ToneLoc version 1.10 By Minor Threat & Mucho Maas October 9, 1994 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Preface: " In the beginning there were many carrier scanners on my hard drive, but as time wore on there became few until there was only one. One carrier scanner standing alone as the champion and newest in carrier scanning technology. Here's the story of how this great tool came about. Have you ever had the sudden need to find all the carriers in a certain prefix? A motive might be to find all the modem numbers for your respective Board of Education or perhaps a string of VAX machines or something. Well such a need overcame me one day last year and like anyone with a modem and connections I went in search of a program to aid in my scanning. The first couple programs I ran into were written in GWBASIC and didn't work on anything other than com 1 or 2. Anyways that was unexceptable so I searched out a few more but with the same result, either they didn't work on com4 like I needed or just didn't work at all. Finally I posted a message on a popular net with my situation and was told about a program in beta test that was surely what I needed. This program was ToneLoc. Now I when I used (wasted) major file points to download this baby I ran it without reading any docs. Big mistake. I was greeted with a huge title screen with all kinds of commands I had to type in from the command line. There was no menu or anything to guide me through. Worse yet, it used a skeleton configuration file which ment I had to load the file into an editor and then change everything to suit my needs as well as type in about a 30 character command line. When all was said and done I was finally ready to start scanning. I tried to run it again and I was aburbtly denied access to it. This time it informed that I required a fossil driver to run the program now. This was getting ridculous, but I went and got one from a friendly Public Domain board and installed it. As some of you know, fossil drivers are not the easiest thing to install and they don't always work with your modem. Eventually with MUCH rebooting of my computer, I finally got everything to work (so I thought) well. I was amazed at all the charts and options I had to choose from when the program came to life and it began to dial. Thing is, that's all it did. Yes it's true it DID preform it's task and told me when it found a carrier BUT the thing didn't want to hangup at all. So I decided to write the authors of the program via internet to ask them what the hell kinda beta test this is because it wasn't even working properly. I got a message back saying that the mail address was unrecognized so I trashed Toneloc and vowed that I'd make my own and thus Carrier Find was born. " -- Black Magic, documentation for Carrier Find " ... But who'd want to dial more than 5000 numbers? " -- Clockwork, author of PhoneTag ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ToneLoc would not have have happened without the help of our beta testers on the net. We received hundreds of letters telling us about bugs and suggesting new features. We've implemented your suggestions wherever possible. There are too many people to thank individually, but a few people do stand out for their most helpful, detailed and frequent feedback: The Public, Voodoo Ray, and Damiano. These guys are el1te. Thanks must also go to everyone who bought a t-shirt. We sold out. Sorry for the shipping delays; Minor Threat is to blame. If we ever do more, they will not be sold by mail, but rather at the major conferences (hoho, summer, defcon, hope, etc). Thanks also to Kim Clancy, who was kind enough to mention us on the front page of the Washington Post. Thanks to everyone who sent us a .DAT file. Check out the sample .DAT files to see what people have found. We are pleased to be able to include a few third party utilities. Textmap, by The Public, produces a ToneMap in ASCII. Prescan, by Arthur P. Dent and SubEthan, lets you use CD-ROM white pages to disinclude residential numbers from your DAT files. We'd love to see more utilities for ToneLoc; the TL.H header file is included if you wish to write one. Please take the time to read the docs! *Back up* your .DAT files, then convert them with TConvert before you get started. - Minor Threat and Mucho Maas mthreat@paranoia.com -or- mthreat@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu We've had a few problems with fake versions in the past, so to make sure this doesn't happen again, all of our EXE files also have corresponding PGP signature (.SIG) files, zipped up as a group in SIGS.ZIP. All future releases will include these signatures from one or both of us. Check them like this: PGP toneloc.sig toneloc.exe In addition, the latest public release version (and any planned releases) will always be posted on the WWW page. 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