Xref: utzoo alt.bbs:234 comp.sources.wanted:5597 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!cmcl2!phri!dasys1!tbetz From: tbetz@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Betz) Newsgroups: alt.bbs,comp.sources.wanted Subject: Re: SUMMARY BBS Software wanted for Unix (LONG) Message-ID: <7791@dasys1.UUCP> Date: 19 Nov 88 05:05:58 GMT References: <109@tekcsc.MKT.TEK.COM> Reply-To: tbetz@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Betz) Distribution: na Organization: Greyston Business Services, Inc. Lines: 86 Jeff, sorry to be posting this, but unfortunately mail bounced. To: tekcsc!jeff@ozvax.UUCP Subject: Re: SUMMARY BBS Software wanted for Unix (LONG) Newsgroups: alt.bbs,comp.sources.wanted In-Reply-To: <109@tekcsc.MKT.TEK.COM> Organization: Greyston Business Services, Inc. Jeff, somehow you must have missed this message, mailed to you. I have revised and updated it since I sent it to you first. I would like to recommend to you a very sophisticated and flexible BBS software package called Magpie. It is available both in single-user MS-DOS and multi-user Xenix/Unix versions, with a choice of two command sets available... the original uses a [Count] Verb Object [Modifier] command syntax called KillDwarf that I like quite a bit, and the other a more conventional [A..Z]BBSish syntax developed for the use of the New York Dept of Education's Communications system called NYCENET. The author is Steve Manes, and he may be reached via modem at Magpie-HQ, at 212-420-0527. The KillDwarf version may be downloaded there (if you login: as 'bbs') by typing E M and following the instructions... ('E M' stands for 'Execute Magpie_Download') the NYCENET version may be seen if you login: as 'bbs2'. Magpie is User-Supported software. I have no affiliation with Magpie except as a very satisfied user. I think once you see it in action (and go through the Tutorial provided) you will see why it was chosen for NYCENET. It has capabilities unequalled in the BBS world. Among them: - a tree-structured message base permitting files to be attached to any message in the base - message search capability by any of the header fields (author, recipient, title, date...) or by full text, of all or any portion of the message base - upload protocols include ASCII, Xmodem and 1K-Xmodem - download protocols include all of the above, plus Ymodem, Zmodem, and Kermit - other Unix programs and scripts may be linked to Magpie via the Execute verb and selected from a sysop-configurable menu... including Usenet readers - the powerful ArcWindow file-archive extractor/archiver. ArcWindow permits the user, while on-line to: - List the contents of an archive file, in ARC, ZOO or UNIX 'compress' formats - Extract and download one or more files from that archive file - >RE-ARCHIVE< these files before download in >another< archive format different from the original. In other words, a .ARC file on-line may be extracted and re-archived in .ZOO format on-line, then downloaded, without the user having shell access to do this. Also in the works for Magpie is a MagNet networking system that will maintain the tree-structure integrity of the message base across all networked machines, DOS or Unix. As of 11/15/1988 - The latest list of Magpie BBS's across the North American Continent... Running Magpie/Xenix: Magpie HQ (212) 420-0527 (NY) Chelsea Square (212) 807-1257 (NY) (temporarily down due to phone trouble) SLACBBS (314) 947-0895 (MO) Comm-Net (301) 360-9740 (MD) NYC Board of Ed (212) 769-0550 (NY) Running Magpie/DOS: Electric Classroom (408) 378-6754 (CA) FireFlyte (714) 541-8218 (CA) The Grapevine (602) 792-9175 (AZ) Ad Lib (412) 327-9209 (PA) RanDom Access (206) 868-2019 (WA) Perlman's Post (914) 561-2825 (NY) Winner's Circle (713) 977-7343 (TX) The Homestead (416) 566-4814 (Ontario) Call one today, and see for yourself. -- "I learned to play guitar just to get | Tom Betz EAA#48267 the girls, and anyone who says they didn't | "How did I forget eyedrops? is just lyin'!" - Willie Nelson | I'm such a dope!" - Mr. Mambo UUCP: tbetz@dasys1.UUCP or ...!cmcl2!phri!dasys1!tbetz