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Changes since FastEcho 1.41 GAMMA
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Version 1.45, 30 Jun 1995
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EuroCon release
* now including a DPMI protected mode and an OS/2 32 bit version of
FastEcho and FEUTIL
* new configuration file structures, allows up to 32 akas, 20 origin
lines and (sooner or later) more groups, allows area tags and
comments with up to 50 characters
* expanded the number of supported conferences to 3072 (although
FastEcho/2 and FastEcho/16 won't have problems with that keep in
mind that FESetup is still limited by the amount of available
conventional memory!)
* finally implemented ARCmail sizing (see UPGRADE.DOC for details)
* finally added Binkley style netmail packing (handling of direct/crash
and immediate netmail messages, file attaches and requests), call
FASTECHO PACK with -P switch to include these mails in the packing
process
* FastEcho, FEUTIL and FESetup will now create a FEBUSY.<task>
semaphore either in the semaphore directory or - if not specified -
in the FastEcho system directory and stop if a FEBUSY.* is already
found there, to avoid that 2 or more copies run at the same time
* added support for an unprotected inbound (with an option to allow
unarchiving of ARCmail found in this directory), from which only
.PKTs containing netmail will be processed
* added support for new environment variable $[macros] a la
"$[FE]\FASTECHO.LOG", the old method like "%FE%\FASTECHO.LOG is
still supported, but will be removed in a future version
* added auto area create support for Maximus 2.02, ProBoard 2.02 and
the forthcoming RemoteAccess 2.50
* added support for SET TZUTC=[+/-]hhmm which replaces SET TZ=
* FastEcho is now adding a TZUTC kludge to netmail messages it creates
(AreaFix receipts etc.) if you have SET TZUTC=something
* added 'Kill stray attaches' option to kill ARCmail file attaches
which point to a non-existent file, an ARCmail file attach pointing
to a truncated archive will now always be deleted
* changed FASTECHO.DAT structure, you have to do a TOSS or SCAN
first (with mail im/exported) before you can do a STAT
* FastEcho/FEUTIL will now only check for FASTECHO.CFG either in the
directory FE= points to or in the current directory if no FE= is set
* replaced the Ctrl-C trapping by a routine checking for ESC - you can
now interrupt FastEcho at several places (TOSS, SCAN, PACK, AFIX and
ARCmail packing) by simply pressing ESC
* added definable calling conventions for Decompression programs,
like '*.PKT -d <path>' for InfoZip's UNZIP for example, if nothing
(= '0') is selected, FastEcho will use its internal pre-defined values
as in previous versions
* Systems may now have a 'Pack priority' which means that when packing
ARCmail these systems will be processed prior to the others
* added detection of Windows
* added RAR and UC2 support
* new environment variable SET FEMAXMEM=<kilobytes>, maximum amount of
memory (EMS for DOS version, extended for DPMI, normal for OS/2) to
use for outbound .PKT buffering (defaults to 4MB for FastEcho/2 if
not specified)
* FastEcho now touches existing BTRESCAN.* semaphore files if 'Force
Rescan' is selected
* updated auto area create to support newer InterMail versions (2.29+)
* FastEcho now automatically retries opening for 3 seconds if a file can't
be opened because of 'Permission denied'
* added FEOPT=NOLOG and /NOLOG - don't log to logfile
* FastEcho and FEUTIL now abort if they can't open their logfiles
* 2 new errorlevels: 243 - Can't open log file
244 - Another copy currently active (FEBUSY)
* FastEcho now supports the "AREA, R=<n>" and "AREA, R" ways to
perform rescans via AreaFix
* FastEcho will now stop processing an AreaFix request when it
encounters an ' * Origin:' line (without a previous tearline)
* AreaFix NOTIFY message now shows the ARCmail destination address,
added some more settings to AreaFix Options to define what will
be shown in a NOTIFY message and what not
* if areas were switched passive the area's Passive flag wasn't
written to the .CFG, fixed (note: the new FESetup will set all
non-passive passthrough areas with only one link to Passive the
first time it's run !)
