F I D O N E W S -- Volume 14, Number 35 1 September 1997
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HOW MUCH IS THAT AREA CODE CHANGE IN THE WINDOW?
Table of Contents
1. EDITORIAL ................................................ 1
Got a new Area Code? ..................................... 1
2. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR .................................... 2
Internet email response to 1431 .......................... 2
3. ARTICLES ................................................. 4
About files lists: tracking program? ..................... 4
4. TRUE STORIES OF FIDONET .................................. 5
BBSes are NOT DEAD! ...................................... 5
5. NET HUMOR ................................................ 8
You have reached the help desk? .......................... 8
6. COMIX IN ASCII ........................................... 13
Use the Force? ........................................... 13
7. NOTICES .................................................. 14
Future History ........................................... 14
New addresses for Lockwood III ........................... 14
8. FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ................................. 16
Latest Greatest Software Versions ........................ 16
9. FIDONEWS PUBLIC-KEY ...................................... 20
FidoNews PGP public-key listing .......................... 20
10. FIDONET BY INTERNET ..................................... 21
11. FIDONEWS INFORMATION .................................... 23
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EDITORIAL
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Seems like every week my mailer queue complains about not having any
accounting information for a given phone number in the Nodelist. The
phone companies are going nuts trying to keep up with all the new
phones and phone number usage like computers, cellphones, faxes, etc.,
that the telecommunications revolution is creating. Florida has split
3 Area Codes this year and more are on the horizon.
The Coordinators are going to be the first to notice a new Area Code
in their area so I'd like to request they [as a group or individually]
report these changes and additions to all of us via FidoNews as a .NOT
[Notice] or .LET [Letter to the Editor]. C'mon NCs, RCs, ZCs, how
about passing that new info along to the rest of us the easy way?
And speaking of such prefix numbers, how is the revolution affecting
number distribution in the other Zones? Are new Country Codes coming
out as the result of the equipment explosion or has it yet to get to
that point elsewhere?
Other than that, it's a typical Issue of typical size. [grin]
C.B.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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--- Following message extracted from NETMAIL @ 1:18/14 ---
By Christopher Baker on Fri Aug 29 04:23:25 1997
From: Wouter van Marle @ 2:283/317
To: Christopher Baker @ 1:18/14
Date: 27 Aug 97 19:10:44
Subj: Article in FidoNews 14-31
Hallo Pete & Christopher!
A reaction to an article in FidoNews 14-31 : "Fido needs piece of
software".
This article discusses the need of providing INternet e-mail via
Netmail using the normal BBS structure. No gateways, but the BBS
directly calling the Internet. And making it completely transparent to
the users.
This is exactly what I do for over a year and a half by now, and soon
after I started my BBS and mailsystem. I have a UUCP account by an
ISP, so I can poll for my Internet e-mail and news, just like I call
for my Fidonet netmail and echomail. Off course I need other software
to do this, and a kind of gateway (the well-known GIGO program) to
convert Internet style mail to Fidostyle.
My points can get a real e-mail address (<username>@medusa.xs4all.nl),
if they like. Mail sent to that address is received by them as
netmail. They can send their e-mail to anyone on the internet using
normal Fidostyle netmail, just use the e-mail address as to-name and a
special point-address on my system. My editor (GoldED) even
automatically adds the correct Fido address if it finds a e-mail
address in the to-field of the header!
BBS users currently can't do e-mail on my system, but if I want I
think I can configure that quite easily. It's not required, in Z2 the
point-system is the most common way of mailing for users.
All the "extra" software I needed to do this was the Internet polling
stuff, the gateway, and some lines in my batch-files. For a sysop easy
to do, and the used software is freeware and good developed. So I
really don't understand the idea of extra software that should be
necessary to do this...
In Z2, R28 all major BBSes provide e-mail and news to their Fido
points. And many, many of the smaller BBSes (like mine) do the same.
It's easy to setup after you configured a Fidonet system, and I like
this way of reading/writing my e-mail better than using a second
Internet-only editor.
I call twice a day, sometimes more (manual). For most points this is
fast enough, because they call only once a day or less. Off course,
calling every hour or after someone dropping mail is also possible.
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It's all very easy to configure.
At my system all Fido stuff is free, for Internet stuff I ask a small
charge. It still is much more expensive than Fidonet, and I don't
have much money. But there are BBSes that provide e-mail for free.
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ARTICLES
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Files-lists and how to read them
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by Eneko Lacunza (2:344/20.13, 2:344/19.11,
[email protected])
I've always felt that reading and looking through BBS' files-lists is
quite boring and time loosing: I have to browse over all the list
(which can be >1Mb!) to figure out what files and programs are
on-line. Of course, there are some shortcuts: search for strings,
look at the index, ... but they aren't comfortable if you want to see
what's on your favorite BBS.
Finally, some months ago, I decided that it was time to do something.
So I have written a program that allows the user to browse over the
areas list, select one and then look at its contents, go back to the
areas list and select another and so on. It also has an autoFREQ
feature similar to those found on message editors such GoldEd.
The questions are: Do you guys think it is useful? Are you interested
in such a program? Is out there any program that does it?
The matter is that right now the program speaks Spanish, so I'd like
to know people's opinion before I take the work to translate it.
Any comment would be appreciated!
Eneko.
