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The Blue Wave Offline Mail Reader
v2.12
Upgrade and New Feature Documentation
Copyright (C) 1992 by Cutting Edge Computing
All Rights Reserved.
This information is provided for 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 2.11 and version 2.12 of The Blue Wave Offline
Mail Reader. If you have not upgraded from v2.10 to v2.11 of The Blue
Wave Offline Mail Reader yet, you should also review the file called
WHATSNEW.211, which contains new feature documentation since v2.10 was
released.
INSTALLATION
------------
If you already have any version of The Blue Wave Offline Mail Reader
installed on your system, upgrading to v2.12 is very simple. Simply
replace the following files from the BWAVE212 archive with those
currently on your system:
BWAVE.EXE
BWAVE.DOC
BWSETUP.HLP
All other files contained in the distribution package (mostly with the
file extension .BW) are sample support files. If you have customized any
of these files since you first installed the mail system, do not
overwrite them with the sample files. A full listing of file names and
their purpose is included in the file FILELIST.212.
NEW FEATURES
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* When deleting messages from either Blue Wave mail packets or .QWK mail
packets, you can now choose to delete UNREAD messages. At the "Choose
Area to Read" selection window, pressing <Alt-K> will give you a menu
with the following options:
- Purge DELETED messages
- Purge UNREAD messages
- Purge READ messages
- Purge DELETED + UNREAD messages
- Purge DELETED + READ messages
* When displaying ANSI messages with the <Alt-V> command key in message
reading mode, the reader no longer stops with the message "Press any key
to continue". The message is shown in its entirety with only a
wait-for-keypress at the very end.
* A new option on the SETUP menu under Miscellaneous->Global Settings
allows you to set the ANSI display speed for viewing ANSI messages with
the <Alt-V> command key in message reading mode.
There are 3 settings for this option: FAST, NORMAL, and SLOW. The FAST
option displays ANSI messages almost instantaneously. The NORMAL option
will display messages at about the same speed as DOS's ANSI.SYS. The
SLOW option pauses for 5 milliseconds between each character written to
the screen in order for you to view "animated" ANSI messages without
overworking your brain.
WHAT'S FIXED
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* In version 2.11, random characters were sometimes placed in NEW messages,
as if the message had been quoted. This problem should no longer occur.
* If line 5 of a QWK-CONTROL.DAT was formatted with a <space> before the
name of the mail packet root, the reader was not finding the correct .REP
file to ask if the packet should be added to.
* Fixed "Open Mail Packet" from showing up in read window in speech mode.
* All input prompts that are YELLOW on CYAN are now mapped to BLACK on GREY
when -LCD or the LCD config parameter is used. This should allow those
with troublesome LCD displays to see all configuration menu input
prompts.
* In order to cure all of the problems dealing with the fact that v2.11 did
not delete the *.NEW/*.REP file before repacking a mail bundle, any
*.NEW/*.REP file is now renamed to *.SAV _just_ before the archiver is
called.
If the compression fails, you will be informed with a window, and the
*.SAV file will be renamed to *.NEW/*.REP.
If the compression is successful, the *.SAV file will be deleted.
These procedures should *always* leave you with a *.NEW file in the
upload directory if anything fails, and even if it was successful. If a
*.NEW file should not be there (all messages in a packet have been
deleted), the *.NEW/*.REP file will also be deleted.
If your computer "crashes" before a mail packet is successfully been
packed, you should look for a file called *.SAV in your UPLOAD directory
in order to recover any previous replies.
* A new critical error handler has been built into the reader. Now,
instead of asking "Abort, Retry, Fail", the reader should automatically
issue a "FAIL" response to DOS, and the reader should handle the error
appropriately.
For instance, if the "Download Directory" is set to "A:\", and there is
no disk in A:, the DOS Abort, Retry, Fail message should *not* appear,
and the reader should say "Can't find any mail in A:\".
The previous DOS critical error handler would sometimes cause system lock
ups.