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┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ QFront Revision History │ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ Version Date Description ─────── ──────── ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 1.063b 03/13/94 Finally fixed the magic filename problems. QScan was adding NetMail to outbound EchoMail packets in some circumstances. (Thanks Frank Cavanaugh) QScan wasn't scanning mail to downlinks if they were POINTS. Fixed. (Thanks Joe Eversole) External mail strings weren't working at all. Fixed. Fixed some more point routing problems. (Thanks Joe Wied) QScan will now accept a space in between the AREA: string and the actual area name. A space in between AREA: and the area name does not follow Fido standards, but found that some mail scanners do it this way. (Thanks George Marsh) 1.062b 02/21/94 Increased the overlay buffer size in QFront. This will cause memory requirements to increase, but should fix problems with QFront timing out while answering the phone on an incoming call. The minimum memory requirement for QFront is now about 400k. (Thanks Ed Lucas) QFront was sending the wrong filenames if a request came in that requested a MAGIC FILENAME. (Thanks Steve Cain) QScan will no longer scan an EchoMail conference if you do not have any systems selected to receive that area. This results in much faster processing time for systems that have a lot of EchoMail conferences defined but may not be echoed to any downlinks. (Thanks Ed Lucas) Fixed a problem in QScan that caused messages in pass-thru areas to NOT be scanned to your downlinks, which also caused messages in pass-thru areas to be put in your LOST conference. QFront wasn't removing file forwards from the "File Req/Forw manager" off the call-waiting screen, even if the file(s) have already been successfully forwarded. Fixed. (Thanks Gary Hedberg) Fixed problems when viewing the node activity off the call- waiting screen that caused runtime errors with USERNET.XXX files that are not properly written. QScan now creates archived EchoMail packet names correctly when scanning mail to systems that are points. QScan now properly sets the "FROM: (address)" originating address in NetMail messages when tossed to your PCBoard NetMail area. This includes support for originating systems that are points. QScan was writing two ^AMSGID lines when scanning mail out of your PCBoard NetMail area *IF* the message wasn't marked CRASH or IMMEDIATE. Fixed. QScan wasn't properly setting the domain name for outbound NetMail messages that were destined for zones other than your own. Fixed. QScan's Areafix processor now properly recognizes Areafix requests from points, and properly creates the Areafix response message. Added support for "secured" file request paths/conferences. What this does is the following. Each file request path/ conference that you have configured in QFConfig (under "File Request Paths", has a new option saying "Is this a secured path/conference". If you answer Y to this, only mail sessions that are SECURE (ie., protected by a session password) will be allowed to request files from that path/ conference. If you answer N to this question, QFront will allow anyone to request files from that path/conference, regardless of whether a session password is being used or not. Added a new file request path for use with secure mail sessions. If a mail session is established and a session password is being used (ie., the mail session is SECURE), QFront will now put any files that are NOT mail packets in your SECURE file request path directory. If a session password is NOT being used, QFront will put all files that are NOT mail packets into your normal file request receive path. Whether you use session passwords or not, you should go into QFConfig and at LEAST set your secure file request receive path to be the same as your normal file request receive path. It's recommended to create a new path for use with secure mail sessions, however. For example, "C:\QFRONT\SECURED". A new option was added to QFConfig->FidoMail Setup->Mail Scanner Setup that says "Respect echo flag in PCBoard". If you answer Y to this option, QScan will NOT scan out ANY messages that DON'T have the "echo" flag turned on by PCBoard. If you answer N to this option, QScan will scan out mail regardless of the echo flag. Found that QScan was putting the wrong month number in the Fido packet header (it was always one off). Fixed. QScan wasn't adding mail bundles to the outbound mail database if you had the "Update EchoMail packets" set to Y. (Thanks Fred Busteed) Hopefully fixed some of the problems in earlier releases with getting mail to point systems. 