Fidonet 2:344/19.11 | 2:344/20.13
e-mail
[email protected]
http www.arrakis.es/~enlar
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TRUE STORIES OF FIDONET
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--- Following message extracted from 374SYSOP @ 1:18/14 ---
By Christopher Baker on Sun Aug 31 18:38:05 1997
From: Walt Young
To: All
Date: 28 Aug 97 04:25:08
Subj: FINALLY!!!
I am finally back on the Pentium running "full bore". I was lucky I
still had the old 486 (8 ram, 340 HD), to at least keep the mail and
messages flowing during this time. So no loss of mail or files
anyway. Boy that used to be my "top of the line" system. Now it is
slower than molasses compared to the big one. But then I guess it
didn't bother my Commodore people too much since they have 2 mhz
machines and 1200/2400 baud modems. (G)
Can't believe the problems I've run into in the past 4 weeks. What
started out to be a "simple" HD and Modem upgrade turned into the
biggest pile of crap. The first thing that happened is I lost the
Motherboard and a power supply. Since I had blown all my savings on
the HD and Modem, I had nothing to buy replacement parts with. Flat
broke.
Well someone squealed on me, and mentioned it on the BBS. Next thing
I know, I have donations coming in like crazy. I received donations
from a Computer Club and a number of individuals, two of whom donated
$100 each, and a bunch of smaller ones....which all added up to approx
$550. Needless to say I was back in business!!!
WHO SAID BBS'S ARE DEAD AND NOT APPRECIATED??? NOT THIS ONE!!!!
I have maintained for a long time, that the problem with most people
in 'puters these days is that they have progressed so far and have
totally forgotten the "little people", the ones just starting out, the
ones with small machines, like 286s, XTs, Commodore, CoCo, and don't
take the time to help them learn so they can progress too. Well I
never forgot what it was like to be a "newbee" and stumbling all over
some sysops BBS, trying to figure out what to do while being totally
intimidated by the whirring screens and myriad of confusing commands,
don't know how to post a message (although we browbeat people to
post), don't know how to download even a simple file. I felt if you
"take care of your Customers" then at some point your Customers "will
take care of you"!
Well, with the exception of 2 people...all those that donated all have
small machines of one type or another, and all were older than the
"Yuppy Generation". All those with higher powered fancy machines,
totally ignored the situation....not even a "gosh I'm sorry to hear
that"...not a dime. I think I've learned something in all this....I
was right!!!
Back to the 'puter, mostly it was hardware not wanting to play
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together, then software didn't want to play with hardware, then
hardware would retaliate against the Software, then some bat files
played their 'game'...and on and on and on.
The biggest problem was when people would download QWK packets via
SFQuick program (SFQ), they would pack, and DSZ would download the
packet, but when DSZ was to exit and go back to SFQ, it would lock the
system and give me an error screen, telling me that DSZ is being used
by another Application. Well hell, there was NO other application
running. I deleted them all just to be sure. There were some
installs in the past where i did not have that problem, yet if I
install direct from the Installation program of OS2...It would cause
SFQ/DSZ to do the lockup.
I bet I installed, uninstalled, destalled, astalled, etc., a dozen
times trying to find it. I was bound and determined. Well I still
don't know what "causes" the problem, but I found a "CURE" for it
anyway. One lousy line in the Config Sys "AUTOFAIL=YES". Not sure
how it got into some configs in the past and not in others, but as
long as that line is there SFQ/DSZ work perfectly fine. Took me 2
weeks to find it.
The other major problem was my Mouse and my Sound Card both wanted to
"own" Irq 5. The mouse was a serial, so had to use extra serial card,
and put mouse on com3, irq5 since both modems had 3 and 4. Well
neither the soundcard nor mouse would budge, even trying to "fool"
them with config sys entries. So finally went down and bought a PS/2
bus mouse and that solved that problem. Now they are both "happy".
Then Tues morn I wake up with the flu or some terrible man-eating
disease, and was miserable for 2 days. Trying to install stuff for
final run thru, since i finally got all the 'bugs' worked out. But
just does not work when you feel like you are a limp dishrag. So quit
for the night. This morn I started in again and it all came together,
got everything installed by 3 pm, and machine purred like a kitten.
So decided not to wait a min longer. Shut down the 486, put the two
HDs in the Pentium and then copied the BBS over to the Pentium Drives.
Took about 45 mins, and we were up and running.
So far...so good!! I hope it's another lifetime before I have to go
through this again!!!.
But now we are up with the "big boys and girls" (or catching up,
anyway). We still have Pentium 75, but added up to 64 ram, have a 4
gig and the old 850 for close to 5 gigs total space. Now have a 33.6
on the Mail Node, and moved the Supra 28.8 to the BBS replacing the
14.4, which is now in the backup 486. After all the above problems
figured I earned some "luxuries" so bought a new video and sound card.
Great...video card has all kinds of stuff my monitor (el cheapo bottom
of line) won't see. Well one of these days I hope to get a 17" or 20"
monitor so I can better read what's on the screen. Or maybe Santa
will bring me one!! (hee hee).
Now I need to work on the File Areas and Conf Areas, both in bad need
of revamping. Now that I have the space, I hope to get a better
selection of files from the Filebone, at least in some selected areas.
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Well now that I've done my "bragging" and got it out of my system
(although I think the donation part was justified, the rest...blah),
it's back to the "hole" and "normal (whatever that is) operation".
