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   Message 261 of 3,070   
   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   
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