HTML Link Validator Version 3.45
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All copyrights to HTML Link Validator are exclusively owned by Lithops Software

CONTENT: 
  1. The purpose of the program.
  2. How to install the program.
  3. The status of the program and limitations of unregistered version.
  4. The distribution status of the program.
  5. Contact information.
  6. Where to get new versions. Version history.

------- 1. The purpose of the program.------------------------------

Html Link Validator is a tool for checking web pages for broken links, irrespectively where they located, on web server or on your local computer. Validates also Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator Favorites, validates internet shortcuts, validates list of links. It can validate thousands HTML documents at once.  

When validating pages and sites which are on web server, somewhere in the Internet, Validator behaves as a fully automated, multithreaded, link-following, webspider, which give you full report on links found in  all scanned files and pages. You need only specify starting adress (like http://mysite.com/index.html) 

If your files are located on your local computer: 
Just double-click on a folder with your HTML files and Validator will find all HTMLs in this folder and all subfolders, creates the file list, marks files with errors, displays links in convenient format, allow you to edit them. It even can find and validate at once all HTMLs on your hard drive. Most important, unlike some other validators, HTML Link Validator checks filenames case sensitively. 

------- 2. How to install the program.------------------------------

Just double click hlvsetup.exe file and follow instructions.

------- 3. The status of the program and limitations in different versions--

This program is shareware. 

Unregistered version has ONLY the following limitations:
    1. Trial period 30 days;
    2. You cannot save or copy html source from Validator window.
    3. Unregistered version cannot generate reports - it can show only a sample report.
    4. Unregistered version cannot work with MS Access databases.

HTML Link Validator - "Personal license" can generate only "Full Report".

HTML Link Validator - "Business license" can generate the following reports:
    1. Bad Links Report
    2. Full Report 
    3. List of Checked Files Report
    4. List of Redirected Links Report

HTML Link Validator - "Business license (Pro version)"
    has all features as in "Business license" and in addition:
    1. Can validate links in MS Access databases
    2. Can save report as MS Access table
    
------- 4. The distribution status of the program.------------------------------

Unregistered shareware version may be freely distributed, included on any CD-ROMs, etc. Anyone may use this software during evaluation period - 30 days. After this period user MUST register or uninstall the HTML Link Validator. 

------- 5. Contact information.-------------------------------------

Please, send any questions, suggestions to:

Lithops Software 
hlv@lithopssoft.com 

--------6. Where to get new versions. Version history --------------

Check http://lithopssoft.com/hlv for new versions and updates. 

v.1.0  - first public release
v.1.1  - now works under Win2000 (the previous version generates error under Win2000)
v.1.2  - checks SSI directives ("include", "fsize", "flastmod")
v.1.21 - minor bug fixed
v.1.3  - printable report option added. You can select which files to print (only files with errors, or any files you want) and what to print - either whole file, or only report on links found in this file with the short comments (is link valid or invalid, etc.)
v.1.31 - fixed bug when validator failed to find some tags, especially in Asian languages (Japanese, for instance)
v.1.4  - major changes in program "behaviour". New lowercase tools.  
v.2.0  - first beta with that validates remote links 
v.2.01 - validation of remote (ftp:, gopher:, http:, https: ) links added. Performance significantly increased by checking many Internet resources simultaneously. 
v.2.10 - many small changes in interface (button "Save All" added, Validator now remembers position and sizes of many windows and fields, etc.) 
v.2.11 - bugs found in v2.10 are fixed now.
v.3.00 - now it can validate files irrespectively where they located, on web server or on your local computer. 
v.3.01 - new option added (force downloading from origin server, not from the cache) and minor bug fixed (incorrect interpretation of encoded urls) 
v.3.02-3.04 minor bug fixed
v.3.10 - validates IE and Netscape Navigator Favorites, validates internet shortcuts
v.3.11 - minor bug fixed (incorrect interpretation of URL papameters in local validation mode)
v.3.20 - color reports, custom colors, minor bug fix
v.3.30 - useful text reports were added. Reports can be saved to txt file.
v.3.31 - minor bug fix
v.3.40 - can validate links in MS Access databases, can save report as MS Access table (Pro version only)
v.3.41 - minor bugs fixed
v.3.42 - lowercase tool improved, recursive behaviour is added
v.3.43 - can check links in protected directories that require user authentication. Some new options added.
v.3.44 - new options added - validation links in commented text, list of excluded links and paths
v.3.45 - improved link parsing engine  

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This Software is delivered AS IS. Lithops Software takes no responsibility
of any kind. You use and install HTML Link Validator at your own risk.
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Acknowledgment:
HTML Link Validator uses "The Drag and Drop Component Suite". The Drag and Drop Component Suite is Copyright  1997-99 Angus Johnson & Anders Melander.