pozar@kumr.lns.com (Tim Pozar) (06/03/91)
F I D O N E W S -- | Vol. 8 No. 22 (3 June 1991)
The newsletter of the |
FidoNet BBS community | Published by:
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/ \ | "FidoNews" BBS
/|oo \ | (415)-863-2739
(_| /_) | FidoNet 1:1/1
_`@/_ \ _ | Internet:
| | \ \\ | fidonews@fidonews.fidonet.org
| (*) | \ )) |
|__U__| / \// | Editors:
_//|| _\ / | Tom Jennings
(_/(_|(____/ | Tim Pozar
(jm) |
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Published weekly by and for the Members of the FidoNet international
amateur network. Copyright 1991, Fido Software. All rights reserved.
Duplication and/or distribution permitted for noncommercial purposes
only. For use in other circumstances, please contact FidoNews.
(Refer to the end of this file for masthead and contact information.)
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Table of Contents
1. EDITORIAL ..................................................... 1
Times they are achangin' ...................................... 1
2. ARTICLES ...................................................... 4
Zone-4 Election Results ....................................... 4
New FidoNews article submission guidelines .................... 5
WorldPol 2: Why??? ............................................ 10
3. CLASSIFIEDS ................................................... 12
4. LATEST VERSIONS ............................................... 14
Latest Software Versions ...................................... 14
5. NOTICES ....................................................... 19
The Interrupt Stack ........................................... 19
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EDITORIAL
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Times they are achangin'
by Tom Jennings, Editor (1:1/1)
As you may have noticed, Vince Perriello has stepped down from
editorship of FidoNews. Tim Pozar & I have taken over as editors on
pretty short notice. We are about to make some substantial changes we
feel have been necessary for a long time. Some have already been
implemented.
The editorial policy was and still is "we publish anything". But what
that meant was, on any subject. This is an unusual editorial policy,
but one that I felt was important to the net back in 84 when this all
started, and I think it is still important.
In the intervening years, there were two major directions it could
have gone; the "well we can't have *THAT* in there ..." "and *THAT*
wasn't what was meant by..." which is the usual route. Then there's
the way it *did* go -- the harder route of an open policy. It is to
the great credit of all of the editors that they decided what they
did.
The phrase for the problem (which I just discovered a while back) is
the "slippery slope". Once you start down it, there is no way to turn
back and no way to tell when to stop.
To make it crystal clear -- the "rule" that would keep out
"controversial" christian articles would be the same "rule" that
would prevent homo-anarchist articles (for instance :-) -- and
eventually anything else not lowest-common-denominator.
FidoNews is *not* an L.C.D. trade rag. It has no pretense towards an
Industry newsletter. It is by and for FidoNet sysops, users and other
people we consider "members", and I can tell you plain that FidoNet
is not a monolith, the diversity is incredible and only our institu-
tional policies prevents this from being clearer.
FidoNews, like FidoNet, was an experiment, and I believe we can all be
proud of it's success -- for all the flaming, ill will and trouble we
go through, we have one of the most reliable, resilient and *fiercely
independent* organizations on the planet. I wouldn't have it any other
way! It is not supposed to be easy -- convenience is not a good goal.
So the policy remains in effect with one change -- there is a minimal
writing standard, for clarity, not content -- that articles must meet,
to ensure that they are intelligible to someone other than its author.
The article-submission guidelines file, ARTSPEC.DOC, has been revamped,
and is included in this issue of FidoNews as an article. The various
"departments" of FidoNews will also be changed. "Column" type articles
are no more; you must submit each one separately. Notices, sale items
and want-ads will be converted into a more general "classifieds"
section in the near future.
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The format for FidoNews will change further. The current format is one
of those things I did in 1984 that is today very puzzling -- an
electronic newsletter designed to be copied to a printing device! It
is nearly impossible to read online. It is wasteful of space, on both
disk and printer. The left margin alone (now gone) accounted for 10%
of its size. The tentative goal is to keep FidoNews under 100K bytes
in size.
