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MsgEd TE is a message reader and editor software for Fidonet (and compatible) network(s), supporting Squish, Hudson and Fido *.MSG message bases. This program is released to the public domain. There are absolutely no usage or distribution restrictions. This is truely free software.
MsgEd TE emerged from MsgEd, a public domain fidonet message reader initially written by Jim Nutt and thereafter maintained by numerous people (among them Paul Edwards, Andrew Clarke, and Kim Lykkegaard, who is currently maintaing MsgEd). MsgEd TE is being developed by Tobias Ernst. You can reach me at 2:2476/418 or via e-mail at tobi@bland.fido.de.
MsgEd TE differs from the mainstream MsgEd in that it tries to support a vast number of platforms by employing portable software design techniques. It is my policy to release executables and source code at the same time for all supported platforms, among them OS/2, Unix (Linux and FreeBSD as well as commercial Unix systems), Windows NT and 16-bit DOS.
MsgEd TE is developed with the GNU C compiler and GNU boundary checking, which assures high program stability. MsgEd TE also has some features that the mainstream MsgEd currently has not, like full "seamless" internet gateway support for Fidogate and simliar gateway programs.
In developing MsgEd TE, I am in contact with the mainstream MsgEd developer team, so most features they introduce will be migrated to MsgEd TE, and most features that I introduce in MsgEd TE will possibly also be migrated to the mains team MsgEd over time. There is no "rivalry" between Kim and me, it is just that we have a little different goals in mind and therefore decided to maintain separate streams of MsgEd.
If you like MsgEd TE and start to use it as your everyday Fidonet editor, please drop me a note saying that you do so at `Tobias Ernst 2:2476/418' or at `tobi@bland.fido.de'. I originally started to work on MsgEd TE to create a Fidonet editor that fulfilled some special personal needs of mine. Since then, things evolved and I saw myself doing a lot of work that I would not have done just for my own needs. Writing this documentation is one such example, porting to Windows NT another. If I continue to do this work in the future and add new features to MsgEd TE will strongly depend on how much feedback I receive from users that like and use MsgEd TE. Therefore: Don't be shy - drop me a mail. :-)
At this place, I also would like to express my thankfulness to all people that helped making MsgEd TE what it is now, that being all the developers that haved worked on the sources in the past, the team that makes MsgEd 4.30, and all the beta testers that used the Pre-Release of MsgEd TE 05.
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