How to get Forte Agent and Eudora to work

[OSIRIS]

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.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

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.

 

[Geordie]

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 ;-)

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.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

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.

 

[John Morrison]

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.

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.

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.

 

[dmillan]

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.

 

[OSIRIS]

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?

 

[OSIRIS]

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.

 

[OSIRIS]

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


<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.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

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.

 

[OSIRIS]

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

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

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.