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- HERMES V2.1 RELEASE NOTES
-
- To update:
- BACKUP ALL FILES BEFORE UPDATING.
-
- First, replace your old Options external with the one included here.
-
- Thanks to v2.0's improvements, all you have to do then is replace the old app
- with the new one, set your Multifinder memory and boot.
-
- When booted, go to each node and select your modem driver again in the Node
- Prefs. The modem driver interface has been completely rewritten. If your
- modem driver does not appear, see the support BBS for an update. Some modem
- drivers were added, and some were removed because they could not be re-tested.
- It is also much easier to make new modem drivers. The manual documents
- the new interface including easy to use export and import.
-
- IMPORTANT NOTE #1: Registered users must first update their serial number
- from the support BBS.
-
- IMPORTANT NOTE #2:The computer types have been updated. See below item #9 for
- how to update your BBS.
-
- Change History
- ______________
-
- 1] The Move and Rename commands in the Downloads Manager now work correctly.
-
- 2] A new sysop only command has been added from the main menu, "//EQUIT".
- This will engage an emergency quit mechanism that will shutdown the app.
- Only a user with full 255 access and Sysop marker can use this.
-
- 3] A bug was corrected in time recorded for a logon when a user had not
- completed the logon process. This often resulted in erroneous Usage Records.
-
- 4] A bug was fixed which would cause a crash if the BBS list was
- greater than 32K.
-
- 5] A feature was added called form letters. This is a sysop-only feature.
- From the mail-read prompt, type "O". You will then be prompted for a form
- letter number to send. It will then load a file called "FormX" where X is the
- number you entered. You must create this file in your Hermes Files folder to
- use this. The top line of this message should be the title. You are limited
- to 9 form letter types.
-
- 6] An automatic password updating system was added. In intervals, your users
- will be prompted to change their password. You can also use the ":" command
- in the User Editor to force a user to update their password at the next logon.
- Any users over 1 year old will be asked to update thier password. They will
- then not be asked again for 1 year.
-
- 7] An internal screen saver has been added. You may set whether this saver
- is active and the number of minutes before dimming in the Options external
- under System Prefs. This screen saver is preferrable to any other screen saver
- when running Hermes because it takes exactly 0 processor time. This will
- not only give you a faster BBS, but also provides status information about
- who is online at the moment on the screen. You should remove all other screen
- savers from your system when using this.
-
- 8] When downloading a file, Hermes would calculate the estimated file
- download time based on old Xmodem approximations. There is now a special
- field for every connection type in the modem drivers which allows these
- estimates to be absolutely on the mark.
-
- 9] The computer types have been updated for the new PowerBooks, IIvx, Quadra
- 950, and other CPUs. It is necessary to use the included Computer Type Updater
- to update your accounts or your users will be shown with different computers.
- This is a little bit kludgy, but safe. You have to run the application
- three times. Every time you should check the box to also change the second
- set of parameters. The parameters on the first run are to replace 16 with
- 21, and 15 with 17. The next run is 14 with 15, and 13 with 14.
- The last run should be 12 with 13, and 11 with 12.
-
- 10] A new command, //CATCHUP has been added to the main menu. This command
- is the opposite of //QSCAN which sets all your message pointers to 0.
- The //CATCHUP command marks all messages as read. This is sometimes useful
- when one has been away for a while and it would be impossible to read some
- thousands of new messages.
-
- 11] The modem drivers have been completely rewritten. "New" and "Delete"
- buttons in Node Prefs let you create and delete modem drivers from within
- Hermes. No more ResEdit. The modem drivers are also now more powerful,
- allowing perfectly accurate transfer time estimates. It should be fairly
- obvious from looking at the other modem drivers (double click on the name)
- how to make a modem driver. If it seems unclear, see the manual for v2.1.
- Also, you can export new modem drivers by pressing the Export button. To
- import modem drivers, just drop the new modem driver file on the Hermes
- application icon and it will immediately register without even restarting
- the application. The new modem drivers are not compatible with the old
- modem drivers although the process of conversion is trivial as the actual
- modem interface is identical.
-
- 12] A bug was fixed with the "Free Downloads" option. Users will not now
- be able to cheat this feature into letting them download when they
- have a bad ratio if the C restriction is on.
-