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║ Address: Robert W. van Hoeven
║ PO. Box 131
║ 1170 AC Badhoevedorp
║ Nederland / Holland
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1 ---- General information
1.1 Copyrights and License Agreement
1.2 Newer versions and contacting the author
2 ---- Package description and requirements
2.1 Preface
2.2 Requirements
2.3 History
2.4 Introduction & specs
3 ---- Installation description
3.1 Installation
3.2 Remarks on archives
3.3 MTA/MTM.CTL
3.4 MTM touching
3.5 Screen control
3.6 Aborting MTM
4 ---- Runtime information
4.1 Running MTM
4.2 Examples
4.3 (De)compressors
4.4 Encryption and Authenticity
5 ---- Version information and credits
5.1 The BETA-team
5.2 Credits
5.3 Version history
5.4 Copyright, Trademarks
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│ 1 │ General information │
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1.1 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
paid 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;
1.2 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;
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│ 2 │ Package description and requirements │
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2.1 Preface
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Please notice the following:
- MTM is a ShareWare product in every right way;
- This means the software confirms to 'WYSIWYG' (What You See Is What
You Get);
- This program is in no way cripple ware;
- The author can not be made responsible for damage of any kind, as a
- This program only works when you have the right compressors available
on your PC. It does not do any compression of it's own ! The program
only interprets all the supported formats. I can not think of any
problem with that, but if any of the authors/companies of the suppor-
ted products has problems with this program, I will remove that piece
of coding at once (although I could not find any quote like 'You may
NOT call our program in program's of your own' in any of the doc's);
2.2 Requirements
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MTM requires: - PC XT/AT/386
- At least 320K free memory
- DOS 3.xx (4.xx not tested)
(also tested under 4Dos);
- HDU optional
2.3 History
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MTM is a little (grin) 'quick and dirty' supplement to the 'good
old' MTA program. This program is just for fun, but there are
some BBS's who would now 'kiss dutch ground'.
MTM is a simple archive manipulation program for BBS SysOp's. It can
do the following:
- Delete specific files from all archives (independent of the archive
format);
- Add specific files to all archives (independent of the archive
format);
- Remove headers from ZIP-files;
- Add headers to ZIP-files from a file;
- Add and remove MTA mark-strings to archives without repacking;
Why should you want to use these options you ask. If you are in the
habit of changing your headers and included files from time to time,
this program is a simple way of doing all that work for you.
The general scenario for using this program is:
- You have tons of files, piled up in all your directories and you
have included in any of these archives a file called U_READ.ME;
- By accident you also use the 'standard' ZIP format and you have
included headers to any of the files, telling the downloaders
about your nice system and the service you give to them;
- Now you want to change all the included files, because you have
found a poor sucker who wants to play Co-sysop (grin again);
- Also you would like to create an even bigger header, because your
users are not reaching their 'Leech limit' fast enough (grin^3);
- Picture Holland, 1990 (<tm> Golden Girls), you are gonna be busy
a long while, deleting all files and changing this headers in all
of your nice directories;
- Now MTM comes around. While I suspect you already use MTA, the im-
plementation of this 'product' is as easy as '......';
- Include a few simple (eh?) statements in your MTA.CTL and run MTM
in each and every directory you have and 'voila' all your files
are altered to your needs.
This scenario could also be played with MTA, but MTA wants (it is
written for this function) to unpack and pack all your compressed
files and will take up to 100^3 times the time MTM will take for
this functions.
So now you are confronted with this program and, as most of the MTA
users will know, the rather strange DOX (in my case) for this file !
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│ 3 │ Installation description │
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3.1 Installation
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Most users will (already) use MTA when they read this file, so we
will make it as simple as could be. Users who do not know MTA al-
ready are advised (mandatory) to read the MTA documentation first:
- Copy MTM.EXE to the same directory you copied MTA to;
- Leave all statements in MTA.CTL as is;
If you want to make a separate environment for MTM, you can also
make a copy of MTA.CTL under the name MTM.CTL and use this file
for MTM-alike features. This should certainly be the case when you
use a MTA version lower than 11.15 !
