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Changes in 2.50
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Enhancements
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* Added the ability to allow the sysop define the default
response for a Yes/No prompt. Select a language in the
language editor, and edit the text. As you scroll through
the prompts, watch the character to the immediate left of
the prompt number at the top of the screen. This character
can be one of four, and has the following meaning:
<Space> - Normal prompt, display only.
* - Prompt has keys associated with it (ie. requires
a multiple-choice response).
Y - Prompt is a Yes/No question, the default is Yes.
N - Prompt is a Yes/No question, the default is No.
Editing a Yes/No type prompt will give you the opportunity
to select the users default response (ie. what happens when
the user presses Enter). Note that the Y/N character displayed
at the top of the screen indicates the system default, not
necessarily the default which is currently selected.
* File and message areas/groups may now be moved, copied,
deleted, etc.
NOTE! File/message areas/groups now retain their own area
or group number regardless of what order they appear in
RACONFIG. Moving areas so that the numbers are no longer
sequential is okay. This means that moving areas does not
require you to renumber your menus, message-base, or
file-base. When selecting an area, the user WILL see
sequential area numbers (for ease of use). The area number
that a user thinks he/she is in is not necessarily the
same as the ACTUAL area number defined in RACONFIG. These
two separate sets of area numbers are automatically mapped
to one another.
You will notice a number of new options in RACONFIG when
any one of the first four manager options is selected:
Enter - Edit the highlighted area.
Space - Drop the tagging anchor to select a range of entries
(as in RAMGR.Files).
INSERT - Insert a new area at the current position. This will
cause all entries after the new entry to be moved
down by one position.
DELETE - Delete the current area/range of areas. All entries
after the deleted area(s) will be moved up to close
the gap left by the deleted areas.
Alt-M - Move the currently selected area(s) to another
position. You will be asked to specify the new
position at which to insert the areas.
Alt-C - Same as Alt-M, but duplicates the areas instead of
just moving them.
Alt-G - Perform global changes to the currently selected
area or range of areas. You will be presented with
a blank edit screen which looks exactly like a
normal edit screen. (NOTE: The edit screen will
automatically 'inherit' the values from the record
that was last edited.) Edit the fields which you want
to apply to the selected areas. You will notice that
after editing a field, it will be flashing. Note
that only flashing fields will be applied to the
selected areas. To toggle whether a field is
flashing, move to it and press the space bar. Press
ESCAPE to apply your changes.
Press F1 at any area/group edit screen to modify the number
of the currently displayed entry. NOTE: By default, RACONFIG
will not allow duplicate area or group numbers to be entered.
Placing a -N on RACONFIG's command-line will temporarily
disable the dupe checking.
* New textfile control codes:
^K$ - Number of callers today.
^K% - Handle of last caller.
^K& - Number of files currently tagged.
^K' - Total kilobytes of tagged files.
^K( - Name of currently selected language.
^F^ - Current session time limit.
^F_ - Time remaining this session.
* Added a user flag which enables the user to determine
the scope of a mailbox scan. The default behaviour is
to check all areas the user has access to. Enabling
this option will limit the scan to only message areas
which the user has enabled is his/her combined settings.
This option is toggled with menu type 75, and its
textfile control code (ON/OFF) is ^F-.
* During file transfers, ALT-J as well as all the ALT-Fn
keys are now automatically disabled.
* The *U parameter for a type 7 command, to place a custom
message in the "who's online" list, is now valid for menu
types 1 to 4.
* It is now possible to pre-define the width of any textfile
control code. Simply place one '.' character between the
^K/^F and the second part of the code for every additional
space you would like the field padded with.
Example: ^FA
Displays the users name.
^F....................A
Displays the users name padded with 20 spaces.
If the field is longer than the defined number of spaces,
it will be truncated. Text fields are always justified to
the left, and numerical fields are always justified to the
right.
* Added an option in the menu editor (in the ALT-P edit
window from the menu edit screen) to not append the
global menu (GLOBALRA.MNU) to the menu currently being
edited. The default is to always append the global menu
to every menu.
* Textfile control codes are now valid for all menu item
optional data fields.
* Added a new command to the questionnaire language - COMMIT.
Normally, user responses are stored in a buffer and
written to disk when the questionnaire terminates. The
COMMIT command will force the contents of the buffer to
be written to disk immediately.
* Normally, questionnaire responses are written to a file
called nnn.ASW (where nnn is the original questionnaire
name) in the system directory. A new command, DEFINEOUTPUT,
allows the sysop to specify the name of the output file.
The format is DEFINEOUTPUT <filename>.
Example: DEFINEOUTPUT C:\RA\ANSWERS\NEWUSER.TXT
* Implemented Netware IPX support for real-time conferencing.
To enable IPX support, simply use the new -I command-line
parameter when loading RA.
* Real-time conferencing now sends users messages only
when they press (Enter). This prevents users from
'interupting' one another, and makes large conferences
more readable.
* New option - RACONFIG.Options.Files.Logoff warning, if
enabled, will warn a user who is about to logoff that
he/she has tagged files. The user will be given the
opportunity to return to the system.
* FILE_ID.DIZ type descriptions are now displayed without
automatic word-wrapping. A FILE_ID.DIZ description is
defined as not having any lines which exceed 45 characters
in length.
* Added an option (RACONFIG.Options.System.Limit local)
to disable the use of all sysop keys during all user
sessions (this includes local logons). This effectively
means that users who log on locally have no more power
than those who log on remotely.