So, is anyone actually using Bluewave QWK reader these days? I see how it can come in handy, with all these Fidonet echos.

Are there any big issues with it at the moment? I'm willing to use it, probably for Fidonet only. Where can I get the current version?

Does anyone happen to know how well it works with Mystic BBSs?

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20 Aug 15 21:10, you wrote to All:

So, is anyone actually using Bluewave QWK reader these days? I see how it can come in handy, with all these Fidonet echos.

yep, there's quite a few folks using it... you won't find them in the admin/arguing areas, though... they are mostly users of traditional BBSes...

Are there any big issues with it at the moment? I'm willing to use it, probably for Fidonet only. Where can I get the current version?

the last version from the '90s before the author had a really bad accident is what's currently available... it requires a patch to handle a Y2K problem but other than that, it works well even though it cannot be registered without using a (hacked??) keygen...

Does anyone happen to know how well it works with Mystic BBSs?

i don't think that mystic does BW packets (yet?) but it does do QWK which bluewave can work with...

with all that said, if you don't want to dance the BW dance, there's always multimail which is still being developed and has binaries for several platforms
as well as being open source so you can compile it on your machine if you desire such... multimail does BW, QWK and several other formats of offline mail...

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Re: QWK?
By: Aaron Thomas to All on Thu Aug 20 2015 09:10 pm

So, is anyone actually using Bluewave QWK reader these days? I see how it can come in handy, with all these Fidonet echos.

I was a big fan of BW back in the day (even had one of my messages in the sample message packet!) but nowadays I do a lot of BBSing using MultiMail, a QWK reader that feels a lot like BW. QWK has some limitations compared to BW format, but people are still developing it, whereas BW is abandonware.
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Where can the MOST RECENT Blue Wave Reader be downloaded?

Thanks
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other than that, it works well even though it cannot be registered without using a (hacked??) keygen...

That sucks! I'm just realizing I'd probably have to run it through DOSBOX too, which would be inconvenient for me. Good thing sysops are so generous with Online Time Remaining!

with all that said, if you don't want to dance the BW dance, there's always multimail which is still being developed and has binaries for several

I will give this a try right now.

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I was a big fan of BW back in the day (even had one of my messages in the

Me too! Even though I had the shareware version with plenty of reminders to register! Multimail sounds good.

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21 Aug 15 10:01, you wrote to me:

Where can the MOST RECENT Blue Wave Reader be downloaded?

from my site... via FREQ, FTP and HTTP... the BW-Y2K.ZIP patch is definitely needed... other than that, there's your choice of bw23_386.zip, bw23_dos.zip or
bw23_os2.zip... below is the listing for the offline reader... the doors are also available on my site if anyone is interested... they, too, require the y2k
patch...



Area 27 - Local: Blue Wave Reader and Doors

+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| The Bluewave Offline Mail Reader |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+

bw-y2k.zip 909k 10-19-06 Blue Wave Mail Y2K Patch (with expanded
README.TXT) - Not supported by authors - Use
at your own risk!
Contains patched copies of v2.20, v2.30 and
the 386 flavored BW Reader. Also contains a
patched version of the Telegard flavor of the
BW Door.

bw23_386.zip 689k 02-12-96 Blue Wave Offline Mail Reader/386 v2.30.
A Blue Wave and QWK-compatible offline
mail reader which offers the utmost ease
of use and configurability. This is a
32-bit DOS text mode program which works
on systems with an 80386 or higher
processor only. Can use virtual memory
to read the largest of mail packets.
Release Date: 12 February 96

bw23_dos.zip 473k 02-12-96 Blue Wave Offline Mail Reader/DOS v2.30.
A Blue Wave and QWK-compatible offline
mail reader which offers the utmost ease
of use and configurability. This is a
16-bit DOS text mode program which works
on systems ranging from XTs to the
Intel Pentium and compatibles.
Release Date: 12 February 96

bw23_os2.zip 473k 02-12-96 Blue Wave Offline Mail Reader/OS2 v2.30.
A Blue Wave and QWK-compatible offline
mail reader which offers the utmost ease
of use and configurability. This is a
32-bit OS/2 text mode program for OS/2
2.0 or higher.
Release Date: 12 February 96


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Aaron Thomas wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

Me too! Even though I had the shareware version with plenty of
reminders to register! Multimail sounds good.

Get the Multimail v0.50. It was compiled for Win32/Win64 by Robert Wolfe. That is the most current version but it was never released. It's available
on the Sourceforge home page if you hunt for it. I've compiled it here for
my Slackware Linux-based personal machine (I use OS/2 for the BBS) and it
works great. v0.50 removes some very old dependencies and cleans up the
code quite a bit.

