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OK I hope that these make sense, 
but these are the results of the great KA9Q survey,
A total of 18 people resonded to the survey, so how representative it 
is I couldn't say, but for what it's worth here ar the results.

I've left the sections the same as previously but tried to organize 
the results within those section to show the most used/asked for first,
going down to the least used/asked for. The result are shown simply as
number U number W
for the number of people using an option and the number of people that
want the option. I've triued to sumamrise the commetns made at the bottom,
but probably not very well.

The full responses /* minus any thing that would identify the respondants */
can be found at ftp://bob.lostsoul.org/pub/demon/survey.txt
each response seperated by ####

CLIENT OPTIONS
==============

finger command 17U 1W
ftp client 17U 0W
IP path tracing command (hop check/trace route) 15U 1W
telnet 15U 1W
ping command 14U 0W
Netnews client -- batching 11U 1W
domain query" command 11U 1W
John Washington's httpclient (URL grabber) 6U 4W
pop3finger - sdps POP3 long finger client 2U 5W
pop3 client  2U 5W
rlogin 3U 3W
 -- with x,y,z modem file transfer capability 1U 3W
 -- rsh  1U 2W 
tip - async dumb terminal emulator 4U 0W
bbs session (same as telnet localhost) 1U 2W
remote (kick exit and reset for ka9q machine running remoted) 1U 2W
Archie client from OS/2 version 1U 0W
ttylink cmd - split-screen chat 1W(ntalk)
AX25 Connect and (if SPLITSCREEN) split commands 1W

SERVER OPTIONS
==============

smtp server 11U 0W
Netnews client and server  6U 1W
     -- mail2news and news2mail gateway 7U 2W
     -- Try GROUP/STAT cmds if NEWNEWS fails 0U 3W
ftp server 7U 2W
finger server 7U
rdate server (Time Protocol) 3U 1W
mailserver - send files automatically on e-mailed request  1U 3W
Domain Name Server 2U 1W
        -- caching only 2U 1W
        -- full 2U 1W
telnet server 2U 1W
    -- MD5 authentication 1U 1W
POP3 server -- IAB draft standard 1U 2W
            -- MD5 authentication 1U
echo server 1U 1W
ttylink server 1U 1W(ntalk)
remote server, telnet to BBS as sysop 1U 1W
discard server  0U 2W
ident server (RFC1413) 0U 2W
Selcuk Ozturk's HTTP server on port 80 1U 1W
Conference bridge (babble-box)  1U 1W
TCPGATE redirector server  1U 0W
mailbox server (SM0RGV) i.e. local BBS 1U 0W
      -- huge number of options to limit BBS users 0U 1W
      -- message expiry 1U 0W
      -- news posting capability 0U 1W
terminal server ( Async serial interface server) 0U 1W
Serial port tip server 0U 1W
remote interface trace server 0U 1W

PROTOCOL OPTIONS
================

Point-to-Point Protocol - PPP 15U 0W
     --  Additional PPP debugging 2U 6W
Serial line IP on built-in ports  - SLIP 4U 1W
Reverse Address Resolution Protocol  - RARP 1U 3W
Van Jacobson TCP compression for SLIP 1U 2W
LZW-compressed sockets 0U 1W

HARDWARE OPTIONS
================

dialer SLIP/PPP redial 10U 0W
Asynch driver code 7U 1W
FTP Software's Packet Driver interface 3U 1W
printer allowed as output device 1U 2W
soundblaster - limited soundblaster support 0U 2W
DRSI PCPA slow-speed driver 0U 1W
Eagle card driver  0U 1W
Hamilton Area Packet Network driver code 0U 1W
3-Com 3C501 Ethernet controller 0U 1W

SYSTEM/MISC OPTIONS
===================

'at'  time command execution  9U 0W
dialler logging  7U 2W
DOS commands - cd,copy,del,mkdir,pwd,ren,rmdir 7U 2W
DOS shell multi-tasker 5U 2W
ansi terminal emulation 3U 2W
Log incoming probes on unused ports 0U 7W
NNTP client includes posting capabilities  1U 6W
redirection of command output  ( > and >> redirectors ) 0U 6W
TEXTWIN  4U 0W
shell out command, most useful with multitasker. 2U 3W
Status window - 3 line status window show server/client connections 3U 2W
       -- show relative system-idle in status line 0U 4W
mail files/short messages directl from net> prompt 1U 3W
packet tracing code 1U 3W
all commands  include dump,fkey,info,mail,motd, 3U 0W
      record,tail,taillog,upload,watch commands  2U 1W
kick smtp client after each shell cmd  3U 0W
Unix-style output from DIR and ftp DIR cmds. 3U 1W
IP packet filtering  0U 3W
Log alloc/free debugging to MEMLOG.DAT file 0U 3W
ps <pid> option enabled to do a back-trace 0U 3W
rewrite file maintance/checking from net> prompt 0U 3W
IP access control code 1U 2W
Unix style escape on PC 1U W
smtp server rewrites from addrs too 0U 2W
stopWATCH code  0U 2W
split screen capabilty, fot ttylink telnet etc. 0U 2W
user maintanence , add, remove users etc from net prompt 0U 2W
MD5 Authentication 0U 2W
Encrypted passwords in ftpusers 0U 2W
EDITOR  include internal ascii editor 1U 1U(boxer) 2W
        -- ED usable remotely 1U 1W
        -- TED usable from console only W/maybe
DOS attribute command 1U 2W
MD5-Authenticated logins , telnet/ftp/pop also in clients 1U 1W
lock keyboard with password 1U 1W
TCP access control code  1U 0W
Echo rx packet to another interface 0U 1W
IP encapsulation code 0U 1W
stack tracing code 0U 1W


COMMENT SUMMARY
===============
Open source, preferabbly with suppotr for free compilers
Please make it compilable by BC 3.1, 3.0, DJGPP, water-cooled mainframes, ..
intergration of DOS and OS/2 code
  - then simple cookbook instructions for novices to do custom compiles.

LFN support

Command-line invocation of ftp/http scripts (unattended FTP)
Wildcard mailkill

VT102 emulation

authinfo user/pass suppotr for nntp
"GROUP aaa" "ARTICLE nnn" support for news
Manual  reset of backoff for news
Simultaneous news downloads from different servers:	W
Alternative news client using article-numbers:	W
get file entries should override any history file entry.
(I know external programs handle this OK now)

more flexible REWRITE file (or another non-relay feature)

Ensure that the new version is fully supported by Demon (where
'support' means that
        everyone on the phone lines either knows the answers or
        transfers the callers to someone who does

        new official versions with full bugfixes are released
        promptly

        income tax is reduced to 10%


NAT support

logging of connect speed, protocol and terminal/line ID.
(and not logging of password)

optional logging of modem status/info AT &v1 for instance.

smtp list should not crash when run in OS/2 DOS box.

EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) 
Some easy way of integrating support for common encryption methods such
as PGP, PKCS, etc. (required for EDI as per RFC1767 and various EDIINT
Working Group drafts).

FTP script logging to a separate file.  

An ntalk client support

Thinking about what's happening at the moment, and the success others
are having with 'tcp kick <block>' and the success I'm having fixing
problems with post.demon.co.uk using 'tcp reset <block>' plus 'sm k',

What I'd Like Is: 'so kick <socket>' and 'so reset <socket>', to do
exactly the same without having to type an 8-char hex address.
-- 
RobM
       "Trust the computer The computer is your fiend"
          http://www.ka9q.demon.co.uk/index.html