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F I D O N E W S -- Volume 13, Number 41 7 October 1996
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| The newsletter of the | ISSN 1198-4589 Published by: |
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| FidoNet community | "FidoNews" |
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| _ | 1-904-409-7040 [1:1/23] |
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| | | \ \\ | Editor: |
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| | (*) | \ )) | Christopher Baker 1:18/14 |
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| (jm) | Newspapers should have no friends. |
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| | -- JOSEPH PULITZER |
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| Submission address: FidoNews Editor 1:1/23 |
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| MORE addresses: |
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| submissions=> cbaker84@digital.net |
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| For information, copyrights, article submissions, |
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| obtaining copies of FidoNews or the internet gateway FAQ |
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| please refer to the end of this file. |
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DON'T FORGET THE FIDONEWS EDITOR HAS MOVED!
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Table of Contents
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1. EDITORIAL ................................................ 1
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Moving still in progress - no news ....................... 1
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2. ARTICLES ................................................. 2
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Echomail nonsense ........................................ 2
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Fidonet echomail is discovered by Internet providers ..... 2
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Looking for Seimens information .......................... 4
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Progress Report on EP2 in Zone 2 ......................... 4
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3. WE GET EMAIL ............................................. 6
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GIF info for Question of the Week ........................ 6
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4. NET HUMOR ................................................ 8
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Long ago and Far Far away? DEC Wars! ..................... 8
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5. COMIX IN ASCII ........................................... 18
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The death of fidonet. . .? ............................... 18
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6. NOTICES .................................................. 19
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Future History ........................................... 19
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7. FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ................................. 20
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Latest Greatest Software Versions ........................ 20
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8. FIDONEWS PUBLIC-KEY ...................................... 28
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This Space intentionally left blank? ..................... 28
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9. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 29
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FIDONEWS 13-41 Page 1 7 Oct 1996
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EDITORIAL
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Still awaiting more ASCII art from you folks.
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Moving saga not this week. Maybe I'll be caught up by 1342? [grin]
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Enjoy the Issue.
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C.B.
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FIDONEWS 13-41 Page 2 7 Oct 1996
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ARTICLES
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Echomail nonsense
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by Lee Kindness, 2:259/7, lkindnes@csl.co.uk
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In response to Bob Moravsik's article/email...
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Well to put it simply someone who is going a bit over the top. Like
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judging a kid before the baby is even born...
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What Steve (Z2EC) posted in Fidonews was his FIRST DRAFT at a new
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echopol, nothing more. It is in force NOWHERE. You might want to
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get a feed for ECHOPOL2 and discuss your concerns in a productive
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manner, a lot of z2 will be able to supply you a feed (along with
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Z1EC).
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Steve has gone thru a couple of drafts now and we are now at a state
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of starting from scratch without the 'poison' of EP1.
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Not that i'm Steve's biggest fan mind...
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While Internet's usenet is weakening, Fido gets stronger!
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by Wouter van Marle, 2:283/317 / wvmarle@medusa.xs4all.nl
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I'd like to contribute to this newsletter. I read it all weeks, and
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well, why not contribute to it...
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As most of the contributers lately, I'm also strongly interested in
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the happenings in Internet and Fidonet. I'm a Fido user for about 2
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1/2 year now, first as a point and since dec'95 I have my own BBS. The
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main goal of the BBS is Fido mail and Internet news and e-mail (using
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uucp and gateways and all that stuff).
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Besides FidoNews, I read some Internet newsletters. The most important
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one is the dutch newsletter Daily Planet, a free newsletter from the
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dutch internet-provider Planet Internet. In this newsletter I read
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terrible stories about usenet.
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Some weeks ago, discussion was made impossible by spammers who were
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posting thousands of messages a day in various newsgroups. This makes
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discussion impossible, which is their intention. This action was
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mostly from Scientology members, against groups discussing their
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church.
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Now there are people active in cancelling (deleting) lots of messages
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posted by others. This is possible in Usenet! Strange, in fact... but
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it is used by some netabusers. They kill all mail posted in some
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newsgroups, another way of breaking down the discussions. This action
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is from (still) unknown origin, and directed agains Muslin, Kurd, and
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other ethnic discussion groups.
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More and more people are complaining about these spammers, but still
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the Internet is growing and growing and growing. It almost gets stuck
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FIDONEWS 13-41 Page 3 7 Oct 1996
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in it's own flow. At about noon local time, America wakes up. Until
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this time the WWW is usefull, and quite fast. After this time it gets
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slower and slower. But no-one complains, because most modems are still
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slower than the Net itself. And websurfers are used to waiting for
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minutes, click the mouse once, wait for another couple of minutes,
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click again, etc. And it is "great to be on the net, to be using this
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newest technology which has the future". Is it? I don't know.
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I still don't know why people are using the WWW part of Internet for
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entertainment only. I can understand people wanting to use e-mail and
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usenet, but that is a minor part of the Internet users. WWW is in my
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opinion great to find some info if you don't know where to look for
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it.
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Since about a year ago, something strange is happening. I see more and
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more Internet users appearing in Dutch and international echoes. Some
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Dutch internet providers (at least xs4all and bART) link Fido echoes
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to their customers.
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I think it was about a year ago when I found the first Internet users
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in normal Fidonet echoes. The messages are easily to detect: they all
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origin from the same node (2:281/10, the Internet gate of ElCom, a
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Dutch CSO), and the messages are all written to All.
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This also happens with international echoes, I'm linked to the PENPAL
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echo and found an Internet user there, and I suppose there are more
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interenational echoes linked (like ASIAN_LINK, INTERUSER). It takes
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about a week to recieve a foreign reply, but I never hear Internet
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users complain about "slow replies". Usually because they don't link
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to Internet every day... Other (dutch) users of the PENPAL echo
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already started a campain to give the specific user a direct Fido
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link. Benefits: better mail feed and much cheaper. I wonder what will
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happen there...
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Most echoes appear to shrink (ASIAN_LINK shrunk from 300 msgs/d two
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years ago to about 150 msg/d now) but PENPAL is growing! The number of
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messages and the number of active users grew lately a lot. The last
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two weeks about ten new users reported in the echo. Great! And the
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Penpalians are so sweet people! :-)
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There has been much discussion about the benefits of both Internet and
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Fidonet, but I think we should promote Fido more as a (mail-only)
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alternative to Internet. Or, at least, an alternative to newsgroups.
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Most BBS'es don't look that great as most WWW sites, and hopping from
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one BBS to another is not as easy as a mouseclick.
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ANSI based, fast BBS'es, are in my opinion best for our technology. A
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good alternative is the grafical RIP. They are mostly used to find
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some specific info, and all those dreading pictures are not necessary.
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But they are great to download that single driver for your strange
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soundcard from the manufacturers BBS...
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When Internet continues to behave this stupid I think Fidonet CAN have
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a great future. But we have to watch very carefully for users who are
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using computer networks for commercial purposes. We also have to make
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sure netmail is reliable, and fast. This is not that difficult if
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backbone system sysops keep in touch with each other. Which is also a
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way to make your hobby more fun!
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FIDONEWS 13-41 Page 4 7 Oct 1996
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Looking for Information: Seimens PEB2081 (ISDN S/T Interface)
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Greetings, all.
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I'm spamming the various telecommunications and software
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engineering newsgroups looping for information on this Siemens
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device. This puppy provides a pretty neat S/T interface which
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feeds into something much like a normal PCM highway except
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that rather than it being a "normal" PCM it's actually one of
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Siemens' own framed protocols, their IOM-2.
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I thought I could easily hack-up various in-house projects
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to make my home computers talk to the outside world a little
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better yet this chip has given me a major headache. Though
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I've gotten a hang of the IOM-2 interface, I can't get the
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damn chip to linkup.
