REQ: NFILTER - for use with Agent 1.93 - plz post to news:alt.binaries.freeware NOW

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I tracked down NFILTER but it won't install on windows XP.

I suppose it's fallen out of use but can I get the source to make a 32
bit version? If so, where from?
 
Zenobia said:
I can't find this prog anywhere on the web.
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Looks like the author has closed the site down, approximately June/July of
2003. Took a little digging, but I found, at least, one site that is hosting the
file:

http://www.r-bonomi.com/rec.woodworking/index.html

HOWEVER, a little more digging turned up the fact that the author renamed his
program "NewsProxy". Supposedly this program will work under Windows 95 / 98 /
NT / 2000 /XP. (?) It's very possible this is the same program, just a re-named
version. (?)

Bill
 
I tracked down NFILTER but it won't install on windows XP.

I suppose it's fallen out of use but can I get the source to make a 32
bit version? If so, where from?
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I have version 1.2.0 running on XP here with no problems.
Sorry, can't help you with the source.

tim
 
Bill Rowland wrote in
HOWEVER, a little more digging turned up the fact that the author renamed his
program "NewsProxy". Supposedly this program will work under Windows 95 / 98 /
NT / 2000 /XP. (?) It's very possible this is the same program, just a re-named
version. (?)
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According the download page supplied by Vrodok
<http://west.porterfield.net/nfilter/download.html>
the NewsProxy.exe file is just a patch to the
1.20 version, upgrading it to 1.2.1-b1.

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen
 
I have version 1.2.0 running on XP here with no problems.
Sorry, can't help you with the source.

tim
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OK, i was wrong. I have it working on an older machine - Celeron CPU.
It didn't install on the Althon I had.

Now I'm trying to figure out how to work it. I wish these programs had
basic help files such as what is the format for nfilter.dat and
precisely which version of regular expression syntax is supported
[Perl 5?]. That would only take about 7 pages of html wouldn't it? Not
even that - if it implemented all of Perl 5 regular expression syntax.
You'd think people could manage that!

Can I get an example nfilter.dat from somewhere, or better still, a
help file?
 
I have version 1.2.0 running on XP here with no problems.
Sorry, can't help you with the source.

tim
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OK, i was wrong. I have it working on an older machine - Celeron CPU.
It didn't install on the Althon I had.

Now I'm trying to figure out how to work it. I wish these programs had
basic help files such as what is the format for nfilter.dat and
precisely which version of regular expression syntax is supported
[Perl 5?]. That would only take about 7 pages of html wouldn't it? Not
even that - if it implemented all of Perl 5 regular expression syntax.
You'd think people could manage that!

Can I get an example nfilter.dat from somewhere, or better still, a
help file?
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Ignore this. I found the FAQ too.

<http://west.porterfield.net/nfilter/faq.html>
 
Bjorn said:
Bill Rowland wrote in



According the download page supplied by Vrodok
<http://west.porterfield.net/nfilter/download.html>
the NewsProxy.exe file is just a patch to the
1.20 version, upgrading it to 1.2.1-b1.

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen
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"NewsProxy" is the main executable for the np-120.exe (SFX) archive. The
"NewsProxy.exe" offered there is a patched version of the executable. They still
need the np-120.exe file, for the remainder of the archive.

MY statement about the product being re-named to "NewsProxy" was garnered
from several statements made in different news groups. It's very possible that I
miss read the statements. When you scan 4 or 5 hundred messages on a subject,
they tend to blend together at some point.

As much as the program was recommended by different news groups, it makes you
wonder what happened to it. I must have run across two or three dozen setup
instruction sites, all for different news groups. With that much support (?) it
should still be around. Like I said it makes you wonder what happened.

Bill
 
"NewsProxy" is the main executable for the np-120.exe (SFX) archive. The
"NewsProxy.exe" offered there is a patched version of the executable. They still
need the np-120.exe file, for the remainder of the archive.

MY statement about the product being re-named to "NewsProxy" was garnered
from several statements made in different news groups. It's very possible that I
miss read the statements. When you scan 4 or 5 hundred messages on a subject,
they tend to blend together at some point.

As much as the program was recommended by different news groups, it makes you
wonder what happened to it. I must have run across two or three dozen setup
instruction sites, all for different news groups. With that much support (?) it
should still be around. Like I said it makes you wonder what happened.

Bill
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Yes. When it loads (without the patch installed) it calls itself
NewsProxy 1.2.0

It doesn't work if there is a "socks proxy" present. I have smoothwall
2 beta 4 running with a LAN behind that. NFilter just returns all the
news headers and won't filter.

Is smoothwall 2 beta 4 a "socks proxy"?
 
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