* FastEcho TOSS is now ignoring inbound .PKTs with 'read-only' flag set
* Inbound .PKTs which were refused because of a security violation now
will be renamed to *.SEC instead of *.BAD
* improved HMB overflow checking
* fixed problems with Squish tossing if echomails contain too many
kludge lines (internal buffer overflow -> strange effects)
* Retoss from badmail wasn't moving the created .PKT from the
Temp. Outb. to the Inbound if the Temp. Outb. Type was set
to 'Harddisk' - fixed
* FastEcho SCAN does now also support -HMB, -FIDO, -SQ and -JAM
switches to tell FastEcho only to scan areas of these types (or a
combination of that)
* FastEcho JAM SCAN will now only export echomail messages with
TypeEcho and ignore TypeLocal messages
* added 'Clean tearline' switch to Advanced options, use instead of
retearing to 'empty' tearline, default for new installations
* JAM Netmail SCAN now supports zone gating via MSG_GATE
* 'received' Hudson echomail messages will no longer be ignored when
running SCAN
* FastEcho Squish & JAM Netmail SCAN now does no longer add the
INTL kludge at the _bottom_ of the message if there's none in the
original mail
* FastEcho SCAN no longer sets JAM/Squish/Fido high-water-mark if one
or more messages couldn't be exported due to errors
* fixed JAM netmail SCAN to export only 'Local' messages
* fixed bug in FastEcho SCAN that showed an incorrect size of (0.0kB)
for some exported echomail messages
* fixed FastEcho HMB SCAN creating too long .PKT fields
* fixed FastEcho SCAN problems with 'Convert Umlaut' turned on and
large paragraphs containing a high number of Umlauts
* fixed *.MSG netmail SCAN not correctly checking the Sent flag
* finally fixed mail SCAN problem in Local areas - now really only
'export-by-name' messages get exported
* fixed a bug which made FastEcho SCAN always delete *.MSG netmails
from secondary netmail areas even without K/S flag
* FastEcho PACK: NetMail messages originating from one of the system's
AKAs but don't have the LOCAL flag won't be packed any longer
* FastEcho PACK now supports zone gated netmails correctly
* added No-Pack statement to ROUTE.FE syntax, don't pack netmails
for the matching systems, leave them untouched
* FastEcho PACK does no longer exit on FrontDoor multiline systems if
one line is in a session
* FastEcho PACK is now logging the size of the exported netmail
* FastEcho STAT function does no longer include hidden areas in report
* new switches for FastEcho STAT: -N include no-traffic areas,
-H include hidden areas
* FastEcho now always kills in-transit ARCmail fileattaches if the
file can't be found (it usually won't as it will be tossed)
* finally FastEcho is able to handle the situation when an ARCmail
file attach (*.MSG) gets killed AFTER the netmailfolder is scanned
for attaches and BEFORE FastEcho is trying to pack mail for that
system
* fixed FastEcho running out of filehandles when outbound contained
too many 0 byte .QQQs, it's now killing them like it's supposed to
* changed file move (rename) routine to work (hopefully) better with
Novell Netware
* Carbon Copies will now also contain a hidden AREA: kludge for a
better interface with some editors
* finally added detailed EXEC swap errors
* threw out the USEANSI FEOPT and the code needed for it
* FastEcho/FEUTIL now take the time seperator character from the
COUNTRY settings for FrontDoor style logs
* FastEcho now checks the system date at startup and aborts if the year
is below 1994
* FastEcho is now restoring the current drive/directory after shelling
out to external programs
* FESetup's menu now sets the hard cursor to make it easier for blind
people with Braille terminals to navigate, furthermore you can
enable a blinking cursor in FESetup with SET FEOPT=SHOWCURSOR
* updated FESetup IMPORT configfiles for GEcho 1.10, FMail 0.98 and
IMail 1.60
* added FESetup im-/export functions for Squish.Cfg style config
files (only for the area definitions), added FESETUP -X$ switch
* you can now change the areas' groups via Global Changes (and take
over the group's defaults if wanted)
* ARCmail destination field is now correctly expanding
addresses (.1 etc)
* FESetup/Node-Config/Copy was moving the netmail route info
to the new system - fixed
* problems with Carbon Copy setup should be fixed now
* reinstated mouse-support in the Area manager area list window
* added switch in FESetup/FEUTIL parameters to make FEUTIL IMPORT
always use your USERS.BBS as include list (this file will only be
read if there are actually messages that could be imported and not
always at start-up, as it would as an -INCL list)
* speeded up FEUTIL JAM Pack and Sort, added -QUICK switch to Pack
* added FEUTIL JAM & *.MSG POST and fixed some older bugs in the
HMB POST routine (file attaches etc.)
* FEUTIL IMPORT will now return an errorlevel of 10 if netmail was
imported (0 otherwise)
* fixed FEUTIL/2 HMB LINK problem (some other FEUTIL/2 problems may
probably disappear, too, as this was caused by problems with the
BC++/2 code optimizer)
* fixed FEUTIL/2 HMB SORT which was only working under special
circumstances
* fixed FEUTIL/2 IMPORT which was not working at all
* FEUTIL Import will now only import messages ONCE (if Keep Netmails
is ON) unless you add the -Force switch
* FEUTIL JAM Purge: 'Kill read' flag was not honored, fixed
* FEUTIL JAM Purge: fixed a potential problem with the 'days rcvd'
setting in conjunction with 'Kill Grunged Date'
* a lot cosmetical changes and fixes
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