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uuPCBIN History File ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │SPECIAL NOTICE: If you have not added your personal email ID to the list │ │of email IDs for uuPCB sysops, please do so. This can be done by │ │filling out Script #10 in Conference 272 on Ed Hopper's BBS. │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ Version 1.04 UUPCBIN would skip 1 line when splitting an article. fixed. 4/21/93 Multi-group, multi-part messages would get their part #'s out of sync. fixed (unable to test this, please advise.) "Split..." verbiage moved to top of message in order to accomodate limitations in other netmail software. Finally, reworded the "Split" message. Version 1.03 A few fixes and new features: 4/11/93 Fixes: 1. When Archiving and posting a multi-part article, the last part of the article would be posted without a subject field entry. As a result, it could not be read under certain circumstances. Fixed. 2. Archived multi-part messages would have a couple of blank lines in the archive file (within the zip) corresponding to where the article was split in PC Board. Fixed. 3. The (continued next message...) tag would not always appear in part 1 of a multi part message. Fixed. New Features: 1. Multi-part articles will now have the header retained in *EACH* part of the message, not just the first. 2. Multi part articles will now carry the line: "uuPCB Article Split Part # XX of XX" after the usenet header and before the text. Version 1.00 Added several new features: 4/7/93 EMSSHELL uuPCB will shell to expanded memory if 1) The parameter EMSSHELL=Y is in UUPCB.INI 2) Adequate EMS memory is available. Fixed (I think) the out of string space problem. Fixed an occasional problem with mismatch between the DOS and UNIX filenames for a given *.D file. Added two exit options: ALT-X will write all logs and then exit at the end of the current message. ALT-N will write all logs and then exit at the end of the current *BATCH*. Version 0.90 On occasion, some uuPCB messages are posted without an entry 11/28/92 in PC Board's "Subject:" field. PC Board would not display such messages. QMail, etc. would display these messages. The reason this happened was that uuPCB would inadvertently eat the Subject line. This is fixed. Version 0.89 Fixed a bug which resulted in corrupted DIR files for 10/07/92 archived messages. What was happening was that a carriage return character was at the end of each line but no line feed character was attached. This meant that it appeared that the firsct character of each file name was missing. You can fix the corrupted DIR files with QEdit or similar editors. To do so: Edit the dir file and position the cursor right before the corrupted file. You should see (in QEdit, anyway), the lines with a "music note" character at the end. Do a search and replace to fix this. In the "search for" box, enter ^P (CTRL-P) ^M (CTRL-M), in the replace box, enter ^P^M^P^J. (The ^P character tells QEdit that the next character is a "literal" character and that it should be accepted with interpretation.) Fixed a bug in which text in the text portion (not the header) of the news article which had TO:, FROM:, etc at the beginning of the line was picked up and used instead of the correct TO:, FROM:, SUBJECT: etc. This had been fixed previously but was broken when the word wrapping problem was fixed. Version 0.88 Fixed a bug that lead to "missing" messages. What was happening 9/26/92 was that white space (space or null) was coming in front of the FROM: in PC Board's message header. While .QWK doors didn't have a problem with this, PC Board did. Version 0.87 Complete replacement of Message I/O routines. I believe that these new routines, plus the elimination of some potential 9/20/92 difficulties in library conflicts (between PDQ and DBLIB) and an increase in string space should make things more stable. >>>>>>VERY, VERY IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR SINGLE NODE SYSTEMS<<<<<< These routines PRESUME network and/or share.exe to be in operation. With CDC's elimination of single node PC Boards, it is no longer realistic to presume that single node operations and uuPCB will co-exist. For the two or three single node PC Boards in existence, I recommend that share.exe be loaded. YOU WILL GET ERRORS OTHERWISE! Other minor fixes: 1. Removed ASCII 227 characters at end of lines in archived messages. 