Unreferenced date May 2010 Squish is both the name of a FidoNet mail tossing application originally designed for DOS and OS 2 , and the name of the primary mail storage format in which this application stores FidoNet and other local Bulletin board system BBS messages. Before Squish, open storage formats for FidoNet and Bulletin Board messages were relatively slow and inefficient. The primary functions of the Squish application in a FidoNet system are to Unpack incoming mail archives. Examine and sort incoming mail, and either Store it in the appropriate local message bases for later reading by a BBS user or a FidoNet mail reading application. Place it into an outgoing mail archive, if addressed to another system. Examine mail being sent from a FidoNet system, and attach routing information to each message. Archive outgoing messages appropriately, for archives to be later transferred by independent FidoNet mailer software. Squish was originally developed by Scott J. Dudley through his company, Lanius Corporation, in conjunction with his Maximus BBS Maximus BBS software. Squish existed as a separate application, however, and its open specifications resulted in it often being used within other FidoNet and BBS related systems. In 2002, the source code for Squish was released under the GNU General Public License , in the same code base as the Maximus BBS software. It has since been ported to run under Win32, Linux , and other Unix like operating systems. External links http sourceforge.net projects maximus Maximus Sourceforge Project Page includes Squish. http husky.sourceforge.net Husky Sourceforge Project Page includes SMAPI, a extended Squish Message base API. Category DOS software Category OS 2 software Category FidoNet Category FidoNet software ... more details
Refimprove date February 2009 The FidoNet Star Wars Echo was a FidoNet echomail message forum distributed on bulletin board system s BBS in the 1990s. Discussing George Lucas Star Wars saga and pre dating the modern Internet , it was one of the earliest influential forms of Star Wars on line fandom . ref name beginning cite web title In The Beginning... Star Wars Comes To A Wired World first Chris last Knight date May 9, 2001 work TheForce.Net url http theforce.net. jedicouncil editorials 050901.shtml ref Contributors Noteworthy participants in the Echo message forum included Star Wars authors Roger MacBride Allen , Kevin J. Anderson , Brian Daley , Barbara Hambly , Shane Johnson, Vonda McIntyre , L. Neil Smith , Kathy Tyers , Tom Veitch , Timothy Zahn &mdash along with occasional Lucasfilm representatives, West End Games freelancers, and employees of Dark Horse Comics . ref cite journal url http www.theforce.net jedicouncil editorials OutOfTheMaw2.txt title Out of the Maw volume 1, issue 2 editor first Mike editor last Schwab date December 1995 ref History Founded on February 25, 1991 by moderator Eli Skip Shayotovich, the Star Wars Echo quickly became one of the most popular forums within FidoNet. ref name maw vol1 no1 cite journal url http www.theforce.net jedicouncil editorials OutOfTheMaw1.txt title Out of the Maw volume 1, issue 1 editor first Mike editor last Schwab date November 1994 ref In November 1994 , the Echo launched a monthly on line newsletter fanzine entitled Out of the Maw . ref name maw vol1 no1 Echo member Rich Mason also compiled his own fanzine, entitled ... When the arrival of the Internet quickly eroded the use of BBS systems and FidoNet, Echo members ... fandom Bulletin board system FidoNet References Reflist External links http www.shavenwookie.com orhp ... starwars.wikia.com wiki FidoNet Star Wars Echo FidoNet Star Wars Echo on Wookieepedia Category Star Wars fandom Category FidoNet ... more details
lowercase title binkp binkp is a Communications protocol protocol for transferring FidoNet mail over reliable connections. Application of the Protocol Historically, Fidonet traffic was transferred mainly over Serial port serial RS 232 modem connections which might not have an error correction layer. These dial up oriented protocols for transferring Fidonet traffic like http www.ftsc.org docs fsc 0056.001 EMSI or Zmodem had to implement error recovery. When the members of Fidonet started to use TCP IP to transfer Fidonet traffic, this error recovery overhead became unnecessary. Assuming that the connection is reliable makes it possible to eliminate error checking and unnecessary synchronization steps, achieving both ease of implementation and improved performance. The major advantage of binkp vs EMSI and Zmodem is achieved over connections with large delays and low bandwidth. IANA Internet Assigned Numbers Authority has registered