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- ToneLoc version 1.10
- By Minor Threat & Mucho Maas
- October 9, 1994
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- Preface:
-
- " In the beginning there were many carrier scanners on my hard drive, but as
- time wore on there became few until there was only one. One carrier scanner
- standing alone as the champion and newest in carrier scanning technology.
- Here's the story of how this great tool came about.
-
- Have you ever had the sudden need to find all the carriers in a certain
- prefix? A motive might be to find all the modem numbers for your respective
- Board of Education or perhaps a string of VAX machines or something. Well such
- a need overcame me one day last year and like anyone with a modem and
- connections I went in search of a program to aid in my scanning. The first
- couple programs I ran into were written in GWBASIC and didn't work on anything
- other than com 1 or 2. Anyways that was unexceptable so I searched out a
- few more but with the same result, either they didn't work on com4 like I
- needed or just didn't work at all. Finally I posted a message on a popular net
- with my situation and was told about a program in beta test that was surely
- what I needed. This program was ToneLoc. Now I when I used (wasted) major file
- points to download this baby I ran it without reading any docs. Big mistake.
- I was greeted with a huge title screen with all kinds of commands I had to
- type in from the command line. There was no menu or anything to guide me
- through. Worse yet, it used a skeleton configuration file which ment I had to
- load the file into an editor and then change everything to suit my needs as
- well as type in about a 30 character command line. When all was said and done
- I was finally ready to start scanning. I tried to run it again and I was
- aburbtly denied access to it. This time it informed that I required a fossil
- driver to run the program now. This was getting ridculous, but I went and got
- one from a friendly Public Domain board and installed it. As some of you know,
- fossil drivers are not the easiest thing to install and they don't always work
- with your modem. Eventually with MUCH rebooting of my computer, I finally got
- everything to work (so I thought) well. I was amazed at all the charts and
- options I had to choose from when the program came to life and it began to dial.
- Thing is, that's all it did. Yes it's true it DID preform it's task and told
- me when it found a carrier BUT the thing didn't want to hangup at all. So I
- decided to write the authors of the program via internet to ask them what the
- hell kinda beta test this is because it wasn't even working properly. I got a
- message back saying that the mail address was unrecognized so I trashed Toneloc
- and vowed that I'd make my own and thus Carrier Find was born. "
-
- -- Black Magic, documentation for Carrier Find
-
-
- " ... But who'd want to dial more than 5000 numbers? "
-
- -- Clockwork, author of PhoneTag
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-
- ToneLoc would not have have happened without the help of our beta
- testers on the net. We received hundreds of letters telling us about
- bugs and suggesting new features. We've implemented your suggestions
- wherever possible. There are too many people to thank individually,
- but a few people do stand out for their most helpful, detailed and
- frequent feedback: The Public, Voodoo Ray, and Damiano. These guys are
- el1te.
-
- Thanks must also go to everyone who bought a t-shirt. We sold out.
- Sorry for the shipping delays; Minor Threat is to blame. If we ever do
- more, they will not be sold by mail, but rather at the major conferences
- (hoho, summer, defcon, hope, etc).
-
- Thanks also to Kim Clancy, who was kind enough to mention us on the
- front page of the Washington Post.
-
- Thanks to everyone who sent us a .DAT file. Check out the sample
- .DAT files to see what people have found.
-
- We are pleased to be able to include a few third party utilities.
- Textmap, by The Public, produces a ToneMap in ASCII. Prescan, by Arthur
- P. Dent and SubEthan, lets you use CD-ROM white pages to disinclude
- residential numbers from your DAT files. We'd love to see more utilities
- for ToneLoc; the TL.H header file is included if you wish to write one.
-
- Please take the time to read the docs! *Back up* your .DAT files,
- then convert them with TConvert before you get started.
-
- - Minor Threat and Mucho Maas
- mthreat@paranoia.com
- -or- mthreat@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
-
-
- We've had a few problems with fake versions in the past, so to make sure
- this doesn't happen again, all of our EXE files also have corresponding
- PGP signature (.SIG) files, zipped up as a group in SIGS.ZIP. All future
- releases will include these signatures from one or both of us. Check
- them like this:
-
- PGP toneloc.sig toneloc.exe
-
- In addition, the latest public release version (and any planned releases)
- will always be posted on the WWW page. Check this if you think you
- have a hacked version.
-
- Minor Threat: (mthreat@paranoia.com)
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