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Volume 7, Number 53 31 December 1990
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Editor in Chief: Vince Perriello
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Editors Emeritii: Thom Henderson, Dale Lovell
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Chief Procrastinator Emeritus: Tom Jennings
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Copyright 1990, Fido Software. All rights reserved. Duplication
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and/or distribution permitted for noncommercial purposes only.
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For use in other circumstances, please contact Fido Software.
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FidoNews is published weekly by and for the Members of the
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FidoNet (r) International Amateur Electronic Mail System. It is
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a compilation of individual articles contributed by their authors
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or authorized agents of the authors. The contribution of articles
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to this compilation does not diminish the rights of the authors.
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You are encouraged to submit articles for publication in
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FidoNews. Article submission standards are contained in the file
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ARTSPEC.DOC, available from node 1:1/1. 1:1/1 is a Continuous
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Mail system, available for network mail 24 hours a day.
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Fido and FidoNet are registered trademarks of Tom Jennings of
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Fido Software, Box 77731, San Francisco CA 94107, USA and are
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used with permission.
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Opinions expressed in FidoNews articles are those of the authors
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and are not necessarily those of the Editor or of Fido Software.
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Most articles are unsolicited. Our policy is to publish every
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responsible submission received.
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Table of Contents
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1. EDITORIAL ................................................ 1
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Well, we made it through the year again .................. 1
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2. ARTICLES ................................................. 2
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Other National BBS lists ................................. 2
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3. LATEST VERSIONS .......................................... 4
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Latest Software Versions ................................. 4
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4. NOTICES .................................................. 9
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The Interrupt Stack ...................................... 9
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FidoNews 7-53 Page 1 31 Dec 1990
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EDITORIAL
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Holy shit. It's the end of the year. One week later than Phil
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thought it would be. Of course, our President thought Pearl
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Harbor Day was in September. What's one week among friends?
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I'm certainly pleased to still be here. I'm happy to see you're
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still there as well.
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1991 promises to be a really interesting year. Even in FidoNet.
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(My apologies to the national media, who hope to keep us thinking
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that the only thing happening anywhere is in the Persian Gulf!)
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This will probably be the year that we figure out how to manage
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the network without becoming either total fascists or total
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anarchists. I haven't a clue what we'll arrive at, but the trip
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is one that you won't want to miss!
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There will be changes in the way I do things here, too.
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I expect to turn over my "Current Versions" section to someone
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in the FidoNet Technical Standards Committee in a week or so.
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I'm going to slap together a piece of code that will be able to
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extract articles from netmail messages, so that you'll be able
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to use available low-cost routing techniques to send me stuff.
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When I have that together, there will be an update to ARTSPEC
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and I'll let you know.
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I'm sure disappointed that Henry Clark hasn't sent me any more
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feature requests for Binkley (or a picture of Honey, for that
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matter) in the past couple of weeks. I'll try to get him going
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again. Any more aspiring columnists out there?
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I'm already 9 minutes past deadline, so I'll bring this
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worthless little soliloquy to an end. But not without wishing
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all of you the very best of New Years, for you and yours.
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Cheers,
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Vince
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FidoNews 7-53 Page 2 31 Dec 1990
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ARTICLES
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OTHER NATIONAL BBS LISTS
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Dave Appel, USPA C-20451
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Just a user on 1:231/30
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Although there is no other national BBS list as complete
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as the NODELIST, I have not seen the NODELIST available for
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download on any non-Fido bulletin board systems. Most of our
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local nodes don't even offer it for download.
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According to the notice at the beginning of the NODELIST
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any use by anyone other than a Fidonet sysop is not allowed.
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It appears to me that people are afraid that someone will make
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some money from distributing it. As a result, end-users
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looking for long distance boards to explore, via PC-Pursuit or
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Starlink, are unable to use the best national BBS list.
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I don't have a solution to this. But I do have an
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alternative suggestion. Having your BBS listed on one of the
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other national BBS lists could go a long way in garnering out-
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of-town callers for your system.
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One such list is the "Darwin" list. This file can be
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found on many boards as USBBS??.ZIP. USBBS79.ZIP had a little
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under 1500 entries as of 12/1/90.
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You can get your BBS on the Darwin list by calling their
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BBS at 202-547-3037, and answering Script #1. The requirements
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for being on this list are: being MS/PC-DOS oriented, at least
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a 2400 baud modem, at least 60 megabytes of disk, and
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substantially 24-hour service (not counting maintenance and
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net-mail of course).
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Another national list appears in Computer Shopper
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magazine. This list is maintained by FOG, The International
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Nonprofit Computer Users Group. Electronic versions of this
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list are available on the FOG Roundtable on GEnie and from the
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FOG BBS.
