======================================================================= T h e F i d o N e w s Volume 28 Number 41 October 10th, 2011 ======================================================================= +----------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ | A newsletter of the | Published by | | | The FidoNews BBS | | FidoNet BBS community | | | _ | | | / \ | | | /|oo \ | << Prism bbs | | (_| /_) | 1:261/38 | | _`@/_ \ _ | | | | | \ \\ | | | | (*) | \ )) | Temp-Editor : | | |__U__| / \// | Janis Kracht 1:261/38 | | _//|| _\ / | | | (_/(_|(____/ | | | (jm) | Newspapers should have no friends. | | | -- JOSEPH PULITZER | +----------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ Table Of Contents Editorial..................................2 New and Returning SysOps...................3 Neat Things You can do with Linux..........4 BBS SoftWare List..........................5 Information................................6 Credits ...................................7 FIDONEWS Vol 28 No 41 Page 1 October 10 2011 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ================================================================= E D I T O R I A L ================================================================= by Janis Kracht, Temp-editor, Fidonews FN_SYSOP moderator Bjorn Felten says he has put Roy Witt and Ross Cassell on read-only access for the next three months. Bjorn says he's sent _3_ netmails to both Roy and Ross in warning them of I suppose, Rules of the FN_SYSOP Echo Bjorn thinks Roy and Ross have broken... Ross at least hasn't seen a single netmail from Bjorn, though. Still waiting to hear from Roy as to whether he's seen the 3 netmails. Update: As of tonight, Roy hasn't received a single message from Bjorn :( Ross has toned it down in FN_SYSOP. Now will Bjorn notice? Doubt it. FIDONEWS Vol 28 No 41 Page 2 October 10 2011 ----------------------------------------------------------------- New/Returning SysOps This week, two SysOps are back: Region 10 Darren Braun La Verne, Ca Region 15 Robert Basil Phoenix, AZ Welcome back fellows! FIDONEWS Vol 28 No 41 Page 3 October 10 2011 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Neat Things You Can Do with Linux By Janis Kracht, 1:261/38, janis@filegate.net In this age of GUI (it seems worse on Linux than ever before :) ), most people who've been around know that there's an underlying nice place, waiting for you to explore ... it's commonly the BASH shell, but there are other shells you can install. So we'll deal with BASH here, since it seems most used. Open up up a terminal on your linux box, you can use Alt+F2 to bring up konsole (kde's terminal, my favorite), or you can press Ctrl+Alt+F1 to get to a virtual console. You probably already know about this one: cd - It will take you back to the previous directory you were in. Type it again, and you'll be back where you started. Once you've cd'd to somewhere on your drive, you can of course see what's there with the ls command.. ls -l will show you information about the FILEs (the current directory by default). ls -l bbbs* bbbscripts: total 24K -rw-r--r-- 1 bbs bbs 180 2010-09-26 02:01 contents.txt -rwxr-xr-x 1 bbs bbs 118 2010-09-26 02:01 mailin.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 bbs bbs 39 2010-09-26 02:01 mailout.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 bbs bbs 1033 2010-09-26 02:01 run1.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 bbs bbs 128 2010-09-26 02:01 telnetnode.sh -rwxr-x--x 1 bbs bbs 470 2010-09-26 02:01 testppp How Much do I write? You can use the wc command to find out. The wc command counts things like words or bytes. wc -w *.TXT will show you the word count on all txt files. bbs@filegate:~ wc -w *.txt 51 wc4code.txt 306 wcd.txt 138 web2ldap.txt ls -l Quick, get me out of here Or the ~ switch All folders or directories live off the / (root) directory. Your home directory is normally /home/USERNAME Ok, you've been exploring your hard drive, just looking around with commands like ls. Now you want to just get to your home directory. Type cd ~ The ~ notation always refers to your home directory and using the cd command with ~ will always take you to your 'username' home. Type pwd, and bash will show you the name of the directory where you are. $ pwd /home/bbbs/ LS and CD are commands that take arguments. You can see all of the arguments and switches for these commands with --help. cd --help ls --help Will show you all the options. LS lets you add color to your terminal easily. ls -l --color="auto" With color="auto", you'll see binary (executible) files listed in bright green, directories are bright blue, and files with no special attitributes set are plain old gray. :) Next time: Paging, more or less FIDONEWS Vol 28 No 41 Page 4 October 10 2011 