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"The Choice of Professionals"
Version 2.12
(upgrade & installation instructions in INSTALL.TXT & UPGRADE.TXT)
┌───────────────────────────────────┐
│ (-) Means a bug fix. │
│ (*) Means a new feature. │
│ (%) Means a change. │
│ (D) Means a documentation change. │
└───────────────────────────────────┘
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
──── Changes since ProBoard v2.11 ────────────────────────────────
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
(-) ProBoard 2.11 only worked for registered users... This has
been corrected in 2.12. Sorry about that.
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
──── Changes since ProBoard v2.10 ────────────────────────────────
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
(-) The installation utility will ask you if you want to
overwrite your old language files or not. If you select
"No", any prompts that are missing in your old language
files will be updated with the default English prompts that
come with ProBoard.
(-) The local protocol is no longer selectable when RIP is
enabled.
(-) The local protocol is no longer selectable in the QWK PEX.
(-) The language editor no longer shows funny characters when
pressing <PgDn> at the last screen.
(*) When a user logs off, any files that were tagged and not
downloaded will still be tagged at the next logon.
(%) The maximum number of AKAs has been increased to 50 (used to
be 20)
(%) The RIP support has been reduced: the internal RIP prompts
and screens are no longer used by ProBoard. There were too
many problems with it. You can only have RIP MENUS now.
(-) Putting a Ctrl-L in a language prompt no longer messes up the
screen.
(-) When user's alias and real name are the same, ProBoard
would sometimes leave the "From" field blank when posting a
message. This has been fixed.
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
──── Changes since ProBoard v2.01 ────────────────────────────────
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
(*) Modem connect strings have been added for the following baud
rates:
1200/75
21600
26400
31200
33600
36000
57600
64000
115200
(*) It is now possible to run a PEX or display an ANSI/ASCII file
in any language prompt.
(*) You can now define up to 6 user-defined baud rates and connect
strings.
(*) Separate modem configurations for each node are now possible.
(*) New option added to Menu Function 27 (Write a message) to send
netmail to a specified address/person.
(%) The maximum # of security levels you can specify in ProBoard
is now 50 instead of 25.
(*) Periods ('.') are now allowed as date seperators, for example,
06.14.57 is now considered a valid date.
(-) On multi-node systems (running ProBoard standalone, without a
mailer) sometimes the modem failed to initialize properly or
would fall asleep while waiting for a call. This has been
fixed by sending the initialization commands every 5 minutes.
(*) Uploads can now be scanned for viruses by specifying an
external upload scanner. You should be able to integrate any
available upload scanner into ProBoard.
(*) New Switch in PBUTIL UK. You can now specify a -L<level>, and
PBUTIL UK will only work on users with the level you specify.
(-) The CONFIG.RA file created by CONVERT SIMUL2 was sometimes not
recognized by external utilities because file area names in it
were being truncated. This has been fixed.
(%) The QWK offline mail PEX will now update the users lastread
pointers BEFORE it waits for the user to press <ENTER>.
(-) When compiling a nodelist (using PBUTIL NC), ProBoard would
display a negative number when the "xxx nodes compiled"
message was displayed. This has been fixed.
(%) The field lengths for the Message Areas have been increased.
The maximum length for an "area name" and "echomail tag" is
now 80 characters.
(%) All of ProBoard's message area configurations are now stored
in the file "MESSAGES.PB" instead of, as in previous versions,
the file "MSGAREAS.PB". This means that any external
utilities or programs you have that use the file "MSGAREAS.PB"
can not be used until they are updated to use the new
"MESSAGES.PB" file structure.
(%) Any PEX files or doors that use the "MSGAREAS.PB" structure
will NOT work correctly. They will have to be recompiled for
this version to support the new "MESSAGES.PB" file structure!
(%) Any files contained in your file lists (FILES.BBS, etc.) that
are larger than 1 megabyte, (for example, a 1.4 megabyte
file), are now displayed as "1.4M" instead of "1400k" when the
file list is shown to your users.
(%) When a "guest" user (GUEST flag set in their user record) logs
in, and he/she forgot the password, ProBoard will no longer
write a warning message.
(%) ProBoard will no longer ask new users to select a language if
there's only one language file installed.
(*) There is a new option in PROCFG/Options/System Options: "RIP
Graphics". When set to "Disabled", ProBoard will not use RIP,
even if it was detected at login.