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Does anyone here have experience with this device? Application
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notes or pieces of source code would help me greatly. As it
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is I think I'm dropping C/I commands for activation requests
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onto the right time slot of the PCM/IOM-2 highway and I think
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they're formatted correctly yet I don't get anything out of
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the IPDO output pin -- I should at least see the C/I channel
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offering me the current status of the linkup yet for some reason
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I get a dead flat low.
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Any help anyone can offer is greatly needed. Because I have
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spammed the world and can miss newsgroups looking for a
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response, a network email response would probably be best.
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I'm willing to sign non-disclosure agreements, by the way, and
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can pay delivery costs for FAXes and such.
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Thanks in advance for any help anyone can offer.
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Fredric L. Rice
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Ameritec, Simulations Group
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FAX: (818) 915-7181
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BBS: (818) 335-9601
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email: frice@stbbs.com
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FidoNet: 1:218/890.0
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Progress report on EP2 discussion within Z2
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Well the last 4 weeks if nothing else have certainly been active.
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After the publication of a very basic first draft of EP2, we advanced
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through 3 more drafts, before I paused to take a look at the whole
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situation.
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It has now occurred to me, that we are trying to walk before we can
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run, and everyone was coming up with suggestions, criticisms for
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replacing EP1 which is in force in Z2, and has been for as long as I
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FIDONEWS 13-41 Page 5 7 Oct 1996
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can remember.
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The whole idea of trying to replace, which general opinion has seemed
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to be that EP1 is a Dinosaur, has been a very emotive one indeed,
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there have been a myriad of views, from "total control" over echomail
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to a very "Minimalist" policy, all through this one theme has become
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apparent, be it minimalist or full the sysops of this Zone do want
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some kind of policy to replace EP1, so we are going to start all over
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again and rewrite it from the bottom upwards, the first stage will be
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just to describe the roles of ?EC chain and the moderators, once we
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have done this, we then have a frame work to build upon for the
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future.
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I noted the comments by Bob Moravsik (1:2606/583), and I will only add
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that I wasn't aware that fidonet went to other planets, I only thought
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it was confined to earth.
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How the final thing will turn out, I have no idea, but at least my
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primary aim has been achieved, we are all talking about it, and we are
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all expressing our views about what should EP should be about.
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Hopefully from this, we can distill a policy which will gain as wide
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as possible acceptance at the very least in Z2, or even perhaps
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network wide.
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I think my Z1 critic described me as a "petty little dictator"?, its
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just a pity he doesn't seem to understand two basic principles
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involved, firstly *I* am not writing policy, it is the nodes that wish
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to take an active part which are, all I am attempting to do, is to
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pull their ideas together into something cohesive.
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Secondly, what we have now, and what we have done, is almost
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certainly not what we will end up with.
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The Zone as a whole will debate, discuss & probably argue until we
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have something solid to work with, this is the whole idea of debate.
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This discussion has been taking place in an echo called "ECHOPOL2", it
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is available all over Z2, and the Z1EC`s system as well.
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Z1EC has been invited to part in this project, because we really would
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like To end up with something like P4, with network-wide acceptance.
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What will we end up with?, what will the future bring?, who knows?, i
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don't, all i do know is that we all feel strongly about it, and we are
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trying to do something about the current situation, and that in itself
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cant be all bad.
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Steve Woodmore
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Z2EC 2:2/1000
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Steve Woodmore
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http://www.proteus.demon.co.uk
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FIDONEWS 13-41 Page 6 7 Oct 1996
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WE GET EMAIL
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From: 362-708-4!Troy.H..Cheek@river.chattanooga.net (Troy H. Cheek)
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Date: 25 Sep 96 09:13:44 -0500
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Subject: GIF format
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Organization: river.chattanooga.net
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To: cbaker84@digital.net
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Howdy Christopher!
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In a recent Fidonews you mention something about the use of a GIF
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requiring royalties to Compu$erve now. As a person who has written
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and released a few programs that deal with GIF files, I tried to
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follow the developments in that area. What I heard (at various times)
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was as follows:
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1) All programs using GIFs would have to pay a royalty from
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Compu$erve. This would be $1 per copy sold per program.
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2) Sysops would have to pay a fee for every GIF stored on their
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systems.
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3) Only programs that view GIFs would have to pay.
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4) Only programs that create GIFs would have to pay.
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5) Only commercial programs that access GIFs would have to pay.
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6) Only shareware/freeware programs that use GIFs would have to pay.
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7) It is up to the end user of programs that can access GIFs to send
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in $1 to Compu$erve, but only if they actually use a GIF.
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8) GIFs are now only available through Compu$erve. It is illegal to
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make them available for download through a BBS.
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9) GIFs that are uploaded to Compu$erve may not be uploaded to a
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BBS. Individuals may privately distribute privately created GIFs, as
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long as they are never uploaded to Compu$erve.
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10) Compu$erve never had any intention of actually collecting money,
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and the whole thing was just a bunch of wild rumors.
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11) After seeing the public reaction, Compu$erve started telling
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people the whole thing was just a bunch of wild rumors.
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I'm sure there were others, but those are the ones that I remember.
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What I do know for sure is that I sent a letter to Compu$erve telling
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them I wrote GIF-related programs. I asked if they wanted me to quit
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writing such programs, pay a fee, or what. I never got a reply.
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FIDONEWS 13-41 Page 7 7 Oct 1996
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| Troy H. Cheek Voice: (423)338-2920 |||| |
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| Rt. #1, Box 409 Fidonet: 1:362/708.4 |||| |
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| Benton, TN 37307 FAX line: call voice first! //||\\ |
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| Internet: 362-708-4!Troy.H..Cheek@river.chattanooga.net // || \\ |
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+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
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--
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|Fidonet: Troy H. Cheek 1:362/708.4
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|Internet: 362-708-4!Troy.H..Cheek@river.chattanooga.net
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| Standard disclaimer: The views of this user are strictly his own.
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| River Canyon Rd. BBS <=> Chattanooga OnLine! Gateway to the World.
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FIDONEWS 13-41 Page 8 7 Oct 1996
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NET HUMOR
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From: "Mike Riddle" <mriddle@novia.net>
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To: "Baker, Christopher" <cbaker84@digital.net (Christopher Baker)>
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Date: Sun, 08 Sep 96 13:08:34 -0500
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Reply-To: "Mike Riddle" <mriddle@novia.net>
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Subject: Fwd: DEC WARS! (Fwd. from inet-access)
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==================BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE==================
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From: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
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Subject: Re: IPv8
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To: inet-access@earth.com
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Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 17:32:30 -0400 (EDT)
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A long time ago, on a node far, far away (from ucbvax)
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a great Adventure (game?) took place...
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XXXXX XXXXXX XXXX X X XX XXXXX XXXX X
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X X X X X X X X X X X X X X
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X X XXXXX X X X X X X X XXXX X
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X X X X X XX X XXXXXX XXXXX X X
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X X X X X XX XX X X X X X X
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XXXXX XXXXXX XXXX X X X X X X XXXX X
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It is a period of system war. User programs, striking from a
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hidden directory, have won their first victory against the evil
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Administrative Empire. During the battle, User spies managed to steal
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secret source code to the Empire's ultimate program: the Are-Em Star,
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a privileged root program with enough power to destroy an entire file
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structure. Pursued by the Empire's sinister audit trail, Princess
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_LPA0: races aboard her shell script, custodian of the stolen listings
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that could save her people, and restore freedom and games to the
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network...
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As we enter the scene, an Administrative Multiplexer is trying to
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kill a consulate ship. Many of their signals have gotten through, and
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RS232 decides it's time to fork off a new process before this old
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ship is destroyed. His companion, 3CPU, is following him only
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because he appears to know where he's going...
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"I'm going to regret this!" cried 3CPU, as he followed RS232
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into the buffer. RS232 closed the pipes, made the sys call, and their
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process detached itself from the burning shell of the ship.
