Welcome to Sam Spade

    Sam Spade is a network tool suite, with some extra features for
    tracking unsolicited email. It's freeware.

    This release (1.10) is a beta release, there may be bugs or
    missing functionality (but many fewer than there used to be -
    in particular the tracroute GPFs have been fixed, and code
    to work around bugs in Internics whois server has been added).

    This is an interim release, intended to get bug fixes out to
    users. There will be a new release within a week or so with
    some new features, upgraded documentation etc. Check back
    at the website, or use the 'Check Version' button on the
    About... box.

    If you find any bugs please send me mail (spade@blighty.com).
    It would be useful if you can tell me what you were doing,
    and include a copy of any data involved (eg if it crashes
    when pasting email headers, send me a copy of the headers).

    Sam Spade has three sources of documentation:

    Winhelp: A traditional windows help file

    Online Help: You can read the HTML Help online at
        http://www.blighty.com/products/spade/help/

    HTML Help: The new format for helpfiles under windows
        This requires Microsoft Internet Explorer (V4 works. MS claim
        V3 works too) be installed (you don't have to use
        it as your default browser, it just needs to be installed).

    HTML Help needs OCXes installed. If you've already used HTML
        Help in other applications or online you may already have
        them installed. If not see
        http://www.blighty.com/products/spade/htmlhelp/ for download
        and install details

    You can select between HTML and WinHelp by selecting
    'Edit', then 'Options...', then 'Help'

    The documentation hasn't been updated since 1.04, so is somewhat
    out of date in places.

    See http://www.blighty.com/products/spade/ for more details.

Configuration

    Select 'Edit', then 'Options...', then fill in the boxes.
    See the online help for the details.

Installed files

    README.txt   - This file
    Spade.exe    - The program itself
    spade.hlp    - Winhelp
    spade.cnt    - winhelp contents
    hs_regex.dll - Regular expression library, installed in \Windows\System32
    spade.chm    - HtmlHelp file, installed in \Windows\Help

Technical Support

    See http://www.blighty.com/products/spade/ for known bugs.

    If something crashes, and it's not listed as a known bug, drop
    me some email at spade@blighty.com with full details about
    what you were doing when it crashed