• Blue Wave Linux

    From Gonzalo Fernandez Ordas@2:250/4 to All on Sun Jul 22 14:31:52 2018
    People,

    is there any ported version of Blue Wave into Linux and/or Mac?

    Many thanks!
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  • From Alan Ianson@1:153/757 to Gonzalo Fernandez Ordas on Sun Jul 22 08:31:18 2018
    Re: Blue Wave Linux
    By: Gonzalo Fernandez Ordas to All on Sun Jul 22 2018 02:31 pm

    is there any ported version of Blue Wave into Linux and/or Mac?

    MultiMail is the closest you can get to the actual Blue Wave reader. The reader was never an opensource project so there is no updating it unfortunately.

    MultiMail 0.51 was released in April of this year.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al


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  • From Gonzalo Fernandez Ordas@2:250/4 to Alan Ianson on Sun Jul 22 16:54:35 2018
    Re: Blue Wave Linux
    By: Alan Ianson to Gonzalo Fernandez Ordas on Sun Jul 22 2018 08:31 am

    MultiMail is the closest you can get to the actual Blue Wave reader. The reader was never an opensource project so there is no updating it unfortunately.

    I will look into it then!..
    Appreciated.
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  • From Sean Dennis@1:18/200 to Gonzalo Fernandez Ordas on Sun Jul 22 17:48:11 2018
    Hello Gonzalo,

    22 Jul 18 14:31 at you wrote to All:

    is there any ported version of Blue Wave into Linux and/or Mac?

    As Alan said, MultiMail is the only way to go for Linux these days and I'd assume Mac also.

    I have successfully run Blue Wave using both DOSbox and DOSemu under Slackware 64 Linux 14.2 but most of the time it's faster to just use MultiMail since Qodem, my preferred terminal program under Linux, calls MM natively.

    Later,
    Sean

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  • From Gonzalo Fernandez Ordas@2:250/4 to Sean Dennis on Mon Jul 23 06:28:42 2018
    Re: Blue Wave Linux
    By: Sean Dennis to Gonzalo Fernandez Ordas on Sun Jul 22 2018 05:48 pm

    I have successfully run Blue Wave using both DOSbox and DOSemu under Slackware 64 Linux 14.2 but most of the time it's faster to just use MultiMail since Qodem, my preferred terminal program under Linux, calls MM natively.

    I used to be a Blue Wave user, but that long long ago as you can imagine. (Nostalgia there, yeah)

    Will look at MultiMail then...

    Many thanks!
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  • From Alan Ianson@1:153/757 to Gonzalo Fernandez Ordas on Mon Jul 23 08:40:12 2018
    Re: Blue Wave Linux
    By: Gonzalo Fernandez Ordas to Sean Dennis on Mon Jul 23 2018 06:28 am

    I used to be a Blue Wave user, but that long long ago as you can imagine. (Nostalgia there, yeah)

    I was a Blue Wave user too many, many years ago. It still works although the reply packets are y2k broken there are ways to fix that. You'd have to ask a BW user how they do that today.

    Will look at MultiMail then...

    You can get the latest version along with source at..

    http://wmcbrine.com/mmail/

    Ttyl :-),
    Al


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  • From Sean Dennis@1:18/200 to Alan Ianson on Mon Jul 23 12:11:12 2018
    Hello Alan,

    23 Jul 18 08:40 at you wrote to Gonzalo Fernandez Ordas:

    You can get the latest version along with source at..

    William told me it's always best to clone from his GitHub repo.

    https://github.com/wmcbrine/MultiMail

    That is if you're using Linux; with Windows and others you might just want to get his precompiled binaries. :)

    Later,
    Sean

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  • From Flavio Bessa@4:801/189.1 to Gonzalo Fernandez Ordas on Sun Jul 22 22:42:51 2018
    Hello Gonzalo.

    22 Jul 18 16:54, you wrote to Alan Ianson:

    MultiMail is the closest you can get to the actual Blue Wave
    reader. The reader was never an opensource project so there is no
    updating it unfortunately.

    I will look into it then!..