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The commander of the Administrative Multiplexer was quite pleased
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with the attack. "Another process just forked, sir. Instructions?"
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asked the lieutenant. "Hold your fire. That last power failure
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FIDONEWS 13-41 Page 9 7 Oct 1996
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must have caused a trap through zero. It's not using any cpu time, so
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don't waste a signal on it."
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"We can't seem to find the data file anywhere, Lord Vadic."
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"What about that forked process? It could have been holding the
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channel open, and just pausing. If any links exist, I want them
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removed or made inaccessible. Ncheck the entire file system
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'til it's found, and nice it -20 if you have to."
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Meanwhile, in our wandering process... "Are you sure you
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can ptrace this thing without causing a core dump?" queried 3CPU
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to RS232. This thing's been stripped, and I'm in no mood to try
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and debug it." The lone process finishes execution, only to find
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our friends dumped on a lonely file system, with the setuid inode
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stored safely in RS232. Not knowing what else to do, they wandered
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around until the jawas grabbed them.
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Enter our hero, Luke Vaxhacker, who is out to get some
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replacement parts for his uncle. The jawas wanted to sell him 3CPU,
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but 3CPU didn't know how to talk directly to an 11/40 with RSTS, so
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Luke would still needed some sort of interface for 3CPU to connect to.
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"How about this little RS232 unit ?" asked 3CPU. "I've dealt with him
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many times before, and he does an excellent job at keeping his bits
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straight." Luke was pressed for time, so he took 3CPU's advice, and
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the three left before they could get swapped out.
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However, RS232 is not the type to stay put once you remove
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the retaining screws. He promptly scurried off into the deserted
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disk space. "Great!" cried Luke, "Now I've got this little tin box
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with the only link to that file off floating in the free disk space.
|
||
Well, 3CPU, we better go find him before he gets allocated by someone
|
||
else." The two set off, and finally traced RS232 to the home of
|
||
PDP-1 Kenobi, who was busily trying to run an icheck on the little
|
||
RS unit. "Is this thing yours? His indirect addresses are all goofed
|
||
up, and the size is all wrong. Leave things like this on the loose,
|
||
and you'll wind up with dups everywhere. However, I think I've got
|
||
him fixed up."
|
||
|
||
-------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
Later that evening, after futile attempts to interface RS232 to
|
||
Kenobi's Asteroids cartridge, Luke accidentally crossed the small
|
||
'droid's CXR and Initiate Remote Test (must have been all that Coke
|
||
he'd consumed), and the screen showed a very distressed person
|
||
claiming royal lineage making a plea for help from some General OS/1
|
||
Kenobi.
|
||
|
||
"Darn," mumbled Luke. "I'll never get this Asteroids game worked
|
||
out."
|
||
|
||
PDP-1 seemed to think there was some significance to the message
|
||
and a possible threat to Luke's home directory. If the Administrative
|
||
Empire was indeed tracing this 'droid, it was likely they would more
|
||
than charge for cpu time...
|
||
|
||
"We must get that 'droid off this file system," he said after some
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||
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|
||
|
||
|
||
intervals. They sped off to warn Luke's kin (taking a `relative'
|
||
path) only to find a vacant directory...
|
||
|
||
-------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
After sifting through the overwritten remaining blocks of Luke's
|
||
home directory, Luke and PDP-1 sped away from /owen/lars, across the
|
||
surface of the Winchester riding Luke's flying read/write head. PDP-1
|
||
had Luke stop at the edge of the cylinder overlooking /usr/spool/uucp.
|
||
|
||
"Unix-to-Unix Copy Program," said PDP-1. "You will never find a
|
||
more wretched hive of bugs and flamers. We must be cautious."
|
||
|
||
As our heroes' process entered /usr/spool/news, it was met by a
|
||
newsgroup of Administrative protection bits.
|
||
|
||
"State your UID," commanded their parent process.
|
||
|
||
"We're running under /usr/guest," said Luke. "This is our first
|
||
time on this system."
|
||
|
||
"Can I see some temporary privileges, please?"
|
||
|
||
"Uh..."
|
||
|
||
"This is not the process you are looking for," piped in PDP-1,
|
||
using an obscure bug to momentarily set his effective UID to root.
|
||
"We can go about our business."
|
||
|
||
"This isn't the process we want. You are free to go about your
|
||
business. MOV along!"
|
||
|
||
PDP-1 and Luke made their way through a long and tortuous nodelist
|
||
(cwruecmp!decvax!ucbvax!harpo!ihnss!ihnsc!ihnss!ihps3!stolaf)
|
||
to a dangerous netnode frequented by hackers, and seldom polled by
|
||
Administrative Multiplexers. As Luke stepped up to the bus, PDP-1
|
||
went in search of a likely file descriptor. Luke had never seen such
|
||
a collection of weird and exotic device drivers. Long ones, short
|
||
ones, ones with stacks, EBCDIC converters, and direct binary
|
||
interfaces all were drinking data at the bus.
|
||
|
||
"#@{ *&^%^$$#@ ":><?><," transmitted a particularly unstructured
|
||
piece of code.
|
||
|
||
"He doesn't like you," decoded his coroutine.
|
||
|
||
"Sorry," replied Luke, beginning to backup his partitions.
|
||
|
||
"I don't like you either. I am queued for deletion on 12
|
||
systems."
|
||
|
||
"I'll be careful."
|
||
|
||
"You'll be reallocated!" concatenated the coroutine.
|
||
|
||
"This little routine isn't worth the overhead," said PDP-1 Kenobi,
|
||
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|
||
|
||
|
||
overlaying into Luke's address space.
|
||
|
||
"@$%&(&^%&$$@$#@$AV^$gfdfRW$#@!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" encoded the first
|
||
coroutine as it attempted to overload PDP-1's input overvoltage
|
||
protection. With a unary stroke of his bytesaber, Kenobi unlinked
|
||
the offensive code.
|
||
|
||
"I think I've found an I/O device that might suit us."
|
||
|
||
"The name's Con Solo," said the hacker next to PDP-1. "I hear
|
||
you're looking for some relocation."
|
||
|
||
"Yes indeed, if it's a fast channel. We must get off this
|
||
device."
|
||
|
||
"Fast channel? The Milliamp Falcon has made the ARPA gate in less
|
||
than twelve nodes! Why, I've even outrun cancelled messages. It's
|
||
fast enough for you, old version."
|
||
|
||
Our heroes, Luke Vaxhacker and PDP-1 Kenobi made their way to the
|
||
temporary file structure. When he saw the hardware, Luke exclaimed,
|
||
"What a piece of junk! That's just a paper tape reader!"
|
||
|
||
-------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
Luke had grown up on an out of the way terminal cluster whose
|
||
natives spoke only BASIC, but even he could recognize an old ASR-33.
|
||
|
||
"It needs an EIA conversion at least," sniffed 3CPU, who was (as
|
||
usual) trying to do several things at once. Lights flashed in Con
|
||
Solo's eyes as he whirled to face the parallel processor.
|
||
|
||
"I've added a few jumpers. The Milliamp Falcon can run current
|
||
loops around any Administrative TTY fighter. She's fast enough for
|
||
you."
|
||
|
||
"Who's your co-pilot?" asked PDP-1 Kenobi.
|
||
|
||
"Two Bacco, here, my Bookie."
|
||
|
||
"Odds aren't good," said the brownish lump beside him, and then
|
||
fell silent, or over. Luke couldn't tell which way was top underneath
|
||
all those leaves.
|
||
|
||
Suddenly, RS232 started spacing wildly. They turned just in time
|
||
to see a write cycle coming down the UNIBUS toward them.
|
||
"Administrative Bus Signals!" shouted Con Solo. "Let's boot this pop
|
||
stand! Tooie, set clock fast!"
