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 What is it?
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 If you've never used InspectA before, then you may want to know what it
 does before unpacking and attempting to use it.

 InspectA is a combined File, Archive and FidoNet mail manager. It
 provides many facilities combined and built into a very usable and
 flexible front-end shell. The user interface resolves around the "point
 and shoot" concept, easy and intuitive to understand and use. Both
 mouse and keyboard operation are supported.

 The File Manager fully supports 4DOS file description and BBS FILES.BBS
 for viewing, editing, copying and moving files. Keys may be 'programmed'
 to run any other external program you like, optionally taking advantage
 of InspectA's built-in file marking facilities, passing filenames on the
 command line individually,in groups, or in a "response file". External
 file viewers and manipulators may be easily hooked in and triggered by
 matching a given file specification with any selected file.

 InspectA supports all common compressed archive formats, including ZIP,
 ARC (version 5-7), LHA, SQZ, ZOO and HPACK. InspectA provides the ability
 to easily extract or delete files in groups or individually, add to 
 existing archives, edit or view specific files.

 For FidoNet operators, it provides many viewing and management facilities
 which simply do not exist in any other tool; FTS-0001 *.MSG files can
 be viewed simply by selecting them in the Files Manager, raw FTS-0001
 type-2, type-2+ and type-2.2 packets may be easily viewed and manipulated
 (unpacked to *.MSG format, split, sorted, exported to text, individual
 messages deleted). InspectA can also determine the source or destination
 address on mail bundles, and can optionally display this information.

 InspectA 1.10 is available for both MS-DOS 3.3 and above and OS/2 1.2
 and above (including full support for HPFS and OS/2 2.x). InspectA runs
 as a text mode application under both operating systems, and fully
 supports extended EGA, VGA and SVGA text modes where available.

 InspectA is being released and distributed as shareware.


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 PGP Digital Signatures
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 The files "INSPECT.SIG" contain PGP 2.2 digital signatures for the
 executable files enclosed in the package. If are are concerned that
 the files may have been tampered with or otherwise contain a virus
 infection introduced at some point after release, then you can use PGP
 to ensure that the signature matches the file you have.

 If you doubt the validity of the enclosed signatures, we would be more
 than happy to email you a copy. Alternatively, you can obtain these
 directly by downloading them from our support BBS in Australia, or by
 FidoNet file request from 3:632/348 or 3:632/103, requestable as
 "INSP110S.SIG" (or "INSP110R.SIG" for the registered version). Each
 file is only 600 bytes or so large.

 To check the PGP signatures against your executable, and assuming that
 you have installed pgp correctly, enter the following command:

   pgp inspect.sig

 When prompted for the filenames (two will be requested), answer
 "inspect.exe" at the first prompt, and "iconfig.exe" at the second.
 For the OS/2 version, the executable names are "inspectP.exe" and
 "iconfigP.exe" respectively.

 The archive in which InspectA was originally released contains no 
 authentication or validation information.  Authentication information
 placed in archives produced by the more popular archiving programs is
 notoriously poor in quality and are known to have been 'cracked' - you
 would be wise not to rely on them. The exception to this is HPACK, by
 Peter Gutmann, which incorporates PGP's RSA encryption and validation
 technology rather than relying on "security by obscurity" methods which
 can be compromised by someone with sufficient knowledge, curiosity,
 motivation and determination.


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 Installation
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 Install InspectA by unpacking the contents of this archive into a 
 convenient directory on your hard drive, and running the INSTALL batch
 file. Use "INSTALL -h" for assistance. After creating a default 
 configuration the install batch file invokes InspectA to allow you to
 copy the new executables, .HLP and .INI file to any directory in your
 PATH.