    You can find it at https://multimail.sourceforge.io.

    Works like a charm under MacOS.

    Flavio

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  • From Alan Ianson@1:153/757 to Sean Dennis on Mon Jul 23 09:52:09 2018
    Re: Blue Wave Linux
    By: Sean Dennis to Alan Ianson on Mon Jul 23 2018 12:11 pm

    William told me it's always best to clone from his GitHub repo.

    https://github.com/wmcbrine/MultiMail

    That's what I generally do although I haven't looked since the release of 0.51.

    That is if you're using Linux; with Windows and others you might just want to get his precompiled binaries. :)

    Yep, that link was for the comfort of our DOS, WIN, OSX and OS/2 friends.. :)

    Ttyl :-),
    Al


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  • From Gonzalo Fernandez Ordas@2:250/4 to Alan Ianson on Mon Jul 23 19:22:19 2018
    Re: Blue Wave Linux
    By: Alan Ianson to Gonzalo Fernandez Ordas on Mon Jul 23 2018 08:40 am

    I was a Blue Wave user too many, many years ago. It still works although the reply packets are y2k broken there are ways to fix that. You'd have to ask a BW user how they do that today.
    Will look at MultiMail then...

    You can get the latest version along with source at..

    http://wmcbrine.com/mmail/

    Appreciated Al!!
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  • From Gonzalo Fernandez Ordas@2:250/4 to Sean Dennis on Mon Jul 23 19:24:02 2018
    Re: Blue Wave Linux
    By: Sean Dennis to Alan Ianson on Mon Jul 23 2018 12:11 pm

    William told me it's always best to clone from his GitHub repo.

    https://github.com/wmcbrine/MultiMail

    That is if you're using Linux; with Windows and others you might just want to get his precompiled binaries. :)
    Yeap!

    I already got it down and I am having a look.
    Now I need to figure out how to setup my Synchronet BBS serving the Fidonet mail as QWK packages and how to download it! as this is the offline reader, so I might need a few more things...


    thanks!
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  • From Gonzalo Fernandez Ordas@2:250/4 to Flavio Bessa on Mon Jul 23 19:25:19 2018
    Re: Blue Wave Linux
    By: Flavio Bessa to Gonzalo Fernandez Ordas on Sun Jul 22 2018 10:42 pm

    You can find it at https://multimail.sourceforge.io.

    Works like a charm under MacOS.

    Flavio,

    and how do you download the echomails?
    If you re using Synchronet , can you give me a few tips about how to setup all this up??

    I am reading and looking around but not much progress at the moment.

    Very much appreciated!!
    RainManHood<---
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  • From Gonzalo Fernandez Ordas@2:250/4 to Alan Ianson on Mon Jul 23 19:25:53 2018
    Re: Blue Wave Linux
    By: Alan Ianson to Sean Dennis on Mon Jul 23 2018 09:52 am

    That is if you're using Linux; with Windows and others you might
    just want to get his precompiled binaries. :)

    Yep, that link was for the comfort of our DOS, WIN, OSX and OS/2 friends.. :)

    Probably the one I have been using back in the 90s!!!
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  • From Alan Ianson@1:153/757 to Gonzalo Fernandez Ordas on Mon Jul 23 13:54:15 2018
    Re: Blue Wave Linux
    By: Gonzalo Fernandez Ordas to Flavio Bessa on Mon Jul 23 2018 07:25 pm

    and how do you download the echomails?

    You can download QWK packets from your own synchronet BBS, or most any BBS you like. On a synchronet BBS hit Q from the main menu to go to the QWK menu. Select the areas you want to download (and move pointers back if you want to download messages you have already seen, if you want). Download your packet and read and reply from BW or MultiMail and when your done log onto the BBS, hit Q for the QWK menu and upload your reply packet, QWKID.rep.

    The process is much the same (but may be slightly different) from any BBS that supports QWK.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al


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  • From Flavio Bessa@4:801/189.1 to Gonzalo Fernandez Ordas on Mon Jul 23 19:05:27 2018
    Hello Gonzalo.

