Finger
(C) InterNetwork Ltd

This is a little finger program that does the usual. You enter a user name (optional) and a host name (mandatory). You click on finger and it fingers! The long report check box inserts a /w token on the send stream to get the maximum level of verbosity from the finger daemon.
I wrote this mostly as an excersise in using the recv function and using dialog boxes as main windows. Its a freebie to all trumpet users as thanks for the wonderful winsock Peter has written.
It was written in Borland Pascal v7.0 using trumpet winsock.
Known bugs : Sometimes if you click finger twice it will refuse to connect a second time. Just retry and it will work.
Future enhancements : I'll think about it
Comments and bugs to : ace@ics.forth.gr
Coming Soon : Telnet
Coming later : NFS server and client.

Also available:-
Host Lookup.
(C) InterNetwork Ltd.

This is a little program that takes a host name and returns the ip address or vice versa. We have all used at some point or another nslookup on unix because something in the name service was wrong and this tries to perform the same service in windows. One situation I use it often for is when the host name is too long and programs like ws_ftp cant accept it in their dialog box (petros.psychol.utas.edu.au is a typical case). I then use hlook to find the ip address and use that instead.
It works as follows: If there is a host name in the host field it always looks up the ip address for the host. If the host name field is empty and there is an ip address in the address field then it looks up the host name for that address. It uses the naming service available i.e. hosts file or yellow pages.
The program is a freebie to all users of trumpet winsock. I just felt grateful to Peter for a wonderful piece of work so I contrubuted my two bits to it.
It was written in Borland Pascal v 7.0 using trumpet winsock.

Tested with : Trumpet Winsock Alpha#18, PC-NFS v5.0a

Known problems : Just one. PC-NFS winsock works only in the host->ip manner. It seems Sun is releasing a new winsock that fixes this and other problems. I'll check it out.

Future enhancements : I'll make it work like the real nslookup (selectable servers, domaiins etc) someday soon.

Comments and bug reports to : ace@ics.forth.gr