Connect and Notify version 1.3
by Costas Kotsokalis - C.Kotsokalis@ece.ntua.gr

Filename: can13.exe / Self-extracted executable

What is CaN?
CaN (Connect and Notify) is an IP Poster. This is the kind of programs you 
would use if you get dynamic PPP (or SLIP) from your Internet Services 
Provider, and want to let the others know your current IP address so that they 
connect to a FTP, WWW or other Internet server you have set up on your PC. CaN 
will upload a HTML file you edit to the WWW server of your choice, using FTP.
Other features are a built-in finger client, automatic launching of other
programs, a ping client which keeps your connection alive during periods of
inactivity, support for the upload of .plan text file (used by finger protocol)
along with the HTML file or by itself, system tray support, and PC's clock
synchronization according to the time received by a specified time server.

What is new from 1.2?
- Added the long-awaited feature of re-posting the 'online' file whenever 
connection to the internet was lost and established again under a new IP
address. In this case, CaN will re-generate and upload the HTML (or simple
text) "online" file, with the new IP address, in the first minute after 
connection is established again. This feature is enabled only in the registered
version of CaN.
- Added Name Service lookup, which will find for you the hostname for a given
IP address or the opposite. Any aliases returned by the name server are also
displayed. 
- Added a mail-checker: this is a feature you can configure to check for new 
mail every now and then, while connected. This checks for mails with unknown
IDs, and if such are found a message box is displayed. CaN does not check for
UNREAD mails, as this would need time to download all the headers.
- Added a timer which shows the current time (online or not). 
- Added system resources information on the 'About' box.
- Fixed a bug, because of which you could not use your current IP address or
time in the HTML META information.
- A major change, which is invisible to the user though, is the use of the
Microsoft wininet library. Now all the FTP transfers are achieved through
functions this library provides. This gives some more certainty and fixes
one bug to which i had not found the solution: Two users told me that the
file was created all right locally, but when it was transferred to their
ISP its size was truncated to zero. I believe this will not happen anymore.
Another reason for this change is that this library's functions will be
part of all the next versions of windows API. This way we are compatible with
future versions of the windows OS, and are able to use better tested routines
created by Microsoft. The problem that CaN had with PPP/SLIP emulation (tia,
slirp etc) is solved as well. (The required DLL is included in the archive).
- Added a help file.