Bat Lang,

18-Oct-99 18:15:20, Bat Lang wrote to Murray Lesser
          Subject: UniMaint ???

 ML>> I wonder where BAT got his stranger from.

FWUTILS - FW: OS/2 high-level utilities

1 of several FernWood OS/2 file echoes, distributed by FileBone, Planet
Connect Satellite, and paonline.com

Fidonet SysOps (and their Points) can have those file echoes delivered to them
automatically.  There are many Internet sites where those file echoes are
available to the public.  For example Bob Juge at FTP & HTTP juge.com and 
FTP  jkracht.aye.net                Kentucky, USA
FTP  ftp.tpesp.com                  Madrid, Spain
FTP  ftp.maasstad.com               Rotterdam, NL
WWW  http://jkracht.aye.net/
WWW  http://arfin.tpesp.es

 BL> Why, from Lody Caenen, of course. From my original query (quoted
 BL> by others in this pkt/thread):

Lody Caenen is the Coordinator who hatches the OS/2 files in the FernWood file
echoes.  It is also up to Lody to post the TIC DESC (description) that goes
with each file hatched.

I know Bat Lang knows all that stuff already, but I just wanted to add to what
Bat said to clarify the situation for everyone else.

 BL>> Recently down the filebone came a new version of UniMaint.

 BL> The actual filebone FDN was Fernwood, TTBOMK just about the only
 BL> FDN still hatching OS/2 apps via the filebone?

FernWood IS just about the only FDN still hatching OS/2 files because Lody
Caenen asked Janis Kracht, the International IFDC Coordinator, to make it that
way to avoid confusion and duplication.  The 3 of us got into a discussion
about FDNs not long ago.  IMO FernWood is the best FDN because it is well
established.  It takes a lot of time to start an FDN and probably a year to
get well established and that can only happen if there is a need and no
competition.  FernWood FDN has been covering all bases for so long that most
of us do not see much need for competition.

Personally I get a lot of my OS/2 files from the OEMs or Pete Norloff's and a
few from Hobbes.  But in many cases the same file will come in via FernWood
shortly anyway.

And before someone says anything about the lapse in FernWood files, I'll
mention that Lody Caenen is back on the job after having been ill for awhile.

     Thanks and Good Luck,        Andy Roberts
                                  andy@shentel.net
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