    23 Jul 18 19:25, you wrote to me:

    Flavio,

    and how do you download the echomails?
    If you re using Synchronet , can you give me a few tips about how to
    setup all this up??

    I am reading and looking around but not much progress at the moment.

    Alan has already briefed you in a separated echomail, but if you have further difficulties, hit me either here or at ESP.SOFTBBS...

    Flavio

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  • From Dale Shipp@1:261/1466 to Alan Ianson on Tue Jul 24 02:02:02 2018
    On 07-23-18 08:40, Alan Ianson <=-
    spoke to Gonzalo Fernandez Ordas about Blue Wave Linux <=-


    Re: Blue Wave Linux
    By: Gonzalo Fernandez Ordas to Sean Dennis on Mon Jul 23 2018 06:28
    am
    I used to be a Blue Wave user, but that long long ago as you can imagine. (Nostalgia there, yeah)

    I was a Blue Wave user too many, many years ago. It still works
    although the reply packets are y2k broken there are ways to fix that. You'd have to ask a BW
    user how they do that today.

    I have been a Blue Wave user since the mid 90's, and still use it
    today.

    There are two ways of fixing the Y2K problem with the QWK reader and REP packets. A link containing both methods, and a lot of other BW related
    programs is: http://www.wpusa.dynip.com/files/BLUEWAVE/

    My recommendation for anyone who wants to use BW is the first fix on
    that page.

    I don't know if BW can run under Linux, but there is an OS/2 version.
    Since my current computer is a 64 bit computer, I cannot run it in
    native form -- but choose to run it in a virtual window with Win XP.

    I have heard good words about Multimail.

    Dale Shipp
    fido_261_1466 (at) verizon (dot) net
    (1:261/1466)



    ... Shipwrecked on Hesperus in Columbia, Maryland. 02:10:46, 24 Jul 2018
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  • From Shawn Highfield@1:229/452.4 to Dale Shipp on Tue Jul 24 10:33:56 2018
    Quoting Dale Shipp to Alan Ianson <=-

    I don't know if BW can run under Linux, but there is an OS/2 version. Since my current computer is a 64 bit computer, I cannot run it in
    native form -- but choose to run it in a virtual window with Win XP.

    I use it in dosbox on my 64bit windows and linux computer. So that will
    work as well!

    Shawn

    ... Cannibals aren't vegetarian; they're humanitarians.
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  • From Sean Dennis@1:18/200 to Dale Shipp on Tue Jul 24 09:57:42 2018
    Hello Dale,

    24 Jul 18 02:02 at you wrote to Alan Ianson:

    I don't know if BW can run under Linux, but there is an OS/2 version. Since my current computer is a 64 bit computer, I cannot run it in
    native form -- but choose to run it in a virtual window with Win XP.

    You've got to run it under DOSbox or DOSemu but it does work very nicely, much like the DOS-based BBS doors I've written.

    I have heard good words about Multimail.

    It's not a very actively developed program these days but it's mature and it's very good for what it does. The author recently did a big update of MM, especially making an "official" Win64 build and cleaning up and modernizing the codebase a bit.

    If someone could make a Chrome OS app out of it, I'd be in heaven so then I could run it on my Chromebook. :)

    Later,
    Sean

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  • From Flavio Bessa@4:801/189.1 to Sean Dennis on Tue Jul 24 12:58:25 2018
    Hello Sean.

    24 Jul 18 09:57, you wrote to Dale Shipp:

    It's not a very actively developed program these days but it's mature
    and it's very good for what it does. The author recently did a big
    update of MM, especially making an "official" Win64 build and cleaning
    up and modernizing the codebase a bit.

    If someone could make a Chrome OS app out of it, I'd be in heaven so
    then I could run it on my Chromebook. :)

    That would be a dream for me as well - I have a Chromebook here that is
    not compatible with Android apps, and would work like a charm for reading QWK/BW packages or even running a point system.

