Nautilus NetRanger
An ultimate Internet toolkit
v3.00 for Windows
Copyright 2000, 2001, 2002 Calvin Huang, Nautilus Digital
All rights reserverd
Nautilus NetRanger - Lead your way to the Internet

Homepage: www.nautidigital.com
E-mail: netranger@nautidigital.com

Table of contents
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1 -- General information
2 -- Declaration
3 -- Installation
4 -- Version history
5 -- More information

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1 == General information about Nautilus NetRanger ==

Nautilus NetRanger is a powerful and handy Internet
toolkit, presenting all the tools you need such as:
- Ping
- TraceRoute
- Host lookup
- Finger
- Time/DayTime
- WhoIs
- HostScanner
- NetInfo
- MailKit
- Quick-dialing
- QoD
to help diagnose network problems and get network
information.

Furthermore, it comes with a very high performance
in virtue of its enhanced multi-threading capablility,
as well as a highly intuitive interface, in which many
amazing features are integrated, such as tray icon,
smart address parsing, check for upgrade online, view
local IP address, save to log, and even more.

REQUIREMENTS
- Windows 98/ME/NT4/2000/XP
- Internet Explorer 4+
- A working TCP/IP connection to a LAN or the Internet

NOTE for Windows NT4/2000/XP users
To run ICMP tools (including Ping, TraceRoute,
HostScanner), you must have administrative privileges. 
Otherwise your attemp will receive an "access denied"
error.

NOTE for Windows NT4 users
To run NetRanger, you must have Service Pack4+
installed on your NT system.

REGISTRATION                    
Nautilus NetRanger is shareware. After a 40 day
trial period, you must either register it or remove
it from your computer.
                                                     
Please visit http://www.nautidigital.com or read the 
accompanying document for more details.              
              
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2 == Declaration ==     IMPORTANT! READ THIS FIRST!

Distribution and Restrictions
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You are free to distribute Nautilus NetRanger. Any
such distribution must be free of charge and limited
to the original and unchanged archive.

DISCLAIMER
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THE INFORMATION AND CODE PROVIDED IS PROVIDED "AS
IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED
OR IMPLIED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR
ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER INCLUDING DIRECT, INDIRECT,
INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, LOSS OF BUSINESS PROFITS
OR SPECIAL DAMAGES, EVEN IF THE AUTHOR HAS BEEN
ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

PLEASE DO NOT USE NAUTILUS NETRANGER UNLESS YOU
CAN FULLY AGREE WITH THIS DISCLAIMER.

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3 == Installation ==

We recommend you to use full installation package to
install this software. Before you install it, please
uninstall any previous release.

To uninstall this software, just click the
"uninstall" icon in the program group you installed.

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4 == Version history ==

v3.00 (0814)
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- A brand-new MDI-style user interface is introduced. Much more
straightforward, convenient, and intuitive.

- A new tool, NetInfo, is introduced. You can view information
about network connections, network statistic data, network 
interfaces, IP routing table, and ARP table in this tool.

- Completely redesigned HostScanner, Ping, and TraceRoute.
much faster, more accurate, and convenient!
  Now you can issue a scan combining resolve scan, PingScan 
  and PortScan altogether with a maximum of 100 threads.

- Dial-up connection monitor panel and monitor window are added. 
You can use these two tools to monitor the bandwidth usage 
of a dial-up conneciton.

- All new designed newmail scroll window:
  Now you can change the background color and the text color; 
  change the text  font, and even set the window to be transparent 
  (only available on Windows 2000/XP).
  
- lots and lots of other improvements. Try them out by yourself.

v2.43 (0614)
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- Now NetRanger works on Windows XP!
In order to solve this compatibility problem, two
different builds of NetRanger are released: one for
Windows 2000/XP and the other one for Windows
98/ME/NT4. The installation program automatically
decides which build to install according to your
currently running Windows.
- All functionalities of PortScanner have been
integrated into IPScanner. Now you can scan multiple
hosts' ports.
- Now NetRanger can display detailed information of
a dial-up connection on Windows 98.
- Now NetRanger can start up even without RAS
(dial-up network) present in current Windows system.
- A new feature "Start minimized" added.
- A list of servers around the world added to the
Whois and Time tool respectively. These lists are
customizable.
- The bug that saving a mail account without new it
first would cause the program crash has been fixed.
- The bug that "Clear" did not clear the host
resolving result in IPScanner has been fixed.
- A bug in the MailKit that sometimes caused a GPF
error has been fixed.
- Lots of other minor improvements.

v2.41 (0102)
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- A bug caused the problem that default ENTER button
did not work since v2.40 is fixed.
- A bug in the setup program is fixed.

