Subj : Re: WinXP
To   : ROBERT FOWLER
From : CHARLES ANGELICH
Date : Wed Sep 14 2005 01:47 am

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Hello Robert - 

TA>>> I have PAN in my linspire disto but haven't been able get
TA>>> it to work correctly yet. Where can OldAck please go to
TA>>> find out howto to manage my QWK packets from
TA>>> Docsplace.tzo, or BBSNETS, or ? please? 

CA>> The frequent references to using the usenet format to read
CA>> FIDO only adds to the existing confusion here IMO. There
CA>> is no _need_ to make this complicated. There are
CA>> sufficient free software packages available to use the QWK
CA>> format without the need for conversion(s). 

MA>> mmail-0.46.tar.gz 

CA>> As Martin has pointed out there is MultiMail (for Linux,
CA>> Windows, and 'others'). 

CA>> I use ATP for my Windows and Linux installs. ATP source
CA>> code is available and compiles for several OS. I selected
CA>> ATP because I wanted to customize my offline reader and I
CA>> don't do C++ (MM code). ATP displays look like you are
CA>> logged onto a BBS and that makes me smile at times
CA>> (nostalgia?). 

CA>> Forget the usenet formatting and newsreaders and just use
CA>> what most people are using. 

RF> As I recall, Alan's comment about Linux users (I called
RF> them elitists) who think than anyone using a computer
RF> should be able to compile was what started this thread. 

I don't think Thurston responded to that thread since he
included CS comment about using PAN and downloading in usenet
format. 

RF> Ack doesn't compile and wants to read Fido in Linux. CS
RF> suggested PAN, etc., from Ross's news server as an
RF> alternative, 

This isn't the first time people have been directed to use a
usenet newreader for FIDO and probably won't be the last either. 

RF> and now YOU tell him and everyone else to.... learn to
RF> compile (implied) and use what everyone else (linux users?)
RF> are using??? :-) 

You are adding words I did not type and then replying to your
own wording. I did not say "everyone" I said "most people" and
MM and ATP binaries (no need to compile) are available for
Linux, Windows, and even DOS. 

RF> That's not only elitism. It's kooky. 

Nothing I typed is elitist. Recommending a one-trick-pony such
as using a newreader for the one BBS that it will work with is
a bit elitist from my perspective and a bit 'kooky' too. I see
no compelling reason to do that when there is solid dependable
QWK packet software being used by so many others without the
need to over complicate simple FIDO echomail reading/replying. 

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