the port number 24554 for binkp when used over TCP IP connections. History In 1996, Dima Maloff released the first draft of the protocol specification and the first mailer, binkd, that supported the new protocol. In 1997, http www.ritlabs.com argus Argus mailer began to support the binkp protocol. In 1999, Dima Maloff, Nick Soveiko and Maxim Masiutin submitted the protocol specification to the Fidonet Technical Standards Committee FTSC , which published the document as Fidonet Standards Proposal FSP 1011 . In 2005, FTSC assigned the Fidonet Technical Standard FTS status to the binkp protocol, and split the specification into four separate documents Binkp 1.0 Protocol specification FTS 1026 , Binkp 1.0 optional protocol extension CRAM FTS 1027 , Binkp protocol extension Non reliable Mode FTS 1028 , and Binkp optional protocol extension Dataframe Compression FTS 1029 . External links http www.ritlabs.com binkp binkp specification FSP 1011 , published in 1999 Category Internet protocols Category FidoNet ru Binkp uk Binkp ... more details
about the ISP the BBS network FidoNet Deleted image removed Image Fido logo 01.jpg right Fido.Net is an Internet Service Provider based in the UK and has been around since about 1992 originally as a not for profit organisation . They were affiliated to the FidoNet amateur BBS network for a number of years providing echomail and netmail services as well as a fidonet internet gateway from 1992 to 1998. They were briefly sponsored by Demon Internet Ltd before becoming a for profit venture or Ltd Company in 2001. The principal director is Jon Morby. External links Official http www.fido.net Category Internet service providers of the United Kingdom ... more details
Unreferenced date April 2009 Fruity Dog was the first and only FidoNet mailer written for the Apple II series of computers, using the shell programming language not a shell scripting language, but its own separate compiled language . The Yllar17 and Third Stone From The Sun bulletin board system BBS es were the home base for the code. Two authors were responsible for the creation of the software. George Powell started the project with Terry Clabaugh, operator of a local FidoNet BBS, to win a bet that an Apple II version of FidoNet could not be written. Clabaugh provided much help in the initial design phase of the code. After a short while, a help wanted advertisement was placed on national Apple II BBSes requesting a top of the line WDC 65C02 65C02 programmer to assist with the creation of the project. Evan Molnar answered the advertisement and proved to be one of the best 65C02 programmers of the time. An offer was made to purchase the rights to Fruity Dog by Nibble magazine Nibble magazine, but was turned down because of the low royalties that were offered. It was decided shortly after to make Fruity Dog freeware , with the only restriction being that the user was required to obtain a Registerware registration code from the developers. The Fruity Dog project was subsequently Abandonware abandoned due to both the demise of the Apple II platform, and the decline of FidoNet as the Internet became more popular. External links http homepage.cooketech.net yllar Site.Fruity.Dog index.htm Code and BBS Download Category FidoNet Category Apple II software Mac software stub ... more details
attack . FidoNews, the official electronic newspaper of FidoNet dedicated an issue for Ron ... http www.textfiles.com fidonet on the internet 020304 fido1913.txt FidoNEWS Vol 19 No 13 http www.sharewarepromotions.com ... fidonet zone coordinator list.html FidoNet Zone Coordinator list http www.net282.org fidonet ... States DEFAULTSORT Dwight Ron Category 1944 births Category 2002 deaths Category FidoNet Category ... more details
OPX may refer to Off Premise Extension Open Programming Extension , which is the DLL mechanism of Open programming language of the Symbian operating system for mobile phones. .opx is a proprietary file extension to OrgPlus Organization Chart Software Silver Xpress s OPX mail format used on FidoNet Operational excellence OPX martian meteorites disambig ... more details
