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by Pete Rocca
Copyrighted Multiboard Communications Centre, 1994
All rights reserved, worldwide.
PROGRAM HISTORY
Version 1.60.00, July 17th 1994
o Fixed the bug in 1.50 that could cause duplicate entries
and a 6 meg USERS.DAT file
o Internally adds Origin and even TAGLINES now! Fully multiple
address aware!
o Includes the full headers in keyword/filter scanning.
o Fixed an incompatibility with STQWK an Atari QWK reader
o Reduced the number of consecutive slices that OLMS will give
back to the OS while waiting for input (to increase the
programs responsiveness)
o Added defaulted timed inputs when downloading
o Now writes the ECHOMAIL.JAM and NETMAIL.JAM files for faster
'after logoff' tosser scanning.
o Faster buffered JLR scanning
o Clears buffer before asking about downloading, to ensure that
the timer does not autoselect an option before the remote
screen has been updated.
o Updates the last message viewed as well as the high message
read marker in the Jam base. Seemed that some programs
incorrectly use the last viewed message marker instead of
the high message read marker, which makes it appear that
messages that have been downloaded are still 'new'. OLMS
will update both markers in order to allow these programs
to run correctly.
o Now inserts that JAM kludges if the user turns them on,
previously it would only work with Hudson messages
o Faster keyword scanning in the JAM message bases
o Added logging of runtime errors
o QWKSETUP only askes to save changes if changes were
actually made
o QWKSETUP now allows the editing of User Defined areas
right up to the 2000 area limit
o QWKSETUP now gives a fuzzy warning when using metastrings
to prevent confusion from saying 'failure'
o Cosmetic change, now displays areas that are unselected, but
that have mail packed due to global keywords/personal
Version 1.50.00, July 2nd 1994
- Why the big jump in version numbers? To avoid confusion
since many prereleases with made available to fix problems
the same day.
o JAM base occasionally required reindexing in order to
display 'new mail' to users on the board - fixed.
o Added to the 'packed' field when packing messages. The
first half is the number of scanned messages, the second
half is the number of packed messages.
o Fixed the problem of the evaluation PID line
not appending a CR in the Hudson message base, thus
deleting the first line of text of a message sometimes
o Fixed a problem that if a hard CR was the successor
to a soft CR, it would not convert the hard CR into
the proper code for the QWK packets (just a cosmetic
bug that left a music note every once in a while in
a couple messages here and there)
o Made the inserting of the tearline if one does not
exist an optional feature
o Included a new metastring, *F that can be used to
tell the external programs where to place the filename
of the packet/reply.
o Stopped using JAMAPI routines for packing mail and
created some more effective, more reliable and faster
routines - should see Jam speeds increase, especially
on larger systems
o OLMS did not previously update the 'received' flags
on messages - it now does on both the JAM and Hudson
message bases.
o Added timeout protection on modem buffer flushes for
added protection against any bizarre behaviour on the
remote modem
o Disabled color in the new files listing as it was not
compatible with many mail readers
o No longer asks if you want to logoff while in local mode
o You can now configure the OLMS internal colors with
the file OLMS.COL
o Fixed a bug on systems that had over 1000 conferences,
making indexes lower than 1000 have four digits (ie
0020.NDX instead of 020.NDX)
o Made the default for new users to include Indexes
o Increased conference limits to 2,000 areas
Version 1.10.00, June 27nd 1994
o Scanning non-selected areas due to global options now
displays the whole area name, not just the number
o Netmail can be entered in any area now - it will auto
find the first netmail area, or use the new RemoteAccess 2.02
Netmail Reply area if available
o Yet another style in the 'QuickSmart' shortname styles. This
one allows you to select a standard type for your Fido style
bases, and auto-adapt when it senses a Usenet/Internet style
conference name
o Fixed two Jam problems, first one was if the base was marked
as Jam, but didn't have a base name (ie out of use), the
second problem occured when creating a JLR file if the user
had never read a message in the Jam base before running OLMS.
(This package includes FIXJAM, a file which should be run
to correct any problems this may have caused)
o Users with excessive amounts of time (greater than 1000 mins)
would experience a 'Time limit exceeded' message upon the
return from 'Compressing packet'
o Allowed you to modify the Sysop/System name, in order to
allow you to register under an alias (please include both
your alias and real name on your registration form)
o Fixed a problem with QWKSETUP running on Monochrome systems
o Seems that some peoples MESSAGES.RA and FILES.RA were not the
proper sizes causing runtime errors, OLMS will now compensate
for this bizarre condition.
o Greatly improved the enviroment detection and time slice
returning on multitasking systems. OLMS will now detect and
return unused timer ticks for Dos 5+, DESQview, Windows,
OS/2 2.x, DoubleDos x.x and NortonDos 7.x. OLMS now releases
about 93% of it's processing time when idle.
Version 1.02.00, June 22nd 1994
o Allow users to divide number when selecting conference areas
using commas, spaces, slashes, just about anything that is a
'standard' delimiter
o Allow the sysop to disable 'new file scanning'
o Fixed a bug that would not allow conference areas greater
than 255 be selected - oops
o Indexes were not being disabled if the user had said 'no'
to indexes
o Created another 'QuickSmart' short conference style for
Internet or Usenet conference names
o Added another metastring - *G that translates to ASC or
ANS depending on the users emulation
o Fixed a bug that would not enforce the sysop limits
o Eliminated screen updates during 'configure areas' if the
user didn't enter any areas to change
o FULL SCREEN INTERNAL CHATTING, with word wraps and full
color redraw after exiting (nicer colors too)
Version 1.01.00, June 21st 1994
o Automatically adds trailing slashes where needed
o Added support for the correct errorlevels to be returned by
RemoteAccess in Netmail or Echomail was entered in the door
o Clears outbound modem buffer before exiting back to the BBS
Version 1.00.10, June 18th 1994 (full release)
o Initial program release