    Flavio

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  • From Alan Ianson@1:153/757 to Dale Shipp on Tue Jul 24 16:18:00 2018
    Dale Shipp wrote to Alan Ianson <=-

    There are two ways of fixing the Y2K problem with the QWK reader and
    REP packets. A link containing both methods, and a lot of other BW
    related programs is: http://www.wpusa.dynip.com/files/BLUEWAVE/

    Thanks for the link. I've downloaded a few of the files there and will be adding them to the filebase here.

    My recommendation for anyone who wants to use BW is the first fix on
    that page.

    I notice there is no exe replacement in the first fix for OS2. Is the OS2 version also affected by this problem with rep packets? Maybe the other fix there is used for OS2?

    I don't know if BW can run under Linux, but there is an OS/2 version. Since my current computer is a 64 bit computer, I cannot run it in
    native form -- but choose to run it in a virtual window with Win XP.

    It does run under linux. On my 64 bit linux I have problems with pkunzip.
    DPMI is no longer supported (in a 64 bit OS, I think) so I have to remember
    how to disable DPMI with pkunzip or maybe switch to unzip.

    I have heard good words about Multimail.

    It works well and has been maintained and supported for a long time now.
    It's handy for me on linux.. no unzip or pkunzip issues.. :)


    Ttyl :-),
    Al


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  • From Sean Dennis@1:18/200 to Alan Ianson on Wed Jul 25 16:27:44 2018
    Hello Alan,

    24 Jul 18 16:18 at you wrote to Dale Shipp:

    It does run under linux. On my 64 bit linux I have problems with
    pkunzip. DPMI is no longer supported (in a 64 bit OS, I think) so I
    have to remember how to disable DPMI with pkunzip or maybe switch to unzip.

    I've used BW/DPMI just fine under DOSbox and DOSemu with Slackware 64 14.2. I think your DOS emulator is misconfigured. If I can find the right config file, I'll share it here.

    Later,
    Sean

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  • From Dale Shipp@1:261/1466 to Shawn Highfield on Wed Jul 25 01:28:00 2018
    On 07-24-18 10:33, Shawn Highfield <=-
    spoke to Dale Shipp about Blue Wave Linux <=-

    I don't know if BW can run under Linux, but there is an OS/2 version. Since my current computer is a 64 bit computer, I cannot run it in
    native form -- but choose to run it in a virtual window with Win XP.

    I use it in dosbox on my 64bit windows and linux computer. So that
    will work as well!

    There is another dos emulator that I like better than DosBox. It is
    called vDOS, a link to info and download page is: https://www.vdos.info/download.html

    DosBox was mainly written to support games. The program vDos has some
    other features which I find nice, e.g. you can configure it to print
    something.

    It is worth mentioning that both DOSBOX and vDOS have BlueWave
    exhibiting two problems that it does not show when run in a 32-bit
    environment.

    One of these is minor and cannto (to my knowledge) be fixed. That is
    that when BW is run in its usual environment, it does not alter the
    date/time stamp of the QWK file. In fact it uses that fact to help
    display the files and their read/personal info in the listing of QWK
    files. When run with either DOS emulator, the date/time stamp is
    changed -- presumably because they detect that the file has been touched
    and changed.

    The second one is more serious, but a fix has been issued. There is a
    fairly long discussion on the forum Vogons about this. The solution is
    given in the post as quoted below, but you will probably need to go to
    that forum to get the link to the fix.

    [quote]
    The problem was easier to find with the DOSBox debugger than I thought
    it would be. Blue Wave appears to have a flaw where it uses the DOS
    "FindFirst" function INT 21/4E with a malformed filespec. Using the
    example mail packet the program comes with, it tries to find "C:\BWAVE\WORK\WELCOME.XTI*.BAK". MSDOS 5/6 and the WinXP NTVDM are
    unforgiving and return error code 3 (invalid path), leading to a benign
    result. DOSBox is more lenient, and finds the "WELCOME.XTI" work packet,
    which the program proceeds to delete. Maybe the intent was to clean out
    .BAK files in the work folder; but that seems redundant because the
    program deletes *.* from there when it finishes recompressing the
    packet. It's probably just a mistake that wasn't noticed until DOSBox
    shed some light on it.

