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- Changes since FastEcho 1.41 GAMMA
- =================================
-
- Version 1.45a, 22 Oct 1995
- --------------------------
- Maintenance release
-
- * fixed problems caused by 'too long' MSGID/REPLY kludges when tossing
- to JAM areas
-
- * fixed bug in the LHA archive scan function causing TRAPs and hangs
-
- * fixed problems caused by an 'incorrect' setting of Dupe records
-
- * fixed problems with FastEcho/2 PACK -P leaving EndOfPacket marker
- when appending to existing .?UTs
-
- * fixed problem with FastEcho/2 TRAP when shareware test time was
- >60 days (and under certain circumstances even within the first
- hours after installation)
-
- * fixed TRAP when executing FEUTIL2 IMPORT
-
- * fixed TOSS problems with high ASCII characters such as 'Ö' in the
- messages' area tags
-
- * in some cases FastEcho PACK was putting wrong dates in the *.MSG
- header of packed messages, fixed
-
- * FastEcho PACK was incorrectly modifying the .MSG header of packed
- messages, fixed
-
- * fixed wrong Barricade and Menu entries for Maximus MSGAREA.CTL update
-
- * fixed FEUTIL exiting immediately with errorlevel 243 when Logging
- was set to None
-
- * added FEOPT=NOFEBUSY to disable FEBUSY.* checking completely (only
- use when running on a single task system!)
-
- * added a setting 'Ignore old semaphores' to tell FastEcho/FEUTIL to
- ignore all semaphores (like the mailer "system online" semaphores)
- if they are older than X hours, this was previously hardcoded to
- 12 hours
-
- * FEBUSY is now included in the 'Ignore old semaphores' check, all
- programs touch their FEBUSY.<task> on a regular basis
-
- * FEBUSY.<task> is now using decimal numbers for <task>
-
- * changed -FIDO switch to -MSG
-
- * FEUTIL IMPORT will now also read the handles from RA's USERS.BBS
-
- * Passive areas will no longer be included in LIST and NOTIFY area
- lists for the uplink
-
- * FastEcho is now ignoring incorrect ^aFLAGS kludges (like "^aFLAGS:")
-
- * when an area is deleted in the Area manager, all Carbon Copy entries
- pointing to that area will be deleted, too
-
- * made response to mouse events (up/down arrows) faster in FESetup's
- Area manager
-
- * changed <name> <description> to Echolist in Forward AreaFix section
-
- * changed Manual changes to Remote changes in Area manager
-
- * HMBLOCK now defaults to 15 seconds if not SET
-
- * TOSS does now correctly write the statistic to the log file when
- interrupted by user or an error
-
- * FastEcho now starts compressing outbound mail when the temporary
- outbound on a harddisk is full
-
- * added 'Write FASTECHO.CFG' option to FESetup
-
- * added support for Maximus 3.00
-
- * added import support for IMail 1.7x, xMail 1.0x, enhanced the
- SQUISH.CFG im- and export
-
- * several other (cosmetical) fixes and changes
-
-
- Version 1.45, 30 Jun 1995
- -------------------------
- EuroCon release
-
- * now including a DPMI protected mode and an OS/2 32 bit version of
- FastEcho and FEUTIL
-
- * new configuration file structures, allows up to 32 akas, 20 origin
- lines and (sooner or later) more groups, allows area tags and
- comments with up to 50 characters
-
- * expanded the number of supported conferences to 3072 (although
- FastEcho/2 and FastEcho/16 won't have problems with that keep in
- mind that FESetup is still limited by the amount of available
- conventional memory!)
