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GoldED

GoldED is a full-featured shareware mail/news reader for Fidonet and Internet. It is highly configurable, using plain text files. It supports a wide variety of messagebase formats, including JAM, Squish, *.MSG, Hudson, Goldbase, PCBoard, WildCat! and AdeptXBBS. GoldED is available for many platforms: DOS, DOS 32-bit, OS/2, Win32 and Linux. Currently GoldED runs only as textmode, but GUI versions are also planned.

The latest version is GoldED 3.00.Beta3. Despite the beta status, we believe that this is a stable version. Therefore we are freezing the feature set and primarily only fix bugs. Unless major problems are found, the next release will be a full public release.

The latest public release is GoldED 2.50. There is also a maintenance release GoldED 2.51 which fixes many bugs and introduces new features. Development of the 2.x series has been stopped in favor of 3.x and the next generation 4.x versions.

Downloads

These are the latest GoldED files for download:
*Platform*	3.0.Beta3	3.0.Beta2	3.0.Beta1	2.51	2.50
DOS16	GED300B3	GED300B2	GED300B1	GEDA1026	GED250
DOS32	GEX300B3	GEX300B2	GEX300B1	GEXA1026	GEX250
OS/2	GEO300B3	GEO300B2	GEO300B1	GEOA1026	GEO250
Win32	GEW300B3	GEW300B2	GEW300B1	GEWA1026	n/a
Linux	GEL300B3	GEL300B2	GEL300B1	n/a	n/a
Nodelist compilers	n/a	GEN300B2	n/a	n/a	GEN250
Manual	n/a	GEM300B2	GEM300B1	GEMA1026	GEM250
Release notes	NOTE_B3	NOTE_B2	NOTE_B1	NOTE1026	n/a

Other GoldED files for download:
File	Description
GM3B1SRC	Latest GoldED manual source (currently for 3.00.Beta1).
GMAN102	Goldware manual compiler, to compile the manual sources.
Previews	Previews and test programs for Linux and Windows.

Third-party GoldED related files for download:
File	Description
GSND_101	GoldSound 1.01 by Paolo Scaffardi. A great Goldware Sound API implementation that supports most soundcards.
GSND_XFT	X-Files Theme for GoldSound 1.01.
GOLDICON	GoldED icons for Windows and OS/2.
D4GW_197	DOS/4GW - Protected Mode Run-Time required for GoldED/386.
PMW133	PMODE/W - Alternative Protected Mode Run-Time that can be used for GoldED/386.

Screenshots

This is a typical screen when in reading mode:

This shows the new arealist separation lines, introduced in 3.00.Alpha2:

GoldED 4.0 - The Next Generation

The next generation of GoldED is under development. Version 4.0 includes major rewrites of almost all parts of the program. Some planned highlights:

Totally rewritten message handling. Much faster and handles large messages with ease. Supports Unix mailboxes and news spools directly.
Complete offline and online internet mail and news reader capabilities, including full MIME support and attachments. Supports very flexible killfiles.
Advanced search capabilities, using regular expressions, wildcards, fuzzy search and plain text search in combination with logic expressions.
New configuration reader with increased flexibility and new rule-based area grouping system.
Menued configuration.
Rule-based automatic actions a'la killfiles.
Addressbook.
GUI.

GoldED 4.0 is not yet available for testing, but if you are already registered, you can be prepared and upgrade to the new 4.0 key for a minor fee. The new key will also work in GoldED 3.00.Beta3 and later.

If you are not registered yet, there is no reason to wait. If you register now, you will get a key that is valid for both 4.0 and the older versions.

Registration/upgrade

GoldED is released under the shareware concept. This means that you can copy and distribute the program as much as you want, if you want use it for longer than the 30 days trial period, you must pay for it ("register") or stop using it.

The international price is USD 25 for a new registration or USD 10 for an upgrade from GoldED 2.x/3.x. For that you get a key that is valid for all GoldED 2.x/3.x/4.x textmode platforms.

Here are the orderforms for Denmark, the European Union and the rest of the world.

There may be a registration site local to you, so you can pay in your local currency. Browse the list of official sites.

You can also register using creditcard via internet. Go to ShareIt! and enter 101072 for a new registration or 101099 for an upgrade. Alternatively you can follow the direct links below. NOTE: If you want to upgrade, you must send your old key via e-mail or netmail to the author to qualify for the upgrade.

Author Contact

Goldware International
Odinn Sorensen
Braabyvej 43K, 202
DK-4690 Haslev
Denmark, Europe

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+45-56361215
+45-56361212
+45-56361212 (V.34/X.75)

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Designed by Odinn Sorensen / odinn@goldware.dk / Fidonet 2:236/77. Last updated: 17. March 1998.

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