v2.40 (1229)
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- Windows NT4 is fully supported now!
- Quick-dialing tool is greatly improved and
enhanced.
  * An particular tool page for Quick-dialing is
introduced.
  * Autodial feature is introduced.
  * Dial in the background feature is introduced.
- The inteface of MailKit is improved.
- The effience of deleting mails is improved.
- More intuitive interface.
- Other minor bug fixes.

v2.31 (0920)
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- A bug of mail deletion is fixed.
- A bug of processing extremely large mail headers
(larger than 4098 bytes) is fixed.

v2.30 (0622)
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- Network failure event log and alarm sound features
for IPScanner were introduced.
- The performance of ping scan in IPScanenr was
improved greatly.
- Fixed a major bug of address resolving in
IPScanner.
- Fixed the language setting bug that would bring
out a error messagebox at startup under Windows
98/Me.
- Removed the limitation that only one ICMP tool
could be run in the same time.
- Fixed some bugs in Ping and TraceRoute, now the
scan result become more accurate.
- Improved the output display of Ping and
TraceRoute.

v2.24 (0615)
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- Fixed the bug existed in the deletion and addition
behaviour of the mail accounts.
- Fixed the bug of getting "bad password" result in
mail checking even if the preset password is
correct.
- Introduced some online help menu items in the main
menu.

v2.23 (0607)
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- Fixed the bug that caused the remote mail deletion
failed when "Always clear the output" option was
checked.
- Now "Save IP List" in IPScanner will save the host
name as well as IP address.
- Fixed the bug of occasional icon display error of
the result of PortScanner.
- Fixed the bug of not playing preset sounds file
when new mail is detected.
- Other minor improvments.

v2.22 (0526)
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- Since this version, NetRanger change to be a
40-day trial shareware from original Adware.
- Remote mail deletion feature is introduced.
- Tooltip help system on the main interface is
introduced.
- Fixed the bug that the checkbox in port list
editor window did not work.
- Fixed the bug of displaying "creating shortcut"
and "hosts" configuration file on Windows 2000.
- Fixed the bugs on setting saving and window
resizing.
- Other bugfixes.

v2.20 (0413)
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- Implemented the multi-language-enabled interface.
In present release, we provide three kind of
languges: English, Simplified Chinese, and
Traditional Chinese.
- Now you can input a host name in the input box of
IPScanner.
- "Check for update at startup" feature is
introduced.
- Fixed the bug that sometimes the subject and the
sender of a new mail were missed.
- Fixed the bug of wrong ping statistics data
display.
- Sort feature of the new mail list in MailKit is
introduced.
- Enhanced the double-click behavior on the summary
mailbox list of MailKit. Now a double click on a
mailbox will make only the new mails of that mailbox
displayed in the right mail listbox.
- Now the 'abort' button works in MailKit.
- Improved the check for upgrade feature.
- Improved the output layout of NetStat and Time
tools.
- Improved the accuracy of Time query.
- Other minor fixes.

v2.12 (0315)
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- A bug of calculating the echo time of ICMP packet
in Ping tool is fixed.
- A few minor bugs of the displaying of the network
failure message in MailKit are fixed.
- A registration bug is fixed.

v2.11 (0314)
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- A new feature in IPScanner, "Resolve IP only" is
introduced. Now you can choose to just resolve the
IP list instead of to ping them.
- The "resolve IP" feature in IPScanenr is optimized
and the scan speed is increased significantly
accordingly.
- "Quick mode" feature in IPScanenr is improved to
increase the accuracy of the scan result.

v2.10 (0305)
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- The window size is fully customizable!
- A page for MailKit is introduced in the main
interface.
- Inputbox-sensitive help is introduced.
- A lot of other minor improvements.

v2.02 (0227)
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- Fixed the bug that the drop down arrow of the dial
button in the toolbar does not work.
- Other minor fixes.

v2.01 (0223)
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- NetStat and TCPConnections are introduced.
- A function to resolve every host in TraceRoute and
IPScanner tools is introduced.
- The address range input of IPScanner is improved
significantly.
- Now the output list box of IPScanner is sortable.
- A new pane is introduced in the status bar to
display the extra information of current selected
too.
- 'MailKit configuration' menu is introduced in the
main menu.
- The layout of the main window is improved: the
previous three buttons in the window are removed.
- Now in the righ-click popup menu of IPScanner and
NetConnections, when you select the menu of 'send
selected address to WhoIs', the selected address is
copied into the query box instead of host
name/address input box.
- Now the main window of NetRanger can automatically
resize/reposition the output areas of all tools
(including the new mail scroll window) to
accommodate
the change of the screen size.
- The new HTML help system is introduced.
- Fixed a couple of minor bugs.