1.061b 02/09/94 Fixed lockup problems and runtime error 245 problems when callers dial into your system. These problems only would occur if you run an unregistered evaluation copy. QFront was displaying the wrong node information when you entered a manual poll and it brought up the "confirm" window. Added a rotating symbol to QNList during sorting to let you know it's doing something and not locked up. QNList was locking up in some circumstances. Incoming EMSI handshakes were not being seen in some circumstances. QFConfig would exit with a runtime error in certain circumstances when configuring new EchoMail conferences. QFront was reporting invalid paths in the FidoMail log if you had a backslash at the end of the path configurations in QFConfig. Fixed by having QFront remove the backslash from your path configurations. Added support for the /PORT parameter of the PCB environment variable. Added an option to the QFConfig "Do you wish to save this configuration" prompt that allows you to return to editing the configuration. QFront was getting a runtime error if more than 50 aliases were presented during an EMSI handshake. Fixed - QFront now allows up to 100 aliases. Added much more error checking to QFront, QNList and QScan. QFConfig still remains to be updated with the new error checking routines. Added an option into QFConfig->FidoMail Setup->Mail Scanner Setup that says "Update outbound EchoMail bundles?". This option allows you to tell QScan whether to continue adding .PKT's to the SAME outbound archived EchoMail bundle or not. If you set this option to N, QScan will create the normal .MO0, .MO1, .MO2, etc., files. If you set this option to Y, QScan will only create .MO0 files, and every time you invoke QScan, new .PKT's will be added to the same .MO0 bundle. Be careful with this option - some hubs and hosts don't like the idea of using the same archive bundle filename. 1.06b 01/26/94 Completely rewrote the nodelist compiler and nodelist processing module in QFront. This change requires you to recompile your nodelist(s) using the new QNList. The new QNList is ***SIGNIFICANTLY*** faster than before. Fixed another problem with QFront not properly recognizing fax connects from modems returning CONNECT FAX responses. Fixed minor problems passing connect strings to PCBoard using the @CSTR option in the "User Logon Control String". Fixed Zmodem problems when transmitting files with D'Bridge mailers. (Thanks Richard Driggers) Fixed problems with the automatic poll manager where QFront could continually poll a node all day long. (Thanks Terry Norris) Modified the EMSI decoding routines. This fixes problems that caused previous versions to display "Unknown" as the remote system name and remote sysop name. This also allows for a bug in D'Bridge that caused D'Bridge to send out EMSI packets that were not in a valid format. Fixed problems with QFront sending strange connect strings to PCBoard. (Thanks Mark Seiden) Problems with QFront continually beeping when exiting from the Fido nodelist browser were fixed. Added additional error checks to QScan to prevent errors caused by corrupt or invalid IDX message index files. QFront now passes the CARRIER connect string to PCBoard along with the other information already passed. Fixed a potentially serious problem in QScan when Areafix messages were received in low-memory situations. QScan now retains the archiver/unarchiver in a window while still swapping itself out of memory. Added an option to QFConfig under Mail Scanner Setup that allows you to configure whether to import the FidoMail ^A kludge lines or not into PCBoard when tossing. Added semaphore file support. You can define up to 10 semaphore files to check for and what errorlevel to exit with when one of the semaphore files is found to exist by QFront. You can also define what frequency (in seconds) to check for the semaphore files. QFront now logs to the FidoMail log on every dial attempt, informing you of the dialout result for each dial attempt. Modified QScan's use of aliases when addressing NetMail out of PCBoard. QScan will now only attempt to find and use an alias if the destination address zone does NOT EQUAL your primary address zone. QFConfig wouldn't let you blank out the "Local logon prompt string" when it should have. Fixed. (Thanks Max Bruhn) Fixed a minor problem in QScan that would cause invalid times to be saved in PCBoard messages when tossing packets. (Thanks Mike Atkinson) The accounting/translation records are now sorted in QFConfig. Note that the records are not sorted until you enter QFConfig, load up the Accounting/Translation Setup, and then exit the Accounting/Translation Setup. Added support for /NODE, /COM, /BAUD, /IRQ, and /BASE settings for the "SET PCB=" environment variable. QFront wasn't sending mail marked HOLD to a system if that system polled you, in some circumstances. Fixed. QFConfig wasn't packing the quick lookup name datafile. (Thanks Mark Seiden) If you have not done so already, you should make the following changes to your SPAWNBBS.BAT and node configurations in QFConfig: | You can now pass the connect string returned from your | modem to PCBoard. To do this, add a %3 and %4 at the | end of following lines in your SPAWNBBS.BAT file: | If %2==YES PCBOARD /C:%1 /ERR /EVENT:%MINUTES% | If %2==NO PCBOARD /C:%1 /EVENT:%MINUTES% | So that they read: | If %2==YES PCBOARD /C:%1 /ERR /EVENT:%MINUTES% %3 %4 | If %2==NO PCBOARD /C:%1 /EVENT:%MINUTES% %3 %4 | Now, go