    I adapted a little interrupt watchdog program to work around this
    situation in DOSBox. It monitors the FindFirst function, and if it sees
    a filespec with an extension of XTI* it will override with an error code
    3 result. Run BWAVEFIX.COM from the BWAVE folder; it runs BWAVE.EXE as a
    child program. The child exit errorlevel is reflected through the
    parent, and the parent command line is given to the child, so the
    program is friendly to batch files. Assembler source code is included in
    the attached archive.

    ATTACHMENTS
    BWAVEFIX.ZIP
    (1.55 KiB) Downloaded 101 times
    [/quote]

    http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=18242&hilit=bluewave&start=20


    ... Shipwrecked on Hesperus in Columbia, Maryland. 01:53:46, 25 Jul 2018
    ___ Blue Wave/DOS v2.30

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  • From Dale Shipp@1:261/1466 to Alan Ianson on Thu Jul 26 01:38:06 2018
    On 07-24-18 16:18, Alan Ianson <=-
    spoke to Dale Shipp about Blue Wave Linux <=-

    My recommendation for anyone who wants to use BW is the first fix on
    that page.

    I notice there is no exe replacement in the first fix for OS2. Is the
    OS2 version also affected by this problem with rep packets? Maybe the other fix there is used for OS2?

    I really do not know. I am using the first fix, which is a replacement
    for the exe file. I don't even know if the OS/2 version had the Y2K
    problem, nor whether or not the second fix (my bwrepfix, which is really
    a bandaid) would work if it did. What that fix does is to put a batch
    file around the Bwave program to intercept the call to packing up the
    REP file and repair the defective file.

    Dale Shipp
    fido_261_1466 (at) verizon (dot) net
    (1:261/1466)


    ... Shipwrecked on Hesperus in Columbia, Maryland. 01:41:37, 26 Jul 2018
    ___ Blue Wave/DOS v2.30

    --- Maximus/NT 3.01
    * Origin: Owl's Anchor (1:261/1466)
  • From Alan Ianson@1:153/757 to Sean Dennis on Thu Jul 26 06:44:15 2018
    Re: Blue Wave Linux
    By: Sean Dennis to Alan Ianson on Wed Jul 25 2018 04:27 pm

    I've used BW/DPMI just fine under DOSbox and DOSemu with Slackware 64 14.2. I think your DOS emulator is misconfigured. If I can find the right config file, I'll share it here.

    I think it was working when Slackware 14.2 was released. It stopped working here recently because something (I don't remember the details) was removed from the kernel, for security reasons.

    There is a command line switch for pkunzip to disable DPMI, "-)" I think but haven't tried that yet.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al


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  • From Flavio Bessa@4:801/188 to Gonzalo Fernandez Ordas on Mon Sep 3 14:18:44 2018
    Gonzalo Fernandez Ordas wrote to Nighthawk <=-

    You can find it at https://multimail.sourceforge.io.

    Works like a charm under MacOS.

    Flavio,

    and how do you download the echomails?
    If you re using Synchronet , can you give me a few tips about how to setup all this up??

    I am reading and looking around but not much progress at the moment.

    Very much appreciated!!

    What do you mean? Downloading echomail for me or for my system?



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  • From Gonzalo Fernandez Ordas@2:250/4 to Flavio Bessa on Mon Sep 3 20:26:58 2018
    Re: Re: Blue Wave Linux
    By: Flavio Bessa to Gonzalo Fernandez Ordas on Mon Sep 03 2018 02:18 pm

    Flavio,

    and how do you download the echomails?
    If you re using Synchronet , can you give me a few tips about how to setup all this up??

    I am reading and looking around but not much progress at the moment.
    What do you mean? Downloading echomail for me or for my system?

    I am currently using multimail, all well so far.
    By the way: I have wrapped Bluewave to work on MacOsX and it does the job all right. I have been using the very latest paatched version for the 2K effect. tested a few QWK packages from synchronet, and back to the flavour of the old days....

