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|    Dale Barnes to Torsten Bamberg    |
|    Fido Package Deluxe    |
|    21 Mar 18 19:09:38    |
      I tried to take a peek at the code but was unable to download. Anyone have a       copy I can grab?              Thanks               > Hallo Martin!        >        > 06.02.2018 12:00, Martin Foster schrieb an Torsten Bamberg:        >        >TB>> IPRoute was written by Volker Imre. From IPRoute there are no        >TB>> sourcecodes available. Also Volker has left fidonet about 10        >TB>> years ago. There is an alternative, called tiroute. If something        >TB>> won't work with tiroute and fido deluxe, send me a detailed        >TB>> bugreport, and I will fix/change it.        >MF> OK, thanks for that.        >MF> However, the included version of BinkD is *very* old(0.9.7), so I've        >MF> replaced it in my own setup with a newer version(1.1a-49). As I'm a        >MF> bit "rusty" with BinkD, I'm not sure if I actually need any of these        >MF> utilities at all.        > Well, IPRoute also like tiroute gets the IP-Nodes from the        > nodelist and writes a binkd-compatible list.        > This is usefull for requests to other node-sysops an for        > crashing netmail to other systems.        >        >MF> [..]        >MF>>> As the author's website seems to have disappeared, I've made        >MF>>> Fido Package Deluxe(along with the source) available from here:        >MF>>> http://fidonet.openxp.uk/fpd        >TB>> Have yo compiled a win10 version with the sources?        >MF> Having had a look at the .dof files, it looks as though the original        >MF> was compiled with Delphi. As I'm not a programmer, I wouldn't know        >MF> where to start with setting up a more modern build environment(Lazarus        >MF> perhaps?). So, the answer to your question is "no".        > Ahm, okay. Well, fidopoint deluxe uses some closed source        > pascal units. Those are not compatible with freepascal nor        > then lazarus. I've tried to compile the sources, but, as        > expected, those closed source units aren't available any        > more.        > A few years ago I talked with michael about theese        > problems, and he was not able to correct or fix the code        > for freepascal. Maybe he didn't wanted, I honesly don't        > know.        >        > If somebody has enought time, feel free to port fpd to        > freepascal. ;-)        > Probably it might be easyier to write a complete new fpd        > with lazarus, intended by the original fpd.        >        > My personal skills are more with c than pascal. I'm able to        > patch and correct some lines, but I haven't enough time to        > do some more on the code.        > Obviously, the old fpd runs on win10,win7-32/64 and all        > other windows platforms. Currently this should be enough.        >        >MF> Regards,        >MF> Martin        >        > Bye/2 Torsten        >        > ... MAILBOX: 18:37h - up 10d 0h 15m load: 28 proc, 113        > threads (tbupv1.1)        > --- GoldED+ 1.1.5        > * Origin: DatenBahn BBS Hamburg (2:240/5832)                     --- InterEcho 1.20        * Origin: Home Of InterMail/InterEcho (1:220/60)    |
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