Two other uses the FidoNet editor Cubic IDE Infobox Software name logo screenshot caption collapsible author developer Goldware International Odinn S rensen and Dirk A. Mueller released Start date YYYY MM DD latest release version 3.0.1 latest release date Start date and age YYYY MM DD latest preview version 4.x does not build latest preview date Start date and age YYYY MM DD frequently updated programming language operating system platform size language status genre FidoNet message editor license versions 3.0 and 4.x are under GNU GPL , partially under GNU LGPL the license of CXL is unknown website http goldware.dk GoldED was a popular FidoNet message editor message editor for FidoNet compatible computer networks. In 1998, Odinn S rensen released the source code of GoldED and Goldware Utilities 3.x under GNU General Public License version 2, and the Goldware Library under GNU Library General Public License version 2. A permission has also been given to link that all with software conforming with the Open Source Definition . The code of one of the libraries used by GoldED and GoldED , CXL, has been licensed by S rensen from its author, Mike Smedley. Since then the copyright has been taken over by Innovative Data Concepts , which, as S rensen suspected in 1998, has disappeared. ref license.txt from gps70503.tb2 ref This was one of the reasons for removing the goldedplus package from Debian repositories in 2006. ref http bugs.debian.org cgi bin bugreport.cgi?bug 334743 ref By 1999, all the developers of GoldED left FidoNet. GoldED Infobox Software name GoldED logo screenshot File Goldedplus 20060327 arealist.cfg.png 284px caption GoldED in area list mode collapsible author developer GoldED Team released Start date YYYY MM DD latest release version 1.1.4.7 latest release date ... was the most popular cross platform message editor in Russian speaking FidoNet. See also commonscat inline GoldED References reflist Category FidoNet software Category C software Category Cross platform ... more details
The Advanced Video Attribute Terminal Assembler and Recreator AVATAR protocol is a system of escape sequence s occasionally used on Bulletin Board System s BBSes . It has largely the same functionality as the more popular ANSI escape code s, but has the advantage that the escape sequences are much shorter. AVATAR can thus render colored text and ASCII art artwork much faster over slow connections. The protocol is defined by FidoNet technical standard proposal FSC 0025. ref http www.ftsc.org docs fsc 0025.001 FSC 0025 AVATAR proposal at FidoNet Technical Standards Committee ref Avatar was later extended in late 1989 to AVT 0 ref http www.ftsc.org docs fsc 0037.001 FSC 0037 AVT 0 extensions ref sometimes referred to as AVT 0 which included facilities to scroll areas of the screen useful for split screen chat, or full screen mail writing programs , as well as more advanced pattern compression. Avatar was originally implemented in the Opus BBS, but later popularised by RemoteAccess . RemoteAccess came with a utility, AVTCONV that allowed for easy translation of ANSI documents into Avatar helping its adoption. See also ANSI escape code ANSI art References reflist microcompu stub Category ASCII art Category Bulletin board systems Category FidoNet Category 1988 introductions ... more details
wiktionary Squish may refer to Squish FidoNet , a mail tossing application and mail storage format. Ogg Squish , an audio data compression audio compression codec. Squish, a minor alien character in the Lexx television series Squish piston engine , an effect in internal combustion engines, creating additional turbulence as the piston reaches top dead centre. disambig Category Onomatopoeias ru Squish ... more details
for FidoNet 1992 http catalisando.com infoetc 012.htm Article from the newspaper O Globo Rio de Janeiro, Brazil about the foundational meeting of FidoNet in that country May 20th, 1991, in Portuguese ... Kleinman, Pablo Category Bulletin board systems Category FidoNet Category American columnists Category ... more details
pcmicro was a large Bulletin Board System BBS support site from 1981 to 1998. Before the World Wide Web became popular, the pcmicro BBS served as a central file repository for all non commercial BBS software and related utilities. The BBS was a FidoNet nenber from 1991 1997, and was a support and distribution site for several shareware and freeware BBS packages including RemoteAccess , Proboard, and EleBBS. pcmicro later released a telnet communications driver named NetFoss which allows DOS based BBS software to be used over telnet. While the BBS is no longer in service today its entire collection of freeware and shareware BBS software and utilities can be found on the BBS Archives at http archives.thebbs.org. Containing thousands of third party add ons for BBS packages. See also List of BBS software FidoNet Category DOS on IBM PC compatibles de Mailbox Computer ... more details
