The F I D O N E W S Volume 28, Number 52 26 Dec 2011 +--------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ | |The newsletter of the | | | | | FidoNet community. | | Netmail attach to (POTS): | | | | | Editor @ 2:2/2 (+46-31-960447) | | | ____________| | | | | / __ | Netmail attach to (BinkP): | | | / / \ | Editor @ 2:203/0 | | | WOOF! ( /|oo \ | | | \_______\(_| /_) | Email attach to: | | _ @/_ \ _ | bfelten @ telia dot com | | | | \ \\ | | | | (*) | \ ))| | | |__U__| / \// | Editor: Bj”rn Felten | | ______ _//|| _\ / | | | / Fido \ (_/(_|(____/ | Newspapers should have no friends. | | (________) (jm) | -- JOSEPH PULITZER | +--------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ Table of Contents 1. FOOD FOR THOUGHT ......................................... 1 2. GENERAL ARTICLES ......................................... 2 A PLEA FOR UTF-8 IN FIDONET Part 1 ...................... 2 3. FIDONEWS'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ...................... 5 FidoNet Software References .............................. 5 4. SPECIAL INTEREST ......................................... 10 Nodelist Stats ........................................... 10 5. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 12 How to Submit an Article ................................. 12 Credits, Legal Infomation, Availability .................. 14 FIDONEWS 28-52 Page 1 26 Dec 2011 ================================================================= FOOD FOR THOUGHT ================================================================= The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. -- Alvin Toffler ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 28-52 Page 2 26 Dec 2011 ================================================================= GENERAL ARTICLES ================================================================= A PLEA FOR UTF-8 IN FIDONET Part 1 By Michiel van der Vlist. 2:280/5555 First there was the spoken word. That was long time ago, nobody knows exactly how long, but it must have been in the order some hundred thousand years ago. Later, much, much later came the written word. In the order five thousand years ago. To get a message from one place to another. A messenger needed to physically transport an object with the text written on it from A to B. Forget about the semaphore and let us jump straight to transporting messages over electric wire. With that came the need for an encoding scheme. One of the first encoding schemes was Morse Code. Named after its (co) inventor Samual Morse. This was around 1840. Since this was invented in the western World, mostly the USA, it is no surprise that Morse code only covers the digits 0-9, a few special characters, such as the question mark and the period, plus 26 letters of the Latin alphabet. Nowadays Morse Code is used only by a small group of radio amateurs but for over a century, it was a mainstream coding method for telecommunication. Next step was Baudot code. Used in the telex communication system. A five bit code that covered the 26 letters of the Roman alphabet plus the digits 0-9 and some punctuation and control signals. Like Morse code, no distinction between upper and lower case. In the fifties of the previous century, the first computers entered the scene. At first these were bulky pieces of machinery filling an entire room. They were programmed by entering the binary code directly into memory by so called sense switches. This was cumbersome and error prone. Soon the need developed to have a way to directly enter the mnemonics used to memorise the instructions into the computer and let the commputer itself do the translation into binary form instead of the operator manually entering the binary code. With that came the need for a character encoding scheme for computers. Several encoding schemes were used in the beginning, but in the end it converged into an 8 bit code that seemed to fit computers like a glove. Or to be more precise a seven bit code. Used