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- NetInfo II
- ==========
-
- *** <BETA WARNING!> ***
-
- This is beta software! Don't use it if you are not an experienced
- Amiga user, and/or can't stand annoying bugs or crashes galore.
-
- Please subscribe to the NetInfo mailing list to discuss the
- beta versions. No public announcements will be done about
- the beta testing, and -- please -- do not spread information
- about the beta to any public forums for now.
-
- To subscribe to the NetInfo mailing list, mail to
-
- <netinfo-request@vapor.com>
-
- and put "SUBSCRIBE" in the subject or body.
-
- This beta version will timeout and refuse to work on 1-May-99.
- Note that there may be NO UPDATE on a timeout, so please don't
- replace an existing NetInfo installation with a beta.
-
- A note regarding crashes: NetInfo II keeps writing
- information to the HD for caching purposes, so program
- crashes during operation are inherently violent and may
- damage your file system. It is absolutely recommended that
- you install NI2 on a HD partition with no valuable data.
-
- Another note: You manually have to install the provided
- Textinput classes to MUI:Libs/MUI/. Previous classes
- have a bug in a certain method used by NI2 which
- causes severe NukeĀ«.
-
- *** </BETA WARNING!> ***
-
- NetInfo II is a network information viewer utility. It integrates
- the functionality of the well known standalone TRACEROUTE, PING, WHOIS
- and FINGER programs into a seamless GUI application.
-
- Features:
-
- - "quick traceroute": Sends a series of packet in quick
- succession to get a route overview very fast, then
- does accurate timings for the individual hops
-
- - graphical display of hop min/last/max timings
-
- - integrated smart WHOIS function: double-click on
- a IP, Host or Network column to automatically receive
- WHOIS information for the given object. NetInfo
- determines the WHOIS host to query.
-
- - automatically retrieves WHOIS network information
- for hosts
-
- - automatically scans destination host for Web (HTTP) and FTP
- server versions
-
- - history for all queried hosts
-
- - integrated FINGER client
-
- - integrated "classical" WHOIS client with on-disk cache
-
- NetInfo is (C) 1997-99 Oliver Wagner <owagner@vapor.com>, All Rights
- Reserved.
-
- NetInfo works with Genesis, Miami and AmiTCP.
-