*** Quoting andrew clarke from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***

ac> Mon 2002-11-18 15:16, Carol Shenkenberger (6:757/1) wrote to All:

 > I looked at the web page but wasnt sure if/waht i needed to download to 
 > try out Husky software.  Any pointers?

ac> The Husky project encompasses many different programs, many of which y
ac> may not need, but which bits you need depend on what you want to do, e
ac>  people often use the Msged mail reader independantly without the use
ac> of any of the other Husky programs.

Ok that seems to match.

Please forgive me.  I am not as technical as many/most here in this echo. 
I ¨know some things quite well but programming isnot one of them.

ac> Personally I use hpt (for tossing/scanning PKTs to a Squish message ba
ac> and nltools (for generating a nodelist from the weekly nodediff, and c
ac> a fidouser.lst from the nodelist), both which require fidoconf (which
ac> allows everything to be stored in a single config file so configs don'
ac> get out of sync).  I also use Msged (and was one of the main Msged dev

Cool!  Ok, I can look at that idea for a combined config area.  That makes
¨things much easier on poor little me!

ac> Links to Win32 binaries of current (or near-current) versions of the a
ac> that will run under Windows XP:

ac> http://www.physcip.uni-stuttgart.de:8080/fidosoft.husky/msged-6.0.1-wi
ac> http://unc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/husky/hpt-1.3-20021107-win32
ac> http://unc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/husky/nltools-1.3-20021107-w
ac> http://unc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/husky/fidoconf-0.15-20021107

ac> I don't know whether the above files include the documentation though.

Grin, I can try them though and see what happens.  Thank you!

Next problem.  I have a rough clue on how to compile a binary with *NIX but
no ¨idea on WIN platforms.  I'm however in no rush.  The main working
system is not ¨involved in this testing at all.  I can safely 'blow up' the
XP testbox without ¨any harm to anything else other than my sanity
.
                                       xxcarol

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