Volume 7, Number 18 30 April 1990 +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | _ | | / \ | | /|oo \ | | - FidoNews - (_| /_) | | _`@/_ \ _ | | FidoNet (r) | | \ \\ | | International BBS Network | (*) | \ )) | | Newsletter ______ |__U__| / \// | | / FIDO \ _//|| _\ / | | (________) (_/(_|(____/ | | (jm) | +---------------------------------------------------------------+ Editor in Chief: Vince Perriello Editors Emeritii: Thom Henderson, Dale Lovell Chief Procrastinator Emeritus: Tom Jennings Copyright 1990, Fido Software. All rights reserved. Duplication and/or distribution permitted for noncommercial purposes only. For use in other circumstances, please contact Fido Software. FidoNews is published weekly by the System Operators of the FidoNet (r) International BBS Network. It is a compilation of individual articles contributed by their authors or authorized agents of the authors. 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ARTICLES ................................................. 1 EuroCon IV: A General Overview to a Great Happening ! .... 1 Region17 FidoNet Convention .............................. 5 Region17 FidoCon Registration Form ....................... 6 Violet's Ansi Screens .................................... 9 FIDOCON 1990 REGISTRATION FORM ........................... 11 2. COLUMNS .................................................. 14 Talk Me Through It, Honey ................................ 14 3. LATEST VERSIONS .......................................... 16 Latest Software Versions ................................. 16 4. NOTICES .................................................. 19 And more! FidoNews 7-18 Page 1 30 Apr 1990 ================================================================= ARTICLES ================================================================= EuroCon IV: A General Overview to a Great Happening ! _____________________________________________________ 0. Maybe a small introduction ? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Msg : 111, 14 Oct 89 21:06:00 From: Joop Mellaart To : All Subj: announcement Eurocon IV ------------------------------------- Hello to you all, On behalf of the organisation committee of Eurocon III I herewith announce that Belgium will be the organising country for Eurocon IV. Ward Dossche has sent us a very good proposal which Peter Janssens will post here within a few days. [...] we think that the Belgian proposal is very good and Eurocon IV should therefore be organised in Belgium. Regards, --- FD 2.00 * Origin: PCC Zonegate - Gateway to the Continents! (2:512/99) 1. ... or maybe a bit clearer ? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When I was preparing this article, it crossed my mind, to start telling you something about the history of FidoNet. But probably most of you would already know all that stuff, so there was the chance that you would drop of, just because of boredom. And that would be a shame, really, because EuroCon is an occasion, which every European FidoNet sysop should have seen at least once ! EuroCon is a happening which developed itself thru FidoNet- history: Apparently, sometimes echomail is just not good enough to keep good contacts between regions, so at a certain point in time, it became clear that it would be really nice (if not actually necessary), to organise a European Sysop-meeting. In the United States, these happenings had already been organised: They called it FidoCon. FidoNews 7-18 Page 2 30 Apr 1990 So four years ago, the first European Sysop-meeting, EuroCon, was organised. From then on, it was decided to organise such an international meeting yearly. 2. And this year... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This year, Eurocon will be organised in Antwerp, Belgium, on July 14th and 15th. Antwerp is one of Belgium's biggest ports. The historical city is a very convenient conference-city: Many suitable hotels, in all price-classes are available, there is an International Youth Hostel and a camping place. Since Antwerp is an international city, it is very easy for foreigners to find their way around: Most touristical, hotel- and other staff are multilingual (Dutch, French and English are common; German is not unusual). Furthermore, the city of Antwerp is easily reached by car, train and airplane. 3. But what about the meeting itself ? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You're right. Better tell you someting about what's going to happen on EuroCon IV. As matter of fact, EuroCon IV will be a bit different from the EuroCon's before. This time, there will be 3 FidoNet conferences going on simultaneously ! The first one is USERCON I. This conference will be dedicated entirely to Region 29 matters (Belgium). It is a meeting between sysops, points and users of FidoNet Belgium. It will be open to the general public. Obviously, this meeting won't be too interesting to the foreign guests. It is merely a practical matter to organise UserCon I during EuroCon IV. The other 2 conferences however will be *very* interesting. Let's start with the new one... The new one is TECHCON I. It will be a purely technical conference on FidoNet matters. Provisions are being made, to invite as many as possible developers of P.D., ShareWare or commercial software. In particular, people being active in developing mailers, terminal programs, BBS software and utilities, packers, and whatever else is being used by amateur communication freaks. Also manufacturers of comms hardware will be invited. It will be required to register in advance. You will be informed about this in a few weeks, thru the FidoNews magazine, thru some echomail channels (e.g. ENET.SYSOP), and also in EMBBS magazine. But the main conference of course will be EuroCon IV ... (tataaah...) EuroCon IV will traditionally be devoted exclusively to the phenomenon 'netpolicy'. Netpolicy, is the whole of rules which are keeping the net up and operational. Without them, communication in FidoNet would be impossible. Some main themes that will be discussed are: FidoNews 7-18 Page 3 30 Apr 1990 EEC- and European matters : * The private computer-communication market after 1992 * Changing policy in the great internal market * Creation of a European sysop-association * Telephone companies and future European approval standards for telecommunications hardware * Auto-censoring, privacy and ownership of public electronic-mail information * Developments in Eastern-Europe Internal policy matters : * Electronic-mail policy * Electronic-mail routing * Elections * Appointing EUROCON-V site * Democracy within FidoNet * Complaint-procedure Technical matters : * Fast modems (V32 - PEP - HST) * Automated mailer software * Technical standards * New communication protocols I guess you've got a general idea now, about what's going to be discussed at EuroCon IV. Clearly EuroCon is a very important conference. Because even if an amateur network is technically capable of functioning well, it is only thru real human communication, agreement and understanding, between the thousands of participants, that such a huge network can be maintained. And that really needs some agreements. Without them, FidoNet would surely collapse. It is at meetings like EuroCon, that one builds the strong structures that have kept FidoNet alive, all these years ! 4. Back down to the 'earthly' matters... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The programme, which of course can be subject to some minor changes, will look like this: * Friday July 13th - Evening: Arrival most participants. - Pre-meeting between the organising committee and the RC's and ZC2, to discuss the coming days, set some priorities, and iron- out whatever needs to be ironed out. * Saturday July 14th - Morning: EuroCon session-1 - Noon: Luch of course ! - Afternoon: EuroCon session-2 - Evening: Dinner, and optional '11-kroegentocht', not to be FidoNews 7-18 Page 4 30 Apr 1990 missed by all beer-drinkers ! (Belgium is a country famous for its beers !) * Sunday July 15th - morning: EuroCon session-3 - noon: lunch - afternoon: EuroCon session-4 - evening: Probabely a dinner-cruise on the River Scheldt for all registered participants, sponsors, companies and other people that have contributed to the organising of EuroCon-IV. - After 10pm: Everybody can seek a form of entertainment suitable to his/her own needs. * Monday July 15th - morning: Check-out and departure of most participants. There is also a fringe-programme for participants and relatives. Including: - Visit to the port of Antwerp. - Visit to the famous Antwerp ZOO. - Factory-visit. 5. But, isn't there always one more thing to say ? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Yes, there is: You can send us your remarks, questions and suggestions. We have opened a special node for EuroCon-IV. It has nodenumber 2:2/999.0, and it is open for mail 24 hours a day. We will be happy to get some feedback, so that we can keep your suggestions in mind, while setting up the meeting in detail. You can address your messages to Ward Dossche, the team-leader of the organising team. You can also write Ward or me a message in ENET.SYSOP. And above all: Be looking out for more information about EuroCon IV. In a few weeks, we will start distributing registration forms. Don't hesitate to join the conference. Don't put away that form somewhere you'll probably forget it. Without you, it would be much less fun ! We count on you ! Try to be there in July ! Jan Spooren (2:295/20.0) Electronic-Press attache (Umpf!) P.S.: We just received a message from Tomas Bremin (2:201/110.0), moderator of InterUser: He tells us, we can expect a group of 15 to 30 people from InterUser, who are going to meet eachother at EuroCon IV ! Watch my words: It'll be quite a happening !! ----------------------------------------------------------------- FidoNews 7-18 Page 5 30 Apr 1990 Janet Murray 1:105/23 REGION 17 FIDO CONVENTION FidoNet Sysops and their families and friends are cordially invited to attend a Region17 convention hosted by Net105 (VanPort; aka "Home of the Curmudgeon") July 27-29 at Menucha Retreat and Conference Center. This will be the only "Fido" convention on the West Coast this summer; guests outside the boundaries of Region17 are more than welcome to attend. Menucha was once the summer home of Julius Meier, founder of Meier & Frank department stores and a former Governor of Oregon. "Menucha" means "waters of refreshment" in Hebrew and is an apt description of the unique natural setting - 98 acres of lawns, woodlands and gardens - high on a bluff overlooking the Columbia River. The main buildings were constructed around 1914 and are historical sites. Recreation includes a 75x30 ft outdoor swimming pool, regulation tennis court, basketball, horseshoe pits, a surfaced volleyball court, table tennis, and biliards. There are also numerous trails for hiking. Menucha is located in Corbett, Oregon - 30 minutes from the Portland International Airport and about 45 minutes from downtown Portland. Freeways I-84, I-5, and I-205 are close by. Convention prices are extremely affordable if you register before May 15th. Menucha offers dormitories and family-style meals, with a few semi-private and private accomodations. For example, for an adult FidoNet Sysop who elects to arrive on Friday afternoon, sleep in his sleeping bag in a dorm, and stay through Sunday morning, the cost is a mere $70.50 (meals included). Reduced prices apply to children, students, and spouses. See the subsequent message for an official registration form, or NetMail Janet Murray @ 105/23 or Ken Zwaschka @ 105/54 for more information. ----------------------------------------------------------------- FidoNews 7-18 Page 6 30 Apr 1990 Janet Murray 1:105/23 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * FIDONET REGION 17 CONVENTION * * OFFICIAL REGISTRATION FORM * * July 27-29, 1990 * * Menucha Camp and Conference Grounds * * Corbett, Oregon * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Name _____________________________ FidoNet Address _________ SnailMail Address ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________ Date Sent ______ Voice phone (in case of questions): ________________________ Please indicate for each person attending, the option selected, and fill in the appropriate charges: _Number_ _Name(s)_ _Subtotals_ Registration fee @ $5 _____ (FidoNet Sysops ONLY) $ _____ OPTION A: Friday 5 p.m. to Sunday 11 a.m. DORM _____ Adult(s) __________________________ $ 65.50 _____ _____ Student(s) ________________________ 56.50 _____ (Age 12 to 18 OR Full-time student) _____ Child(ren) ________________________ 36.25 _____ (Age 11 and under) _____ Supply bedding @ $6 per person _____ SEMI-PRIVATE _____ Adult(s) __________________________ 83.50 _____ _____ Student(s) ________________________ 56.50 _____ (in parents' room) _____ Child(ren) ________________________ 36.25 _____ (in parents' room) PRIVATE _____ Adult(s) __________________________ 102.50 _____ OPTION B: Saturday 8 a.m. to Sunday 11 a.m. DORM _____ Adult(s) __________________________ 48.00 _____ FidoNews 7-18 Page 7 30 Apr 1990 _____ Student(s) ________________________ 42.50 _____ (Age 12 to 18 OR Full-time Student) _____ Child(ren) ________________________ 29.50 _____ (Age 11 and under) _____ Supply bedding @ $6 per person _____ SEMI-PRIVATE _____ Adult(s) ___________________________ 59.00 _____ _____ Student(s) _________________________ 42.50 _____ (in parents' room) _____ Child(ren) _________________________ 