MTM will first look for a MTM.CTL, when this file can not be retrieved,
MTM will search for MTA.CTL. If both files are not available, it is
time to read the installation section of MTA, because MTM works the
same way.
3.2 Remarks on archives
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MTM will only support normal compressed files. The extensions can
differ from the original extension (e.g. TEST.SDS can be TEST.PAK
but renamed). Not normal compressed files are Self Extraction files
(SFX). These will be ignored by MTM.
3.3 MTA/MTM.CTL
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MTM will use some of the MTA options. In general all special op-
tions in MTA (exits, CRC, Virus, includes and so on) are not used
but all XXXPath option are used. Also ZIPVersion and PAKVersion will be
│used. The same goes for AutoDescription, IncludeFile and ExcludeFile.
MTM uses the following MTA statements for its functions:
Includefile [file]
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Usage : [file] must contain a complete path to a filename, so drive,
path and filename. This file will be added by MTM to every
compressed file MTM will work on. These can be up to 255
IncludeFile statements in the .CTL file. The files are only
included with the /ADDFILES command-line option;
Excludefile [file]
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Usage : [file] must filename (without drive and path). This file will
be deleted from every compressed file MTM will work on.
These can be up to 255 ExcludeFile statements in the .CTL
file. The files are only deleted with the /DELFILES command-
line option;
│AutoDescription [file]
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Usage : Look into the MTA documentation for this option. MTM will
add the description in [file] to every ZIP file MTM will
work on. The comment is only added when /ADDCOMMENT is in
the command-line options;
MarkHeader [string]
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See MTADOCEN.DOC for a description of this option. It is only used
when /DELMARK or /ADDMARK is in the command-line options;
MarkString [string]
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See MTADOCEN.DOC for a description of this option. It is only used
when /DELMARK or /ADDMARK is in the command-line options;
3.4 MTM touching
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MTM will preserve the original file date/time. This is rather nice,
because users will not see these files as new-files after you have
converted them with MTM.
3.5 Screen control
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Look into the same chapter in MTA.DOC.
3.6 Aborting MTM
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MTM will convert a complete directory (all compressed files). There
is only one way to abort MTM (in this release) and that is by means
of the three-finger salute.
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│ 4 │ Runtime Information │
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4.1 Running MTM
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The calling syntax of MTM is:
MTM [filemask] {filemask]..{filemask} [options]
If no filemask is available, MTM will use '*.*' as the current
filemask. You can include up to 255 filemasks.
[options] are one or more (valid) command-line options. The following
options are available:
/DELMARK Delete any current MTA mark-string;
/ADDMARK Add the new MTA-markstring to the selected files;
/DELCOMMENT Delete any ZIP-comment from the selected ZIP-archives;
/ADDCOMMENT Add a new ZIP-comment to the selected ZIP-archives
│ (only if AutoDescription in MTA/MTM.CTL is availa-
ble);
/DELFILE Delete all files stated in the MTA/MTM.CTL ExcludeFile
option(s) from the selected archives;
/ADDFILE Add all files stated in the MTA/MTM.CTL IncludeFile
option(s) to the selected archives;
/W{path} Let MTM use {path}. If not supplied, MTM will use
the current directory;
│/IOPpassword Supply a password for encrypted files;
/? Displays a short help-screen;
4.2 Examples
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- MTM *.ZIP *.PAK /DELCOMMENT /ADDMARK
Delete any comment from ZIP/PAK files and add a mark-string;
- MTM *.* /DELMARK /DELFILE /DELCOMMENT
Cleans every file (ZIP/ZOO/PAK and so on) for comments, special
files and mark-strings;
- MTM *.* /DELMARK /ADDMARK
This will delete ANY mark-string and add yours. If you select
/ADDMARK, MTM will assume /DELMARK by default !!
