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Subject: Fidonet
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Date: 9 Jun 89 17:53:33 GMT
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From: stag!thelake!steve@bungia.mn.org (Steve Yelvington)


 csrobe@CS.WM.EDU (Chip Roberson) writes:

> Are there any ST's on FidoNet?  I heard someone mention that they
> had read something on the ST echo, which I assumed was on FidoNet.

The ST_ECHO is a torrent of misinformation and infested by pimply-faced
14-year-olds who are k00l doodz, but it exists.

> What software is available for interfacing with FidoNet?  

Most of the ST-based BBSes on the network are using Binkley Term as a
"front end" -- the program that greets you when you call and handles
Fidonet message transfers. Binkley apparently is a shareware program
ported from the PC by Peter Glasmacher.

Setting up a Fidonet point is incredibly complicated, requiring an array
of utilities for renumbering messages, packing and unpacking archives,
maintaining nodelists, etc.

For a brief period I ran a Fidonet point using GS-Point, a simpler but
also not very reliable program designed for a one-user system. Running off
a floppy, it took up to 40 minutes to process a day's traffic in the Atari
ST echo, and up to two minutes to fetch and display a single message.

There are some European programs called Pandora and The_Box, but I don't
know much about them.

> I think there may be some software for STadel, but I don't know for
> sure.  Can somebody help me out?

Jim Kershner, sysop of The Land BBS (US 612 513-254-6811 on the Citadel
network) has been using Binkley Term in conjunction with a utility he
wrote to untangle Fidonet messages and put them into Internet RFC822
format. He then puts the messages where UUCALL (STadel's UUCP utility) can
find them, and UUCALL faithfully integrates them into the Citadel system.
I think he has it working both directions, but I couldn't swear to it.
On the Citadel network, try sending mail to ur-lord@the_land.citadel.



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