We will be actively soliciting articles from people with interesting
perspectives in FidoNet and the world beyond on issues and problems
that face us as a network in the real world. Though we are
accommodating access to/from other networks such as the Internet and
uucp, FidoNews will remain 100% a FidoNet newsletter.
Some time later this year, the format of FidoNews will be plain text
without pagebreaks, long dash lines and formfeed characters. End-of-
section markers will be ASCII characters. It will then be readable
online. All computer systems today have a way to "pretty print" ASCII
text files, so that is no longer a valid reason.
Sorry for the terse editorial, we're under a severe time limit to
learn the software, file conventions and to get an issue out on time.
By next week things will be under more control, and we can get down to
the business at hand -- communicating, instead of talking about the
communications device!
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I guess you noticed that there are new names for the "Editors" on the
Masthead. One you may recognize as the "papa" of this mess, Tom
Jennings. Well, I'm the other name. My name may be associated with
another mess, the linking of FidoNet to a network called UUCP and a
conferencing system called USENET. (*)
Which brings up the point of this essay. FidoNet users and sysops, for
the most part, are not aware that there are other networks out there.
We tend to be a bit ethnocentric in our views of the networking world.
With the advent of gateways into other networks from RBBS-NET to non-
fidonet based technologies like UUCP, USENET, and the Internet, we
need to be more aware of other customs and technologies. (For example,
not everyone can display the IBM-PC character set, or perhaps we
should look at the method of our network addressing so it is easier to
send and receive mail from these other networks. We'll look at these
things in later issues.)
To this end, we hope to include more articles that are not only
related to FidoNet, but to networking and communications as a whole.
This is not to say that FidoNews will loose it's FidoNet flavor, we
just want to give the readership an idea on what else is out there,
and include what Sysops and Users may have some interest in.
FidoNews 8-22 Page 3 3 Jun 1991
For instance, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Inc.(EFF) is working
to educate folks (lawyers, law enforcement, policy makers, sysops,
hackers, and crackers) about the hysteria and misinformation that our
government and law enforcement agencies seem to be going through and
trying to spread about electronic communications. Our basic civil
rights are being affected due to the ignorance of these agencies. The
EFF is also supporting many of those affected by paying or helping
with legal costs.
On other subjects, how many know of the resources that are available
via the Internet? There are a number of "News" services that can add
value to your BBS. There are archives that will easily shadow the
biggest FidoNet archive sites.
We just can't hide our head in the sand with all of the potential that
FidoNet can be, and the threats to FidoNet from the ill informed.
Tim Pozar
Fido: 1:125/555
Internet: pozar@lns.com
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* I'm not the only one to blame here. John Galvin, Garry Paxinos and I
co-wrote the code, and a host of others like David Dodell and Randy
Bush tested it.
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FidoNews 8-22 Page 4 3 Jun 1991
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ARTICLES
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Buenos Aires, June 1 1991
ZONE-4 ELECTION RESULTS
Hi once again. This week, you will not hear me complain about
anything. To the contrary, a few nice things have happened this
week and among them there are two I would like to highlight.
1. The return to the limelight of the founder of FidoNet, Tom
Jennings. I, as well as all the sysops in my zone I was in touch
with since the news arrived here, are very happy about it. I
thank Vince Perriello for his work on FidoNews and for his
continuous support and respect of freedom of expression.
2. My resignation as Zone-4 Coordinator is effective with the
upcoming NODEDIFF and the new ZC has been named today. Here is
all the information on the election that ended yesterday:
The Zone-4 democratic election of the new Zone Coordinator has
ended yesterday. The three candidates to the position were
Alejandro Hopkins from Temperley (Province of Buenos Aires,
Argentina), Clovis Lacerda from Recife (State of Pernambuco,
Brazil), and Gustavo Zacarias from Palermo (Federal Capital,
Argentina).
The election was done on a one-sysop-one-vote basis, having ALL
of the sysops in the Zone the right to vote. The most encouraging
ingredient of the election that has very much impressed me was
the formidable level of participation: slightly over 80 percent
of the Zone's sysops exercised with commendable responsibility
their RIGHT to vote.
