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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 Requirements
2.2 Introduction & specs
3 ---- Installation description
3.1 Installation
4 ---- Runtime information
4.1 Command-line switches
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/Z is always available on 2:512/100 (Remote
Access Support). You can obtain MTA/Z in three ways:
- Logging on to 2:512/100.
In this case you have the possibility to look at tons of
interesting 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 MTZ, 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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2.1 Requirements
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MTZ requires: - PC XT/AT/386
- At least 256K free memory
- DOS 3.xx or higher (4.xx not tested)
(tested with 4Dos 3.01a, should work with lower
versions);
- DOS 2.xx ONLY when registered. In this case, a
customized version will be created;
- HDU optional
2.2 Introduction & specs
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MTZ is a special utility for those people who frequently decompress
archives, look at the program and then throw everything away. MTZ
zap's all files on the drive, depending on the list inside the ar-
chive(s) itself.
An example:
- Given a file TEST.ZIP with TEST.EXE and TEST.DOC inside;
- PKUNZIP TEST.ZIP (will give TEST.EXE and TEST.DOC);
- Read TEST.DOC, execute TEST.EXE;
- MTZ TEST.ZIP (will delete TEST.EXE and TEST.DOC);
This is only a small example, but there are archives with more than
100 files and cleaning all these files will be a hell of a job (even
with a special delete-shell) if the files are placed inside a directory
with many other files.
MTZ will compare the files inside the archive (date/time and size)
with the files on the drive. If the specs are the same, MTZ will
delete the file, if they aren't, MTZ will leave the files on the
drive and give a warning.
Unlike many other programs with the same features, MTZ is fast,
uses (when available) a full EGA/VGA screen (with extended text-
modes) and fully supports wildcards.
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3.1 Installation
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There is no installation at all. MTZ can be executed 'out of the box'.
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4.1 Command-line switches
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The general format to execute MTZ is:
MTZ [mask] {/P} {/N}
[mask] Over here, you MUST supply a valid DOS-mask (including the
'*' and '?' wildcards if needed). This can vary from *.*
to a single file. Also you can add a drive and path before
the mask. In that case MTZ will work on that directory and
not on the CURRENT directory (default).
{/N} /N is optional. If you include /N, MTZ will not ask any
questions when, based on the mask, more than one archive
is selected to process. By default, MTZ will ask you if
you want to ZAP files from an archive, when based on the
mask, more than one archive is selected;
{/P} /P is optional. Normally MTZ will display all its actions,
but MTZ is rather fast, so it could be possible that you
miss one or more messages. When you supply /P, MTZ will
ask you to display a next page, when all lines on the
current page are used. By default, MTZ will scroll without
any pause.
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│ 5 │ Version information and credits │
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5.1 The BETA-team
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The following Sysop's and their CoSysop's (only if they use the same
BBS or a NON-user (closed) shadow BBS) are allowed to make use of the
BETA-releases on their own risk:
- Remote Access Multiline/Multiport Paradise 2:512/100 (*)
Sysop: Reinier De Groot
- GOLEM Service BBS 2:242/4
Sysop: Hanstheo Wolf
- Sirex BBS 2:280/216
Sysop: Gerry Ulrich
- Funboard BBS
Sysop: Dirk Astrath 2:244/12
The BBS marked with (*) will always test the newest version and is
also the main distribution node for the MT-series. Also mail to me
can be send to this system. The other BBS's are asked, if they like,
to test the new versions, but if there is no time, or if they find
the risk to high I don't mind. I would be pleased though, if these
BBS's would like to look into the new BETA version.
5.2 Credits
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Thanks to the following people:
- All users who did write me a message and/or sent me a postcard;
- The BETA-team;
- A special 'thanks' to Reinier de Groot, Hanstheo Wolf and
Dirk Astrath. They keep coming with nice suggestions;
5.3 Version history
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■ First release;
MTZ 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, LARC release 3.33 and MDCD
version 1.0;
5.4 Copyright, 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
MD is a trademark of Michael Davenport
CRA is a trademark of DISP and donated to public domain
Windows is a trademark of The Microsoft Corporation
4Dos is a trademark of J.P. Software / R.C. Conn and T. Rawson
FrontDoor is a trademark of J. Homrichhausen
SWAP is a trademark of Nico Mak / Mansfield Software Group
SCAN is a trademark of McAfee Associates
VIRSCAN is a trademark of J.P. van der Landen
VALIDATE is a trademark of McAfee Associates
CRC.EXE is copyrighted by Howard Vigorita but seems to be
public domain;
CRC32.EXE is copyrighted by Barry Geller but seems to be
public domain;
QuickBBS is a trademark of the QuickBBS group Inc.
Remote Access is a trademark of Continental Software
MTZ 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 8.21.
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