486)  New Teleconferencing stuff:

      All commands now work on USERNAME, not NODE NUMBER!

      /M [TOPIC]  Make yourself moderator of an unmoderated room,
      and set the topic to [TOPIC]

      /S   Shows everyone in all active rooms, the moderator, the topic, number
            of people in it, and those people's names.

      /EJECT [USERNAME]  Ejects the user from this room. (Moderator only)

      /E  Turn local echo on/off

      /ANON  Sets the room to Anonymous mode  (Moderator only)

      /I     Sets the room to Invite only (Private)  (Moderator only)

      /I [USERNAME]  Invites a user to the channel (Moderator only)

      /J [ROOM]   Joins room (replaces /C(hange))

487)  New ACS:  X# returns true if # is greater than or equal
      to the number of days remaining before the user's subscription
      expires.

      i.e.:  The user's subscription expires in 30 days.

      x30 = TRUE
      x25 = FALSE
      x45 = TRUE

488)  New file: TELECONF.xxx is displayed when users enter Teleconferencing.

489)  NODECHAT.xxx is now TELEHELP.xxx

490)  Renegade now checks for multiple logins, and disconnects users
      who are already logged on another node.  MULTILOG.XXX will be
      displayed if it exists.

491)  The List Nodes cmdkeys will no longer display a node's number
      or ANY information if that node is DOWN.

492)  Renegade should now properly handle mass-mailed file attaches.
      That is, it shouldn't delete the file until everyone has recieved it.

493)  Renegade will send short messages to the sysop if a user fails
      a logon and on fatal system errors.

494)  Finally, Renegade gives back time slices in a decent manner.
      Supported environments are OS/2, Windows, and DesqView. If
      you are running one of these, and Renegade doesn't display
      this on the WFC "Under" field, let me know.

495)  ARGH!  Temp directories have changed AGAIN!!  You can delete
      your old ones.  Format:

      \RENEGADE\TEMPx\QWK
                     \ARC
                     \UP     Where x is the node number, and
                             assuming \RENEGADE\TEMP was your
                             temp path specified.

      Renegade will create all of these for you.

496)  Major bugs fixed:

      1) Renegade will now properly REFUND upload time to users
      who went PAST their time limits uploading without hanging them
      up!!

      2) Renegade will ignore a user's remaining time while processing
      a .REP packet.

      3) File ratio system bugs NAILED!

      4) Batch upload problems NAILED!

      5) Ansi upload bugs NAILED!

      6) Major email corruption bug NAILED!

         Note: This is the one that appeared in the last month or so,
         and seemed to happen only if a user was validated while posting
         an email message.  There may be an additional one that affected
         a VERY small number of people.


497)  Renemail supports 32k message imports and has improved error trapping.

498)  Infoform additions:  .INF is the default extension. The system
      will now also search for .INA for ANSI users, or .INV for AVATAR
      users.  If not found, .INF is used.

499)  More reworking of the events. All previous problems SHOULD be
      solved.

500)  OO acs returns TRUE if the operator is available, false if not.
      Ideal usage is for external chat programs.

501)  When a user /Q 's out of Teleconferencing, he can now append an
      action to the /Q:

      /Q rides off into the sunset

     Will display:

     Joe Blow rides off into the sunset
     Joe Blow has left the room.

502)  Renegade will now announce to users if system bulletins have
      been updated since their last call.

503)  The new "F"orce read flag in message bases disallows the Quit,
      Ignore, Goto base, or Newscan toggle while reading messages.
      It also forces a newscan on, and forces downloading via QWK.

      WARNING:  Check your bases!  Some might accidentally be set
      to Forced Read!

504)  The new color scheme selection feature is in place.  "K" from
      the System Config menu will take you to the color scheme
      editor.  From there, you can change the 10 (0 to 9) x colors,
      and edit formerly hardcoded colors in area such as File listings,
      Message listings, File and Message Area listings, who's online,
      last few callers, user list, etc.

