Subj : Re: Hello
To   : Donald Price
From : Paul Quinn
Date : Mon May 05 2014 09:10:00

Hi! Don,

On Sun, 04 May 14, you wrote to me:

 DP> I myself am using Argus. Been using it since I fired the BBS back up.
 DP> Seems to work properly all these years, but no updates, etc.

I started using Argus in the early noughties and loved it.  There weren't any 
updates to it directly.

However, the source code was taken up by a 'maintainer' team of Denis Voituk 
(Russian) and Alex Shakhaylo (Ukrainian), who called the new effort "Radius".  
Radius is a drop-in replacement for an Argus installation, though there might 
be some additional settings required to be configured in its setup.  Radius 
contains many fixes & enhancements over the basic Argus.

Alex went a little overboard with some of his 'steak knife' extras coded into 
later versions, so Denis asked him to fork the development of those extras.  
This further development became known as a thing called "Taurus".

Since then, a feller named Frans Lupschen has done 'some work' on the Argus & 
Radius sources in late 2013 on a project called "Trapgate".  I don't know what 
changes he may have made as I haven't run any versions of his.  Nothing has 
turned up in the Trapgate echo over here and I haven't checked his website 
since December, so, I don't know what's going on with it (other than I think he 
was de-constructing some GUI aspects, unnecessarily).

I sincerely hope that I haven't told you things that you already knew of.  :|

I'm running Radius from the latest (I think) version issued in January 2005, 
since then.  It's a magnificent improvement on Argus.  OTOH, I have noticed 
that some very recent versions of BinkD barf on first-time connects.

Cheers,
Paul.

.... "Yeah, I wrote it but it's Jimi's song." - Dylan.
--- Paul's Win98SE VirtualBox
 * Origin: Quinn's Post - Maryborough, Queensland, OZ (3:640/384)

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