edu/SimTel/win3/internet/slnot111.zip STATUS........... Shareware. $US 29 for USA, Canada, Japan, Western Europe. $US 20 elsewhere. 10% of all fees are donated to refugee relief. Registered users get some additional features such as Gopher support. DOCUMENTS.. Start up information and on-line help. FEATURES...... Up to 5 different documents can be displayed on the screen simultaneously. You can ask for the retrieval of many documents, and these requests will be queued up to be activated one-by-one. X, Y and Z protocol downloads are all now supported. You are allowed to switch between WWW and your UNIX terminal session (except when downloading documents). You can choose not to retrieve the pictures embedded inside documents and speed up the downloading process significantly. Then, if you change your mind, ask SlipKnot to get the same document with the pictures. COMMENTS.... An interesting and innovative program, a WWW browser which uses Windows, but not Winsock or Slip. It is designed for modem users with ordinary dial-up UNIX shell accounts. It does require a 386 processor or better and at least 4 meg of RAM. As well, your service provider must have certain software on the server (e.g. Lynx, which is quite common). It has not yet been tested on Windows NT. Released by MicroMind. This is a unique and very welcome addition to browser ranks. It is also strongly supported by its author Peter Brooks. 35.12 SuperHighway Access FUNCTION...... WWW browser, Gopher+, WAIS, CSO, basic FTP client. FILE SIZE........ 1,079,067 bytes VERSION......... March 1995 RETRIEVAL.... http://www.frontiertech.com/demo.htm File name: shademo.exe STATUS........... Demo. I believe that this has a built in expiry date. DOCUMENTS.. Start up information, brief tutorial and on-line help. FEATURES...... Multi-session (30) capability. Can import Mosaic bookmarks. COMMENTS.... From Frontier Technologies, this is primarily the WinTapestry Web portion of their commercial package Super Highway Access For Windows. This integrated package is designed as a very easy to use menu driven system. The commercial version adds Telnet, Mail and News clients, and a better FTP. 35.13 (NEW!) UdiWWW FUNCTION...... World Wide Web (WWW) Browser FILE SIZE........ 264,841 and 322,916 bytes VERSION......... 1.0 July 1995 RETRIEVAL.... http://www.uni-ulm.de/~richter/udiwww/index.htm File name: udiw1e01.exe (16 bit for Windows 3.1/3.11) and udiw1e03.exe (32 bit for Windows95 and Windows NT) STATUS........... n/a DOCUMENTS.. None. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... These are the latest English (well, mostly) versions of a German language WWW browser. Unfortunately these are rather buggy. They need more development time. Nonetheless their release is a notable accomplishment from Bernd Richter. The 32 bit version is multi-threaded and will not work with Win32s. 35.14 Video On Line FUNCTION...... World Wide Web (WWW) Browser FILE SIZE........ 1,417,467 bytes VERSION......... 1.0 June 1995 RETRIEVAL.... http://www.vol.it/VOLB/browser.html File name: volb-int.exe STATUS........... n/a DOCUMENTS.. Nothing with the program. There is some installation info at the Web site. FEATURES...... Built in dialer and Winsock. COMMENTS.... From Italy a browser available in 3 different versions: Italian, Arabic and International. Supposedly up to 12 language versions are currently available. It is intended for use primarily in Europe and primarily with a particular service provider although the documentation states that this can be easily changed (not believable since there are no provisions at all to handle login variations). The configuration screens are extremely rigid and not fully or properly developed for locations outside of Europe. This program can only be used with its own dialer/winsock. A frustrating program which I found disappointing and unusable - I never did get it working. 35.15 WinWeb FUNCTION...... World Wide Web (WWW) Browser FILE SIZE........ 598,873 bytes VERSION......... 1.0A2.1.1 December 1994 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.einet.net/einet/pc/winweb.zip STATUS........... No charge for non-commercial use. DOCUMENTS.. Documentation somewhat weak - there is provision for on line help but none included with this current version. FEATURES...... This latest version now supports loading local documents and reading them offline. Flexible cache can automatically adjust to use any additional memory available COMMENTS.... This installs easily and should run well even on less powerful machines with only 4 meg. This browser has fallen far behind in the development race. 36. WORLD WIDE WEB BROWSER ACCESSORIES 36.1 Indexer [not Winsock] FUNCTION...... Netscape cache file viewer FILE SIZE........ 39,570 bytes VERSION......... 