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Berndt Josef Wulf - P.O. Box 501 - Nairne - SA5252 - Australia
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DBPOX Bulletine Board System

dpbox is a  fully featured multi protocol and multi user packet radio BBS written by Joachim Schurig (DL8HBS). It has the capability of handling up to 200 simultaneous users and capacity of storing a maximum of 32767*32767 messages. Other features include support of the F6FBB, W0RLI and TheBox style forwarding protocols, PACSAT,  YAPP, MD2 and MD5 password authentication, shell login (disabled on NetBSD on default), auto 7plus extractor, web-access and much more.

dpbox was ported to NetBSD in January 1999 using the dpbox-5.07 distribution. New releases of dpbox have since seen many improvements and every effort was made to keep track with the latest developements.

Supported Platforms

The current version of dpbox supports the following operating systems and hardware platforms

OS
alpha
amiga
atari
hp300
i386
mac68k
mvme68k
news68k
next68k
sparc
sun3
vax
x68k
NetBSD
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Linux        
X
               


Please send a short report to wulf@ping.net.au should you run dpbox on a platform not listed above.

Source Code and Binary Distributions

The last stable version is dpbox-6.00.00

dpbox Stable Releases - Source Code

    dpbox-60000.tar.gz    SHA1=73a55785f499324f57736c7fb3cc0bd1001facd3

    Note for NetBSD users: DPBOX is now part of the NetBSD packages
    collection ham/dpbox. For more information visit
    http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/software/packages.html
  
User Support

There is no official support for this package. However, I've setup the following mailing lists with the intent to create a forum for  discussions on HAMSOFT applications ported to NetBSD

    hamradio            - General discussion on HAMSOFT for NetBSD
    harmradio-announce  - Important announcements on new releases
  

To subscribe to any of the above lists, send an email to majordomo@ping.net.au and add a line with of following syntax into the message body:

    subscribe <LIST

    where <LIST> is one of the above mailing lists.
  

or alternatively, send your comments to Berndt Josef Wulf.