(*) ProBoard now allows you to change the colors of your the file
listings and decide whether or not not you want to display the
file counters to your users. (Refer to "PROCFG/Options/File
List Format" for more details).
(*) ProBoard will now automatically enter the '/' for the users
when they enter a date.
(*) While editing message/file areas in PROCFG, you can now jump to
the next or previous message/file area by pressing the <PgUp>
and <PgDn> keys.
(-) Lastread pointers are now correctly maintained for message
areas greater than 1,000.
(%) The "CD-ROM" flag in each file area's configuration has been
removed. ProBoard will now determine the format of your
FILES.BBS itself (whether or not the date/time and size are
listed). Refer to the PROCFG/FileAreas section of the 2.10
manual for more information.
(*) A new flag has been added for each file area: "Copy Local".
When enabled, ProBoard will copy the file to a local directory
before starting a download. Refer to the PROCFG/FileAreas
section of the 2.10 manual for more information.
(*) The time-consuming process of creating the file "TOPS.PRO"
when the first caller of each new day logs in, has been moved
to PBUTIL. As a result, there's a new option in PBUTIL: "DM"
(Daily Maintenance). You should run this at least once a day
(as part of your nightly maintenance).
(*) Menu Function 34 (View Archive) now supports RAR archived
files.
(*) Handles (Aliases) are now supported in menu functions 13 (List
Users), 50 (Show Users Online), 51 (Last Callers) and 53
(MultiLine Chat).
(%) Files listed in "FILES.BBS" can now start with a "!". ProBoard
will determine if a line in "FILES.BBS" starting with a "!" is
a comment or a file name.
(-) PROCFG will no longer lock up the system if you press the
<DEL> key when there are no entries shown in the Personal
Files window.
(*) When running ProBoard in standalone mode (without a front-end
mailer system), when you're at the "waiting for call" screen,
you can now shell to DOS by pressing <ALT+J>.
(%) The .A?? file control code for the user's address line 2 has
been changed from ^F% to ^F' (single quote).
(%) The .A?? file control code for the user's country has been
changed from ^F@ to ^F" (double quote).
(-) When you are replying to netmail from a point address,
ProBoard now correctly addresses the message to that point
address.
(%) The file MODEM.PRO has been renamed to MODEM.PB It is safe to
delete your old MODEM.PRO file -AFTER- you have run the
CONVERT PB routine (or the installation utility) as outlined
in UPGRADE.TXT.
(-) The "In TOPFILES" flag is now saved correctly when editing
file area configurations.
(-) The "@<LASTDATE>@" and "@<LASTTIME>@" text macros now work
correctly.
(-) The "Hidden" flag in validation templates now correctly
toggles the "Hidden" flag in the user record instead of the
"Deleted" flag.
(-) Files that are not valid .GIF files are not shown when using
Menu Function 55 (Show .GIF File Info).
(%) The "BEFOREPW.A??" and "AFTERPW.A??" files are now also
displayed (if they exist) for BBS systems who are NOT using a
system password.
(-) File counters for files that have been downloaded more than 99
times, are now displayed properly (alignment) when displaying
file lists.
(-) The JAM lastread pointers in are now correctly updated when
running PBUTIL MP (Message Pack).
(%) Users no longer can press <CTRL+G> to make the BBS beep when
they enter messages using ProBoard's internal message editor.
(*) Personal files can now be sent from directories other than the
personal files directory as specified in ProCFG.
(*) For every personal file, you can set whether ProBoard will
delete the file after it has been downloaded or not.
(*) ProCFG now checks if directories you entered exist or not, and
asks the user if he/she would like to create them. Paths are
created multiple levels deep. For example, if you enter
"C:\PB\RIP\ICONS", and C:\PB\RIP does not exist, ProCFG will
create "C:\PB\RIP" first, and then "C:\PB\RIP\ICONS" !
(*) Menu function 44 (Global boards selection) now accepts the
parameter "/M" which allows the user to globally
select/unselect areas for mail check.
(%) For each message area, you can now choose between the
following for "Name Options":
* Real Names Only
* Free Alias
* Fixed Alias (or real name)
* Fixed Alias (enforced)
(*) Local Up/Downloads are now supported. (by using the supplied
PEX file LOC_PROT.PEX)
(%) When searching for files, the area names are now shown on one
line, unless a match in found in an area.
(*) You can now replace the login procedure with a PEX. The old
LOGIN.PEX is no longer supported.