505)  To go along with the new color scheme selection process, the
      user color configuration cmdkeys now are user color scheme
      selection cmdkeys.  All users default to scheme 1.

506)  New optional file:  ONCEONLY.xxx.  This file is displayed to a
      user right after "logon#.xxx" and "user#.xxx", and is ONLY
      displayed if it is NEW since their last logon.

507)  New optional file:  NETMHELP.xxx.  This file is displayed right
      after a user answers "YES" to "Do you want to send netmail?".

508)  New Renemail option:  -O  for Netmail ONLY.

509)  The Full Screen editor or normal message editor is now used
      when editing previously posted messages.

510)  The Full Screen editor or normal message editor is now used to
      write the Auto-Message.

511)  Multinode support has been improved quite a bit in respect
      to cross-node updating.  Example: If any changes occur to a
      user from node 1, while he's on node 2, his user record will
      be updated while he's online.

512)  Renegade will now read in new short messages (the one-liners
      at logon) sent to a user while that user is online.

513)  Renegade's User file Indexing has been completely rewritten.

      Features:

      1) Corruptions will now be almost non existant.
      2) Index generation is at least 1,000 times faster.
         It's even faster than Josh's index maker! <duck> :)
      3) In most cases, it is faster searching for handles.
      4) It is ALWAYS several dozens times faster searching
         for real names.
      5) When new user's log on, they can no longer use
         a duplicate real name!
      6) Renemail's netmail processing has been sped up with
         this indexing method.
      7) Inserting and Deleting new users is much faster.

      Warnings:

      1) Corruptions, though almost impossible (crossing fingers),
      are now much harder for the system to detect.  However, it
      also won't think there's a corruption when there isn't, unlike
      the old system.

      2) When you first switch to this method of indexing, you MAY
      have a significant number of duplicate accounts show up!  These
      will be reported in your SYSOP LOG FILE.  You *NEED* to go
      through your user file, referencing your SYSOP.LOG file, and
      take care of these duplications!

      ****************************WARNING****************************

        DO NOT USE ANY EXTERNAL UTILITIES THAT DO NOT UTILIZE THIS
        NEW INDEXING FORMAT!  THEY WILL DESTROY THE USER INDEXING,
        RENEGADE *MIGHT* NOT FIGURE IT OUT, AND YOUR USERS WILL
        HAVE ONE FUN TIME TRYING TO LOG ON!

514)  Renegade now checks to see what bulletins, if any, have been
      updated since last logon, and if "bulletins in logon" is flagged,
      will prompt the user appropriately...i.e.:

      Bulletins 1, 5, 6 have been updated. Read them now?

515)  Renegade now will prompt you to see if you want to make
      any changes to the flags on outbound netmail. This allows
      for File Requests, update requests, etc.

      Renegade will also no longer ask if you want to send netmail
      anonymously. :)

516)  Message bases now have a permanent index that works with the
      QWK system.  Deleting and inserting message bases have NO
      effect on REP uploads!

      NOTE: Use PERMINDX.ZIP, available from my system to reset
      your bases permanent indexes before using!! If you don't,
      you'll be in TROUBLE!

517)  New ACS codes:

      JJ - Returns TRUE if the user has NOVICE mode on.
      Kx - Returns TRUE if the user is in message base #X
      Lx - Returns TRUE if the user is in file base #X

518)  New menu keys:

      EVERYTIME

      Works sortof like FIRSTCMD, except EVERYTIME is executed *EVERY*
      time the prompt is displayed, and *AFTER* the menu is displayed
      to novice-mode users.

519)  The OI cmdkeys have been removed.  As someone pointed out, there's
      no point in having a separate command that does exactly the same
      thing as a -F;SYSTEM command does.

520)  Renegade will now display YOURINFO.xxx in place of the default
      "Your Information" screen, if it/they exist.

512)  The ascii-3 (#3, .) coloring system is gone. You need to convert
      your data files and text files with CLRFIX.EXE.

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