Hi,

On 19 Feb 10 10:28, Bob Seaborn wrote to All:
about: "AllFix availability":

A new version of AllFix is now available. Please visit www.allfix.com
for it

Changelog 6.00 rel 19
# Registration no longer required
# All registration only features have been enabled
# All nags removed
# Patched to stop Divide by zero errors
# No bug fixes or new features
# Due to licensing issues, and unability to locate support files that are required, there will be no Universal or Wildcat releases at this time

New native versions for DOS, Windows, OS/2 and Linux are being worked
on and will be available when available.

Great news Bob! What made you change your mind? Or didn't we understand you before? ;)


Bye, Wilfred.


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A new version of AllFix is now available. Please visit www.allfix.com
for it

Changelog 6.00 rel 19
# Registration no longer required
# All registration only features have been enabled
# All nags removed
# Patched to stop Divide by zero errors
# No bug fixes or new features
# Due to licensing issues, and unability to locate support files that

are

required, there will be no Universal or Wildcat releases at this time

New native versions for DOS, Windows, OS/2 and Linux are being worked
on and will be available when available.

Great news Bob! What made you change your mind? Or didn't we understand
you before? ;)

You mustn't have understood properly, as this was my plan all along. It just took more time than I originally estimated to find a qualified programmer who was able to remove the registration requirements from the code. I am NOT a
programmer!

Please note, the source is NOT released to public domain, nor is AllFix to be considered 'abandoned'. The plans are to create an api that any capable programmer can use to hook any 3rd party programs into AllFix. Again, this will
happen when it happens.





.....Bob

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A new version of AllFix is now available. Please visit
www.allfix.com for it

this is GREAT news! however, i think i'll wait a bit until the fileshare bug is
handled... IIRC, i run the universal version... i have to run it as a separate task during my midnight maint when the mailer nodes are down because there is tha above mentioned MSG file sharing bug... when my FD is running and rescanning the mailer's netmail area, there are times when FD and AF were trying to access the same MSG file at the same time... in those cases, AF lost and generally hung on me requiring a hard reboot of the Warp3Connect system...

dunno if this bug has ever been reported but if not, it is now :P ;)

)\/(ark


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Hello Bob!

Fri Feb 19 2010, Bob Seaborn wrote to All:

A new version of AllFix is now available. Please visit www.allfix.com
for it

Changelog 6.00 rel 19
# Registration no longer required
# All registration only features have been enabled
# All nags removed
# Patched to stop Divide by zero errors
# No bug fixes or new features
# Due to licensing issues, and unability to locate support files that
are required, there will be no Universal or Wildcat releases at this
time

New native versions for DOS, Windows, OS/2 and Linux are being worked
on and will be available when available.

Why not hatch it out to Janis for it file echo nodes there have the file echos for all versions of Allfix.

Any support will be addressed here in this echo.

I do wish to thank Ken Johnson for his kind assistance.

.....Bob

-+- GEcho/32 & IM 2.50
+ Origin: From the Keyboard of the Echo Moderator (1:140/12)

Take care,
Gert

- Get the best with linux -

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A new version of AllFix is now available. Please visit www.allfix.com
for it

Changelog 6.00 rel 19
# Registration no longer required
# All registration only features have been enabled
# All nags removed
# Patched to stop Divide by zero errors
# No bug fixes or new features
# Due to licensing issues, and unability to locate support files that
are required, there will be no Universal or Wildcat releases at this
time

New native versions for DOS, Windows, OS/2 and Linux are being worked
on and will be available when available.

Why not hatch it out to Janis for it file echo nodes there have the file echos for all versions of Allfix.

Because the website logs keeps me informed as to who, which version,
and how many times the files are downloaded. FDN's can't do that.

Any support will be addressed here in this echo.

I do wish to thank Ken Johnson for his kind assistance.

.....Bob

-+- GEcho/32 & IM 2.50
+ Origin: From the Keyboard of the Echo Moderator (1:140/12)

Take care,
Gert

- Get the best with linux -

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--- GEcho/32 & IM 2.50
* Origin: From the Keyboard of the Echo Moderator (1:140/12)

In a reply from Gert Koefoed on 10:26 about AllFix availability

A new version of AllFix is now available. Please visit www.allfix.com
for it

Changelog 6.00 rel 19
# Registration no longer required
# All registration only features have been enabled
# All nags removed
# Patched to stop Divide by zero errors
# No bug fixes or new features
# Due to licensing issues, and unability to locate support files that
are required, there will be no Universal or Wildcat releases at this
time

New native versions for DOS, Windows, OS/2 and Linux are being worked
on and will be available when available.

Why not hatch it out to Janis for it file echo nodes there have the file echos for all versions of Allfix.