1.1 April 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.cica.indiana.edu/pub/pc/win3/winsock/indxer11.zip STATUS........... Freeware DOCUMENTS.. Start up instructions. FEATURES...... Sort by name, by size, by file type and by host. COMMENTS.... Indexer is a program which reads your Netscape disk cache which contains copies of Web pages you have been viewing. Indexer creates a listing of these in a new file called cache.htm which you can view in Netscape and use to retrieve individual pages from the cache. The number of pages in the cache and how far back they go will be dependent on the size of the cache (bytes) setting in a Netscape configuration menu. The cache is not normally directly accessible without a program such as this. Released by Anders Lindh. 36.2 Netscape Menu Editor [not Winsock] FUNCTION...... Netscape bookmark editing utility COMMENTS.... ***DISCONTINUED**** Obsoleted by those pesky developers at Netscape who keep improving their product. 36.3 SETMOS [not Winsock] FUNCTION...... Configuration set up utility for NCSA Mosaic . FILE SIZE........ 349,321 bytes The program itself is actually very small, but the zip file does contain the obligatory vbrun300.dll standard visual basic file. You probably have at least half a dozen duplicates of this scattered across your system already if you've installed any number of Shareware packages. VERSION......... 1.2 alpha September 1994 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.cica.indiana.edu/pub/pc/win3/winsock/smosaic.zip . STATUS........... Nothing stated. DOCUMENTS.. Negligible. FEATURES...... Automated installation. COMMENTS.... Designed to simplify the process of configuring the mosaic.ini file with all the necessary viewers and connection info required. Not required any more with newer Mosaic versions. 36.4 WebWatch FUNCTION...... Scanner utility for monitoring URL's to identify Web pages which have changed. FILE NAME..... ww10d_16.zip [ Windows 3.1 and 3.11 ] ww10d_32.zip [ Win32s, Windows95 and Windows NT ] FILE SIZE........ 92,768 and 132,854 bytes VERSION......... 1.0 May 1995 RETRIEVAL.... http://www.specter.com/users/janos/specter/webwatch.html STATUS........... Shareware $US 18. Free registration for every new bug found! DOCUMENTS.. Start up instructions and online help. FEATURES...... Full proxy support. COMMENTS.... Given an HTML document referencing URLs on the Web, WebWatch produces a filtered list, containing only those URLs that have been modified since a given time. The input file can be a Netscape or Mosaic bookmark/ hotlist or any other, standard HTML document. The output is a local HTML document which contains links to the pages which have been updated. A fairly unique program. Released by Specter Inc. 36.5 (NEW!) YABE (Yet Another Bookmark Editor) FUNCTION...... Netscape bookmark editor. FILE SIZE........ 15,932 bytes VERSION......... .01 May 1995 RETRIEVAL.... http://www.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca/spider/q7f192/branch/tools.html File name: yabe01.zip STATUS........... Freeware DOCUMENTS.. Very basic instructions. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... Obsoleted by newer versions of Netscape which have improved bookmark editing. From George Xie. 37. X.500 (DUA) CLIENTS From the help file in WaX500: "X.500 is an international standard for providing on-line directory services. The easiest way to think about X.500 is as a world-wide, distributed, electronic, telephone book. The X.500 Directory can contain information about people, organizations, documents, and just about anything else. At the present time, there is a pilot world-wide X.500 Directory in which the information available is mostly about people and organizations." 37.1 piXie (originally called seXie - name changed for obvious reasons) FUNCTION...... X.500 DUA (Directory User Agent) FILE SIZE........ 194,165 VERSION......... 2.2b January 1994 RETRIEVAL.... Try: ftp://ns.uab.es/pub/msdos/X500/pixie22b.zip STATUS........... Free for non-commercial purposes. DOCUMENTS.. Fairly comprehensive with on-line help. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... Should also work with OS2 and Windows NT. 37.2 Swix FUNCTION...... X.500 DUA (Directory User Agent) FILE SIZE........ 237,005 bytes VERSION......... 2.2 February 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://papa.indstate.edu/winsock-l/X.500/swix22.exe STATUS........... Public Domain. DOCUMENTS.. Installation instructions and on-line help included. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... 