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- XPLAN -- AUTOMATE UPDATING OF .PLAN FILE
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- XPlan version 0.3 Built day: June 24, 1995
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- What's XPlan?
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- If you are using dynamic address, it's real hard for your friends to
- find out what address you are using or even if your are online or not.
- You can use XPlan to upload your dynamic address to your .plan file in
- an account in a permanent host(like your account in your Internet
- provider) everytime you login or logout of a SLIP/PPP section.
-
- Requirement:
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- You need VBRUN300.DLL to run this program, also MS-Windows3.1(or up)
- running Winsock 1.1 or up.
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- Installation:
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- After unzip the package into a directory, run setup.exe from that
- directory under MS-Windows.
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- Command Line Options:
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- XPlan receives two command line options: log_in and log_out. Why these
- two? read on for more details.
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- Running:
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- If you run XPlan for the first time, it will need some information
- about you and your remote account. That includes the name of remote
- host you want to put the .plan file, your login ID on that host, your
- password on that host, and the name you prefer to be called. You enter
- these only once. XPlan will save these to a file and load them next
- time you run XPlan again. If XPlan successfully updates your remote
- .plan file, your .plan file will look like this:
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- [Some of you regular .plan texts at here]
- My local address is your_name@your_local_host_name
-
- For compatible reason, you shouldn't specify your name longer than 12
- characters. Your friends who finger(using any finger client, e.g. my
- Xfinger) your UNIX account can know if you are online or not, and
- where are you. Then he/she can talk to you by typing
- talk your_name@your_local_host_name.
- (I also have a talk client, xtalk. I am working on server part right
- now).
- If you want to add more texts on top of that one line message in the
- same .plan file, you can put them in a file called xplan.txt in the
- directory where you installed xplan. XPlan.txt along with the above
- message will be your .plan file. I provided a simple xplan.txt with
- this package. You should modify it to suit your need.
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- Script File:
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- I am using trumpet winsock. The following example is done in that
- script language. Other Winsock script language should have similar
- functions. In trumpet, you can execute a program using "exec" command
- in you script. To automate updating of your .plan file, you can put an
- "exec" right after the part that winsock fires up SLIP function.
- exec "c:\xplan\xplan.exe log_in"
- Of course, you should modify the path if you installed xplan in a
- different path. This will put that magic
- message(your_name@your_local_host_name) in your remote .plan file. For
- some reasons, you can not execute a program in Trumpet's bye.cmd.
- Therefore, to update .plan file when you logout of a section, you have
- to click on Logout option in XPlan. XPlan will first upload a new
- .plan file to remote host without magic message. Then it will
- disconnect Trumpet for you automatically.
- If you use other Winsock stacks, XPlan will not disconnect winsock
- connection automatically(it still update your .plan file). I will
- revise this limitation when I have time.
- Of course, if you don't want to run xplan from your script file, you
- still can launch it from program manager.
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- Supporting Files
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- There are two files you need to put in right directory, xplan.ini and
- xplan.txt. If you run XPlan from login.cmd, you should put them into
- the directory where you run tcpman.exe. If you run XPlan from command
- line(i.e. from program manager), you should put them in the same
- directory as where you put XPlan.exe.
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- Problems?
-
- Before you use XPlan, you should make sure that the permission of your
- original .plan file is 644, i.e. world readable. To change permission
- of this file, typing chmod 644 ~/.plan in your UNIX account. You
- should make a .plan file and set it to that permission if you do not
- have one. Because the permission of new .plan will be the same as the
- permission of old one.
-
- Security Issue:
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- This program needs your password to run. The reason is obvious. It
- needs to gain access to your account inorder to update your .plan
- file. I try the best I can to hide your password(using encryption).
- Some things you should know:
- 1. Never get this package(XPlan) from unknown sites. The best place to
- get it is my WWW
- page(http://www.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca/spider/q7f192/tools.html). I will also
- upload it to SimTel and CICA.
- 2. Never expose xplan.ini to anyone. That file contains encrypted
- password. Somebody might try to decrypt it.
- 3. Change your password often.
- Did I mention how to change password for xplan. For now, you have to
- delete the entry in xplan.ini inorder to enter new data for that
- entry(you name, your host, etc.). Delete the whole line contains that
- entry, the next time xplan will ask you to enter that entry again. I
- might add some functions to do that inside of xplan.
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- Availability
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- Latest XPlan can be found at:
- http://www.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca/spider/q7f192/branch/tools.html
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- Did I mention that this program is FREE!
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- DISCLAIMER: I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE THAT THIS PROGRAM MAY
- CAUSE. YOU USE IT ON YOUR OWN RISK!
-
- All brand names and trademarks are the property of their respective
- owners
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- _________________________________________________________________
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- XPlan Copyright (C) 1995
- George Xie / q7f192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca
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- FILE_ID.DIZ
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- (V0.3) XPlan - Win File/Winsock
- Xplan can update your .plan file everytime
- you log into your SLIP/PPP connection.
- XPlan adds a a message at the end of your
- .plan file indicating what's your current
- address. When you logout, the .plan file is
- also updated to get rid of that message.
- It's very useful for dynamic address users,
- also for permanent address owners.
- It's freeware
- George Xie, q7f192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca
- http://www.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca/spider/q7f192
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