on 8 bit transport media, but only the lower seven bits were used for encoding text. The highest bit was used as an error detection mechanism: the parity bit. This was ASCII, The American Standard Code for Information Interchange. First introduced in 1960. The "A" is "ASCII" stands for "American". So it is no surprise that as far as the letters go, once again it only covers the 26 letters found in American English. ASCII is much richer that all of its predecessors, it has many punctuation and special characters, 32 - now mostly obsolete - control codes and as a new feature, the distinction between upper and lower case. That the character set is limited to what is found in American FIDONEWS 28-52 Page 3 26 Dec 2011 English, was no great limitation in the beginning of the history of data processing. Computers becasue of their bulk and cost were only to be found at government institutes, large companies and universities. They were used by scientists and engineers. Those could deal with ASCII only mnachines. What nobody could foresee when ASCII was devised, happened some two decades later. Computers became small enough and cheap enough to allow individuals to have their own private computer ( a PC ) all for themselves in their own homes. With affordable home computers, came affordable printers and that was the end of the classic type writer. Computer use was no longer limited to research workers who's employers could afford tons of research equipment, but by people that could afford type writers. And then when those New type writers" spread around the world came the need for more than just ASCII. While ASCII was enough for US Americans using type writers, it was not enough for the rest of the world. ASCII only became a stranglehold. Those new computer users wanted to write in their own language. A language that used characters with accents, umlauts, slashes and even characters not at all resembling the Roman alphabet. Cyrillics, or even more complex Asian and Arabic languages. Microsoft and IBM were quick to respond. They introduced the concept of code pages. ASCII is seven bit, but computers store information in lumps of eight bits called a byte. The most significant bit, originally meant as a parity bit, but obsoleted by more robust error checking mechanisms, was free to define another 128 characters. IBM choose to not only include language specific characters in that set of 128, but to also include some 30+ so called "graphic characters" for line drawing. That may have been a good idea at the time, but in retrospect it may have been a waste of valuable coding space. Anyway, at the end of the DOS era, there were dozens of code pages, covering the needs for hundreds of languages. One could write in German, Swedish, Russian and Greek without problems. Well, one could not write in Greek and Russian in the same article because on e could not change code pages in mid stream. But who wanted that? And then came the InterNet. And with the Internet came the World Wide Web. In the beginning the web just copied the solution to language issues from DOS. code pages and more code pages. It did not take much more than a decade to realise that the eight bit barrier was the second stranglehold. Not being able to write Russian and Greek in one and the same article was NOT acceptable. Eight bits for a character set was NOT good enough. Fortunately the price of memory had also dropped spectacularly. Also the price of transporting bits had dropped steadily. Memory had become so cheap that it became affordable to store pictures in digital form. Pictures take orders of magnitude more storing space than text. So increasing the required storing space for text by a factor of two by going from a one byte character encoding scheme to a multi byte encoding scheme, no longer met with economic restrictions. Enter Unicode. FIDONEWS 28-52 Page 4 26 Dec 2011 Unicode introduces the concept of The Universal Character Set. It is not a static entity, it is still