2. Archived messages are now named {Prefix}{Seq#}.TXT instead of ARCHIVE.MSG. This will allow multiple .ZIP files to be unzipped into the same subdirectory. For example, FAQ0115.TXT is inside of FAQ0115.ZIP, FAQ0116.TXT is inside FAQ0016.ZIP, etc. Version 0.86 Whew.... its been a while. My apologies for the delays. 8/13/92 Moving, buying a house and getting phone lines was MUCH more complicated than I thought. The BBS is up at 404-446-9462 and 404-446-9465. Fixed problems with memory handling techniques and added a top of screen memory monitor. These new techniques recover all memory after each message is processed. Previously, memory would slowly be chewed up. Large mail runs would result in memory overwrites which could cause various problems. Added the capability to limit the number of UUCP files processed in a single run. Set the parameter "BATCHLIMIT" to the maximum number of files to process. For example, BATCHLIMIT=200 would only process 200 files. The program would then exit. Batch file programming would allow you to re-invoke the program if necessary. For example: Batch file segment: :again uupcbin . . . (Do something else) . . . if exist D:\SPOOL\SITE\*.X goto again The whole point of this is to allow sites handling LARGE feeds to break up the processing into multiple parts. Fixed problem with leftover BATCH. and BATCH.Z files in the work subdirectory. UUPCBIN will now kill these files appropriately. Add a fix in database index handling which should clear up the %0,000 that occurs occasionally in the PCB Conference display. Please note that this is a problem that I have had some difficulty re-creating this bug. Please report any %0,000 occurences promptly. Added the new BBS phone number to the display. Also fixed a problem with message parsing. Previously, occasional messages would not have CHR$(227) (PC Boards new line character) inserted after some message lines. This would cause some problems. NOTE: Regarding UUENCODED files. These files use 7 bit characters to transmit 8-bit binary data (such as program files). Unfortunately, every once in a while a @X## code will occur as a natural part of the coding. As a result, PC Board would intercept the code and interpret it as a PC Board color instruction. The only way around that would be for CDC to allow one to turn off @X## interpretation on a conference by conference basis. That capability doesn't exist yet, unfortunately. Maybe 15.0? I have been unable to find a method for UUPCB to fix this problem. Version 0.85 - One problem that was encountered with the concept of message 5/7/92 archiving is that the sequence numbers can rapidly be exhausted. This version will support 9999 archive files (instead of 999). This is a quicky fix. It may be enabled by entering the following line in UUPCB.INI: FOURDIGIT=Y This turns on four digit handling of sequence numbers. You must manually edit (using QEdit, edlin or other ascii editor) the ARCSEQF.DAT file. Add a leading 0 (or 1, if you choose) to the three digit number in this file. The file should be 6 bytes long when you complete this edit. In your UUPCB.DBF file, you may define a file prefix of up to five characters. Obviously, if you enter a five character prefix and have a four digit sequence number, the resulting filename will have 9 characters and thus be illegal in DOS. If the FOURDIGIT option is selected, UUPCBIN will automatically truncate the prefix to four characters. I recommend that you review your prefixes and manually adjust them, however. Version 0.84 - This version detects out-of-control looping and terminates 5/6/92 these loops. In addition, the default message segment size has changed from 8192 bytes to 5120 bytes. This can be adjusted by setting the PCBMAXBLOCKS parameter to a number greater or less than 40. This value indicated the number of 128 byte PC Board message blocks that are devoted to each message. Version 0.83 - Internal changes to fix the "dumping thousands of nonsense 4/25/92 messages into junk" problem. Added a DEBUGLOG option. Enter DEBUGLOG=FILENAME if you encounter the "dumping into junk" problem AFTER switching to version 0.83. This log is continuously appended. It grows VERY BIG, VERY FAST, so use it only if you encounter this problem. If the problem occurs, send the log to me. No other changes. Version 0.82 - Limited release. Fixed a bug in the batch anlysis function 4/13/92 of UUPCBIN.EXE. Version 