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- ║ (c) 1991 Robert W.van Hoeven │ Dutch │░░░░│
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- ║ Release : 14.55 │ ShareWare │░░░░│
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- ║ Address: Robert W. van Hoeven
- ║ PO. Box 131
- ║ 1170 AC Badhoevedorp
- ║ Nederland / Holland
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- ┌───────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ 0 │ Table of contents │
- └───────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- 1 ---- General information
- 1.1 Copyrights and License Agreement
- 1.2 Newer versions and contacting the author
-
- 2 ---- Package description and requirements
- 2.1 Requirements
- 2.2 Introduction & specs
-
- 3 ---- Installation description
- 3.1 Installation
-
- 4 ---- Runtime information
- 4.1 Command-line switches
-
- 5 ---- Version information and credits
- 5.1 The BETA-team
- 5.2 Credits
- 5.3 Version history
- 5.4 Copyright, Trademarks
-
- ┌───────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ 1 │ General information │
- └───────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- 1.1 Copyrights and Licence Agreement
- ────────────────────────────────────
-
- - Users of the MTA-package must accept this disclaimer of warranty:
-
- - The MTA-package is supplied as is. The author disclaims all
- warranties, expressed or implied, including, without limitation,
- the warranties of merchantability and of fitness for any purpose.
- The author assumes no liability for damages, direct or consequential,
- which may result from the use of the MTA-package;
-
- - The MTA-package is a "shareware program" and is provided at no charge
- to the user for evaluation. Feel free to share it with your friends,
- but please do not give it away altered or as part of another system.
- The essence of "user-supported" software is to provide personal
- computer users with quality software without high prices, and yet to
- provide incentive for programmers to continue to develop new products.
-
- - If you find this program useful and find that you are using and
- continue the use of the MTA-package after a 30 days trial period,
- you must register the MTA-package as described below;
-
- - Non-commercial can get a licence for the usage up to this release
- of the MTA-package for a small amount of money. Look into the
- details in REGISTER.MTA. Previous registered users will receive
- a big reduction to upgrade to the newer versions. These users
- should look into the details in UPGRADE.MTA.
- For Non-commercial users there is a POSSIBILITY to submit to one
- of the special contracts as explained in the file REGISTER.MTA.
-
- - Commercial usage of MTA will cost somewhat more. Also, a so called
- 'closed' Bulletin Board System (a system where the user must pay
- direct to the SysOp to get full access) is has to pay more than
- a Non-commercial user. Both types of users should look into the
- details in REGISTER.MTA;
-
- - The registration of the MTA-package will licence ONE copy for use on
- any computer at any one time, as long as the usage confirms to the
- type of registration you have done (so NON-commercial usage when you
- have a non-commercial licence);
-
- - Anyone distributing the MTA-package for any kind of remuneration must
- first contact the Author at the address above for authorization.
-
- - You are encouraged to pass a copy of the MTA-package along to your
- friends for evaluation. Please encourage them to register their
- copy if they find that they can use it;
-
- - Support on MTA, when used in a non-commercial environment, is
- available by means of written letters or by entering the inter-
- national echomaol area DISP;
-
- - Problems and suggestions can be entered in the FidoNet <tm> Echomail
- conference <tm> called DISP (international). Entering this echo does
- not exclude you of the duty to register the MTA-package, though users
- who evaluate the product can enter the echo for questions;
-
- - The MTA-package, all programs, the documentation and support-files is
- copyrighted 1990 by Robert W. van Hoeven, PO. Box 131, Badhoevedorp
- 1170AC, Holland. All rights are reserved. You may copy this package
- for backup purposes. Also you may copy and share unmodified copies of
- the whole package, providing that the copyright notice is reproduced
- and included on all copies.
- Excluded from this statement are the support-files written by other
- authors. Please refer to the documentation of these programs for
- copyrights and licence agreements;
-
- - It is forbidden to modify, adapt, translate, reverse engineer, de-
- compile and/or disassemble the software in the MTA-package. Patching
- the medium at places that carry the software is seen as a program
- change and is also forbidden. It is forbidden to create a so called
- 'bypass' to skip the original introduction screens and delay. Also
- it is forbidden to use such a 'bypass' unless supplied by the author
- (Robert W. van Hoeven) himself;
-
- - Performing any of the illegal actions as stated in the previous
- lines, is a theft and no fair play to the author and, more important,
- to the registered users;
-
- - Bulletin Board Systems that distribute the MTA package can convert
- the WHOLE package to any archive-system they like but all original
- files must be included in the new archive. The MTA-package on the
- Bulletin Board can contain at the most 2 extra files. These files
- can only be a commercial for that Bulletin Board and/or validation
- data that is presented as a service to all users and shall have no
- other functions;
-
- - After the normal trial period of 30 days, you must register the soft-
- ware (see REGISTER.MTA) or you must remove it from your PC;
-
- - Comments, suggestions and bug reports are welcome and will be answered
- as soon I have the time to do so. You can send me a letter of leave a
- NetMail <tm> message named to Rob Van.hoeven (mind the point) on node
- 2:512/100 (RA Support, Monster, Holland, SysOp is Reinier de Groot).
