Winmag.com URL Discombobulator v1.5
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(c) 2000 Karen Kenworthy, All Rights Reserved
May be freely redistributed, if no charge is made for the program.
The source code may be used and modified for personal and educational use, but incorporating all or a substantial portion of the code into a commercial product is prohibited without permission of the author.

This is the Winmag.com URL Discombobulator described in the 
April 17, April 24th, May 1st, and May 8th, 2000 issues of Karen's 
"Power Tools" Newsletter.  By Karen Kenworthy ( http://www.winmag.com/karen ).

This program can determine the IP address(es) associated with any valid 
domain name (such as microsoft.com).  It can also determine the domain
names associated with most IP addresses (if the owner of the IP
address has created the appropriate PTR records in the DNS server that
is authoritative for the IP address range).  As a bonus, the program 
can also generate various alternate "shrouded" URLs for any domain
name or IP address.


Installation
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1.  If you have not already done so, download and install the 
    Visual Basic Runtime v6.0.  It can be downloaded from:

        http://www.winmag.com/karen/runtimes.htm

    To install the runtime, execute the downloaded file, vbrun60-setup.exe.

2.  Execute ptlookup-setup.exe.  This is a self-extracting/auto-installing archive file.



Use
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Run the program by double-clicking PTLookup's icon.

To determine a domain name's IP address, click once on the main window's
Lookup tab.  Then enter the domain name into the Domain Name text box.
Finally, click the program's Lookup button.

To determine an IP Address's domain name, click once on the main window's
Reverse Lookup tab.  Then enter the IP Address into the IP Address text box.
Finally, click the program's Lookup button.

To view an alternate "shrouded" URL for a domain name or IP Address, click
once on it's entry in the "IP Addresses found" or "Domain Names found" list.
You may then copy a shrouded URL to the Windows clipboard by clicking once on 
its entry in the URLs list box, then clicking the program's Copy button.
You may cause your web browser to visit a shrouded URL by clicking once on 
its entry in the URLs list box, then clicking the program's Visit button.

To view the ASCII Code table, click the ASCII tab.

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