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2.3.2 Installiong MsgEd TE as part of the Husky software

If you are using Husky sofware, e.g. the hpt tosser, you can also install MsgEd TE as part of the Husky software. In this case, you should first follow the generic Husky installation instruction as found in the file INSTALL found in the huskybse package.

These instructions essentially boil down to getting the source code packages of Huskybse, Smapi, Fidoconf and Msged (in this case, use the Husky Msged distribution, msged-VERSION-src.tar.gz), untar each file, create a huskymak.cfg based on the template found in the huskybse package, and then entering each of the subdirectories and typing make; make install. But be sure to read the file in detail.

After you have done so, you already have a working installation of MsgEd TE. The command make install entered in the MsgEd TE subdirectory will already have taken care of installing a workable default configuration file msged.cfg into your Husky etc subdirectory. This file is set up to read most of the necessary settings for MsgEd TE from your fidoconfig (the basic Husky configuration file), so that once you have configured fidoconfig, you can directly start using MsgEd TE.

The only thing that you need to adjust is the codepage setting. MsgEd TE is designed to do codepage translation, so that if your computer uses a different characters set compared to what is commonly encountered in fidonet echos, MsgEd TE will handle the job of translating those messages to a character set your local terminal can handle, and likewise translate text you type back so that it is stored in a way other users can read it. This is important for most non-English languages (like German, French, Russian etc.). If you use this feature of MsgEd TE, you don’t need to abuse your tosser to do codepage translation any more.

In order to select the proper codepage for your terminal, simply load the MsgEd TE configuration file msged.cfg into your favourite editor and uncomment the line that is correct for your location. The file is commented, and further instructions can be found there. See Using Special Characters like Umlauts or Cyrillics - The Charset Kludge, for further information.


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