Hi all! I was wondering if I was the only one actively fooling with SearchLight anymore these days and still connected to FidoNet?

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On 05/12/16, Robert Wolfe said the following...

Hi all! I was wondering if I was the only one actively fooling with SearchLight anymore these days and still connected to FidoNet?

You might very well be. I haven't seen a searchlight system in years.

Ttyl :-),
Al

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On 05/12/16, Robert Wolfe said the following...

Hi all! I was wondering if I was the only one actively fooling w SearchLight anymore these days and still connected to FidoNet?

You might very well be. I haven't seen a searchlight system in years.

There is one parked at slbbs.winserver.org :)

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On 12 May 16 13:55:00, Robert Wolfe said the following to All:

Hi all! I was wondering if I was the only one actively fooling with SearchLight anymore these days and still connected to FidoNet?

I was a huge fan of Searchlight and wrote a few utilities for it, to very tightly integrate D'Bridge with the system,

Nick

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Hi all! I was wondering if I was the only one actively fooling with SearchLight anymore these days and still connected to FidoNet?

I still have my original Searchlight hard bound manual.
What would it take to run Serchlight on Windows 10 32 bit?

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Hi all! I was wondering if I was the only one actively fooling with
SearchLight anymore these days and still connected to FidoNet?

I was a huge fan of Searchlight and wrote a few utilities for it, to very >tightly integrate D'Bridge with the system,

Yeah, it's a pretty decent package :) SL and DB that is :) Granted I have never had a chance to use DB.

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Hi all! I was wondering if I was the only one actively fooling with SearchLight anymore these days and still connected to FidoNet?

I still have my original Searchlight hard bound manual.
What would it take to run Serchlight on Windows 10 32 bit?

NetFossil and Net2BBS, which is what I run here :)

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ROBERT WOLFE (1:116/17.0) wrote to ALL <=-

Hi all! I was wondering if I was the only one actively fooling with SearchLight anymore these days and still connected to FidoNet?

Maybe because Telegraphix ruined Searchlight there is not that many people using it.

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Hi all! I was wondering if I was the only one actively fooling with SearchLight anymore these days and still connected to FidoNet?

Maybe because Telegraphix ruined Searchlight there is not that many people using it.

Wasn't searchlight the guys who developed RIP or was it NAPLIPS (not
sure on that one)

Allen
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Re: Re: SearchLight
By: Allen Prunty to Matt Munson on Wed May 18 2016 10:30 pm

Hi all! I was wondering if I was the only one actively fooling with SearchLight anymore these days and still connected to FidoNet?

Maybe because Telegraphix ruined Searchlight there is not that many people using it.

Wasn't searchlight the guys who developed RIP or was it NAPLIPS (not
sure on that one)

The same guy (Pat Clawson) that *bought* the RIPscrip software (didn't develop it) then later bought SearchLight BBS software (from a very nice guy, Frank LaRosa). Pat is a pretty universally disliked guy in the BBS community, however.

digital man

Synchronet/BBS Terminology Definition #23:
FTSC = FidoNet Technical Standards Committee
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Maybe because Telegraphix ruined Searchlight there is not that many people
using it.

Wasn't searchlight the guys who developed RIP or was it NAPLIPS (not
sure on that one)

Telegrafix developed RIP, not Frank LaRosa (former SearchLight author).
And the other protocol you are talking about is NAPLPS, which was partly developed by Prodigy (wow, if I remember Prodigy, then I _AM_ old
*msiles*) and used by BBS packages such as TurBoard.
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Wasn't searchlight the guys who developed RIP or was it NAPLIPS (not
sure on that one)

The same guy (Pat Clawson) that *bought* the RIPscrip software (didn't develop
it) then later bought SearchLight BBS software (from a very nice guy, Frank RS>LaRosa). Pat is a pretty universally disliked guy in the BBS community, RS>however.

I stand corrected on my previous post :)
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Re: SearchLight
By: Robert Wolfe to All on Thu May 12 2016 01:55 pm

Hi all! I was wondering if I was the only one actively fooling with SearchLight anymore these days and still connected to FidoNet?

I keep meaning to. The first BBS I co-sysoped was Just Say Yes in San Francisco, CA - one of the founders of NirvanaNet. I loved the interface, felt like it was "Just Enough" on both the back end and the front end and liked the way it felt. The sysop ran a light-bar interface, don't know if that was stock but it was a big part of why I liked the board so much.

I wonder if it would run on a Raspberry Pi + DOSBOX?
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I wonder if it would run on a Raspberry Pi + DOSBOX?

