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The Blue Wave Offline Reader
v2.11
Upgrade and New Feature Documentation
Copyright (C) 1992 by Cutting Edge Computing
All Rights Reserved.
This information is provided to those people who are extremely familiar
with previous versions of the reader, and who do not care to comb the
full documentation to find what has been added.
However, if you are unsure of how to use a feature that is described
here, consulting the appropriate section in the full documentation
(BWAVE.DOC) will be necessary. The following features were added
and/or enhanced between version 2.10 and version 2.11 of The Blue Wave
Offline Mail Reader:
* If you are upgrading from v2.10 or earlier of The Blue Wave Offline Mail
Reader, you will need to check one configuration item in your current
setup. The menu option SETUP->Miscellaneous->Reading Mail Options->"Read
Msgs Sorted by Subject" has been changed to "Read Msgs sorted on which
field". If you previously had the OLD option set to "NO", the v2.11
reader will have this option set to "Subjects". I'm sorry about the
inconvenience, but in order to add the functionality of the next feature,
the option had to be moved in the configuration file.
* A new setup option, "Read msgs sorted on which field" has replaced "Read
msgs sorted by subject". You now have the option of reading messages
sorted on the following fields:
- Subject
- Name in the TO: field
- Name in the FROM: field
- Unsorted (messages are displayed in the order they appear on the BBS)
* Major support has been added for users whose language requires special
treatment through the use of translation tables and "unprintable"
characters. A new setup sub-menu has been added called "National
Language Support".
National Language Support includes the ability to translate one character
to another in both incoming and outgoing mail, support for Double-Byte
Languages (such as Chinese), and different display formats for the
on-screen clock and date function.
Because the new National Language Support functions are described in
detail within the main documentation (BWAVE.DOC), the effort will not be
duplicated here. If you feel you have a use for one of the National
Language Support options, you should scan the documentation for "National
Language Support", which begins on page number 28 in BWAVE.DOC.
* The elusive "Using The Blue Wave Mail Door" section of the documentation
has been included in v2.11's BWAVE.DOC file. Sorry to those people who
looked for the mentioned section but could not find it. (It was
mistakenly omitted from the v2.10 documentation file).
* The functionality of the F9 key at the "Choose Area to Read" selection
window has been changed to allow non-default message sorting when loading
messages in an area. Pressing F9 will now give you an intermediate menu,
allowing you to read the highlighted message area sorted on the FROM:,
TO:, or SUBJECT: fields.
* The functionality of the F1 key at the "Choose Area to Read" selection
window has been changed to allow much more functionality and flexibility
than before. you can now Set/Clear/Toggle *all* marks and message status
bits by whole areas or the whole packet at a time. The menu options
presented to you should be fairly self-explanatory. If you are unsure
about its use, please consult BWAVE.DOC.
* The reader now has an internal ANSI screen driver. There is no longer a
need to have ANSI.SYS loaded in order to view ANSI messages or welcome
screens and bulletins.
* When viewing NEWFILES.* file lists, the reader now will automatically
determine if the list is formatted with ANSI, and it will display the
listing in full color, if appropriate.
* The global <Alt-I> information screen now informs you if the reader is
running under:
- DESQview, and the version number of DESQview
- an OS/2 Virtual DOS Machine
- Windows 386/Enhanced mode, and the version number of Windows
- if DOS, the version number reported by DOS. SETVER, DR-DOS, and
possibly others, will affect the DOS version displayed here.
* Built-in time release functions have been added to the reader when
running in an OS/2 v2.0 DOS box (VDM). The reader will automatically
detect if it is running under OS/2 and release processor time
accordingly.
* Built-in time release functions have been added to the reader when
running in a Windows 386/Enhanced session. The reader will automatically
detect if it is running in a Windows Enhanced mode DOS session, and free
processor time accordingly. This should make the operation of the reader
under windows more friendly to Windows applications.
* Enhanced the speech capabilities of the reader to work with more types
of speech synthesis hardware. Some software would begin spelling out the
text of messages in message reading mode, and required special
configuration to get around this problem. If you had this problem with
your speech package, you will most likely find that you do not have to
work around the problem anymore.
* The <Alt-M> pull-down menu in message reading mode now displays the
hotkeys that activate the function, if you prefer not to go through the
menu system.
* Pressing '*' while in message reading mode will toggle the "Read" status
of the current message. If you would like to mark a message as "Unread",
simply press '*', or click the LEFT mouse button on the word "Read:" in
the message header display window.
* When Cutting/Pasting a tagline from the message reading screen, the
following keys and key combinations have been added:
- Mouse LEFT Button sets cursor position AND accepts.
- Mouse RIGHT Button aborts the current operation.
- <Ctrl-LeftArrow> moves one word to the left.
- <Ctrl-RightArrow> moves one word to the right.
- <Home> moves to the beginning of the line.
- <End> moves to the end of the line.
- <Ctrl-Home> or <PgUp> moves to the top row of the message window.
- <Ctrl-End> or <PgDn> moves to the bottom row of the message window.
* NEW Macros have been added to the user-defined Quote Header String
(SETUP->Strings->Quote Header String).
- @FF - First name of person in FROM: field
- @FL - Last name of person in FROM: field
- @TF - First name of person in TO: field
- @TL - Last name of person in TO: field
* Executing the reader with the command line switch -LCD will force it to
map colors that are more easily seen on some LCD displays.
* A new option in the SETUP menu under Miscellaneous->Video has been made
to permanently set the -LCD command line switch. If you have a need for
the -LCD command line switch, and you would like to make this a permanent
start up parameter, set "LCD Color Mapping" to "Yes".
* The reader will now allow you to open an "empty" mail packet for the
purpose of viewing bulletins, new files listings, and offline
configurations.
QWK Mode Enhancements/Fixes
---------------------------
* A global reader setting has been added to the SETUP menu under
Miscellaneous->Global Reader Toggles. Setting "FidoNet-QWK Compatible
Mode" to "Yes" (which is the default) will format messages that are
acceptable in the FidoNet network. If you do your offline message
reading and replying in non-FidoNet networks, you should set this option
to "No" so that the BBS's message processing software will digest the
messages propely.
* When reading .QWK mail bundles, the reader will now create and modify the
correct .REP file that belongs to the mail bundle. This is true even if
the first packet has been renamed with some other "root" name.
* When entering messages with a .QWK mail bundle, the reader will now allow
you to change the FROM: field of your message. HOWEVER, you should note
that when the message is uploaded through the BBS mail door, a different
name *may* be put on the message. This is not a function or limitation
of the Blue Wave Reader, but rather a function of the sysop's mail door.
* Deleting messages from .QWK mail bundles did not always work properly.
You can now pack messages out of a .QWK mail bundle with the <Alt-K>
command from the "Choose Area to Read" menu with confidence.
* Occasional rebooting/lockups/exception #13's that occured with QWK
message packets when leaving the reader have been fixed.
* Occasional lockups when keyword searching .QWK mail packets will no
longer happen.
* Some .QWK mail doors did not like the way private messages were generated
in version 2.10. The reader should be compatible with many more doors
now.
* Some networks require that offline mail readers preserve the "reference
message number" when a user replies to a message. The reader will now
include this information in upload (*.REP) packets.
* The formatting of .REP packets has been enhanced to work with many more
.QWK mail doors. If you had trouble uploading .REP packets to .QWK mail
doors with version 2.10, you should have no problems with v2.11.