into QFConfig and under Program->Misc Options, | add @CSTR at the end of the user logon control string | so that it reads: | @B @E @CSTR Even if you HAVE already made these changes, notice that I've added a %4 to the lines in SPAWNBBS.BAT. Be *SURE* you make these changes as well. Added CallerID information passing to PCBoard. To use this, make sure you've already applied the changes to the SPAWNBBS.BAT file that were just described. To add CallerID support, add a %5 to the end of the same lines in SPAWNBBS.BAT, like so: If %2==YES PCBOARD /C:%1 /ERR /EVENT:%MINUTES% %3 %4 %5 If %2==NO PCBOARD /C:%1 /EVENT:%MINUTES% %3 %4 %5 Also add a @CID to the user logon control string in QFConfig like so: @B @E @CSTR @CID 1.05b 01/10/94 QFront will now display an error message if it tries to run a BATCH FILE event when the batch file to be run cannot be found. Once an alias was defined in QFConfig under "Assign EchoMail Conferences", the alias could not be removed unless it was removed from the "Alias Setup" menu option. Fixed. QScan will now swap itself out to EMS or disk when shelling to the archiver/unarchiver. This should allow memory- hungry archivers like ARJ work without low memory errors. QFront was sometimes truncating the connect string message when passing it to PCBoard. Fixed. (Thanks Phillip White) Corrected problems with Hayes-type modems where the CONNECT speed would be passed to PCBoard instead of the CARRIER speed. If you entered a sysop name with more than one word when entering a manual poll, such as ROB KITTREDGE, the software would instead search for KITTREDGE ROB. Fixed so that it now properly searches for ROB KITTREDGE. (Thanks Hector Santos) QScan wasn't recognizing AREA: names in messages if they were in lower case. Fixed. If you aren't running under a network environment, QFront would not properly set the node number to 1. Fixed. Outbound YooHoo protocol wasn't setting 8k block size or recognizing the ability for the remote to allow file requests. Fixed. (Thanks Frank Jacobberger) Moved the packet password field out of the "Assign EchoMail Conferences" menu option, and into the new "Session/packet password" menu option in QFConfig. This change allows QFront to put packet passwords in NetMail packets instead of just EchoMail packets. QScan was not properly addressing NetMail messages if they were send to POINT systems. Fixed. (Thanks Michael Bull) Modified the receiver synchronization routines (the code that checks for a FidoMail run when receiving a call) in an effort to fix some problems with QFront passing actual FidoMail runs to PCBoard. QScan wasn't allowing aliases to be used on outbound NetMail messages. Fixed. QScan will now use any alias with a zone that matches the zone of the destination of the message. If no matching zones are found, your primary address will be used. Added a new option to QFConfig under FidoMail Setup, "Disallow outbound FidoMail runs". This option, when set to Y, causes QFront to NEVER dial out for ANY reason on that node of your system. This is intended to be a quick fix to prevent QFront on more than one node of your system from dialing out to the same system at the same time, until a "busy file" type mechanism can be written. 1.04b 12/30/93 Fixed a problem that would cause a runtime error if you required a password to exit to DOS from QFront. (Thanks Frank Jacobberger) Fixed a problem where you could get a runtime error after forwarding a file that doesn't exist on your system. Fixed problems in QScan when messages were addressed to/ from SYSOP. Enhanced the "Alias to use" configuration under "Assign EchoMail Conferencs" in QFConfig. Now, instead of being required to manually type the alias address to use, QFConfig will bring up a list of your alias configurations and allow you to select the one you want to use. QFront now releases more time slices when a multitasker like DESQview, Windows, or OS/2 is used. Found some EMSI packet creation bugs - this should fix the problems with QFront sending the EMSI packet and then ending the FidoMail session. Session passwords are now set properly even if you are RECEIVING a FidoMail run. Previously, session passwords were only set during OUTBOUND FidoMail runs. HOPEFULLY, I have fixed the modem connect problems where QFront would display garbage to the user instead of the normal "Press [ESC]" prompt. QFront was unpacking .PKT files from your inbound directory into your NetMail area (.MSG style) even if the messages were EchoMail messages. Fixed so QFront skips unpacking any .PKT's that are EchoMail packets and leaves this up to QScan. (Thanks Gary Hedberg) You can now pass the connect string returned from your modem to PCBoard. To do this, add a %3 at the end of the following lines in your SPAWNBBS.BAT file: If %2==YES PCBOARD /C:%1 /ERR /EVENT:%MINUTES% If %2==NO PCBOARD /C:%1 /EVENT:%MINUTES% So that they read: If %2==YES PCBOARD /C:%1 /ERR /EVENT:%MINUTES% %3 If %2==NO PCBOARD /C:%1 /EVENT:%MINUTES% %3 Now, go into QFConfig and under Program->Misc Options, add @CSTR at the end of the user logon control string so that it reads: @B @E @CSTR The "View/Delete QFront log files" option off the call- waiting menu now accepts hotkeys (which are highlighted on the menu). Fixed some NetMail routing problems. 