The DOS version probably would, yeah.

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Hello Matt!

In a message to All <05/15/20> Matt Munson wrote:

Hi all! I was wondering if I was the only one actively fooling with RW(>> SearchLight anymore these days and still connected to FidoNet?

Maybe because Telegraphix ruined Searchlight there is not
that many people using it.

Could be.
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Matt,

Maybe because Telegraphix ruined Searchlight there is not that many people MM>using it.

And, because Telegraphix, who pioneered RIP Graphics, went out of
business over 20 years ago.

Daryl

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Daryl Stout wrote to MATT MUNSON <=-

And, because Telegraphix, who pioneered RIP Graphics, went out of business over 20 years ago.

If Clawson hadn't been such a dumbass, RIP might have taken off, but the Web beat him to it.

If wishes were dollars...

--Sean

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Sean,

And, because Telegraphix, who pioneered RIP Graphics, went out of business over 20 years ago.

If Clawson hadn't been such a dumbass, RIP might have taken off, but the Web SD>beat him to it.

I still have the DeadPaint program (which I was able to register
before support disappeared), but as one former area Sysop noted "I
thought RIP was what you did to a fart". <G>

Speaking of which, July is National Baked Bean Month... :P

If wishes were dollars...

We'd be rich. <G>

Daryl

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I still have the DeadPaint program (which I was able to register
before support disappeared)

I have RIPaint v2.1 running past the 1/15/98 demo expiration date
which suprised me. Sill looking for a registered Deadpaint and Tombstone Artist. Having alot of fun running Searchlight. I cant get the auto
download icons function to work right though, so i just code the sound files and icons and jpegs directly into my rip screens and have all those
available for download seperately or in 1 zip. Callers are using RIPtel
to call in with.

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Sean Dennis spoke thus to Daryl Stout <=-

Daryl Stout wrote to MATT MUNSON <=-

And, because Telegraphix, who pioneered RIP Graphics, went out of business over 20 years ago.

If Clawson hadn't been such a dumbass, RIP might have taken off, but
the Web beat him to it.

Yep, and he ruined a couple nice BBS systems in the process too. :(

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On Jun 08, 2016 01:27am, Gaylen Hintz wrote to Sean Dennis:

If Clawson hadn't been such a dumbass, RIP might have taken off, but
the Web beat him to it.

Yep, and he ruined a couple nice BBS systems in the process too. :(

The money that was spent to license RIP and develop it into other BBS softwares was like a cancer that helped speed the demise of some authors. Sad days... Clawson did nothing but hasten the demise of a lot of systems... Far as I am concerned R.I.P. RIP.

Allen

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Allen Prunty spoke thus to Gaylen Hintz <=-

AP> The money that was spent to license RIP and develop it into other BBS

softwares was like a cancer that helped speed the demise of some

Indeed

authors. Sad days... Clawson did nothing but hasten the demise of a
lot of systems... Far as I am concerned R.I.P. RIP.

Well, it's been dead for some time but I see where there have been some developments on that front. I think there is even a telnet client that supports RIP and that would be a nice thing to get going again. Just my
2 cents. :)

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Same reason Proboard went in the trash.

Captain Obvious * bbs.shadowscope.com http://shadowscope.com <=-

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On 01 Jul 16 18:58:18, Richard Miles said the following to Matt Munson:

Same reason Proboard went in the trash.

Uhh... drag from trash to C drive?

Nick

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Hi all!

I was wondering if anyone else participating in the echo was using
SearchLight as well and if so, how do you have your netmail conference set
up as I am having an issue getting that set up as ViaMail!/SL wants to use
the MAIL board for netmail.

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On 03 Apr 18 11:22:00, Robert Wolfe said the following to All:

I was wondering if anyone else participating in the echo was using SearchLight as well and if so, how do you have your netmail conference set up as I am having an issue getting that set up as ViaMail!/SL wants to use the MAIL board for netmail.

From what I remember, you need to run a utility to make the message databases non-Y2K, then import the Netmail, then run the utility again to make them
Y2K. Netmail can only be imported in *.MSG format.

I have the files here... somewhere.

Nick

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On 04/03/18, Nick Andre said the following...

On 03 Apr 18 11:22:00, Robert Wolfe said the following to All:

I was wondering if anyone else participating in the echo was using SearchLight as well and if so, how do you have your netmail conference up as I am having an issue getting that set up as ViaMail!/SL wants to the MAIL board for netmail.

From what I remember, you need to run a utility to make the message databases non-Y2K, then import the Netmail, then run the utility again
to make them Y2K. Netmail can only be imported in *.MSG format.

