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Version 1.2:

*****************THE WWSTAT FORMAT HAS BEEN CHANGED*************************

Many new features have been added to this version, and the format of
the WWSTAT file HAS BEEN CHANGED. You MUST edit your WWSTAT file.

You can now specify the From: line format for gated messages, in a fashion
analogous to the netnews and netmail parameters in the Waffle static file.
You can set a separate From: line for news and mail, if you wish, or
use the same for both. By default, both lines are set to %s@wwiv in
WWSTAT. This can be changed to anything you want...... the person's
WWIVnet address is substituted for the %s (if you need an actual % in
the address, use %%). Thus, the default settings produce From: lines
similar to:

From: 23-9702@wwiv

If you want to generate From: lines of the form:

From: foobox!wwiv![e-mail]

You'd use:

foobox!wwiv![e-mail]

in the WWSTAT file.

If you have an actual domain site set up for wwiv, and want all WWIVnet
posts to appear to come from wwiv.yoyodyne.com, you'd use:

[e-mail]

in the WWSTAT file. If you're doing it this way, you'll also have to add
the line:

wwiv.yoyodyne.com * /spool/wwiv/mail

to your waffle/system/paths file.

There's also an origin line in the WWSTAT file. This is used to generate
the Message-ID: header. These headers are in the form
(number)wwcp(node)@(origin), where (number) is an unsigned long, (node)
is your WWIVnet node number and origin is as set in your WWSTAT file.
This should be the domain name for your site (foobox.hardknox.edu,
bittybox.yoyodyne.com, etc.). If you don't have one, use the domain .UUCP
(foobox.UUCP, bittybox.UUCP, etc.). If you don't have a Usenet feed at
all, leave it alone.

If you're going to be sending WWIVnet posts and email to the Usenet directly
from your system, you need to set all of these. If your system doesn't get a
Usenet newsfeed *through Usenet*, leave them alone. See WWCP.DOC for more
information on this.


WWCP now supports the HS/LINK bidirectional transfer protocol. To
enable this, set the hslink line in WWSTAT to 1, and put the appropriate
HSLINK command line in the send data line in WWSTAT. The receive data
line in WWSTAT is ignored and can be blank, but must be present.
You must also set your DSZLOG environment variable (see the HS/LINK
documentation for information on this).


Hooks have been added to enable WWIVnet compression in the WWIV->Waffle
direction. This will be done by means of Gregg Beasey's DECOMP program.
Tests done here with small packets show that this will work fine. However,
the shareware version of Gregg's program is limited to a packet size of
75 kilobytes. Thus, compression is not yet fully supported in this release.
I have purchased the registered version of Gregg's program, and as soon
as I receive it and verify that it gets along with WWCP I'll let everyone
know. The new WWCP is written in such a way that compression can be enabled
with minor changes to the WWSTAT, WWPOLL.BAT and WWSHELL.BAT files. I do not
anticipate that you will need a new version of WWCP to enable compression
with the registered version of DECOMP.

WWCICO now deletes partial packets on an aborted transfer.

WWCICO exits with status zero if a packet has been received from the
WWIV board, 1 if there is no connect, an error occurs, or the operator
aborts, and 2 if a connect has been made but there was no packet to send
on the remote node.

WWCP doesn't generate a "gateway" message any longer.

SUBS.LST updates are now mailed to postmaster instead of root.

WWCICO now recognizes BUSY, NO CARRIER, and NO DIALTONE. The timeout for
connect has also been increased to 120 seconds, for those people who live
in the boonies. :-)

SUBS.LST isn't included with the distribution any longer. A copy can be
downloaded from your WWIVnet connect, and your own copy should arrive in
the mail periodically. The file is quite large, and eliminating it cut
down on the size of the archive considerably.

Version 1.11 (maintenance upgrade):

Support for gating Waffle mailing lists into WWIVnet as well as straight
mail and news. This didn't work properly in earlier releases.

Support for moderated newsgroups.

Support for sending mail to WWIVnet from Usenet by name as well as
user number. Examples: if you want to send email to Some Guy #5 @9999 on
WWIVnet, you can now send to either:

5-9999@wwiv

or:

some_guy-9999@wwiv

Dark Mistress of Pain #143 @9999 would be either:

143-9999@wwiv

or:

dark_mistress_of_pain-9999@wwiv

Any spaces between words are replaced with an underscore character. This
is sort of a kludge, but RFC-822 mail doesn't allow spaces in usernames.


Version 1.1 (maintenance upgrade):

Added autoregistration feature.

Better support for bang path mail from remote Usenet sites.

Programs now restore original drive/directory on exit.

Included Bryan Lockwood's trouble-shooting guide.



Version 1.0 (first release version):

WWSTAT now supports comment lines. Any line beginning with a #
character is considered a comment and ignored.

WWCICO's timeout value for the NN: prompt has been increased, for
those systems with a long logon delay.

WWSMAIL now exits with status zero if there is a file named MAKECALL.DAT
in the spool/wwiv/packets directory, even if there is no packet to send.
This allows you to force a callout by setting up cron to create a
MAKECALL.DAT file periodically (the contents of this file are not relevant.
Only its existence or lack of same is important) or even creating
one manually. WWCICO deletes any MAKECALL.DAT when it makes a successful
connect.

For instance, you could use a batch file similar to

echo foo >c:\spool\wwiv\packets\makecall.dat

and have cron run it at the time you want to force the call out (say,
after 9:00 PM for low phone rates). Then you could have cron run
wwpoll every half hour. wwpoll will keep trying regardless of whether
there is data to send, until at least one connect has been made. At that
point, the MAKECALL.DAT file will be deleted and wwpoll will resume the
default behavior of not calling unless there is actually data to send.

WWSMAIL now does more intelligent routing of local mail for a Usenet
connected site.

The WWCP log file now displays local time instead of GMT.

Sending mail to a WWIVnet user is now done by sending to user-node@wwiv
rather than user%node@wwiv. This was changed to avoid problems with
multiple % hacks. For the same reason, sending mail to a Waffle user from
WWIV by name is now done by sending to user#site@gateway instead of the
user%site@gateway supported by beta versions. This will *not*
require rebuilding your WWSTAT and WWALPHA files.

WWRMAIL is more resistant to corrupted net packets now.

WWCP now supports many other To: formats for email. All of the below
should work:

user@site (Some Name)
bang!path!from!hell!leafsite![e-mail] (Some Name)
[e-mail] (Some Name)
"Some Name" <user@site>
"Some Name" <bang!path!from!hell!leafsite![e-mail]>
"Some Name" <[e-mail]>
Some Name <user@site>
Some Name <bang!path!from!hell!leafsite![e-mail]>
Some Name <[e-mail]>

Various permutations of these should also work. If you have an especially
weird address, contact the author for possible support. Ah..... the
wonderful thing about standards is that there are so *many* of them. :-)


WWRMAIL now processes the short mail return return receipts generated
by the (brand) new version of WWIV. Before, these were just dumped, now
they are mailed to the proper recipient. I'm not sure if this is the best
behavior..... Internet mail doesn't have anything like this. I'm open
to suggestions on whether these should be sent or dumped.