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- TriBBS 5.0
- ----------
-
- Added multilanguage support.
-
- Added support for RIPScrip graphics.
-
- Added file attachments to messages.
-
- You can now send a message to all users by addressing it to @USER@.
-
- You can now use @-variables in local message conferences.
-
- Added a new lightning fast text search routine for searching through file
- lists.
-
- You can now do boolean text searching through file lists.
-
- Added support for DSZLOG to both TTPROT.EXE and BBS.EXE.
-
- Put a clock on the Waiting for Caller Screen.
-
- Both editors now allow the caller to edit the message's subject and to
- fields.
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- You can now specify a list of files you don't want uploaded to the BBS.
-
- You can now password protect files.
-
- TriBBS now supports quick user logons.
-
- TriBBS now supports CD-ROM drives that have more than disc, but only one
- laser on multinode systems.
-
- You can now edit file batch queues.
-
- You can now have security-specific daily file and byte limits.
-
- Many, many other new features and enhancements to existing features.
-
- TriBBS 4.02
- -----------
-
- Added support for nonstandard IRQs.
-
- Added a DOWNLOAD.BAT file.
-
- Whenever a file area is flagged as a CD-ROM file area, TriBBS will no longer
- check that file area when searching for new files.
-
- TriBBS will now allow the caller to change his alias to his real name.
-
- When swapping out to disk, TriBBS will now use a file named TRIBBS.SWP for
- the swap file.
-
- If a caller had flagged files and then downloaded a file with the View
- Archive command, the flagged files would get messed up. Fixed.
-
- Fixed a few minor display bugs with the download prompts.
-
- TriMan would display some really weird strings for toggle fields if a data
- file had become corrupted with negative values. Fixed.
-
- TriBBS would sometimes give a caller the wrong number of minutes remaining
- for the day. Fixed.
-
- TriBBS would allow the caller to do a private reply in a conference that
- doesn't support private posts. Fixed.
-
- TriBBS 4.01
- -----------
-
- When swapping out, TriBBS now passes the environment to the child program.
- This will prevent another copy of BBS.EXE to be loaded over a swapped out
- copy.
-
- The full screen editor now visually indicates which lines have text in them
- and the backspace key now deletes an empty line if the caller backspaces
- off of one.
-
- The file menu's View File command now uses 4.0's index files, if any,
- when searching for a file.
-
- TriBBS now filters out blank lines in file listings when displaying a
- listing.
-
- TriBBS will now delete all 0 byte files that are uploaded.
-
- TriBBS will now display the upload file's name after the FILE_ID.DIZ and
- DESC.SDI description entry instructions. This will help comm programs
- that don't filter out FILE_ID.DIZ and DESC.SDI when doing name guessing.
-
- Changed the new user prompt "Enter your password" to "Please select a
- password".
-
- TriBBS will no longer display the "###-###-####" when prompting a new
- user for his phone number if the board is configured for non-US phone
- numbers.
-
- TriMan no longer allows the <ESC> key for the same purposes as <F10>.
- The <ESC> will now abort the modifications that have been made in the
- current data entry field.
-
- TriMan now lets you use the <DOWN ARROW> and <UP ARROW> keys like <TAB>
- and <SHIFT><TAB>.
-
- TriBBS 4.0
- ----------
-
- Most of TriBBS's configuration is now handled by a program called TriMan.
-
- TriBBS now supports aliases.
-
- TriBBS now swaps out of memory to XMS, EMS, or hard disk when it needs to
- spawn a program.
-
- Simplified TriBBS's file flagging method.
-
- TriBBS now lets you index file areas.
-
- You can now upload messages to both editors.
-
- Questionnaires can now nest yes/no questions up to 10 levels and now
- allows comments in the questionnaire files.
-
- TriBBS now offers a split screen chat mode for callers with ANSI terminal
- emulation.
-
- TriBBS will now optionally clear the screen before display its on the fly
- menus.
-
- TriBBS can now be configured to search for exact matches during upload
- dupe checking.
-
- TriBBS now creates a 0 byte file called POSTED when a caller posts a
- message.