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The requirements for being on this list are having at
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least 10 megabytes of disk and 24-hour service. You need to
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submit your information every 3 months or your listing
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automatically gets deleted. All computer systems may be
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listed, not just IBM compatible.
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You can send your BBS information to FOG at
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PO Box 3474,
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Daly City, CA 94015.
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FAX: 415-755-3482.
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Their e-mail addresses are:
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GEnie : OFFICE.FOG
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MCI-MAIL : 347-8112
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CompuServe : 71561,570
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BBS : 415-755-8315 (Leave a comment to sysop)
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FidoNews 7-53 Page 3 31 Dec 1990
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FidoNews 7-53 Page 4 31 Dec 1990
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LATEST VERSIONS
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Latest Software Versions
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MS-DOS Systems
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Bulletin Board Software
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Name Version Name Version Name Version
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DMG 2.93 Phoenix 1.3 TAG 2.5g
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Fido 12s+ QuickBBS 2.66 TBBS 2.1
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GSBBS 3.01 RBBS 17.3A TComm/TCommNet 3.4
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Lynx 1.30 RBBSmail 17.3B Telegard 2.5
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Kitten 2.16 RemoteAccess 0.04a TPBoard 6.1
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Maximus 1.02 SLBBS 1.77A Wildcat! 2.50
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Opus 1.14+ Socrates 1.10 WWIV 4.12
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PCBoard 14.5 XBBS 1.15
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Network Node List Other
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Mailers Version Utilities Version Utilities Version
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BinkleyTerm 2.40 EditNL 4.00 ARC 7.0
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D'Bridge 1.30 MakeNL 2.31 ARCAsim 2.30
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Dutchie 2.90C ParseList 1.30 ARCmail 2.07
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FrontDoor 1.99c Prune 1.40 ConfMail 4.00
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PRENM 1.47 SysNL 3.14 Crossnet v1.5
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SEAdog 4.51b XlatList 2.90 DOMAIN 1.42
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TIMS 1.0(Mod8) XlaxDiff 2.35 EMM 2.02
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XlaxNode 2.35 4Dog/4DMatrix 1.18
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Gmail 2.05
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GROUP 2.16
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GUS 1.30
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HeadEdit 1.15
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InterPCB 1.31
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LHARC 1.13
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MSG 4.1
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MSGED 2.06
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MSGTOSS 1.3
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PK[UN]ZIP 1.10
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QM 1.0
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QSORT 4.03
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Sirius 1.0x
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SLMAIL 1.36
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StarLink 1.01
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TagMail 2.41
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TCOMMail 2.2
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Telemail 1.27
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TMail 1.15
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FidoNews 7-53 Page 5 31 Dec 1990
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TPBNetEd 3.2
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TosScan 1.00
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UFGATE 1.03
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XRS 4.00*
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XST 2.2
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ZmailH 1.14
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OS/2 Systems
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Bulletin Board Software Network Mailers Other Utilities
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Name Version Name Version Name Version
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Maximus-CBCS 1.02 BinkleyTerm 2.40 Parselst 1.32
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ConfMail 4.00
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EchoStat 6.0
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oMMM 1.52
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Omail 3.1
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MsgEd 2.00
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MsgLink 1.0C
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MsgNum 4.14
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LH2 0.50
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PK[UN]ZIP 1.02
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ARC2 6.00
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PolyXARC 2.00
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Qsort 2.1
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Raid 1.0
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Remapper 1.2
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Tick 2.0
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VPurge 2.07
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Xenix/Unix
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BBS Software Mailers Other Utilities
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Name Version Name Version Name Version
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MaximusCBCS 1.02.Unix.B0 BinkleyTerm 2.30b Unzip 3.10
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ARC 5.21
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ParseLst 1.30b
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ConfMail 3.31b
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Ommm 1.40b
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Msged 1.99b
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Zoo 2.01
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C-Lharc 1.00
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Omail 1.00b
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FidoNews 7-53 Page 6 31 Dec 1990
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Apple CP/M
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Bulletin Board Software Network Mailers Other Utilities
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Name Version Name Version Name Version
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Daisy v2j Daisy Mailer 0.38 Nodecomp 0.37
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MsgUtil 2.5
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PackUser v4
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Filer v2-D
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UNARC.COM 1.20
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Macintosh
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Bulletin Board Software Network Mailers Other Utilities
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Name Version Name Version Name Version
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Red Ryder Host 2.1 Tabby 2.2 MacArc 0.04
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Mansion 7.15 Copernicus 1.0 ArcMac 1.3
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WWIV (Mac) 3.0 LHArc 0.33
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Hermes 1.01 StuffIt Classic 1.6
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FBBS 0.91 Compactor 1.21
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TImport 1.92
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TExport 1.92
