ÉÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿ º MTA_APP MTA Append utility ³ D.I.S.P. ³ÄÄÄÄ¿ º ³ ³°°°°³ ÇÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ ³ ³°°°°³ º (c) 1994 Robert W.van Hoeven ³ Dutch ³°°°°³ ÇÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ ³ Independent ³°°°°³ º Release : 15.57 ³ ShareWare ³°°°°³ º Rel.Date: March 7th, 1994 ³ Programmer³°°°°³ ÌÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ°°°°³ º | ³°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°³ º ³ MTA_APP.EXE | ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ º ³ | ÚÄÄÄÄÄ¿ | º ³ | ³°°°°°³ | º ³ | ÀÄÄÂÄÄÙ | º ³ Lines starting with '³' are | ÚÄÄÄÄÁÄÄÄÄ¿ | º ³ changes to release 15.55/6 ------³³³³³³ ÍÍͳ------- º ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ ÌÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ º Address: Robert W. van Hoeven º PO. Box 131 º 1170 AC Badhoevedorp º Nederland / Holland ÈÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ Copyrights and License Agreement ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ - 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 license 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 license 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 license); - 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 echomail area DISP; - Problems and suggestions can be entered in the FidoNet Echomail conference 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 1990,94 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 license agreements; - It is forbidden to modify, adapt, translate, reverse engineer, decompile 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 message named to Rob Van.hoeven (mind the point) on node 2:281/904 (PB 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 DISP Echomail area; Newer versions and contacting the author ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ The newest version of MTA is always available at the DISP-HQ on node 2:281/904. MTA is also distributed thru a number of DISP support nodes and thru some forums in CompuServe. There are six ways in which you can obtain newer versions of MTA: - Logging on at DISP-HQ or a support node (FidoNet) Look into the file SUPPORT.MTA for a full list of support nodes; - 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; - Logging on to CompuServe; Important versions of MTA are uploaded to several CompuServe forums. It is intended to upload versions to the SYMANTEC and IBMSYS forums but depend on the authorization of the forum sysops. If you are not sure, you can contact me on CompuServe personally; - 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 message to Rob Van.hoeven (please mind the point between Van and Hoeven) at 2:281/904 or (better) 2:281/904.5; - A Message in the FidoNet DISP echomail area; - A message (mail forum) in CompuServe to user Robert van Hoeven, with account/user number 100120,1146; Description ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ This is a support utility, to be used as a stand alone program or in conjunction with one or more batch-files for MTA. MTA_APP is a simple append program for text-files. The general syntax is: MTA_APP [number of lines to insert] [filename] [append to filename] [number of lines to insert] This parameter must be numeric and must have a value from 0 to 65535. MTA_APP will insert this number of empty lines between the previous text in the [append to filename] file and the appended [filename]. If you supply 0, [filename] will be appended as-is to the append-to file; [filename] This is the filename to be appended to [append to filename]. It must be a text file. If the file is not found, MTA_APP will abort with errorlevel 16 and a message. MTA_APP will do nothing with this file besides read, so you can use the file again in another task or you must delete it yourself; [append to filename] This is the filename to append to. If the file does not exist, MTA_APP will create it, otherwise [number of lines to insert] is appended to the file and after this empty lines (0 if you like) the source file is appended. This file must also be a text-file. You can supply a full path, drive and filename, but you can not (yet) supply any wildcards. This utility falls under the category 'Cruel and Ugly' but it works !