The complete vote-by-vote results were published on the
LATIN.SYSOP echomail conference. Here are the totals:
Alejandro Hopkins received 1.59 percent of the votes
Clovis Lacerda received 39.68 percent of the votes
Gustavo Zacarias received 58.73 percent of the votes
Therefore and according to the sysops' wishes, I proclaim Gustavo
Zacarias the new Zone Coordinator for FidoNet in Latin America
effective with the upcoming nodelist update. My thanks to all of
the candidates and best wishes to the new ZC.
It was for me a superb experience to pilot the Latin American
zone during its first stage since foundation, and I would like to
thank all of my zone's sysops for their continued support during
the whole term.
FidoNews 8-22 Page 5 3 Jun 1991
I hope that the upcoming years as a "grunt" sysop will be even
more fun than the challenging stage now ending, and I will
continue contributing to the goal of bringing the whole of Latin
America online in FidoNet.
Pablo Kleinman
Retiring Zone-4 Coordinator
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New FidoNews article submission guidelines
[The following are the new guidelines for writing articles for
FidoNews. I believe this still meets the original intent
of "we publish everything". It is however substantially shorter
and covers more basic ground, and I think reflects the FidoNet
network of 1991.
It is a tribute to the original author that the overall document
remains more or less intact, and most specifics are unchanged.
Wording was changed for clarity and terseness, and the format
changed to pure ASCII without printer-page formatting to
accommodate the environment of today -- when it was originally
written the network was nearly 100% IBM clones.
-- Tom Jennings ]
FidoNews Article Submission Guidelines
FidoNet address 1:1/1
Updated 29 May 1991 by Tom Jennings
Based on the original work by Thom Henderson
"Fido" and "FidoNet" are registered trademarks of Tom Jennings,
Box 77731, San Francisco CA 94107, USA and are used with
permission.
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SYNOPSIS:
FidoNews is the newsletter of the FidoNet computer network, its
sysops and users. It is passed to its readers electronically via
the FidoNet and other computer networks and to non-network
readers as well.
This document intends to tell you how to write and submit
articles for publication in FidoNews. Much of it describes the
technical specifications which an article must meet in order to
be included in the newsletter, as well as broad (very) guidelines
on content. (Of course you realize articles can be submitted only
electronically.) Please read it carefully. The article you save
might be your own.
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INTRODUCTION:
FidoNews was originally founded in early 1984 to include all
parts of the lives of its member sysops and users, which of
course means not just technical matters. We do not have fixed
goals of maximum distribution or maximum readership (ie. lowest
common denominator) but only to meet the needs of our individual
network members. The success of this venture has always been
contentious at best (ahem).
In any case the grand experiment continues. Seven years later (at
this writing) and nearly six doublings in size of the network,
the editorial policy, or lack of one, of FidoNews has shown to
best fit our ever-changing and unpredictable needs.
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SUBJECT MATTER:
Articles on any subject of interest to FidoNet members and users
are welcome and encouraged, not necessarily of a technical
nature, though priority may be, but not necessarily, given to
articles of importance to the FidoNet, its technology and its
uses; other networks such as uucp and the Internet; social
aspects of communications; ethical issues; other related matters.
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ARTICLE LENGTH:
Try to keep articles short. The longer it is, the less likely
people are to read it. Consider splitting long articles (more
than five pages) into smaller articles to be run serially.
Exceptions will be made at the whim of the editors.
For practical reasons, we will attempt to keep FidoNews to a
"reasonable size", which is of course a highly subjective and
variable thing. As of May 1991, the goal is under 100,000 bytes.
Decisions regarding content may be made based upon this, though
in general it shouldn't be an issue.
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WRITING GUIDELINES:
We are not all professional writers, nor is that even a goal for
the FidoNews -- we want real communication to and from real
people; even at the expense of so-called "good writing", which is
frequently a tool to exclude. There are a few minimum
requirements though for any successful writing, even for the
lowly FidoNews:
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* The subject discussed must clear to people other than the
author! Don't assume that people will pickup the context from
your writing. Tell them explicitly.
