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MsgEd TE is a message reader and editor software for Fidonet (and compatible) network(s), supporting Squish, Hudson, Jam and Fido *.MSG message bases. This program is released to the public domain. There are absolutely no usage or distribution restrictions. This is truely free software.
MsgEd TE emerged from MsgEd, a public domain fidonet message reader initially written by Jim Nutt and thereafter maintained by numerous people (among them Paul Edwards, Andrew Clarke, and Kim Lykkegaard). MsgEd TE is being developed by Tobias Ernst. You can reach me at 2:2476/418 or via e-mail at tobi@bland.fido.de.
MsgEd TE tries to support a vast number ooperating system platforms by employing portable software design techniques. It is my policy to release executables and source code at the same time for all supported platforms, among them OS/2, Unix (Linux and FreeBSD as well as commercial Unix systems), Windows NT, 16- and 32-bit DOS.
MsgEd TE is developed with the GNU C compiler and GNU boundary checking, which assures high program stability.
MsgEd TE formerly was an alternative branch to the main Msged development line, which was evolving into a slightly different direction, but as that main development line seems to have ceased, you can now consider MsgEd TE to be the most recent version of Msged. Since then, most of the features of the last incarnation of the main Msged development line, Msged 4.30, have been incorporated into MsgEd TE.
If you like MsgEd TE and start to use it as your everyday Fidonet editor, please drop me a note saying that you do so at `Tobias Ernst 2:2476/418' or at `tobi@bland.fido.de'. I originally started to work on MsgEd TE to create a Fidonet editor that fulfilled some special personal needs of mine. Since then, things evolved and I saw myself doing a lot of work that I would not have done just for my own needs. Writing this documentation is one such example, porting to Windows NT another. If I continue to do this work in the future and add new features to MsgEd TE will strongly depend on how much feedback I receive from users that like and use MsgEd TE. Therefore: Don't be shy - drop me a mail. :-)
At this place, I also would like to express my thankfulness to all people that helped making MsgEd TE what it is now, that being all the developers that haved worked on the Msged sources in the past, the Husky developers, and all the beta testers that used the Pre-Release of MsgEd TE 6.0.
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