Subj : OpenXP, SemPoint
To   : August Abolins
From : Martin Foster
Date : Sun Mar 17 2019 09:23:00

Hello August!

On 16.03.19 at 19:51, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:

 AA> On 16.03.19, you wrote:

 MF>> I can recommend OpenXP :-)) Versions available for Windows and Linux
 MF>> from https://openxp.uk Source is also available.

 MF>> If you do decide to have a look, I would *STRONGLY* advise you to grab
 MF>> a copy of "oxpguide.pdf" and read sections 1 and 2 before proceeding
 MF>> with the installation and configuration.


 AA> I believe I had a quick look at OpenXP a little while ago. It has a
 AA> terminal/DOS look to it, right?  I am not drawn to that.

Yeah, it's a console-mode application.

 AA> I prefer a windows gui.

Where Fido software is concerned, I much prefer console-mode  
applications.

 AA> The one other gui-based point program I used quite happily was SemPoint.

[snip]
 AA> I seem to recall that its compiled nodelist was pretty amazing too.
 AA> Searchable. A user could just select the address in a current message and
 AA> the nodelist details would pop up.

You can do that with WinPoint :)

[snip]
 AA> To have a SemPoint solution today with tcp/ip, would it be as simple as
 AA> adding Binkd in a batch file or something?

I doubt very much it would be as simple as that.

Regards,
Martin

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