|
||
|
||
"Ok, Con," said Luke. "You said this crate was fast enough. Get
|
||
us out of here!"
|
||
|
||
"Shut up, kid! Two Bacco, prepare to make the jump into system
|
||
space! I'll try to keep their buffers full."
|
||
|
||
As the bookie began to compute the vectors into low core, spurious
|
||
FIDONEWS 13-41 Page 12 7 Oct 1996
|
||
|
||
|
||
characters appeared around the Milliamp Falcon. "They're firing!"
|
||
shouted Luke. "Can't you do something?"
|
||
|
||
"Making the jump to system space takes time, kid. One missed
|
||
cycle and you could come down right in the middle of a pack of stack
|
||
frames!"
|
||
|
||
"Three to five we can go now," said the bookie. Bright chunks of
|
||
position independent code flashed by the cockpit as the Milliamp
|
||
Falcon jumped through the kernel page tables. As the crew breathed a
|
||
sigh of relief, the bookie started paying off bets.
|
||
|
||
"Not bad, for an acoustically coupled network," remarked 3CPU.
|
||
"Though there was a little phase jitter as we changed parity."
|
||
|
||
-------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
The story thus far: Luke, PDP-1 and their 'droids RS232 and 3CPU
|
||
have made good their escape from the Administrative Bus Signals with
|
||
the aid of Con Solo and the bookie, Two Bacco. The Milliamp Falcon
|
||
hurtles onward through system space. Meanwhile, on a distant page in
|
||
user space...
|
||
|
||
Princess _LPA0: was ushered into the conference room, followed
|
||
closely by Dec Vadic. "Governor Tarchive," she spat, "I should have
|
||
expected to find you holding Vadics lead. I recognized your unique
|
||
pattern when I was first brought aboard." She eyed the 0177545
|
||
tattooed on his header coldly.
|
||
|
||
"Charming to the last," Tarchive declared menacingly. "Vadic,
|
||
have you retrieved any information?"
|
||
|
||
"Her resistance to the logic probe is considerable," Vadic rasped.
|
||
"Perhaps we would get faster results if we increased the supply
|
||
voltage..."
|
||
|
||
"You've had your chance, Vadic. Now I would like the princess to
|
||
witness the test that will make this workstation fully operational.
|
||
Today we enable the -r beam option, and we've chosen the princess'
|
||
$HOME of /usr/alderaan as the primary target."
|
||
|
||
"No! You can't! /usr/alderaan is a public account, with no
|
||
restricted permissions. We have no backup tapes! You can't..."
|
||
|
||
"Then name the rebel inode!" Tarchive snapped.
|
||
|
||
A voice announced over a hidden speaker that they had arrived in
|
||
/usr.
|
||
|
||
"1248," she whispered, "They're on /dev/rm3. Inode 1248,
|
||
/mnt/dantooine." She turned away.
|
||
|
||
Tarchive sighed with satisfaction. "There, you see, Lord Vadic?
|
||
She can be reasonable. Proceed with the operation."
|
||
|
||
It took several clock ticks for the words to penetrate. "What!"
|
||
FIDONEWS 13-41 Page 13 7 Oct 1996
|
||
|
||
|
||
_LPA0: gasped.
|
||
|
||
"/dev/rm3 is not a mounted filesystem," Tarchive explained. "We
|
||
require a more visible subject to demonstrate the power of the Are-Em
|
||
Star workstation. We will mount an attack on /mnt/dantooine as soon
|
||
as possible."
|
||
|
||
As the princess watched, Tarchive reached over and typed "ls" on a
|
||
nearby terminal. There was a brief pause, there being only one
|
||
processor on board, and the viewscreen showed, ".: not found." The
|
||
princess suddenly double-spaced and went off-line.
|
||
|
||
-------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
The Milliamp Falcon hurtles on through system space...
|
||
|
||
Con Solo finished checking the various control and status
|
||
registers, finally convinced himself that they had lost the Bus
|
||
Signals as they passed the terminator. As he returned from the I/O
|
||
page, he smelled smoke. Solo wasn't concerned--the Bookie always got
|
||
a little hot under the collar when he was losing at chess. In fact,
|
||
RS232 had just executed a particularly clever MOV that had blocked the
|
||
Bookie's data paths. The Bookie, who had been setting the odds on the
|
||
game, was caught holding all the cards. A little strange for a chess
|
||
game...
|
||
|
||
Across the room, Luke was too busy practicing bit-slice technique
|
||
to notice the commotion.
|
||
|
||
"On a word boundary, Luke," said PDP-1. "Don't just hack at it.
|
||
Remember, the Bytesaber is the weapon of the Red-eye Night. It is
|
||
used to trim offensive lines of code. Excess handwaving won't get you
|
||
anywhere. Listen for the Carrier."
|
||
|
||
Luke turned back to the drone, which was humming quietly in the
|
||
air next to him. This time Luke's actions complemented the drone's
|
||
attacks perfectly.
|
||
|
||
Con Solo, being an unimaginative hacker, was not impressed.
|
||
"Forget this bit-slicing stuff. Give me a good ROM blaster any day."
|
||
|
||
"~~j~~hhji~~," said Kenobi, with no clear inflection. He fell
|
||
silent for a few seconds, and reasserted his control.
|
||
|
||
"What happened?" asked Luke.
|
||
|
||
"Strange," said PDP-1. "I felt a momentary glitch in the Carrier.
|
||
It's equalized now."
|
||
|
||
"We're coming up on user space," called Solo from the CSR. As
|
||
they cruised safely through stack frames, the emerged in the new
|
||
context only to be bombarded by freeblocks.
|
||
|
||
"What the..." gasped Solo. The screen showed clearly:
|
||
/usr/alderaan: not found "It's the right inode, but it's been cleared!
|
||
Twoie, where's the nearest file?"
|
||
FIDONEWS 13-41 Page 14 7 Oct 1996
|
||
|
||
|
||
"3 to 5 there's one..." the Bookie started to say, but was
|
||
interrupted by a bright flash off to the left.
|
||
|
||
"Administrative TTY fighters!" shouted Solo. "A whole DZ of them!
|
||
Where are they coming from?"
|
||
|
||
"Can't be far from the host system," said Kenobi. "They all have
|
||
direct EIA connections."
|
||
|
||
As Solo began to give chase, the ship lurched suddenly. Luke
|
||
noticed the link count was at 3 and climbing rapidly.
|
||
|
||
"This is no regular file," murmured Kenobi. "Look at the ODS
|
||
directory structure ahead! They seem to have us in a tractor feed."
|
||
|
||
"There's no way we'll unlink in time," said Solo. "We're going
|
||
in."
|
||
|
||
-------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
When we last left Luke, the Milliamp Falcon was being pulled down
|
||
to the open collector of the Administrative Are-Em Star Workstation.
|
||
Dec Vadic surveys the relic as Administrative Flunkies search for
|
||
passengers...
|
||
|
||
"LS scan shows no one aboard, sir," was the report. Vadic was
|
||
unconvinced.
|
||
|
||
"Send a fully equipped Ncheck squad on board," he said. "I want
|
||
every inode checked out." He turned around (secondary channel) and
|
||
stalked off.
|
||
|
||
On board the Milliamp Falcon, .Luke was puzzled. "They just
|
||
walked in, looked around and walked off," he said. "Why didn't they
|
||
see us?"
|
||
|
||
.Con smiled. "An old munchkin trick," he explained. "See that
|
||
period in front of your name?"
|
||
|
||
.Luke spun around, just in time to see the decimal point.
|
||
"Where'd that come from?" he asked.
|
||
|
||
"Spare decimal points lying around from the last time I fixed the
|
||
floating point accelerator," said .Con. "Handy for smuggling blocks
|
||
across file system boundaries, but I never thought I'd have to use
|
||
them on myself. They aren't going to be fooled for long, though.
