VecTripper basic user guide. 

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VecTripper is a Mac OSX trip generating program that is produced and maintained by tmkk (Infoseek). (Available here: http://tmkk.hp.infoseek.co.jp/tripper/ (Jap) or http://tmkk.hp.infoseek.co.jp/tripper/index_e.html (Eng)) I have nothing to do with them. There are several versions for several architectures and OSX versions. G4 and G5 should go for the older versions. 64-bit architectures should go for the newest version. It is open source and the source code is included with the compiled application.

Other programs.

Main window.

The main window comprises of these elements.

1. Tripcode.

2. Password.

3. Results area.

4. Search text area (See section below).

5. Start/Stop button.

6. Case sensitivity checkbox (Unchecked for case sensitive).

Menus.

• VecTripper menu. This is a pretty standard application menu and behaves like any standard application menu. Configuration options are the second down and can be reached by pressing Command + ,. To the right is shown the about box brought up by the top option.

1. Search using text entered into the search box.

2. Text search options. There are 5 options: 
   

   • Only regular expression,
   • Regular expression and normal search (pure)
   • Regular expression and normal search (quasi)
   • Only normal search (pure)
   • Only normal search (quasi)

3. This number has something to do with the search, but I can't figure out exactly what it does. It could however be priority selection, I am still unable to determine that.

4. Check this box to enable evaluation of regular expressions in your search terms. Again this could be something more, as it seems redundant what with the 5 search options mentioned previously.

5. Radio button to select if you wish to search using a pattern.txt file (more below).

6. Logging options, check the box to log all returned hits. Choose a location on your drive for the log to be placed. It defaults to the desktop.

7. Radio button that causes only the passwords to be copied to the clipboard from your selection.

8. Radio button that causes the passwords and the tripcodes to be copied to the clipboard from your selection.

• File menu. Only has 1 option, to close the application.

• Edit menu. A standard menu. From top to bottom: Undo, Redo, Cut, Copy, Paste, Delete, Select all, Open the character palette (shown to the right).

• Tools menu. Maximise/restore, Minimise, Bring to top and The current active window title (redundant).
• Help menu. One option, that brings up another about box. Shown right.

Searching options.

1. Simple plain text search. Enter a word and wait for it to return the word.
2. Regular exprssion search. VecTripper allows most PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions). Searching will be somewhat slower, but this allows you to customise your search to a greater extent.
3. Using a pattern file. Again pattern file searching will be slower than a simple string search.

• The pattern file is called pattern.txt an example is given in the download. The pattern file should be located in the same directory as the application.
• Search terms are placed one to a line, blank lines are permitted.
• Using a pattern file search causes the contents of the search box to be ignored.
• Regular expressions are not accepted. Only ? marks.
• Pattern searches are case sensitive.
• Question marks act as a placeholder for positions within the tripcode, eg. ????TEST will return only tripcodes with the word TEST in them that are preceeded by 4 characters (any characters of course). SAGE???HER will return tripcodes that begin with SAGE, followed by 3 other characters then finally by HER.
• An example pattern.txt follows:

mouse
?ouse
??tripcode
The???trip

Output.

On screen.

The program outputs on screen in the results pane. The pane is sorted into 2 columns explained below (and previously if you didn't notice):

1. Tripcode column.

2. Password column.

To file.

The program outputs to a file called VecTripper_out.txt located in the directory you chose for it in the settings, or on the desktop if you have not selected a location. A sample output is below:

◆sEArchIbwA <> #`J@|0nTc
◆TEXTDXr.Jg <> #vf(YQ7&A
◆HerE5Z5pLY <> #A6FypJlN

The file is not overwritten and new search results are concatenated to the end of the file either as they are found or at program close depending on settings chosen (information about settings can be found in the relevant section of this guide).

The file is never deleted nor overwritten, so it can grow quite large.