37.3 WaX500 FUNCTION...... X.500 DUA (Directory User Agent) FILE SIZE........ 476,613 bytes VERSION......... 2.05 beta May 1995 RETRIEVAL.... http://www.umich.edu/~sgr/wax500.html File name:waxr205.zip STATUS........... Copyright. DOCUMENTS.. Startup instructions and on-line help included. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... A Mac version is also available from the same site. 37.4 Windows Directory User Agent (WDUA32) [Win32s, Windows95, Windows NT] FUNCTION...... X.500 DUA (Directory User Agent) FILE SIZE........ 889,131 bytes VERSION......... Release 2.1B January 1995 RETRIEVAL.... http://centaur.arc.nasa.gov STATUS........... Not stated. DOCUMENTS.. Start up documentation and on-line help. FEATURES...... User definable filters, supports exact or approximate searching. COMMENTS.... One of the better programs in this section. Developed under contract to NASA. Minor enhancements and bug fixes for this program will continue to appear, but there are no major upgrades currently planned. Released by Kevin Lussier. 38. X-WINDOWS 38.1 Micro X-Win / Micro X-Win32 FUNCTION...... X-Windows emulator. FILE SIZE........ 1,402,864 (16 bit version) and 1,751,410 (32 bit version) bytes VERSION......... 2.8.8 April 1995 (16 bit) and 3.1.4 June 1995 (32 bit version) RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.ipac.net/pub/starnet/public/xwindemo [Windows 3.1/3.11] ftp://ftp.ipac.net/pub/starnet/public/xdemo32.zip [Win32s, Windows95, Windows NT] STATUS........... Demo. DOCUMENTS.. Basic start up instructions and online help. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... Released by StarNet Communications. UTILITIES LISTING Viewers, decoders, modem accessories, etc., these general purpose items are often used in conjunction with Winsock applications and are listed here for convenience. 40. ADDRESS BOOK / DATABASE PROGRAMS It's sometimes not easy keeping track of all the locations you visit on the Internet and might want to again. There are many ways of doing this from the hotlist tracking in individual programs to something like the more generic Windows cardfile. As well, there are a few programs specifically written for this purpose. My thanks to Dr. Richard MacLennan for pointing these out to me, leading to the creation of a new category (yes, another one!). 40.1 Internet Database FUNCTION...... Internet address book. FILE SIZE........ 541,922 bytes VERSION......... 1.1 May 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://oak.oakland.edu/SimTel/win3/database/netdb11.zip STATUS........... Shareware $CDN 10 if you live in Canada, $US 10 if you live in the US or elsewhere. DOCUMENTS.. Basic instructions FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... Storage program for Internet addresses (URL's). Designed for cut and paste operation. The database is in Microsoft Access 1.1 format. Released by John Luciani of Fusion Design. 40.2 Internet Navigator for Windows FUNCTION...... Internet address book. FILE SIZE........ 1,258,446 bytes VERSION......... 1.0 October 1994 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.cica.indiana.edu/pub/pc/win3/util/internav.zip STATUS........... Shareware $US 10. The registered version contains many enhancements. DOCUMENTS.. Start up instructions and online help. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... A simple address book designed for cut and pasting of information into other applications. 40.3 IP Manager FUNCTION...... Internet address book. FILE SIZE........ 758,316 bytes VERSION......... 2.1a November 1994 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://oak.oakland.edu/SimTel/win3/database/ipmgr21a.zip STATUS........... Shareware $US 20. Unregistered version limited to 25 entries. DOCUMENTS.. Start up instructions and online help. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... Stores IP numbers and matching information and allows the launching of external FTP, Telnet and Ping programs based on that data. Nice interface. 40.4 NetMinder FUNCTION...... Internet address book. FILE SIZE........ 908,893 bytes VERSION......... 1.0 October 1993 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.cica.indiana.edu/pub/pc/win3/demo/netdemo.zip STATUS........... Demo version limited to 1 group with 12 entries. Registration $45. Funds not stated but probably $Canadian. DOCUMENTS.. Start up instructions and online help. FEATURES...... Stores information is standard DBase IV format. COMMENTS.... From CPProgma Software. Cut and paste operation. Nice interface with large record storage capability, but the price is a hard swallow. 