KIT - Keep In Touch, ver 1.3
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HI!

This utility can be used to monitor connection to remote Internet/Intranet servers using PING, and to alert the network administrator using email or external program about online status changes.

To use KIT, simply add each host name and IP to the list, and configure other parameters for your needs.

KIT is FreeWare. You may use it and copy it to your friends.



Tips and more info
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Host name can be a real one (FQDN or NetBIOS) but you may also type any other descriptive text instead.
Pressing ENTER while in the "New Host" editor, resolves it's IP and moves focus to the "IP" editor.
Pressing ENTER while in the "IP" editor, adds the Name+IP pair to the list.

KIT saves its data in a KIT.INI file, created automatically in the same folder where KIT.EXE is.

When using SMTP mail, it's recommended to use IP address instead of FQDN in the SMTP server input, for better performance.

When PING fails to a specific host, KIT will send an alert only on the first fail after a previous OK status. This is to avoid flooding your mailbox.

Some cellular phone companies, have a service for sending email messages as SMS to your mobile phone.
Check it out at the web-site of your cellular company.

See (and edit) KIT.INI for advanced configuration, like packet size, TTL, and timeout.



Version History and future updates:
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KIT is part of my NUTS (Network UTilities Set) collection of programs.
You may download NUTS from my site (come.to/yizhar).
Future updates and fixes will be based on users comments and requests.


Version 1.3, October 2000 -
Added support for data files with KIT or INI extension.
The file name can be passed as command line parameter.
(NUTS setup will associate *.KIT files with KIT program).
KIT will now remember its position and size on screen.

Version 1.23, September 2000 -
Technical changes in the SMTP functions.

Version 1.22, September 2000 -
BugFix: Starting KIT minimized did not send startup email in previous versions.

Version 1.21, July 2000 -
Allow resizing of main window.
Added TTL information in the "Current Activity" window.

Version 1.2, June 2000 -
Added this ReadMe text.

Version 1.1, June 2000 -
First release.



Thanks:
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The ICMP (PING) and SMTP implementation for Delphi was written by:
Francois PIETTE  -
francois.piette@rtfm.be   http://www.rtfm.be/fpiette
Thanks Francois!



Contact me:
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Yizhar Hurwitz
Kibbutz Gaaton, Israel.
http://come.to/yizhar
yizhar@mail.com
(or yizhar@usa.net if any problem)