HPT could refer to Hampton Municipal Airport , Iowa , United States IATA airport code HPT. Hardware port trunking Hazard Perception Test, a component of the United Kingdom driving test Heartland Park Topeka Hexapod Telescope High Performance Teams High Point Amtrak station , North Carolina , United States Amtrak station code HPT. HPT Fidonet High Portable Tosser for Fidonet Technology Network High Pressure Test High pressure turbine High pressure turbocharged High er Payoff Target Pregnancy test Home Pregnancy Test Hopton Heath railway station , England National Rail station code HPT. Hospet Junction , India Indian Railways station code HPT. Hospitality Properties Trust NYSE symbol HPT. T Hrvatski Telekom Hrvatska po ta i telekomunikacije Hypothalamic pituitary thyroid axis HPT axis Human Performance Technology Hyde Park Theatre Hypertension , a common medical abbreviation meaning high blood pressure. Hyperparathyroidism , an overactivity of the parathyroid glands causing an excess of parathyroid hormone. disambig de HPT it HPT ja HPT ... more details
for other uses of the term Fossil disambiguation FOSSIL is a standard protocol for allowing Serial communications serial communication for telecommunication s programs under the DOS operating system . FOSSIL is an acronym for Fido Opus SEAdog Standard Interface Layer . Fido refers to FidoBBS , Opus refers to Opus CBCS BBS, and SEAdog refers to a Fidonet compatible mailer. The standards document that defines the FOSSIL protocol is maintained by the Fidonet Technical Standards Committee. ref http www.ftsc.org docs fsc 0015.001 FSC 0015 FOSSIL implementation and use, Fidonet Technical Standards Committee ref A FOSSIL driver is simply a communications device driver . They exist because in the early days of Fidonet, computer hardware was very diverse and there were no standards on how software was to communicate with the serial interface hardware. ref http www.ddj.com cpp 184403026 Dr. Dobb s Interfacing to a FOSSIL Communication Driver, Dr. Dobb s Journal ref Initial development of FidoBBS only worked on a specific type of machine. Before FidoBBS could start spreading, it was seen that a uniform method of communicating with serial interface hardware was needed if the software was going to be used on other machines. This need was also apparent for other communications based software. The FOSSIL specification was born in 1986 ref http sysopworld.com bbsfaq ch06.09.htm SysopWorld The History of FOSSIL Drivers, The Official BBS FAQ ref so as to provide this uniform method. Software using the FOSSIL standard could communicate using the same interrupt functions no matter what hardware it was running on. This enabled the developers to concentrate on the application and not the interface to the hardware. FOSSIL drivers are specific to the hardware they operate on because each is written to fit specifically to the serial interface hardware of that platform. FOSSIL drivers became more well known with the spread of IBM PC compatible machines. These machines ran some form of DOS Di ... more details
CBCS may refer to Consortium of Bangsamoro Civil Society , a network of Moro civil society organizations in Mindanao. CBCS FM , a radio station 99.9 FM licensed to Sudbury, Ontario, Canada CBCS TV 1, a television station channel 8 licensed to Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada, rebroadcasting CKSA TV Lloydminster Chevaliers Beneficient De La Cit Saint , one of the three schools of Martinism Chinese Bible Church of Springfield , a non denominational Christian church Opus CBCS , a Fidonet Bulletin Board system disambig Category Broadcast call sign disambiguation pages ... more details
wiktionary wazoo Wazoo may refer to Wazoo album Wazoo album , 2007 live album by Frank Zappa The Grand Wazoo , 1972 album by Frank Zappa Wazoo candy , candy bar made by Topps incorporated WaZOO Warp Zillion Opus to Opus , the session layer protocol for Fidonet Wazoo, Alabama, the fictional town setting for the movie My Cousin Vinny Wazoo Sports Network , a local sports channel serving Kentucky and southern Indiana Washington State University WSU , nicknamed Wazoo Wazzu Slang for anus See also Wazzo WAZU , a radio station call sign in the midwestern United States disambig ... more details
FTN can refer to WP FTN , Wikipedia Fringe theories Noticeboard Ftn , a defunct British television station Serbian acronym for Faculty of Technical Sciences F akultet t ehni kih n auka in Novi Sad and in Kosovska Mitrovica. FTN Financial is a subsidiary company of First Horizon National Corporation Face the Nation , a US television programme FidoNet Technology Network, technology used by Fido and Fido based networks Fratton railway station , Portsmouth, England National Rail station code FTN Fulton Amtrak station , Kentucky, United States Amtrak station code FTN disambig ... more details
