Copyright (c) 1998,1999 by Hardy Griech
This is the home of VSoup. You can find here the online version of VSoup documentation, also downloadable betas of VSoup.
Sorry that there is only an english version of this index. Anyway subpages will be partially or completely in german.
VSoup is a multithreaded network mail and news client program for OS/2 Warp with TCP/IP (or the Internet Access Kit) installed. It transfers mail and news fetched from a POP3 server and NNTP server respectively to packets in SOUP format. It can also send messages in SOUP reply packets to NNTP / SMTP servers. Estimated speed gain due to multithreading is about 200-500% for news reception!
Although VSoup is especially designed to work with Yarn, it is probable that VSoup will work with most offline newsreaders which expect SOUP as their input and output. You can find some pointers about that topic in the FAQ.
If you like to check the feature list of VSoup, follow this link. If you are a first time user of VSoup, you should read the installation section, if you are upgrading, you should check the history part of the documentation.
The online documentation reflects always the most current state of VSoup, i.e. it is a documentation for the betas distributed through this site. Check the history part for changes since your VSoup version.
Check the new Quick Start Instructions to get an idea how easy VSoup can be installed (on your computer).
Although especially created for Win95/98/NT, these instructions can be of good use for OS/2 people too.
Current release version of VSoup is 1.2.8. The documentation is available through this link. Check here to get links to the several download sites.
Most exciting new feature of VSoup128 is scoring. Due to heavy requests I've decided to make this step which allows more flexible killing of unwanted news.
The current beta (1.2.9.38Beta) is well tested and contains as additional features context sensitive handling of the Date: header - which allows aging of articles, the possibility to query the state of the POP3 and NNTP servers, pushing of articles to the news server, transmission to more than one news server, APOP authentication, real BCC etc. Check the VSoup history for other changes. Source code of the beta can be obtained here.
Andreas D. Bauer has ported VSoup to Win95/NT. Now there is a beta version of VSoup95/NT available from this site. Although VSoup95/NT has been ported on a Win95 platform, it also runs under NT, as its name suggests. Follow this link for more information.
This is an old project of mine, dated somewhere in the beginning of 1994. As the name might suggest, this is a CP/M80 emulator - very oldfashioned of course. Nevertheless it was required for a larger programming project named PRARE (not contained here...) which was based on Z80 assembly language.
Back to the original topic: cpem80 can be obtained from various places, e.g. ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2/leo/devtools/utils/cpem8010.zip. Source (in pseudo-C++) is included, documentation is a little bit poor. But if you need a well tested CP/M80 emulator, cpem80 is not the worst choice. BTW cpem80 is capable of running TurboPascal 3.0, TurboModula 1.0, WordStar, the Slr180 assembler and so on.
Because I am (at least trying to) programming now in Lotus Notes, here is a small collection of links concerning Lotus Notes. Although only links, the comments and description is available in german only.
The VSoup documentation was written with emxdoc (from Eberhard Mattes), a converter tool which originally allowed generation of IPF, LaTeX and plain text output from one single input file.
A small project of mine was to extend emxdoc output capabilities to HTML. You are reading a sample output of the resulting program.
To make trouble bigger, the tool is still called emxdoc, is not publicly available, but can be downloaded from here. Online documentation can be previewed through this link. Please note, that there is really no support for this tool!
If you have any suggestions, complaints or so (concerning these pages), drop me a note.
Please no comments about the absolutely ridiculous applet on top of the page. I'd only like to show, that I've heard the word java...
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