* Why are you writing this? It may seem obvious -- "Review of the
new Acme 75-baud Modem" -- but it's not. Are you the
manufacturer? An irate customer? Let us know your point of
view.
* Who are you? A good question! Anonymity is acceptable, though
most people want to take credit for their work. Include full
contact information including electronic mail addresses.
* Articles will appear when space becomes available, not
necessarily the "next" issue. If your article is of a time-
critical nature, please say so when you submit it; the editor
still has final say.
* The editor reserves the right to request changes from an author
to meet these "standards", which you have to admit are pretty
loose. It is not the intent for this to be a mechanism to
refuse articles the editor does not like, but simply to keep
the contents intelligible.
* If we have a backlog of articles, we may get fussier about
things. Historically this has not been a serious problem.
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SUBMITTING AN ARTICLE
TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS:
If all that hasn't scared you away, the next step is to create a
text file which contains the text of your article. The resulting
file should be sent or uploaded to "FidoNews", FidoNet address
1:1/1. The "physical" location (and phone number) of FidoNews
varies, and hence must be found elsewhere, such as within a
recent copy of FidoNews itself.
Filenames must follow the MSDOS standard:
FILENAME.TYP
an 1 to 8 character file name (A - Z, 0 - 9)
a period,
a 0 to 3 character file type (A - Z, 0 - 9)
File types are used to distinguish types of submissions, as
follows:
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.ART An article, commentary, open letter, or general news
item.
.AD "For Sale", "Wanted" or other advertisement.
.NOT A notice for the back of the issue.
If your file doesn't have one of the above extensions, then it
will lay around taking up disk space until someone takes a look
at it and realizes what it is. Maybe.
The name of the file is up to you, though you should use a name
which is not likely to be "stepped on" by someone else -- the
system will not guarantee file names are unique. For example,
FNEWS.ART is probably not a good name for an article.
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CHARACTER SETS:
The character by character contents of the file itself must meet
the following standards or it cannot be published in FidoNews.
The FidoNews staff will not be responsible for making file
contents conform to these standards.
* FLUSH LEFT MARGIN: Please do not put a "left margin" on your
articles. Have the text start at the very first column.
* RIGHT MARGIN AT COLUMN 72 OR LESS: Less is tolerable, more is
definitely not.
* RAGGED-RIGHT TEXT: Word-Star style "justification" (inserting
spaces into sentences so that a paragraph is perfectly rec-
tangular) is extremely hard to read, and consumes needless space.
Please don't use it!
* NO FUNNY CHARACTERS: This includes formfeeds, returns without
linefeeds, linefeeds without returns, tabs and other oddities.
The only control codes (character codes 0 through 31 decimal)
allowed are carriage return (CR) and linefeed (LF). The only
exception is: Control-Z "end of file" terminator characters are
tolerated. Not required.
* NO GRAPHICS CHARACTERS: Believe it or not, not everyone in the
world has an IBM PC. Please restrict yourself to printable
ASCII characters in the range 20 hex to 7E hex (space to
tilde).
* LINES TERMINATED: Each line in the article should be terminated
with a 'newline' -- either the MSDOS standard (CR/LF) or the
unix standard (LF only).
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SUBMISSION FORMAT:
Below is a sample article properly formatted. Features of it are
discussed further below.
* A Sample Article
by Joe Schmoe
This Is My Title
And here is my article. Note that it is flush left (zero indent).
Also note that the right margin is at column seventy so that it
won't overflow "most" text windows. Each line has a newline. Note
the *'ed first line. My article will be listed in the table of
contents.
Figure 1. Table 1.
+-------+ ========
| A Box | Alfa
+-------+ Bravo
Note that we am not using any funny-o characters. This ensures
that the final article will look the same to every user, no
matter what sort of hardware he has.
This is the last sentence of our article.
The first line of text is the Table of Contents line. It must
begin with an asterisk * as shown above. If you do not, the
article will not be listed in the table of contents.
