From: tmcwill@iat.holonet.net (Thomas McWilliams) Subject: Re: Offline Mail Reader for Linux? Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 04:21:48 GMT
anderson@zymurgy.bms.com (Jay Anderson) writes:
: >>>>> On Tue, 22 Dec 1992 08:02:04 GMT, erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp) said:
: Ed> Savio Lam (lam836@cs.cuhk.hk) wrote:
:
: Ed> : Can anyone suggest an offline mail reader for Linux that supports
: Ed> : the QWK format?
:
: Ed> Yes. ATP QWK 1.3 is what I'm running - apparantly, there is a 1.4, but I
: Ed> don't have it.
: Ed> --
:
: Where can this package be found? Archie came up empty for me looking
: for it.
ATP 1.40 is a mail/news reader for QWK format mail-packets. This format
is the de facto standard mail/news format for public access BBS. ATP 1.40
can be found as LINUX binary and source at the following ftp locations:
sunsite.unc.edu
halcyon.com
zeus.ieee.org
tsx-11.mit.edu
The following BBS also have copies of ATP 1.40:
When Gravity Fails BBS (202) 686-9086
MAC's Place BBS (919) 891-1111
Prism BBS 1:272/38 (914) 344-0350
Lunatic Fringe BBS (214) 422-2936
Brodmann's Place (301) 843-5732
This version provides considerable enhancement over earlier versions
and a general clean-up of the code. It should compile without error
on systems supporting ANSI/POSIX standard C. No oddball calls are
used. K&R is NOT supported. ATP is distributed under the terms of
the Free Software Foundation GNU General Public License. In other
words, it is copyrighted but freely distributable under conditions
contained in the GPL. ATP is derived from an earlier work of Rene
Cougnenc (AzerTyuioP), but greatly enhanced. Users of earlier
versions of ATP for Linux should try to upgrade to this version.
ATP supports both French language and English language.
New Features Include:
* message size of up to 150,000 bytes (about 2500 to 3000 lines).
* 8192 conferences (fully compatible with older mail doors).
* dynamic memory management.
* Emacs style command-line editing with command history (Salz/Tumlee
editline library)
* separate conference for replies.
* re-edit, kill, or change security on replies.
* export replies ONLY when you want to.
* greatly expanded tagline manager.
* no limits on number of taglines.
* direct, random, or automatic tagline selection.
* support for external spelling checkers
* text search conferences and headers for strings.
* ANSI/POSIX compliance with full function prototyping
* load multiple packets for reading at one time (ATP is a database
type reader).
* support for 7bit, latin1, and msdos character sets.
* DOS versions in both 16 bit mode and 32 bit protected mode.
If you have further questions, I may be reached at tmcwill@ukelele.gcr.com
or at thomas.mcwilliams@f615.n109.z1.fidonet.org
Thanks to Cougnenc, Salz, Tumlee, and others who provided the code for me
to build upon.