F I D O N E W S -- Volume 14, Number 35 1 September 1997 +----------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ | The newsletter of the | ISSN 1198-4589 Published by: | | FidoNet community | "FidoNews" | | _ | 1-904-409-7040 [1:1/23] | | / \ | | | /|oo \ | | | (_| /_) | | | _`@/_ \ _ | | | | | \ \\ | Editor: | | | (*) | \ )) | Christopher Baker 1:18/14 | | |__U__| / \// | | | _//|| _\ / | | | (_/(_|(____/ | | | (jm) | Newspapers should have no friends. | | | -- JOSEPH PULITZER | +----------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ | Submission address: FidoNews Editor 1:1/23 | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | MORE addresses: | | | | submissions=> cbaker84@digital.net | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | For information, copyrights, article submissions, | | obtaining copies of FidoNews or the internet gateway FAQ | | please refer to the end of this file. | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ 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 FIDONEWS 14-35 Page 1 1 Sep 1997 ================================================================= EDITORIAL ================================================================= 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 14-35 Page 2 1 Sep 1997 ================================================================= LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ================================================================= --- 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 (@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. FIDONEWS 14-35 Page 3 1 Sep 1997 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. _ ___ "--~ ~-. Groetjes, __\. \ ~: Y \ / | | q pj \/\/ outer. /* Vaak live in Down Under *\ \ j -. ./ _ \_/ \| (___/() Speeding up to Warpspeed with OS/2 Warp! /~-.______./ __Y PGP: Netmail naar PGPServer (2:283/317) ... y "Meneer Aart: Kom je net terug van een pyama feestje? -30- ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 14-35 Page 4 1 Sep 1997 ================================================================= ARTICLES ================================================================= Files-lists and how to read them -------------------------------- by Eneko Lacunza (2:344/20.13, 2:344/19.11, enlar@iname.com) 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 enlar@iname.com http www.arrakis.es/~enlar ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 14-35 Page 5 1 Sep 1997 ================================================================= TRUE STORIES OF FIDONET ================================================================= --- 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 FIDONEWS 14-35 Page 6 1 Sep 1997 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. FIDONEWS 14-35 Page 7 1 Sep 1997 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) -30- ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 14-35 Page 8 1 Sep 1997 ================================================================= NET HUMOR ================================================================= From: "Mike Riddle" To: "Baker, Christopher" Subject: Fwd: Help desk ==================BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE================== Return-Path: geeks-owner@brickbat12.mindspring.com Tue, 26 Aug 1997 13:24:41 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by brickbat12.mindspring.com To: geeks@shorty.com From: cynic Subject: Help desk Sender: owner-geeks@brickbat12.mindspring.com Reply-To: geeks@shorty.com 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. FIDONEWS 14-35 Page 9 1 Sep 1997 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 FIDONEWS 14-35 Page 10 1 Sep 1997 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 FIDONEWS 14-35 Page 11 1 Sep 1997 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. FIDONEWS 14-35 Page 12 1 Sep 1997 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 cynic@capone.org www.capone.org ===================END FORWARDED MESSAGE=================== ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 14-35 Page 13 1 Sep 1997 ================================================================= COMIX IN ASCII ================================================================= --- 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] _.-'~~~~~~`-._ / || \ / || \ | || | | _______||_______ | |/ ----- \/ ----- \| / ( ) ( ) \ "Come to the Dark Side of / \ ----- () ----- / \ FidoNet, Luke." "Echomail / \ /||\ / \ is the reason for FidoNet, / \ /||||\ / \ now." / \ /||||||\ / \ /_ \o========o/ _\ `--...__|`-._ _.-'|__...--' | `' | Echovader Origin: Tuut Tuut har kommer jag med puffar rostade i honung! (2:200/617.15) ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 14-35 Page 14 1 Sep 1997 ================================================================= NOTICES ================================================================= 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 31 Aug 1997 15:06:22 -0700 From: William Scott Lockwood III Reply-To: wsl3@cts.com Organization: Corpsmans Corner BBS To: cbaker84@digital.net Subject: Hello Everybody! Just a quick note to let everyone know, here's my new E-Mail address FIDONEWS 14-35 Page 15 1 Sep 1997 and web page address (See below). Hope to continue to hear from all of you soon! BFN... -- TTYL, Scott mailto:wsl3@cts.com http://www.users.cts.com/king/w/wsl3/ -30- ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 14-35 Page 16 1 Sep 1997 ================================================================= FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ================================================================= Latest Greatest Software Versions by Peter E. Popovich, 1:363/264 Yawn. One update. -=- Snip -=- 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 -=- Snip -=- MS-DOS: Program Name Version F C Contact Name Node Magic Name ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 FIDONEWS 14-35 Page 17 1 Sep 1997 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 FIDONEWS 14-35 Page 18 1 Sep 1997 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. 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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 FIDONEWS 14-35 Page 19 1 Sep 1997 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. 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The FidoNews key is also available on the FidoNews homepage listed in the Masthead information. ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 14-35 Page 21 1 Sep 1997 ================================================================= 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/ FIDONEWS 14-35 Page 22 1 Sep 1997 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) ============ ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 14-35 Page 23 1 Sep 1997 ================================================================= FIDONEWS INFORMATION ================================================================= ------- 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, cbaker84@digital.net cbaker84@aol.com cbaker84@msn.com (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] ------------------------------------------------------ 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. 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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/ *=*=* You may obtain an email subscription to FidoNews by sending email to: jbarchuk@worldnet.att.net 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. *=*=* 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. 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