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    From Björn Felten@2:203/2 to All on Wed Nov 26 00:54:29 2014
    I know for certain that I once had the source code for Argus. I even compiled a
    version for myself, with some of the bugs corrected.

    But bugger me if I can find it now (after almost 15 years). It's probably zipped away in one of my many virtual machines.

    So... If anybody know where I can find the source for Argus/Radius/Taurus, I
    would be happy to see what I can do to revive this FTN gem.

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  • From Paul Quinn@3:640/1384 to Bj”rn Felten on Wed Nov 26 11:07:57 2014
    Hi! Bj├╢rn,

    On 26/11/2014 9:54 AM, you wrote:

    So... If anybody know where I can find the source for Argus/Radius/Taurus, I would be happy to see what I can do to revive
    this FTN gem.

    Look in your inbound for RS4010.zip - the January 2005 source for Radius. :)

    Cheers,
    Paul.

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  • From Björn Felten@2:203/2 to Paul Quinn on Wed Nov 26 02:21:23 2014
    Look in your inbound for RS4010.zip - the January 2005 source for
    Radius. :)

    Jeepers Creepers! So there's what it's been residing for all those years? I *knew* I had it somewhere. 8-)

    On a more serious note, thanks a million Paul. If only you knew how many "contributions" from you I have saved where I can actually find it, you'd be asking for royalty.

    Just today I found your SRIF_Req.bat magic file package with all the extras needed. You remember that?

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  • From Paul Quinn@3:640/1384 to Björn Felten on Wed Nov 26 11:41:07 2014
    Hi! Bj├╢rn,
    On 26/11/2014 11:21 AM, you wrote:

    Just today I found your SRIF_Req.bat magic file package with all the extras needed. You remember that?

    Crikey! That was nearly last century! 8-) I was having a good time with text
    file manipulation in BATch in those days. (Be watchful for using your XP with it, for some old tool[s] may hiccup with the so-called modern DOSs.) It's been
    too long since I looked at it; I'll have a squiz now...

    Cheers,
    Paul.

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  • From Scott Little@3:712/848 to Björn Felten on Wed Nov 26 11:59:24 2014

    [ On 2014-11-26 at 00:54:28, Björn Felten wrote to All ]

    So... If anybody know where I can find the source for Argus/Radius/Taurus, I would be happy to see what I can do to revive
    this FTN gem.

    Good luck ;)

    I had a quick look and it appears old Delphi doesn't do IPv6, new Delphi is rather scarily priced (although there's a trial version) and porting it to FreePascal is a bit beyond my abilities.

    I would prefer to keep using Argus than switch to binkd myself.

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  • From Björn Felten@2:203/2 to Scott Little on Wed Nov 26 04:02:20 2014
    I had a quick look and it appears old Delphi doesn't do IPv6, new Delphi is rather scarily priced (although there's a trial version) and porting
    it to FreePascal is a bit beyond my abilities.

    Yeah, well, I have Delphi 7 here (had to, or I would have been out of work many years ago), so no problem with that.

    FreePascal still has a long way to go before they can even catch up with the
    Borland Pascal 7 level, and to even Delphi 2...? Nah, no way, sorry all Open Source fans out there.

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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12.71 to Björn Felten on Tue Nov 25 21:49:29 2014

    On Wed, 26 Nov 2014, Björn Felten wrote to All:

    So... If anybody know where I can find the source for Argus/Radius/Taurus, I would be happy to see what I can do to
    revive this FTN gem.

    sourceforge is your friend... and bob_bahk (or bakh)...

    )\/(ark

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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12.71 to Scott Little on Wed Nov 26 09:35:04 2014

    On Wed, 26 Nov 2014, Scott Little wrote to Björn Felten:

    So... If anybody know where I can find the source for Argus/Radius/Taurus, I would be happy to see what I can do to
    revive this FTN gem.

    Good luck ;)

    I had a quick look and it appears old Delphi doesn't do IPv6, new
    Delphi is rather scarily priced (although there's a trial version)
    and porting it to FreePascal is a bit beyond my abilities.

    that's what i ran into but my efforts did help the lazarus project convertor become better... there's still more work needed and i think, but i'm not sure, that the jedi stuff is already available in lazarus so that means it should be able to be tossed out from the taurus code tree...

    I would prefer to keep using Argus than switch to binkd myself.

    ;)

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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12.71 to Björn Felten on Wed Nov 26 09:45:16 2014

    On Wed, 26 Nov 2014, Björn Felten wrote to Scott Little:

    FreePascal still has a long way to go before they can even
    catch up with the Borland Pascal 7 level, and to even Delphi 2...?
    Nah, no way, sorry all Open Source fans out there.

    i think you are sadly mistaken here... FPC and Lazarus are very compatible with
    delphi stuff... they are a little behind but there's a reason for that... in any case, you should take another look before throwing the baby out with the bath water...

    FWIW: i run trunk versions of both FPC and Lazarus... my Lazarus is built with the FPC trunk, too... you really should look at it and maybe even follow the mailing lists where a lot of development discussion goes on... especially recent discussions among the FPC developers about character set support ;)

    )\/(ark

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  • From Björn Felten@2:203/2 to mark lewis on Thu Nov 27 07:00:20 2014
    i think you are sadly mistaken here... FPC and Lazarus are very
    compatible with delphi stuff... they are a little behind but there's a reason for that... in any case, you should take another look before throwing the baby out with the bath water...

    Darn! You are completely right. It was some years since I tried FPC, and it had so many limitations, almost none of my BP programs compiled.

    But this Lazarus was really a positive surprise. It looks so like Delphi, I immediately could use it. Only negative about it was the resulting size of the program (even with all debug-info stripped), but that's not such a big deal.

    Thanks for the tip, I'll definitely try to use Lazarus rather than Delphi in
    the future.

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