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Nmap 4.00 on windows - no bug, but two minor suggestions to slightly improve polish of the installation.
From: Nick Jenkins <nickpj () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 10:59:54 +1100
Hello, I just installed nmap 4.00 on windows, and it was my first installation of nmap on windows. The installation went just fine (no bugs found), but I can please make two minor suggestions to maybe slightly improve the polish of the installation? : * Please add something to run nmap to the "Start" menu (or give the user the option of adding this, for those who don't want it). That way I don't have to go looking into the install directory to find the EXE to run it - rather I'd have an icon under the start menu. Since it is a command line program, maybe a command prompt in the nmap directory that runs the "nmap --help" command, so as show the user some of the available options? To do this, add a Windows shortcut where the 'Target' is '%comspec% /k "F:\Nmap\nmap.exe --help"' and the 'Start In' is 'F:\Nmap' (where 'F:\Nmap' is the user's installation directory). If you want to get fancy, you can even use the "Change Icon" on the Shortcut's properties, to use the nmap icon found in the "F:\Nmap\nmap.exe" file. * Can the "README-WIN32", "COPYING", and "CHANGELOG" files in the nmap directory please have a ".txt" extension ("README-WIN32.txt", etc). This way the default action on windows for .txt file (open in notepad) will be the correct one. (By default, Windows has no action associated with files that have no extension.) Oh, and before I forget, congratulations on the new release! All the best, Nick. _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev
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