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- Additions since v2.10
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- FLM213S.ARJ - 14/3/93 - Changes
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- 1) Fixed various bugs in local uploads
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- 2) Fixed bug in extract from archive and tag for download
-
- 3) Support now for RA 2.00 (Gamma)
-
- - to use, FLM2 EDITCFG
- then change BBS Type from 'R' to '2'
-
- 4) Also note that Ian Battersby's Node Manager now also handles FLM's
- Advanced UserOn Codes. FLM2 uses codes 200-220 to define specific
- things user is doing. Ian has kindly added these to his program.
- So, if you are a multiline system using RANETMGR, then use
- NodeManager instead and you no longer will see "External Door" as the
- users activity.
-
-
- FLM212S.ARJ - 02/2/93 - Updates
-
- 1) Enhanced Virus Scanning system to ensure all files in an archive are
- checked. ie FLM also unpacks archives within archives to any level, and
- also detects Self-Extracting archives and checks files inside those as
- well as the SFX itself.. basically I think every file possible will be
- checked now.
-
-
- 2) Ok, due to much requesting I've enhanced FLM's download limits for users.
- Previously, FLM basically only allowed what RA told it could allow,
- through info in the ExitInfo.BBS file. However, this didn't take account
- of download/upload ratios that you could specify, unless you used FLM's
- subscription system.
-
- These features are all added now, and in fact the system is taken beyond
- RA's current capability.
-
- If a file called LIMITS.FLM, which is similar in format to RA's
- LIMITS.CTL, is present in the FLM2 Data Directory then the download
- limits for a user is imposed using the info in it. The file LIMITS.FLM
- is created using a text editor, and contains lines of the following
- format. Note the only difference to a RA limits.ctl file is the
- additional 3 columns for download amounts at 12000,14400 and 16800 baud
- rates, and the Time column is used differently.
-
- <SecLvl> <Time%> <300> [1200] [2400] [4800] [9.6] [12.0] [14.4] [16.8]
- or:
- <SecLvl> <Time%> <300> <1200> <2400> <4800> <9.6> <12.0> <14.4> <16.8> <R#> [RK]
-
- In a simple case an example of this file would be:
-
- %TIME 00:00 24:00
- %ADJUSTTIME
- 5 80 100
- 10 80 500
- 100 80 1000
-
- ie. At security level 5, the user can download 100 Kb of files, and at
- security level 10 the user can download 500 kb and so on.
-
- The Time% column is ignored unless you have added the Command
-
- %ADJUSTTIME
-
- In this situation, FLM2 treats the figures in the Time% column as a
- percentage of the users Time Limit, that the user is allowed to use
- for downloading. So, if on loading FLM2 the user had 60 minutes left
- then FLM2 would only allow them to download for 80% of that time.
-
- In addition, you can have sets of limits for different times of the day.
- To use this, you simply proceed a block of limits with the line
-
- %TIME HH:MM HH:MM
-
- where the first set of HH:MM represents the starting time, and the second
- set being the finishing time.
-
-
- 3) Fixed bug where Customised Menu screens weren't being displayed for any
- other menu besides Menu #0
-
-
- 4) Have now added an internal User Record Editor for both RA and SBBS.
- This is invoked with the Alt+E keystroke when a user is online.
- Note: Flm2 no longer calls FLMUSER, which I don't think was working
- anyway.
-
-
- 5) Fixed logic error, where FLM2 wasn't fully checking user going over limits
- with extracted files from archives.
-
-
- 6) Stopped FLM2 allowing you to move a file to another store, when there
- is already a file there with the same name. It was simply overwriting
- it before.
-
-
- 7) Added to the colour selector, ability to select Blink colours.
-
- 8) Found occasional errors occuring in Weekly Graph .A?? creation.
- These now fixed, while at it added 2 more graphs FLM#SYSF.A??
- and FLM#SYSB.A?? which reports on System dates rather than Upload dates.
-
-
- 9) Have gone through the install section thouroughly to make sure it can
- and does install without problems.. namely running out of memory.
- Some of the code tightening, may help in some other areas too.
- ie. Double descriptions.
-
- A) Optimised a few routines for speed. Loads a bit quicker now.
-
- B) As reported, Alt+F5 (Unpack and Shell) wasn't always working
- in Viewer/Editor - now fixed.
-
- C) Noticed that re-date archives wasn't always putting the right
- date.
-
- D) Made some of the pop-up windows 2 lines, so as to avoid lockups
- when displaying long paths.
-
- E) Altered the Download & Upload log entries to be closer to RA
- for use by third party software, namely MOM.
-
- F) Extended the field for Command Lines in Protocol/Config
-
- G) Just a note, as it was already there. *S is a valid macro
- in Protocol Command Lines for User Baud Rate. For those who
- wanted to add estimate 0 *S to DSZ command lines.
-
- H) imporved INSTALL section to cover files with very long descriptions
- ie. those greater than 250 characters.
-
-
-
- FLM211S.ARJ - 10/1/93 - Updates
-
- 1) Configuration of all colours and screen behaviours when in sysop
- mode. Configuration/System Colours to do this.
- also added command line parameter /MONO to automatically
- use monochrome colours.
-
- 2) Added Local download and Upload portion.
-
- 3) Improved INSTALL facility for better support of long descriptions,
- ie. greater than 250 characters. Limit is now 1024 characters.
-
- 4) Other general operational improvements.
-
- 5) Added Configurable Date look. Configuration/System for option
- to change the way dates are displayed.
-
- 6) Added facility to re-date archived files after an Archive Convert
- or Archive Banner. Date is taken as being the last date from files
- inside archive.
-
- 7) Added Configurable Bannering of files in Stores
-
- a) there is an additional field in Configuration/Storage
- where you can specify the numbers 0 to 7, which represent
- 7 separate banner files and 1 option to mean no bannering.
-
- 0 to 6 - represent the text files BANNERn.TXT
- where n is in the range 0 to 6. I suggest you
- use 0 as a default banner.
- All the Banner files must reside in the
- FLM2 Data Directory.
-
- 7 - FLM2 will not banner any file in that store.
-
- b) to use these different banner files, you need to
- alter the command line to Banner files, in
- Configuration/Archivers. An additional macro is now
- available to specify which of the banner files to use.
- substitute where you currently have the name of the textfile
- which is your banner with *B
-
- *B will be replaced by the path and filename of the text
- file to be used.
-
- you should make a copy of your standard logo and call it
- BANNER0.TXT and locate this in the FLM2 Data Directory.
-
- 8) Updated ARCHIVER.FLM file included to make use of PkZIP v2.04
- features.
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