Artware software  
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  $Id: artware.txt,v 1.10 2009/04/24 00:22:25 ozzmosis Exp $  
    
  Note: The latest version of this document is available via CVS.  See  
  the end of the document for more information.  
    
    
  Status  
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  The software timEd, NetMgr and WIMM have all been ported to UNIX.  In  
  years gone by these programs were distributed as shareware by Gerard  
  van Essen under the name 'Artware', however in late 2000 they were  
  released as open source under the GNU General Public Licence (GPL) and  
  uploaded to http://www.nicestories.com/fidonet/ (last accessed  
  2009-04-24).  
    
  Most of the work porting timEd to UNIX was done by Oliver Grimm.  
  Currently the Windows port of timEd is only stable, and semi-usable,  
  when compiled using Cygwin.  To date there has been no attempt to port  
  it back to OS/2 or DOS.  Contributions are welcome though!  The latest  
  version is stable under Linux, FreeBSD, BeOS and Mac OS X.  
    
  WIMM should compile under Windows, UNIX, OS/2, BeOS & 32-bit DOS.  
  There has been a report of instability under 32-bit DOS, but this  
  cannot be replicated by me.  It has been stable under FreeBSD during  
  testing.  
    
  NetMgr is the most recent port, thanks to Bo Simonsen.  Currently it  
  only compiles under UNIX (Linux/FreeBSD) and BeOS.  It will probably  
  also compile under Cygwin.  It won't compile out of the box for OS/2,  
  Windows or 32-bit DOS using Watcom, but shouldn't need too much work  
  to make this possible.  It has been stable under FreeBSD and BeOS  
  during testing, but has not been exhaustively tested.  
    
  All three require the latest version of XMSGAPI if you wish to compile  
  from source.  XMSGAPI is a port of the Squish MSGAPI written by Scott  
  Dudley and released under the GNU Lesser Public Licence.  
    
    
  Downloading  
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  An anonymous CVS server has been set up for timEd, WIMM, NetMgr and  
  XMSGAPI.  If you have a command-line CVS client installed you can  
  retrieve the latest version of the timEd source code using the  
  following command:  
    
  cvs -r -z3 -d:pserver:anoncvs@blizzard.dnsalias.org:/cvsroot co timed  
    
  For WIMM, NetMgr and XMSGAPI, replace 'timed' with 'wimm', 'netmgr' or  
  'xmsgapi':  
    
  cvs -r -z3 -d:pserver:anoncvs@blizzard.dnsalias.org:/cvsroot co wimm  
  cvs -r -z3 -d:pserver:anoncvs@blizzard.dnsalias.org:/cvsroot co netmgr  
  cvs -r -z3 -d:pserver:anoncvs@blizzard.dnsalias.org:/cvsroot co xmsgapi  
    
  Some CVS snapshots are also available for download from  
  http://www.ozzmosis.com/downloads/timed/ .  
    
    
  Contributing  
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  You can make changes to the source code or documentation of any of  
  these programs and have it incorporated into the main CVS repository.  
  If you'd like write access to the CVS at blizzard.dnsalias.org please  
  send netmail to Andrew Clarke at FidoNet node 3:633/267 or e-mail  
  mail@ozzmosis.com with the username and password you wish to use.  
    
    
  Updates  
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  The latest version of this document is posted on the 1st and 15th of  
  every month in the FidoNet ARTWARE echo.  It is also available via  
  CVS, using the command:  
    
  cvs -r -z3 -d:pserver:anoncvs@blizzard.dnsalias.org:/cvsroot co  
  idonet/artware.txt  
    
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