I've scanned the echo, albeit quickly, but think I have the
"Headlines"...Larry resigns due to work commitments, Tim is now NEC,
Genie is Temp NC pending Election in which so far she's the only one
in nomination. Whoo Whooo Whooooo I hear the train a-comin, comin
round the bend....hee hee. An Echo list was past out to be reviewed
and revised. Think that is most of it. Now I'll try to get to the
details in next day or two to get caught up.
Now I hope that I can be a better "asset" to the Net as a whole, as
well as to my Super Customers!
Walt
Origin: Space Coast REACT, Melbourne FL <407> 255-9069 (1:374/710)
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From: "Mike Riddle" <
[email protected]>
To: "Baker, Christopher" <
[email protected] (Christopher Baker)
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 97 15:10:10 -0600
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The Proper Way to Run a Help Desk - A Helpdesk Log
* Monday
8:05 am User called to say they forgot password. Told them to use
password retrieval utility called FDISK. Blissfully ignorant, they
thank me and hang up. God, we let the people vote and drive, too?
8:12 am Accounting called to say they couldn't access expense reports
database. Gave them Standard Sys Admin Answer #112, "Well it works for
me" Let them rant and rave while I unplugged my coffeemaker from the
UPS and plugged their server back in. Suggested they try it again. One
more happy customer.
8:14 am User from 8:05 call said they received error message "Error
accessing Drive 0. "Told them it was an OS problem. Transferred them
to microsupport.
11:00 am Relatively quiet for last few hours Decided to plug support
phone back in so I can call my girlfriend. Says parents are coming
into town this weekend. Put her on hold and transferred her to
janitorial closet down in basement. What is she thinking? The "Myst"
and "Doom" nationals are this weekend!
11:34 am Another user calls (do they ever learn?) Says they want ACL
changed on HR performance review database so nobody but HR can access
database. Tell them no problem. Hang up. Change ACL. Add @MailSend so
performance reviews are sent to */US.
12:00 pm Lunch
3:30 pm Return from lunch.
3:55 pm Wake up from nap. Bad dream makes me cranky. Bounce servers
for no reason. Return to napping.
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4:23 pm Yet another user calls. Wants to know how to change fonts on
form. Ask what chip set they're using. Tell them to call back when
they find out.
4:55 pm Decide to run "Create Save/Replication Conflicts" macro so
next shift has something to do.
* Tuesday
8:30 am Finish reading support log from last night. Sounded busy.
Terrible time with Save/Replication conflicts.
9:00 am Support manager arrives. Wants to discuss my attitude. Click
on PhoneNotes SmartIcon. "Love to, but kinda busy. Put something in
the calendar database!" I yell as I grab for the support lines, which
have (mysteriously) lit up. Walks away grumbling.
9:35 pm Team leader from R&D needs ID for new employee. Tell them
they need form J-19R=9C9\\DARR\K1. Says they never heard of such a
form. Tell them it's in the SPECIAL FORMS database. Say they never
heard of such a database. Transfer them to janitorial closet in
basement.
10:00 am Perky sounding intern from R&D calls and says she needs new
ID. Tell her I need employee number, department name, manager name,
and marital status. Run @DbLookup against state parole board database,
Centers for Disease Controldatabase, and my Oprah Winfrey database. No
hits. Tell her ID will be ready tonight. Drawing from the lessons
learned in last week's "Reengineering for Customer Partnership," I
offer to personally deliver ID to her apartment.
10:07 am Janitor stops by to say he keeps getting strange calls in
basement Offer to train him on Notes. Begin now. Let him watch console
while I grab a smoke.
1:00 pm Return from smoking break. Janitor says phones kept ringing,
so he transferred them to cafeteria lady. I like this guy.
1:05 pm Big commotion! Support manager falls in hole left where I
pulled floor tiles outside his office door. Stress to him importance
of not running in computer room, even if I do yell "Omigod --Fire!"
1:15 pm Development Standards Committee calls and complains about
umlauts in form names. Apologizing for the inconvenience, I tell them
I will fix it. Hang up and run global search/replace using gaks.
1:20 pm Mary Hairnet from cafeteria calls. Says she keeps getting
calls for "Notice Loads" or "NoLoad Goats," she's not sure, couldn't
hear over industrial-grade blender. Tell her it was probably "Lettuce
Nodes." Maybe the food distributor with a new product? She thinks
about it and hangs up.
2:00 pm Legal secretary calls and says she lost password. Ask her to
check in her purse, floor of car, and on bathroom counter. Tell her it
probably fell out of back of machine. Suggest she put duct tape over
all the airvents she can find on the PC. Grudgingly offer to create
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new ID for her while she does that.
2:49 pm Janitor comes back. Wants more lessons. I take off rest of
day.
* Wednesday
8:30 am Irate user calls to say chipset has nothing to do with fonts
on form. Tell them Of course, they should have been checking "Bitset,"
not "chipset." Sheepish user apologizes and hangs up.
9:10 am Support manager, with foot in cast, returns to office.
Schedules 10:00 am meeting with me. User calls and wants to talk to
support manager about terrible help at support desk. Tell them manager
about to go into meeting. Sometimes life hands you material...
10:00 am Call Louie in janitorial services to cover for me. Go to
support manager's office. He says he can't dismiss me but can suggest
several lateral career moves. Most involve farm implements in third-
world countries with moderate to heavy political turmoil. By and by, I
ask if he's aware of new bug which takes full-text indexed random e-
mail databases and puts all references to furry handcuffs and Bambi
Boomer in Marketing on the corporate Web page. Meeting is adjourned as
he reaches for keyboard, Web browser, and Tums.
