* Crossposted in CHWARE
* Crossposted in MIN_BBS

Hello, All.

25 February 2010

CHEEPWARE ACQUIRES SABREEDIT

Shawn Highfield, a Cheepware member, has acquired the rights and the source
code to SabreEdit, a full-featured full screen editor BBS door, last developed
by Darrell Harder of SabreTech.  Currently the Cheepware team, consisting of
Sean Dennis and Shawn Highfield, is developing a working version of the
software which has been renamed to CheepEdit.  CheepEdit will be a freeware
program.

CheepEdit is a full-featured full screen editor that will work with any
BBS software that will support 16-bit DOS doors, the MSGTMP file and the
DOOR.SYS or DORINFO1.DEF dropfiles.  CheepEdit has additional support
for Remote Access BBS, QuickBBS and Ezycom BBS software.

Some of CheepEdit's features:

   - Text-editor style editing keys
   - Full quoting and quote text reformatting
   - Taglines + IntelliTag topic-related tagline searching
   - Full individual configurations for each user
   - Message text spellchecker and 45,000+ word dictionary
   - Personal spellchecker dictionaries for each user
   - Designed to allow easy translation to other languages
   - Highly configurable message censoring features
   - Key-phrase text expansions for ease of use
   - Color schemes are 100% operator and user configurable
   - Per-user-per-group lockouts supported (RA/QBBS/Ezycom only)
   - Compatible with most offline readers (Blue Wave, etc.)
   - Many message area-sensitive features

Right now we are concentrating on the DOS version to get bug-free and
reliable.  Once that happens, we hope to provide a real native Win32
and OS/2 version of CheepEdit.  We are hoping to have a working DOS
version within a week with several bugfixes.

For any questions concerning CheepEdit, please contact Shawn Highfield
or Sean Dennis in the official Cheepware support echo, CHWARE, in
Fidonet or MIN_BBS in Micronet.

Later,
Sean

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