MSGID: 1:396/45.29@fidonet 23bfcfa9   
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   PID: OpenXP/5.0.64 (Win32)   
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   Hello Rob!   
      
   ** On Monday 18.08.25 - 09:04, you wrote to me:   
      
    AA>> You might like to look into OpenXP.  It would make your   
    >> connection operate as a point, and you benefit from having all   
    >> messages stored into a database for easy search and lookup   
    >> later.  I built https://openxp.kolico.ca to help promote it.   
    >> See the screenshots there.   
      
    RM> I briefly had a look at that. I access this board by having   
    RM> QWK files eMailed to me.. Is that how you use OpenXP ?   
    RM> I didn't see any reference to QWK in the PDF Manual, and   
    RM> the help file won't open in Windows 7, although possibly   
    RM> I can DL the software to fix that.   
      
   OpenXP is not a QWK-based reader at all.  It's an echomail-    
   based .PKT system.  Messages are exchanged in .PKT format - the     
   same format that BBS systems use to exchange echomail.   
      
   You configure OXP to act like another BBS-system, albiet     
   associated as an extension (a point) off the host BBS (the boss     
   node).   
      
   So.. if your boss might be the The Rusty Mailbox (located in     
   the BC) ..the sysop would assign a "point" number to your     
   system like so:  1:153/757.XXX  where XXX is the "point" number     
   and your full FTN address becomes 1:153/757.XXX to identify     
   your system.   
      
   OXP would "call" the boss node directly. The exchanges are     
   pretty fast and quick.   
      
      
    RM> My main issue that brought this on was an inability to copy   
    RM> and paste into SLMR with the setup I have. Is OpenXP Windows   
    RM> software, as opposed to DOS and does it support that ?   
      
   You can copy paste from OXP easily.  You copy into/from the     
   Clipboard, or into/from a file.   
      
      
    RM> Looking at the screen shots it doesn't look a whole lot   
    RM> easier to deal with than SLMR otherwise..   
      
   At one point I was convinced that I would never consider a     
   text-based messaging system again. Instead, I was focusing on a     
   couple GUI-based Windows programs: Apoint and WinPoint.  Apoint     
   has long since been abandonned, and Winpoint has emerged out of     
   a long quiet period to have been updated in the last 8 or so     
   years.   
      
   But even with Winpoint, I had some reservations. Meanwhile, I     
   learned about OXP and gradually grew more fond of it than     
   Winpoint.   
      
   Meanwhile, Winpoint went through several more updates since I     
   adopted OXP, and it might be a very complete and stable     
   messaging system for you.  It too stores messages from     
   subsequent calls to the boss node into a database that you can     
   search and browse and research at one instance.  That's much     
   better than being able to read just one QWK at a time.   
      
   There were two other QWK-based messaging systems that purported     
   to store messages into a database style.  One was Sempoint, but     
   the other escapes my memory at this time.  Sempoint is GUI-    
   Windows based, and the other one was text-based.   
      
      
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