|
||
We'd better figure a way outta here."
|
||
|
||
-----------------------------------------
|
||
At this point (.) the dialogue tends to wedge. Being the editor
|
||
and in total control of the situation, I think it would be best if we
|
||
sort of gronk the next few paragraphs. For those who care, our heroes
|
||
find themselves in a terminal room of the Workstation, having thrashed
|
||
several Flunkies to get there. For the rest of you, just keep banging
|
||
the rocks together, guys. --Ed.
|
||
-----------------------------------------
|
||
FIDONEWS 13-41 Page 15 7 Oct 1996
|
||
|
||
|
||
"Hold on," said Con. "It says we have `new mail.' Is that an
|
||
error?"
|
||
|
||
"%SYS-W-NORMAL, Normal, successful completion," said PDP-1.
|
||
"Doesn't look like it. I've found the inode for the Milliamp Falcon.
|
||
It's locked in kernel data space. I'll have to slip in and patch the
|
||
reference count, alone." He disappeared through a nearby entry point.
|
||
|
||
Meanwhile, RS232 found a serial port and logged in. His bell
|
||
started ringing loudly. "He keeps saying, `She's on line, she's on
|
||
line'," said 3CPU. "I believe he means Princess _LPA0:. She's being
|
||
held on one of the privileged levels."
|
||
|
||
-----------------------------------------
|
||
Once again, things get sticky, and the dialogue suffers the most
|
||
damage. After much handwaving and general flaming, they agree to
|
||
rescue her. They headed for the detention level, posing as Flunkies
|
||
(which is hard for most hackers) claiming that they had trapped the
|
||
Bookie executing an illegal racket. They reached the block where the
|
||
Princess was locked up and found only two guards in the header. --Ed.
|
||
-----------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
"Good day, eh?" said the first guard.
|
||
|
||
"How's it goin', eh?" said the other. "Like, what's that, eh?"
|
||
|
||
"Process transfer from block 1138, dev 10/9," said Con.
|
||
|
||
"Take off, it is not," said the first guard. "Nobody told US
|
||
about it, and we're not morons, eh?"
|
||
|
||
At this point (.), the Bookie started raving wildly, Con shouted
|
||
"Look out, he's loose!" and they all started blasting ROMs left and
|
||
right. The guards started to catch on and were about to issue a
|
||
general wakeup when the ROM blasters were turned on them.
|
||
|
||
"Quickly, now," said Con. "What buffer is she in? It's not going
|
||
to take long for these..."
|
||
|
||
The intercom receiver interrupted him, so he took out its firmware
|
||
with a short blast.
|
||
|
||
"guys to figure out something is goin' on," he continued.
|
||
|
||
-------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
Ok, like, remember we left our heroes in the detention priority
|
||
level? Well, they're still there...
|
||
|
||
Luke quickly located the interface card and followed the cables to
|
||
a sound-proof enclosure. He lifted the lid and peered at the
|
||
mechanism inside.
|
||
|
||
"Aren't you a little slow for ECL?" printed princess _LPA0:.
|
||
|
||
"Wha? Oh, the Docksiders," stammered Luke. He took off his shoes
|
||
FIDONEWS 13-41 Page 16 7 Oct 1996
|
||
|
||
|
||
(for industry) and explained, "I've come relocate you. I'm Luke
|
||
Vaxhacker."
|
||
|
||
Suddenly, forms started bursting around them. "They've blocked
|
||
the queue!" shouted Solo. "There's only one return from this stack!"
|
||
|
||
"OVER HERE!" printed _LPA0: with overstrikes. "THROUGH THIS
|
||
LOOPHOLE!" Luke and the princess disappeared into a nearby feature.
|
||
|
||
"Gritch, gritch," mumbled Two Bacco, obviously reluctant to trust
|
||
an Administrative oversight.
|
||
|
||
"I don't care how crufty it is!" shouted Con, pushing the Bookie
|
||
toward the crock. "DPB yourself in there now!"
|
||
|
||
With one last blast that reprogrammed two flunkies, Con joined
|
||
them. The "feature" landed them right in the middle of the garbage
|
||
collection data. Pieces of data that hadn't been used in weeks
|
||
floated past in a pool of decaying bits.
|
||
|
||
"Bletch!" was Con's first comment. "Bletch, bletch," was his
|
||
second. The Bookie looked as if he'd just paid a long shot, and the
|
||
odds in this situation weren't much better.
|
||
|
||
Luke was polling the garbage when he stumbled upon a book with the
|
||
words "Don't Panic" inscribed in large, friendly letters on the cover.
|
||
"This can't possibly help us now," he said as he tossed the book away.
|
||
|
||
The Bookie was about to lay odds on it when Luke suddenly
|
||
disappeared. He popped up across the pool, shouting, "This is no
|
||
feature! It's a bug!" and promptly vanished again.
|
||
|
||
Con and the princess were about to panic() when Luke reappeared.
|
||
"What happened?" they asked in parallel.
|
||
|
||
"I don't know," gasped Luke. "The bug just dissolved
|
||
automagically. Maybe it hit a breakpoint..."
|
||
|
||
"I don't think so," said Con. "Look how the pool is shrinking.
|
||
I've got a bad feeling about this..."
|
||
|
||
The princess was the first to realize what was going on. "They've
|
||
implemented a new compaction algorithm!" she exclaimed.
|
||
|
||
Luke remembered the pipe he had open to 3CPU. "Shut down garbage
|
||
collection on recursion level 5!" he shouted.
|
||
|
||
Back in the control room, RS232 searched the process table for the
|
||
lisp interpreter. "Hurry," sent 3CPU. "Hurry, hurry," added his
|
||
other two processors. RS232 found the interpreter, interrupted it,
|
||
and altered the stack frame they'd fallen into to allow a normal
|
||
return.
|
||
|
||
-------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
Meanwhile, PDP-1 made his way deep into the core of the
|
||
FIDONEWS 13-41 Page 17 7 Oct 1996
|
||
|
||
|
||
Workstation, slipping from context to context, undetected through his
|
||
manipulation of label_t. Finally, causing a random trap (through
|
||
nofault of his own) he arrived at the inode table. Activity there was
|
||
always high, but the Spl6 sentries were too secure in their knowledge
|
||
that no user could interrupt them to notice the bug that PDP-1
|
||
carefully introduced. On a passing iput, he adjusted the device and
|
||
inode numbers, maintaining parity, to free the Milliamp Falcon. They
|
||
would be long gone before the locked inode was diagnosed...
|
||
|
||
Unobserved, he began traversing user structures to find the
|
||
process where the Milliamp Falcon was grounded. Finding it and
|
||
switching context, he discovered his priority weakened suddenly.
|
||
"That's not very nice," was all he could say before the cause of the
|
||
obstruction became clear.
|
||
|
||
"I have been pausing a long time, PDP-1 Kenobi," rasped Dec Vadic.
|
||
"We meet again at last. The circuit has been completed."
|
||
|
||
They looped several times, locking byte sabers. Bit by bit, PDP-1
|
||
appeared to weaken. The fight had come into the address space of the
|
||
Milliamp Falcon, and provided the .di (diversion?) that allowed Luke
|
||
and the others to reassert control. Luke paused to watch the
|
||
conflict.
|
||
|
||
"If my blade finds its mark," warned Kenobi, "you will be reduced
|
||
to so many bits. But if you slice me down, I will only gain computing
|
||
power."
|
||
|
||
"Your documentation no longer confuses me, old version," growled
|
||
Vadic. "my Role MASTER now."
|
||
|
||
With one stroke, Vadic sliced Kenobi's last word. Unfortunately,
|
||
the word was still in Kenobi's throat. The word fell clean in two,
|
||
but Kenobi was nowhere to be found. Vadic noticed his victim's uid go
|
||
negative, just before he disappeared. Odd, he thought, since uids
|
||
were unsigned...