1.03b 12/25/93 Added the EMSI Fido handshaking protocol. Modified the handling of aliases. IF YOU SCAN ECHOMAIL USING AN ALIAS IN PREVIOUS VERSIONS, YOU MUST NOW ASSIGN THE ALIAS FOR *EACH* ECHOMAIL AREA! If you don't supply an alias for an EchoMail area, your default address and tagline are used. Fixed various problems with file update requests. Fixed various problems with packing/unpacking of NetMail. File forwards using wildcards are now supported. Point addresses are now supported. QFront will not dial out anymore if any of the following call-waiting screen options are in use - Mail manager, File req/forw manager, Poll window, Nodelist browsing, Manual event window, Show outbound queue. Human callers are now required to press ESCape or TAB *TWICE* before being passed to the BBS. This was done to reduce the number of false BBS loadings when a Fido mailer was trying to do a mail run. Fixed processing of .MSG NetMail from utilities such as BRE and Gofer. The context-sensitive help has been fully updated for this release (finally). Unfortunately I have not updated the documentation as of yet. File request REQ files were not being deleted in some circumstances. (Thanks Gary Hedberg) You can now define phone number overrides, and you can now also define special dial commands based on nodelist flags. For example, if you are using an HST, you will usually want to use a special dial command to force your modem into HST mode with the "B" modem command when dialing systems with the HST flag set. Removed the "Are you using a USRobotics HST modem" from the Modem Setup in QFConfig (due to the change described above). QFront now re-initializes the modem after every dialout. Previously, after a dialout attempt, the modem could be left in an undesirable state when an incoming call is received. Dial translation manager fixed so that it will use the LONGEST MATCHING prefix instead of the LAST MATCHING prefix. (Thanks Mark Seiden) Increased the maximum length of dialed phone numbers from 18 characters to 50 characters. Fixed runtime error problems when receiving file requests that caused searches of the PCBoard file indexes created with MAKEIDX. QScan will now skip any information that is placed by PCBoard or by yourself before the destination address in a NetMail message. This was done because of problems with PCBoard placing extended header information in the first line of the NetMail message, causing QScan to skip it. Now, the destination address can be anywhere in the message, provided it starts on the first column. You can now tell QFront whether or not to import "empty" NetMail messages. Empty NetMail messages are usually the result of file requests or file attaches from other systems, which normally contain no text. When configuring new EchoMail areas in QFConfig, QFConfig will now by default set the EchoMail area name equal to the name of the PCBoard conference you select, and also the high message pointer will be set to the high message pointer of the message base. For example, if you have a conference called "WINDOWS NT" which has 5 messages in it (numbered 1-5), and you go to add the conference to QFront, QFConfig would place a default EchoMail area name of "WINDOWS_NT" and would set the high message pointer to 6. Note that spaces in the PCBoard conference names are replaced by underscores in the EchoMail area name. All of the databases used in the "FidoMail setup" menu option in QFConfig are now sorted by node number, with the exception of "Set up EchoMail conferences", which are sorted by PCBoard conference number. If you have a local logon password configured, QFront will now ask for it before exiting to DOS. A command line has been added to QScan, /NETMAIL, which will cause QScan to scan ONLY your PCBoard NetMail conference for new messages. It will NOT import any mail, and it will NOT scan any other conference besides your NetMail conference. This option MUST be used in conjunction with the /SCAN parameter. For example, "QSCAN /SCAN /NETMAIL". Added a /PACK command line parameter to QFConfig. This will simply perform a pack on all of QFront's data files. Packet passwords are now supported by QScan. Note that at this point, QScan only adds packet passwords to outbound mail packets - it DOES NOT check packet passwords when tossing inbound mail packets. Added "quick lookup names". These are useful in that you can refer to addresses as names instead of numbers. For example, you could set up a quick lookup name of ROB, with an associated address of 1:228/12. Any time you entered !ROB when QFront asks for an address, it would find the lookup name and automatically enter 1:228/12 for you. Note the exclamation point before the quick lookup name - you MUST supply this so that QFront knows that you are referring to a quick lookup name. Added support for packet switch networks/PAD systems. Improved the carrier detect routines to be more inline with the way PCBoard handles them. Fixed problems with last caller and recent 5 caller display not working in some situations. 