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The JAM Message Base Format was the most popular[citation needed] file format for storing message bases on DOS-based BBSes in the 1990s. JAM stands for "Joaquim-Andrew-Mats" after the original authors of the API Joaquim Homrighausen, Andrew Milner, Mats Birch, and Mats Wallin.[1] Joaquim was the author of FrontDoor, a DOS based FidoNet compatible Mailer. Andrew was the author of RemoteAccess, a popular DOS based Bulletin Board System. JAM was originally released in 1993 in C, however the most popular implementation was Mark May's "MK Source for Msg Access" written in Pascal which also saw its initial released in 1993.[2]

BBS software

Mail import/export software

Mail reading/editing software

  • FM - Sysop's local access reader/editor from FrontDoor mailer package
  • GoldED - 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
  • TimED - Sysop's local access reader/editor
  • WebJammer

Offline QWK/Bluewave software

Mail posting tools

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

Statistics tools

(this software gathers statistical information)

Maintenance tools

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)

Other JAM capable software

  • JamNNTPd - Jam based NNTP server, uses the JAM message format
  • Message Base Spy - message base research, troubleshooting and development tool

Notes

Renegade (BBS) make use of the Pascal JAM libraries but has its own native message base format.

References

  1. ^ http://dissent612.com/development/JAMAPI/JAM.DOC
  2. ^ Filename MKSM106.ZIP (maybe be found in ZIP, LZH or ARJ archive formats)