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║ (c) 1991 Robert W.van Hoeven │ Dutch │░░░░│
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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 licence 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 licence 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 licence);
- 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;
- Support on MTA, when used in a non-commercial environment, is
available by means of written letters or by entering the inter-
national echomaol area DISP;
- 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 licence agreements;
- It is forbidden to modify, adapt, translate, reverse engineer, de-
compile and/or disassemble the software in the MTA-package. Patching
the medium at places that carry the software is seen as a program
change and is also forbidden. It is forbidden to create a so called
'bypass' to skip the original introduction screens and delay. Also
it is forbidden to use such a 'bypass' unless supplied by the author
(Robert W. van Hoeven) himself;
- Performing any of the illegal actions as stated in the previous
lines, is a theft and no fair play to the author and, more important,
to the registered users;
- Bulletin Board Systems that distribute the MTA package can convert
the WHOLE package to any archive-system they like but all original
files must be included in the new archive. The MTA-package on the
Bulletin Board can contain at the most 2 extra files. These files
can only be a commercial for that Bulletin Board and/or validation
data that is presented as a service to all users and shall have no
other functions;
- After the normal trial period of 30 days, you must register the soft-
ware (see REGISTER.MTA) or you must remove it from your PC;
- 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 is a support utility, to be used as a stand alone program or
in conjunction with one or more batch-files for MTA.
MTA_APP is a simple append program for text-files. The general
syntax is:
MTA_APP [number of lines to insert] [filename] [append to filename]
[number of lines to insert] This parameter must be numeric and must
have a value from 0 to 65535. MTA_APP
will insert this number of empty lines
between the previous text in the
[append to filename] file and the appended
[filename]. If you supply 0, [filename]
will be appended as-is to the append-to
file;
[filename] This is the filename to be appended to
[append to filename]. It must be a text
file. If the file is not found, MTA_APP
will abort with errorlevel 16 and a
message. MTA_APP will do nothing with
this file besides read, so you can use
the file again in another task or you
must delete it yourself;
[append to filename] This is the filename to append to. If the
file does not exist, MTA_APP will create
it, otherwise [number of lines to insert]
is appended to the file and after this
empty lines (0 if you like) the source
file is appended. This file must also be
a text-file.
You can supply a full path, drive and filename, but you can not (yet)
supply any wildcards.
This utility falls under the category 'Cruel and Ugly' but it works !