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<headline>Development resumed</headline>

<p>After several years of plain existance development on Gerstensaft
has been resumed a few days ago.  After the Debian project decided to
pay some of its developers, my priority for Debian work has dropped so
that other projects suddenly became more important, e.g.
Gerstensaft.</p>

<p>Fortunately, this freed time to finish the port to version 2 of
the GIMP toolkit (Gtk) which has been started by <a
href="http://layer-acht.org/">Holger Levsen</a>.  Several classes
within Gtk have been changed and improved, hence, a lot of work was
needed to overhaul the software.</p>

<p>This, however, also gave time to implement a long-standing item on
the todo list nobody bothered to work on before: the receive module.
Development on this has been finished and made Gerstensaft a lot more
user friendly.  It can now operate as fully-integrated solution for
sending and receiving files with the <a
href="http://www.belwue.de/projekte/saft/saft-us.html">SAFT</a>
protocol.</p>

<p>As a bonus to the user a third module has been developed for
sending messages via SAFT.  This allows users to send messages to
other users on remote machines, similar to the Unix <code>write</code>
utility on the same system.</p>

<p>The development happens in the CVS HEAD branch and will lead to a
new release in the near future.</p>

<author>Joey</author>

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