Artware software
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$Id: artware.txt,v 1.6 2004/08/01 08:36:55 mef 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/

Most of the work porting timEd to UNIX was done by Oliver Grimm. 
Currently the Windows port of the LATEST version of timEd (currently
1.11.b1) is only stable when compiled using Cygwin.  To my knowledge
there has been no attempt to port it back to OS/2 or DOS.  Contributions
welcome.  The latest version is stable under Linux, FreeBSD and BeOS.

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
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.


Downloading
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The following files are available for FREQ from 3:633/267 (BinkP only)
or on the Web at http://fidonet.sensationcontent.com/pub/timed/ or
ftp://fido.thunderdome.ws/pub/mirror/timed/.  Other files are also
available by individual request.  Please send mail to 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.

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.


The following are available from http://www.fido.vmailer.net/fido/beos/bin/
(courtesy Martin Foster):

timed-1.11.b1-20031215-BeOS.pkg.zip

                542604 timEd 1.11.b1 for BeOS. Compiled from CVS snapshot
                       (2003-12-15). Package includes the BeOS binary,
                       documentation in ASCII and PDF format, example
                       config files and online help.

netmgr-1.1-20040101-beos.pkg.zip

                180091 NetMgr v1.1 for BeOS. Compiled from CVS snapshot
                       (2003-12-15). Package includes the BeOS binary,
                       English documentation in HTML and ASCIIDOC format,
                       German documentation in ASCII format and an example
                       config file.

The following is available from http://www.fido.vmailer.net/fido/doc/
(courtesy Martin Foster):

netmgr.html      90015 NetMgr v1.1 documentation in HTML format.


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

If you'd like write access to the CVS repository at
blizzard.dnsalias.org to make source code/documentation changes to any
of these programs please send crash 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.


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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