-
- When packing the user file, any locked out callers are now automatically
- added to JOKER.DAT.
-
- You can now set a minimum security level for posting messages in each
- conference.
-
- You can now disable the birthdate question at new user logins.
-
- TriBBS's fullscreen editor now accepts the <DELETE> key locally and the
- <BACKSPACE> key now works correctly remotely. The <CTRL><S> control key
- has been switched to <CTRL><A>.
-
- Added the following new @-variables:
- @kuploaded@
- @kdownloaded@
- @messagestoday@
- @alias@
- @uploadstoday@
- @downloadstoday@
-
- You can now pack the user file and the message base from the Waiting for
- Caller screen.
-
- Added ASCII as an internal protocol.
-
- TriBBS will now take the phone off the hook during BETWEEN.BAT if the node
- is configured to take the phone off the hook during events.
-
- You can now optionally assign security levels to bulletins.
-
- BULLETIN.MNU and DOORBULL.MNU are now required even if you have custom
- bulletin menus.
-
- Revised TCHAT.BBS and FSCREEN.BBS.
-
- TriBBS will now display the following optional display screens:
- COMMENT.ANS/BBS
- NOTTHERE.ANS/BBS
- PASSWORD.ANS/BBS
- ALIAS.ANS/BBS
-
- Added a second user status window.
-
- Corrected a wordwrapping bug in group chat.
-
- Corrected a bug that would cause TriBBS to ask for a file description for
- a file that failed the archive test.
-
- Corrected a bug that would prevent the system stats from occasionally
- not to be reset on multinode systems.
-
- Corrected a bug that would prevent message conferences and file areas to
- still be unavailable to a caller even after his security level has been
- raised.
-
- Fixed a number of minor bugs and speeded up a lot of existing features.
-
- TriBBS 3.3
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-
- TriBBS wouldn't always detect an error correcting connection when called
- from a frontend. Fixed.
-
- TriBBS now logs when a caller has completed a questionnaire.
-
- TriBBS now clears the screen instead of scrolling when the sysop is editing
- events, file areas, users, and message conferences.
-
- TriBBS would sometimes run its goodbye after file transfer routine when it
- shouldn't have. Fixed.
-
- TriBBS now records all menu selections in the callers log.
-
- TriBBS now warns of auto disconnect at 3, 2, and 1 minutes remaining.
-
- In the log line, "NEW USER added" TriBBS now includes the users name.
-
- TriBBS will now exit with an errorlevel of 2 if the board is brought down
- with the F9 key.
-
- Fixed a bug in the full screen editor's overtype mode that would sometimes
- cause the cursor to overwrite the line numbers.
-
- The full screen editor now visually indicates whether or not the full screen
- editor is in the insert or overtype mode on the top line of the display
- screen.
-
- Fixed bug with quoting messages and the full screen editor.
-
- TriBBS now allows you to configure a node to take the phone off the hook
- when an event is run.
-
- TriBBS now allows you to optionally not allow access to the BBS for callers
- that only use one name. Great for weeding out aliases.
-
- TriBBS allows you to optionally specify whether or not the bulletin menu is
- displayed at logon.
-
- TriBBS will now check to see if any files where uploaded during a batch
- upload that weren't previously specified. If any are found, TriBBS will
- perform the same procedure it does with bidirectional file transfers.
-
- Corrected the mispelling of questionnaire in a few places.
-
- Redid the bulletin, door, door bulletin, and questionnaire prompts to make
- them a little more user friendly.
-
- The event configuration editor will no longer allow you to specify an
- extension; however, TriBBS will now run the event batch file whether it
- doesn't have an extension or it has an extension of .BAT. This will
- hopefully make it a little less confusing when new TriBBS sysops setup
- events.
-
- Control codes are no longer supported in display screens. An @original@
- @-variable was added to take the place of control code 16. A display screen
- conversion program will be supplied with 3.3 to convert the control codes
- in existing display screens to @-variables.
-
- Added an @messages@ @-variable that display the number of messages the
- caller has posted.
-
- Did extension code optimizations.
-
- TriBBS will now take into account the next day's events when calculating the
- caller's maximum log on time.
