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║ Address: Robert W. van Hoeven
║ PO. Box 131
║ 1170 AC Badhoevedorp
║ Nederland / Holland
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│ 0 │ Table of contents │
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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 │
└───────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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;
- Support on MTA, when used in a non-commercial environment, is
available by means of written letters or by entering the inter-
national echomail 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 1990,93 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;
- It is forbidden to modify, adapt, translate, reverse engineer,
decompile 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 2:281/904 (PB 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 at the DISP-HQ on node
2:281/904. MTA is also distributed thru a number of DISP support
nodes and thru some forums in CompuServe. There are six ways in which
you can obtain newer versions of MTA:
- Logging on at DISP-HQ or a support node (FidoNet)
Look into the file SUPPORT.MTA for a full list of support nodes;
- Logging on to a SDS node
MTA is distributed thru SDS/SDN, but only big minors (x.10, x.20 and
so on) and majors (14.01, 15.01 and so on) are submitted to the SDS
distribution point in Holland;
- 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;
- Logging on to CompuServe;
Important versions of MTA are uploaded to several CompuServe forums.
It is intended to upload versions to the SYMANTEC and IBMSYS forums
but depend on the authorization of the forum sysops. If you are not
sure, you can contact me on CompuServe personally;
- 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 2:281/904 or (better) 2:281/904.5;
- A Message in the FidoNet <tm> DISP echomail <tm> area;
- A message (mail forum) in CompuServe to user Robert van Hoeven,
with account/user number 100120,1146;
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│ 2 │ Package description and requirements │
└───────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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 │ Installation description │
└───────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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 │ Runtime information │
└───────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
4.1 Command-line switches
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The general format to execute MTZ is:
MTZ [mask] {/Q} {/P} {/NT}
[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).
{/Q} /Q is optional. If you include /Q, MTZ will ask questions
for each file, if matched. By default MTZ will process all
matched files without any question.
{/P} /Q is optional. If you include /P, MTZ will pause after for
a key after each full screen;
{/NT} /NT is optional. If you include /NT, MTZ will NOT compare
the date and time of extracted files with those inside the
archive. If there is a match in names, MTZ will delete the
file (BE CAREFUL!!);
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│ 5 │ Version information and credits │
└───────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
5.1 The BETA-team
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See SUPPORT.MTA for a full list of beta-testers.
5.2 Credits
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See MTADOCEN.DOC.
5.3 Version history
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┌───────┬────────────────────────────┐
│ 15.01 │ Major Release │
└───────┴────────────────────────────┘
■ Nothing changed, only the version number
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│ 15.02 │ Minor Release │
└───────┴────────────────────────────┘
■ Documentation did not contain the special marks before changed
items;
■ MTZ 15.01 did contain support for PKZ 1.93 and ARJ 2.30 but this
was not mentioned;
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│ 15.05 │ Version Release │
└───────┴────────────────────────────┘
■ Changed external layout to look like MTM;
■ Removed the /P and /N command-line options;
■ Added /Q option. By default MTZ will now process ALL matched files
without asking before unless you add /Q as a command-line parameter
with the call. /Q will force questions for each and every file that
matches;
┌───────┬────────────────────────────┐
│ 15.06 │ Version Release │
└───────┴────────────────────────────┘
■ Only the version number is changed;
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│ 15.07 │ Minor Release │
└───────┴────────────────────────────┘
■ If the files to be deleted were READONLY, SYSTEM and/or HIDDEN,
the delete would fail. This is fixed;
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│ 15.08 │ Bug (?) Release │
└───────┴────────────────────────────┘
■ Reports got in from users about MTZ in a OS/2 2.0ß DOS box. MTZ is
not able to find any file that the user wants to select. This nasty
problem *looks* like a problem with OS/2 2.0 because the normal DOS
(ALSO IBM PC-DOS 5.0) works fine and the problems involved have to
do with DOCUMENTED interrupts and NORMAL Turbo Pascal processing.
Thanks to some willin beta-testers I was able to track the problem
down. This release contains a work-around that even causes MTZ to be
somewhat smaller and still giving the same functions. Under OS/2 2.0
DOS boxes it *should* work again (as it did with beta-testers). Look
into HELP__ME.MTA for questions about OS/2 2.0ß because I don't run
this operating system and must rely on the input from users who do !
┌───────┬────────────────────────────┐
│ 15.10 │ Version Release │
└───────┴────────────────────────────┘
■ Only the version number is changed;
┌───────┬────────────────────────────┐
│ 15.20 │ Minor release │
└───────┴────────────────────────────┘
■ Fixed a problem with error-levels. MTZ should give errorlevel 2 if
there were files with non-matching (date/time) entries in the
archive. This is fixed;
■ Added coding to maintain SQZ archives;
■ /P was already present in MTZ but never described in the documents
nor in the help-screen. This is fixed;
■ Added /NT option to delete files without comparing the time and date
with those inside the archive.
┌───────┬────────────────────────────┐
│ 15.21 │ Bug release │
└───────┴────────────────────────────┘
■ Some new routines caused a number of cosmetic bugs. These are now
fixed (registered users!!!). Also registered users should unpack the
supplied MTA__REG.EXE (which contains MTAREG.EXE and MTAREG.DOC) and
run the MTAREG.EXE file once;
■ Added coding for the new SQZ 1.08.2 release;
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│ 15.30 │ Version release │
└───────┴────────────────────────────┘
■ Only the version number is changed;
┌───────┬────────────────────────────┐
│ 15.35 │ Version release │
└───────┴────────────────────────────┘
■ Only the version number is changed;
┌───────┬────────────────────────────┐
│ 15.36 │ Minor Release │
└───────┴────────────────────────────┘
■ Added coding to detect and work with the new ARJ 2.39d archive
format;
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│ 15.40 │ Version release │
└───────┴────────────────────────────┘
■ Only the version number is changed;
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│ 15.50 │ Minor Release │
└───────┴────────────────────────────┘
■ /P was a documented command-line option but didn't work. Now /P
will cause a pause at the end of the screen.
┌───────┬────────────────────────────┐
│ 15.55 │ Minor Release │
└───────┴────────────────────────────┘
■ Added support for the UC2 compression;
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│ 15.57 │ Version release │
└───────┴────────────────────────────┘
■ Only the version number is changed;
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│ 15.58 │ Version release │
└───────┴────────────────────────────┘
■ Added support for the RAR archive system;
■ It is now possible to terminate MTZ during the test-phase (which
sometimes can take too long when started without a file-mask);
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.
SQZ is a trademark of Jonas I Hammarberg.
UC2 is a trademark of Ad Infinitum Programs (AIP-NL)
RAR is a trademark of Eugene Roshal
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
ARJ is a trademark of Robert K. Jung
HYPER is a trademark of Peter Sawatzki and Klaus Peter Nischke
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
OS/2 is a trademark of International Business Machines (IBM)
PC-DOS is a trademark of International Business Machines (IBM)
MTZ is written in Borland Pascal 7.0, with help of the Turbo Debugger
│3.0 and makes extensive use of Object Professional 1.30 and OPCFI V
│21.01. Some routines are obtained from TurboPower's Asynch
│Professional 2.01.
Borland Pascal is a trademark of Borland International
Turbo Debugger is a trademark of Borland International
Object Professional is a trademark of TurboPower Inc.
Asynch Professional is a trademark of TurboPower Inc.
OPCFI is a trademark of Robert W. van Hoeven
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