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    From Gnickel@3:712/1321.3 to ALL on Sun Aug 30 16:54:00 2026
    I wrote a bluewave compaitlbe door dfor Wildcat BBS's, but had nothing to test bluewave with. So I wound up making a decent little reader. It's easy enough to use, and has a couple of features tyhata re nice, like actually viewing ANSI messages as they're supposed to look :)

    I have a beta version up at https://www.ems-bbs.com/public/bwreader.zip

    This will be FREEWARE. feel free to leave me a message here if you have questions.

    ... He likes me! He stole my tagline!
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  • From Sean Dennis@1:18/200 to Gnickel on Sun Aug 30 23:36:30 2026
    Hello Gnickel,

    30 Aug 26 16:54, you wrote to ALL:

    I have a beta version up at
    https://www.ems-bbs.com/public/bwreader.zip

    There is an excellent open-source offline mail reader called MultiMail that supports the QWK, QWKE, SOUP, and Blue Wave offline mail formats for DOS, OS/2, Win32/64, Linux, FreeBSD, and OS X at https://wmcbrine.com/MultiMail/.

    It's great you rolled your own but just wanted to let you know you don't need to reinvent the wheel -- unless you want to. :)

    -- Sean

    ... It is more comfortable to cry in a Corvette than on a bicycle.
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    * Origin: Outpost BBS * Johnson City, TN (1:18/200)
  • From Gnickel@3:712/1321.3 to Sean Dennis on Mon Aug 31 15:07:58 2026
    I know about multimail, but it lacks one thing i needed, viewing ansi in messages :)

    On 8/30/2026 8:36 PM, Sean Dennis wrote to Gnickel:

    @REPLY: 3:712/1321.3 5c1f9517
    @MSGID: 1:18/200@fidonet 6a94f792
    @CHRS: CP437 2
    @TZUTC: -0400
    @TID: MBSE-FIDO 1.1.7.2 (Linux-x86_64)
    Hello Gnickel,

    30 Aug 26 16:54, you wrote to ALL:

    I have a beta version up at
    https://www.ems-bbs.com/public/bwreader.zip

    There is an excellent open-source offline mail reader called MultiMail that supports the QWK, QWKE, SOUP, and Blue Wave offline mail formats for DOS, OS/2, Win32/64, Linux, FreeBSD, and OS X at https://wmcbrine.com/MultiMail/.

    It's great you rolled your own but just wanted to let you know you don't need
    to reinvent the wheel -- unless you want to. :)

    -- Sean

    ... It is more comfortable to cry in a Corvette than on a bicycle.
    --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20260304
    * Origin: Outpost BBS * Johnson City, TN (1:18/200)



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  • From Gnickel@3:712/1321.3 to all on Tue Sep 1 14:41:06 2026
    there are Linux and Windows exes available

    On 8/30/2026 4:54 PM, Gnickel wrote to ALL:

    I wrote a bluewave compaitlbe door dfor Wildcat BBS's, but had nothing to test bluewave with. So I
    wound up making a decent little reader. It's easy enough to use, and has a couple of features tyhata re
    nice, like actually viewing ANSI messages as they're supposed to look :)

    I have a beta version up at https://www.ems-bbs.com/public/bwreader.zip

    This will be FREEWARE. feel free to leave me a message here if you have questions.

    ... He likes me! He stole my tagline!


    --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v10.0gr18.1
    * Origin: EMS!BBS - FIDOnet - 3:712/1321 www.ems-bbs.com (3:712/1321.3)