home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
- What is it?
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- If you've never used InspectA before, then you may want to know what it
- does before unpacking and attempting to use it.
-
- InspectA is a combined File, Archive and FidoNet mail manager. It
- provides many facilities combined and built into a very usable and
- flexible front-end shell. The user interface resolves around the "point
- and shoot" concept, easy and intuitive to understand and use. Both
- mouse and keyboard operation are supported.
-
- The File Manager fully supports 4DOS file description and BBS FILES.BBS
- for viewing, editing, copying and moving files. Keys may be 'programmed'
- to run any other external program you like, optionally taking advantage
- of InspectA's built-in file marking facilities, passing filenames on the
- command line individually,in groups, or in a "response file". External
- file viewers and manipulators may be easily hooked in and triggered by
- matching a given file specification with any selected file.
-
- InspectA supports all common compressed archive formats, including ZIP,
- ARC (version 5-7), LHA, SQZ, ZOO and HPACK. InspectA provides the ability
- to easily extract or delete files in groups or individually, add to
- existing archives, edit or view specific files.
-
- For FidoNet operators, it provides many viewing and management facilities
- which simply do not exist in any other tool; FTS-0001 *.MSG files can
- be viewed simply by selecting them in the Files Manager, raw FTS-0001
- type-2, type-2+ and type-2.2 packets may be easily viewed and manipulated
- (unpacked to *.MSG format, split, sorted, exported to text, individual
- messages deleted). InspectA can also determine the source or destination
- address on mail bundles, and can optionally display this information.
-
- InspectA 1.10 is available for both MS-DOS 3.3 and above and OS/2 1.2
- and above (including full support for HPFS and OS/2 2.x). InspectA runs
- as a text mode application under both operating systems, and fully
- supports extended EGA, VGA and SVGA text modes where available.
-
- InspectA is being released and distributed as shareware.
-
-
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
- PGP Digital Signatures
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- The files "INSPECT.SIG" contain PGP 2.2 digital signatures for the
- executable files enclosed in the package. If are are concerned that
- the files may have been tampered with or otherwise contain a virus
- infection introduced at some point after release, then you can use PGP
- to ensure that the signature matches the file you have.
-
- If you doubt the validity of the enclosed signatures, we would be more
- than happy to email you a copy. Alternatively, you can obtain these
- directly by downloading them from our support BBS in Australia, or by
- FidoNet file request from 3:632/348 or 3:632/103, requestable as
- "INSP110S.SIG" (or "INSP110R.SIG" for the registered version). Each
- file is only 600 bytes or so large.
-
- To check the PGP signatures against your executable, and assuming that
- you have installed pgp correctly, enter the following command:
-
- pgp inspect.sig
-
- When prompted for the filenames (two will be requested), answer
- "inspect.exe" at the first prompt, and "iconfig.exe" at the second.
- For the OS/2 version, the executable names are "inspectP.exe" and
- "iconfigP.exe" respectively.
-
- The archive in which InspectA was originally released contains no
- authentication or validation information. Authentication information
- placed in archives produced by the more popular archiving programs is
- notoriously poor in quality and are known to have been 'cracked' - you
- would be wise not to rely on them. The exception to this is HPACK, by
- Peter Gutmann, which incorporates PGP's RSA encryption and validation
- technology rather than relying on "security by obscurity" methods which
- can be compromised by someone with sufficient knowledge, curiosity,
- motivation and determination.
-
-
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Installation
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Install InspectA by unpacking the contents of this archive into a
- convenient directory on your hard drive, and running the INSTALL batch
- file. Use "INSTALL -h" for assistance. After creating a default
- configuration the install batch file invokes InspectA to allow you to
- copy the new executables, .HLP and .INI file to any directory in your
- PATH.
-
-
-
-