Nautilus NetRanger
An ultimate Internet toolkit
v2.43 for Windows
Copyright 2000-2002 Calvin Huang, Nautilust 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
- PortScanner
- IPScanner
- NetStat
- NetConnections
- 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, IPScanner), you 
must have the permission of accessing raw socket. Contact 
your system administrator for more help.

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 ==

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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(Last revised in 06.14.2002)
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Nautilus NetRanger - Lead your way to the Internet 
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