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Msg # 63 Kill/Sent
Date: 03 Feb 94 23:28
From: Trev Roydhouse
To: All
Subj: Opus 1.80 Feature List
____________________________________________________________________________
A Product of the Opus Covert Action Committee
The fact that a feature appears in this list does not automatically guarantee
that it will ever appear in a release version of Opus. Conversely, the fact
that a feature does not appear in this list does not mean that it will not
appear in a future release version of Opus.
Please, do not ask when the next Opus release version will be ready. You know
as much as anyone. It will be ready when it is ready <tm Wynn Wagner III>. It
is not possible to give any definite time frame. There is no team of
full-time programmers. People work on Opus in their spare time. They are not
paid to do so. Please be gentle. Slippery when wet.
WHAT'S NEW
* A new message database. The message database is heavily based on Doug
Boone's work, although the utilities have been pretty much reworked the
intellectual rights remain with Doug and Wynn.
* Scan lines are now 4d aware, and output either type-2 or type-3 packets
dependant on flag's set ... (The default is type-3)
* New Verbs in the CTL file ...
Message Areas
SEEN % Keep SEEN-BY'S
RENUM RECEIVED
RENUM QUICK
RENUM MAX <Number>
RENUM LOW <Number>
RENUM DAYS <Number>
RENUM THRESHOLD <Number>
System Section
MULTITASKER OS2
MULTITASKER PCMos
MULTITASKER MultiLink
Equipment Section
FAX STRING <eg /Fax>
FAX EXIT <range 5 - 254>
Matrix and Echomail Section
PATH Inbound Secure <path> % Path for Prot Inbound
ECHO Statistics <file> % Path to Echomail Stats
ECHO PACKETMAX <Number> % Max size of pkt in Kb
PATH DupMsgs <path>
* New menu commands
_LIST_MSGS Scan for new mail (MAILCHECK AT LAST!)
* The following embedded commands have been added:
^FD display user's birthday
^FE display user's alias/real name
^FF display user's address
^FG Check for all new mail
^FH Check for new mail in this area
^FI Display BBS Name
^FJ Display Sysop's name
^FK Display system's primary address
^FQ display user's answer
^FT display user's phone number
* Opus now finally displays the correct zone info on messages which
originated somewhere other than 'myzone' as now with point addresses.
* Changed the way Opus asks a user for his birthday at logon, etc.
* Opus now marks received messages as 'Recvd', honours private messages, and
diplays the kludge info properly.
* Fixed Opus timing routines so no longer machine dependant.
* ALT-X now exits as well as ALT-Q.
* Support for baud rates 16800, 21600, 57600 and 115200.
* Fixed mite which caused Opus to dial out at the baud rate in the Nodelist
rather than it's own Max Baud rate, thus connecting at 9600 baud rather than
14,400 in some circumstances.
POSSIBLE ENHANCEMENTS
o Echomail Statistics reports
o Full Screen Mode (selectable in PRM file)
o Support for Bark style update requests
o Support for .BSY flags
o Look at including Janus and Video Fossil support in place of Opus' buggy
video fossil (or just fix the Opus one).
o DSZ Moby-Turbo
o Support for Binkley's point directories.
o Support for 4d Points.
o Improve multiline support
o Redesign the menu system to use a file similar to the Opus language files
at present.
TREV.
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