From: aa302@Freenet.carleton.ca (Russell McOrmond)
Subject: Fixed Welmat archive on aminet, XPR enhancements
Reply-To: aa302@Freenet.carleton.ca (Russell McOrmond)
Organization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 20:35:14 GMT



  In the last little while I have gotten a lot of people mentioning about
a welmat archive available on wuarchive called 'WLMT4714.LHA'.  I have
sent up a correction to this file that was sent out by someone else with
the original filename of 'WLMT4714.LZH'.  This file was sent to amiga.physik
and should be available on the mirrors at this point.

  I also sent up a file called welmattools47.lzh which is an update to the
WNotify, Login, and other tools for use with Welmat 0.47.

  While the above files are fairly old, these are unfortunately the latest
public versions of Welmat.  Quite a bit of work is being done on the next
version of Welmat, but since it is VERY different in how it works than the
old version, a completely new manual needs to be written.  As I have not
had time to even begin to write the new manual, I have not made any beta's
available to those not regularly participating in the 'Fidonet'
backbone conference WELMAT.

  With the number of inquiries about various tools from people not connected
to the WELMAT conference, I have started to look into setting up an
internet mailing list, and if it builds possibly creating an
'alt.sys.amiga.welmat' newsgroup.  If you are interested in information
about Welmat or WelmatTS, please send me a note.  Please also give me a
bit of information about yourself so that I will know which phase of
development that you would like to get involved in.  Current beta's of Welmat
require a bit of programming knowledge in order to write a configuration
script in a language called WPL (Welmat Programming Language).  Those
with AREXX programming experience are probably going to have no problem
with this language.  There will also be 'GUI' based configuration editors
that will generate these 'WPL' scripts automatically for those users
(An estimated 90% I would think) not interested in programming in WPL
will be able to use this very configurable mailer.

  If you are a developer and would like to get down into the 'nitty gritty',
please get ahold of me at this point.  I am in the design stages of
the WPI (Welmat Programming Interface) system that will be a combination
of the facilities available to 'XPR' developers, the RVI interface for
REXX as well as interfacing to allow one to add commands to the WPL
language in a much more robust manner than the library interface used
by languages like AREXX.


  XPR
  ---

  I have been attempting to get together a group of people to discuss
future enhancements to the XPR protocol interface.  I have gotten quite
a few people interested, but I have so far been un-able to set up a
mailing list.  I cannot afford to run the list off of my home machine
(Email costs), and I do not administer the site that I am sending this
message from at the moment.  If there is someone interested in future
enhancements to the XPR protocol and is also capable of hosting the
mailing list, please let me know.  If you are interested in being added
to any mailing list, please let me know as well so that I can contact
you once such a list is set up.


  Thanks for your interest.

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