4.3 (De)compressors
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Look into the same chapter in the MTA documentation.
4.4 Encryption and Authenticity
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MTM is NOT able (yet) to rework encrypted files (MTA can do this job
for you) but it CAN handle PkWare's Authenticity Verification. If
you try to delete a AV'ed file (with /DELFILE) than MTM will ignore
this request and leaves the AV'ed file inside the archive.
For further details on AV and Encryption you must look into the do-
cumentation of MTA (MTADOCEN.DOC).
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5.1 The BETA-team
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See MTADOCEN.DOC
5.2 Credits
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See MTADOCEN.DOC
5.3 Version history
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│ 12.01 │ Minor release │
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■ MTM changed to Object Professional. Also some little internal
fixes.
■ MTM would sometimes seem to hang when removing a comment from a
ZIP-file. When you entered things would continue, but is in fact
an error. This is fixed now;
Reported by : Paul Bakker
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│ 12.05 │ Major release │
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■ MTM now included the MTR option to include the MTA mark-string into
the selected archives;
Suggested by: Dirk Astrath
■ MTM will now be driven by command-line options. All MTM_xxx options
in MTA.CTL are obsolete;
Suggested by: Author
■ MTM can now use file-mask selection.
Suggested by: Author
■ MTM could hang (seem to hang) in a DV alike environment. This is
fixed (I hope);
Suggested by: Adrie 'A3' van Lith
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│ 12.50 │ Major release │
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■ MTM will ignore Encrypted files;
Suggested by: Author
■ MTM will test if a deleted file inside a ZIP-file contains a AV
code. In this case MTM will ignore the delete request;
Suggested by: Author
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│ 12.51 │ Dummy release │
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■ No changes;
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│ 13.01 │ Major Release │
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■ Added registration and intro-screen;
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│ 14.01 │ Major Release │
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■ Added support for encrypted files;
Suggested by: Hanstheo Wolf
■ MTM could seem to hang on deletion of a file inside a ZIP. This
was only the case when the filename started with a hyphen ('-').
This is fixed.
Suggested by: Hanstheo Wolf
■ Changed some statements in MTM (ZipAutoDescription) to the new
MTA 'standard'.
Suggested by: Author
■ Enhanced MTM to use any extended text-mode like 132xXX or 43/50
lines mode.
Suggested by: Author
■ MTM had some problems with the IncludeFile option. If you used
a second option to add a renamed copy of the file in the ar-
chive, MTM would fail. This is fixed.
Suggested by: Hanstheo Wolf
MTM is tested with PKWare PKPAK release 3.61, PKWare ZIP release 1.10,
│NoGate PAK release 2.50, ARC release 6.02 and ZOO release 2.01(X), DWC
release 5.10, LHarc release 1.13c/d and LARC release 3.33.
5.4 Copyrights, Trademarks
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PKPAK, PKUNPAK, PKZIP and PKUNZIP are trademarks of PKWare Inc.
PAK is a trademark of NoGate Consulting.
ARC is a trademark of SEA inc.
ZOO is a trademark of R. Dhesi.
DWC is a trademark of Dean W. Cooper
LZH and LHarc are trademarks of Yoshi;
LZS and LARC are trademarks of K.Miki H.Okumura and K.Masuyama
4Dos is a trademark of Rex Conn and JP software
MTM is written in Turbo Pascal 5.5, with help of the Turbo Debugger 1.0
and makes extensive use of Object Professional 1.02 and TxCFI V 8.11.
Also included are some routines of Blaise's fine PowerTools Plus
package (5.0).
Turbo Pascal is a trademark of Borland International
Turbo Debugger is a trademark of Borland International
Object Professional is a trademark of TurboPower Inc.
PowerTools Plus is a trademark of Blaise Computing Inc.
TxCFI is a trademark of Robert W. van Hoeven
Sorry for my usage of the English language, it's not my native language
so this can happen.