10:30 am Tell Louie he's doing great job. Offer to show him mainframe
corporate PBX system sometime.
11:00 am Lunch.
4:55 pm Return from lunch.
5:00 pm Shift change; Going home.
* Thursday
8:00 am New guy ("Marvin") started today. "Nice plaids" I offer. Show
him server room, wiring closet, and technical library. Set him up with
IBM PC-XT. Tell him to quit whining, Notes runs the same in both
monochrome and color.
8:45 am New guy's PC finishes booting up. Tell him I'll create new ID
for him. Set minimum password length to 64. Go grab smoke.
9:30 am Introduce Louie the custodian to Marvin. "Nice plaids" Louie
comments Is this guy great or what?!
11:00 am Beat Louie in dominos game. Louie leaves. Fish spare dominos
out of sleeves ("Always have backups"). User calls, says Accounting
server is down. Untie Ethernet cable from radio antenna (better
reception) and plug back into hub. Tell user to try again. Another
happy customer!
11:55 am Brief Marvin on Corporate Policy 98.022.01: "Whereas all new
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employee beginning on days ending in 'Y' shall enjoy all proper
aspects with said corporation, said employee is obligated to provide
sustenance and relief to senior technical analyst on shift." Marvin
doubts. I point to "Corporate Policy" database (a fine piece of work,
if I say so myself!) "Remember, that's DOUBLE pepperoni and NO
peppers!" I yell to Marvin as he steps over open floor tile to get to
exit door.
1:00 pm Oooooh! Pizza makes me so sleepy ...
4:30 pm Wake from refreshing nap. Catch Marvin scanning want ads.
5:00 pm Shift change. Flick HR's server off and on several times
(just testing the On/Off button...). See ya tomorrow.
* Friday
8:00 am Night shift still trying to replace power supply in HR
server. Told them it worked fine before I left.
9:00 am Marvin still not here. Decide I might start answering these
calls myself. Unforward phones from Mailroom.
9:02 am Yep. A user call. Users in Des Moines can't replicate. Me and
the Oiuji board determine it's sunspots. Tell them to call
Telecommunications.
9:30 am Good God, another user! They're like ants. Says he's in San
Diego and can't replicate with Des Moines. Tell him it's sunspots, but
with a two-hour difference. Suggest he reset the time on the server
back 2 hours.
10:17 am Pensacola calls. Says they can't route mail to San
Diego.Tell them to set server ahead three hours.
11:00 am E-mail from corporate says for everybody to quit resetting
the time on their servers. I change the date stamp and forward it to
Milwaukee.
11:20 am Finish @CoffeeMake macro. Put phone back on hook.
11:23 am Milwaukee calls, asks what day it is.
11:25 am Support manager stops by to say Marvin called in to quit.
"So hard to get good help..." I respond. Support manager says he has
appointment with orthopedic doctor this afternoon, and asks if I mind
sitting in on the weekly department head meeting for him. "No
problem!"
11:30 am Call Louie and tell him opportunity knocks and he's invited
to a meeting this afternoon. "Yeah, sure. You can bring your snuff" I
tell him.
12:00 am Lunch.
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1:00 pm Start full backups on UNIX server. Route them to device NULL
to make them fast.
1:03 pm Full weekly backups done. Man, I love modern technology!
2:30 pm Look in support manager's contact management database.
Cancel.
2:35 pm Appointment for him. He really should be at home resting, you
know.
2:39 pm New user calls. Says want to learn how to create a connection
document. Tell them to run connection documentutility CTRL-ALT-DEL.
Says PC rebooted. Tell them to call microsupport.
2:50 pm Support manager calls to say mixup at doctor's office means
appointment cancelled. Says he's just going to go on home. Ask him if
he's seen corporate Web page lately.
3:00 pm Another (novice) user calls. Says periodic macro not working.
Suggest they place @DeleteDocument at end of formula. Promise to send
them document addendum which says so.
4:00 pm Finish changing foreground color in all documents to white.
Also set point size to "2" in help databases.
4:30 pm User calls to say they can't see anything in documents. Tell
them to go to view, do a "Edit -- Select All", hit delete key, and
then refresh. Promise to send them document addendum which says so.
4:45 pm Another user calls. Says they can't read help documents. Tell
them I'll fix it. Hang up. Change font to Wingdings.
4:58 pm Plug coffee maker into Ethernet hub to see what happens. Not
(too) much.
5:00 pm Night shift shows up. Tell that the hub is acting funny and
to have a good weekend.
___________________
cynic rides the short bus
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COMIX IN ASCII
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--- Following message extracted from ASCII_ART @ 1:18/14 ---
By Christopher Baker on Sun Aug 31 18:38:43 1997
From: Anders Lageras
To: All
Date: 29 Aug 97 17:11:02
Subj: Dart
[with apologies to Anders for the additional text]
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/ ( ) ( ) \ "Come to the Dark Side of
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Echovader
Origin: Tuut Tuut har kommer jag med puffar rostade i honung!
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NOTICES
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Future History
25 Sep 1997
Happy Birthday, Joaquim H. Homrighausen
13 Oct 1997
Thanksgiving Day, Canada.
1 Dec 1997
World AIDS Day.
10 Dec 1997
Nobel Day, Sweden.
12 Jan 1998
HAL 9000 is one year old today.