Orphan date September 2008 ComLink, Germany is one of the earlier organizations involved in building networks for online communication of the alternative sector in Germany . According to an essay titled http www.gn.apc.org anniversary fido.html In the beginning there was FIDO , Fidonet gateways were installed at WebNetworks Canada , IGC Disambiguation needed date June 2011 USA , GreenNet UK , Laneta Mexico , Comlink Germany , Nordnet Sweden and Worknet Sangonet South Africa . External links http www.comlink.org ComLink in German nongov org stub Category Non profit organisations based in Germany Category Information technology organisations ... more details
TCL, The Common Link , was a Swedish bulletin board system BBS system developed by Ulf Hedlund in the late 1980 s. It was based on the capabilities of the KOM BBS KOM conferencing system used at many Swedish universities, and distinguished itself from the other major FidoNet BBS systems at the time by its support for topic threading and its non hierarchical command interface. It used a Btrieve database for information storage. There were only about 30 TCL BBS s in Sweden and only one outside the country. http www.plex86.org Computer Folklore Change in computers as a hobbiest... 2846.html About the KOM system Sweden stub DEFAULTSORT Common Link Category Bulletin board systems ... more details
Tom Jennings or Thomas Jennings may refer to Tom Jennings born 1955 , American founder of FidoNet, a message and file system for computer bulletin board systems BBSes Tom Jennings pool player , American winner of the 1976 and 1977 US Open 14.1 Pocket Billiards Championships Tom Jennings footballer 1902 1973 , a Scottish football soccer player Thomas L. Jennings 1791 1856 , a leading American abolitionist Thomas Walter Jennings born 1917 , English founder of the Jennings Organ Company, which later became Vox, an important manufacturer of guitar amplifiers Hndis Jennings, Tom sv Tom Jennings ... more details
pods Structure Similarly to FidoNet, PODSnet was organized into Zones, Regions, Networks, Nodes and Points however, unlike FidoNet, these were not geographically determined, as the individual SysOp ... projects, FidoNet grew rapidly, and then forked . The addition of Zones to the Fidonet technology ... more details
Inappropriate tone date December 2007 refimprove date November 2008 The Opus Computer Based Conversation System was a Fidonet Bulletin Board System . Originally developed by Wynn Wagner III in 1985 ref http www.bbsdocumentary.com software IBM DOS OPUS opushist.html ref , Opus was one of the leading Bulletin Board System s during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Opus was a community effort with Wagner working as the architect and core developer. Many Opus SysOps contributed to the source code over the years. Opus CBCS software licensing was never sold for profit. Instead, users were asked to donate money to an HIV AIDS charity in their hometown. Although the software was serious, the developers were rarely solemn. The first two help sites were located in Dallas, Texas, USA and in Amsterdam, Holland. The site in Dallas was called Opus Info HERE. The site in Europe was dubbed Opus Info THERE. When an Opus CBCS system was transmitting files and mail to another system, the modem TRANSMIT light stayed on meaning there was no dead time on the line . After the Russian revolution overthrowing the communist government, Wagner was told that his communications software was used because it was the only software that could get data through the problems of the phone system in the Soviet Union. Opus was one of the BBS system featured in The BBS Documentary . Project developers Wynn Wagner III Trev Roydhouse Doug Boone George Stanislav Jon Morby References Reflist Category FidoNet Category Bulletin board system software network software stub ... more details
previously cleaned version can be found in the edit history. wiktionary Fido fido Fido may refer to In music Fido band , a punk rock band from Melbourne, Australia Fido, one half of Alexis & Fido , a reggaeton duo In businesses Fido Solutions , a Canadian cellular provider Fido.net , an Internet service provider In ordnance Mark 24 Mine or Fido, a torpedo used by the USA in WWII Fido Explosives Detector , a portable explosives detector In other uses Fido dog , a famous dog and symbol of loyalty Fido film Fido film , a Canadian comedy about a zombie named Fido See also Fido Dido , a cartoon character associated with the soft drink 7 Up FidoNet , non commercial computer network For articles by this name written with all capital letters, see FIDO disambiguation disambiguation de FIDO fr Fido it Fido nl Fido ru sv Fido ... more details
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