README FOR COMPUTER ADDRESS DIRECTORY VERSION 1.00
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Released August 15, 2001

Computer Address Directory is a free program that will allow you to find the hostname
of any IP address.  This is useful for finding where a computer is located (not always possible) among other things.
For example, if you enter an IP address, the hostname may contain the country and/or city in which the computer is located.  You must be connected to the internet or appropriate network to get the information.  

EXAMPLEs
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1. You enter yahoo.com and find the IP address (216.115.108.245) and add it to your hosts file with one click.  Next time your browser goes to yahoo.com your computer doesn&apos;t need to look up the real address (IP address) because it already has it.
2. A person visits your website with the IP address 162.84.161.137.  You are curious as to where this person lives, so you enter it into CAD and get the hostname of on-tor-blr-a58-03-1022.look.ca.  You now know this user is from Toronto Canada and uses the ISP of Look communications.


THE HOSTS FILE, AND INTERNET SPEED
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You can also add the computer to your hosts file which is located in the Windows folder. That way, every time you specify a 
hostname to go to, you will be directed to that IP address.  Using the "Hosts" file also speeds up your internet browsing!  Each time you enter a URL into the address bar (microsoft.com for example), your computer will have to look up the underlying "real" address of Yahoo, which is it's IP address "207.46.230.219".  By using the hosts file, your computer will not have to look up the real address of Yahoo, it will just use the IP address that is in the hosts file!  This will speed up your internet browsing, so you can type in your favorite websites and add them to your hosts file! 

If you want to read more about the "hosts" file, a good website is at http://accs-net.com/hosts/

PROBLEMS ACCESSING WEBSITES
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If you have problems accessing a website you added to your hosts file, their IP address may have changed.  This is unlikely, but may happen.  To fix this, open your hosts file in your windows folder (usually C:\windows\hosts) in notepad or another text-editor and delete the line referencing that file.  You can add it to your hosts file again if you wish, but they may change their IP address often so it probably isn't a good idea.

PROBLEMS STARTING COMPUTER ADDRESS DIRECTORY
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If when starting the program, you get an error about a required DLL, you need to download the Visual Basic 6 runtime files.
They are available from my website http://plutosoft.vze.com.

For help, e-mail Bryan5000@hotmail.com

At http://plutosoft.vze.com, free updates on releases are available as well as some other cool downloads.