Hello All,

For a friend of mine, I'm looking for windows fido point software, freeware is preferred.

Message reader that support squish (preferred) and/or hudson messagebases, tosser, nodelist compiler.

I've already a mailer for him, that's binkd for transport via internet.

Suggestions? Does he need more?


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ET: > For a friend of mine, I'm looking for windows fido point software,
ET: > freeware is preferred.

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Hello Ben,

Wednesday 27 November 2002 19:48, BEN RITCHEY wrote to EDDY THILLEMAN:

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Thanks, I'll look into it.


Greetings -=Eddy=-

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Hi Eddy,

You wrote to All on 27.11.02 about "windows fido point software":

For a friend of mine, I'm looking for windows fido point
software, freeware is preferred.

Best to check in the POINTS echo to see what folks recommend
Eddy.

Message reader that support squish (preferred) and/or hudson
messagebases, tosser, nodelist compiler.

If Squish is *needed*, that will tend to limit the choices
available. Hudson ? - not really recommended.
Which suggests your choices could be from:

PPoint - in one of its combinations. (uses Binkley etc. as its
Mailer function),

APoint - which provides JAM, MSG or its own proprietory message
base. Has "normal" Fidonet Point facilities - and can be used
for e-mail and NGs via an ISP. Mailer built-in, to which BINKD
can be fitted relatively painlessly.

I've already a mailer for him, that's binkd for transport via
internet.

Suggestions? Does he need more?

Depends a lot on both his knowledge and capabilities, plus your
know-how. So, as I wrote above - hook into the POINTS echo and
ask about it Eddy.
I'm sorta "prejudiced" <G>, but if the prospective Point is truly
a newby - I daren't recommend the item I'm using.

TTFN,

Archie

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Hello Archie,

Thursday 28 November 2002 10:24, Archie Swan wrote to Eddy Thilleman:

Best to check in the POINTS echo to see what folks recommend

OK, just did.

Message reader that support squish (preferred) and/or hudson
messagebases, tosser, nodelist compiler.

If Squish is *needed*, that will tend to limit the choices

Squish is not really needed, but a messagebase which is supported by more message readers to choose between those message readers.

PPoint - in one of its combinations. (uses Binkley etc. as its
Mailer function),

APoint - which provides JAM, MSG or its own proprietory message
base. Has "normal" Fidonet Point facilities - and can be used
for e-mail and NGs via an ISP. Mailer built-in, to which BINKD
can be fitted relatively painlessly.

I'll look into it, thanks.

Depends a lot on both his knowledge and capabilities, plus your
know-how. So, as I wrote above - hook into the POINTS echo and
ask about it Eddy.

He does have limited knowdledge about computers and programs, for more complicated setups he asks me.

I'm sorta "prejudiced" <G>, but if the prospective Point is truly
a newby - I daren't recommend the item I'm using.

Why not?

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You're using CrossPoint, but I don't know that program.


Greetings -=Eddy=-

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Hello Eddy.

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

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

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

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

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


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Hi Eddy,

You wrote on 29.11.02 about "windows fido point software":

[snip]

Depends a lot on both his knowledge and capabilities, plus your
know-how. So, as I wrote above - hook into the POINTS echo and
ask about it Eddy.

He does have limited knowdledge about computers and programs, for
more complicated setups he asks me.

Which *possibly* means that one of the more easy Point bundles,
such as APoint, may be the better choice for him.

I'm sorta "prejudiced" <G>, but if the prospective Point is
truly a newby - I daren't recommend the item I'm using.

Why not?

Because:
1. It uses a proprietory message-base for its normal operation.
You appear to be looking for something which uses one of the
"standard" message-bases which you have some experience with.

2. Of more importance, CrossPoint (any of its versions) is quite
"powerful" and has many options available in setting it into
action. It *might* be too confusing for someone who is new to
Point activities.

e.g. Arjen Lentz's The-Box-Point might have been OK for a new
Point; but a combination of Arjen's later Xenia Mailer plus its
associated items would have given such a new Point many problems.

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You're using CrossPoint, but I don't know that program.

Maybe your RC, Jan Vermeulen, knows if someone has the suite
locally to you. But here's where versions may be found on the
Internet:-

OpenXP/16 (DOS-16bit) -- http://www.op1.vbox.co.uk

OpenXP/32 (DOS-32bit, Win32, Linux) -- http://www.openxp.com
(the Win and Linux versions, as far as I know, are still in a
Beta stage)

XP2 (DOS-16bit) -- http://xp2.doskey.de

Note: Both of the DOS-16bit versions will work fine under Win9x and OS/2.

TTFN,

Archie

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Hello, Michael;

01 Dec 02 01:07, Michael Grant wrote to Eddy Thilleman:

see the message base. You could also use GEcho or Fastecho, and have

I didn't know Gecho supports Squish?

both have command line options to automate that.) For a nodelist
compiler, I use QNode; it has never given me any trouble.

So do I, but I've heard some people have had problems with it on fast Pentiums.

Regards,

Robert.

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Hello Robert.

01 Dec 02 20:46, you wrote to me:

see the message base. You could also use GEcho or Fastecho, and
have

I didn't know Gecho supports Squish?

Not 100% sure... It's been a pretty long time since I ran it. Version 1.00 was JAM and Hudson only, but I think there was a newer version released later that also supported Squish. (Maybe v1.30?) Bob Seaborn would know better than me.

At any rate, GEcho will work with Sempoint, because Sempoint also supports JAM,
and Gecho at the very least can export an AREAS.BBS file which Sempoint can read, the same as it can a SQUISH.CFG file.

both have command line options to automate that.) For a
nodelist compiler, I use QNode; it has never given me any
trouble.

So do I, but I've heard some people have had problems with it on fast Pentiums.

It's an old program (my version is from 1996), but it's been around for a long time because it's a well-written program, that's proven reliable and able to handle almost anything you can throw at it. Lots of the older programs have trouble with 400+ MHz machines. If it was written in Turbo Pascal, there's a patch available.


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Hi Michael,

You wrote to Robert Bull on 01.12.02 about "windows fido point software":

[snip]

I didn't know Gecho supports Squish?

Not 100% sure... It's been a pretty long time since I ran it.
Version 1.00 was JAM and Hudson only,

GECHO v1.00 could only handle Hudson and .MSG. (1992 vintage -
JAM hadn't been invented at that time).

but I think there was a newer version released later that
also supported Squish. (Maybe v1.30?) Bob Seaborn would know
better than me.

It was in its later guises of 1.03 (?) etc. that its handling of
JAM and others came into being. But - there were a number of
discrete versions of it, which mean that if/when a SysOp wanted
to have a mixture of message-base types on his/her system they
would have to activate multiple modules of GECHO.

TTFN,

Archie

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He does have limited knowdledge about computers and programs, for
more complicated setups he asks me.

Which *possibly* means that one of the more easy Point bundles,
such as APoint, may be the better choice for him.

Apoint (v1.25) is EXREMELY buggy on a Win/ME system. I've been trying to
work with Apoint for the last few months and finally gave up because of the frustration.

At this point BEEMAIL is a much better package
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Hello AUGUST!

02 Jan 03 at 01:52, AUGUST ABOLINS wrote to ARCHIE SWAN:

He does have limited knowdledge about computers and programs,

for

more complicated setups he asks me.

Which *possibly* means that one of the more easy Point bundles,
such as APoint, may be the better choice for him.

Apoint (v1.25) is EXREMELY buggy on a Win/ME system.

I trust you've reported this to the author(s) ?

Regards,
Martin

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