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What's New With the ZipNews Door for Waffle
2/24/93 v0.96b ßeta
A change in the mailer/reader code (to Reader v0.91c) necessitates this
release. This version can now user Waffle's RMAIL more effectively to
generate more complete mail headers (and the reader has been updated to
include these header lines). Door versions prior to this one will not
produce correct headers if run with readers of vintage v0.91c or later.
Trying to get this release of the door out and around before the next
version of the reader hits. This version is backward compatible to
earlier readers, but unfortunatlely older versions of the door are not
forward compatible to the newer reader. (Clear as mud?)
2/21/93 v0.96ß
This is a MAJOR UPDATE. Do NOT load this package in place of a prior
version without reading these update notes and making the changes
indicated. You'll get some very strange results if you ignore this
advice.
- Before you do anything else, if you have previously installed the
ZipNews door on your system, delete the present ZN.COM on your system.
Significant new functionality has forced us out of the 'C' tiny model
and into the small model resulting in ZN.EXE as the executable rather
than a .COM. Delete the ZN.COM file now so that you don't execute
that in error later.
- The ZN.CFG file has also undergone significant changes. If you
previously had installed the ZipNews door, save your old ZN.CFG under
a different name so that you can reference it while you do
re-customization for your system using the ZN.CFG in this release as
the starting point.
[ OK. Enough on what you gotta do if you installed this before. On
with the good stuff . . . ]
- The major enhancement to this version is the new ability to
communicate with the door's companion program, the ZipNews Reader
(and Mailer in that program's registered from). The ZipNews Door
offers the caller a choice of download formats: the original ASCII
text file format and the new ZipNews Reader format. The ZipNews
Reader, by the way, will be available soon. It is in a limited
BETA testing cycle as of this writing.
- The ZipNews door now operates both ways! It can accept uploads of
news articles composed on the registered form of the ZipNews
Reader/Mailer. It posts them appropriately under control of Waffle's
RNEWS program. The door continues to offer full NEWS-related
functionality in its unregistered form.
- Also new with the registered form of the door for this release is the
ability to access and transfer to the caller his/her personal mail as
received on the Waffle system. The mail operations also include
acceptance of uploaded mail composed on the registered form of the
ZipNews Reader/Mailer. The uploaded mail is processed under control
of Waffle's RMAIL program. Mail operations are NOT supported by the
unregistered form of the ZipNews Door.
- The significant changes to the ZN.CFG file mentioned earlier involve
the two-way nature of the door now. Additional lines had to be added
to accommodate command specifications for the uncompressing of files
(the uploaded packets) and for specifying the "receive" protocol
command line. There is also a new "organization :" line and a
"hostname :" line. See the ZN.CFG included within this archive.
- Several significant bugs have been fixed in the news scanning
operation. One had been bothering us for many months, and would
occasionally result in preparing for download fewer new articles
from a newsgroup then what were really available. We're very happy
to have nailed that elusive one.
- There were occasions with prior releases where the caller's JOIN
file would be inappropriately changed. Two bugs in this area have
been squashed, and JOIN file updating appears to solid and reliable
with this release.
One parting comment for first-time ZipNews Door users -- the file
ZIPNEWS.DOC included with this archive is sadly out of date. I have
not taken the time to update it in order to expedite the releases of
these BETA versions. Please key off this text file and ZN.CFG for
the down and dirty installation details. The original .DOC is still good
for the general overview.
2/07/93 v0.95ß
- Fixed bug which resulted in resetting the last article read
pointers of LOCAL newsgroups in the caller's JOIN file.
- Fixed bug whereby errors occurred with some callers when reading
PCBOARD.SYS (for those PCBoard systems offering ZipNews optionally
from the main PCBoard prompt). The affected callers were unable
enter ZipNews directly from the PCBoard main prompt, although they
still could gain access via Waffle (running as a door under PCBoard).
- Added capability for downloading ALL local forums and newsgroups. To
include local forums, merely include the head directory along with your
news directory spec in ZN.CFG. Example:
# The full pathname to the directory(ies) heading your newsgroups
# (Separate multiple directory specifications with a space)
newsgroups : d:\news d:\waffle\local
- Other changes in preparation for support of the ZipNews Reader/Mailer
which will be able to handle mail downloading, and uploads of mail
and news articles for posting.
1/22/93 v0.94ß
- Introduced initial operation capability with PCBoard BBS software.
ZipNews can now be executed as a door directly from PCBoard (but must
have Waffle installed on same system). For further details, see the
file PCBOARD.OPS
- Some early BETA testers are experiencing confusing error reports when
either an incorrect Waffle Account spec is given on the command line
for invoking the door OR the directory name (corresponding) to a
Waffle Account cannot be found off the directory specified as the
"user" parm in ZN.CFG. To make the error report hopefully more
meaningful, it now says:
"Cannot open user's personal config file.
Possibly invalid Waffle account specified?"