* Everything that follows the *'ed line will appear in the body
of the newsletter.
* Next should be the title or name of your article, your name,
and contact information (network address(es), Postal Service
address, etc) Try to keep it to one or two lines each.
* Put a blank line between paragraphs. Paragraphs that all run
together are very difficult to read, and may be rejected.
* If you want to put in a table or a figure, go right ahead.
FidoNews 8-22 Page 10 3 Jun 1991
We do not rearrange text, so your table or figure will
remain exactly as you entered it. Try to limit them to ones
that make the communication CLEARER.
* Don't put a lot of blank space at the top or bottom. The
FidoNews-generator programs will visually separate articles
automatically.
* Please check for basic errors in spelling, grammar, and
punctuation. We're not publishing a textbook, but you don't
want it to embarrass yourself do you?
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WorldPol 2: Why???
Everyone knows that WorldPol was defeated: soundly. Me, I am glad
because I voted against it. I voted such because it places undue
politics into an already political organization. Granted, I didn't
"STUDY" WP as some of you have, but I did read enough to know that I
didn't like it. I stopped reading in the section about how a Net is
defined and the NC "voted" upon.
1) Policy 4 is adequate and right in its definition of how a Net is
formed: geographical. The whole section is geared totally around the
sysop and against the NC. The sysop can be part of any net he desires,
but the NC MUST take all comers within 10 days. I can hardly find
anything more political than that. If the sysop doesn't like the NC, he
goes elsewhere, to spite the NC. You also promote "My net is better
than your net" with defections, people trying to "win" other nodes.
Policy 4 DOES work. By making a geographical boundary mandatory you
remove all politics and that's the why it should be. I can't imagine
why anyone would want more.
2) Why should sysops have the right to vote on an NC? I am a Net
Coordinator. Why? Because I'm stable. Not because I made friends,
promises, or comments about the previous NC, but because I will be here
next week and next year. I am fair and I am apolitical. I removed my
NEC (a close friend) and his node when he refused to abide by Echopol
and restored his node when he agreed...he is still my NEC. A local
sysop that I am at total odds with is contemplating joining our
community. While we rarely see eye-to-eye, I eagerly await his node
request and will treat him with courtesy and respect. THAT is why I am
the Net Coordinator. The policies of WP would have some NC's attempting
to deny nodes to those who might vote him out, or may try to
excommunicate a sysop who is rousing the rabble. No, elections aren't
the way.
For that matter, WorldPol isn't the way. The people have spoken. LET
IT DIE! I will NEVER *EVER* vote for WorldPol in its current form or
any other form that neuters the NC. How many times must we be subjected
to a small group that will never give up on the same old work? Give me
Liberty, give me Death, but don't EVER give me WorldPol!
FidoNews 8-22 Page 11 3 Jun 1991
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!!
"I don't want to hear about it anymore..."
Damn Yankees
Chris Estep
NC, 1:2204
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CLASSIFIEDS
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ADVERTISEMENT POLICY: Submissions must be 20 lines or less each,
maximum two ads per advertiser, 70 characters per line maximum. No
control codes except CR and LF. (Refer to contact info at the end of
this newsletter for details.)
Please notify us if you have any trouble with an advertiser. FidoNews
does not endorse any products or services advertised here.
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I'm happy to "announce" that through the efforts of a few
persistant and vociferous sysops, we've managed to convince
the makers of a new Peer-to-Peer network OS to offer a special
price on a 2-user version for BBS sysops. I have been using the
WEB Network for over 6 months to run a 2-node system, and it
is the easiest and most reliable small network I have seen.
(this from someone who supports Novell for a large company)
The following is the text of their "press release" describing
the sysop deal, and details on getting the full info file.
If you'ld like more info, or an online look-see at a working
system, feel free to contact me on Wolf's Moon BBS and I will
arrange a time with you to do a remote drop-to-dos session and
see the whole thing in action. I have also negotiated some good
deals on ARCNET network cards to use with the WEB system, which
will get you up and running for under $250 total; and the
results a quite well worth it.