-
- * finally implemented ARCmail sizing (see UPGRADE.DOC for details)
-
- * finally added Binkley style netmail packing (handling of direct/crash
- and immediate netmail messages, file attaches and requests), call
- FASTECHO PACK with -P switch to include these mails in the packing
- process
-
- * FastEcho, FEUTIL and FESetup will now create a FEBUSY.<task>
- semaphore either in the semaphore directory or - if not specified -
- in the FastEcho system directory and stop if a FEBUSY.* is already
- found there, to avoid that 2 or more copies run at the same time
-
- * added support for an unprotected inbound (with an option to allow
- unarchiving of ARCmail found in this directory), from which only
- .PKTs containing netmail will be processed
-
- * added support for new environment variable $[macros] a la
- "$[FE]\FASTECHO.LOG", the old method like "%FE%\FASTECHO.LOG is
- still supported, but will be removed in a future version
-
- * added auto area create support for Maximus 2.02, ProBoard 2.02 and
- the forthcoming RemoteAccess 2.50
-
- * added support for SET TZUTC=[+/-]hhmm which replaces SET TZ=
-
- * FastEcho is now adding a TZUTC kludge to netmail messages it creates
- (AreaFix receipts etc.) if you have SET TZUTC=something
-
- * added 'Kill stray attaches' option to kill ARCmail file attaches
- which point to a non-existent file, an ARCmail file attach pointing
- to a truncated archive will now always be deleted
-
- * changed FASTECHO.DAT structure, you have to do a TOSS or SCAN
- first (with mail im/exported) before you can do a STAT
-
- * FastEcho/FEUTIL will now only check for FASTECHO.CFG either in the
- directory FE= points to or in the current directory if no FE= is set
-
- * replaced the Ctrl-C trapping by a routine checking for ESC - you can
- now interrupt FastEcho at several places (TOSS, SCAN, PACK, AFIX and
- ARCmail packing) by simply pressing ESC
-
- * added definable calling conventions for Decompression programs,
- like '*.PKT -d <path>' for InfoZip's UNZIP for example, if nothing
- (= '0') is selected, FastEcho will use its internal pre-defined values
- as in previous versions
-
- * Systems may now have a 'Pack priority' which means that when packing
- ARCmail these systems will be processed prior to the others
-
- * added detection of Windows
-
- * added RAR and UC2 support
-
- * new environment variable SET FEMAXMEM=<kilobytes>, maximum amount of
- memory (EMS for DOS version, extended for DPMI, normal for OS/2) to
- use for outbound .PKT buffering (defaults to 4MB for FastEcho/2 if
- not specified)
-
- * FastEcho now touches existing BTRESCAN.* semaphore files if 'Force
- Rescan' is selected
-
- * updated auto area create to support newer InterMail versions (2.29+)
-
- * FastEcho now automatically retries opening for 3 seconds if a file can't
- be opened because of 'Permission denied'
-
- * added FEOPT=NOLOG and /NOLOG - don't log to logfile
-
- * FastEcho and FEUTIL now abort if they can't open their logfiles
-
- * 2 new errorlevels: 243 - Can't open log file
- 244 - Another copy currently active (FEBUSY)
-
- * FastEcho now supports the "AREA, R=<n>" and "AREA, R" ways to
- perform rescans via AreaFix
-
- * FastEcho will now stop processing an AreaFix request when it
- encounters an ' * Origin:' line (without a previous tearline)
-
- * AreaFix NOTIFY message now shows the ARCmail destination address,
- added some more settings to AreaFix Options to define what will
- be shown in a NOTIFY message and what not
-
- * if areas were switched passive the area's Passive flag wasn't
- written to the .CFG, fixed (note: the new FESetup will set all
- non-passive passthrough areas with only one link to Passive the
- first time it's run !)
-
- * FastEcho TOSS is now ignoring inbound .PKTs with 'read-only' flag set
-
- * Inbound .PKTs which were refused because of a security violation now
- will be renamed to *.SEC instead of *.BAD
-
- * improved HMB overflow checking
-
- * fixed problems with Squish tossing if echomails contain too many
- kludge lines (internal buffer overflow -> strange effects)
-
- * Retoss from badmail wasn't moving the created .PKT from the
- Temp. Outb. to the Inbound if the Temp. Outb. Type was set
- to 'Harddisk' - fixed
-
- * FastEcho SCAN does now also support -HMB, -FIDO, -SQ and -JAM
- switches to tell FastEcho only to scan areas of these types (or a
- combination of that)
-
- * FastEcho JAM SCAN will now only export echomail messages with
- TypeEcho and ignore TypeLocal messages
-
- * added 'Clean tearline' switch to Advanced options, use instead of
- retearing to 'empty' tearline, default for new installations
-
- * JAM Netmail SCAN now supports zone gating via MSG_GATE
-
- * 'received' Hudson echomail messages will no longer be ignored when