1.02b 11/05/93 Fixed a QScan problem where it would think message index files needed rebuilding when they really did not. QSCAN.EXE was only released. 1.02b 11/02/93 Fixed a problem in QScan when more than 50 PATH addresses were present in a message. Fixed a problem in QFront that would cause a runtime error if the nodelist database failed to open. QNList was displaying error messages in the compile window instead of the error window. Fixed. Fixed Zmodem problems when connecting at low baud rates (less than 9600). QFConfig was doing strange things when you pressed [ESC] instead of hitting [ENTER] when the "apply poll to event" picklist was displayed. Fixed. If nodes were still in the dial queue when a Fido event finished running, the nodes would not be removed. Fixed. Fixed problem where file request limits (max files and max bytes) weren't being honored as configured in QFConfig. If a file was requested that contained an exclamation mark, (for example THIS!FILE.ZIP), part of the filename was incorrectly interpreted as the file password. Fixed. QScan will now refuse to import mail into your PCBoard conferences if your own address appears in the PATH line. QScan can now be configured to strip high ASCII characters from PCBoard messages when creating Fido packets. The option was added to QFConfig->Mail Scanner. QFront can now be configured NOT to unpack NetMail into .MSG format. Use this setting only if you are NOT using an external NetMail editor like GoldED. QScan will now skip scanning any PCBoard conference that has its message index (IDX) file out of sync with the actual message base. Previously, QScan would exit with a runtime error. The next release of QScan will actually be able to rebuild the index file, but for now it just gets skipped (and makes an entry in the QScan log). 1.01b 10/26/93 When browsing the nodelist by sysop name, QFront will now search by the sysop's last name instead of the first name. (Thanks Joe Siegler) When running "errorlevel" or "batch file" events, QFront will now always take the modem off-hook. If you had pass-through areas configured, and you did a QScan /SETHIGH:xxx you would get a runtime error. (Thanks Jeffrey Boyd) Significantly reduced memory requirements. QFront was not recognizing some error connect strings on certain modems. Fixed. (Thanks John Robin) A problem where QFront would always show "No last caller found" has been fixed. Path problems were fixed when using the "batch file" event type. From now on, all of your batch files for the batch file event type must be located in the same location as your PCBOARD.DAT file. QScan choked when it hit a PASS-THROUGH area. Fixed. QScan processing speed has been increased. You can now specify external mail strings, handy for use with handling uucp mail runs. The outbound Fido dialer has been significantly modified. This modification allows callers in-between dialouts, and allows QFront to handle inbound call collisions (if a call comes in while it's trying to dial out, it will abort the dialout and immediately answer the phone). QScan now checks the PATH line as well as the SEEN-BY line for duplicate detection. PATH and SEEN-BY lines weren't being properly updated for PASS-THROUGH areas. Fixed. Added a KILL message flag to PCBoard-style NetMail messages. If you have the KILL flag set (by specifying KILL on the second line of the NetMail message, enclosed in parenthesis), QFront will kill the .MSG message after sending the message (the message will not be deleted from PCBoard's message base, however). Fixed node number problem when QFront was running under a single-node system. Fixed a problem where QFront would exit with a runtime error on some inbound mail runs that contained NetMail. If a file called "STATUS" is found in the QFront directory, QFront will read and display the first line of that file instead of displaying "Ready for a call". Useful for writing notes to yourself, etc. (Thanks Mark Herring) Problems with finding file requests when PCBoard's MAKEIDX utility was used were found and fixed. (Thanks Joe Siegler) The settings in the "accounting" part of the accounting/ translation setup was being interpreted backwards. It should work as documented in the manual now. A packet aging feature has been added. Using this, if you specify a number other than 0, QFront will delete outbound packets that are older than "x" days (where x is the aging number you enter into QFConfig). This is handy if you have a downlink that is not picking up his mail and you don't want a lot of packets sitting around. A switch has been added where you can tell QFront whether to respect the low baud rate settings in PCBoard or not. Setting this flag to "N" will cause QFront to completely ignore low baud rates and pass the caller normally to PCBoard, at which time it is up to PCBoard whether it is a low baud rate caller or not. QScan can now be told to respect PRIVATE EchoMail messages or not. 1.00b 09/22/93 First wide-area beta release.