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NETWORK YOUR BBS FOR $99
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WEBCORP, the leader in peer-to-peer networking, announces the
WEBCORP BBS LAN Promotion. If you are a Registered BBS SYSOP,
you can network your BBS and one other computer now for just
$99 and add others later!
The WEB Network Operating System makes it possible to:
-- Perform maintenance on your BBS while it's in use.
-- Run your BBS from another computer.
-- Share files and printers between dual BBS's.
-- Plus all the benefits of a true peer-to-peer network.
To participate in WEBCORP's SYSOP Network Promotion and qualify
for your Special $99 2-User WEB License:
FidoNews 8-22 Page 13 3 Jun 1991
download "WEBSYSOP.EXE" from:
WEBCORP's BBS: 415-331-6515 (9600 baud HST/V42)
Download or FreQ "WEBSYSOP.EXE"
Wolf's Moon BBS: 207-772-9093 (300-2400 baud)
207-773-5791 (2400-19.2 HST)
Fidonet Node 1:326/211
Or you can contact WEBCORP, 3000 Bridgeway, Sausalito, CA 94965
(Phone) 415/331-1449, Attention: SYSOP Coordinator
ACT NOW!, This program is valid through 8/15/91
============================================
IF you're interested in seeing the features without the
online time, download or FreQ "WEBDEMO.EXE" for a good
informative screenshow demo, or leave netmail for
Michael Martell on Wolf's Moon - 1:326/211
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FidoNews 8-22 Page 14 3 Jun 1991
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LATEST VERSIONS
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Latest Software Versions
MS-DOS Systems
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Bulletin Board Software
Name Version Name Version Name Version
DMG 2.93 Phoenix 1.3 TAG 2.5g
Fido 12t+ QuickBBS 2.66 TBBS 2.1
GSBBS 3.02 RBBS 17.3B TComm/TCommNet 3.4
Lynx 1.30 RBBSmail 17.3B Telegard 2.5
Kitten 2.16 RemoteAccess 1.01* TPBoard 6.1
Maximus 1.02 SLBBS 1.77A Wildcat! 2.55
Opus 1.14+ Socrates 1.10 WWIV 4.12
PCBoard 14.5a SuperBBS 1.10 XBBS 1.17
Network Node List Other
Mailers Version Utilities Version Utilities Version
BinkleyTerm 2.40 EditNL 4.00 ARC 7.0
D'Bridge 1.30 MakeNL 2.31 ARCAsim 2.30
Dutchie 2.90C ParseList 1.30 ARCmail 2.07
FrontDoor 2.00 Prune 1.40 ConfMail 4.00
InterMail 2.01* SysNL 3.14 Crossnet v1.5
PRENM 1.47 XlatList 2.90 DOMAIN 1.42
SEAdog 4.60* XlaxDiff 2.40* EMM 2.02
TIMS 1.0(Mod8) XlaxNode 2.40* 4Dog/4DMatrix 1.18
Gmail 2.05
GROUP 2.16
GUS 1.30
HeadEdit 1.18
IMAIL 1.10
InterPCB 1.31
LHARC 1.13
MSG 4.1
MSGED 2.06
MSGTOSS 1.3
Oliver 1.0a
PK[UN]ZIP 1.10
PolyXarc 2.1a*
QM 1.0
QSORT 4.03
ScanToss 1.28
Sirius 1.0x
SLMAIL 1.36
StarLink 1.01
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TagMail 2.41
TCOMMail 2.2
Telemail 1.27
TMail 1.21
TPBNetEd 3.2
TosScan 1.00
UFGATE 1.03
XRS 4.10*
XST 2.3e
ZmailH 1.14
OS/2 Systems
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Bulletin Board Software Network Mailers Other Utilities
Name Version Name Version Name Version
Maximus-CBCS 1.02 BinkleyTerm 2.40 Parselst 1.32
ConfMail 4.00
EchoStat 6.0
oMMM 1.52
Omail 3.1
MsgEd 2.06
MsgLink 1.0C
MsgNum 4.14
LH2 0.50
PK[UN]ZIP 1.02
ARC2 6.00
PolyXarc 2.1a*
Qsort 2.1
Raid 1.0
Remapper 1.2
Tick 2.0
VPurge 2.07