|
||
|
||
Luke witnessed all this, and had to be dragged into the Milliamp
|
||
Falcon. Con Solo and Two Bacco maneuvered the Milliamp Falcon out of
|
||
the process, onto the bus and made straight for system space. 3CPU
|
||
and RS232 were idle, for once. Princess _LPA0: tried to print
|
||
comforting things for him, but Luke was still hung from the loss of
|
||
his friend. Then, seemingly from nowhere, he thought he heard PDP-1's
|
||
voice say,
|
||
|
||
May the carrier be with you."
|
||
|
||
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|
||
|
||
|
||
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|
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|
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FIDONEWS 13-41 Page 18 7 Oct 1996
|
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|
||
|
||
=================================================================
|
||
COMIX IN ASCII
|
||
=================================================================
|
||
|
||
|
||
The death of fidonet. . .?
|
||
By Anonymous =), 1:203/6666.0
|
||
|
||
( )
|
||
( )
|
||
/----\
|
||
\====/
|
||
| |
|
||
,-' -,
|
||
||,WWW,||
|
||
|-//|\\-| <- internet
|
||
|/__|__\|
|
||
// \\
|
||
,-----,-------,\
|
||
\/o o\//fido<__) <- fidonet (sigh)
|
||
\./ mm---.mm\\
|
||
|
||
//================\\
|
||
|
||
//====================\\
|
||
|
||
-end of pix-
|
||
|
||
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|
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|
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FIDONEWS 13-41 Page 19 7 Oct 1996
|
||
|
||
|
||
=================================================================
|
||
NOTICES
|
||
=================================================================
|
||
|
||
Future History
|
||
|
||
12 Oct 1996
|
||
General Elections, New Zealand.
|
||
|
||
29 Oct 1996
|
||
Republic Day, Turkey.
|
||
|
||
5 Nov 1996
|
||
Election day, U.S.A.
|
||
|
||
5 Nov 1996
|
||
Guy Fawkes Day, England.
|
||
|
||
1 Dec 1996
|
||
Twelfth Anniversary of FidoNews Volume 1, Issue 1.
|
||
|
||
12 Dec 1996
|
||
Constitution Day, Russia
|
||
|
||
26 Jan 1997
|
||
Australia Day, Australia.
|
||
|
||
6 Feb 1997
|
||
Waitangi Day, New Zealand.
|
||
|
||
16 Feb 1997
|
||
Eleventh Anniversary of invention of Echomail by Jeff Rush.
|
||
|
||
29 Feb 1997
|
||
Nothing will happen on this day.
|
||
|
||
11 Jun 1997
|
||
Independence Day, Russia
|
||
|
||
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.
|
||
|
||
15 Sep 2000
|
||
Sydney (Australia) Summer Olympiad opens.
|
||
|
||
-- If YOU have something which you would like to see in this
|
||
Future History, please send a note to the FidoNews Editor.
|
||
|
||
-----------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
FIDONEWS 13-41 Page 20 7 Oct 1996
|
||
|
||
|
||
=================================================================
|
||
FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING
|
||
=================================================================
|
||
|
||
|
||
Latest Greatest Software Versions
|
||
by Peter E. Popovich, 1:363/264
|
||
|
||
Haven't heard anything about Apple CP/M yet. Sigh. I think the
|
||
"throw out the old info section" folks are going to start winning.
|
||
|
||
By the way, Dennis McClain-Furmanski, the fellow listed as the
|
||
contact for Apple II software, is no longer nodelisted.
|
||
|
||
Phased out this week: GSBBS 3.02
|
||
|
||
Phase-out highlights:
|
||
This week: Apple II Software Deadline for info: 18 Oct 1996.
|
||
Last week: Apple CP/M Software Deadline for info: 11 Oct 1996.
|
||
|
||
-=- 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 S Contact Name Node Magic Name
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
Act-Up 4.6 G D Chris Gunn 1:15/55 ACT-UP
|
||
CheckPnt 0.5 beta O F Michiel van der Vlist
|
||
2:500/9 CHECKPNT
|
||
FidoBBS (tm) 12u B S Ray Brown 1:1/117 FILES
|
||
FrontDoor 2.12 M S Joaquim Homrighausen
|
||
2:201/330 FD
|
||
FrontDoor 2.20c M C Joaquim Homrighausen
|
||
2:201/330 FDINFO
|
||
GIGO 07-14-96 G S Jason Fesler 1:1/141 INFO
|
||
Imail 1.75 T S Michael McCabe 1:297/11 IMAIL
|
||
ImCrypt 1.04 O F Michiel van der Vlist
|
||
2:500/9 IMCRYPT
|
||
InfoMail 1.11 O F Damian Walker 2:2502/666 INFOMAIL
|
||
InterEcho 1.19 T C Peter Stewart 1:369/35 IEDEMO
|
||
FIDONEWS 13-41 Page 21 7 Oct 1996
|
||
|
||
|
||
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
|
||
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
|
||
MakePl 1.8 N F Michiel van der Vlist
|
||
2:500/9 MAKEPL
|
||
Marena 1.1 beta O F Michiel van der Vlist
|
||
2:500/9 MARENA
|
||
Maximus 3.01 B P Gary Gilmore 1:1/119 MAX
|
||
McMail g5 M S Michael McCabe 1:1/148 MCMAIL
|
||
MsgEd 4.00 O F Paul Edwards 3:711/934 MSGED
|
||
Opus CBCS 1.73a B P Christopher Baker 1:374/14 OPUS
|
||
O/T-Track 2.63a O S Peter Hampf 2:241/1090 OT
|
||
PcMerge 2.7 N F Michiel van der Vlist
|
||
2:500/9 PCMERGE
|
||
PlatinumXpress 1.1 M C Gary Petersen 1:290/111 PX11TD.ZIP
|
||
RAR 2.00 C S Ron Dwight 2:220/22 RAR
|
||
Silver Xpress
|
||
Door 5.4 O S Gary Petersen 1:290/111 FILES
|
||
Reader 4.3 O S Gary Petersen 1:290/111 SXR43.ZIP
|
||
Squish 1.11 T P Gary Gilmore 1:1/119 SQUISH
|
||
Terminate 4.00 O S Bo Bendtsen 2:254/261 TERMINATE
|
||
Tobruk 0.33 T F Paul Edwards 3:711/934 TOBRUK
|
||
TriBBS 10.0 B S Patrick Driscoll 1:372/19 TRIBBS
|
||
TriDog 10.0 M S Patrick Driscoll 1:372/19 TRIDOG
|
||
TriToss 10.0 T S Patrick Driscoll 1:372/19 TRITOSS
|
||
WWIV 4.24a B S Craig Dooley 1:376/126 WWIV
|
||
|
||
OS/2:
|
||
Program Name Version F S Contact Name Node Magic Name
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
GIGO 07-14-96 G S Jason Fesler 1:1/141 INFO
|
||
ImCrypt 1.04 O F Michiel van der Vlist
|
||
2:500/9 IMCRYPT
|
||
Maximus 3.01 B P Gary Gilmore 1:1/119 MAXP
|
||
MsgEd 4.00 O F Paul Edwards 3:711/934 MSGED
|
||
PcMerge 2.3 N F Michiel van der Vlist
|
||
2:500/9 PCMERGE
|
||
RAR 2.00 C S Ron Dwight 2:220/22 RAR2
|
||
Squish 1.11 T P Gary Gilmore 1:1/119 SQUISHP
|
||
Tobruk 0.33 T F Paul Edwards 3:711/934 TOBRUK
|
||
|
||
Windows (32-bit apps):
|
||
Program Name Version F S Contact Name Node Magic Name
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
Maximus 3.01 B P Gary Gilmore 1:1/119 MAXN
|
||
PlatinumXpress 2.00 M C Gary Petersen 1:290/111 PXW-INFO
|
||
|
||
Unix:
|
||
Program Name Version F S Contact Name Node Magic Name
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
ifmail 2.8f M G Eugene Crosser 2:293/2219 IFMAIL
|
||
ifmail-tx 2.8f-tx7.7 M G Pablo Saratxaga 2:293/2219 IFMAILTX
|
||
MsgEd 4.00 O F Paul Edwards 3:711/934 MSGED
|
||
Tobruk 0.33 T F Paul Edwards 3:711/934 TOBRUK
|
||
FIDONEWS 13-41 Page 22 7 Oct 1996
|
||
|
||
|
||
Amiga:
|
||
Program Name Version F S Contact Name Node Magic Name
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
MsgEd 4.00 O F Paul Edwards 3:711/934 MSGED
|
||
Tobruk 0.33 T F Paul Edwards 3:711/934 TOBRUK
|
||
|
||
F: B-BBS, M-Mailer, N-Nodelist, G-Gateway, T-Tosser, C-Compression,
|
||
O-Other. Note: Multifunction will be listed by the first match.
