Hello, Russell!

 RT> Just installed the WIN32 version;

 RT> Some suggestions;

 RT> In the VBS script for setup, add constants for;

 RT> Zone, Net, Node, Pointnumber

i think these constants are not needed for us. Consts. yourFTNAddress,
yourUplinkName, uplinkFTNAddress fully cover all essential info regarding
the fido-addresses for configuration of fido-points.

 RT> Origin

yes, this is reasonable, i may add this constant, no problem

 RT> Then in config.cfg;

 RT> There are a number of places that some "crylic" letters
are included
 RT> at the end of lines for Netmail BadArea DupeArea

 RT> In GoldEdcfg, there are also some "cryllic" lines
 RT> Goldhelp.cfg is also not English ...
 RT> Parts of Goldlang.cfg are not english
 RT> Also a few other GoldEd related files have a little
"crillic" included
 RT> ...

this's not very big problem. As i mention before all cyrillic symbols will
be wiped out by scripts i'll write.

 RT> An English Quick Start file ...

 RT> Having installed the win32 version and givern it a look, it seems you
 RT> have done an extremely good job of making the setup of a point system
 RT> very easy, using the Husky Project tools. I am impresssed ... , to say
 RT> the least ...

i invented unix part of fidoip, and done this basically from zero. After
one year ago when i tired of vista bugs and wiped out windows from my hdd
and migrated to linux. Then i faced the challenge with complexity of fido
software installation for this OS. So fistly i wrote slackbuild for
slackware which automate installation, then i tried other disros ans so on,
wrote script to automate installation on them, and so on...

for basis of windows part of fidoip i used software package of by fido-boss
Kirill Temnenkov, 2:5020/828, and i suppose he created this package for his
points to simplify their life. This package(FTN.rar) is avalaible at
http://temnenkov.narod.ru/fido/

i just modified this package - changed names of directories of
fido-bases(for matching unix ones) to simplify migration from windows to
unix and from unix to windows. Also this allowed to use USB-flash memory as
storage of fido-bases and to use this flash on different PC and different
OSs. Other modification i done - modified
vbs-configurator(setup_config.vbs) so that could set up configuration not
only for points of node 2:5020/828 but for whole world.

 RT> As I am not a programer, and used the default settings, the remarks
 RT> about adding some extra "Constants" might or might not be
relavant ...

i am also not programmer, and i think all consts except of origen is some
kind of overkill J)

 RT> Also, some or all of the above remarks, may already be part of the
 RT> "improvements" you have on your to-do list for the next version ...

for *nix'es i'm going to create alternative way installation of fidoip -
from packages, and add packages for debian/ubuntu and rpm-based distos.

best regards, Maxim.

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