BBS utility developer Shawn Highfield gets rights to SabreEdit (more info)

25 February 2010

CHEEPWARE ACQUIRES SABREEDIT

Shawn Highfield, a Cheepware member, has acquired the rights and the source

code to SabreEdit, a full-featured full screen editor BBS door, last developed

by Darrell Harder of SabreTech. Currently the Cheepware team, consisting of

Sean Dennis and Shawn Highfield, is developing a working version of the

software which has been renamed to CheepEdit. CheepEdit will be a freeware

program but will require a free registration key in order to be fully

functional.

CheepEdit is a full-featured full screen editor that will work with any

BBS software that will support 16-bit DOS doors, the MSGTMP file and the

DOOR.SYS or DORINFO1.DEF dropfiles. CheepEdit has additional support

for Remote Access BBS, QuickBBS and Ezycom BBS software.

Some of CheepEdit's features:

- Text-editor style editing keys

- Full quoting and quote text reformatting

- Taglines + IntelliTag topic-related tagline searching

- Full individual configurations for each user

- Message text spellchecker and 45,000+ word dictionary

- Personal spellchecker dictionaries for each user

- Designed to allow easy translation to other languages

- Highly configurable message censoring features

- Key-phrase text expansions for ease of use

- Color schemes are 100% operator and user configurable

- Per-user-per-group lockouts supported (RA/QBBS/Ezycom only)

- Compatible with most offline readers (Blue Wave, etc.)

- Many message area-sensitive features

Right now we are concentrating on the DOS version to get bug-free and

reliable. Once that happens, we hope to provide a real native Win32

and OS/2 version of CheepEdit. We are hoping to have a working DOS

version within a week with several bugfixes.

For any questions concerning CheepEdit, please contact Shawn Highfield

or Sean Dennis in the official Cheepware support echo, CHWARE, in

Fidonet or MIN_BBS in Micronet.