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  • TAG

    T.A.G. (usually written TAG) is a freeware bulletin board system for MS-DOS, written in Turbo/Borland Pascal and released from 1986 to 1999 by "The TAG Team" of Troy, Michigan. The original authors were Robert Numerick and Victor Capton; Randy Goebel, Paul Loeber, Paul Williams and Alan Jurison joined the team in later years. TAG began as a fork of early WWIV source code and grew into a full-featured system with its own FidoNet-compatible mail processor (TagMail), a menu editor, a string compiler for customising every prompt and, from version 2.6, multinode support. At its peak just over 1,000 TAG boards were running, mostly in the United States and Canada, with the heaviest concentration around Detroit, where TAG had a friendly rivalry with Telegard, another Detroit-area WWIV descendant. TAG was always free; the team asked only for optional donations and a small handling fee for disks by mail. Each release was split into companion packages that share a version suffix: **TAGS** (start-up package for a new board, including the installer), **TAGM** (main program, TAG.EXE and TAG.OVR), **TAGD** (documentation), **TAGR** (Pascal and C record structures for third-party developers), **TAGC** (conversion utilities for upgrading data files), **TAGU** (update releases and release notes) and **TAGW** (spell-check dictionary). To bring up a new board you need the TAGS, TAGM and TAGD packages of the same version. Version 2.7 (May 1994) was the last major release, adding RIP graphics and JAM message base support; 2.7b, 2.7c and 2.7d were maintenance updates, and the final release was 2.7d2, a Y2K fix, in December 1999. ### Release chronology Dates are taken from the RELEASE.DOC in each package, or from file timestamps where noted. | Version | Release date | Notes | |---|---|---| | 2.5c | 1989 | Referenced in the November 1989 HOWTOTAG guide as the current version | | 2.5f | 1 Jul 1990 | Start-up package still named GFILE25F | | 2.5g | 2 Oct 1990 | Complete set of start-up, programs, documentation and record structures | | 2.5g patch | Apr 1991 | Security patch fixing two problems | | 2.6 | 1 Jan 1992 | Major upgrade; 2.5g documentation remained current | | 2.6b | 19 May 1992 | First multinode release; introduced the TAGINST installer and MCONFIG | | 2.6c | 21 May 1992 | Follow-up two days after 2.6b | | 2.6d | 23 Jan 1993 | New main and menu documentation; first release credited to "The T.A.G. Team" | | 2.6e | 27 Apr 1993 | EXE/OVR bug-fix release only | | 2.6f | 1 Sep 1993 | Internal QWK offline mail support | | 2.6f1 | late 1993 | Minor update, referenced by the 2.7 conversion package | | 2.7 | 3 May 1994 | Last major release; RIP graphics and JAM message bases | | 2.7b | Oct-Nov 1994 | Maintenance patch; CHAT.DAT chat tunes | | 2.7c | 28 Dec 1994 | Maintenance patch | | 2.7d | 1 Jan 1998 | Full EXE/OVR replacement after a three-year gap | | 2.7d1 | 1999 | First Y2K fix, mentioned in the 2.7d2 notes | | 2.7d2 | 26 Dec 1999 | Final release; JAM message base Y2K fix | This category holds the core TAG Team releases every sysop needed. Optional official packages (nodelist indexer, spell-check dictionary, record structures for developers) are in **TAG Team Add-Ons**, the monthly TAGLIST BBS lists are in **TAG BBS List**, and third-party utilities, doors and sysop guides written for TAG are in **TAG Utilities**.

  • TAG BBS List
  • TAG Help and Docs
  • TAG Team Add-Ons
  • TAG Utilities

    Third-party utilities, doors, mail tools and sysop guides written for the TAG bulletin board system: TagMail add-ons, callback verifiers, file-area and message-base managers, log analysers, menu editors, offline mail doors, DESQview and modem configuration notes. The official TAG Team releases (TAGS/TAGM/TAGD/TAGR/TAGC/TAGU packages) are in the parent **TAG** category.

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  • START25G.DOC in TAG 2.5g Start-Up Package (TAGS25G)

    ... least 30. Required Files TAGS25G.ZIP - Start up files and documentation for T.A.G. ...

  • TAGMAIL.EXE in TagMail v2.41
  • TMTEST.LST in TagMail v2.41

    These are the current TagMail Beta sites This list is current as of: 09/28/1990 Board Name Sysop Name Node Number P...

  • FIXES.WB5 in hsl_tgb5.zip

    Beta2 - Fixes from Beta1 to beta2 * All uploads getting tagged with "User Hungup after Upload" has been fixed. * Reprocessing of ...

  • FILEMAN.DOC in tfm26.zip

    ...8067 New Features ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ v2.6 Tagged operations are finally added! You can now manipulate ...

  • UPGRADE.DOC in tg27.zip

    ... avail- able. (These drivers usually have an additional advantage, in that they are much faster than the ANSI.SYS driver.) ...

  • TELEMAIL.DOC in tmail151.zip

    ...ery detailed information about what it is doing. The disadvantage to this is that it slows down the processing of messages...

  • 2AMSYS3.DOC in 2am3_1a.arc

    ...ntain the current scores for section X, sorted according to percentage. This file is automatically restarted when you create new qu...

  • ACFSYSOP.DOC in acf540r0.zip

    ...ACFiles │ │ The Originator of File Tagging │ ├──────────────┬─────────────────────...

  • ACFUSER.DOC in acf540r0.zip

    ...ACFiles │ │ The Originator of File Tagging │ ├──────────────┬─────────────────────...

  • AHELP.ASC in acf540r0.zip

    ...ou may mark them in one area and download just from that area To Tag files...use the arrow keys to move the prompt through the file names. ...

  • BUILDHLP.ASC in acf540r0.zip

    ... the archive that you need a file extracted. It will display the first tagged file from the area you are currently in. Hit Space and it will t...

  • STRUCT.ACF in acf540r0.zip

    ... /* Previously V5 */ char tag[3]; /* Declare Tag */ c...

  • SUBHELP.ASC in acf540r0.zip

    ...ings you back to the area you were in. Same as hitting Enter C - Clear Tagged List This will allow you to clear all tagged files that you h...

  • PALACE.BBS in bbs10.arc

    ...INE HOPPER.EXE 37632 01-31-87 HELP THE FROG CROSS THE STREET.. HOSTAGES.ARC 38016 01-15-87 GAME OF SAVE THE HOSTAGES ICECOLD.ARC 30...

  • EZY.DOC in ezy101_3.zip

    ...h more. o A Full-Blown file area editor, allowing multiple tag and move of files, deletion of multiple files, viewing ...

  • ES.DOC in es_101d.zip

    ...section until you understand what is being said. Only at that stage should you proceed. 1.4 Licence agreement ...

  • FD.DOC in fd202.zip

    ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 9.8.2 Continuous tagging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 9.8.3 Range s...

  • FEBBS.DOC in febbs170.zip

    ...wor ■ Strip Avatar Codes from Filelists. ■ Tag files randomly ( not random tag though :-) ) in the editor. ...

  • HISTORY.DOC in febbs170.zip

    ...age there. Suggested by Klaus Breuer. ■ < Ctrl-N > Touch all tagged files. Works just like < Alt-N > that touches the file on the...