Hi Alan,
On <Tue, 07 May 19>, you wrote me:

To turn on kludge support in BBBS enter "u set kludges" from the main menu, then when it asks for a value enter "t". Do that again and blank
the value if you want to turn kludge support off.

Those are very techie/secret commands! I suppose there are many other
"Values" to configure things?

But Thank you. That produces what I need.

(Writing via Rampton's Box bbs to avoid the stripped CRs problem with your BW system)


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To turn on kludge support in BBBS enter "u set kludges" from the main
menu, then when it asks for a value enter "t". Do that again and blank
the value if you want to turn kludge support off.

Those are very techie/secret commands! I suppose there are many other "Values" to configure things?

There are, do "set -h" from the utility menu to get a list.

But Thank you. That produces what I need.

Glad to hear that.

(Writing via Rampton's Box bbs to avoid the stripped CRs problem with your BW system)

After looking closer at your (and mine) uploaded .new file I can see there is a
difference between them. I see the CRs in your upload but no LF where mine that seems to work as expected does have a CR/LF (or newline) pair. Does the editor in sempoint have options for this?

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Hi Alan,
On <Wed, 08 May 19>, you wrote me:

After looking closer at your (and mine) uploaded .new file I can see
there is a difference between them. I see the CRs in your upload but
no LF where mine that seems to work as expected does have a CR/LF (or newline) pair. Does the editor in sempoint have options for this?

I don't believe there is any setting for CR/LF. Maybe this whole matter is in the internal BW support here. Meanwhile, SemPoint *does* offer the option to specify an external BW packer of choice.

(This is going back to you via RBB's Concord system - which does not seem to balk at the BW reply packets that I send.)

I'll try this process on another BBS (!Concord & !BBBS) that supports BW and has this echo.


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I don't believe there is any setting for CR/LF. Maybe this whole matter is in the internal BW support here.

I suspect this is happening in the internal BW support.

Meanwhile, SemPoint *does* offer the option to specify an external BW packer of choice.

A light at the end of the tunnel? If you could use MultiMail as an external BW packer that might work.

Can I ask you a couple quick questions about sempoint?

Is it shareware?
If it is shareware is it registerable? Is it fully functionable while unregistered? Is it freeware or opensource?
Is it still in development/maintained?

(This is going back to you via RBB's Concord system - which does not seem to balk at the BW reply packets that I send.)

I'll try this process on another BBS (!Concord & !BBBS) that supports BW and has this echo.

Andrew Pamment wrote Magicka BBS, a BBS that has internal BW support so you could try a Magicka BBS. His own BBS is called The Fat Sandwich at sandwich.magickabbs.com on port 2023 or SSH port 2024.

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Hi! Alan,

On 09 May 19 02:20, you wrote to August Abolins:

Can I ask you a couple quick questions about sempoint?
Is it shareware?
If it is shareware is it registerable? Is it fully functionable while unregistered?

It was shareware. The author made it freeware with the fully-functioning release of version 2.26 in December 1999. Here's a copy of the File_ID.diz...

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SemPoint v2.26 for Windows <=-

SemPoint is the 1st Offline Reader for
Windows useful to both BBS Users and to
FidoNet Points (or Sysops). It can
handle QWK, BlueWave, Mc-Link's X)press
and Usenet newsgroups mail packets, as
well as permanent message bases in *.MSG
(Fido), Hudson, Squish, JAM end EzyCom
formats! EASY to use, but powerful!
Built-in zip/unzip, UUEncode/Decode,
PGP shell, Rich Text display feature,
message sorting, TIC generator.
Multilingual: English, Italian, French,
Spanish, Catalan, Swedish, German and
Dutch editions available! Y2K compatible.
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Is it freeware or opensource? Is it still in
development/maintained?

Free, closed source. No maintainers. The author got it right, for the most part. I've been using it since late 2002, and... I wanna use it agin... soon!!
:)

Andrew Pamment wrote Magicka BBS,

Nice bloke. He lives just down the road from me... oh, about 350kms. ;)

Cheers,
Paul.

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It was shareware. The author made it freeware with the fully-functioning
release of version 2.26 in December 1999. Here's a copy of the File_ID.diz...

--- 8< ---

SemPoint v2.26 for Windows <=-

SemPoint is the 1st Offline Reader for
Windows useful to both BBS Users and to
FidoNet Points (or Sysops). It can
handle QWK, BlueWave, Mc-Link's X)press
and Usenet newsgroups mail packets, as
well as permanent message bases in *.MSG
(Fido), Hudson, Squish, JAM end EzyCom
formats! EASY to use, but powerful!
Built-in zip/unzip, UUEncode/Decode,
PGP shell, Rich Text display feature,
message sorting, TIC generator.
Multilingual: English, Italian, French,
Spanish, Catalan, Swedish, German and
Dutch editions available! Y2K compatible.
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That's an impresive list of features. If you have that file, can you plonk it in my inbound?

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Hi! Alan,

On 09 May 19 04:19, you wrote to me:

SemPoint v2.26 for Windows <=-

That's an impresive list of features. If you have that file, can you
plonk it in my inbound?

FLO file just created. Don't look for any netmail...

+ 09 May 22:23:05 [13607] sent: semp226.zip (736561, 122760.17 CPS, 1:153/757@fidonet)

Enjoy! :)

Cheers,
Paul.

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That's an impresive list of features. If you have that file, can you
plonk it in my inbound?

FLO file just created. Don't look for any netmail...

Got it, thanks.. :)

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Hi Alan,
On <Thu, 09 May 19>, you wrote me:

Meanwhile, SemPoint *does* offer the option to specify an external
BW packer of choice.

A light at the end of the tunnel? If you could use MultiMail as an external BW packer that might work.

I dunno. I was looking for a "complete" Windows/program package for offline reading to recommend to people. Adding a full program like MultiMail just for packing is overkill. Meanwhile, I misread SemPoint's BW packing. The
"packing" is done with common archivers. So, what Sempoint actually does is create the BW style message internally.

Can I ask you a couple quick questions about sempoint?

Of course!

Is it shareware? If it is shareware is it registerable? Is it fully functionable while unregistered? Is it freeware or opensource?
Is it still in development/maintained?

I see that someone already responded and even sent you the program. Just be aware, that SemPoint appears to be 16bit/Win, but it works in my Win/XP test setup just fine.

Andrew Pamment wrote Magicka BBS, a BBS that has internal BW support
so you could try a Magicka BBS. His own BBS is called The Fat
Sandwich at sandwich.magickabbs.com on port 2023 or SSH port 2024.

Thanks for the heads-up. I'll drop by for a visit!

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