growing. Presently there are over a million characters defined. While in the code page concept, character set and character encoding scheme are one and the same, in Unicode they are decoupled. There is ONE charceter set: the Universal Character Set. There are several encoding schemes that all have their merits. First there is UTF-7. Designed for stone age transport layers that are 7 bits only. Next there is UTF-8. This is an 8 byte multibyte encoding that takes one to six bytes to encode a character. Next there is UTF-16. Not suitable for byte onrientated transport media that use NULL as a special character, but is is used internally by Windows from XP and up. And finally there is UTF-32. The obvious choice for FidoNet is UTF-8. The transport layer of FidoNet is fully 8 bit transparent, with the exception of the NULL byte that is used as a termination character. Since UTF-8 is fully downward compatible with ASCII, the first 127 characters in the Universal Character set are the same as the ASCII set and they are encoded in exactly the same way. So the NULL in UTF-8 is the same as the NULL in ASCII, so no problem. Also there will be no conflict with those that have no need for anything other than good old 7 bit ASCII. They can keep using the software that they have been using all the time and everyone will see the same text on his/her screen. Next week we will go into some details on how to get UTF-8 encoded FidoNet message on your screen. To be continued.... © Michiel van der Vlist, all rights reserved. Permission to publish in the FIDONEWS file scho and the FIDONEWS discussion echo as originating from 2:2/2 ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 28-52 Page 5 26 Dec 2011 ================================================================= FIDONEWS'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ================================================================= -=:{ FidoNet Software Reference }:=- Type: M=Mailer T=Tosser B=BBS D=Door C=Comm/Terminal P=Points E=Editor I=Internet U=Utility ?=Info .- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -. |Software: Author |Type |URL, Contact, Ver, Notes Help Node| `- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -' Argus |MI |http://www.ritlabs.com/argus/ 2:469/84 | | argus@ritlabs.com Tel: 373-2-246889 | | v3.210 on Mar 20th 2001 BinkleyTerm XE |M |http://btxe.sourceforge.net 1:1/102 | | v2.60XE/Gamma-6 on Nov 11th 1998 BinkD |MI |http://binkd.grumbler.org/ 2:463/69 | | v0.9.10 on Oct 2nd 2008 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 26th 2003 FrontDoor, FD/APX: |MTPC |http://www.defsol.se 2:201/330 Definite Solutions | | sales@defsol.se 1:1/101 | | v2.26SW & v2.33ml FD, v1.15 APX Husky Project |MTPUI|http://sf.net/projects/husky/ | | v1.4 RC5 on Apr 24th 2006 Radius |MI |http://radius.pp.ru 2:5012/38 (based on Argus) | | fido5012@zaural.net Tel: 7-3522-469463 | | Last Release: v4.010 on Jan 3nd 2005 Taurus |MI |http://taurus.rinet.ru (Russian) 2:461/70 | |http://www.fidotel.com/taurus (English) (based on Radius) | | E-mail: taurus@rinet.ru | | v5.000 alpha on Oct 11th 2004 Tmail |MI |http://www.tmail.spb.ru v2608 | | Website is in Russian only WildCat! Interactive |MTBEI|http://www.santronics.com Net Server, Platinum| | sales@santronics.com Xpress: Santronics | | Tel: (305) 248-3204 Software, Inc. | | AUP 451.1 on April 26th 2004 +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ Fidogate |TUI |http://www.fidogate.org FIDONEWS 28-52 Page 6 26 Dec 2011 | | Martin_Junius@m-j-s.net v4.4.10 FMail |T |http://sourceforge.net/projects/fmail/ | | v1.60.GPL JetMail: JetSys |TU |http://www.jetsys.de js@jetsys.de (ATARI ST only) | | v1.01 on Jan 1st 2000 Squish |T |http://maximus.sourceforge.net/ | | Lanuis site redirects to above | | Squish is part of Maximus. +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ BBBS |BI |http://www.bbbs.net b@bbbs.net | | v4.00MP on Oct 25th 1999 2:22/222 ELEBBS: The Elevator |B |http://www.elebbs.com Software