I am not Bob, but from the filegate.zxx (dated February 27, 2010 )

%==========================================================================
% ****************** INACTIVE FDNs:********************* %==========================================================================

(a few fdn that were in this list before it got to this one, where left out)

% FDN: ALLFIX
% Coordinator: Dale Barnes, 1:106/201 (dbarnes@allfix.com)
% Bob Seaborn, 1:140/1 (North American Hatch Site)
% PATH: DIRECT
% HUB: No
% ------------------------------------------------------------------------
% File Echo Description
% ------------------------------------------------------------------------ %Area AFIX_UTL 0 ! ALLFIX: 3rd party utilities for Allfix
%Area ALLFIX 0 ! ALLFIX: AllFIX File Processor for DOS
%Area WEBUTIL 0 ! ALLFIX: WebUtil WWW/FTP Mirroring Utility
%

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A new version of AllFix is now available. Please visit
www.allfix.com for it

this is GREAT news! however, i think i'll wait a bit until the fileshare
bug is handled... IIRC, i run the universal version... i have to run it
as a separate task during my midnight maint when the mailer nodes are
down because there is tha above mentioned MSG file sharing bug... when
my FD is running and rescanning the mailer's netmail area, there are
times when FD and AF were trying to access the same MSG file at the same time... in those cases, AF lost and generally hung on me requiring a
hard reboot of the Warp3Connect system...

dunno if this bug has ever been reported but if not, it is now :P ;)

I also use the UNI version here, two separate processes in fact,
although under Warp 4 FP13, and have never seen this happen here. I run IM and
AllFix as separate processes, in separate windows, only communicating via the semaphore flags.


You couldn't simply close the AllFix window, and then restart it?




.....Bob

--- GEcho/32 & IM 2.50
* Origin: From the Keyboard of the Echo Moderator (1:140/12)

A new version of AllFix is now available. Please visit
www.allfix.com for it

this is GREAT news! however, i think i'll wait a bit until the fileshare
bug is handled... IIRC, i run the universal version... i have to run it
as a separate task during my midnight maint when the mailer nodes are
down because there is tha above mentioned MSG file sharing bug... when
my FD is running and rescanning the mailer's netmail area, there are
times when FD and AF were trying to access the same MSG file at the same time... in those cases, AF lost and generally hung on me requiring a
hard reboot of the Warp3Connect system...

dunno if this bug has ever been reported but if not, it is now :P ;)

I also use the UNI version here, two separate processes in
fact, although under Warp 4 FP13, and have never seen this happen
here. I run IM and AllFix as separate processes, in separate
windows, only communicating via the semaphore flags.

ummm... i was running it as a background task while the mailers were all still active... mail would come in and a semaphore created then when the semaphore was seen, it would kick off the mail and file tossing... this was specific to the maint of the netmail area but i forget if it was when looking for filefix messages or what...

You couldn't simply close the AllFix window, and then restart
it?

no, the window would not close at all and the entire system would hang... in some cases, the mouse would move but nothing would respond... in other cases, the mouse would not move at all... some cases had the keyboard dead, too... those required a power off... if i was lucky and happened to be right here at the console, i might be able to catch it and CAD instead of power off... at least CAD generally closed all the open files (logs mainly) and allowed for a reboot... the loss of data in the logs was probably the worst aspect :?

i'll have to dig out my process batch and cmd files... i know that i broke the processing into separate tasks that ran serially while the whole tossing ran parallel to the mailers in the background... i finally had to adjust to processing mail like this and move allfix processing to midnight maint... IIRC,
it was that one of the FD nodes would rescan and netmail area while allfix was in there and when they both grabbed the same netmail file, this would happen...
FD would move on but the allfix task was jammed...

)\/(ark


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Hello, Bob...

It's been a long dry spell.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

I eagerly await the Windows version. The old DOS version runs pretty well in WinXP running inside a virtual machine, but believe it or not HATCH not only hangs WinXP, it crashes the virtual machine, and in the end I get a BSOD from the Win7 host!

BTW, I'm running a 64-bit Win7; so I need either a 32-bit or 64-bit version.

I really need to get everything running native on Win7, this layered approach is making me crazy.

Regards,

Jerry Schwartz

mailto:jerryschwartz@comfortable.com
http://www.writebynight.com

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* Reply to message originally in area CarbonArea

Hello Robert!

Fri Mar 12 2010, Robert E Starr JR wrote to Gert Koefoed Andersen:

A new version of AllFix is now available. Please visit
www.allfix.com for it

Changelog 6.00 rel 19
# Registration no longer required
# All registration only features have been enabled
# All nags removed
# Patched to stop Divide by zero errors
# No bug fixes or new features
# Due to licensing issues, and unability to locate support files
that are required, there will be no Universal or Wildcat releases
at this time

New native versions for DOS, Windows, OS/2 and Linux are being
worked on and will be available when available.

