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VERSION 0.60
- The news base is incompatible with older versions of Yarn. Run the cvt06
program to convert an existing old format news base to the new format.
- The expire program can delete articles from specific newsgroups. It can
also delete read articles.
- The DOS protected mode version of the reader uses a different DOS
extender and has the new name yarnx. The program requires the file
DOS4GW.EXE to be in a directory in the PATH.
- If the import program finds a newsgroup in the AREAS file of a SOUP packet
that is not in the active newsgroup list, it adds the newsgroup to the
user's subscription list.
VERSION 0.59
- The aliases file is now called the address book in the user manual.
The "aliases" configuration setting is renamed "address-book".
The default address book file is <home>\yarn\addrbook.
- Press the F2 key to edit the address book. While entering a form
field that asks for a mail address, press F2 to pick a mail address
from the address book. Press the F3 key to add the author of the
current message to the address book.
- Increased the speed of the import program by opening and closing the
new base files only as required.
- Do not quote forwarded messages.
- Delete reply packet file if the user deletes all messages from reply
packet.
VERSION 0.58
- Several users reported that when they try to send mail or news, the
DOS extender reader replaced the entire message with a single "Lines: "
header. This problem does not happen with the real mode version.
Until this problem is resolved, the real mode reader is should be
used by default and is named yarn.exe. The DOS extender reader is
named yarn-x.exe.
- Changed the command key mapping.
Newsgroup selection level
New Key Command
Alt-C Mark all articles in newsgroup as read
Article selection level
New Key Command
Alt-U Mark articles in thread as unread
Article reading level
Old Key New Key Command
b Scroll backward one page
j k Mark article as read
k K Mark articles in thread as read
m Mail article to someone
m u Mark article as unread
U Mark articles in thread as unread
z S Supersede article
Mail reading level
Old Key New Key Command
f Post followup article
f m Forward message to someone
m u Mark message as unread
- The package now includes a batch file to install Yarn. Also
introduced an adduser program to set up a user.
- Added yarn option -r to edit the reply packet.
- When the user replies to a mail message, it is flagged with the status
'A' in the message selection list.
- Fix: When importing messages that were read online with Pine, the
empty line that separates the header from the body was deleted.
- Fix: Yarn redirected the standard output of the spell program to
the null device. Output from the ispell program was not visible.
VERSION 0.57
- The subscribe to newsgroup command (Ins) caused a memory fault in the
DOS extender version.
- Fixed To: header in outgoing mail messages to be compatible with uqwk
version 1.7.
- Removed X-Status: header from outgoing messages.
- If the body of an outgoing message contains non-ASCII characters, assume
the character set is ISO-8859/1 and add MIME headers.
VERSION 0.56
- The yarn program in the MS-DOS version now runs under a DOS extender.
Included yarn-rm, which is the reader program running in real mode.
- Also map ISO-8859/1 character set in article selection list and
editor.
- Display destination address/newsgroup in sent mail/news folder list.
- When replying to a mail message, copy the Cc: header from the
original message to the outgoing message.
- Set the Bcc: header in outgoing messages by putting the line
Bcc=<addresses>
in the configuration file, where <addresses> is a list of mail
addresses.
- Should only expand aliases in To:, Cc:, and Bcc; headers.
- Time zone field in Date: header of outgoing messages was incorrect
if the time zone was more than 9 hours from GMT.
- Do not load and save the newsrc file when yarn is run with the -f or
-m option.
- News format field in REPLIES file should be 'B'.
- To specify the maximum keep days for newsgroups added by the import
program, put the line
max-keep=<n>
in the configuration file, where <n> is the number of days.
- To specify a spell check program, put the line
spell=<program> %f
in the configuration file, where <program> is the program name.
VERSION 0.55
- The rmgroup command corrupted the active newsgroup file.
- For the MS-DOS version, fixed the overlay thrashing while scrolling
in the mail message selection level.
VERSION 0.54
- Added search commands to newsgroup selection level. The '/', '?',
';' and ':' commands search for a newsgroup name containing a
matching regular expression.
- Added search commands to article selection and article reading
level. The '/', '?', ';' and ':' commands search for an article
containing a matching regular expression. The 'g' and 'G' commands
search for a regular expression within an article.
- If the reader selects a newsgroup containing a huge number of articles
and there is insufficient memory to list every article, it displays
an error message and list a subset of the articles.
- Added 'q' command to go from article reading level to article
selection level (same as '=' command).
- Put the line
next-screen-context-lines=<n>
in the configuration file to redisplay the last <n> lines of the
previous screen when paging through an article.
