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V2.36 Changes
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TheNews V2.36 Changes
Enhancements
* none
Bugs Fixed
* A news groups file line longer than 600 characters crashed the program.
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TheNews V2.35 Changes
Enhancements
* none
Bugs Fixed
* Attempting a "save as" operation after cancelling an "append" operation would
sometimes crash the program.
* A long subject line would sometimes crash the program (UUCP version).
* An empty subject field would look strange when displayed in the subject list window.
* Don't limit the number of article 'been read' ranges stored/retreived in the
news group file.
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TheNews V2.34 Changes
Enhancements
* none
Bugs Fixed
* Program stumbled over certain non-printable characters in the header (UUCP version)
* Program stumbled over articles with more than 100,000 chars (UUCP version)
* Program didn't incorporate GMT offset in date interpretation (sometimes led to
incorrect ordering of articles in the subject list window)
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TheNews V2.33 Changes
Enhancements
* Added the clipboard to the "Windows" menu.
Bugs fixed
* Posting an article created a "Date:" header line which included
a mis-formed time (UUCP version only)
* Cutting from the Article Text window occasionally copied text from
the wrong pane.
* Selecting the clipboard confused selection of other windows.
* Using <RETURN> or <ENTER> to select a group or article from an
empty list resulted in a crash or confusing error message.
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TheNews V2.32 Changes
Enhancements
* Added an option to flush the input queue (CTB version)
* Reposition the "Too many articles" dialog so that it doesn't
cover up the "Fetching articles" dialog
* Make the ">" followup prefix changeable (via ResEdit)
* Don't line-break followup lines (ie, those beginning with ">"
* Speed up the closing of article subject list window
Bugs fixed
* Read next/previous/next-unread sometimes caused a problem where
the header would change but the article text would not change
* Save/Append from the article subject list would never free up
the memory used to perform the save/append
* "Beeping" on attempts to read past the beginning or end of the
article list would confuse the menu bar when the sound was turned
off
* Read next/previous/next-unread sometimes caused a crash (but not
right away:-(
* CTB version gave up too quickly when used on a sluggish server
* A "read" failure while reading an article message would hang the
program forever
* Mail/post followup to very short articles would cause crashes on
some systems
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TheNews V2.31 Changes
Enhancements
* Add flag to inhibit passing the AUTHINFO (required for some
news servers connected via CTB).
Bugs fixed
* Read forward, read backward, and read next unread now update
the article list document.
* Default transfer medium is now MacTCP.
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TheNews V2.3 Changes
Enhancements in V2.3:
* dynamic sorting of the article list window
* dynamic threading/unthreading of the article list window
* option to "open with refresh" by default
* "read next unread" command (and <TAB> support)
* save articles directly from article list window
* append articles directly from article list window
* change active window from the menu bar
* serial link server support via CTB
Bug Fixes in V2.3
* correct mail from header line in followup mail (UUCP version)
* correctly form user name as <USERNAME> + "@" + <DOMAIN> +
"(" + <NAME> + ")" (UUCP version)
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TheNews V2.24 Changes
Enhancements:
* Added more command-key equivalents.
* Added "send" option for the "close window" dialog in post/mail.
Bugs fixed:
* An illegal header line like "From: schmoe@blough ()" caused trash to appear
in the article list window.
* The "cancel article" function didn't send the right message for the ANU
version of the NNTP server (this meant that the cancel message was
actually posted instead of being interpreted as a control message).
* The program didn't respond correctly to a "transfer-only" connection
status message from the server (this meant that the program would try
to make server requests when it should know better).
* Single-line edit fields in dialogs would not scroll if you typed beyond
the end of the visible portion of the edit field.
* Using <command><click> to make multiple selections in various lists
selected the entire range of items between the top and bottom selections.
* After posting or mailing, the menu commands for the active window
(either the article list window or the article text window) were not
available.
Known bugs (sorry!)
* If you switch to another application while the program is fetching
information from the server, the program does not update the "Fetching
whatever" dialog box (that is, if the application you've switched to
covers up the dialog box, the text inside the dialog box does not get
re-written).
* Under System 7, keeping the signature file in the system folder causes
an error message and prevents you from posting. To get around this,
keep the signature file in the same file as TheNews.
* There is an incompatibility with Norton Directory Assistance which
makes saving certain articles difficult. To get around this, try changing
the target file name to something other than the article subject (which
is the default).
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TheNews V2.22 Changes
Bugs fixed:
* Higher tolerance for trashy data coming from the NNTP server.
* Built using a newer version of the Word Solutions Engine (this
doesn't fix anything specific, but hopefully this results in a more
robust product).
* Fixed a bug which made it impossible to post a new article when
there were no articles available.
New features:
* Added capacity for cancelling an article.
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TheNews V2.2 Changes
Bugs fixed:
* Quit (CMD-Q) after changing subscription info crashed program.
* Low tolerance for illegal article headers.
* CMD-F and CMD-B forgot to change the article window title.
* Large article and group list windows were 'confused'.
* Article saves to a full disk didn't clean up the mess.
* Sorting articles by subject used wrong secondary key.
* Doesn't crash under 7.0 Multifinder (V2.02).
* Supports read-only server via ResEdit (V2.03).
* Runs on an SE (V2.04).
* Faster on huge group files (V2.1).
New features:
* Signature file inclusion on posting and mailing.
* Support for copy (CMD-C) from article text window.
* Page up/down/home/end key support.
* Case insensitive article sorts.
* Domain name server and Hosts file support.
* Limited CMD-. support (only on article header fetch).
* Miscellaneous speed enhancements.
* More readable article header list.
* Support for Unix .newsrc group files.
* Use 'Reply-to' and 'Followup' for replies and followup posts.
* Support for huge articles (>32K).
* Keyboard shortcuts for overriding preferences.
* User-selected font and size.
* Optional Bcc on mail followup.
* User-selected saved article signatures.
* Append articles to existing files
* Supports international character translation on input/output.
Known bugs/shortcomings:
* CMD-. can't stop every lengthy operation. The problem here is
that some requests must run to completion so the input buffer
gets emptied. The program must wait for all of the input from
the server before it can respond to the abort request.
* Group list occasionally reports articles available but none shown
when the article list appears. The problem here is that the
server reports, for example, that it has articles 100 through 199,
but in fact some articles within that range are unavailable (for
instance they were cancelled by the poster). A 'catchup' operation
from the groups menu will fix the group list.