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03/05/94 -------- Added - You can now use ALT-A in the Auto Dialer Screen to ADD a BBS. Added - The program will also create the PROEXEC one by default. However, I haven't added the necessary code to make all of the proper files for the PROEXEC. Added - When using the Dialer portion of the program, it will update the line status to indicate what exactly is being done. Added - You can now press the SPACE bar to CYCLE while trying to log onto a BBS. Fixed - The program will no longer ABORT if the BBS you're calling keeps getting RING singals. Instead, it will cycle to the next BBS number (if there). 03/04/94 -------- REMOVED - The internal editor is GONE <sigh>. The program is getting too big <sigh>. This means that you need to use an external editor. We will be supplying one. By doing this, it will allow us to add a SpellChecker into our editor in a future version. REMOVED - The ScrollBack Buffer is GONE. Since there is no internal editor, no sense in wasting memory for something that isn't being used. 03/03/94 -------- Added - You adding a file attachment, you can now press ALT-F. This will pop up a window so you can enter in a file spec for a specific file. So if you wanted to attach a certain file and didn't know the EXACT path/filename, you could enter something like F:\QMODEM\*.ZIP. You could then search through your various directories for the file that you want to attach to a message. Added - When attaching a file, it's possible that you THINK you know the correct filename path. Well, if you happen to enter in an incorrect filename, you will not be able to save the message. The prompt will go to the File Attachment line and let you enter in a different filename (or just use the ALT-F). Added - You can now PICK your conference when entering/replying to a message (in case you don't know the conference number off the top of your head). Simply press the F3 key. 03/02/94 -------- Fixed - When editing a reply, the SIGNATURE file will not be added to the message (since it already exists). Added - Each conference can now have its own SIGNATURE file. Added - You will now be prompted with a "Do you want to abort this message (Y/[N])" prompt if you press the ESC key while editing the header portion of the message. Changed - When entering a new message, the TO and SUBJECT fields are left EMPTY. 03/01/94 -------- Fixed - When saving a message, the cursor wasn't being displayed. Added - If you're running under DV, you can use the CTRL-O key to quote the message you're replying to. 02/07/93 -------- Added - Have added MEMCHECK and CHEAP libraries to the code. What this means is that if a BUG appears, it will be reported to you and will be created in a file called "MEMCHECK.LOG". You will also need to have the MEMCHECK.CFG file in your CAMSTER directory and also set an environment as follows in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file: SET MEMCHECK=ON This will enable the debugging code to go into affect. The program will run a little slower, but it will help us in finding any bugs. Please check your MEMCHECK.LOG file each time you use Camster. I am going to modify the code so it calls in the internal LIST function upon exiting the program. That way you can see if any debug info is available. If it is, please let us know ASAP. Fixed - If your PATH to your work directory was longer than 25 characters, then most likely the file attachment ability would not work correctly. 12/13/93 -------- Fixed - Other changes were made, but I forgot to add them to this file. Sorry!! Fixed - There was a problem with using the external. It would create musical notes sometimes. I've been unable to duplicate it at this point, so I'm hoping it is fixed. Fixed - The AnsiTerm emulator wasn't working properly when viewing messages, news, newfiles, or bulletins when it was told to change the background color. Fixed - If trying to access the "Files" menu from within a QWK packet and the file didn't exist, you were prompted with a "AnisTerm Error #2". I've fixed it so it doesn't display this error message. Fixed - When adding/dropping a conference, the name of the TO field was being changed to the person of the last message you read. Fixed - The Help Information line for the "Directories" was spelled incorrectly. Fixed - When editing a reply, the TO field was being changed to the FROM field. I thought I fixed it in the Beta I released, but it only fixed it if you were using an EXTERNAL editor. The internal editor still had a problem. Fixed - When dialing a bbs via the command line and using the /REP option, it wouldn't upload the REP packet if the name of the REP packet ID was less than 8 characters. Example, if the reader was trying to upload PROEXEC.REP, it wouldn't because PROEXEC is only 7 characters. However, if YOURMAIL.REP was going to be uploaded, it would work just fine. 11/04/93 BETA H release ----------------------- Fixed - When REPLYING to a message with an external editor, it didn't work. Broke it when I reduce the file access (as a file was missing). Fixed - Editing a REPLY with an external editor was broken. Fixed - When editing a reply, the TAGLINE wasn't removed. Fixed - My screen management routines weren't working properly and could still cause RANDOM problems to happen. I finally found the problem and fixed the code. Opps - Forgot to add the updated CAMSTER.HDX (help file) to the Beta G release. 