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Hello dear Mac-TCP/IP-er,
Included in this Archive you will find the application 'MERGE HOSTS'.
I have written this program for the following reasons:
1) The hosts.137 (I live in The Netherlands) file I receive every now and then
contains only lines containing IP-numbers and hostnames. This should be OK,
BUT... Some hams sometimes address their mail to '<callsign>.AMPR.ORG', and
even to '<callsign>.BBS'. The last form is also automagically invoked when
a mail is sent through the MBOX of a TCP/IP-station (I changed that in
NET/Mac!). When my station tries to find an IP-number for any of these
to-addresses it can NEVER find it, simply because there is no
'<callsign>.AMPR.ORG' defined in my hosts.net, which results in sending the
mail to the smtp-gateway, which in his turn will probably mail it to HIS
smtp-gateway (etc. etc. etc.). MERGE HOSTS has the ability to add these
callsigns to hosts.net
2) As I said I live in Holland, and the Belgian border is closer to me than
the most northern province of my country. Therefor it is convenient to
include the Belgian hosts.144 in my hosts.net. MERGE HOSTS takes care of
combining these independent (up to 4) hosts.xxx files.
3) Because some hosts-files come in as smtp-mail and I sometimes forget to
save this mail using BM's w command (NO HEADERS), I sometimes end up with a
hosts.net file that containes the smtp mail-headers. MERGE HOSTS can be
instructed to skip everything UNTIL the first #-sign, which is usually the
beginning of the real hosts.xxx file.
4) Sometimes hosts-files have blanks (spaces) between IP-number and callsign,
but usually they will have a tab-character between the two. MERGE HOSTS
makes sure blank fields are always a tab-character.
I hope you like my program. If not --> Trash. I have tested it under system
6.0.7 as well as system 7.0.
Mods in version 3.0.2:
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-Color Icons
-Preferences-file now has an Icon
-Bug fixed, that would crash the Mac when 'hosts.net' was busy
when Merge Hosts was launched
If you have any comments, please leave me a note at:
pa2aga, P.O.Box 34, 2680 AA Monster, The Netherlands or
pa2aga@tnoal1.tno.nl on bitnet or
pa2aga@pa2aga on AMPR.ORG net or
pa2aga@pi8eae.nld.eu on BBS-net
Regards,
Adam PA2AGA