How to get Forte Agent and Eudora to work

Hi all

I'll be setting up a new notebook for a friend in a few days when it
arrives. That'll mean transferring all his stuff from the old XP box
to the Win7 Home Premium 64-bit notebook.

Among the stuff he uses are Forte Agent Newsreader (he does not use it
for email) and Eudora v6.something.

Are there any suggested methods to getting these two apps to work
correctly on his new box? Will the 64-bit be a problem? I've Googled
but get a bunch of either super-generic answers or conflicting advice,
so I'm turning to you guys -- actual users that've skinned their
nuckles doing it. ;-)

Any advice welcomed.

On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:53:36 -0700, OSIRIS wrote:

Hi all

I'll be setting up a new notebook for a friend in a few days when it
arrives. That'll mean transferring all his stuff from the old XP box
to the Win7 Home Premium 64-bit notebook.

Among the stuff he uses are Forte Agent Newsreader (he does not use it
for email) and Eudora v6.something.

Are there any suggested methods to getting these two apps to work
correctly on his new box?


Agent works fine under Windows 7 (I'm using Agent 8.0 at the moment)
and there are no special suggested methods needed.

I can't tell you anything about Eudora, since I don't use it, but I
would suspect the answer to be exactly the same.



Will the 64-bit be a problem?


With Agent, definitely not. With Eudora, I greatly doubt it, but I
can't be sure.


I've Googled
but get a bunch of either super-generic answers or conflicting advice,
so I'm turning to you guys -- actual users that've skinned their
nuckles doing it. ;-)

Any advice welcomed.

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On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:54:51 -0700, "Ken Blake, MVP"
compiled the following:

On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:53:36 -0700, OSIRIS wrote:

Hi all

I'll be setting up a new notebook for a friend in a few days when it
arrives. That'll mean transferring all his stuff from the old XP box
to the Win7 Home Premium 64-bit notebook.

Among the stuff he uses are Forte Agent Newsreader (he does not use it
for email) and Eudora v6.something.

Are there any suggested methods to getting these two apps to work
correctly on his new box?


Agent works fine under Windows 7 (I'm using Agent 8.0 at the moment)
and there are no special suggested methods needed.

I think you mean Agent 6.0 ;-)
snip

Will the 64-bit be a problem?


With Agent, definitely not. With Eudora, I greatly doubt it, but I
can't be sure.

I can also verify that Agent will work fine in Home Premium 64 bit as
I am using it to post this reply.
Eudora I have not used.
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On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:01:24 +0000, Geordie
wrote:

On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:54:51 -0700, "Ken Blake, MVP"
compiled the following:

On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:53:36 -0700, OSIRIS wrote:

Hi all

I'll be setting up a new notebook for a friend in a few days when it
arrives. That'll mean transferring all his stuff from the old XP box
to the Win7 Home Premium 64-bit notebook.

Among the stuff he uses are Forte Agent Newsreader (he does not use it
for email) and Eudora v6.something.

Are there any suggested methods to getting these two apps to work
correctly on his new box?


Agent works fine under Windows 7 (I'm using Agent 8.0 at the moment)
and there are no special suggested methods needed.

I think you mean Agent 6.0 ;-)



Ouch. Yes, of course. What a strange typo. 8 isn't next to 6 on the
keyboard! Sorry.



Will the 64-bit be a problem?


With Agent, definitely not. With Eudora, I greatly doubt it, but I
can't be sure.

I can also verify that Agent will work fine in Home Premium 64 bit as
I am using it to post this reply.
Eudora I have not used.
--
Geordie
Usenet, how to post info:
http://www.dickgaughan.co.uk/usenet/...aq08-topp.html
http://www.i-hate-computers.demon.co.uk/quote.html

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On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:54:51 -0700, "Ken Blake, MVP"
wrote:


Agent works fine under Windows 7 (I'm using Agent 8.0 at the moment)
and there are no special suggested methods needed.

[snip]

I've been an Agent user for many years & never had any problem with
any version.
Since having Windows 7 32 Home on my laptop & Windows 7 64 Ultimate on
my PC, Agent 5 has crashed twice [ once on each] sending crash dump
reports to Forte each time. Something I have never experienced before.
A report from Frote suggests an upgrade to V6 but I do have some
reservations about doing that.

On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:54:51 -0700, "Ken Blake, MVP"
wrote:

Agent works fine under Windows 7 (I'm using Agent 8.0 at the moment)
and there are no special suggested methods needed.

Agent 8.0?? They only just released v6. Are you talking about Agent
from www.forteinc.com?

On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:01:24 +0000, Geordie
wrote:
I can also verify that Agent will work fine in Home Premium 64 bit as
I am using it to post this reply.
Eudora I have not used.

Thanks for that -- a load off my mind.

On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:52:15 +1100, John Morrison
wrote:

Your friend is probably using Agent 5 which works with Windows 7 32-bit or
64-bit. Forté Agent just released a new Version 6 which also works with
Windows 7 32-bit or 64-bit.

Actually, he's using v4.x -- I'll tell him to uograde to 6. Thanks.

My experience with Eudora is using the final Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 which
works with Windows 7 32-bit or 64-bit.

Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 can still be downloaded from
http://www.eudora.com/.

*However it can no longer be registered.*

It would be worthwhile downloading and upgrading to the final Eudora
version and several usernames & passwords have been released in the Eudora
newsgroup, I suspect by Eudora themselves, one of which was:

FirstName: Generic
LastName: User
Registration: 3291578383333015

Are there any suggested methods to getting these two apps to work
correctly on his new box? Will the 64-bit be a problem?

snipped

They'll both work with Windows 7 and 64-bit shouldn't be a problem.

Thanks for that insight. I'll head over to the Eudora site right away
to get the latest version, 'cause I'm sure he's still back at
6.something.

On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:42:35 -0700, OSIRIS wrote:

On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:54:51 -0700, "Ken Blake, MVP"
wrote:

Agent works fine under Windows 7 (I'm using Agent 8.0 at the moment)
and there are no special suggested methods needed.

Agent 8.0?? They only just released v6. Are you talking about Agent
from www.forteinc.com?



As I said and apologized for (yesterday, I think), 8.0 was a typo for
6.0.

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On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:21:05 -0700, "Ken Blake, MVP"
wrote:

On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:42:35 -0700, OSIRIS wrote:
As I said and apologized for (yesterday, I think), 8.0 was a typo for
6.0.

You're quite right, Ken. Mea Culpa. I was reading the messages in
sequence and read your first, replied to it, then read your
correction. Sorry

On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:26:18 -0700, OSIRIS wrote:

On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:21:05 -0700, "Ken Blake, MVP"
wrote:

On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:42:35 -0700, OSIRIS wrote:
As I said and apologized for (yesterday, I think), 8.0 was a typo for
6.0.

You're quite right, Ken. Mea Culpa. I was reading the messages in
sequence and read your first, replied to it, then read your
correction. Sorry


Apology accepted, and no big deal.


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Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003
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