Hi Mark,

>> Sad news today, Folks..  Michael Bauer is taking his bbs
>> system down.  Gamesnet and Fsfan will be removed from
>> filegate.zxx this weekend.

> hummm... the only Bauer i can find is christian bauer in Z2...

Probably a result of the recent change that Michael mentioned.. NC awol perhaps..

>> Michael says he's sorry, but his work load has gotten very
>> heavy, and then his net had some kind of trouble over there..
>> :(

>> :(

>> I do release whatever shareware games in the WIN_GAME file
>> echo that authors send me, but nothing like number of files or
>> the types of files that Michael was able to collect :( :(
>> We'll miss his work a great deal. Perhaps someone will be able
>> to pick up on one or both of these fdns..

>hummm... one thing i'd like to see is greater use of the REPLACES verb so that
> i don't have umpteen jillion copies and old versions of the same programs
> laying around... if someone's running a FDN, they should do what they can to
> ensure that the areas they maintain are not cluttered with old and duplicate
> stuff...

All true.. In the way-back-past  I didn't like to use REPLACE with
the pdn files in case someone needs an earlier version of code but these
days.. 

> i really should get on the stick and get things updated to use the filegate
> stuff instead of the old defunct filedist or whatever it was stuff that my
> system is still configured for...

Yeah  Get filegate.zxx from
http://www.filegate.net/info/filegate.zxx (ASCII text file, not an archive,
the extension wass supposed to mean 'all zones' )

I'll be sending out a new one Sat. night/Sunday.

>does filegate also carry the original SDN stuff? where can i get an info packe
> via the internet?

Ah.. SDN.. Ray Kaliss gave up on the SDN long ago.  The child of that
distribution is WIN_FDN where shareware authors (ASP people) still send me
material for that FDN.  Or.. did you mean SDS :)

Take care,
Janis

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