    I am currently sharing that version as follows on my BBS (unicyber.co.uk:2223):

    BW_mac .zip A 3.1M Blue Wave Mail
    (with expanded README.TXT)
    Not supported by authors
    Use at your own risk!
    THis is a Draft-Trial for MacOsX

    Many thanks Flavio.
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  • From Flavio Bessa@4:801/189.1 to Gonzalo Fernandez Ordas on Tue Sep 4 06:11:54 2018
    Hello Gonzalo.

    03 Sep 18 20:26, you wrote to me:

    I am currently using multimail, all well so far.
    By the way: I have wrapped Bluewave to work on MacOsX and it does the
    job all right. I have been using the very latest paatched version for
    the 2K effect. tested a few QWK packages from synchronet, and back to
    the flavour of the old days....

    I am currently sharing that version as follows on my BBS (unicyber.co.uk:2223):

    Awesome! I have tried to log on into your system, but I have been unable to (it does not accept me)... I will drop you a netmail with the details.

    Flavio

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  • From Gonzalo Fernandez Ordas@2:250/4 to Flavio Bessa on Fri Sep 7 06:55:27 2018
    Re: Blue Wave Linux
    By: Flavio Bessa to Gonzalo Fernandez Ordas on Tue Sep 04 2018 06:11 am

    Awesome! I have tried to log on into your system, but I have been
    unable to (it does not accept me)... I will drop you a netmail with the details.

    Apologies:!!
    telnet bbs.unicyber.co.uk 2323

    let me know
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  • From ptaylor@1:275/201.1 to Gonzalo Fernandez Ordas on Mon Oct 1 22:00:06 2018
    BW_mac .zip A 3.1M Blue Wave Mail
    (with expanded README.TXT)
    Not supported by authors
    Use at your own risk!
    THis is a Draft-Trial for MacOsX

    Multimail is also available https://multimail.sourceforge.io/.



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  • From Gonzalo Fernandez Ordas@2:250/4 to ptaylor on Wed Oct 3 06:36:45 2018
    Re: Re: Blue Wave Linux
    By: ptaylor to Gonzalo Fernandez Ordas on Mon Oct 01 2018 10:00 pm

    BW_mac .zip A 3.1M Blue Wave Mail
    (with expanded README.TXT)
    Not supported by authors
    Use at your own risk!
    THis is a Draft-Trial for MacOsX

    Multimail is also available https://multimail.sourceforge.io/.

    Yeah, I am also using that one, but I did that workaround. A bit of a nostalgia thing and also anybody who is interested can have some fun.. --->RainManHood<---
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  • From Flavio Bessa@4:801/188 to Gonzalo Fernandez Ordas on Sat Nov 10 21:14:29 2018
    Gonzalo Fernandez Ordas wrote to Nighthawk <=-

    I am reading and looking around but not much progress at the moment.
    What do you mean? Downloading echomail for me or for my system?

    I am currently using multimail, all well so far.
    By the way: I have wrapped Bluewave to work on MacOsX and it does the
    job all right. I have been using the very latest paatched version for
    the 2K effect. tested a few QWK packages from synchronet, and back to
    the flavour of the old days....

    I am currently sharing that version as follows on my BBS (unicyber.co.uk:2223):

    This is really awesome! I tried to sign in into your system a few months ago,
    but I was unable to, it said my account could not be created.

    I will give it a try again later on.

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    - -|__|-.______|=====/ `---' Netmail 4:801/189.1
    Live long ` ù._ _ _ _~~~~~| fcbessa@gmail.com
    and prosper... `-.__________,' Always UnionNET Addicted!


    ... "Agora sim eu t“ sentindo" - Rˆ

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  • From Flavio Bessa@4:801/188 to Gonzalo Fernandez Ordas on Sat Nov 10 21:14:29 2018
    Gonzalo Fernandez Ordas wrote to Nighthawk <=-

    Awesome! I have tried to log on into your system, but I have been
    unable to (it does not accept me)... I will drop you a netmail with the details.

    Apologies:!!
    telnet bbs.unicyber.co.uk 2323

    let me know

    I will.

