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WWIV 5.0 was under development for many years and finishing is a significant milestone. Download WWIV 5.0: https://github.com/wwivbbs/wwiv/releases WWIV 5.0 Installation and Docs: http://wwivbbs.readthedocs.org/ Here are some of the great new things in WWIV 5.0 File Compatible with 4.30 & 4.31 Drop the WWIV 5.0 binaries into your 4.30 or 4.31 setup and fire up WWIV 5.0. WWIV 5.0 Telnet Server WWWIV 5.0 has a telnet server included to allow client access to WWIV 5.0. Internal Zmodem Support ZIP/UNZIP Support Included Networkb.exe - BINKP transport for WWIV networking is now part of the WWIV builds. Netutil.exe - Network packet and config file utility now included. Network.exe - shim to proxy between network0, networkp (PPP project) and networkb. New User Sign Up Notification (SSM) to SysOp. Source Code now hosted on GitHub https://github.com/wwivbbs/wwiv Compiled with MSVC 2015 Compiles and runs on Linux Door32.sys Support Syncfoss Support - Thanks to Rob Swindell FOSSIL can now be specified in WWIV.INI as a valid flag for spawn options. BBS.EXE -k command line to pack all message bases -k # # # will pack the massage bases with those IDs. New WWIV.INI Parameters EXEC_LOGSYNCFOSS = [ 1 | 0 ] - If non-zero then wwivsync.log will be generated. The default setting is 1 and this is currently ignored. EXEC_CHILDWAITTIME = (time to wait in milliseconds, this parameter is only used on Win9X unless EXEC_USEWAITFORIDLE is set to 0. The default value is 500 (1/2 second). NEW_SCAN_AT_LOGIN= [Y|N] - If Y when a user logs in they will be asked to scan all message areas for new messages. TEMP_DIRECTORY = temp%n - The name of the Temp directory relative to the wwiv root directory. %n specifies the instance number. BATCH_DIRECTORY = batch%n - The name of the Batch directory relative to the wwiv root directory. %n specifies the instance number. NUM_INSTANCES = 4 - The Number of Instances to allow. NOTE: Directories are created on demand by the bbs on startup and config.ovr will be created by legacy tools when you run init. NO_NEWUSER_FEEDBACK = [Y|N] - If set to Y no newuser messages will be sent at all. 2 new pipe color codes: |# as an alternative to the "heart" codes |@ as an alternative to ^O^O Existing pipe codes are: |B, and |<2 digit code> for foreground colors. WWIV Message Editor Commands '/A' - Abort Message '/H' & '/?' - Help !!! Many Bug fixes !!! What has been deprecated in WWIV 5.0? Windows XP No Longer supported Support for Modems has been removed SPAWNOPT[FSED] is now unused and no longer supported ======================================================================= WWIV and WWIVNet Update From The New NC By Weatherman 1@1 As many know, lots of things have been happening with WWIV BBS and WWIVnet over the past few years. When Weather Station BBS came back online as a virtual machine around three years ago, the only networks that were available were FTN based. About 7-8 months later, I was approached by Eli Sanford to join WWIVSN (the early beginnings of the resurrected WWIVnet). Eli spent lots of time helping others and leading the path so that we could have a functional WWIV network like years ago. On a very sad day (October 26, 2015), our WWIVnet leader Eli Sanford passed from leukemia. We were in shock and upset from the news. A few weeks went by as we were mourning the loss of Eli and then later, figuring out plans to keep WWIVnet alive. We agreed to meet in the WWIV chat room on Monday evening to decide how to move forward. The first item of business was determining the new @1 node for WWIVnet. Rushfan suggested myself and the rest of the group was on-board with that change. I was very humbled by the votes of support and encouragement. It has been my passion to keep WWIV and WWIVnet alive in the most resiliant way possible. My hardware setup is robust for a home environment and offers a good deal redundancy. I will always do my best to make sure WWIVnet is running the best way possible. That same night, we decided to make a historic change for WWIVnet. We switched the entire network from using WINS (PPP Project) to NetworkB (BinkP) written by Rushfan. Given the magnatude of changes that we made that night, I think it went fantastic! We have been running completely using BinkP for WWIVnet ever since. It has proved to be a major step forward! I can't thank Rushfan enough for writing that program, as that was a HUGE step forward! In more recent news, we now have the ability to send out network updates using NetUp just like the legacy WWIVnet. WSS provided a new version of NetUp for WWIVnet which has been working perfectly sending out network updates, subs listings, and even this WWIVnet news. This brings us back to the functionality that we had with the legacy WWIVnet. It has been well over a decade since this was possible. I am completely honored to be a part of such an excellent group of people that have done so much for WWIV and WWIVnet in the past few years. Highlighting the past few months as just nothing short of incredible with the move to NetworkB (BinkP). That was as huge of a change for WWIVnet as when we started moving network packets using Frank Reid's PPP Project (SMTP). This has been a very fun road for our hobby and I'm very excited for what the future holds. I'm sure as more people discover our milestones, additional people will re-connect and join our fantastic group. We will also not forget Eli and all the hard work he did to start the WWIVnet comeback. Here is a toast to the bright future of WWIV and WWIVnet! - Weatherman (Mark) 1@1.WWIVnet ======================================================================= WWIV 5.1 Release Goals By Rushfan 1@514 Main Themes ~~~~~~~~~~~ Messages and WWIVNet have always been at the heart of WWIV. For 5.1, I plan on modernizing and improving the internal code quality of the messaging code, making it easier to embed into new tools. Included in this will be support for the JAM Message Base format to broaden the range of tools available for exposing message bases. More on JAM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAM_Message_Base_Format Net38 will be finalized [currently Beta 6] and released supporting any new changes to get WWIVNet functioning in the Internet era. See all of the work targeted to Milestone 5.1 on GitHub: http://git.io/vRrOM ======================================================================= WWIV Links and Information WWIC 5.0 Team Site http://www.wwivbbs.org WWIV BBS List http://wwivbbs.rtfd.org/en/latest/WWIV_BBS_list WWIV 5.0 Documentation http://wwivbbs.readthedocs.org WWIVNews Archive http://wwivbbs.rtfd.org/en/latest/WWIVNews WWIV IRC irc://irc.ospreynet.info:6667/wwiv ======================================================================= .