Why not hatch it out to Janis for it file echo nodes there have the
file echos for all versions of Allfix.

RESJ>I am not Bob, but from the filegate.zxx (dated February 27, 2010 )

I have got it self.

RESJ>%====================================================================
RESJ>======
RESJ>% ****************** INACTIVE FDNs:*********************
RESJ>%====================================================================
RESJ>======

RESJ>(a few fdn that were in this list before it got to this one, where
RESJ>left out)

RESJ>% FDN: ALLFIX
RESJ>% Coordinator: Dale Barnes, 1:106/201 (dbarnes@allfix.com)
RESJ>% Bob Seaborn, 1:140/1 (North American Hatch Site)
RESJ>% PATH: DIRECT
RESJ>% HUB: No
RESJ>%
RESJ>---------------------------------------------------------------------
RESJ>-+-
RESJ>% File Echo Description
RESJ>%
RESJ>---------------------------------------------------------------------
RESJ>-+-
RESJ>%Area AFIX_UTL 0 ! ALLFIX: 3rd party utilities for
RESJ>Allfix
RESJ>%Area ALLFIX 0 ! ALLFIX: AllFIX File Processor for DOS
RESJ>%Area WEBUTIL 0 ! ALLFIX: WebUtil WWW/FTP Mirroring
RESJ>Utility
RESJ>%

RESJ>-+-
RESJ>Rob Starr
RESJ>Lord Time SysOp of Time Warp of the Future BBS
RESJ>telnet://time.synchro.net:24
RESJ>ICQ # 11868133 Yahoo : lordtime2000
RESJ>AIM : LordTime20000 MSN : Lord Time
RESJ>Jabber : lordtime2000@gmail.com Astra : lord_time


RESJ>? CMPQwk 1.42-R2 16554 ? Ouch! And I mean it.
RESJ>-+- SBBSecho 2.12-Win32
RESJ> + Origin: Time Warp of the Future BBS - Home of League 10 (1:14/400)


Take care,
Gert

- Get the best with linux -

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Hello, Shawn...

Feb 28, 2010 at 12:11, Shawn Highfield wrote to Jerry Schwartz:

I really need to get everything running native on Win7, this layered
approach is making me crazy.

I just moved everythign into a virtual XP machine. While not
perfect at
least I don't need to worry about compatability issues.

Well, for some reason I can't get BinkD to install as a service in the virtualized XP; hatch frags my system; and while port forwarding works fine for
BinkD, the serial port was too slow f o r w o r d s.

I have to run BinkD, BinkleyTerminal, Squish, Allfix, and Areafix in the virtual machine; keep my inbound, outbound, and file echo areas on what the virtual machine thinks is a network share; and run Radius on the host side to handle the serial connections.


It's a horrible setup, and it has one big problem that I can't work around: when the programs in the virtual machine scan the directories on the "share", they don't see all of the files. I have to run multiple passes of Squish to get
it to toss all of the bundles in my inbound.

I don't know why that is happening, but I haven't figured out a way around it.

Regards,

Jerry Schwartz

mailto:jerryschwartz@comfortable.com
http://www.writebynight.com

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Bob Seaborn wrote to All:

# Due to licensing issues, and unability to locate support files that are required, there will be no Universal or Wildcat releases at this time

What would you need to make it work natively with WINServer/Wildcat 6?
If it's the SDK files you need, then I can provide those no problem.


Greetings, Robert Wolfe

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Well, for some reason I can't get BinkD to install as a service in
the virtualized XP; hatch frags my system; and while port forwarding

Wow that is weird. Though I haven't tried that. I just run Irex as it's
the only thing that seems to work for me.

on what the virtual machine thinks is a network share; and run Radius
on the host side to handle the serial connections.

I just have the virtual machine do that as well. Set it in bridged mode
so it gets a IP on my network and point the port 23 through the firewall to
it.

on the "share", they don't see all of the files. I have to run
multiple passes of Squish to get it to toss all of the bundles in my inbound.

Wow.

I don't know why that is happening, but I haven't figured out a way
around it.

Well I hope you can figure it out. What are you running your virtual
machine under? I use Sun's VIrtualbox here which is free and works
perfectly for everything I have thrown at it so far.

Shawn - Tiny's BBS - http://www.tinysbbs.com
telnet://tinysbbs.com

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Hello, Shawn...

Mar 16, 2010 at 21:56, Shawn Highfield wrote to Jerry Schwartz:

I'm running Virtualbox here, as well.

Strange. Did you want me to email you my config file or screen
shots or
anything to try to solve it? Honestly though I don't think I did anything
special to it.

I don't think I did anything special, either.

I need to move to 32- or 64-bit software, I'm not planning to make an investment in the DOS stuff.

Thanks.

Regards,

Jerry Schwartz

mailto:jerryschwartz@comfortable.com
http://www.writebynight.com

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