11/01/93 BETA G release ----------------------- Changed/Fixed/Added There were probably some other changes that we made, but not all of them got added to this file. We're hoping to have Camster release by the end of November (if not sooner). Changed - The look of viewing messages is now different. There's now only one line at the bottom of the screen, and we have made the HEADER portion of the message Dynamic. This means that if you read a message that doesn't contain any PCB Long header Types, you'll have more viewing pleasure per screen. Added - There's now a Header Spacer that you can disable. What this means is that if you want more viewing per message, you should disable this. This will give you one extra line, but doesn't look as pretty <g>. Changed - When reading messages in a conference, the program no longer writes the message to disk. We've had a lot of people comment about this. We've changed it so it no longer does this. Fixed - When using the internal editor, the Quote portion wasn't working properly. It was always using "=>" as the Quote character. It'll now work however you've defined it in the setup portion of the program. Added - Event running of the Dial Portion. This means you can use Camster to call a BBS during your EVENT to upload your REP packet and download a QWK packet. See the CAMSTER.DOC file on how to use (it's at the very end). Added - When replying to a message, and if you're in a PostLink type conference, it will copy the Routed Number into the Header portion of the message. Also, if the message is private, it automatically sets the routed and private mail information properly. There have been too many times when I have left a private message to someone in RIME and have forgot to add the the Routed Information or vice versa <arg>.. Fixed - When saving a message, the ALT-S (Save Message) didn't work properly. Changed - When viewing messages in the previous releases, I hard coded two Help Lines and I believe around 7 Header Messages. I have changed it so there is only one help line (which now displays the current BBS info) and so that the header portion is dynamic. Added - You can now have the option of having a BLANK LINE spacer inbetween the header and the actual contents of the message. Added - You can now set the Right Margin on the internal editor. The minimum length is 40, maximum is 79. Added - You can now set the Tab Length size. Minimum is 2, maximum is 15. Fixed - If using the CTRL-RightArrow/LeftArrow, as soon as you got to the last word for that movement, it would either go to the end or beginning of the screen. I've fixed it so it stays at the end/begin of each word (depending on which key you're using). Added - ALT-N will take you to the Configuration Screen from anywhere in the program. Added - F5 will shell to DOS from anywhere in the program. Fixed - If you added a backslash to the WORK directory, the program wouldn't run properly. Matter of fact, it wouldn't let you into the Select QWK option. Fixed - The READ and REPLY Status flags in the PERSONAL and the first conference to have any messages were being shared by each other. This is incorrect. What would happen is that the READ/REPLY flags could be set on a message that you hadn't READ or/and REPLIED to. Fixed - There was a problem in my ANSI driver routine. It was basically corrupting memory <arg>. Fixed - In the main configuration area, Directories, ATTACHMENT was spelled incorrectly. Fixed - If a .QWK packet didn't have any .NDX files, the program would work fine the first time with PERSONAL messages in the conference. However, if you quit that packet and then opened another .QWK packet (that didn't have any .NDX files), the program would indicate that you didn't have any PERSONAL messages, when in fact you did. Fixed - The internal editor is now 400 lines maximum. Fixed - If you were using the external editor, it would fill the end of the message with NULL's. This was incorrect. It should of been SPACE's. Added - You can now create a VERBOSE LOG file. The NORMAL log file hasn't fully been implemented, but will be before the next wide area beta. Added - Have added an option to Disable the Serial I/O when writing to a disk. You should only use this option if you have a high speed modem and you don't have a 16550AFN Chip, or you are downloading files to a FLOPPY Disk. Added - Have added an option for the Western Digital 16550 Chip. The WD 16550 chip has some problems. If you have this UART chip, and run into problems with the the communication routines (especially Zmodem), turn this on. Fixed - The "Disable CTS/RTS" wasn't enabled properly. Fixed - If you were manually trying to download a file and the auto Zmodem started, it would put the file(s) in the current directory. It'll now put it in the proper path. Fixed - If your path to your QWK/REP was not the same, the renaming of the QWK packets wasn't working. This is because I was trying to rename a QWK file in the REP directory <arg>. This also caused problems if a QWK file already existed, as Zmodem would APPEND to the current QWK packet, thus making it completed unusable. I've changed the code now so that if this does happen in the future, the QWK packet will be overwritten. 09/13/93 -------- Fixed - The ATDT was being forced and wasn't using the dial string defined by the user. Fixed - COM1 and COM3 were not working. This was due to not using the correct variable <arg>. Fixed - If your modem didn't have echo on, the display wasn't being updated properly (the "Phone: " portion). There was something else, but I can't remember now <arg>. 