From errors@megalith.miami.fl.us Thu Aug 18 05:28:12 1994 Received: from relay2.UU.NET by toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu (4.1/UCD.CS.2.5) id AA23740; Thu, 18 Aug 94 05:25:19 PDT Received: from uucp5.UU.NET by relay2.UU.NET with SMTP id QQxdmf24186; Thu, 18 Aug 1994 08:25:07 -0400 Received: from megalith.UUCP by uucp5.UU.NET with UUCP/RMAIL ; Thu, 18 Aug 1994 08:25:08 -0400 Received: by megalith.miami.fl.us (AmigaSmail3.12 for ) id <0dub@megalith.miami.fl.us>; Thu, 18 Aug 1994 02:58:00 -0400 (EDT) Sender: overlord@megalith.miami.fl.us Errors-To: errors@megalith.miami.fl.us Warnings-To: errors@megalith.miami.fl.us Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: announce@cs.ucdavis.edu (CSAA-Submissions) X-Newsgatesoftware: Amiga Newsgate V1.6 Reply-To: olk@johann.nbg.sub.org (Oliver Knorr) Message-Number: 908 Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.announce X-Newssoftware: CSAA NMS 1.2 From: olk@johann.nbg.sub.org (Oliver Knorr) (CSAA) Subject: (CSAA) Universal Message System 10.9 Message-Id: Date: Thu, 18 Aug 1994 02:58:25 -0400 Status: RO TITLE Universal Message System, Public Release VERSION This is Release 10.9 of the UMS installation package. AUTHOR This package contains software from many different authors. Take a look at the various documentation files for further information. The installation package was originally put together by Kai Bolay and has been updated for 10.9 by Oliver Knorr (E-Mail: olk@johann.nbg.sub.org). 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 messagereaders 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"). NEW FEATURES 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. SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS AmigaOS >=V2.0, >=3 MB RAM, >=2 MB hd MUI (Magic User Interface, (c) by Stefan Stuntz) is needed if you want to use the IntuiNews messagereader. HOST NAME Any AMINET mirror, for example ftp.uni-erlangen.de. DIRECTORY /pub/aminet/comm/ums FILE NAMES UMS109_1.lha (Installation Disk 1, 625637 bytes) UMS109_2.lha (Installation Disk 2, 700184 bytes) DISTRIBUTABILITY Copyrighted, Freely Distributable, no fee -- Read all administrative posts before putting your post up. Mailing list: announce-request@cs.ucdavis.edu. Comments to CSAA@megalith.miami.fl.us. MAIL ALL COMP.SYS.AMIGA.ANNOUNCE ANNOUNCEMENTS TO announce@cs.ucdavis.edu. ============================================================================ This is part of a mailing list gateway maintained by Carlos Amezaga. Bugs & comments to CSAA@megalith.miami.fl.us. Subscribes, UnSubcribes, help and faq requests should be sent to announce-request@cs.ucdavis.edu.