Xenix/Unix
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BBS Software Mailers Other Utilities
Name Version Name Version Name Version
BinkleyTerm 2.30b Unzip 3.10
ARC 5.21
ParseLst 1.30b
ConfMail 3.31b
Ommm 1.40b
Msged 1.99b
Zoo 2.01
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C-Lharc 1.00
Omail 1.00b
Apple II
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Bulletin Board Software Network Mailers Other Utilities
Name Version Name Version Name Version
GBBS Pro 2.1 Fruity Dog 2.0* ShrinkIt 3.23
DDBBS + 7.4* ShrinkIt GS 1.04
deARC2e 2.1
ProSel 8.69*
Apple CP/M
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Bulletin Board Software Network Mailers Other Utilities
Name Version Name Version Name Version
Daisy v2j Daisy Mailer 0.38 Nodecomp 0.37
MsgUtil 2.5
PackUser v4
Filer v2-D
UNARC.COM 1.20
Macintosh
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Bulletin Board Software Network Mailers Other Utilities
Name Version Name Version Name Version
Red Ryder Host 2.1 Tabby 2.2 MacArc 0.04
Mansion 7.15 Copernicus 1.0 ArcMac 1.3
WWIV (Mac) 3.0 LHArc 0.41
Hermes 1.5 StuffIt Classic 1.6
FBBS 0.91 Compact Pro 1.30
Precision Systems 0.95b* TImport 1.92
TeleFinder Host 2.12T10 TExport 1.92
Timestamp 1.6
Tset 1.3
Import 3.2
Export 3.21
Point System Software Sundial 3.2
PreStamp 3.2
Name Version OriginatorII 2.0
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AreaFix 1.6
Copernicus 1.0 Mantissa 3.21
CounterPoint 1.09 Zenith 1.5
Eventmeister 1.0
TSort 1.0
Mehitable 2.0
UNZIP 1.02c
Zip Extract 0.10
Amiga
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Bulletin Board Software Network Mailers Other Utilities
Name Version Name Version Name Version
Falcon CBBS 0.45 BinkleyTerm 1.00 AmigArc 0.23
Paragon 2.082+ TrapDoor 1.50 AReceipt 1.5
TransAmiga 1.07 WelMat 0.44 booz 1.01
ConfMail 1.12
ChameleonEdit 0.10
ElectricHerald1.66
Lharc 1.30
Login 0.18
MessageFilter 1.52
oMMM 1.49b
ParseLst 1.64
PkAX 1.00
PolyxAmy 2.02
RMB 1.30
Roof 44.03
RoboWriter 1.02
Rsh 4.06
Skyparse 2.30
Tick 0.75
TrapList 1.12
UNZIP 1.31
Yuck! 1.61
Zippy (Unzip) 1.25
Zoo 2.01
Atari ST/TT
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Bulletin Board Network Node List
Software Version Mailer Version Utilities Version
FIDOdoor/ST 2.2.3* BinkleyTerm 2.40l ParseList 1.30
QuickBBS/ST 1.02 The BOX 1.20 Xlist 1.12
Pandora BBS 2.41c EchoFix 1.20
GS Point 0.61 sTICK/Hatch 5.50*
LED ST 1.00
MSGED 1.96S
FidoNews 8-22 Page 18 3 Jun 1991
Archiver Msg Format Other
Utilities Version Converters Version Utilities Version
LHARC 0.60 TB2BINK 1.00 ConfMail 4.03
LHARC2 3.18* BINK2TB 1.00 ComScan 1.02
ARC 6.02 FiFo 2.1m* Import 1.14
PKUNZIP 1.10 OMMM 1.40
Pack 1.00
FastPack 1.20
FDrenum 2.2.7*
Trenum 0.10
Archimedes
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BBS Software Mailers Utilities
Name Version Name Version Name Version
ARCbbs 1.44 BinkleyTerm 2.03 Unzip 2.1TH
ARC 1.03
!Spark 2.00d
ParseLst 1.30
BatchPacker 1.00
+ Netmail capable (does not require additional mailer software)
* Recently changed
Utility authors: Please help keep this list up to date by
reporting new versions to 1:1/1. It is not our intent to list
all utilities here, only those which verge on necessity.
