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- Short: #?.MSG message files for Proteus
- Uploader: rkr@tyrell.net
- Author: Frank Perricone @ 1:322/611
-
- I do not think the author has an Internet email address currently, else he
- would surely post this himself. If you're not in FidoNet, there is a way
- to translate a FidoNet address into an Internet address, but it's easier
- just to find a Fido-linked BBS in your area.
-
- I have not yet installed ProteoFido on my Proteus BBS; both Frank and I
- have deviated from 100% stock .proteus ARexx scripts, and bridging the gap
- is, for me, going slowly.
-
- With that, I'll leave you with the author's own long description, as he
- wrote it when uploading this archive to my BBS (the `beta test' does not
- mean restricted access -- he was himself widely distributing it -- as far
- as I can tell, it only indicates he doesn't want to call it `version 1'
- yet, and wants a better reason than simply `it is version .8e'):
-
- Replacement for Proteus' built-in message handling, including new scripts
- to replace the Proteus default ones. The new system supports standard
- Fido-style messages as produced and manipulated by such programs as
- TrapToss, Confmail, MF, Extract, etc. In addition to complete Fido
- support, ProteoFido offers many improvements over the Proteus standard,
- including better searching and threaded reading, upload and download of
- messages, form letters, unlimited number of message areas, an extensible
- format for areas so that each area can have flags associated with it that
- you define but each program or script which reads areas is sheltered from
- flags it isn't expecting, easy message area configuration, support for
- automessages such as errormail and offline file requests, files attached to
- messages so users can send files to one another easily (also supports Fido
- file attaches), and many other little and big improvements. This is
- version 0.8e which includes renumbering of message areas and is a late beta
- test version. The only feature not yet supported is editing of existing
- messages. Version 0.9 will include this and bug fixes, and 1.0 will be a
- final initial release.
-