CrashMail II

                         The Next Generation!

                  ...a stranger in a strange land...

Added AmigaOS 3.2 support and crashedit an editor to jamlib using jamlib.a from crashmail. Crashedit based on golded+ but with basic functionalities: area, messages, reader and editor, plus an ansi art viewer and file request.

Added tag "aso" to crashmail config file to work in aso mode.

**For CrashEdit documentation, see [crashedit/README.md](crashedit/README.md)**
**For CrashEdit documentation in Spanish, see [crashedit/README_ESP.md](crashedit/README_ESP.md)**

This project was inspired by Golded+ [https://github.com/golded-plus/golded-plus]. While it served as a reference during development, the implementation in this repository was written independently and does not contain code copied from the original project.

============ Introduction

Welcome to CrashMail II! CrashMail II is basically a more portable version of CrashMail, a tosser for Amiga computers. Users of the old Amiga version will probably find some things familiar while some features are gone such as the ARexx port (for obvious reasons!) and the GUI configuration editor. The only feature that CrashMail II has and the old CrashMail hasn't is support for JAM messagebases.

Homepage: http://ftnapps.sourceforge.net/crashmail.html Code: http://sourceforge.net/p/ftnapps/crashmail/code/ Downloads: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ftnapps/files/crashmail/

========= Copyright

Copyright (C) 1998-2004, Johan Billing billing@df.lth.se Copyright (C) 1999-2010, Peter Krefting peter@softwolves.pp.se Copyright (C) 2009-2016, Robert James Clay jame@rocasa.us Copyright (C) 2016-2016, Lars Kellogg-Stedman lars@oddbit.com Copyright (C) 2016, Niklas Lindholm niklas@nilin.se

JAMLIB is copyright (c) 1999 Björn Stenberg. JAMLIB is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License, See src/jamlib/jamlib.doc for more information.

tests/roundup is copyright (c) 2010 Blake Mizerany - MIT License

Except where explicitly stated otherwise, all other parts of CrashMail are copyright 1998-2004 Johan Billing. Permission to use, copy and distribute CrashMail is granted provided that this copyright notice is included. Permission to modify CrashMail is granted. Distributing modified versions of CrashMail is allowed provided that the documentation clearly states that it is a modified version. Parts of CrashMail may be freely used in other projects as long as the documentation mentions the original copyright holder.

================ Acknowledgements

Many thanks to Björn Stenberg for creating the excellent subroutine library JAMLIB which CrashMail uses for handling JAM messagebases.

Thanks for Peter Karlsson for porting CrashMail II to OS/2 and the man pages.

Thanks to Lars Kellogg-Stedman for the testing scripts as well as the other improvements he has made.

============= Documentation

The documentation is very brief and CrashMail probably isn't the ideal choice for Fidonet beginners. All documentation of the available keywords in the configuration file can be found in the doc/example.prefs file, and other information can be found in the doc/ReadMe.txt file..

========= Platforms

This version of CrashMail can be compiled for Win32, Linux and OS/2; see the INSTALL file for details. If you are interested in running CrashMail on another platform, please contact me if you are willing to do the work necessary to adapt CrashMail to your platform. The amount of work required mostly depends on whether your C-compiler supports some common POSIX-functions which CrashMail uses.

========= CrashEdit

CrashEdit is a full-featured FTN (FidoNet) message reader and editor with UTF-8 support, inspired by Golded+. It includes area management, message reading/writing, ANSI art viewer, file requester, spell checker, hyphenation, thesaurus, and translation capabilities.

Documentation:

• English: crashedit/README.md
• Spanish: crashedit/README_ESP.md

Compilation dependencies: See crashedit/compile.txt for platform-specific instructions.

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Linux/BSD/macOS

Option 1: Using system libraries (requires external dependencies)

cd crashedit
make -f Makefile.unix

Optional features:

# Spell checker (requires libhunspell-dev)
make -f Makefile.unix USE_HUNSPELL=1

# Hyphenation (requires libhyphen-dev + USE_HUNSPELL=1)
make -f Makefile.unix USE_HUNSPELL=1 USE_HYPHEN=1

# Thesaurus (requires libmythes-dev + USE_HUNSPELL=1)
make -f Makefile.unix USE_HUNSPELL=1 USE_MYTHES=1

# Translation (requires libcurl4-openssl-dev)
make -f Makefile.unix USE_TRANSLATE=1

# StarDict offline dictionary (requires USE_TRANSLATE=1)
make -f Makefile.unix USE_TRANSLATE=1 USE_STARDICT=1

# All features
make -f Makefile.unix USE_HUNSPELL=1 USE_HYPHEN=1 USE_MYTHES=1 USE_TRANSLATE=1 USE_STARDICT=1

Option 2: Using built-in spellchecker (no external dependencies)

cd crashedit
make -f Makefile.unix.static

This uses the native spellchecker implementation (compatible with hunspell .aff/.dic files) and includes all features by default (spell checker, hyphenation, thesaurus, translation, StarDict). Only requires libcurl for translation support.

Windows (MinGW/MSYS2)

cd crashedit
make -f Makefile.win32

Optional features:

# Translation (requires curl)
make -f Makefile.win32 USE_TRANSLATE=1

# All features (native spell checker, hyphenation, thesaurus built-in)
make -f Makefile.win32 USE_HUNSPELL=1 USE_HYPHEN=1 USE_MYTHES=1 USE_TRANSLATE=1

AmigaOS 3.x

cd crashedit
make -f Makefile.amiga

Requirements:

• bebbo gcc toolchain (m68k-amigaos-gcc)
• FreeType with libpng and zlib (static, bundled)

For static FreeType with libpng and zlib: Extract freetype-2.14.3.tar.xz, libpng-1.6.58.tar.xz, and zlib.tar.gz into crashedit directory and rename to freetype, zlib, and libpng.

Prepare headers (for color emoji support with PNG):

make -f Makefile.amiga unprep
make -f Makefile.amiga prep
make -f Makefile.amiga clean all

Optional features:

# Native spell checker (built-in, compatible with hunspell .aff/.dic)
make -f Makefile.amiga USE_HUNSPELL=1

# Hyphenation (built-in, compatible with hyph_*.dic)
make -f Makefile.amiga USE_HUNSPELL=1 USE_HYPHEN=1

# Thesaurus (built-in, compatible with mythes th_*.idx/dat)
make -f Makefile.amiga USE_HUNSPELL=1 USE_MYTHES=1

# Translation (HTTP backends: MyMemory, LibreTranslate, Lingva)
make -f Makefile.amiga USE_TRANSLATE=1

# StarDict offline dictionary
make -f Makefile.amiga USE_TRANSLATE=1 USE_STARDICT=1

# Translation with TLS (requires AmiSSL SDK)
make -f Makefile.amiga USE_TRANSLATE=1 WITH_AMISSL=1 AMISSL_SDK=/path/to/AmiSSL

Links:

• libpng: https://www.libpng.org/
• zlib: https://zlib.net/
• FreeType: https://freetype.org/

Tested fonts:

• Symbola.ttf
• unifont_sample-17.0.04.otf
• NotoColorEmoji-emojicompat.ttf
• Symbola_hint.ttf
• NotoSansCJK-Regular.ttf
• NotoColorEmoji.ttf

Monospaced fonts:

• DejaVuSansMono.ttf
• LiberationMono-Regular.ttf

The executable is large but self-contained (no external libraries needed). Optimized for RTG and works with OCS, ECS, or AGA.

Screenshots