29.50 _____ (in parents' room) PRIVATE _____ Adult(s) ___________________________ 72.50 _____ OPTION C: Saturday 8 a.m. to Saturday 10 p.m. (Meals only, no accommodations) _____ Adult(s) ___________________________ 37.00 _____ _____ Student(s) _________________________ 32.00 _____ _____ Child(ren) _________________________ 21.00 _____ SUBTOTAL $ _____ LATE REGISTRATION FEES (_after_ May 15th): ================================================================ | IMPORTANT NOTE: Since we must estimate _and pay for_ | | the number who will be attending by mid-May, there | | will be a limited number of places for late registrants! | ================================================================ Paid by June 15th: _____ Number of reservations @ $10 _____ Paid by July 15th _____ Number of reservations @ $20 _____ Paid after July 15th _____ Number of reservations @ $30 _____ TOTAL ADDITIONS $ _____ TOTAL PAYMENT ENCLOSED: $ _____ Make checks payable (in U.S. Funds) to: Net 105 Treasury / REG17CON FidoNews 7-18 Page 8 30 Apr 1990 Send registration to: Region 17 Convention c/o Ken Zwaschka Ken Zwaschka & Associates P.O. Box 2226 Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. 97208-2226 Reservations and room assignments will be confirmed via NetMail within 48 hours of receipt. Registration packets with a map to Menucha and information about Portland metropolitan area shopping and recreational faciltities will be mailed to all registrants on July 1st. ----------------------------------------------------------------- FidoNews 7-18 Page 9 30 Apr 1990 From Violet Stymacks at the Rhinoceros Kitchen 1:152/8 Eugene, Oregon When Ray (co-sysop of Rhinoceros Kitchen and myself first set-up housekeeping together he told me," How much he was INTO computers " :-} I had NO IDEA just how much time he talking about. Well it didn't take long for me to start calling the computer THE OTHER WOMAN.God, how I hated the THING. Being Dyslexic I would not go near the computer. Then one day he downloaded a game called Hack and soon I would sit by his side and watch him play(giving my input as to what he should do.):-) Then he showed me how to play it myself. This was BEFORE we had a Hard Disk. After a while my Characters got soooo big that I needed to shuffle 4 floppies to hold them, so I got kind of comfortable with the machine. (I won the game 14 times) and Ray was very good about letting me share computer time with him. Then Ray helped a friend set up a BBS (a game board) next thing I knew he was thinking of starting a BBS of his own. I smiled and said I thought he should give it a try. But I was thinking " now I will never see or be able to talk to him because he will be with " HER " (the computer) all the time. Well I sure didn't fool Ray one bit with that smile , he sat me down with THEDRAW and had me do asci screens for the message bases. Then a local sysop asked if I would do an ansi welcome screen for his board. Next I was making screens for boards all over Eugene. Then we became a node on FidoNet.I started cruising the node list looking for names I liked the sound of and I would make an ansi drawing and send it to them. I also put a copy in the <> art gallery. Most people liked what I sent to them and used it. An ansi/asci screen from me is a GIFT, not the beginning of some advertising "pitch" or anything else. I send a follow up message asking if they are using the screen, if I don't hear from them after a while. If they are not using it I " give it a face lift " and send it to some one else. I call the screen a " LOGO " but sysops put them anywhere on the board they want.I put the "OLD" logo screen some sysops send with their thank you message,in a guest art gallery that i have on our bbs.About 5 boards have my whole (a zip file of about 400k) art gallery on their board. At this time about 290 BBS are using one or more ansi/asci screens I have made. Most are in the USA, thirty are in Canada, seven in zone2 and three in zone3 (that I know of). :-) FidoNews 7-18 Page 10 30 Apr 1990 The truly sad part of all this is Ray almost never gets time to use the computer anymore. :-) ---- a quick note from ray here.I wanted to call this article "computer shortage crises at rhinoceros kitchen",but Violet wrote it,and after all,it IS about her art work. Violet's art gallery is compressed into art.zip during 5:00 am maintenance EVERY morning and is available for file requests as ART.ZIP anytime,except midnight to 2:00 am Pacific time.The old art.zip is deleted just before the new one is made, this way it is updated daily. ---- ----------------------------------------------------------------- FidoNews 7-18 Page 11 30 Apr 1990 The Secret Sysop Society presents __ *** Conclave '90 *** / \ The SYSOPS Convention /|oo \ Home of FidoCon 1990 (_| /_) Lyndhurst, New Jersey _`@/_ \ _ August 1-5, 1990 | | \ \\ | (*) | \ )) ______ |__U__| / \// / Fido \ _//|| _\ / (________) (_/(_|(____/ (tm) Rate Plan Schedule: Before 6/1/90: Before 5/1/90: -------------- -------------- A. Single Occupancy.......