- When you want to send me normal mail, address it to:
- Robert W. van Hoeven, PO. Box 131, 1171 AC Badhoevedorp, Holland;
- Also you can enter messages in the FidoNet <tm> DISP Echomail <tm>
- area;
-
-
-
- 1.2 Newer versions and contacting the author
- ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- The newest version of MTA is always available at the DISP-HQ on node
- 2:512/100. MTA is also distributed thru a number of DISP support nodes.
- You can obtain MTA in four different ways:
-
- - Logging on at DISP-HQ or a support node
- │ See the file SUPPORT.MTA for a full list of noded;
-
- - Logging on to a SDS node
- MTA is distributed thru SDS/SDN, but only big minors (x.10, x.20 and
- so on) and majors (14.01, 15.01 and so on) are submitted to the SDS
- distribution point in Holland;
-
- - Logging on to your own BBS;
- Chances are, that you will find an older version (international
- users) because it will take some time for the new version to
- 'bleed' thru the net;
-
- - Update service;
- You can enter a special update service (read REGISTER.MTA).
-
-
- If you think you have found problems in MTA, or in any other case,
- you wish to contact the author, you can send me:
-
- - A letter to the address you can find in the header of this file;
- - A NetMail <tm> message to Rob Van.hoeven (please mind the point
- between Van and Hoeven) at 2:512/100 or (better) 2:512/100.5;
- - A Message in the FidoNet <tm> DISP echomail <tm> area;
-
- ┌───────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ 2 │ Package description and requirements │
- └───────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
-
- 2.1 Requirements
- ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- MTZ requires: - PC XT/AT/386
- - At least 256K free memory
- - DOS 3.xx or higher (4.xx not tested)
- (tested with 4Dos 3.01a, should work with lower
- versions);
- - DOS 2.xx ONLY when registered. In this case, a
- customized version will be created;
- - HDU optional
-
-
-
- 2.2 Introduction & specs
- ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- MTZ is a special utility for those people who frequently decompress
- archives, look at the program and then throw everything away. MTZ
- zap's all files on the drive, depending on the list inside the ar-
- chive(s) itself.
-
- An example:
- - Given a file TEST.ZIP with TEST.EXE and TEST.DOC inside;
- - PKUNZIP TEST.ZIP (will give TEST.EXE and TEST.DOC);
- - Read TEST.DOC, execute TEST.EXE;
- - MTZ TEST.ZIP (will delete TEST.EXE and TEST.DOC);
-
- This is only a small example, but there are archives with more than
- 100 files and cleaning all these files will be a hell of a job (even
- with a special delete-shell) if the files are placed inside a directory
- with many other files.
-
- MTZ will compare the files inside the archive (date/time and size)
- with the files on the drive. If the specs are the same, MTZ will
- delete the file, if they aren't, MTZ will leave the files on the
- drive and give a warning.
-
- Unlike many other programs with the same features, MTZ is fast,
- uses (when available) a full EGA/VGA screen (with extended text-
- modes) and fully supports wildcards.
-
- ┌───────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ 3 │ Installation description │
- └───────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- 3.1 Installation
- ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- There is no installation at all. MTZ can be executed 'out of the box'.
-
- ┌───────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ 4 │ Runtime information │
- └───────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- 4.1 Command-line switches
- ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- The general format to execute MTZ is:
-
- MTZ [mask] {/P} {/N}
-
- [mask] Over here, you MUST supply a valid DOS-mask (including the
- '*' and '?' wildcards if needed). This can vary from *.*
- to a single file. Also you can add a drive and path before
- the mask. In that case MTZ will work on that directory and
- not on the CURRENT directory (default).
-
- {/N} /N is optional. If you include /N, MTZ will not ask any
- questions when, based on the mask, more than one archive
- is selected to process. By default, MTZ will ask you if
- you want to ZAP files from an archive, when based on the
- mask, more than one archive is selected;
-
- {/P} /P is optional. Normally MTZ will display all its actions,
- but MTZ is rather fast, so it could be possible that you
- miss one or more messages. When you supply /P, MTZ will
- ask you to display a next page, when all lines on the
- current page are used. By default, MTZ will scroll without
- any pause.
-
-
- ┌───────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ 5 │ Version information and credits │
- └───────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- 5.1 The BETA-team
- ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- │See SUPPORT.MTA for a full list of beta-testers.
-
-
- 5.2 Credits
- ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- Thanks to the following people:
-
- - All users who did write me a message and/or sent me a postcard;
- - The BETA-team;
- - A special 'thanks' to Reinier de Groot, Hanstheo Wolf and
- Dirk Astrath. They keep coming with nice suggestions;
-
-
- 5.3 Version history
- ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-
- ┌───────┬────────────────────────────┐
- │ 14.01 │ Major release │
- └───────┴────────────────────────────┘
- ■ First release;
-
- ┌───────┬────────────────────────────┐
- │ 14.05 │ Minor release │
- └───────┴────────────────────────────┘
- ■ Added ARJ support;
-
- ■ Changed behavior a bit. If you supply a file-mask with a path
- (like C:\TUP\*.*) and you are in a different directory, MTZ
- will now delete files from the archives in the supplied path
- in the current directory. This was not the case with the previous
- release.
