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                     Essential NetTools v.2.1
	         Copyright  1998-2000 TamoSoft, Inc.
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March 28, 2000

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CONTENTS
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 About Essential NetTools
 System Requirements
 Installing Essential NetTools
 Uninstalling Essential NetTools
 Ordering
 License Agreement
 What's New
 Contacting Us


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About Essential NetTools
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Essential NetTools is a set of network tools useful in 
diagnosing networks and monitoring your computer's network 
connections. It includes:

 NBScan - a fast multithreaded NetBIOS scanner for locating 
  computers offering resource sharing on the network.
 NATShell - a user-friendly interface for the popular NetBIOS
  Auditing Tool (NAT), one of the best network auditing utilities.
 NetStat utility that displays all the computer's network
  connections.
 A monitor of external connections to your computer's shared
  resources.
 A handy tool for quick connection to remote resources that 
  gives Windows 95/98 users NT user-level connectivity features. 
 A convenient LMHosts editor.
 Other useful tools.

Essential NetTools is an easy-to-use and powerful replacement
for such Windows utilities as nbtstat, netstat, NetWatcher and 
has many advanced features that standard Windows utilities 
can't offer.


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System Requirements
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 486DX2-66 CPU 
 Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, or Windows 2000
 8 MB RAM 
 2 MB of free disk space

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Installing Essential NetTools
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 Unzip the ZIP archive to a temporary folder.
 Double-click setup.exe to execute it.
 Setup will guide you through the rest of the installation
  process. 

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Uninstalling Essential NetTools
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 Choose Uninstall from the Essential NetTools program group.

		OR:

 Open the Windows Control Panel.
 Double-click the "Add/Remove programs" icon.
 Search the list for the item "Essential NetTools" and
  double-click on it.

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Ordering
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This program is a 30-day evaluation version. A single
user license costs $19.

As a registered customer you are entitled to:

 Fully functional unrestricted copy of the
  software.
 Free updates that will be released within 1 year
  from the date of purchase.
 Information on updates and new products.
 Free technical support.

We accept credit cards orders, orders by phone and
fax, checks, and wire transfers. Prices, terms,
and conditions are subject to change without
notice, please check our web site for the latest
product offerings and prices:

http://www.tamos.com/order.htm

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License Agreement
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Please read the following terms and conditions
carefully before using this software. Your use of this
software indicates your acceptance of this license
agreement. If you do not agree with the terms of this
license you must remove this software from your storage
devices and cease to use the product.

Copyright
This software is copyright 1998-2000, TamoSoft, Inc. 
Essential NetTools is a trademark of TamoSoft, Inc. Its 
use and copyright is governed by international copyright 
treaties. TamoSoft, Inc. retains full title and rights 
to this software and documentation and in no way does 
the license granted in any way diminish the intellectual 
property rights of TamoSoft, Inc. You must not redistribute
the registration codes provided, either on paper, 
electronically, or in any other form.

Evaluation Version
This is not free software. You are hereby licensed to
use this software for evaluation purposes without
charge for a period of 30 days. Using this software
after the evaluation period is in violation of
copyright laws and may result in severe civil and
criminal penalties.

Registered Version
One registered copy of this software may either be used
by a single person who uses the software personally on
one or more computers, or installed on a single
workstation used non simultaneously by multiple people,
but not both.

Disclaimer
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT
WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR
A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  IN NO EVENT WILL
TAMOSOFT, INC. BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY
DAMAGES, INCLUDING INCIDENTAL OR
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, ARISING OUT OF THE USE
OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE
THAT YOU HAVE READ THIS LICENSE, UNDERSTAND
IT AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY ITS TERMS.

Distribution
This software may be distributed freely in its original
unmodified and unregistered form. The distribution has
to include all files of its original distribution.
Distributors may not charge any money for it. Anyone
distributing this software for any kind of remuneration
must first contact us for authorization.

Other Restrictions
You may not modify, reverse engineer, decompile or
disassemble this software in any way, including
changing or removing any messages or windows.


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What's New
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Version 2.1

 NBScan now lists MAC addresses.
 With NBScan you can scan multiple LAN segments preserving the 
  previous scans' results.
 CSV (comma-delimited) format is available when saving NBScan 
  reports.
 LMHosts allows you to specify a #DOM tag.
 A new TCP Raw Connect tool has been added.
 The interface font can be customized.
 A few bugs fixed in NBScan.


Version 2.02

 You can now add the whole NBScan list to the lmhosts 
  file with one mouse click.
 When you use the DNS tool to resolve a hostname, you 
  can send the obtained IP address to NBScan or NATShell 
  using the context menu.
 Computer names containing spaces and special characters 
  are now added to the lmhosts file in the correct format.
 Multiple record selection is allowed when working with 
  the lmhosts file.


Version 2.01

This version fixes a few bugs in HTML report generation
found in the previous version of the program.  


Version 2.0

Essential NetTools version 2.0 has undergone a major 
re-design and introduces the following new features 
and enhancements:

 The source code was re-written from scratch. The new 
  version is much more compact and works faster.
 New NetStat tool that displays TCP and UDP connection
  information.
 New Watch tool that monitors external connections to 
  your computer.
 New convenient LMHosts editor.
 Now opens remote computers with one mouse click.
 HTML report generation for NATShell.
 Many other new nice features.


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Contacting Us
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Questions? Comments? Suggestions? Bug reports? Don't 
hesitate to contact us. 

WWW:	http://www.tamos.com
E-mail:	support@tamos.com
