This updater will modify your copy of BulkRate 1.6 or 1.6.1 to incorporate the changes in BulkRate 1.6.2.
You should probably turn virus detection software off, since the updater modifies resources. Also, make sure the Incoming Mail window in BulkRate is empty (no messages) before running the updater - the updater replaces all the data in this window.
To run the updater, make sure BulkRate is not open, then either double-click the updater, or drag'n'drop the updater on the BulkRate 1.6 icon. The latter method is perferred if you happen to have multiple (old) versions of BulkRate on your hard drive.
When the update is complete, you'll find a file called "ClipFile" left in the same folder as BulkRate - simply throw this file away.
Included in this document are notes on the changes introduced in BR 1.6.1 and 1.6.2, a note about replies, and notes about certain models of high-speed modems.
BulkRate 1.6.1 changes
• Fixed a bug that reared its head if the user attempted to reply to a message that had no "header" info. These are usually text files from the Administrator and not really messages per se. The bug caused BulkRate to go into an endless loop.
• Fixed a bug that occurred when clicking on "Message x of y" in the Incoming mail window that prevented you from jumping to message y.
• Removed the "Sort by subject" button from the message list window - added the ability to sort by "To," "From," "Subject," and "Date/Time" by clicking on the appropriate header at the top of the window - much as the Finder (in System 7) allows you to sort by Name, Kind, Size and Date. I'll repeat that: To sort by "To", click on the word "To" at the top of the message list. You can sort by Subject by clicking on the word "Subject," etc.
• (Hopefully) Fixed the problem in which some message conferences were not being read, even if there were new messages within. It appears that under some circumstances, the FC CLUI was taking a long time to send the message list for a given conference - I suspect it's a function of the total number of messages in the conference and the relative speed of the FC host computer. Anyway - BulkRate now waits at least 10 seconds before giving up - previously it gave up after 3 seconds. If that still does not prove to be enough time for some situations, please let me know and send me a copy of the mail log if possible.
BulkRate 1.6.2 changes
• Made a change to the code I used to fix the problem where BR didn't read any messages from some conferences that did indeed have unread messages.
• Sort by "From" now sorts by last name, not first name
• Improved Date/Time sorting to be more accurate.
• Added a redial delay setting to the Preferences dialog. Default is now 10 seconds. Note that this is a global setting, and is not saved for each BBS.
• Changed the display of incoming messages to add a "Posted to conference:" line. This allows the following three new features:
• Added Log on and log off times to the mail log so you can track time elapsed.
• Reply now puts the conference in the "To:" line, instead of the original From person.
• When replying to a message that arrived via a gateway, the reply is addressed to the conference, and the original sender is addressed in the body of the text.
• Added a "Sort by 'thread'" button, which really sorts by BBS, conference, subject, and date/time. In practice, it does a relatively good job of putting threads back together.
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A note on replies:
From various messages posted to the BulkRate conference (available via OneNet, fed from MVOL), it is apparent to me that people don't understand the extra features I built in to the reply function, though I did endevour to explain them in my documentation. So I'll try again:
If you highlight text in a message and then click on the Reply button, the highlighted text will be automatically copied and pasted to the reply. You do not need to manually copy and paste the text you wish to quote. In addition, if you hold down the option key while clicking on Reply, any highlighted text will be formatted "Quoter"-style, which looks like this:
GN> Here is an example of "Quoter"-style quoting.
GN> Quoted text is preceeded by the initials of the original
GN> message sender.
In addition, several people have asked why BulkRate often ccs replies to you; in other words, if you reply to a message addressed to you, your name appears in the cc list. The main reason for this is that BulkRate has no way of knowing that that name is YOUR name. BulkRate cannot compare this to the UserID, because the UserID is not necessarily the same as the name that appears in FirstClass messages. I could add another field for that name, but I KNOW that that would end in an endless series of question and answers about that as new users wouldn't be able to figure out the difference between UserID and Name-as-it-appears-on-this-FC-BBS. So if that feature annoys you, simply delete your name before sending the message.
More high-speed modem strings:
Various users have sent me strings that they use with BulkRate and their high-speed modems. I'll repeat them here with the following caveat: I do not have any of these modems and cannot attest to their utility. Try them- if they work, great. If not, I cannot troubleshoot them for you. The original docs for BulkRate 1.6 have a few more strings to try, as well as the info you need to figure out strings for ANY modem.
•PowerPort Gold:
Thanks to Bruce Linde and Richard M. Shapiro of Planet BMUG.
AT &F M0 W0 \J0 \N7 \Q3 %C1, hardware handshaking and hayes
compatibility checked.
&F recall factory settings as active
M0 speaker off
W0 negotiation progress codes disabled; result code is DTE rate
\J0 disable port rate adjust; serial port rate is independent of connection
\N7 set autoreliable (V.42 LAPM/fallback to MNP)
\Q3 enable bidirectional hardware flow control
%C1 enable data compression (V.42bis in LAPM; MNP5 in MNP)
•USR Mac&Fax 14.4/14.4/V.32bis/V.42bis/MNP5/ARQ.
From: Bill Williams,MacInternational
Leave all the external modem DIP switches at factory defaults EXCEPT DIP
Switch No. 1 set DOWN (modem ignores DTR)
Turn the modem on and in a telecom application (I used ZTerm; it's the only
one I half-way understand) isssue the command AT &F to load the factory ROM
settings into RAM.
Now enter the following string: AT Dx X3 &A3 &B1 &H1 &K3 &R2 &W
Dx = DT for tone dialing, DP for pulse (I use DP)
X3 = Results codes selection to use, plus adaptive dialing (DP defeats
