Nautilus NetRanger
An ultimate Internet toolkit
v3.04 for Windows
Copyright 2000-2003 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 ==

v3.04 (20305)
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- New: When your input focus is within the input bar, 
you can simply press "Enter" key to trigger "Start" 
action, as you could do in version 2.x.  
- New: usability of Whois tool is greatly improved by 
introducing the "search for appropriate whois server" 
feature.
- New: "query" and "account" input boxes in Finger 
and Whois tool now maintain query history.
- New: double-click at new mail scroll window or new 
mail tray icon will close the scroll window and remove 
the tray icon.
- New: a click on "dialup" dropdown button in the tool 
bar will bring out a list of dial-up enries. 
- Fixed: application would corrupt when the size of a 
mail header exceeded 2048 bytes.
- Fixed: PortScanner did not display active ports that 
returned zero response.
- Lots of other minor bug fixs and improvments.

v3.03 (1111)
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- Quick-dialing now allow an application to be started after
a dialup connection has been established successfully.
- The resulting output of HostScanner and Network 
Statistics can be saved into text files in CSV format.
- Fixed the bug that mail accounts could not be saved if 
MailKit tool was not running.
- Fixed a bug in the QODT tool.
- Corrected twisted display in Time and TraceRoute tools.
- Other minor fixes.

v3.02 (0913)
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- Fixed a major bug that produced wrong scan result 
of PingScan in HostScanner .
- Fixed the bug that average time would become zero
 after running for a very long time in HostScanner.
- Fixed the bug that the elapsed timer did not stop 
after a single scan was finished in HostScanner.
- TTL value added in the output of HostScanner. 

v3.01 (0831)
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- The elapsed time will be displayed at the status bar
if the IPScanner is running.
- A right-click menu is added into the new mail list
window. In this menu, you can select to "Mark all" or
"Unmark all" of the deletion checkboxes of all mails.
- Fixed the bug that sometimes the input in TCP tools 
(Lookup, Finger, Whois, Time, Qodt) was not saved to 
the input history.
- Fixed the bug that Whois and IPScanner were sharing 
the same input history.
- Fixed the bug that the data of a dialup connection
was not refreshed after the conneciton was re-established.
- Fixed the bug that caused the program exit abnormally 
when the number of emails in a mailbox exceeded 128.

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!
- 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.

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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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