Artware software
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$Id: artware.txt,v 1.9 2007/10/04 18:59:50 ozzmosis Exp $

Note: The latest version of this document is available via CVS.  See the
end of the document for more information.


Status
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The software timEd, NetMgr and WIMM have all been ported to UNIX.  In
years gone by these programs were distributed as shareware by Gerard van
Essen under the name 'Artware', however in late 2000 they were released
as open source under the GNU General Public Licence (GPL) and uploaded
to http://www.nicestories.com/fidonet/ (last accessed 2007-10-05).

Most of the work porting timEd to UNIX was done by Oliver Grimm. 
Currently the Windows port of timEd is only stable, and semi-usable,
when compiled using Cygwin.  To date there has been no attempt to port
it back to OS/2 or DOS.  Contributions are welcome though!  The latest
version is stable under Linux, FreeBSD, BeOS and Mac OS X.

WIMM should compile under Windows, UNIX, OS/2, BeOS & 32-bit DOS.  There
has been a report of instability under 32-bit DOS, but this cannot be
replicated by me.  It has been stable under FreeBSD during testing.

NetMgr is the most recent port, thanks to Bo Simonsen.  Currently it
only compiles under UNIX (Linux/FreeBSD) and BeOS.  It will probably
also compile under Cygwin.  It won't compile out of the box for OS/2,
Windows or 32-bit DOS using Watcom, but shouldn't need too much work to
make this possible.  It has been stable under FreeBSD and BeOS during
testing, but has not been exhaustively tested.

All three require the latest version of XMSGAPI if you wish to compile
from source.  XMSGAPI is a port of the Squish MSGAPI written by Scott
Dudley and released under the GNU Lesser Public Licence.


CVS repository
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An anonymous CVS server has been set up for timEd, WIMM, NetMgr and
XMSGAPI.  If you have a command-line CVS client installed you can
retrieve the latest version of the timEd source code using the following
command:

cvs -r -z3 -d:pserver:anoncvs{at}blizzard.dnsalias.org:/cvsroot co timed

For WIMM, NetMgr and XMSGAPI, replace 'timed' with 'wimm', 'netmgr' or
'xmsgapi':

cvs -r -z3 -d:pserver:anoncvs{at}blizzard.dnsalias.org:/cvsroot co wimm
cvs -r -z3 -d:pserver:anoncvs{at}blizzard.dnsalias.org:/cvsroot co netmgr
cvs -r -z3 -d:pserver:anoncvs{at}blizzard.dnsalias.org:/cvsroot co xmsgapi


Contributing
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You can make changes to the source code or documentation of any of these
programs and have it incorporated into the main CVS repository.  If
you'd like write access to the CVS at blizzard.dnsalias.org please send
netmail to Andrew Clarke at FidoNet node 3:633/267 or e-mail
mail{at}ozzmosis.com with the username and password you wish to use.


Downloading
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The following files are available for download from
http://blizzard.dnsalias.org/fidonet/timed/ .  If you find a broken link
or a missing file you can email Andrew Clarke (3:633/267 or
mail{at}ozzmosis.com) or Gord Hannah (1:17/23 or ghannah{at}pris.bc.ca), or
ask in the ARTWARE echo.  There is also a mirror set up at
ftp://fido.thunderdome.us/pub/mirror/timed/ .

tm111a4c.zip    148447  timEd 1.11.a4; FidoNet message reader/editor.
                        Compiled for 32-bit Windows using Cygwin.

timcyg.zip      516069  timEd FidoNet message reader/editor. Cygwin
                        support files.

timed-2003-12-13.tar.gz
                883916  timEd 1.11.b1 2003-12-13 CVS source code
                        snapshot.

Updates
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The latest version of this document is posted on the 1st and 15th of
every month in the FidoNet ARTWARE echo.  It is also available via CVS,
using the command:

cvs -r -z3 -d:pserver:anoncvs{at}blizzard.dnsalias.org:/cvsroot co fidonet/artware.txt

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