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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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FILE102 All-Files List Generator (FILE102) TAG Utilities (1992)
FILE102, July 1992: produces a downloadable all-files list for a TAG 2.6c board, including areas whose listings live in the MULTI or GFILES directorie...
FPOINTS v3.0 File Points System (FPOINTS3) TAG Utilities (1992)
Dragon Software's file-points suite for TAG, July 1992: assigns file points automatically, sets them across all or individual directories, and convert...
Hall of Fame Bulletin Generator (HALLFAME) TAG Utilities (1992)
...oftware, February 1992: generates a statistics hall-of-fame bulletin for a TAG 2.6 board.
HAT v1.5 Hatch Interface (HAT14) TAG Utilities (1992)
HAT by Peter Yao, May 1992: hatches files from TAG 2.6c file listings into FidoNet file echoes through the Hatch utility.
Introduction Menu Kit (INTRODOC) TAG Help and Docs (1991)
...tructions and sample menus for adding an 'Introduce Yourself' section to a TAG board.
MATCH v1.4 Duplicate Account Finder (MATCH14) TAG Utilities (1992)
MATCH version 1.4 by Peter Yao, February 1992: scans a TAG 2.6 user list for duplicate accounts by real name, phone, birthday and address, and flags i...
Message Base Reward v1.0 (MBREWARD) TAG Utilities (1992)
MBReward version 1.0, August 1992: rewards TAG users with upload credit for each message they post.
MSGFIND v2.01 Beta Message Wait Utility (MSGFD21B) TAG Utilities (1992)
...ND beta 2.01 by Rick Cooper of SiMpLe MiNdS SoFtWaRe, February 1992: tells TAG callers at logon which Fido-style or Hudson message areas hold mail for...
NAMESFIX v2.0 Names List Rebuilder (NAMEFIX2) TAG Utilities (1992)
NAMESFIX version 2.0, October 1992: rebuilds the NAMES.LST user index of a TAG 2.6 or later board when it becomes corrupt, now SHARE-aware with backup...
NAMESFIX v1.0 Names List Rebuilder (NAMESFIX) TAG Utilities (1992)
NAMESFIX version 1.0, June 1992: rebuilds the NAMES.LST user index of a TAG 2.6 or later board when it becomes corrupt.
NEWMSG v1.01 Hudson New Message Scanner (NEWMSGC) TAG Utilities (1992)
...n 1.01 by Mark McKay, June 1992: a Fido and Hudson new-message scanner for TAG 2.6c1 that tells callers which areas hold unread mail.
NewLog v2.7 Alternate Callers Log (NLOG27) TAG Utilities (1993)
...oe McElmeel of TNT Software, March 1993: an alternate last-callers log for TAG 2.6d with a configurable, coloured display.
NewLog v2.6 Alternate Callers Log (NLOG26) TAG Utilities (1993)
...rsion 2.6 by TNT Software, January 1993: an alternate last-callers log for TAG 2.6d with a configurable, coloured display.
Protocol Transfer v1.1 (PT11) TAG Utilities (1992)
... by Peter Yao, May 1992: appends protocol definitions from another sysop's TAG 2.6c protocol files to your own, or extracts part of them.
PYHSL v1.0 HS/Link Protocol Interface (PYHSL10) TAG Utilities (1992)
PYHSL version 1.0 by Peter Yao, April 1992: interface between TAG and the HS/Link bidirectional protocol, handling upload credits, descriptions and in...
TAG_ARJ ARJ Archive Viewer Door (TAG_ARJ1) TAG Utilities (1991)
TAG_ARJ by Mark McKay, October 1991: lets callers view the contents of ARJ archives from a TAG file listing.
TAGGER 1.0 Sysop Utilities (1993)
...r files used by InterMail and other BBS mailers so callers see a different tagline. Free. Version 1.0, September 1993.
Tagfile v2.01 BBS User Utilities (1993)
TAGFILE version 2.01, May 1993: a caller-side utility that lets a BBS user tag files in a directory, attach FILE_ID.DIZ or SDI descriptions, and batch...
TagDir v2.0 ANSI Directory Lister (TAGDIR2) TAG Utilities (1992)
TagDir version 2.0 by Michael Rowe of Numan's BBS (Atlanta), April 1992: creates full ANSI colour listings of all of a TAG board's file directories.
TagDupe v1.1 Duplicate Directory Entry Remover (TAGDUP11) TAG Utilities (1992)
TagDupe version 1.1 by Daren Daigle, March 1992: removes duplicate filename entries that SDS2DIR leaves in TAG file listings, without touching the fil...

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