- When displaying articles, the reader maps the ISO-8859-1 (ISO Latin 1)
character set to IBM code page 850 if the configuration file contains
the line
charset=iso-8859-1
- The reader program displays "You have new mail" if the user has new
mail in the incoming message folder.
- The newgroup program accepts an optional third parameter, the
maximum number of days to keep an article. If this is specified,
articles that have an Expires: header are kept only for this number
of days, instead of until the date specified in the header.
VERSION 0.53
- Added '!' command to run command shell.
- Mail aliases now stored in a separate file <user>\YARN\ALIASES.
To specify another aliases file, use the statement
aliases=<file>
in the CONFIG file, where <file> is the full path of the aliases file.
- Added -r option to import program, to import rnews batches.
- If you unsubscribed from the last newsgroup in the newsgroup selection
list, the highlight bar was positioned after the last newsgroup.
- Check return status from zip/unzip program when packing/unpacking
reply packet.
- The OS/2 import program changed the current working directory before
running unzip, which made unzip unable to find the packet file.
- If the import program read an article header exactly 511 characters
long, it incorrectly saw the end of the headers when it read the next
line.
VERSION 0.52
- Messages in reply packet can be modified. Added the following commands:
Newsgroup selection level and folder selection level
Alt-R List replies
- Changed keywords accepted by color statement in CONFIG file.
menu-short-cut changed to menu-hotkey
menu-select-short-cut changed to menu-select-hotkey
VERSION 0.51
- Display message count in folder selection list.
- The color statement in the CONFIG file accepts these additional keywords:
menu-border
menu-text
menu-select
menu-short-cut
menu-select-short-cut
VERSION 0.50
- Fix: The 'd' command to mark a mail message for deletion also tried to
post a followup to the message.
VERSION 0.49
- Added mail commands:
Message selection level
Alt-O Save message to folder
Message reading level
F Post followup, quoting original article
- Mark mail message for deletion after saving it to another folder.
- Save copy of sent articles in a folder by putting the line
sent-news=POSTED
in configuration file.
VERSION 0.48
- Can save messages to mail folders.
Added folder commands:
Newsgroup selection level
Alt-F List folders
Article selection level
Alt-O Save thread to folder
Article reading level
o Save article to folder
- Moved incoming mail folder from <home>\YARN\INBOX to <home>\MAIL\INBOX.
- Save copy of outgoing mail messages in a folder by putting the line
sent-mail=SENT
in configuration file.
- Set the Cc: header in outgoing messages by putting the line
Cc=<addresses>
in configuration file, where <addresses> is a list of mail addresses.
- Added forward mail command ('f') to mail reading level.
- Added -q option to import program to disable article number output.
- Added rmgroup program to remove newsgroup from active newsgroup list.
- Fix: The reader did not allow the external editor to be run with any
command line options.
VERSION 0.47
- Fix: The file path passed to the editor should use \ as path separators.
- Disabled settings from environment variables USER and NAME.
- If set, the YARNRC environment variable specifies the configuration file
to read instead of the default <home>\YARN\CONFIG.
VERSION 0.46
- The import program now handles the SOUP message formats 'm', 'M' and 'B'.
- Reader displays a message line at the bottom of the screen showing
frequently used commands. To turn off the message line, put
message=off
in the configuration file.
VERSION 0.45
- The Newsgroups: header is normally hidden unless the article is crossposted.
- Reader correctly displays headers that span multiple lines.
VERSION 0.44
- In the CONFIG file, colors for specific USENET headers are set using the
statement
color header-<name> <fg> <bg>
The color statement can also set window colors.
- The MS-DOS version is compiled for the 8086/8088 instruction set.
VERSION 0.43
- Specify mail address aliases in the CONFIG file using the alias statement.
- If the import program finds a newsgroup in the AREAS file of a SOUP packet
that is not in the active newsgroup list, it adds the newsgroup to the
active list. The keep days for the added newsgroup is specified by the
"keep" setting in the CONFIG file.
- If free disk space runs lows while importing messages, the import program
aborts.
- Message headers containing tab characters where parsed incorrectly.
VERSION 0.42
- Reader subscribes to all active newsgroups if newsrc does not exist.
- Reader hides headers beginning with '\t' by default.
VERSION 0.41
- Fixed bug in the subject truncation routine that caused reader to hang on
subjects containing long words.
- At the end of the article, the reader shows the number of articles
remaining in the thread.
- Increased maximum subject length stored in index files to 127 characters.