--Sean

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Re: Re: QWK?
By: Aaron Thomas to Mark Lewis on Fri Aug 21 2015 06:01 pm

That sucks! I'm just realizing I'd probably have to run it through DOSBOX too, which would be inconvenient for me. Good thing sysops are so generous with Online Time Remaining!

I wish all sysops running telnet would set their session timers to 24 hours and turn off timeouts. We're not tying up phone lines anymore!
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Get the Multimail v0.50. It was compiled for Win32/Win64 by Robert Wolfe.

I found v0.49. Now I'm looking for BBSs with the menu function.

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On 08/23/15, Aaron Thomas said the following...

I found v0.49. Now I'm looking for BBSs with the menu function.

My BBS has a QWK download funtion although it has not been well tested it
seems to work for me when I tried it a few times. It also has a QWKE option
so it supports longer subject lines than a regular QWK download.

If you'd like to try the BBS is available at telnet://trmb.ca. If you do I wouldn't mind hearing about success or failure. Mystic BBS is still being developed so if problems are found they can be reported to the author for his information and I'm sure he would want to know of any problems.

Ttyl :-),
Al

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Hi Aaron,

Wolfe. I found v0.49. Now I'm looking for BBSs with the
menu function.

I run the original (but Y2K-patched) Blue Wave door here on my BBS, Outpost BBS. You can telnet to it at bbs.outpostbbs.net or visit via my website at http://outpostbbs.net/goto.html.

--Sean

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Hi Kurt,

I wish all sysops running telnet would set their session timers to 24 hours and
turn off timeouts. We're not tying up phone lines anymore!

Because there's still the human condition of people abusing a good thing, that's why.

--Sean


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If you'd like to try the BBS is available at telnet://trmb.ca. If you do I

Thanks, I will try it there.

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I run the original (but Y2K-patched) Blue Wave door here on my BBS, Outpost

I will try multimail first, but thanks and I will give Blue Wave a shot if not satisfied with Multimail.

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Hello, Aaron.

Sunday August 23 2015 at 21:36, you wrote to me:

I will try multimail first, but thanks and I will give Blue Wave a
shot if not satisfied with Multimail.

You misunderstand me. :)

I'm using the original Blue Wave door on my BBS. This is the program that creates the Blue Wave packets and also uploads them into the BBS' message base.

Multimail is the offline reader you use. I use Multimail 0.50 here myself under Linux.

Later,
Sean

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Re: Re: QWK?
By: Sean Dennis to Aaron Thomas on Sun Aug 23 2015 02:47:49

Aaron Thomas wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

Me too! Even though I had the shareware version with plenty of reminders to register! Multimail sounds good.

Get the Multimail v0.50. It was compiled for Win32/Win64 by Robert Wolfe. That is the most current version but it was never released. It's available on the Sourceforge home page if you hunt for it. I've compiled it here for my Slackware Linux-based personal machine (I use OS/2 for the BBS) and it works great. v0.50 removes some very old dependencies and cleans up the code quite a bit.

--Sean

Hello Sean

I would like same more help with finding multimail v0.50 by Robert Wolfe, I tried a search on Sourceforge Home Page foound a multimail but all I could download was unzwin ?? any help would be greatfull

Ian 1st Choice Core Nz


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Quoting Aaron Thomas to Sean Dennis <=-

Get the Multimail v0.50. It was compiled for Win32/Win64 by Robert Wolfe.

I found v0.49. Now I'm looking for BBSs with the menu function.

Me, i still like my Bluewave reader



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Quoting Aaron Thomas to All on 08-20-15 21:10 <=-

So, is anyone actually using Bluewave QWK reader these days? I see
how it can come in handy, with all these Fidonet echos.

I'm still using it, both as a BW reader and as a QWK reader... yes,
there still are some BW and BW-compatible doors in operation, too. :)

Are there any big issues with it at the moment? I'm willing to use it, probably for Fidonet only. Where can I get the current version?

It works fine, as long as you get either the repfix for it or the y2k
patch, both available... Mark Lewis has them available on his bbs...
The current version is still the 2.30 set of versions, and 2.2O also
still works fine. I use it for Fidonet and also for the smaller similar
nets that I post in...

Does anyone happen to know how well it works with Mystic BBSs?

As a reader for QWK packets, it should work just fine... just like it
does for Wildcat BBSes and for Synchronet ones... No Bluewave doors
available for any of them.... but they generate QWK packets and process
the rep reply packets...

ttyl neb

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It works fine, as long as you get either the repfix for it or the y2k patch, both available... Mark Lewis has them available on his bbs...
The current version is still the 2.30 set of versions, and 2.2O also
still works fine. I use it for Fidonet and also for the smaller similar

Thanks for this info. I'm setting up a BBS, and I will want to offer these files (assuming it's legal) to the users so they can consider the option of reading/posting offline.

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