09/03/93 -------- Fixed - The uploading of a REP packet wasn't working right. The program was sending two U<cr> strings, which for some reason caused the program to not send the file. Fixed - The CAM-MAIL.PPF file was setup incorrectly. When I made changes to the .PFF files yesterday, I made a typo on the CAM-MAIL.PFF file. 09/02/93 -------- Fixed - The modem initialization string wasn't being sent properly. Fixed - The program was sending sometimes sending an N when getting to the Main Board Prompt in a PCBoard Configuration. I believe I have fixed this problem. The above fix was due to the PROMPT file being setup wrong. The proble was with the MORE? and (H)ELP prompts. I changed them so they look like this: More - (H)ELP, MORE? Help - (H)ELP? Make sure that your PRESS (ENTER) prompt does NOT contain a N for the action. It shouldn't be sending an N character. Fixed - When using the Prompt Editor, it would sometimes keep switching between Yes/No prompts <arg>.. Not good! Fixed - I wasn't closing a file when first initializing the reader. This would eventually cause an out of memory problem. Fixed - Sometimes my Keyboard buffer wasn't being empty. This would cause certain areas of the program to not work properly. Normally this condition could be found when pressing the ESC key. What would happen is that after you hit the <enter> key, and you would try to access another menu and press <enter>, the program would think you pressed something else and nothing would work <g>... I also noticed something with the QMAIL door on Salt Air. A lot of their prompts are colorized in several places. What this means is that the actual prompt isn't what the program expects. Make sure you give a N;Q;NS on the Graphics question to avoid these problems (I haven't wrote an ANSI filter at time when looking for prompts, but plan to in the future to avoid this problem. 08/08/93 - 09/02/93 ------------------- Quite a few things were added and things were fixed as well. I spent two or three weeks alone testing the communication routines (making sure that they worked properly). If you run into any problems with the communcation or automation of loggin into a BBS, please let me know ASAP!! INTERNAL EDITOR LIMITED - Due to the size of the program at this point and all of the text being in near memory, you will only have about 80 lines when replying to a message, but will have the full 150 lines when entering a message. If you need more than 80 lines for a reply, you'll need to use an external editor. Hopefully in Beta E I will convert all of near memory text into FAR memory to free up quite a bit of room. This will also allow you to customize some of the prompts. Added - File attachment Directory, Download Directory, and a Upload Directory! These are used when manually trying to upload/download files or when a QWK packet contains a PCBoard file attachment (will be adding WildCat's in the next release). Added - A message will now indicate that it has a REPLY if you reply to a message. I would suggest that you delete your BOOKMARK.* files since the file format had to be changed to include this. Added - You can now type the first letter of the Select Menu Screen to execute the option (Qwk Config, Auto Caller, etc..). Added - When using the internal QUOTE REPLY function and if you were using a mouse, the NORMAL CURSOR was not displayed. I've changed the code so that the CURSOR is displayed if a mouse is being used. This means that if you are using a MOUSE, you will have two cursors. The mouse cursor and the normal cursor. Added - Pressing ALT-D in the Select Packet Menu will DELETE the Highlighted Packet. Be sure as there is no YES/NO prompt. Added - When entering the SUBJECT/TO field, and these are blank and you try to save the message, you will be put back into the header portion of the message and will need to make sure they aren't blank (which one of them must be <g>). Fixed - When using the EDIT REPLY function and if you were using an external editor, you would be forced into using the Internal editor instead. Fixed - When Adding/Droping a conference, I wasn't closing a file. This would eventually cause an out of memory error and finally no file handles left <g>. This would only happen if you tried to add/drop about 10 conferences. Otherwise, you would of never of seen it. Hopefully it'll fix the problem some people have mentioned about the Adding/Droping not working properly. Fixed - If you enter a message for a QWK packet and there previously wasn't a REP packet, the Yes/No option in the Packet Menu wasn't being updated. Fixed - If you went into the Bulletin Menu, the temporary bulletin file wasn't being deleted, causing the prompt about your work directory not being empty to be displayed. Fixed - Request Return Receipt was spelled incorrectly. Fixed - There were several places where ALT- was spelled ATL- <arg>. Fixed - ALT-S wasn't working when trying to Save a Message. It was doing something else <arg>. 