-
- ┌───────┬────────────────────────────┐
- │ 14.06 │ Minor release │
- └───────┴────────────────────────────┘
- ■ Upgraded ARJ support to ARJ version 0.14alpha;
-
- ┌───────┬────────────────────────────┐
- │ 14.07 │ Minor release │
- └───────┴────────────────────────────┘
- ■ Improved the ARJ detection algorithm
-
- ┌───────┬────────────────────────────┐
- │ 14.10 │ Minor release │
- └───────┴────────────────────────────┘
- ■ Added HYPER support
-
- ┌───────┬────────────────────────────┐
- │ 14.20 │ Minor release │
- └───────┴────────────────────────────┘
- ■ Changed to Turbo Pascal 6.0 and OPRO 1.10;
-
- ┌───────┬────────────────────────────┐
- │ 14.30 │ Minor release │
- └───────┴────────────────────────────┘
- ■ Fixed a problem with parsing of pathnames. When you supplied
- MTZ A:*.ZIP to delete files in the current directory of (lets
- say) C:, MTZ would report an error. MTZ will now expand this
- command-line to a complete path (so the current directory on
- A:);
-
- ┌───────┬────────────────────────────┐
- │ 14.35 │ Minor release │
- └───────┴────────────────────────────┘
- ■ If no file-mask is supplied, MTZ will default to *.*
-
- ┌───────┬────────────────────────────┐
- │ 14.40 │ Minor release │
- └───────┴────────────────────────────┘
- ■ The order of the command-line options is not important anymore;
-
- ■ /? is added to get a little help;
-
- ■ A mask without an extension gets .* as an extension;
-
- ┌───────┬────────────────────────────┐
- │ 14.45 │ Minor release │
- └───────┴────────────────────────────┘
- ■ Nothing changed
-
- ┌───────┬────────────────────────────┐
- │ 14.50 │ Minor release │
- └───────┴────────────────────────────┘
- ■ Nothing changed
-
- ┌───────┬────────────────────────────┐
- │ 14.55 │ Minor release │
- └───────┴────────────────────────────┘
- ■ Fixed a problem with detection of some LHarc (LHA) formats;
-
- ■ Added support fot ZOO 2.10 High-compression format. MTZ will
- now detect this format (both 'deleted' and normal);
-
-
- MTZ is tested with PKWare PKPAK release 3.61, PKWare ZIP release 1.10,
- │NoGate PAK release 2.51, ARC release 6.02 and ZOO release 2.10,
- │DWC release 5.10, LHarc release 1.13c/d/213, LARC release 3.33, MDCD
- │version 1.0, ARJ 2.20 and HYPER version 25.
-
-
- 5.4 Copyright, Trademarks
- ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- PKPAK, PKUNPAK, PKZIP and PKUNZIP are trademarks of PKWare Inc.
- PAK is a trademark of NoGate Consulting.
- ARC is a trademark of SEA inc.
- ZOO is a trademark of R. Dhesi.
- DWC is a trademark of Dean W. Cooper
- LZH and LHarc are trademarks of Yoshi;
- LZS and LARC are trademarks of K.Miki H.Okumura and K.Masuyama
- MD is a trademark of Michael Davenport
- ARJ is a trademark of Robert K. Jung
- HYPER is a trademark of Peter Sawatzki and Klaus Peter Nischke
- CRA is a trademark of DISP and donated to public domain
- Windows is a trademark of The Microsoft Corporation
- 4Dos is a trademark of J.P. Software / R.C. Conn and T. Rawson
- FrontDoor is a trademark of J. Homrichhausen
- SWAP is a trademark of Nico Mak / Mansfield Software Group
- SCAN is a trademark of McAfee Associates
- VIRSCAN is a trademark of J.P. van der Landen
- VALIDATE is a trademark of McAfee Associates
- CRC.EXE is copyrighted by Howard Vigorita but seems to be
- public domain;
- CRC32.EXE is copyrighted by Barry Geller but seems to be
- public domain;
- QuickBBS is a trademark of the QuickBBS group Inc.
- Remote Access is a trademark of Continental Software
-
- MTZ is written in Turbo Pascal 6.0, with help of the Turbo Debugger 2.0
- and makes extensive use of Object Professional 1.11 and OPCFI V 9.11.
- Also SYS60a and STRG61 (commercially licensed to me) are used;
-
- Turbo Pascal is a trademark of Borland International
- Turbo Debugger is a trademark of Borland International
- Object Professional is a trademark of TurboPower Inc.
- OPCFI is a trademark of Robert W. van Hoeven
- Strg61 is a trademark of Eagle Performance Software
- SYS60a is a trademark of Eagle Performance Software
-
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