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Timestamp 1.6
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Tset 1.3
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Import 3.2
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Export 3.21
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Sundial 3.2
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PreStamp 3.2
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OriginatorII 2.0
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AreaFix 1.6
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Mantissa 3.21
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Zenith 1.5
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Eventmeister 1.0
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TSort 1.0
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Mehitable 2.0
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UNZIP 1.02c
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Amiga
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Bulletin Board Software Network Mailers Other Utilities
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Name Version Name Version Name Version
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Paragon 2.082+ BinkleyTerm 1.00 AmigArc 0.23
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TransAmiga 1.04 TrapDoor 1.50 AReceipt 1.5
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FidoNews 7-53 Page 7 31 Dec 1990
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WelMat 0.42 booz 1.01
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ConfMail 1.10
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ChameleonEdit 0.10
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ElectricHerald1.66
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Lharc 1.30
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MessageFilter 1.52
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oMMM 1.49b
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ParseLst 1.30
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PkAX 1.00
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PK[UN]ZIP 1.01
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PolyxAmy 2.02
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RMB 1.30
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RoboWriter 1.02
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Skyparse 2.30
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TrapList 1.12
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Yuck! 1.61
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Zippy (Unzip) 1.25
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Zoo 2.01
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Atari ST
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Bulletin Board Network Node List
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Software Version Mailer Version Utilities Version
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FIDOdoor/ST 2.10BT4* BinkleyTerm 2.40jr* ParseList 1.30
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QuickBBS/ST 1.02 The BOX 1.20 Xlist 1.12
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Pandora BBS 2.41c EchoFix 1.20
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GS Point 0.61
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LED ST 1.00*
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MSGED 1.96S
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Archiver Msg Format Other
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Utilities Version Converters Version Utilities Version
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LHARC 0.60 TB2BINK 1.00 ConfMail 4.02
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ARC 6.02 BINK2TB 1.00 ComScan 1.02
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PKUNZIP 1.10 FiFo 2.01b Import 1.14
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OMMM 1.40
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Pack 1.00
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FastPack 1.20
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FDsysgen 2.13
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FDrenum 2.10BT3
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Trenum 0.10
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Archimedes
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FidoNews 7-53 Page 8 31 Dec 1990
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BBS Software Mailers Utilities
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Name Version Name Version Name Version
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ARCbbs 1.44 BinkleyTerm 2.03 Unzip 2.1TH
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ARC 1.03
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!Spark 2.00d
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ParseLst 1.30
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BatchPacker 1.00
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+ Netmail capable (does not require additional mailer software)
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* Recently changed
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Utility authors: Please help keep this list up to date by
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reporting new versions to 1:1/1. It is not our intent to list
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all utilities here, only those which verge on necessity.
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FidoNews 7-53 Page 9 31 Dec 1990
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NOTICES
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The Interrupt Stack
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1 Jan 1991
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Implementation of 7% Goods and Services Tax in Canada. Contact
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Joe Lindstrom at 1:134/55 for a more colorful description.
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16 Feb 1991
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Fifth anniversary of the introduction of Echomail, by Jeff Rush.
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31 Mar 1991
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Jim Grubs (W8GRT) was issued his first ham radio license forty
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years ago today. His first station was made from an ARC-5
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"Command Set" removed from a B-17 bomber.
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12 May 1991
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Fourth anniversary of FidoNet operations in Latin America and
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second anniversary of the creation of Zone-4.
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8 Sep 1991
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25th anniversary of first airing of Star Trek on NBC!
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7 Oct 1991
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Area code 415 fragments. Alameda and Contra Costa Counties
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will begin using area code 510. This includes Oakland,
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Concord, Berkeley and Hayward. San Francisco, San Mateo,
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Marin, parts of Santa Clara County, and the San Francisco Bay
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Islands will retain area code 415.
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1 Feb 1992
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Area code 213 fragments. Western, coastal, southern and
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eastern portions of Los Angeles County will begin using area
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code 310. This includes Los Angeles International Airport,
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West Los Angeles, San Pedro and Whittier. Downtown Los
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Angeles and surrounding communities (such as Hollywood and
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Montebello) will retain area code 213.
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1 Dec 1993
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Tenth anniversary of Fido Version 1 release.
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5 Jun 1997
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David Dodell's 40th Birthday
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If you have something which you would like to see on this
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calendar, please send a message to FidoNet node 1:1/1.
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