Production | | elebbs@elebbs.com | | v0.10.RC1 on Jun 9th 2002 Ezycom BBS |BT |http://www.ezycom-bbs.com | | ezycom@amnet.net.au or | | ezycom_hq@ezycom-bbs.com 3:690/682 | | v2.15g2 on 16 Nov 2009 Hermes II Project |B |http://www.hermesii.org | | info@HermesII.org v3.5.9 Beta Final Maximus BBS |B |http://maximus.sourceforge.net/ | | v3.03 | |Archives back online at: | |http://maximus.outpostbbs.net/ MBSE BBS: |BI |http://mbse.sourceforge.net 2:280/2802 Michiel Broek | | mbroek@users.sourceforge.net | | v0.60.0 on June 5th 2004 Mystic BBS |B |http://www.mysticbbs.com | | v1.07.3 on May 13th 2001 Nexus BBS |B |http://www.nexusbbs.net | | groberts@nexusbbs.net | | v0.99.41-Beta on Oct 16th 2002 | | [Note: No Longer under active | | development.] Proboard BBS |B |http://www.proboard.be | | v2.17 on Jun 9th 2002 RemoteAccess BBS: |B |http://www.rapro.com 1:1/120 Bruce Morse | | bfmorse@rapro.com | | v2.62.2SW Spitfire BBS: Buffalo|B |http://www.angelfire.com/ia/buffalo/ Creek Software | | MDWoltz@aol.com 1:1/150 FIDONEWS 28-52 Page 7 26 Dec 2011 | | v3.6 on Aug 20th 1999 Synchronet BBS |BT |http://www.synchro.net | | sysop(at)vert(dot)synchro(dot)net | | v3.10L Beta Telegard BBS |B |http://www.telegard.net | | support@telegard.net | | v3.09g2 SP4 +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ Atlantis Software |D |http://www.jimmyrose.com/atlantis/ | | Last Update: August 2004 Cheepware |DU |http://outpostbbs.net Sean Dennis | | sean@outpostbbs.net 1:18/200 DDS (Doorware |D |http://www.doorgames.org 1:2404/201 Distribution System)| | ruth@doorgames.org Ruth Argust | | DoorMUD |D |http://doormud.com | | v0.98 Jun 1st 2002 | | Website is down after | | past the splash page. Jibben Software |D |http://www.jibbensoftware.com | | scott@jibben.com | | 1995-99 Release dates John Dailey Software |D |http://www.johndaileysoftware.com | | support@johndaileysoftware.com Shining Star |D |http://www.shiningstar.net/bbsdoors/ | | nannette@shiningstar.net Sunrise Doors: |D |http://www.sunrisedoors.com Al Lawrence | | al@sunrisedoors.com | | Tel: (404) 256-9518 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: |D |http://www.vbsoft.org 1:124/7013 Bryan Turner | | vagabond@vbsoft.org | | last update: Jul 17th 2002 +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ APoint |PI |http://www.apoint-mail.de 2:2426/1210.13 | |http://www.apoint-mail.de/indexe.htm | | (English Version) FIDONEWS 28-52 Page 8 26 Dec 2011 | | dirk.pokorny@apoint-mail.de | | v1.25 CrossPoint (XP) |P |http://www.crosspoint.de (German Only) | | pm@crosspoint.de v3.12d Dec 22nd 1999 FreeXP |P |http://www.freexp.de 2:2433/460 | | support@freexp.de | | v3.40 RC3 Aug 31st 2003 (Snapshot) OpenXP/32 |PI |http://www.openxp.com 2:248/2004 | | (Site is in German Only) | | mk@openxp.de v3.8.15 Beta Feb 10th 2004 | | Download Page comes back 404 not found. +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ GoldEd+ |E |http://golded-plus.sourceforge.net/ | | 2:5080/102 | | stas_degteff@users.sourceforge.net | | v1.1.5 Snapshot on Feb 28th 2003 SqEd32 |E |http://www.sqed.de | | v1.15 on Dec 15th 1999 TimEd |E |http://blizzard.dnsalias.org/fidonet | | mail@ozzmosis.com /timed | | v1.11.a5 in March 2003 3:633/267 +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ FidoIP |MTPEIU|http://sourceforge.net/projects/fidoip | | Maxim Sokolsky 2:5020/828.777 | | v.0.5_1 on Jan 11 2010 GiGo |UI |http://www.gigo.com | | v0109 on Jan 9th 1997 Ifmail |UI |http://ifmail.sourceforge.net | | crosser@average.org 2:5020/230 | | Ifmail is a FTN <-> E-Mail/News Gateway | | Program. Internet Rex: |UI |http://members.shaw.ca/InternetRex/ Charles Cruden | | telnet://xanadubbs.ca 1:342/806 (Khan Software) | | v2.29 on Oct 21st 2001 MakeNL |U | http://hub2000.darktech.org/makenl | | fidonet.hub2000 [at] gmail [dot] com | | Fido: 1:229/2000 | | FidoNet Nodelist Processor Meltdown-BBS |UI |http://meltdown-bbs.sourceforge.net/ | | meltdown-bbs.project.petkan | | @spamgourmet.com | | Fido: 2:350/5 FIDONEWS 28-52 Page 9 26 Dec 2011 | | Meltdown-BBS is an FTN <-> | | Web/PHP/MySQL BBS forum system. RNtrack |U |http://sourceforge.net/projects/ftrack-as | |2:5080/102 | |stas_degteff@users.sourceforge.net | | v1.1.4 Snapshot on Oct 09 2009 TransNet |UI |http://www.ressl.com.ar/transnet/ | | transnet@ressl.com.ar | | v2.11 on Jul 18th 1998 TransX: Multiboard |UI |http://www.start.ca/software/multiboard Communications, Inc.