41. CONTROL PANELS AND TOOLBARS With so many Winsock programs required to do everything it's nice to have the convenience of a toolbar to launch and switch back and forth between them. Curiously enough probably half of the toolbars I look at are discarded and never listed because they either simply don't work or are so poorly designed. Fortunately there are many to choose from and still more appearing almost daily.............. 41.1 Internet Control Center FUNCTION...... Toolbar (control panel/launcher) for Winsock Applications FILE SIZE........ 526,145 bytes VERSION......... 1.19 July 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://oak.oakland.edu/SimTel/win3/winsock/icc119.zip ftp://ftp.userware.com/users/jfoltz/icc119.zip http://www.usefulware.com/~jfoltz/clients.html STATUS........... Shareware $US 24. Unregistered version limited to 75 sessions. DOCUMENTS.. Basic start up instructions. FEATURES...... A large floating toolbar with about a dozen labeled buttons for the most common Internet applications (mail, WWW, news Gopher, etc.) which allows you to quickly switch between them. Some customization allowed. Can be used with a Lan connection. COMMENTS.... A good implementation for this type of program, but certainly not cheap. 41.2 Internet Wizard FUNCTION...... Toolbar (control panel/launcher) for Winsock Applications FILE SIZE........ 333,098 bytes VERSION......... March 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.cityscape.co.uk/incoming/netwiz.zip STATUS........... Shareware $US 1. DOCUMENTS.. Basic startup instructions. FEATURES...... Up to 15 folders can be created. COMMENTS.... From Adam Allard .This program creates a set of folders representing the various Internet programs (Trumpet, FTP, Eudora, etc.) allowing them to be quickly launched. There is no configuration setup menu - all configuration has to be done by directly editing the .ini file only. 41.3 SlipBar FUNCTION...... Toolbar (control panel/application launcher) FILE SIZE........ 115,210 bytes VERSION......... 1.1 May 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://oak.oakland.edu/SimTel/win3/winsock/slipbr11.zip STATUS........... Shareware $US 10. DOCUMENTS.. Basic instructions. FEATURES...... 7 configurable buttons for Winsock applications. Does not require vbrun300.dll. COMMENTS.... Very easy to set up and use. Released by Dean Tessman. 41.4 Stiletto FUNCTION...... Toolbar (control panel/application launcher) FILE SIZE........ 159,856 bytes VERSION......... 1.9m July 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://oak.oakland.edu/SimTel/win3/desktop/stile19m.zip STATUS........... Freeware but may not be sold nor be used in any profit oriented endeavor. DOCUMENTS.. Start up instructions and online help. FEATURES...... One of the smallest footprints I've seen (fits in title bar), up to 16 configurable buttons (each with left, center and right mouse button commands), font and color configuration, drag and drop positioning, drag and drop file capabilities, system resource usage display, sound/alarm capabilities, balloon button captions, etc., etc. COMMENTS.... Wow! Not only is this program well designed and loaded with features, but it also comes in my price range (free). The configuration options available are initially overwhelming. According to the author you can even load a second bar at the same time if you really need it (!). This program continues to improved with regular new releases by Bruce Switzer. Recommended 41.5 WSTBar FUNCTION...... Toolbar (control panel/launcher) for Winsock Applications FILE SIZE........ 117,554 bytes VERSION......... 2.5 beta July 1995 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://oak.oakland.edu/SimTel/win3/winsock/wstbar25.zip STATUS........... Shareware $US 10. DOCUMENTS.. Basic startup instructions. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... 42. CONVERTERS - DOCUMENT (HELP/HTML -> TEXT) 42.1 HLP2DOC FUNCTION...... Windows help file to doc (MS Word 2.0) converter. FILE SIZE........ 45,523 bytes VERSION......... 1.37 July 1994 RETRIEVAL.... ftp://ftp.virginia.edu/public_access/hlp2doc.zip This contains both the DOS executable file (hlp2doc.exe) and the Windows front end (h2dstart.exe). STATUS........... Freeware DOCUMENTS.. Basic instructions. FEATURES...... COMMENTS.... A handy utility for converting Windows help files into a flat easy to print version for MS Word 2.0 (and other text viewers and word processors which can handle this format). Released by Wolfgang Beyer. 42.2 HTMLCon [DOS] FUNCTION...... HTML to Ascii document converter. FILE SIZE........ 35,543 bytes VERSION......... 2.1 July 1995 RETRIEVAL.... http://www.crl.com/~mikekell ftp://ftp.crl.com/ftp/users/ro/mikekell/ftp/htmlco21.zip STATUS........... Shareware $US 7 DOCUMENTS.. Basic instructions. FEATURES......