Subj : windows fido point software
To   : Eddy Thilleman
From : Michael Grant
Date : Sun Dec 01 2002 01:07 am

Hello Eddy.

27 Nov 02 14:52, you wrote to All:

ET> For a friend of mine, I'm looking for windows fido point software,
ET> freeware is preferred.
ET> Message reader that support squish (preferred) and/or hudson
ET> messagebases, tosser, nodelist compiler.

Sempoint will work, is freeware, and is a windows GUI reader. Don't use the
internal importing and exporting features though, they're buggy. You can just
use Squish to do the tossing and call Sempoint from a batch file; Sempoint can
read the SQUISH.CFG file directly to see the message base. You could also use
GEcho or Fastecho, and have message areas auto-added, then export a SQUISH.CFG
file for Sempoint to read from the batch file, everytime you start up the
reader. (They both have command line options to automate that.)
For a nodelist compiler, I use QNode; it has never given me any trouble.

I fixed up a downlink of mine with a similar setup, and he's very happy with
it. It can be used for a full node, or a point, or both at the same time, by
setting up multiple AKAs. I believe it also supports JAM and MSG, not sure
about Hudson.

Golded also works very well, but is more difficult to configure. There's lots
of options in it's config file, almost to the point of overkill. That tends to
scare some people, but usually most defaults in the config file work fine.


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