$595.00 $545.00 $495.00 B. Double Occupancy.......$450.00 $400.00 $350.00 C. Conference w/ meals....$300.00 $250.00 $200.00 D. Conference w/ Banquet..$205.00 $155.00 $105.00 E. Conference only........$175.00 $125.00 $ 75.00 F. Banquet only...........$130.00 $80.00 $ 30.00 G. Registrant & Spouse....$720.00 $670.00 $620.00 (All rate plans except plan F include all conference and hotel fees. Those registering before 5/1/90 get a $100.00 discount, those registering before 6/1/90 get a $50.00 discount.) You must pay by Check, Money Order, or Credit Card. Please send no cash. All monies must be in U.S. Funds. Checks should be made out to: "Conclave '90" The following registration form must be completed and mailed to: PO Box 12 Lyndhurst, NJ 07071 You may register by Netmailing this completed form to 1:1/90 for processing. Rename it to ZNNNXXXX.REG where Z is your Zone number, N is your Net number, and X is your Node number. US Mail confirmation is required within 72 hours of electronic filing. If you are paying by credit card, please include the required information. For your own security, do not route any message with your credit card number on it. Crash it directly to 1:1/90. The official Conclave '90 airline is American Airlines. American offers a 5% discount the lowest applicable round-trip fare, including 1st class travel, subject to availability of inventory. All fare rules and restrictions apply. In addition, American offers 40% off their round trip unrestricted day coach fare. International travelers qualify for special benefits, including complimentary admittance to the Admiral's Club Lounge at any American Airlines terminal. Newark is an American Air- lines city with direct flights to most major cities. When making reservations, you must call American's Toll-free reservation number at 800-433-1790, and reference Star number 13704F. FidoNews 7-18 Page 12 30 Apr 1990 C O N C L A V E '90 R E G I S T R A T I O N F O R M Name: __________________________________________________________ Address: _____________________________ Apt. or Suite: _________ City: _________________________ State or Province: ____________ Postal Code: __________________ Country: ______________________ Voice Phone: ______________________ Data: _____________________ Zone:Net/Node.Point@Domain: ____________________________________ Special requirements: __________________________________________ +---------------+---------------------+-----+----------+-------+ | Option | Full | | Pricing | Line | |(Choose 1: A-G)| Name | Qty | Thru 5/1 | Total | +---------------+---------------------+-----+----------+-------+ | PLAN A* | | | $495.00 | | +---------------+---------------------+-----+----------+-------+ | PLAN B* | | | $350.00 | | +---------------+---------------------+-----+----------+-------+ | PLAN C* | | | $200.00 | | +---------------+---------------------+-----+----------+-------+ | PLAN D* | | | $105.00 | | +---------------+---------------------+-----+----------+-------+ | PLAN E* | | | $ 75.00 | | +---------------+---------------------+-----+----------+-------+ | PLAN F | | | $ 30.00 | | +---------------+---------------------+-----+----------+-------+ | PLAN G* | | | $620.00 | | +===============+=====================+=====+==========+=======+ | NJ Beach Trip | | | $ 24.50 | | +---------------+---------------------+-----+----------+-------+ | Eve. NYC Tour | | | $ 37.50 | | +---------------+---------------------+-----+----------+-------+ | Broadway Show | | | $ 75.00 | | +---------------+---------------------+-----+----------+-------+ | NYC Shop Tour | | | $ 36.50 | | +---------------+---------------------+-----+----------+-------+ | Costume Ball* | | | $ 50.00 | | +---------------+---------------------+-----+----------+-------+ * includes all conference fees & Hotel | Total $ | | ** includes dinner, show, and costume +==========+=======+ MC _____ Visa _____ Card Number: _____________________________ Expiration: ___________ Signature _____________________________ ( Credit card registrations require valid signature ) FidoNews 7-18 Page 13 30 Apr 1990 ----------------------------------------------------------------- FidoNews 7-18 Page 14 30 Apr 1990 ================================================================= COLUMNS ================================================================= Henry Clark 124/6120 Spun Wrong -- I read about this SpinRite program and thought I might try it out because, well, you know I have 6 hard disks between home and office machines. As it turns out, I was led astray, and I'll tell you why. Reading the shrink wrap at the store, I caught some fine print : NOT compatible with Plus hard cards. OK, 1 down, 5 to go. I buy it and get on to work. My main system there, the NCR has a 16-bit SCSI and 320 meg hard disk. Sorry. SpinRite thinks it sees a CACHE, HA. 2 down, 4 to go. I start reading the online docs. ERLL on a Compaq portable, NOT supported. 3 down. I get it home. ESDI NOT supported. 4 down. This leaves the old 286 portable, which sports an SDSI ( 5 down ) and a Imprimis regular old 80 on a WD MFM controller. OK, 1 drive out of 6. Be forewarned. This brings up another sore point. That 80 meg drive is really 84, but I can only get some 72 megs recognized by my BIOS. It seems that the drive type table is the key to this whole mess. Compaq is really nasty about the drive types supported, which is to their benefit when you want to add some space. This nonsense has to change. An interesting note in the SpinRite docs is the 'new SDSI drives' which they don't support. New, my baby's butt. Greenleaf Comm Lib -- I picked up the latest version of this software library and was really impressed. With just 3 functions, OPEN, PUTC and GETC I had a finished comm program. It can get a lot fancier than that too. There's even a single function Send_Ymodem_G. I wrote a tiny program that sends a user defined message, waits for a timer or a response from the host system, and sends another message. The host system is the cool machine, it is switching video signals. The demo has 6 video disk players, and 12 Sony 9 inch color TVs, and my comm program is talking to the application, switching the different players ( and a couple of internally generated test patterns ) across the TVs. FidoNews 7-18 Page 15 30 Apr 1990 The marketing guys did OK too, the video disks included Indiana, Trek, Rabbit and a really neat computer generated video documentary. I quickly implemented a better transmit hold routine because my program kept switching the signals during the good scenes. Greenleaf got a bad rap because of some weird happenings back in the Opus 0.0 development days. Based upon my recent experiences, their products are top notch. Oracle Database Echo -- I have been working with the Oracle database for over a year and the SQL language as well. I noticed that there wasn't an echo for these topics. So I started one, it's called ORA_DBMS. Oracle is probably the largest database company, with similar software running on dozens of platforms. If there's one thing BAD about their products, it's the documentation and support. In fact, it's a nightmare. Maybe this echo can allow better access to other user's, with the subsequent increase in information. Of course, it may become the biggest FLAME forum yet. We shall see. In any case, if you're interested in, or are using Oracle, or any other SQL based relational database, you are invited to pick up ORA_DBMS. At this time, the echo is distributed locally, including myself 1:124/6120 and by our DFW echo mail distributor, 1:124/4115. As this is the first echo I have tried to get started, you may know more about proper channels to pick it up. Ghost in the Machine -- Well it does look like I got screwed by an early Fidonews release mechanism. ( What do want for nothin', eh ? ) I swear I had that last column on 1:1/1 Sunday morning at 01:00. The news archive was created at 11:00 and the news file data is midnight Monday. So that bit on the Lake Party was delayed a week. ( You missed me, right ? ). Now you'll have to wait another week for the skinny on the Great Event. I promise some juicy details aired in public, Enquirer fashion. ----------------------------------------------------------------- FidoNews 7-18 Page 16 30 Apr 1990 ================================================================= LATEST VERSIONS ================================================================= Latest Software Versions MS-DOS Systems -------------- Bulletin Board Software Name Version Name Version Name Version Fido 12q+ Phoenix 1.3 TAG 2.5d1 Lynx 1.30 QuickBBS 2.64* TBBS 2.1 Kitten 2.16 RBBS 17.2B TComm/TCommNet 3.4 Maximus 1.00 RBBSmail 17.2 TPBoard 6.0 Opus 1.12+* RemoteAccess 2.0* Wildcat! 