30 Apr 1998
Queens Day, Holland.
22 May 1998
Expo '98 World Exposition in Lisbon (Portugal) opens.
1 Dec 1998
Fifteenth Anniversary of release of Fido version 1 by
Tom Jennings.
31 Dec 1999
Hogmanay, Scotland. The New Year that can't be missed.
1 Jan 2000
The 20th Century, C.E., is still taking place thru 31 Dec.
15 Sep 2000
Sydney (Australia) Summer Olympiad opens.
1 Jan 2001
This is the actual start of the new millennium, C.E.
-- If YOU have something which you would like to see in this
Future History, please send a note to the FidoNews Editor.
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Date: Sun, 31 Aug 1997 15:06:22 -0700
From: William Scott Lockwood III <
[email protected]>
Reply-To:
[email protected]
Organization: Corpsmans Corner BBS
To:
[email protected]
Subject: Hello Everybody!
Just a quick note to let everyone know, here's my new E-Mail address
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and web page address (See below).
Hope to continue to hear from all of you soon! BFN...
--
TTYL,
Scott
mailto:
[email protected]
http://www.users.cts.com/king/w/wsl3/
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FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING
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Latest Greatest Software Versions
by Peter E. Popovich, 1:363/264
Yawn. One update.
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Submission form for the Latest Greatest Software Versions column
OS Platform :
Software package name :
Version :
Function(s) - BBS, Mailer, Tosser, etc. :
Freeware / Shareware / Commercial? :
Author / Support staff contact name :
Author / Support staff contact node :
Magic name (at the above-listed node) :
Please include a sentence describing what the package does.
Please send updates and suggestions to: Peter Popovich, 1:363/264
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MS-DOS:
Program Name Version F C Contact Name Node Magic Name
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Act-Up 4.6 G D Chris Gunn 1:15/55 ACT-UP
ALLFIX 4.40 T S Harald Harms 2:281/415 ALLFIX
Announcer 1.11 O S Peter Karlsson 2:206/221 ANNOUNCE
BGFAX 1.60 O S B.J. Guillot 1:106/400 BGFAX
Binkley Docs 2.60 M F Bob Juge 1:1/102 BDOC_260.ZIP
BinkleyTerm 2.60 M F Bob Juge 1:1/102 BDOS_260.ZIP
BinkleyTerm-XE XR4 M F Thomas Waldmann 2:2474/400 BTXE_DOS
CFRoute 0.92 O G C. Fernandez Sanz 2:341/70 CFR
CheckPnt 1.0a O G Michiel vd Vlist 2:500/9 CHECKPNT
FastEcho 1.45a T S Tobias Burchhardt 2:2448/400 FASTECHO
FastEcho/16 1.45a T S Tobias Burchhardt 2:2448/400 FE16
FastLst 1.36 N S Alberto Pasquale 2:332/504 FASTLSTD
FidoBBS (tm) 12u B S Ray Brown 1:1/117 FILES
FrontDoor 2.12 M S JoHo 2:201/330 FD
FrontDoor 2.20c M C JoHo 2:201/330 FDINFO
GEcho 1.00 T S Bob Seaborn 1:140/12 GECHO
GEcho/Plus 1.11 T C Bob Seaborn 1:140/12 GECHO
GEcho/Pro 1.20 T C Bob Seaborn 1:140/12 GECHO
GIGO 07-14-96 G S Jason Fesler 1:1/141 INFO
GoldED 2.50 O S Len Morgan 1:203/730 GED
GoldED/386 2.50 O S Len Morgan 1:203/730 GEX
GoldED Docs 2.50 O S Len Morgan 1:203/730 GEM
GoldNODE 2.50 O S Len Morgan 1:203/730 GEN
Imail 1.75 T S Michael McCabe 1:1/121 IMAIL
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ImCrypt 1.04 O G Michiel vd Vlist 2:500/9 IMCRYPT
InfoMail/86 1.21 O F Damian Walker 2:2502/666 INFOMAIL
InfoMail/386 1.21 O F Damian Walker 2:2502/666 INFO386
InterEcho 1.19 T C Peter Stewart 1:369/35 IEDEMO
InterMail 2.29k M C Peter Stewart 1:369/35 IMDEMO
InterPCB 1.52 O S Peter Stewart 1:369/35 INTERPCB
IPNet 1.11 O S Michele Stewart 1:369/21 IPNET
JD's CBV 1.4 O S John Dailey 1:363/277 CBV
Jelly-Bean 1.01 T S Rowan Crowe 3:635/727 JELLY