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FidoNews 8-22 Page 19 3 Jun 1991
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NOTICES
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The Interrupt Stack
15 Aug 1991
8 Sep 1991
7 Oct 1991
Area code 415 fragments. Alameda and Contra Costa Counties will begin
using area code 510. This includes Oakland, Concord, Berkeley and
Hayward. San Francisco, San Mateo, Marin, parts of Santa Clara County,
and the San Francisco Bay Islands will retain area code 415.
1 Nov 1991
Area code 301 will split. Area code 410 will consist of the
northeastern part of Maryland, as well as the eastern shore. This will
include Baltimore and the surrounding area. Area 301 will include
southern and western parts of the state, including the areas around
Washington DC. Area 410 phones will answer to calls to area 301 until
November, 1992.
1 Feb 1992
Area code 213 fragments. Western, coastal, southern and eastern
portions of Los Angeles County will begin using area code 310. This
includes Los Angeles International Airport, West Los Angeles, San
Pedro and Whittier. Downtown Los Angeles and surrounding communities
(such as Hollywood and Montebello) will retain area code 213.
1 Dec 1993
Tenth anniversary of Fido Version 1 release.
5 Jun 1997
David Dodell's 40th Birthday
If you have something which you would like to see on this calendar,
please send a message to FidoNet node 1:1/1.
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FidoNews 8-22 Page 20 3 Jun 1991
------- FIDONEWS MASTHEAD AND CONTACT INFORMATION ----------------
Editors: Tom Jennings, Tim Pozar
Editors Emeritii: Thom Henderson, Dale Lovell, Vince Periello
Special thanks to Ken Kaplan, 1:100/22, aka Fido #22
"FidoNews" BBS
FidoNet 1:1/1
Internet fidonews@fidonews.fidonet.org
BBS (415)-863-2739 (9600 HST/V32)
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.
FidoNews is copyright 1991 Fido Software. All rights reserved.
Duplication and/or distribution permitted for noncommercial purposes
only. For use in other circumstances, please contact FidoNews (we're
easy).
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 BBS, or Wazoo filerequestable
from 1:1/1 as file "ARTSPEC.DOC".
"Fido", "FidoNet" and the dog-with-diskette are U.S. registered
trademarks of Tom Jennings of Fido Software, Box 77731, San Francisco
CA 94107, USA and are used with permission.
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Remember Campers!!!
To send mail from an Internet site or smart UUCP Site TO a user
that calls a Fido-Net system.
You need to know the name of the person and node number of the
Fido-Net system that the person uses.
The address of a FidoNode looks like this: 1:105/302.0. Usually
the 1: and .0 are left off, but they are there by default. (In
Europe it is 2: and in the Pacific Basin it is 3:.) That
address can be translated as "Zone 1, Net 105, FidoNode 302,
Point 0." or p0.f302.n105.z1. Add the FidoNet domain of
.fidonet.org to the end of that, chop off the p0 (it is again,
a default) and you have f302.n105.z1.fidonet.org - the "Fully
Qualified Domain Name" of a FidoNode. Another example is
1:105/4.3 which would be written as p3.f4.n105.z1.fidonet.org
(since there is a point number other than 0, we have to specify
it). Note also that we are only using zone 1. This will also
work for zones 2 and 3, just use z2 or z3 as appropriate.
FidoNet uses full names of the callers. Multi-part name folks
(eg. First Last, ie. "Dale Weber") will have a period '.'
seperating their names. So, lets say you wanted to send mail
to Dale Weber at 1:105/55.0, you would address your letter to:
Dale.Weber@f55.n105.z1.fidonet.org.
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