| | Unsure about support now but Free Keys | | are now available. Donations accepted. | | v3.5 (Note: KeyGen is a Windows Program) Turquoise SuperStat |U |http://www.softwolves.pp.se/sw/ | | software/turquoise | | peter@softwolves.pp.se | | Version: 3.0 on 2008-01-21 +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ National BBS List |? | http://www.usbbs.org Hispanic FIDO/BBS's |? | http://www.conecta2.org/pucela_bbs/ (in Spanish only) | | (Extensive software & BBS Listings) +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ File Archives: http://archives.thebbs.org http://www.filegate.net http://sysopscorner.thebbs.org http://www.juge.com http://www.dmine.com/bbscorner/ http://garbo.uwasa.fi http://www.simtel.net http://wuarchive.wustl.edu http://www.bbsfiles.com http://hobbes.nmsu.edu Note: most also provide FTP access (use ftp:// instead of http:// above) *=-=*=.=*=-=*=.=*=-=*=.=*=-=*=.=*=-=*=.=*=-=*=.=*=-=*=.=*=-=*=.=*=-=* Please send corrections & additions to: Fidonews Editor Emeritus: Robert Couture, Ben Ritchey, Todd Cochrane, Frank Vest, Peter Popovich ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 28-52 Page 10 26 Dec 2011 ================================================================= SPECIAL INTEREST ================================================================= Nodelist Stats Input nodelist nodelist.357 size 357.6kb date 2011-12-23 The nodelist has 2555 nodes in it and a total of 3676 non-comment entries including 5 zones 36 regions 245 hosts 214 hubs admin overhead 500 ( 19.57 %) and 339 private nodes 142 nodes down 140 nodes on hold off line overhead 621 ( 24.31 %) Speed summary: >9600 = 207 ( 8.10 %) 9600 = 1649 ( 64.54 %) (HST = 23 or 1.39 %) (CSP = 0 or 0.00 %) (PEP = 1 or 0.06 %) (MAX = 0 or 0.00 %) (HAY = 1 or 0.06 %) (V32 = 780 or 47.30 %) (V32B = 61 or 3.70 %) (V34 = 1108 or 67.19 %) (V42 = 937 or 56.82 %) (V42B = 65 or 3.94 %) 2400 = 12 ( 0.47 %) 1200 = 2 ( 0.08 %) 300 = 685 ( 26.81 %) ISDN = 229 ( 8.96 %) ---------------------------------------------------------- File Req Flag Applicable software Number of systems ---------------------------------------------------------- XA Frontdoor <1.99b 773 Frontdoor 2.02+ Dutchie 2.90c Binkleyterm >2.1 D'Bridge <1.3 TIMS Xenia -------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 28-52 Page 11 26 Dec 2011 XB Binkleyterm 2.0 0 Dutchie 2.90b -------------------------------------- XC Opus 1.1 1 -------------------------------------- XP Seadog 0 -------------------------------------- XR Opus 1.03 15 -------------------------------------- XW Fido >12M 70 Tabby KittenMail -------------------------------------- XX D'Bridge 1.30 799 Frontdoor 1.99b Intermail 2.01 T-Mail -------------------------------------- None QMM 897 -------------------------------------- CrashMail capable = 1275 ( 49.90 %) MailOnly nodes = 1272 ( 49.78 %) Listed-only nodes = 194 ( 7.59 %) Other = -186 ( -7.28 %) [Report produced by NETSTATS - A PD pgm] [ Revised by B Felten, 2:203/208] ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 28-52 Page 12 26 Dec 2011 ================================================================= FIDONEWS INFORMATION ================================================================= How to Submit an Article If you wish to submit an article for inclusion in the Fidonews, here are some guidelines, if you send it as an attached file; the preferred method if you want reasonable control over how the published article will appear in the Fidonews: a) Plain ASCII text. 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