PC World 2000 March/PCWorld_2000-03_cd.bin/Komunik/CyberKit/Tips.dat

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Version=10/30/1999
You can use nslookup to determine the IP address of your computer.
You can ping yourself by entering '127.0.0.1' or 'me'.
ENTER is a shortcut for the Go button.
The default bookmarks that come with CyberKit contain some usefull addresses and queries to get you started.
The CyberKit author is Luc Neijens and he can be reached at [e-mail].
Smart address splitting can be enabled/disabled on the general options dialog.
You can copy text using CTRL-c.
You can use CyberKit to check your mail account(s) for new mail.
Some client functions like ping and traceroute require Sockets 2. You can download an upgrade to Sockets 2 from the Microsoft site.
Quote of the Day is usually supported by Windows NT based computers.
Traceroute is faster if you don't resolve IP addresses.
You can resolve IP addresses in ping and traceroute by double-clicking the hop sequence number.
CTRL-TAB is a shortcut for switching to the next client function.
You can set 'Start From Hop' to 2 if your first hop never responds in traceroute.
The whois query '[e-mail]' will give you an up-to-date list of whois servers.
Some finger hosts do not support the 'Verbose' option. You should try to disable this option if you get strange results.
Time requires that your time zone settings in the control-pannel are correct.
KeepAlive can use the ping client to keep your dialup connection open.
CyberKit supports non-standard POP3 port numbers in CheckForMail.
CyberKit is postcardware.
Right clicking on the CyberKit icon in the system tray brings up a context menu.
You can hide the status lights above the Go button if you don't like them.
You can press 'F12' to open the CyberKit bookmarks.
CyberKit has context sensitive help, i.e. no matter what function you are performing, whenever you press F1, you'll get the related help page.
The CyberKit help file has a trouble shooting section.
Ping and traceroute are faster when you use small packet sizes.
Your hosts file is in the windows directory in Windows 95.
If you right click on a field in CyberKit, a context menu will appear that lets you exchange data with other client functions in CyberKit.
You can use KeepAlive to keep your PC clock synchronized with a time server.
Smart address splitting will filter a host name out of a ftp or http address.
ESC is a shortcut for the Stop button.
You can store frequently used queries in the bookmarks to save you a lot of typing.
The CyberKit help file contains sample hosts, lmhosts, protocol and services files.
You can start CyberKit minimized in the tray with the 'Minimize To Tray' command line parameter.
CyberKit supports many command line parameters that allow you to start CyberKit just the way you like it.
The CyberKit help file contains a lot of useful information.
You can paste text using CTRL-v.
Left clicking on the CyberKit icon in the system tray brings CyberKit to the foreground.
There are shortcuts for most of the functions in CyberKit.
Smart address splitting splits up an e-mail address into host and user part.
The ping and nslookup clients in netscanner can generate a hosts file.
Your hosts file is in the system32 directory in Windows NT.
You can specify a non-standard port number in most client functions. Just enter the hostname and portnumber in the same field, separated by a ':'.
CTRL-SHIFT-TAB is a shortcut for switching to the previous client function.
You can download the latest version of CyberKit from the CyberKit homepage.
The whois query 'help' gives you syntax information about whois querys.
The CyberKit homepage can be found at http://www.ping.be/cyberkit.
The CyberKit help file has a FAQ section.
You can use the 'Add to Bookmarks' menu item on the Edit menu to add the current query to the bookmarks for future use.
You can hide the animation below the Clear button if you don't like it.
You have now seen all the tips, but you can discover a lot of other useful information in the on-line help file.