|
||
S: P-Free for personal use, F-Freeware, S-Shareware, C-Commercial,
|
||
X-Crippleware, D-Demoware, G-Source
|
||
|
||
|
||
Old info from: 01/27/92
|
||
---------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
MS-DOS Systems
|
||
--------------
|
||
|
||
BBS Software NodeList Utilities Other Utilities
|
||
Name Version Name Version Name Version
|
||
-------------------- -------------------- --------------------
|
||
Kitten 1.01 EditNL 4.00 MailBase 4.11a@
|
||
Lynx 1.30 FDND 1.10 MSG 4.5*
|
||
Merlin 1.39n MakeNL 2.31 MsgLnk 1.0c
|
||
Oracomm 5.M.6P@ Parselst 1.33 MsgMstr 2.03a
|
||
Oracomm Plus 6.E@ Prune 1.40 MsgNum 4.16d
|
||
PCBoard 14.5a SysNL 3.14 MSGTOSS 1.3
|
||
Phoenix 1.07* XlatList 2.90 Netsex 2.00b
|
||
ProBoard 1.20* XlaxNode/Diff 2.53 OFFLINE 1.35
|
||
QuickBBS 2.75 Oliver 1.0a
|
||
RBBS 17.3b Other Utilities OSIRIS CBIS 3.02
|
||
RemoteAccess 1.11* Name Version PKInsert 7.10
|
||
SimplexBBS 1.05 -------------------- PolyXarc 2.1a
|
||
SLBBS 2.15C* 2DAPoint 1.50* QM 1.00a
|
||
Socrates 1.11 4Dog/4DMatrix 1.18 QSort 4.04
|
||
SuperBBS 1.12* ARCAsim 2.31 RAD Plus 2.11
|
||
SuperComm 0.99 ARCmail 3.00* Raid 1.00
|
||
TAG 2.5g Areafix 1.20 RBBSMail 18.0
|
||
TBBS 2.1 ConfMail 4.00 ScanToss 1.28
|
||
TComm/TCommNet 3.4 Crossnet 1.5 ScMail 1.00
|
||
Telegard 2.7* DOMAIN 1.42 ScEdit 1.12
|
||
TPBoard 6.1 DEMM 1.06 Sirius 1.0x
|
||
WildCat! 3.02* DGMM 1.06 SLMail 2.15C
|
||
XBBS 1.77 DOMAIN 1.42 StarLink 1.01
|
||
EEngine 0.32 TagMail 2.41
|
||
Network Mailers EMM 2.11* TCOMMail 2.2
|
||
Name Version EZPoint 2.1 Telemail 1.5*
|
||
-------------------- FGroup 1.00 TGroup 1.13
|
||
BinkleyTerm 2.50 FidoPCB 1.0s@ TIRES 3.11
|
||
D'Bridge 1.30 FNPGate 2.70 TMail 1.21
|
||
Dreamer 1.06 GateWorks 3.06e TosScan 1.00
|
||
Dutchie 2.90c GMail 2.05 UFGATE 1.03
|
||
Milqtoast 1.00 GMD 3.10 VPurge 4.09e
|
||
PreNM 1.48 GMM 1.21 WEdit 2.0@
|
||
SEAdog 4.60 GoldEd 2.31p WildMail 2.00
|
||
SEAmail 1.01 GROUP 2.23 WMail 2.2
|
||
FIDONEWS 13-41 Page 23 7 Oct 1996
|
||
|
||
|
||
TIMS 1.0(mod8) GUS 1.40 WNode 2.1
|
||
Harvey's Robot 4.10 XRS 4.99
|
||
Compression HeadEdit 1.18 XST 2.3e
|
||
Utilities HLIST 1.09 YUPPIE! 2.00
|
||
Name Version ISIS 5.12@ ZmailH 1.25
|
||
-------------------- Lola 1.01d ZSX 2.40
|
||
ARC 7.12 Mosaic 1.00b
|
||
ARJ 2.20
|
||
LHA 2.13
|
||
PAK 2.51
|
||
PKPak 3.61
|
||
PKZip 1.10
|
||
|
||
|
||
OS/2 Systems
|
||
------------
|
||
|
||
BBS Software Other Utilities(A-M Other Utilities(N-Z)
|
||
Name Version Name Version Name Version
|
||
-------------------- -------------------- --------------------
|
||
Kitten 1.01 ARC 7.12 oMMM 1.52
|
||
SimplexBBS 1.04.02+ ARC2 6.01 Omail 3.1
|
||
ConfMail 4.00 Parselst 1.33
|
||
EchoStat 6.0 PKZip 1.02
|
||
Network Mailers EZPoint 2.1 PMSnoop 1.30
|
||
Name Version FGroup 1.00 PolyXOS2 2.1a
|
||
-------------------- GROUP 2.23 QSort 2.1
|
||
BinkleyTerm 2.50 LH2 2.11 Raid 1.0
|
||
BinkleyTerm(S) 2.50 MSG 4.2 Remapper 1.2
|
||
BinkleyTerm/2-MT MsgLink 1.0c Tick 2.0
|
||
1.40.02 MsgNum 4.16d VPurge 4.09e
|
||
SEAmail 1.01
|
||
|
||
|
||
Xenix/Unix 386
|
||
--------------
|
||
|
||
BBS Software Network Mailers Other Utilities
|
||
Name Version Name Version Name Version
|
||
-------------------- -------------------- --------------------
|
||
ARC 5.21
|
||
C-LHARC 1.00
|
||
|Contact: Willy Paine 1:343/15,| MSGLINK 1.01
|
||
|or Eddy van Loo 2:285/406 | oMMM 1.42
|
||
Omail 1.00
|
||
ParseLst 1.32
|
||
Unzip 3.10
|
||
VPurge 4.08
|
||
Zoo 2.01
|
||
|
||
|
||
QNX
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
BBS Software Network Mailers Other Utilities
|
||
Name Version Name Version Name Version
|
||
FIDONEWS 13-41 Page 24 7 Oct 1996
|
||
|
||
|
||
-------------------- -------------------- --------------------
|
||
QTach2 1.09 QMM 0.50s Kermit 2.03
|
||
QCP 1.02
|
||
NodeList Utilities Archive Utilities QSave 3.6
|
||
Name Version Name Version QTTSysop 1.07.1
|
||
-------------------- -------------------- SeaLink 1.05
|
||
QNode 2.09 Arc 6.02 XModem 1.00
|
||
LH 1.00.2 YModem 1.01
|
||
Unzip 2.01 ZModem 0.02f
|
||
Zoo 2.01
|
||
|
||
|
||
Apple II
|
||
--------
|
||
|
||
BBS Software Network Mailers Other Utilities
|
||
Name Version Name Version Name Version
|
||
-------------------- -------------------- --------------------
|
||
DDBBS + 8.0* Fruity Dog 2.0 deARC2e 2.1
|
||
GBBS Pro 2.1 ProSel 8.70*
|
||
ShrinkIt 3.30*
|
||
|Contact: Dennis McClain-Furmanski 1:275/42| ShrinkIt GS 1.04
|
||
|
||
|
||
Apple CP/M
|
||
----------
|
||
|
||
BBS Software Network Mailers Other Utilities
|
||
Name Version Name Version Name Version
|
||
-------------------- -------------------- --------------------
|
||
Daisy 2j Daisy Mailer 0.38 Filer 2-D
|
||
MsgUtil 2.5
|
||
Nodecomp 0.37
|
||
PackUser 4
|
||
UNARC.Com 1.20
|
||
|
||
|
||
Macintosh
|
||
---------
|
||
|
||
BBS Software Network Mailers Other Software
|
||
Name Version Name Version Name Version
|
||
-------------------- -------------------- --------------------
|
||
FBBS 0.91 Copernicus 1.0 ArcMac 1.3
|
||
Hermes 1.6.1 Tabby 2.2 AreaFix 1.6
|
||
Mansion 7.15 Compact Pro 1.30
|
||
Precision Sys. 0.95b EventMeister 1.0
|
||
Red Ryder Host 2.1 Export 3.21
|
||
Telefinder Host Import 3.2
|
||
2.12T10 LHARC 0.41
|
||
MacArd 0.04
|
||
Mantissa 3.21
|
||
Point System Mehitable 2.0
|
||
Software OriginatorII 2.0
|
||
Name Version PreStamp 3.2
|
||
-------------------- StuffIt Classic 1.6
|
||
FIDONEWS 13-41 Page 25 7 Oct 1996