- running SCAN
-
- * FastEcho Squish & JAM Netmail SCAN now does no longer add the
- INTL kludge at the _bottom_ of the message if there's none in the
- original mail
-
- * FastEcho SCAN no longer sets JAM/Squish/Fido high-water-mark if one
- or more messages couldn't be exported due to errors
-
- * fixed JAM netmail SCAN to export only 'Local' messages
-
- * fixed bug in FastEcho SCAN that showed an incorrect size of (0.0kB)
- for some exported echomail messages
-
- * fixed FastEcho HMB SCAN creating too long .PKT fields
-
- * fixed FastEcho SCAN problems with 'Convert Umlaut' turned on and
- large paragraphs containing a high number of Umlauts
-
- * fixed *.MSG netmail SCAN not correctly checking the Sent flag
-
- * finally fixed mail SCAN problem in Local areas - now really only
- 'export-by-name' messages get exported
-
- * fixed a bug which made FastEcho SCAN always delete *.MSG netmails
- from secondary netmail areas even without K/S flag
-
- * FastEcho PACK: NetMail messages originating from one of the system's
- AKAs but don't have the LOCAL flag won't be packed any longer
-
- * FastEcho PACK now supports zone gated netmails correctly
-
- * added No-Pack statement to ROUTE.FE syntax, don't pack netmails
- for the matching systems, leave them untouched
-
- * FastEcho PACK does no longer exit on FrontDoor multiline systems if
- one line is in a session
-
- * FastEcho PACK is now logging the size of the exported netmail
-
- * FastEcho STAT function does no longer include hidden areas in report
-
- * new switches for FastEcho STAT: -N include no-traffic areas,
- -H include hidden areas
-
- * FastEcho now always kills in-transit ARCmail fileattaches if the
- file can't be found (it usually won't as it will be tossed)
-
- * finally FastEcho is able to handle the situation when an ARCmail
- file attach (*.MSG) gets killed AFTER the netmailfolder is scanned
- for attaches and BEFORE FastEcho is trying to pack mail for that
- system
-
- * fixed FastEcho running out of filehandles when outbound contained
- too many 0 byte .QQQs, it's now killing them like it's supposed to
-
- * changed file move (rename) routine to work (hopefully) better with
- Novell Netware
-
- * Carbon Copies will now also contain a hidden AREA: kludge for a
- better interface with some editors
-
- * finally added detailed EXEC swap errors
-
- * threw out the USEANSI FEOPT and the code needed for it
-
- * FastEcho/FEUTIL now take the time seperator character from the
- COUNTRY settings for FrontDoor style logs
-
- * FastEcho now checks the system date at startup and aborts if the year
- is below 1994
-
- * FastEcho is now restoring the current drive/directory after shelling
- out to external programs
-
- * FESetup's menu now sets the hard cursor to make it easier for blind
- people with Braille terminals to navigate, furthermore you can
- enable a blinking cursor in FESetup with SET FEOPT=SHOWCURSOR
-
- * updated FESetup IMPORT configfiles for GEcho 1.10, FMail 0.98 and
- IMail 1.60
-
- * added FESetup im-/export functions for Squish.Cfg style config
- files (only for the area definitions), added FESETUP -X$ switch
-
- * you can now change the areas' groups via Global Changes (and take
- over the group's defaults if wanted)
-
- * ARCmail destination field is now correctly expanding
- addresses (.1 etc)
-
- * FESetup/Node-Config/Copy was moving the netmail route info
- to the new system - fixed
-
- * problems with Carbon Copy setup should be fixed now
-
- * reinstated mouse-support in the Area manager area list window
-
- * added switch in FESetup/FEUTIL parameters to make FEUTIL IMPORT
- always use your USERS.BBS as include list (this file will only be
- read if there are actually messages that could be imported and not
- always at start-up, as it would as an -INCL list)
-
- * speeded up FEUTIL JAM Pack and Sort, added -QUICK switch to Pack
-
- * added FEUTIL JAM & *.MSG POST and fixed some older bugs in the
- HMB POST routine (file attaches etc.)
-
- * FEUTIL IMPORT will now return an errorlevel of 10 if netmail was
- imported (0 otherwise)
-
- * fixed FEUTIL/2 HMB LINK problem (some other FEUTIL/2 problems may
- probably disappear, too, as this was caused by problems with the
- BC++/2 code optimizer)
-
- * fixed FEUTIL/2 HMB SORT which was only working under special
- circumstances
-
- * fixed FEUTIL/2 IMPORT which was not working at all
-
- * FEUTIL Import will now only import messages ONCE (if Keep Netmails
- is ON) unless you add the -Force switch
-
- * FEUTIL JAM Purge: 'Kill read' flag was not honored, fixed
-
- * FEUTIL JAM Purge: fixed a potential problem with the 'days rcvd'
- setting in conjunction with 'Kill Grunged Date'
-
- * a lot cosmetical changes and fixes
-
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