Jelly-Bean/386 1.01 T S Rowan Crowe 3:635/727 JELLY386
JMail-Hudson 2.81 T S Jason Steck 1:285/424 JMAIL-H
JMail-Goldbase 2.81 T S Jason Steck 1:285/424 JMAIL-G
MakePl 1.9 N G Michiel vd Vlist 2:500/9 MAKEPL
Marena 1.1 beta O G Michiel vd Vlist 2:500/9 MARENA
Maximus 3.01 B P Tech 1:249/106 MAX
Max User Ed. 0.18 O F Larry Cooke 1:300/53 MUE
McMail 1.0 M S Michael McCabe 1:1/148 MCMAIL
MDNDP 1.18 N S Bill Doyle 1:388/7 MDNDP
Msged 4.10 O G Andrew Clarke 3:635/728 MSGED41D.ZIP
Msged/386 4.10 O G Andrew Clarke 3:635/728 MSGED41X.ZIP
NEF 2.38 O S Alberto Pasquale 2:332/504 NEFD
Opus CBCS 1.79 B P Christopher Baker 1:374/14 OPUS
O/T-Track 2.66 O S Peter Hampf 2:241/1090 OT
PcMerge 2.8 N G Michiel vd Vlist 2:500/9 PCMERGE
PlatinumXpress 1.3 M C Gary Petersen 1:290/111 PX13TD.ZIP
QuickBBS 2.81 B S Ben Schollnick 1:2613/477 QUICKBBS
RAR 2.01 C S Ron Dwight 2:220/22 RAR
RemoteAccess 2.50 B S Mark Lewis 1:3634/12 RA
Silver Xpress
Door 5.4 O S Gary Petersen 1:290/111 FILES
Reader 4.4 O S Gary Petersen 1:290/111 SXR44.ZIP
Spitfire 3.51 B S Mike Weaver 1:3670/3 SPITFIRE
Squish 1.11 T P Tech 1:249/106 SQUISH
StealTag UK 1.c... O F Fred Schenk 2:284/412 STEAL_UK
StealTag NL 1.c... O F Fred Schenk 2:284/412 STEAL_NL
T-Mail 2.600 M S Ron Dwight 2:220/22 TMAIL
Telegard 3.02 B F Tim Strike 1:259/423 TELEGARD
Terminate 4.00 O S Bo Bendtsen 2:254/261 TERMINATE
Tobruk 0.33 T G Paul Edwards 3:711/934 TOBRUK
TosScan 1.01 T C JoHo 2:201/330 TSINFO
TransNet 1.00 G S Marc S. Ressl 4:904/72 TN100ALL.ZIP
TriBBS 11.0 B S Gary Price 1:3607/26 TRIBBS
TriDog 11.0 T F Gary Price 1:3607/26 TRIDOG
TriToss 11.0 T S Gary Price 1:3607/26 TRITOSS
WaterGate 0.93 G S Robert Szarka 1:320/42 WTRGATE
WWIV 4.24a B S Craig Dooley 1:376/126 WWIV
WWIVTOSS 1.36 T S Craig Dooley 1:376/126 WWIVTOSS
xMail 2.00 T S Thorsten Franke 2:2448/53 XMAIL
XRobot 3.01 O S JoHo 2:201/330 XRDOS
OS/2:
Program Name Version F C Contact Name Node Magic Name
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ALLFIX/2 1.10 T S Harald Harms 2:281/415 AFIXOS2
BGFAX 1.60 O S B.J. Guillot 1:106/400 BGFAX
Binkley Docs 2.60 M F Bob Juge 1:1/102 BDOC_260.ZIP
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BinkleyTerm 2.60 M F Bob Juge 1:1/102 BOS2_260.ZIP
BinkleyTerm-XE XR4 M F Thomas Waldmann 2:2474/400 BTXE_OS2
CFRoute 0.92 O G C. Fernandez Sanz 2:341/70 CFR
FastEcho 1.45a T S Tobias Burchhardt 2:2448/400 FE2
FastLst 1.36 N S Alberto Pasquale 2:332/504 FASTLST
FleetStreet 1.20 O S Michael Hohner 2:2490/2520 FLEET
GEcho/Pro 1.20 T C Bob Seaborn 1:140/12 GECHO
GIGO 07-14-96 G S Jason Fesler 1:1/141 INFO
GoldED 2.50 O S Len Morgan 1:203/730 GEO
GoldED Docs 2.50 O S Len Morgan 1:203/730 GEM
GoldNODE 2.50 O S Len Morgan 1:203/730 GEN
ImCrypt 1.04 O G Michiel vd Vlist 2:500/9 IMCRYPT
Maximus 3.01 B P Tech 1:249/106 MAXP
Max User Ed. 0.18 O F Larry Cooke 1:300/53 MUEP
Msged/2 4.10 O G Andrew Clarke 3:635/728 MSGED41O.ZIP
NEF 2.38 O S Alberto Pasquale 2:332/504 NEF
PcMerge 2.3 N G Michiel vd Vlist 2:500/9 PCMERGE
RAR 2.01 C S Ron Dwight 2:220/22 RAR2
Squish 1.11 T P Tech 1:249/106 SQUISHP
T-Mail 2.600 M S Ron Dwight 2:220/22 TMAIL2
Tobruk 0.33 T G Paul Edwards 3:711/934 TOBRUK
WaterGate 0.93 G S Robert Szarka 1:320/42 WTRGATE
XRobot 3.01 O S JoHo 2:201/330 XROS2
Windows (16-bit apps):
Program Name Version F C Contact Name Node Magic Name
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BeeMail 1.0 M C Andrius Cepaitis 2:470/1 BEEMAIL
FrontDoor APX 1.12 P S Mats Wallin 2:201/329 FDAPXW
Windows (32-bit apps):
Program Name Version F C Contact Name Node Magic Name
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Argus 95/IP 2.704 M S Max Masyutin 2:469/77 A9I
