UMS109_2

Short:        Universal Message System 10.9 Disk 2
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