Greetings All!

After many months of searching, I've finally found a copy of APoint:

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APoint v1.25, English version
Freeware point program for Win 9x/ME/NT/
2000/XP. Complete package containing
EMSI mailer, tosser, mail reader, online
help, nodelist/nodediff support, TAPI
and CAPI 2.0 support, easy installation
and areafix handling.
Package includes news reader and eMail
client.
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After doing a *very* quick install, it appears to run on Win10(64-Bit) without any problems so far.

However, it *needs* the binkD plugin to add TCP/IP functionality and
I've found that too. It came with a very old version of binkD(0.9.4),
so I've replaced it with v1.1a-99. I've also tweaked the provided
binkD config file and the provided batch file which bolts it all
together and repacked the archive.

Head on over to https://stargate.org.uk/apoint to grab your copies.

Regards,
Martin

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Hello Martin!

** 13.04.19 - 13:52, Martin Foster wrote to All:

After many months of searching, I've finally found a copy of APoint:

I remember using a feature over the internet (via email) that would scour through known archives for a file query and report back in email.

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APoint v1.25, English version

After doing a *very* quick install, it appears to run on Win10(64-Bit) without any problems so far.

I did a quick test in my Win7 64-bit. The setup just need to Run as Admin. Appears to run ok too. It looks a bit different from the APoint I thought
I used in the past.

However, it *needs* the binkD plugin to add TCP/IP functionality and
I've found that too. It came with a very old version of binkD(0.9.4),
so I've replaced it with v1.1a-99. I've also tweaked the provided
binkD config file and the provided batch file which bolts it all
together and repacked the archive.

Thanks for doing that. I will have to give this baby a test run shortly. Meanwhile, is there any reason why you left the following commented out:

# TCP settings. Leave these unchanged if not sure.
#
#iport binkp
#oport binkp
#oblksize 4096
#timeout 60
#connect-timeout 300

Don't they need to be uncommented to operate?


../|ug

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On 2019 Apr 13 18:29:00, you wrote to Martin Foster:

Thanks for doing that. I will have to give this baby a test run shortly. Meanwhile, is there any reason why you left the following commented out:

# TCP settings. Leave these unchanged if not sure.
#
#iport binkp
#oport binkp
#oblksize 4096
#timeout 60
#connect-timeout 300

nope... it'll use the defaults, which those are, IIRC...

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Hello August!

On 13.04.19 at 18:29, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:

[snip]

However, it *needs* the binkD plugin to add TCP/IP functionality and
I've found that too. It came with a very old version of binkD(0.9.4),
so I've replaced it with v1.1a-99. I've also tweaked the provided
binkD config file and the provided batch file which bolts it all
together and repacked the archive.

Thanks for doing that. I will have to give this baby a test run shortly. Meanwhile, is there any reason why you left the following commented out:

Yes :)

# TCP settings. Leave these unchanged if not sure.
#
#iport binkp
#oport binkp
#oblksize 4096
#timeout 60
#connect-timeout 300

Don't they need to be uncommented to operate?

Methinks Mark has already answered that :)

Regards,
Martin

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On 14/04/2019 4:32 a.m., Martin Foster : August Abolins wrote:

 AA> # TCP settings. Leave these unchanged if not sure.
 AA> #
 AA> #iport binkp
 AA> #oport binkp
 AA> #oblksize 4096
 AA> #timeout 60
 AA> #connect-timeout 300

 AA> Don't they need to be uncommented to operate?

Methinks Mark has already answered that :)

I shouldn't have second-guessed you. You are generally very thorough with instructions. I should have expected that you made no errors in the customized
support files. Thanks.

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