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NEF
Changes and Additions
2.35 Public Release, June 14 1996
- OS/2:
Hatch: Added support for extracting File_Id.Diz from SFX
.EXE archives. There is no custom support for any archive
format: NEF supports all the archivers defined in
Compress.Cfg with an ID string of at least 2 bytes. This
method is not very accurate, but it's quite general and
it usually works.
- New "AnnExclude <filespec> ..." statement, to exclude
specified files from the announcements.
This statement can be used both in the global
announcement section and inside each "AreaTag/AreaPath"
block.
- The "FileBone Availability" message now respects the
FileLink message flags.
- FileFix commands are now accepted from command line:
NEF FileFix <adr> <cmd> ...
where <cmd>s are the same commands that can be used in
messages addressed to the AutoLink robot.
- Special commands for the filefix robot can now be
preceded indifferently by '?' or '%'. This is useful when
using the robot via command line with 4OS2, which
interprets the strings starting with '%' as environment
variables. If you still want to use '%', then you might
need to precede it with an escape character.
E.g. Nef FileFix 2:332/504.2 ?QUERY
Nef FileFix 2:332/504.2 ^%QUERY
- New FileLink flag 'Y' to specify links to be notified
when "NEF Notify" is executed with no address list.
2.34 Public Release, May 20 1996
- Extension of the PassThru concept.
If you specify the "-0" flag in a FileArea definition,
when you do "Nef Clean", the files not currently
referenced in outbound attaches are deleted.
If you specify "-0<days>", the files in that area will
not be deleted until they become older than <days> _AND_
there is no file attach pointing to them.
Example:
FileArea Area1 \file\area1\ O -030 2:345/678 I123/4
Files in \file\area1 will be deleted when older than 30
days _and_ not referenced by any file attach.
- OS/2: New "KillDate Write|Creation" statement.
To specify the date to be used for evaluating the file
age that triggers the file deletion in passthru areas.
This statement is useful for HPFS, ignored on FAT.
If none specified, "Creation" is assumed.
Example:
KillDate Write
- New extended "-0<days>" switch for the "NewAreasFrom"
statement.
- OS/2: New parameters "Creation" and "Write" for the Touch
keyword. You can configure the type of "touch" you need.
Examples:
Touch ; default: touch the Creation (upload) date
Touch Creation ; same as default
Touch Write ; touch the Last Write date
Touch Creation Write ; touch both dates
- Fixed bug introduced in 2.32 which caused an access
violation in the "query" type commands if AreaDescWrap
was not used in the config file.
- Added check to prevent access violation when interactive
hatch is used with @diz and CompressCfg is NOT defined.
Now an error is reported.
- Added check to prevent that NEF reports "Empty command"
when no MaxAreaCompile statement is used.
- Enhanced INF Documentation.
2.33 Public Release, Mar 13 1996
- A bug in the squish.cfg parsing routines has been found:
if an area is defined with NOTHING after the path, this
area cannot be opened. The problem usually happens when
AreaTag specifies a *.MSG netmail with NO flags in
Squish.Cfg.
2.32 Public Release, Mar 13 1996
- New registration options: BMT Micro, NC, USA and Vince
Coen, UK.
- If the file description contains high ascii codes
(>127), the announcements will now contain remapped
plain-ASCII characters.
- You can allow High Ascii characters in some (or even
all) areas by the use of the "HighAsciiOk" statement in
the global or local-override announcement sections.
- New (global) statement: UniqueDmpLine.
Makes NEF generate FILES.DMP filebase files with
descriptions on one line only (multiple lines are
concatenated).
By default, NEF outputs multi-line descriptions without
changes to FILES.DMP: when using L)ocate and N)ewfiles
commands, Maximus will respect the original formatting,
but the continuation lines will be aligned to the left.
When this statement is used, the original formatting of
descriptions is lost (in the filebase) but Maximus will
be able to word-wrap and align when executing L)ocate or
N)ewfiles commands.
- Added check to prevent misconfiguration of the "AreaTag"
statement: it's ILLEGAL to use "AreaTag MyTag -$".
You must either use "AreaTag MyTag" (if SquishCfg is
used) or "AreaTag MyTag c:\bbs\mail\mytag -$".
In other words: when you let NEF lookup the TAG in
Squish.cfg, it is smart enough to find out the area type
on its own !
- When hatching from command line, it is now legal to specify
@diz without specifying a short description: it will be
considered empty. I still strongly recommend to always
specify a "short" description besides the optional "long"
one.
Example
Nef Hatch c:\file\filename.ext TAG @diz
is now equivalent to:
Nef Hatch c:\file\filename.ext TAG "" @diz
- Changed a typedef in NEFEAT.H, so that it does not
create problems with IBM compilers (thanks to Michael
Hohner).
- OS/2: New mnemonic characters for PmHatch PushButtons.
2.31 Private Beta, Mar 3 1996
- Fixed problem with UNC filenames that start with a double
backslash (on LANs).
2.30 Public Release, Feb 19 1996
- Check added to prevent NEF from issuing a forward request
to multiple uplinks for the same area, when a TAG is
contained in more than one Filebone file.
- New cfg statement: "ForwardWildReq".
Starting with ver 2.30, by default, TicFix requests with
wildcards are NOT forwarded to the filebones; this verb
enables even this type of request forward.
- Additional check in PmHatch: if no "short" d