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    .-----________________--_ ________.--'-`--.____ Hugs from Flavio Bessa \____==================_) \_'===================' Syzo of Saturn's Orbit
    - -|__|-.______|=====/ `---' Netmail 4:801/189.1
    Live long ` ù._ _ _ _~~~~~| fcbessa@gmail.com
    and prosper... `-.__________,' Always UnionNET Addicted!


    ... ZAMUNDA WARRIORS, UNITE!!

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  • From Flavio Bessa@4:801/189.1 to Gonzalo Fernandez Ordas on Sun Nov 11 12:37:14 2018
    Hello Gonzalo.

    I tried to connect to your system, but it says that my name is either duplicate
    or invalid.

    Could you check on your database and delete my account, if it exists?

    Flavio

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  • From Gonzalo Fernandez Ordas@2:250/4 to Flavio Bessa on Sun Nov 11 19:33:43 2018
    Re: Blue Wave Linux
    By: Flavio Bessa to Gonzalo Fernandez Ordas on Sun Nov 11 2018 12:37 pm

    Flavio,

    You got 2 user accounts.
    I have deactivated y deleted both of them.

    Whenever you wish, have another go.

    thanks!
    RainManHood<---
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  • From Flavio Bessa@4:801/189.1 to Gonzalo Fernandez Ordas on Sun Nov 11 22:57:49 2018
    Hello Gonzalo.

    11 Nov 18 19:33, you wrote to me:

    You got 2 user accounts.
    I have deactivated y deleted both of them.

    Whenever you wish, have another go.

    Just did that, dropped you an email to confirm my access.

    Flavio

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  • From Flavio Bessa@4:801/188 to Gonzalo Fernandez Ordas on Thu Dec 13 07:37:12 2018
    Gonzalo Fernandez Ordas wrote to Nighthawk <=-

    Flavio,

    You got 2 user accounts.
    I have deactivated y deleted both of them.

    Whenever you wish, have another go.

    Thanks a lot, it's working now.


    ---
    .-----________________--_ ________.--'-`--.____ Hugs from Flavio Bessa \____==================_) \_'===================' Syzo of Saturn's Orbit
    - -|__|-.______|=====/ `---' Netmail 4:801/189.1
    Live long ` ù._ _ _ _~~~~~| fcbessa@gmail.com
    and prosper... `-.__________,' Always UnionNET Addicted!


    ... "S› sai me... ops, tag desse encontro" - Reptile Shaman,

    ___ MultiMail/Mac v0.51

    --- Mystic BBS/QWK v1.12 A38 2018/01/01 (Windows/64)
    * Origin: Saturn's Orbit BBS - Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (4:801/188)
  • From Phil Taylor@1:275/201 to All on Sun Dec 23 19:40:39 2018
    What mail reader are you using on Linux?

    On 02:37 13/12 , Flavio Bessa wrote:
    Gonzalo Fernandez Ordas wrote to Nighthawk <=-

    Flavio,

    You got 2 user accounts.
    I have deactivated y deleted both of them.

    Whenever you wish, have another go.

    Thanks a lot, it's working now.


    ---
    .-----________________--_ ________.--'-`--.____ Hugs from Flavio Bessa >\____==================_) \_'===================' Syzo of Saturn's Orbit
    - -|__|-.______|=====/ `---' Netmail 4:801/189.1 Live long ` � _ _ _~~~~~| fcbessa@gmail.com
    and prosper... `-.__________,' Always UnionNET Addicted!


    ... "S� sai me... ops, tag desse encontro" - Reptile Shaman,

    ___ MultiMail/Mac v0.51

    --- Mystic BBS/QWK v1.12 A38 2018/01/01 (Windows/64)
    * Origin: Saturn's Orbit BBS - Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (4:801/188)


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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12.73 to Phil Taylor on Mon Dec 24 21:58:02 2018

    On 2018 Dec 23 19:40:38, you wrote to All:

    What mail reader are you using on Linux?

    [moderator hat ON]
    please trim your quotes... leave those that you are responding to and answer inline... this is fidonet, afterall... we do know and understand proper netiquette ;)

    thanks!
    [moderator hat OFF]

    )\/(ark

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