Argus NT/IP 2.704 M S Max Masyutin 2:469/77 ANI
BeeMail 1.0 M C Andrius Cepaitis 2:470/1 BEEMAIL
Binkley Docs 2.60 M F Bob Juge 1:1/102 BDOC_260.ZIP
BinkleyTerm 2.60 M F Bob Juge 1:1/102 BW32_260.ZIP
CFRoute 0.92 O G C. Fernandez Sanz 2:341/70 CFR
FastLst 1.36 N S Alberto Pasquale 2:332/504 FASTLSTW
GoldED 2.50 O S Len Morgan 1:203/730 GEO
GoldED Docs 2.50 O S Len Morgan 1:203/730 GEM
Maximus 3.01 B P Tech 1:249/106 MAXN
Msged/NT 4.10 O G Andrew Clarke 3:635/728 MSGED41W.ZIP
NEF 2.38 O S Alberto Pasquale 2:332/504 NEFW
PlatinumXpress 2.00 M C Gary Petersen 1:290/111 PXW-INFO
T-Mail 2.600 M S Ron Dwight 2:220/22 TMAILNT
WinFOSSIL/95 1.12 r4 F S Bryan Woodruff 1:343/294 WNFOSSIL.ZIP
WinFOSSIL/NT 1.0 beta F S Bryan Woodruff 1:343/294 NTFOSSIL.ZIP
Unix:
Program Name Version F C Contact Name Node Magic Name
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ifmail 2.10 M G Eugene Crosser 2:293/2219 IFMAIL
ifmail-tx ...tx8.4 M G Pablo Saratxaga 2:293/2219 IFMAILTX
ifmail-tx.rpm ...tx8.4 M G Pablo Saratxaga 2:293/2219 IFMAILTX.RPM
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Msged 4.00 O G Paul Edwards 3:711/934 MSGED
Tobruk 0.33 T G Paul Edwards 3:711/934 TOBRUK
Amiga:
Program Name Version F C Contact Name Node Magic Name
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CrashMail 1.23 T X Fredrik Bennison 2:205/324 CRASHMAIL
CrashTick 1.1 O F Fredrik Bennison 2:205/324 CRASHTICK
DLG Pro BBOS 1.15 B C Holly Sullivan 1:202/720 DLGDEMO
GMS 1.1.85 M S Mirko Viviani 2:331/213 GMS
Msged 4.00 O G Paul Edwards 3:711/934 MSGED
Tobruk 0.33 T G Paul Edwards 3:711/934 TOBRUK
TrapDoor 1.86.b2 M S Maximilian Hantsch
2:310/6 TRAPDOOR
TrapDoor 1.86.b2 M S Maximilian Hantsch
2:310/6 TRAPBETA
TrapToss 1.50 T S Rene Hexel 2:310/6 TRAPTOSS
Atari:
Program Name Version F C Contact Name Node Magic Name
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ApplyList 1.00 N F Daniel Roesen 2:2432/1101 APLST100.LZH
BinkleyTerm/ST 3.18pl2 M F Bill Scull 1:363/112 BINKLEY
BTNC 2.00 N G Daniel Roesen 2:2432/1101 BTNC
JetMail 0.99beta T S Joerg Spilker 2:2432/1101 JETMAIL
Semper 0.80beta M S Jan Kriesten 2:2490/1624 SMP-BETA
Function: B-BBS, P-Point, M-Mailer, N-Nodelist, G-Gateway, T-Tosser,
C-Compression, F-Fossil, O-Other. Note: Multifunction will
be listed by the first match.
Cost: P-Free for personal use, F-Freeware, S-Shareware, C-Commercial,
X-Crippleware, D-Demoware, G-Free w/ Source
Please send updates and suggestions to: Peter Popovich, 1:363/264
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Rights On! BBS at 1-904-409-7040 anytime except 0100-0130 ET and Zone
1 ZMH at 1200-9600+ HST/V32B. The FidoNews key is also available on
the FidoNews homepage listed in the Masthead information.
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FIDONET BY INTERNET
=================================================================
This is a list of all FidoNet-related sites reported to the Editor as
of this appearance.
============
FidoNet:
Homepage
http://www.fidonet.org
FidoNews
http://ddi.digital.net/~cbaker84/fidonews.html
HTML FNews
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6894/
WWW sources
http://www.scms.rgu.ac.uk/students/cs_yr94/lk/fido.html
FTSC page
http://www.portal.ca/~awalker/ftsc/ftscmirr.htm
Echomail
http://www.portal.ca/~awalker/index.html
WebRing
http://ddi.digital.net/~cbaker84/fnetring.html
============
Zone 1:
http://www.z1.fidonet.org
Region 10:
http://www.psnw.com/~net205/region10.html
Region 11:
http://oeonline.com/~garyg/region11/
Region 13:
http://www.smalltalkband.com/st01000.htm
Region 14:
http://www.netins.net/showcase/fidonet/
Region 15: [disappeared?]
