Subj : Fido Package Deluxe
To   : Martin Foster
From : Torsten Bamberg
Date : Tue Feb 06 2018 19:29:39

Hallo Martin!

06.02.2018 12:00, Martin Foster schrieb an Torsten Bamberg:

 TB>> IPRoute was written by Volker Imre. From IPRoute there are no
 TB>> sourcecodes available. Also Volker has left fidonet about 10
 TB>> years ago. There is an alternative, called tiroute. If something
 TB>> won't work with tiroute and fido deluxe, send me a detailed
 TB>> bugreport, and I will fix/change it.
 MF> OK, thanks for that.
 MF> However, the included version of BinkD is *very* old(0.9.7), so I've
 MF> replaced it in my own setup with a newer version(1.1a-49). As I'm a
 MF> bit "rusty" with BinkD, I'm not sure if I actually need any of these
 MF> utilities at all.
Well, IPRoute also like tiroute gets the IP-Nodes from the nodelist and writes 
a binkd-compatible list.
This is usefull for requests to other node-sysops an for crashing netmail to 
other systems.

 MF> [..]
 MF>>> As the author's website seems to have disappeared, I've made
 MF>>> Fido Package Deluxe(along with the source) available from here:
 MF>>> http://fidonet.openxp.uk/fpd
 TB>> Have yo compiled a win10 version with the sources?
 MF> Having had a look at the .dof files, it looks as though the original
 MF> was compiled with Delphi. As I'm not a programmer, I wouldn't know
 MF> where to start with setting up a more modern build environment(Lazarus
 MF> perhaps?). So, the answer to your question is "no".
Ahm, okay. Well, fidopoint deluxe uses some closed source pascal units. Those 
are not compatible with freepascal nor then lazarus. I've tried to compile the 
sources, but, as expected, those closed source units aren't available any more.
A few years ago I talked with michael about theese problems, and he was not 
able to correct or fix the code for freepascal. Maybe he didn't wanted, I 
honesly don't know.

If somebody has enought time, feel free to port fpd to freepascal. ;-)
Probably it might be easyier to write a complete new fpd with lazarus, intended 
by the original fpd.

My personal skills are more with c than pascal. I'm able to patch and correct 
some lines, but I haven't enough time to do some more on the code.
Obviously, the old fpd runs on win10,win7-32/64 and all other windows 
platforms. Currently this should be enough.

 MF> Regards,
 MF> Martin

Bye/2 Torsten

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