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- 04/05/95 10:14pm Version 1.85
-
- * Fixed a problem with LNK files when approaching their max size
- (36900 bytes).
-
- * This has just occured to me, and I thought a little while if
- I should tell you or not, because some of might hate me after
- I do:
-
- Multi-node support (same net) has been there all this time.
- Yes, ladies and gentlemen, an undocumented feature of which
- I didn't know!!
- What you need to do is: In your PBNet.CFG, any of the
- parameters set with '=' can be set to 'Ask', in which case
- PBNet will take console input at the time they are needed.
- This means that you can set your BBSAddress to 'Ask', and
- have 3 importing lines in your mailin.bat:
- echo 1:250/442 | PBNetIn
- echo 1:250/443 | PBNetIn
- echo 1:250/3 | PBNetIn
-
- (this supposing you had 3 nodes on Fido, and you were
- receiving mail to all of them)
-
- Alternatively, you can have a setup in which another
- program would feed a random Origin line to PBNet. For this
- to be possible, that program would need to write the one
- line to standard output (console). In this case, you would
- have something like:
-
- COOKIE "ORIGINS.LST" | PBNetIn
-
- In PBNet.CFG, on the Origin line you would have: "Ask"
-
- Yet another idea, you can have more than one parameter set
- variably by using redirection of input:
-
- PBNet < SET1.TXT
-
- The possibilities are many, and I'll leave them to your
- exercise to find interesting ways to use this feature.
-
-
- 03/30/95 11:58pm Version 1.84
-
- * Fixed a bug in the decompression logic. Previously, PBNet
- would wrongly erase compressed mail files which would not
- uncompress (wrong decompression util, invalid CRC,
- insufficient memory, et cetera), if any PKTs were already
- present in the incomming directory. So if you are running
- multiple nets, you may have lost some mail. I sincerely
- appologise.
-
- * Added some logic to FDO.BAT which should help with the correct
- reporting of the connection CPS rate.
-
- * If there are any more bugs, please, anyone let me know.
- Even if you're not registered. Who knows, if you report a bug
- that hasn't been reported before, you may even get a free
- registration.
-
- * As of the beginning of the year, my email addresses are:
- Internet: radu@io.org (prefered)
- Fido: Radu at 1:250/642.1
- None of the other addresses will work.
-
- 03/11/95 5:51pm Version 1.83
-
- * At last I found and fixed a bug which caused badly corrupted
- mail packets to cause PBNetIn to generate an exception 13.
-
- * Also fixed uncompressing. Previously, PBNetIn would only
- uncompress mail packets if at least 1 PKT was already in the
- inbound directory.
-
- * Added code to recover from corrupted PKTs. PBNet will now try
- to find the next good message.
-
- * The code just got more robust. :)
-
- 02/22/95 11:27pm Version 1.82
-
- * Only the version number has been changed to 1.82, as there
- were no bugs reported.
-
- * PBNet 1.82 is now a public release, after a long period of
- restricted beta testing.
-
- 01/29/95 12:48am Version 1.81
-
- * Version 1.80 was very short lived, and it was updated before I
- had a chance to add it to this file.
-
- * Version 1.81 is currenly in the BETA testing phase, and I will
- not distribute it as shareware, except to registered sysops,
- and still, upon request.
-
- * PBNet now handles its own compression/decompression. It is
- compatible and tested with PKZIP, ARJ, and LHA. It should work
- with the others as well, though. If not, please, someone let
- me know.
-
- * PBNet now attaches the created compressed packets to messages
- and puts them in FrontDoor's path so they can be mailed out.
- FMC is no longer required, and will not be included any more.
- FMC will still be available separately, still FREEWARE.
-
- * I have set up a mail robot, which will send you the latest
- info or binaries of PBNet, FMC and UUPB. Send an Internet
- e-mail to radu@io.org with "PBNet INFO" in the subject for the
- latest revision of this file. "Latest PBNet" will get you just
- that, uuencoded. Substitute UUPB or FMC, if you want it to
- send you those (you have to be a registered sysop in order for
- the robot to send you UUPB). Problems? mail radu@io.org,
- without putting any of the keywords in the subject line.
-
- * I don't check my Fido addresses for mail any more. E-mail any
- corespondence to radu@io.org. (you can use the 1:250/98
- Internet gateway, if you need to).
-
- * there is a small utility that will read any message in any
- conference of Powerboard and save it to a text file. The
- intended use is for users to be able to download a single
- message as a text file and keep it for reference (FAQ, lists,
- long messages, UUENCODED files, etc.) If you would like a copy,
- send me a message at radu@io.org. RM.COM is freeware.
-
-
- Still to do:
-
- - multiple networks in one CFG file.
- - I won't make a menued configuration.
- - Probably not a PBHub, either.
- - Interest has not been very high lately, and I cannot really
- justify doing more work on PBNet.
- - Release 1.81 to public as soon as I hear from enough people that
- it has been working flawlessly for them.
-
-
- 07/09/94 10:22pm Version 1.72
-
- * I'm terribly sorry about 1.7. I had compiled the module that
- only allows PBNet to be run by my beta testers. Since your
- address did not match any of theirs, PBNetIn would self erase.
- Funny thing is that I had remembered to take that code out of
- PBNetOut.
-
- * Those of you who experienced this problem deserve a 2 month
- free regular access key. Contact me and I'll send it to you.
-
- * Added SHARE.EXE support. You can now run PBNet while users
- access the message base on other nodes. PBNet will wait up to
- 30 seconds for a file to become available before giving up.
-
-
- 07/08/94 6:23pm Version 1.71
-
- * Fixed bug which caused PBNetIn to hang if more than 640
- messages were to be imported from any one PKT in any one
- conference.
-
- * Optimized PBNetOut new message scan. PBNetIn will now update
- POINTERS.IDX' high message sent pointers if no local mail has
- been inserted in the conferences since the last import. This
- should speed up systems that carry heavy traffic areas but
- don't output a lot of mail in those areas.
-
- * Modified the format of *.IDS and renamed to *.LNK. Please
- delete *.IDS manually. The LNK's base size is 12 bytes now. If
- the size of a LNK is not an exact multiple of 12, something
- has gone wrong; let me know.
-
- * Optimized the dupe database loads, makes for more accurate
- dupe hunting.
-
- * Fixed problem with the registration "Thank you" windows when
- used on a monochrome monitor. I have no way of testing this
- (no monochrome monitor here ... :), so I would appreciate
- if someone would let me know how the registration goes on a
- mono.
-
- Still to do:
-
- * Support for SHARE.EXE (on the weekend)
- * Support for Powerboard 1.50+ (when I understand the specs :)
- * Menued configuration EXE + binary CFG (no more EDLIN :)
- * Add to this history file 1.0 - 1.5 versions.
-
- PBHub starts gaining a shape:
-
- * Twit filter
- * Embedded editting of MSGAREAS.BBS
- * Multiple net support
- * Multiple export
- * Maybe AreaFix
-
-
- 07/04/94 12:00am Version 1.7
-
- * First public release. It supports a registration key.
-
- * Added a debug mode; activate with PBNET???.EXE DEBUG
-
-
- ???????????????? Version 1.6
- * A very short lived version (<24h), due to compilation in the
- wrong memory model after adding a reg key capabilities. The
- code is just over 64K, and the new model is LARGE, as oposed
- to COMPACT in version 1.5
-
-
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