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- FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS
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- When you register Sapphire, you are granted the right to download incremental
- upgrades from our support BBS. For example, between the release of v4.00H
- and v4.02A (two months later), registered users benefited from some two dozen
- significant enhancements, plus a score of minor improvements. (We also found
- and fixed a few minor bugs)
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- Here is a list of likely areas of development for upcoming versions of
- Sapphire.
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- ■ Let users set up an exclude-list to skip message bases in R *
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- ■ Put COMMANDS.LEV and MSGBASES.DEF into CONFIG program
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- ■ Put door and event definition into CONFIG program
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- ■ Support traditional time and date specification
- Switchable, at user's discretion, since present method takes less typing
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- ■ Configurable number of messages
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- ■ Improve handling of software list if sysop shrinks size of file list
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- ■ Configurable command words
- Tokenize words so that list can be sorted for proper abbreviation parsing
- Let user select "standard Sapphire set" over sysop's choice of words
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- ■ Configurable DUMBTERM program and parms (default to Pinnacle MODEM)
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- ■ Interrupt-driven serial with port support as universal as it is now
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- ■ User list update at sign-up shouldn't time anybody out until the list is full
- Choice of user to time out (to make room for a new one) should be heuristic
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- ■ Default send-base for message received in Feedback
- Should not default to the same base, but to EMail (if available)
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- ■ Keep-control should be allowed in messages
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- ■ Replace long SPECS dialog with a sub-section
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- ■ Configurable colours
- Each user can define his own choices thematically
- Sysop defines what he sees on screen, or may see user's choice
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- ■ Expansion of Stock file support
- ANS for full ANSI
- STD and GRA should support thematic color control
- Merging of stock file concepts with message files
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- ■ Library should allow use of Stock files (GRA and STD)
- For compatibility, it should continue to recognize TXT files
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- If you have any suggestions for future development, call our support BBS at
- 514-345-8654 and drop us a line. We can not guarantee that we will implement
- all suggestions, but we will give each one very careful consideration. Some-
- times we combine several ideas by looking at the problem they are intended to
- solve, rather than the actual text of the suggestions. We count on feedback
- from Sapphire sysops to help us make the product better.
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- Most of the suggestions in the list above are based on recommendations received
- from registered Sapphire sysops.