2.10 PCBoard 14.2* SLBBS 1.76* Network Node List Other Mailers Version Utilities Version Utilities Version BinkleyTerm 2.30 EditNL 4.00 ARC 6.02 D'Bridge 1.30 MakeNL 2.20 ARCAsim 2.30* Dutchie 2.90C ParseList 1.30 ARCmail 2.0 FrontDoor 1.99c* Prune 1.40 ConfMail 4.00 PRENM 1.47 SysNL 3.01 Crossnet v1.5* SEAdog 4.51b XlatList 2.90 EMM 2.02 XlaxDiff 2.33* Gmail 2.05 XlaxNode 2.33* GROUP 2.16 GUS 1.30 LHARC 1.13 MSG 4.0 MSGED 1.99 PK[UN]ZIP 1.10* QM 1.0 QSORT 4.03 SLMAIL 1.35* StarLink 1.01 TagMail 2.20 TCOMMail 2.2 TMail 1.14* TPBNetEd 3.2 TosScan 1.00* UFGATE 1.03 XRS 3.20* ZmailQ 1.10 Macintosh --------- Bulletin Board Software Network Mailers Other Utilities FidoNews 7-18 Page 17 30 Apr 1990 Name Version Name Version Name Version Red Ryder Host v2.1b10 Tabby 2.2 MacArc 0.04 Mansion 7.15 Copernicus 1.0d* ArcMac 1.3 WWIV (Mac) 3.0 StuffIt 1.51 FBBS 0.91* TImport 1.331 TExport 1.32 Timestamp 1.6 Tset 1.3 Import 3.2 Export 3.21 Sundial 3.2 PreStamp 3.2 OriginatorII 2.0 AreaFix 1.6 Mantissa 3.21 Zenith 1.5 UNZIP 1.02b Amiga ----- Bulletin Board Software Network Mailers Other Utilities Name Version Name Version Name Version Paragon 2.06+ BinkleyTerm 1.00 AmigArc 0.23 TrapDoor 1.50* AReceipt 1.5* WelMat 0.35 booz 1.01 ConfMail 1.10 ChameleonEdit 0.10 ElectricHerald1.66* Lharc 1.10 MessageFilter 1.52* oMMM 1.49b ParseLst 1.30 PkAX 1.00 PK[UN]ZIP 1.01 PolyxAmy 2.02* RMB 1.30 TrapList 1.12* UNzip 0.86 Yuck! 1.61* Zoo 2.00 Atari ST -------- Bulletin Board Software Network Mailer Other Utilities Name Version Name Version Name Version FidoNews 7-18 Page 18 30 Apr 1990 FIDOdoor/ST 1.5c* BinkleyTerm 1.03g3 ConfMail 1.00 Pandora BBS 2.41c The BOX 1.20 ParseList 1.30 QuickBBS/ST 0.40 ARC 6.02* GS Point 0.61 LHARC 0.51 PKUNZIP 1.10 MSGED 1.96S SRENUM 6.2 Trenum 0.10 OMMM 1.40 + Netmail capable (does not require additional mailer software) * Recently changed Utility authors: Please help keep this list up to date by reporting new versions to 1:1/1. It is not our intent to list all utilities here, only those which verge on necessity. ----------------------------------------------------------------- FidoNews 7-18 Page 19 30 Apr 1990 ================================================================= NOTICES ================================================================= The Interrupt Stack 26 May 1990 First anniversary of Net 269, Northern New Jersey 3 Jun 1990 Comdex/Spring, which will run from June 3-6 in Atlanta, will be held at the World Congress Center and other locations. 5 Jun 1990 David Dodell's 33rd Birthday 12 Jun 1990 Fifth anniversary of FidoNet's switch to multiple nets. 14 Jul 1990 Start of Eurocon / Techcon conference in Antwerp, Belgium. Please note that the date has changed: The conferences are one day later than originally planned ! 27 Jul 1990 The beginning of the REGION 17 Convention at Menucha Resort in the Columbia Gorge, Oregon. For details contact Ken Zwaschka, 1:105/54. 1 Aug 1990 Start of FidoCon '90. Contact Bill Vanglahn at 1:1/90 for details. 5 Oct 1990 21st Anniversary of "Monty Python's Flying Circus" 6 Nov 1990 First anniversary of Van Diepen Automatiseert, 2:500/28 14 Nov 1990 Marco Maccaferri's 21rd Birthday. Send greetings to him at 2:332/16.0 1 Jan 1991 Implementation of 7% Goods and Services Tax in Canada. Contact Joe Lindstrom at 1:134/55 for a more colorful description. 16 Feb 1991 Fifth anniversary of the introduction of Echomail, by Jeff Rush. FidoNews 7-18 Page 20 30 Apr 1990 7 Oct 1991 Area code 415 fragments. Alameda and Contra Costa Counties will begin using area code 510. This includes Oakland, Concord, Berkeley and Hayward. San Francisco, San Mateo, Marin, parts of Santa Clara County, and the San Francisco Bay Islands will retain area code 415. 1 Feb 1992 Area code 213 fragments. Western, coastal, southern and eastern portions of Los Angeles County will begin using area code 310. This includes Los Angeles International Airport, West Los Angeles, San Pedro and Whittier. Downtown Los Angeles and surrounding communities (such as Hollywood and Montebello) will retain area code 213. If you have something which you would like to see on this calendar, please send a message to FidoNet node 1:1/1. -----------------------------------------------------------------