Subj : SANA-IIR4 =:o
To   : DENNIS SMITH
From : Bo Simonsen
Date : Mon Dec 01 2003 17:00:10


DENNIS SMITH wrote to BO SIMONSEN about ''Re: SANA-IIR4 =:o'':

 BP>>> --- Msged/LNX 6.1.2 (Linux/2.4.20-20.8 (i686))
 DS>> Hmmm, not bad...

 BS>> Msged is not a bad editor, just a shame it's not beeing maintained

 DS> Oops, I was commenting on the linux! :) I didn't know 'Msged' was
 DS> an editor..... =:o

It's a FTN editor? Did you believe it was a tosser? ;-)

 BS>> Is there actually DOS based fidonet tools, which works under AmigaOS?

 DS> That sounds like the DLG system. I think Don Plesky, the Eastpointe
 DS> BBS SysOP, knows more about than I do. Ask him. :)

Hmm.. I saw in the msgapi there was a SASC libery included, which should be a conio replacement for Amiga.

But who wants to run Dos based fidonet utilities on Amiga, then there is UMS and other goodies? ;-)

 DS>> ... AmigaOne-XE(G4)PPC, Deb.Linux3.0r1(2.4.22.PPC) until OS4.x!
 DS>> -+- MultiMail/Linux v0.43
 DS>>  + Origin: Eastpointe BBS (1:120/228)

 BS>> Viva la Multimail. :-)

 DS> Ermm, it's OK for linux, but it's NOT Amiga. Since the latest
 DS> update for UAE, I burned all all the OS3.1 files to the CD and
 DS> installed OS3.5. 

I thought so, but on UNIX it's the best.

 DS> I've been looking into all that WarpOS and PPC
 DS> stuff that came with it; interesting. Anyway, QWK mail is working
 DS> fine with Q-Blue 2.4 in the A1'miggy! I used AmiQWK2.9 and had
 DS> problems with unpacker. 

AmiQWK was quite used by many afair. BTW Can spot handle QWK packages too or just FTN packages?

 DS> It would abort unzipping because of a TZ
 DS> env variable error and UTC error? Huh? UAE always boots fine with
 DS> the correct hardware clock! So, I got a copy of Q-Blue off the old
 DS> A2K and installed it today! :) Bam, it works fine! I think AmiQWK
 DS> was hacking the clock. I don't know...  

Aha, didn't it use a external unpacker?

 BS>> blueMail ain't working too good imho. :-(

 DS> Q-Blue is working perfect.....:-)

Okay :-)

Bo

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