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║ Address: Robert W. van Hoeven
║ PO. Box 131
║ 1170 AC Badhoevedorp
║ Nederland / Holland
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Copyrights and License Agreement
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- Users of the MTA-package must accept this disclaimer of warranty:
- The MTA-package is supplied as is. The author disclaims all
warranties, expressed or implied, including, without limitation,
the warranties of merchantability and of fitness for any purpose.
The author assumes no liability for damages, direct or consequential,
which may result from the use of the MTA-package;
- The MTA-package is a "shareware program" and is provided at no charge
to the user for evaluation. Feel free to share it with your friends,
but please do not give it away altered or as part of another system.
The essence of "user-supported" software is to provide personal
computer users with quality software without high prices, and yet to
provide incentive for programmers to continue to develop new products.
- If you find this program useful and find that you are using and
continue the use of the MTA-package after a 30 days trial period,
you must register the MTA-package as described below;
- Non-commercial can get a license for the usage up to this release
of the MTA-package for a small amount of money. Look into the
details in REGISTER.MTA. Previous registered users will receive
a big reduction to upgrade to the newer versions. These users
should look into the details in UPGRADE.MTA.
For Non-commercial users there is a POSSIBILITY to submit to one
of the special contracts as explained in the file REGISTER.MTA.
- Commercial usage of MTA will cost somewhat more. Also, a so called
'closed' Bulletin Board System (a system where the user must pay
direct to the SysOp to get full access) is has to pay more than
a Non-commercial user. Both types of users should look into the
details in REGISTER.MTA;
- The registration of the MTA-package will license ONE copy for use on
any computer at any one time, as long as the usage confirms to the
type of registration you have done (so NON-commercial usage when you
have a non-commercial license);
- Anyone distributing the MTA-package for any kind of remuneration must
first contact the Author at the address above for authorization.
- You are encouraged to pass a copy of the MTA-package along to your
friends for evaluation. Please encourage them to register their
copy if they find that they can use it;
- When you are a non-commercial user of MTA and you are depending
on the software, you can consider to pay a small amount of
money for service. The terms for this option can be found in
the file REGISTER.MTA.
- Support on MTA, when used in a non-commercial environment, is
available even when you don't enter a service contract, but the
payed users (both commercial users and non-commercial users with
a service contract) have higher priority;
- Problems and suggestions can be entered in the FidoNet <tm> Echomail
conference <tm> called DISP (international). Entering this echo does
not exclude you of the duty to register the MTA-package, though users
who evaluate the product can enter the echo for questions;
- The MTA-package, all programs, the documentation and support-files is
copyrighted 1990 by Robert W. van Hoeven, PO. Box 131, Badhoevedorp
1170AC, Holland. All rights are reserved. You may copy this package
for backup purposes. Also you may copy and share unmodified copies of
the whole package, providing that the copyright notice is reproduced
and included on all copies.
Excluded from this statement are the support-files written by other
authors. Please refer to the documentation of these programs for
copyrights and license agreements;
- Comments, suggestions and bug reports are welcome and will be answered
as soon I have the time to do so. You can send me a letter of leave a
NetMail <tm> message named to Rob Van.hoeven (mind the point) on node
2:512/100 (RA Support, Monster, Holland, SysOp is Reinier de Groot).
When you want to send me normal mail, address it to:
Robert W. van Hoeven, PO. Box 131, 1171 AC Badhoevedorp, Holland;
Also you can enter messages in the FidoNet <tm> DISP Echomail <tm>
area;
Newer versions and contacting the author
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The newest version of MTA is always available on 2:512/100 (Remote
Access Support). You can obtain MTA in three ways:
- Logging on to 2:512/100.
In this case you have the possibility to look at tons of inter-
resting files with specialized area's for RA and so on. It is a
so called 'closed' board. Peeking around will cost nothing, you
must pay for full access. 2:512/100 is the real start of all
DISP programs in the real world. DISP-HQ (2:512/100.5) is a board
you cannot access, but my BOSS will always get the newest version
first;
- Logging on to your own BBS;
Chances are, that you will find an older version (international
users) because it will take some time for the new version to
'bleed' thru the net;
- Update service;
You can enter a special update service (read REGISTER.MTA).
If you think you have found problems in MTA, or in any other case,
you wish to contact the author, you can send me:
- A letter to the address you can find in the header of this file;
- A NetMail <tm> message to Rob Van.hoeven (please mind the point
between Van and Hoeven) at 2:512/100;
- A Message in the FidoNet <tm> DISP echomail <tm> area;
Description
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This utility program is designed for a BBS-configuration, working
with MTA, normal users won't have much fun with this program !!!
When you want to include a file with CRC's of the current files
inside the compressed file as a normal file in the compressed
file (for viral check or something else), you can use normal
CRC-routines like CRC.EXE or CRC32.EXE. In this case, look into
the file MTABETWN.BAT (inside MTA__BAT.EXE).
There are two problems with this kind of calls:
- The number of files CRC'ed depend on the CRC-routine itself
(can in use *.*, can output be redirected, can lower directories
also be included in the CRC mechanism);
- The way you work is somewhat 'non-standard';
I can imagine you would like ALL files to be CRC'ed. Currently there
is a good alternative for a somewhat 'standard' type of CRC and that
is McAfee's VALIDATE.COM <tm>. This program has only one limitation,
you can only validate one file at a time.
MTA_CRC will create a file with output of all VALIDATE calls for all
files in the current and lower (if the output of the compressed
source was recursive and the target compressor supports this).
MTA_CRC must be called somewhere like this:
MTA_DIR filename
'Filename' must point to a full (path, name) filename in ANOTHER
directory than the current (because otherwise 'filename' is also
listed in the directory) and MTA_CRC's output will be redirected
this file. DO NOT use the redirection characters. MTA_CRC will
deal with them internally (>>filename).
If you DO NOT use the parameter in the call, MTA_CRC will create
a file VALIDATE.CRC in the current directory, containing all
files in that (and lower) directory.
Please look into MTABETWE.BAT (inside MTA__BAT.EXE) for an example
of MTA_CRC's usage.