Short: Universal Message System 10.9 Disk 1 Author: various Uploader: olk johann nbg sub org (Oliver Knorr) Type: comm/ums Architecture: m68k-amigaos TITLE Universal Message System, Public Release VERSION This is Release 10.9 of the UMS distribution. About 20 of the included packages have been updated since 10.8 and a couple of bugs in the installer script have been fixed. IMPORTANT: There are still a few updates and new packages that did not make it into this release! Most important, the included Maus and Z-Netz drivers are *not* the current releases. You have to get and install these separately. Sorry for the inconvenience. DESCRIPTION The Universal Message System (short "UMS") is a system for managing all kinds of messages ('e-mail' and 'news') as universally and efficiently as possible. It uses its own, network-independent format, thus allowing the user, the 'newsreader'- and tool-programs to read and treat messages from different networks in a unified way. Special programs called 'importers' and 'exporters' deal with the specific formats of all these networks. In this release importers/exporters are supplied for QWK, UUCP, FidoNet, Mausnet (German) and Z-Net (German) as well as for a proprietary format. UMS supports multiple users and manages individual access-rights for each user. UMS provides a common interface ("ums.library") for access to the message-base, which is used by all programs dealing with UMS. Developer-material for using UMS in Amiga-Oberon, ARexx, C and Modula-2 is included in this package. Also included: - all binaries and tools needed for the central data-base - two 'newsreaders' for reading and writing news and mail. One very nice and intuitive one (needs MUI), and one "not-so- intuitive" one that works on every Amiga- or VT100-console. - many tools that are useful and/or intructive in how to use UMS and write other tools. - an Installer ((c) Commodore-Amiga, Inc.) script to install UMS with any of the above networks in a simple setup (i.e. a "point"- or "leaf"-node). SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS AmigaDOS >=V2.0, >=3 MB RAM, >=2 MB hd MUI (Magic User Interface, (c) by Stefan Stuntz) recommended (but not needed) a modem (:-) DISTRIBUTABILITY Copyrighted, Freely Distributable, no fee