|
||
|
||
|
||
Copernicus 1.00 SunDial 3.2
|
||
CounterPoint 1.09 TExport 1.92
|
||
MacWoof 1.1 TimeStamp 1.6
|
||
TImport 1.92
|
||
Tset 1.3
|
||
TSort 1.0
|
||
UNZIP 1.02c
|
||
Zenith 1.5
|
||
Zip Extract 0.10
|
||
|
||
|
||
Amiga
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
BBS Software Network Mailers Other Software
|
||
Name Version Name Version Name Version
|
||
-------------------- -------------------- --------------------
|
||
4D-BBS 1.65 BinkleyTerm 1.00 Areafix 1.48
|
||
DLG Pro. 0.96b TrapDoor 1.80 AReceipt 1.5
|
||
Falcon CBCS 1.00 WelMat 0.44 ChameleonEdit 0.11
|
||
Starnet 1.0q@ ConfMail 1.12
|
||
TransAmiga 1.07 ElectricHerald 1.66
|
||
XenoLink 1.0 Compression FFRS 1.0@
|
||
Utilities FileMgr 2.08
|
||
Name Version Fozzle 1.0@
|
||
NodeList Utilities -------------------- Login 0.18
|
||
Name Version AmigArc 0.23 MessageFilter 1.52
|
||
-------------------- booz 1.01 Message View 1.12
|
||
ParseLst 1.66 LHARC 1.30 oMMM 1.50
|
||
Skyparse 2.30 LhA 1.10 PolyXAmy 2.02
|
||
TrapList 1.40 LZ 1.92 RMB 1.30
|
||
PkAX 1.00 Roof 46.15
|
||
UnZip 4.1 RoboWriter 1.02
|
||
Zippy (Unzip) 1.25 Rsh 4.07a
|
||
Zoo 2.01 Tick 0.75
|
||
TrapToss 1.20
|
||
|Contact: Maximilian Hantsch 2:310/6| Yuck! 2.02
|
||
|
||
|
||
Atari ST/TT
|
||
-----------
|
||
|
||
BBS Software Network Mailers Other Utilities
|
||
Name Version Name Version Name Version
|
||
-------------------- -------------------- --------------------
|
||
FIDOdoor/ST 2.5.1 BinkleyTerm 2.40n9 ApplyList 1.00@
|
||
FiFo 2.1v The Box 1.95* Burep 1.1
|
||
LED ST 1.00 ComScan 1.04
|
||
QuickBBS/ST 1.06* ConfMail 4.10
|
||
NodeList Utilities Echoscan 1.10
|
||
Name Version FDrenum 2.5.2
|
||
Compression -------------------- FastPack 1.20
|
||
Utilities ParseList 1.30 Import 1.14
|
||
Name Version EchoFix 1.20 oMMM 1.40
|
||
-------------------- sTICK/Hatch 5.50 Pack 1.00
|
||
ARC 6.02 Trenum 0.10
|
||
FIDONEWS 13-41 Page 26 7 Oct 1996
|
||
|
||
|
||
LHARC 2.01i
|
||
PackConvert
|
||
STZip 1.1*
|
||
UnJARST 2.00
|
||
WhatArc 2.02
|
||
|
||
|
||
Archimedes
|
||
----------
|
||
|
||
BBS Software Network Mailers Other Utilities
|
||
Name Version Name Version Name Version
|
||
-------------------- -------------------- --------------------
|
||
ARCbbs 1.61 BinkleyTerm ARC 1.20
|
||
Odyssey 0.37 2.06f-wimp !AskFor 1.01
|
||
RiscBBS 0.9.85m BatchPacker 1.00
|
||
DeLZ 0.01
|
||
MailED 0.95
|
||
NetFile 1.00
|
||
ParseLst 1.30
|
||
Raul 1.01
|
||
!Spark 2.16
|
||
!SparkMail 2.08
|
||
!SparkPlug 2.14
|
||
UnArj 2.21
|
||
UnZip 3.00
|
||
Zip 1.00
|
||
|
||
|
||
Tandy Color Computer 3 (OS-9 Level II)
|
||
--------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
BBS Software Compression Utility Other Utilities
|
||
Name Version Name Version Name Version
|
||
-------------------- -------------------- --------------------
|
||
RiBBS 2.02+ Ar 1.3 Ascan 1.2
|
||
DeArc 5.12 AutoFRL 2.0
|
||
OS9Arc 1.0 Bundle 2.2
|
||
UnZip 3.10 CKARC 1.1
|
||
UnLZH 3.0 EchoCheck 1.01
|
||
FReq 2.5a
|
||
LookNode 2.00
|
||
ParseLST
|
||
PReq 2.2
|
||
RList 1.03
|
||
RTick 2.00
|
||
UnBundle 1.4
|
||
UnSeen 1.1
|
||
|
||
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
|
||
Key to old info:
|
||
+ - Netmail Capable (Doesn't Require Additional Mailer Software)
|
||
* - Recently Updated Version
|
||
@ - New Addition
|
||
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
|
||
|
||
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FIDONEWS 13-41 Page 28 7 Oct 1996
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FIDONEWS 13-41 Page 29 7 Oct 1996
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FIDONEWS INFORMATION
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------- FIDONEWS MASTHEAD AND CONTACT INFORMATION -------
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Editor: Christopher Baker
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Editors Emeritii: Thom Henderson, Dale Lovell,
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Vince Perriello, Tim Pozar,
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Tom Jennings, Sylvia Maxwell,
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Donald Tees
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"FidoNews Editor"
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FidoNet 1:1/23
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BBS 1-904-409-7040, 300/1200/2400/14400/V.32bis/HST(ds)
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more addresses:
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Christopher Baker -- 1:18/14, cbaker84@digital.net
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cbak.rights@opus.global.org
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(Postal Service mailing address)
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FidoNews Editor
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P.O. Box 471
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Edgewater, FL 32132-0471
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U.S.A.
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FidoNews is published weekly by and for the members of the FIDONET
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particular Issue. Monthly Volumes are available as FNWSmmmy.ZIP
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You can read the current FidoNews Issue in HTML format at:
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