Subj : Fido Package Deluxe
To   : Torsten Bamberg
From : Dale Barnes
Date : Wed Mar 21 2018 19:09:38

I tried to take a peek at the code but was unable to download. Anyone have a 
copy I can grab?

Thanks

 > 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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