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- See the How to Purchase tab to view and print orderforms and ordering instructions.
- You can run the NetScanTools tutorial by pressing ctrl-t.
- Press the yellow ? to get help for that tab.
- NetScanTools works with Windows NT 3.51+(tm), NT 4.0 and Windows 95(tm) or newer.
- If you are using Windows NT 4 or Windows 95 with Winsock 2, then select TTL/Winsock 2 on the Preferences Tab.
- You can email results by using the new email button at the bottom of the main window.
- You can copy text from a results window using ctrl-c.
- You can paste text to an entry window using ctrl-v.
- Windows NT 4.0 (tm) and 95 (tm) users can right click in the results areas to activate the clipboard pop-up menu.
- You can "ping" yourself by entering 127.0.0.1 and pressing Ping.
- You must have a DNS or WINS server to resolve host names.
- All queries you enter are saved between sessions. (see dropdown list boxes)
- Move your cursor over buttons and checkboxes for tooltips.
- Current news is available from NWPS' web site on the What's New tab.
- Frequently asked questions are available from NWPS' web site.
- Enter "help" (no quotes) for a whois query to get whois syntax information.
- NetScanner is faster if you avoid resolving IP addresses to host names.
- Quote is usually supported by Windows NT based computers.
- Daytime is supported by most UNIX (tm) or Windows NT (tm) or Linux (tm) computers.
- When using NetScanner, gateways and routers sometimes respond with host unreachable if the target computer is off-line.
- A "hosts" file (no extension-for frequently lookup up host names) can be made by converting the "hosts.sam" file.
- Your "hosts" file is in the windows folder under Windows 95 (tm).
- Your "hosts" file is in the system32\drivers\etc directory/folder under Windows NT (tm).
- You may be able to find out all the current users on a computer by entering "@computer.domain" (no quotes) in finger.
- You can detect the MTU of the network path using the Don't Fragment setting on Ping or TraceRoute.
- Come see the "Tip of the Week" at: http://www.nwpsw.com/
- This is the last tip.
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