
      Clusse

   A Free Finnish DX-Cluster and Conference system

  Features:
     - Most of the original PacketCluster features: DX, Announces, Talk,
       Wx, WWV, Users/Nodes information, databases...
     - Links with a PacketCluster (TM) notwork using the stupid PC protocol.
     - A conversd-style conference mode with virtual channels.
     - An indexed help system: The help file is available in Finnish,
       English, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Norwegian, Czech and German,
       and you are invited to translate the file to your own language.
     - Supports PacketCluster-type databases and the Buckmaster HamCall
       CD-ROM.
     - User-selectable character conversion tables - solves problems with
       different systems to express special language-specific characters
       (Scandinavia, Germany).
     - Uses the PC/FlexNet kernel or the G8BPQ Packet Switch TSR code to
       interface different kinds of modem hardware.
     - The user interface is NOT compatible with the PacketCluster (TM).
       In general, I have tried to avoid imitating PacketCluster and to
       correct things that are stupid/weird in it.

    The software is still under construction, and a lot of features are being
  worked on (a better linking protocol, more sysop commands, multicasting
  etc). Current version number is 0.31 (Aug 20 1997).

  Requires:
     - A 286 compatible computer with about 500 Kb of free base memory and
       a hard disk (not required but VERY strongly suggested).
     - MS-DOS 3.0 or newer (Windows 95 & Windows NT & OS/2 can all run
       DOS programs like Clusse, Win95 is used for the developing work).
     - G8BPQ packet switch version 4.05 or newer, or alternatively,
       the PC/FlexNet kernel (3.3e verified to work).
     - The G8BPQ switch can currently (v4.08a) interface all KISS-type
       TNC's, TheNet-type node stacks running the net/rom interlink protocol,
       other systems that know either KISS or net/rom async (NOS, BPQ),
       Ethernet for interfacing other BPQ and PE1CHL NET switches, many
       brands of HDLC card modems (PacComm PC120, DRSI PC-PA, Thor RCL100,
       BayCom USCC-Karte, PA0HZP OptoPcSCC).
     - PC/FlexNet 3.3e has drivers for (at least) the following hardware:
         * TNC2 TNC's with 6PACK firmware (a KISS driver is supplied, but
           it is claimed to not work well with TNC's, 6PACK overcomes the
           timing problems of KISS)
         * BayCom modems (1200 bit/s serial port modem, 9600 bit/s paraller
           port, USCC and SCC cards)
         * Some sound cards and DSP systems
         * Ethernet trough the following drivers:
            IPX, Packet Drivers, AXIP (only inside a LAN), G8BPQ IPX
         * Lots more... they're writing more drivers too fast for me to
           keep up with!

  Where to get it:
    - On Internet WWW, Clusse home page:
       http://zone.pspt.fi/clusse/
    - On Internet FTP:
       ftp.funet.fi: /pub/ham/packet/bbs/cluster/clusse/clu????.zip
    - On Amprnet FTP:
       zone.oh7rba.ampr.org: /pub/oh7lzb/clu/clu????.zip

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  Clusse was created by:

 Heikki "Hessu" Hannikainen

 Internet email (preferred): hessu@pspt.fi
 Amprnet email (a good one): oh7lzb@oh7rba.ampr.org
 Ax.25 packet (sloooow....): oh7lzb@oh7rba.fin.eu
 World Wide Web (graphic!!): http://zone.pspt.fi/~oh7lzb/

 Snail mail:
   Heikki Hannikainen
   Blueberry Road 17
   70280 Kuopijo
   Finland