Region 16:
http://www.tiac.net/users/satins/region16.htm
Region 17:
http://www.portal.ca/~awalker/region17.htm
REC17:
http://www.westsound.com/ptmudge/
Region 18:
http://www.citicom.com/fido.html
Region 19:
http://www.compconn.net
============
Zone 2:
http://www.z2.fidonet.org
ZEC2:
http://www.proteus.demon.co.uk/zec.htm
Zone 2 Elist:
http://www.fbone.ch/z2_elist/
Region 20:
http://www.fidonet.pp.se (in Swedish)
Region 24:
http://www.swb.de/personal/flop/gatebau.html (in German)
Region 25:
http://members.aol.com/Net254/
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Region 27:
http://telematique.org/ft/r27.htm
Region 29:
http://www.rtfm.be/fidonet/ (in French)
Region 30:
http://www.fidonet.ch (in Swiss)
Region 33:
http://www.fidoitalia.net (in Italian)
Region 34:
http://www.pobox.com/cnb/r34.htm (in Spanish)
REC34:
http://pobox.com/~chr
Region 36:
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/7207/
Region 41:
http://www.fidonet.gr (in Greek and English)
Region 48:
http://www.fidonet.org.pl
============
Zone 3:
http://www.z3.fidonet.org
============
Zone 4: (not yet listed)
Region 90:
Net 904:
http://members.tripod.com/~net904 (in Spanish)
============
Zone 5:
http://w3.eastcape.co.za/fidonet/index.htm
============
Zone 6:
http://www.z6.fidonet.org
Region 65:
http://www.cfido.com/fidonet/cfidochina.html (China)
============
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FIDONEWS INFORMATION
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------- FIDONEWS MASTHEAD AND CONTACT INFORMATION -------
Editor: Christopher Baker
Editors Emeritii: Tom Jennings, Thom Henderson, Dale Lovell,
Vince Perriello, Tim Pozar, Sylvia Maxwell,
Donald Tees
"FidoNews Editor"
FidoNet 1:1/23
BBS 1-904-409-7040, 300/1200/2400/14400/V.32bis/HST(ds)
more addresses:
Christopher Baker -- 1:18/14,
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
(Postal Service mailing address)
FidoNews Editor
P.O. Box 471
Edgewater, FL 32132-0471
U.S.A.
voice: 1-904-409-3040 [1400-2100 ET only, please]
[1800-0100 UTC/GMT]
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FidoNews is published weekly by and for the members of the FIDONET
INTERNATIONAL AMATEUR ELECTRONIC MAIL system. It is a compilation
of individual articles contributed by their authors or their
authorized agents. The contribution of articles to this compilation
does not diminish the rights of the authors. OPINIONS EXPRESSED in
these articles ARE THOSE OF THE AUTHORS and not necessarily those of
FidoNews.
Authors retain copyright on individual works; otherwise FidoNews is
Copyright 1997 Christopher Baker. All rights reserved. Duplication
and/or distribution permitted for noncommercial purposes only. For
use in other circumstances, please contact the original authors, or
the Editor.
=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=
OBTAINING COPIES: The most recent issue of FidoNews in electronic
form may be obtained from the FidoNews Editor via manual download or
file-request, or from various sites in the FidoNet and Internet.
PRINTED COPIES may be obtained by sending SASE to the above postal
address. File-request FIDONEWS for the current Issue. File-request
FNEWS for the current month in one archive. Or file-request specific
back Issue filenames in distribution format [FNEWSEnn.ZIP] for a
FIDONEWS 14-35 Page 24 1 Sep 1997
particular Issue. Monthly Volumes are available as FNWSmmmy.ZIP
where mmm = three letter month [JAN - DEC] and y = last digit of the
current year [7], i.e., FNWSFEB7.ZIP for all the Issues from Feb 97.
Annual volumes are available as FNEWSn.ZIP where n = the Volume number
1 - 14 for 1984 - 1997, respectively. Annual Volume archives range in
size from 48K to 1.4M.
INTERNET USERS: FidoNews is available via:
http://www.fidonet.org/fidonews.htm
ftp://ftp.fidonet.org/pub/fidonet/fidonews/
ftp://ftp.aminet.org/pub/aminet/comm/fido/
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You may obtain an email subscription to FidoNews by sending email to:
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with a Subject line of: subscribe fnews-edist
and no message in the message body. To remove your name from the email
distribution use a Subject line of: unsubscribe fnews-edist with no
message to the same address above.
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You can read the current FidoNews Issue in HTML format at:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6894/
STAR SOURCE for ALL Past Issues via FTP and file-request -
Available for FReq from 1:396/1 or by anonymous FTP from:
ftp://ftp.sstar.com/fidonet/fnews/
Each yearly archive also contains a listing of the Table-of-Contents
for that year's issues. The total set is currently about 11 Megs.
=*=*=*=
The current week's FidoNews and the FidoNews public-key are now also
available almost immediately after publication on the Editor's new
homepage on the World Wide Web at:
http://ddi.digital.net/~cbaker84/fidonews.html
There are also links there to jim barchuk's HTML FidoNews source and
to John Souvestre's FTP site for the archives. There is also an email
link for sending in an article as message text. Drop on over.
=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=
A PGP generated public-key is available for the FidoNews Editor from
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1:1/23 [1:18/14] by file-request for FNEWSKEY or by download from
Rights On! BBS at 1-904-409-7040 as FIDONEWS.ASC in File Area 18. It
is also posted twice a month into the PKEY_DROP Echo available on the
Zone 1 Echomail Backbone.
*=*=*=*=*
SUBMISSIONS: You are encouraged to submit articles for publication in
FidoNews. Article submission requirements are contained in the file
ARTSPEC.DOC, available from the FidoNews Editor, or file-requestable
from 1:1/23 [1:18/14] as file "ARTSPEC.DOC". ALL Zone Coordinators
also have copies of ARTSPEC.DOC. Please read it.
"Fido", "FidoNet" and the dog-with-diskette are U.S. registered
trademarks of Tom Jennings, P.O. Box 410923, San Francisco, CA 94141,
and are used with permission.
"Disagreement is actually necessary,
or we'd all have to get in fights
or something to amuse ourselves
and create the requisite chaos."
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