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ================================================================= F I D O N E T S O F T W A R E L I S T ================================================================= ================================================================= FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ================================================================= BBS Software List Updated 04 October 2011 Maintained by Andrew Leary (1:320/119) Editors Emeritus: Robert Couture, Janis Kracht, Sean Dennis M=Mailer T=Tosser B=BBS D=Door C=Comm/Terminal P=Points E=Editor I=Internet U=Utility #=Info F=TIC/SRIF Processor *=Software is available and may be registerable, but no longer supported or updated. @=Website is operating but is no longer updated. ?=Software's updating/support status is unknown. O=Software is open source. This list contains BBS-related software that is available for registration (not necessarily supported), open source software and actively developed/supported software by its author. Software listed may be available for DOS, Linux, OS/2 (eComStation), Windows (16 or 32 bit) and OSX. .- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -. |Software: Author |Type |URL, Contact, Ver, Notes Help Node| `- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -' ==> FRONT-END/INTERNET MAILERS Argus |MI*? |http://www.ritlabs.com/en/products/argus/ | | v3.210 on Mar 29 2001 BinkleyTerm XE |MO* |http://btxe.sourceforge.net | | 2.60XE Beta-XH7 on Oct 22 2000 BinkD |MI? |http://2f.ru/binkd/ | | maloff@corbina.net | | v0.94 on Jul 24 2000 (Outdated) | |http://www.filegate.net/r50/aftnbinkd/ D'Bridge |MTCPE|http://www.net229.org/dbridge.htm 1:1/130 Nick Andre |I | v3.64 on June 4 2011 FIDO-Deluxe IP |MPUI |http://www.fido-deluxe.de.vu 2:2432/280 Michael Haase | | m.haase@gmx.net | | v2.4 on Sep 26 2003 FrontDoor, FD/APX: |MITPC|http://www.defsol.se 2:201/330 Definite Solutions |? | sales@defsol.se | | v2.26SW & v2.33ml FD, v1.15 APX Husky Project |MTPUI|http://husky.sourceforge.net/ |O? | v1.9 RC2 on Apr 20 2010 Taurus |MI |http://www.fidotel.com/public/forums/ (based on Radius) |? | taurus/index.htm | | v5.0 Jun 12 2006 | | T-Mail |MI |http://www.tmail.spb.ru (Russian only) |? | v2608 on Dec 12 2001 +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ ==> MAIL TOSSERS Crashmail II |TO |http://ftnapps.sourceforge.net/ | | FastEcho |T |http://www.softeq.de/Products/FastEcho/ | | fastecho.html | | v1.46.1 on 13 Nov 2007 | | Registration keys are free and available | | by request from the author Fidogate |TUI? |http://www.fidogate.org | | v4.4.10 on Aug 27 2004 | | FMail |TO |http://fmail.sourceforge.net/ | | v1.60.GPL on Mar 8 2008 | | v1.64.0.17 (Beta) on Sep 27 2011 Squish |T* |http://www.filegate.net/maximus_bbs/ | | v1.11R2 on Jan 1 2009 | | Source code available in the Maximus BBS | | archive: http://maximus.sourceforge.net +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ ==> BBS SOFTWARE BBBS |BICTM|http://www.bbbs.net 2:22/222 | | b@bbbs.net | | v4.01 on January 28 2007 EleBBS |BO*? |http://www.elebbs.com | | v0.10.RC1 on Jun 9 2002 Enthral BBS |B |http://enthralbbs.com 1:250/501 Linux/BSD/OSX | | v0.429/Alpha on 14 October 2010 | | Fidonet filebone SCENEENT Ezycom BBS |BT |http://www.ezycom-bbs.com 3:690/682 | | v2.15g2 on Nov 16 2009 GT Power |B |http://www.gtpowerbbs.com/ | | v19.00 Hermes II Project |BT |http://www.hermesbbs.com/ Macintosh-based | | malyn@strangegizmo.com | | v3.5.10b3 Maximus BBS |BO* |http://www.filegate.net/maximus_bbs/ | | v3.03 | | Source code available at: | | http://maximus.sourceforge.net/ MBSE BBS |BIO? |http://mbse.sourceforge.net 2:280/2802 | | mbroek@users.sourceforge.net | | v0.92.0 on Oct 16 2007 Meltdown BBS |UIO |http://meltdown-bbs.sourceforge.net/ | | v1.0b on Apr 26 2004 Mystic BBS |BO* |http://www.mysticbbs.com | | v1.07.3 on May 13th 2001 RemoteAccess BBS |B? |http://www.rapro.com 1:1/120 | | bfmorse@rapro.com | | v2.62.2SW Renegade BBS |B |http://renegadebbs.info 1:129/305 | | v1.10/DOS on 3 Oct 2009 Spitfire BBS |B? |http://www.buffalocrk.com/ | | mdwoltz@buffalocrk.com | | v3.6 on Aug 20 1999 Synchronet BBS |BTIO |http://www.synchro.net 1:103/705 | | v3.16 on 31 Dec 2006 Telegard BBS |B* |http://www.telegard.net | | v3.09g2-sp4/mL on Dec 19 1999 WildCat! Interactive |MTBEI|http://www.santronics.com Net Server, Platinum| | sales@santronics.com Xpress: Santronics | | Software, Inc. | | +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ ==> TIC PROCESSORS/FILEFIX/SRIF Allfix |FIUT |http://www.allfix.com/ 1:140/12 Bob Seaborn | | v6.0.22 on 26 January 2011 NEF/pk |F |http://nefpk.8m.com/ | | v2.45b2 on 5 March 2000 TinyTIC |FO |http://ftnapps.sourceforge.net/ | | 1:120/544 VIReq |FO |http://ftnapps.sourceforge.net/ | | 1:120/544 +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ ==> BBS DOORS/UTILITIES Cheepware |DU |http://kd5col.info/cheepware.html Sean Dennis | | sdennis72@gmail.com 1:18/200 | | Fidonet filebone CH-WARE DDS (Doorware |D@ |http://www.doorgames.org Distribution System)| | ruth@doorgames.org Ruth Argust | | Jibben Software |D* |http://www.jibbensoftware.com/ | | bbs-door-games.cfm | | scott@jibben.com | | 1995-99 Release dates John Dailey Software |DU? |http://www.johndaileysoftware.com Shining Star |D* |http://www.shiningstar.net/bbsdoors/ | | nannette@shiningstar.net | | Doors are still registerable via website Sunrise Doors: |D |http://www.sunrisedoors.com Al Lawrence | | al@sunrisedoors.com | | Tel: (404) 256-9518 T1ny's Software |DU |http://www.tinysbbs.com/files/tsoft/ Shawn Highfield | | shighfield@gmail.com 1:229/452 | | Fidonet filebone CH-WARE The Brainex System |D |http://www.brainex.com/brainex_system/ | | stanley@brainex.com | | 1994-99 Releases Trade Wars |D* |http://www.eisonline.com/tradewars/ | | jpritch@eisonline.com | | v3.09 (DOS-32) in 2002 Vagabond Software |DU* |http://http://vbsoft.dhakota.org | | d@dhakota.org | | Last update: Apr 11 2008 +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ ==> POINT SOFTWARE CrossPoint (XP) |P? |http://www.crosspoint.de (German only) | | pm@crosspoint.de | | v3.12d on Dec 22 1999 FreeXP |P |http://www.freexp.de (German only) | | support@freexp.de | | v3.42 on Jun 27 2010 +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ ==> SYSOP MAIL EDITORS GoldEd+ |EO*? |http://golded-plus.sourceforge.net/ | | v1.1.5 (Snapshot) on Apr 29 2010 | | NOTE: Unstable versions released often SqEd32 |E |http://www.sqed.de 2:2476/493 | | v1.15 on Dec 15 1999 | | Website is in German and English +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ ==> INTERNET UTILITIES JamNNTPd |UIO |http://ftnapps.sourceforge.net/ | | 1:120/544 Internet Rex |UI? |http://members.shaw.ca/InternetRex/ | | telnet://xanadubbs.ca 1:342/806 | | v2.29 on Oct 21st 2001 TransNet |UIO? |http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mressl/ | | transnet/index.html | | transnet@ressl.com.ar | | v2.11 on Sep 13 2007 Ifmail |UIO |http://ifmail.sourceforge.net | | crosser@average.org MakeNL |UO |http://www.filegate.net/coordutl/ | | v3.2.9 on Feb 1 2010 +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ ==> INFORMATIONAL WEBSITES/BBS LISTS Telnet/Dialup BBS |# |http://www.telnetbbsguide.com 1:275/89 Guide | | Maintained by Dave Perrussel | | This is probably the most updated BBS | | list on the Internet for a general | | BBS list. Synchronet BBS List |# |http://www.synchro.net/sbbslist.html | | Maintained automatically | | This list is specifically for | | Synchronet-based BBS systems and is | | automatically updated nightly. The BBS Corner |# |http://www.bbscorner.com | | This website is more than just files, | | it's an encyclopedia of knowledge for | | BBS sysops and people who want to | | become sysops. This site is run by | | the same person who does the Telnet | | BBS Guide. +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ File Archives: http://archives.thebbs.org http://sysopscorner.thebbs.org (site is no longer maintained) http://www.simtel.net http://www.bbsfiles.com http://hobbes.nmsu.edu (OS/2 specific) http://www.filegate.net/ (FTP access via port 60721) http://www.tinysbbs.com/files/ Note: Most also provide FTP access (use ftp instead of http above) The BBS Software List is published weekly in the FidoNews. If you have corrections, suggestions or additions to the information above, please contact Andrew Leary with your information via the FIDONEWS echo or netmail at 1:320/119. ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS Vol 28 No 41 Page 5 October 10 2011 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ================================================================= I N F O R M A T I O N ================================================================= ================================================================= FIDONEWS INFORMATION ================================================================= FidoNews Article Submission (Updated September, 2011) FidoNews, founded in early 1984, is the newsletter of the FidoNet computer network, for both its Sysops and users. It is passed to its readers electronically via the FidoNet and other computer networks and to non-network readers as well as to the InterNet. 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"Disagreement is actually necessary, or we'd all have to get in fights or something to amuse ourselves and create the requisite chaos." -Tom Jennings FIDONEWS Vol 28 No 41 Page 7 October 10 2011 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Published with MakeNews2 by Janis Kracht