-
- TriBBS will now update the Wait For Caller Screen statistics at midnight.
-
- TriBBS now allows you to optionally specify a maximum time per logon for each
- security level in the DLIMITS.DAT file. Note that if a maximum time per
- logon isn't specified for the security level, TriBBS will use the maximum
- time per logon that's set with Configure System.
-
- TriBBS will no longer display the bulletin menu at logon if the caller's
- security is less than the main menu's bulletin menu option's security level.
-
- Added an @pause@ (should be in uppercase) @-variable that prompts the caller
- to press a key to continue.
-
- In addition to the file/byte ratio system that was introduced in TriBBS 3.2,
- TriBBS 3.3 now offers a file/byte ratio system that will only restrict the
- caller's ability to download if he has exceeded is file/byte ratio.
-
- TriBBS now supports subscriptions.
-
- TriBBS can now be configured not to take the phone off the hook during
- maintenance routines.
-
- The caller can now select whether or not they want to have TriBBS check for
- waiting messages at logon.
-
- TriBBS will now only reset the daily totals when node 1 passes midnight;
- however, events are still cleared on a node by node basis.
-
- When a % is encountered in a file's description, TriBBS's Text Search feature
- would sometimes lose track of the string it was searching for. Fixed.
-
- When prompting the caller for a new password from the Your Information
- feature, TriBBS asked for "you password". Fixed
-
-
- TriBBS 3.2
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-
- TriBBS 3.2 now features an automatic installation program called INSTALL.EXE.
- Although TriBBS can still be setup manually, this should help beginning
- sysop set up new boards even faster than before.
-
- Added support for file and byte ratios. To setup your board for file/byte
- ratios, you need to create a configuration file called RATIOS.DAT. TriBBS
- checks a caller's ratios at log on and after the caller uploads and downloads
- files.
-
- Added four new file/byte ratio @-variables: @BYTERATIO@, @FILERATIO@,
- @SECBYTERATIO@, and @SECFILERATIO@.
-
- Added two new file/byte ratios display screens: LOWER.ANS/BBS and
- RAISE.ANS/BBS.
-
- Added the ability to lock out 2400 baud callers on a node-by-node basis.
-
- The sysop can now toggle a message's ECHO status on and off.
-
- TriBBS now allows a file area to be flagged as a CD-ROM file area. Once
- flagged as a CD-ROM file area, TriBBS will not check the file area for
- duplicate file names during uploads and the file area will not be checked
- when moving or deleting files.
-
- Added an F9 key to force TriBBS to shut down the board after the current
- caller logs off.
-
- If a file is uploaded with a FILE_ID.DIZ or DESC.SDI file, the description
- file will be used in the file list no matter whether the caller entered a
- description or not.
-
- TriBBS now longer displays help screens for the full-screen editor or the
- TeleChat system internally. Instead, it now displays FSCREEN.ANS/BBS and
- TCHAT.ANS/BBS. An FSCREEN.BBS and TCHAT.BBS are now included with TriBBS.
-
- Improved TTPROT.EXE's loss of carrier detection.
-
- Fixed a few minor bugs from previous versions.
-
- TriBBS 3.11
- -----------
-
- Fixed a minor bug that would very rarely change a user's name in the users
- files.
-
- TriBBS 3.1
- ----------
-
- TriBBS 3.1 now supports the use of bidirectional protocols such as HS/Link.
-
- On a few machines running TriBBS under DesqView, TriBBS will sometimes
- incorrectly report a "Keyboard input time exceeded." message and log the
- caller off. TriBBS now allows the sysop to set the Configure System's Max.
- No Input Time setting to 0 to disable the keyboard input time check. I
- realize that this is only a work around, but this problem is caused by
- DesqView and not TriBBS.
-
- Past versions of TriBBS would allow callers or reply to messages when
- they didn't have a high enough security level to enter messages. Fixed.
-
- Past versions of TriBBS would randomly give new users access to private
- message conferences. Fixed.
-
- TriBBS 3.01 wasn't correctly initializing the video driver for monochrome
- display systems. Fixed.
-