But, I think that is only if SLMAIL was being used, in this case, it is not.

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On 04/03/18, Nick Andre said the following...

On 03 Apr 18 11:22:00, Robert Wolfe said the following to All:

I was wondering if anyone else participating in the echo was SearchLight as well and if so, how do you have your netmail c
up as I am having an issue getting that set up as ViaMail!/SL
the MAIL board for netmail.

From what I remember, you need to run a utility to make the messa databases non-Y2K, then import the Netmail, then run the utility
to make them Y2K. Netmail can only be imported in *.MSG format.

But, I think that is only if SLMAIL was being used, in this case, it
is not.

That is correct. SLMAIL was never updated to be y2k compliant. This
viamail has now become interesting and quick google searches didn't find
much on it. Do you have it on your board? I tried the addr in the tag
line, but that went to a wildcat board with no File access on first call.

I was working with a guy back in the 95-97 timeframe for something better
than SLMail for Searchlight, but not sure what ever became of that
project since I moved across the country and shut down the BBS in 97.
SLMail was always a pain. Frank never thought much of the FTN networks,
so really didn't put in the effort to make it work well and Pat's sole
purpose was to sell more RIP tools, so SLMail remains the bane of my
existance. :) I would like to checkout that software and see if there's
a good mail solution in there,

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Russell Wiley wrote to Warp 4 <=-

That is correct. SLMAIL was never updated to be y2k compliant. This viamail has now become interesting and quick google searches didn't
find much on it. Do you have it on your board? I tried the addr in
the tag line, but that went to a wildcat board with no File access on first call.

No, it's not on my board, but if you want, I can put it up on my web server
so that you can download it. My main Wildcat! system, I think, is way
over due to an overhaul. You should have gotten full access on the first
call (I've upgraded your access anyway).

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Russell Wiley wrote to Warp 4 <=-

That is correct. SLMAIL was never updated to be y2k compliant. viamail has now become interesting and quick google searches didn
find much on it. Do you have it on your board? I tried the addr
the tag line, but that went to a wildcat board with no File acces first call.

No, it's not on my board, but if you want, I can put it up on my web
server so that you can download it. My main Wildcat! system, I
think, is way over due to an overhaul. You should have gotten full
access on the first call (I've upgraded your access anyway).

Yes, I'd definitely like to check it out and see how/if we can
incorporate it into the system. Right now I'm kind of at a stand-still
with Searchlight till I get a box for it. We have it running in DOSEMU
on a Linux system and it's so full of buggy components that it's not
practical to keep trying to make it work in that environment, so going to
have to give it it's own box. That should give plenty of time to check
out viamail and see if it's a viable option.

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You should have gotten full
access on the first call (I've upgraded your access anyway).

I tried logging in again, but the system didn't recognize I was even in
the userbase. :( I elected to not sign up for a new acct again in case something was a miss there.

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No, it's not on my board, but if you want, I can put it up on my web
server so that you can download it. My main Wildcat! system, I
think, is way over due to an overhaul. You should have gotten full access on the first call (I've upgraded your access anyway).

Yes, I'd definitely like to check it out and see how/if we
can
incorporate it into the system. Right now I'm kind of at a
stand-still
with Searchlight till I get a box for it. We have it

What version of SearchLight are you running?


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No, it's not on my board, but if you want, I can put it up on m
server so that you can download it. My main Wildcat! system, I think, is way over due to an overhaul. You should have gotten f access on the first call (I've upgraded your access anyway).

Yes, I'd definitely like to check it out and see how/if we
can
incorporate it into the system. Right now I'm kind of at a
stand-still
with Searchlight till I get a box for it. We have it

What version of SearchLight are you running?

5.1 beta. Really the only way to go at the moment for Telnet and utilize
a fossil.

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That is correct. SLMAIL was never updated to be y2k compliant. This
viamail has now become interesting and quick google searches didn't find
much on it. Do you have it on your board? I tried the addr in the tag
line, but that went to a wildcat board with no File access on first call.

I was working with a guy back in the 95-97 timeframe for something better >than SLMail for Searchlight, but not sure what ever became of that
project since I moved across the country and shut down the BBS in 97.
SLMail was always a pain. Frank never thought much of the FTN networks,
so really didn't put in the effort to make it work well and Pat's sole >purpose was to sell more RIP tools, so SLMail remains the bane of my >existance. :) I would like to checkout that software and see if there's
a good mail solution in there,

Do you still need this? If so, drop me a line at robert.wolfe@robertwolfe.o
rg and I will do my best to get a copy of it to you.

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