v1.75 (0129)
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- The new mail scroll window is introduced.
- The new tools PortScanner and IPScanner are
introduced.
- The Status bar is introduced.
- The Right-click popup menu is introduced in the
main window of NetRanger.
- Now Ping/TraceRoute/IPScanner use the same
settings on packet size and timeout.
- The missed "Log" functionality of Ping/TraceRoute
in version 1.65 is added in.

v1.65 (1115)
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- Now MailKit can retrieve the header information of
a new mail.
- Now NetRanger can properly work on Windows 2000.
- The scroll behaviour of the output box of all
tools is redesigned to improve the readability.
- Some modifcations and fixes are made on the
"Quick-dialing" tool.
- A new option "Enabled" is introduced in mail
accounts settings.
- The whole program is optimized technically to
improve the performance and reduce the system
resource consume.
- Fixed the bug that the output in the Whois tool
looked distorted sometimes.

v1.60 (1018)
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- The "Check for Upgrade" dialog is introduced to
make the whole check for upgrade procedure more
friendly.
- The menu "Abort current check" is introduced to
abort current mail checking.
- Animation effect is introduced to indicate the
progress of the running MailKit.
- A new option 'Check on the startup of MailKit' is
introduced.
- Now Smart Addres Parsing feature can even filter
the host name out of an email address
(user@domain.com).
- A button "Recent servers list" is introduced in
the whois tool. You can get a detailed list output
of recent whois servers by clicking this button.
- A button of 'Hang up' is added into the Toolbar.

v1.53 (1007)
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- Quick-dial button in toolbar is introduced.
- A new button is added in the new introduced "new
mail" tab in system property box, used for playing
the sound file you chosed.
- Now you can go to preferred tab directly by one
click on the appropriate item located in main menu.
- Some improvements on system security.
- Fixed a bug about the display of the tip of the
new mail tray icon.


v1.51 (0926)
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- Smart Address Parsing feature is introduced.
- Check for upgrade online feature is introduced.
- 'Save the host lookup result to hosts file'
feature is introduced. (applicable on windows 9x
only).
- A listbox containg a list of widely-used
time/daytime servers is added in Time tool.
- A listbox containg a list of widely-used whois
servers is added in WhoIs tool.
- The new mail tray icon can be removed by selecting
"Remove this icon" in its right-click popup menu
now.
- A new menuitem named "Enable MailKit" is
introduced.

v1.42 (0830)
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- Enhanced quick-dialing feature
- Fixed the calculation error of the number of new
mails.

v1.41 (0829)
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- Optimized MailKit.
- The system tray icon is introduced.
- Fixed several big bugs in quick-dialing tool.

v1.40 (0826)
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- MailKit is introduced.
- A new setting page for Quick Dialing is added.
- Fixed some bugs.

v1.30 (0722)
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- Quick-Dialing tool is introduced.
- Main menu and Toolbar are introduced.
- Fixed some bugs.

v1.20 (0606)
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- QoD tool is introduced.
- System Tray icon is introduced.
- Query result output is greatly improved by the
introduce of variable fonts and colors.
- The format of output of Ping and TraceRoute are
modified to increase their readability.
- The IP address of the destination host being
connectted will be displayed on connecting.
- Fixed the bug that If ther are two or more IP
addresses bound in one host name (two NIC, or one
NIC plus a dial connection, e.g.), previous release
can only display the first IP address it found.
- Other fixes.

v1.0
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Initial release.

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5 == More information ==

RFC:
The RFC (Request For Comments) contain the
specifications for Internet services like finger,
whois, etc. They are ideal for those who want to
program their own services or those who want to know
the finer details. A search for RFC in a search
engine will provide you with lots of sites where you
can read the RFC text files. Here are a few
referenced
in this applicaton:

- RFC 865: The Quote of Day Protocol
- RFC 867: The Daytime Protocol
- RFC 868: The Time Protocol
- RFC 954: The WhoIs Protocol
- RFC 1034: Domain Names: Concepts and facilities
(NS LookUp)
- RFC 1035: Domain Names: Implementation and
specification (NS LookUp)
- RFC 1288: The Finger User Information Protocol
- RFC 1305: The Network Time Protocol (NTP)
- RFC 1885: The Internet Control Message Protocol
(ICMP)
- RFC 1939: The Post Office Protocol v3 (POP3)
- RFC 2030: The Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP)

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Nautilus NetRanger - Lead your way to the Internet
Copyright2000, 2001, 2002 Calvin Huang, Nautilus Digital
All rights reserverd

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