The JAM Message Base Format was one of the most popular file formats of message bases on

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-based

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in the 1990s. JAM stands for "Joaquim-Andrew-Mats" after the original authors of the

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, Joaquim Homrighausen, Andrew Milner, Mats Birch, and Mats Wallin. Joaquim was the author of

FrontDoor FrontDoor was one of the most popular mailers in the FidoNet-compatible networks in the 1990s, acting as the physical representation of the written network node connection and mail handling standards. It was an MS-DOS-based product (also available ...

, a DOS-based FidoNet-compatible mailer. Andrew was the author of

RemoteAccess RemoteAccess is a DOS Bulletin Board System (BBS) software package written by Andrew Milner and published by his company Wantree Development in Australia. RemoteAccess was written in Turbo Pascal with some Assembly Language routines. RemoteAcce ...

, a popular DOS-based

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. JAM was originally released in 1993 in C, however the most popular implementation was Mark May's "MK Source for Msg Access" written in

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which also saw its initial release in 1993.

BBS software

* EleBBS *

Ezycom Ezycom (EzyBBS) is a shareware bulletin board system (BBS) application first introduced for MS-DOS by Peter Davies. It is still in active development and currently being developed by Stephen Gibbs and the Ezycom Development Team. The current ver ...

* LoraBBS * MBSE *

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* Nexus BBS *

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TAG (BBS) T.A.G. is a DOS-based bulletin board system (BBS) computer program, released from 1986 to 2000. History T.A.G. was written in Borland Pascal and is free for business or personal use. The authors considered it fun to give the program away while ot ...

* TCRA32 *

Telegard Telegard is an early bulletin board system (BBS) software program written for IBM PC-compatible computers running MS-DOS and OS/2. Telegard was written in Pascal with routines written in C++ and assembly language, based on a copy of the WWIV so ...

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Mail import/export software

* AllFix - File Tosser (can read control messages from and post messages into a JAM messagebase) *

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- FTN tosser * Crashmail II - A portable Fidonet tosser for JAM messagebases *

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- FTN tosser * FMail - FTN tosser * GEcho - FTN tosser *

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- FTN tosser * IMail - FTN tosser *

Mystic BBS {{Infobox software , name = Mystic BBS , author = James Coyle , developer = , released = , latest preview version = , latest preview date = , latest release version = 1.12 A47 ...

- BBS software with built in JAM import/export * Partoss (Parma tosser) - FTN tosser * Regina-Tosser/2 * TosScan - FTN tosser *

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* xMail 1.00 - FTN tosser

Mail reading/editing software

* FrontDoor FM - Sysop's local access reader/editor from FrontDoor package * FrontDoor APX - Integrated reader/editor from FrontDoor APX package *

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- Sysop's local access reader/editor * Hector/DOS * RAVIP * ReadMsg - BBS door that replaces builtin message base option * TheReader v4.50 - BBS door that replaces builtin message base option *

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- Sysop's local access reader/editor * WebJammer

Offline QWK/Bluewave software

* Bluewave * Jc-QWK *

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Mail posting tools

(this software posts ASCII text files to JAM bases as messages) * ChargePost *

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* MPost * PostIt - posts text files to local, netmail, and echomail areas *

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- posts welcome, thanks for the upload, and similar automated messages to users * WriteJAM

Statistics tools

(this software gathers statistical information) * JAMStat - statistics bulletin generator *

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* QRatio * ReadDetect * Traffic v1.10

Maintenance tools

* Automatic Maintenance Pro * CVTMSG10 * Ftrack and RNtrack - netmail tracker (netmail manager) * Itrack - netmail tracker (netmail manager) *

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- convert between JAM and other message base formats * MNTrack - netmail tracker (netmail manager) * NetMgr 1.00 - netmail manager * The NetMail Importer (NetImp) * Y2Ktool - Fido Year 2000 Tools Rel. 6

Mail tools and utility software

(this software fills some other utilitarian need not covered in another category listing) (some of this software is listed here because it hasn't been categorized) *

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* Fidonet Awk Utility * FMACopy * MailBox 1.05 * MessageBase Reporter * MSGRA * MSGRead 2.20 * OM and OMlite * RACD * SHUT UP AND RUN THE MAIL * VPJAM * XSH

Other JAM capable software

* JamNNTPd - Jam based NNTP server, uses the JAM message format * Message Base Spy - message base research, troubleshooting and development tool {{Expand list, date=August 2008

References

External links

JAM Compatible software
from the BBS Archives

- branch split from SourceForge - maintained by Johan Billing
JAMLib v1.4 C library
- shared library version - maintained by Sir Raorn
dissent612.com

Bulletin board system software DOS software FidoNet