07/28/93 -------- Added - Enable Taglines has been changed from a YES/NO option to: Yes/Pick/Random/Sticky The code has also been modified so that if you have a conference with its own tagline file, that conference will have its own set of pointers to keep track of what the last tagline selected. Also, if you have enabled Pick, it will automatically go into the tagline manager. Please note, if you are using a third party program to use taglines, please DISABLE taglines in the reader so you won't get duplicate taglines. In order to use a third party program to manage your taglines, you need to specify that you are using an external editor. Instead of calling your editor directly from the reader, you will need to use a BATCH file to call your EDITOR and your TAGLINE manager. Fixed - The Packet Screen was not being updated after reading a QWK packet. Fixed - I added code to keep track of messages in a conference, but never fully implemented it. If you read a conference and decide you want to quit that conference, and then later rejoin that conference, it will take you back to where you left off. This acts as what most people know as a BOOKMARK. The bookmark will automatically be saved and be read in if you decide to start reading this packet. That way you don't lose your place. Fixed - When using the STATS command to display your BBS Information, the USERS FULL NAME was being displayed twice (opps). Enhanced - When using the internal scrollback buffer with the MOUSE enabled, the mouse release key was too fast. This could cause text to be tagged and untagged very easily. I also modified it so if you press the RIGHT button mouse, it will act as if ESC was pressed (this is how it should act anyways). This was causing people to go insane <g> due to them tagging text and then hitting the right button and nothing would happen. Enhanced - When using the LIST Messages function, it will now take you to the exact message that you were currently reading. That way you won't lose your place when you're reading a conference that has a LOT of messages. Changed - I made a new TAGLINE.TGS file. It contains only about 300 taglines and I believe it doesn't contain anything that might be offensive. If there is, please let me know. Fixed - When using the internal editor, it wasn't very clear on how to QUOTE part of a message. In order to quote part of a message, simply hit the SCROLL LOCK key. Fixed - The HELP file didn't contain any information on how to import a text file into the internal editor. You use the ALT-I key to import a text file. Fixed - If replying to a message and using the external spell checker, and you wanted to spell check your reply message, it wouldn't do it. Added - You can now have a Signature file. You define the file in the QWK Configuration, Messages/Editors Options. Fixed - If you tried to use the Bulletin Option when reading a packet, and you didn't have any bulletins, a file would be created and was left open (meaning it couldn't be deleted). Added - You will now be prompted to delete a REP packet if it is older than the QWK packet you are going to read. 07/27/93 -------- Added - For each conference you can now define whether or not you want the LIST function to be displayed before reading messages in a conference. Basically, this means that you can see the TO, FROM, SUBJECT, and NUMBER header fields before you actually start reading messages. This allows you to select where you want to start reading in a specific conference. In order to enable this, you need to use the ALT-C option in the Conference Screen (where all of the conferences are displayed). This allows you to specify which conferences you want this option to be enabled with. Added - When using the Conf/Message/List option (insert key when reading messages), it will now display a √ if a message has been read. 07/23/93 Fixed - The BBS Name in the Qwk Packet Selection Area wasn't being displayed. Fixed - The Read (Yes/No) wasn't enabled. It will now display whether or not you've read this QWK Packet. The TERM READ in this case means whether or not you have looked at this packet. Probably in the future I'll change it to work according to how much of the packet has been read, but currently, it's either YES or NO (sorry folks). Fixed - The HEADER portion of entering/replying to a message had no HELP. Fixed - The TagLine manager was pointing to the WRONG HELP files. Fixed - If you turned off (Beep On Personal Messages), the program would still beep on personal messages. Fixed - There was a small problem with animating an ANSI message with ANSI MUSIC. This is a very TRICKY area because not all people follow the standards, so you have to try and make up the parts they don't add <arg>. At any rate, hopefully this will do the job a little better. Fixed - When editing the HEADER of a message (TO,FROM,SUBJ,etc) the <enter> key would only move between the TO,FROM, SUBJ fields. You can now also use the <enter> key to scroll down to the Private/ConfNumber/CarbonCopy/RequestRR/TagLines. Fixed - The EDIT REPLY options was not working(PERIOD). Added - You can now KILL a reply. Please note that if you KILL all of your reply messages AND if you previously had a REP packet, the REP packet will not be deleted. This is done for SAFETY reasons. Added - You can now use the Right/Left arrow keys to go to the next/previous message. Added - You can now specify up to four Tagline Quote characters. Also, if you use the %N% in this option, please note that it defaults to the Users Initials and adds a '>' character. However, if you wish to bypass the '>' characters when using the %N% parameter, simply add the character of your choice. Examples: %N% Looks like - CD> Hello there %N%? Looks like - CD? Hello there %N%α Looks like - CDα Hello there Added - Updated the CAMSTER.HDX file to reflect the new additions.