0.81 - Well, big problems at the two or three sites that got version 4/5/92 0.80ß. There were problems with two areas: (1) Some debugging code I had added was still in place. It caused all sorts of errors on the screen. (2) More importantly, a new 3rd-party library that I was using for the first time on version 0.80 was causing problems, (such as lockups and out-of-synch operations). Unfortunate- ly, these errors only occurred on other systems, not here. I have been running UUPCBIN 0.80 for a week without trouble. I have pulled that code out. It seems to be working fine now. No other substantive changes. Version 0.80 - Added the following new features: 4/4/92 Message archiving. Inbound email logging. Fixed problems with tabs in email IDs. New PC Board message File I/O routines. 71 column reports. Newsgroup Blocking. ┌──────────────────┐ │Message Archiving.│ └──────────────────┘ (Note: This requires DBFSETUP 0.75, UUPCBOUT 0.76, and CONVDBF database conversion utility). The purpose of this feature is to allow you to capture messages that have a permanent or semi-permanent value into zip files. This might be messages from sources or binary groups, on-line "magazines", etc. You select a prefix for each newsgroups' files and uuPCB will product the files with three digit counters. For example, a common item in Usenet is a "FAQ" (Frequently Asked Questions) List. Most FAQ's are posted in the newsgroup "news.answers". On my system, I set up up news.answers to be archived with the prefix "FAQ-". Therefore, an incoming news article in news.answers is zipped into the file: FAQ-001.ZIP, the next one in FAQ-002.ZIP, etc. ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ NOTE! │ │ │ │ I anticipate that sysops will want to review these files, pick and │ │ choose those to retain and, eventually, rename them to something more │ │ meaningful. This method of naming files and providing Description │ │ entries is not perfect, but it gives you a head start. │ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ uuPCB's message archiving feature has several options. You can archive all messages in a newsgroup and not post them to message bases at all. You can only archive the multi-part messages and post the single part messages. You can archive and post all messages and so on. These options are controlled by the numeric value of the field "ARCHIVE FLAG" in the new DBFSETUP 0.75. Setting it to 0 (the default) means "No archiving". Here are the other options: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive Flag Single Part Messages Multi Part Messages Archive Post Archive Post ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0 | | X | | X ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | | | X | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 | | X | X | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 | | X | X | X ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 | X | | X | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 | X | X | X | X ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- An X in a block indicates that operation is performed. For example, if you set a newsgroup for Archive flag 3, single part messages in that newsgroup would be posted as PC Board messages. Messages that are larger than a single PC Board message would be posted as multi-part PC Board messages *AND* saved in .ZIP files. To implement message archiving, perform the following steps: 1. Convert your UUPCB.DBF file to the new format with CONVDBF.EXE. To do this, run CONVDBF.EXE in the same directory as UUPCB.DBF. It will build a new database from your old one. This new database will have five blank fields in each record. Your old database is saved as OLDUUPCB.DBF. Build a new index with the INDEX.EXE utility from the UUDBUTIL.ZIP file you downloaded originally. The syntax to use is: index uupcb.dbf newsgrp.ndx Take the default answers to all of INDEX.EXE's questions: Question 1: NEWSGRP.NDX is the name of the index Question 2: Index on?: newsgroup Question 3: Where?: (blank) Question 4: "INDEX DATA FILE" (note: Unique Keys Required: YES) 2. Run the new DBFSETUP. The screen will look like the screen below: ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ uuPCB DBF Setup - 0.75ß │ │ Copyright 1991, 1992 Edward T. Hopper - All Rights Reserved │ │ Ed Hopper's BBS 713-997-7575 or ed.hopper@ehbbs.hou.tx.us │ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ PC Board Conference Number: 20 Active Record 5 of 8 USENET Newsgroup : comp.sources Moderated Newsgroup? (Y/N): N Moderators email address : Host for articles (opt) : Default Distribution (opt): Conference Path : D:\PCB\CONF20\MSGS Conference Name : Comp.Sources Archive Directory : d:\dl23 Archive Dir File : d:\pcb\gen\dir85 Archive Flag : 5 Archive Prefix : csrc- Block Flag : N ─────────────────────────[Esc to Abort Edit or Entry]────────────────────────── [A]dd [C]Names Import [D]elete [E]dit [N]ext [P]revious [Q]uit [R]eport [U]ndelete [#] Goto Record # Your Choice: Five additional fields, beginning with Archive Directory are provided. We're concerned with the first four of that group. The last one is devoted to newsgroup blocking, which is discussed later. Fill out the fields as follows: Archive Directory: The path for the subdirectory used to store the .ZIP files. Archive Dir File: This identifies a PC Board directory file. uuPCB will enter each .ZIP file here and will include the word "Usenet:", the newsgroup and the contents of the article's "Subject:" line as the PC Board file description. The entries look like this: MAC-033.ZIP 10983 03-28-92 Usenet: comp.sys.mac.misc | Software Manual Reference Summary Archive Flag: A value from 1 to 5 taken from the table above to instruct uuPCB on exactly how to handle archiving. (Note a blank or the numeral 0 means no archiving). Archive Prefix: a 1 to 5 character prefix for the filename of the archives. For example, an archive of the Computer Underground Digest's alt.society.cu-digest would have the prefix "CUD-" and zips would be named "CUD-001.ZIP", "CUD-002.ZIP", etc. 3. Create the subdirectories specified in the "Archive Directory" field above. 4. Make sure that PKZIP is in the path. I have hardcoded PKZIP to perform this function for now. ┌─────────────────────┐ │Inbound email logging│ └─────────────────────┘ This is designed for some systems who wish to track users generating large email volumes. In this release, it only logs inbound email. It will generate logging on outbound email and news in the next release of UUPCBOUT (the release after UUPCBOUT Version 0.76). In UUPCB.INI enter the keyword EMAILLOG with the name of the file in which you wish the log to appear. For example, EMAILLOG=email.log. The log looks like this: ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── uuPCB EMAIL TRANSFER LOG ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── DATE IN/OUT USER BYTES ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 03-30-1992 I JIM HEIL 15,315 03-30-1992 I ED HOPPER 1,444 03-30-1992 I LEEANN HOPPER 3,022 03-30-1992 I LEEANN HOPPER 1,813 03-30-1992 I ED HOPPER 1,324 03-30-1992 I ED HOPPER 1,219 This file is continuously appended. I assume that those users who wish to assess charges to users for email will use this as the input for their billing/accounting programs. ┌─────────────────────────────────────┐ │Fixed problems with tabs in email IDs│ └─────────────────────────────────────┘ One sysop was receiving email from a user on another system with a Tab character embedded in his "english" name. uuPCB was telling him that the message was from (Tab Character). PC Board wouldn't display such a message. Fixed, as are other nonsense characters. ┌──────────────────────────────────────┐ │New PC Board message File I/O routines│ └──────────────────────────────────────┘ I have modified the routines to check for pre-PC Board 14.2 file locking in addition to the post 14.2 file locking methods in order to prevent any potential conflicts with other code. I have also attempted to speed up file writing, however it appears that the impact is minimal. ┌─────────────────┐ │71 column reports│ └─────────────────┘ Based upon feedback from sysops, I have reduced all reports generated by UUPCBIN.EXE to 71 columns in order to allow import via TXT2MSG. This includes the new email report shown above. ┌──────────────────┐ │Newsgroup Blocking│ └──────────────────┘ Under certain circumstances, you might receive a newsgroup from your feedsite that you do not wish to carry. For one reason or another, your feedsite may be unable or unwilling to delete this group from your feed. In that case, enter "Y" in the block flag field for that newsgroup. Assign the same PC Board conference # (field #1) to this blocked newsgroup as you have to "junk". Make sure you do a CNAMES IMPORT to update the paths in this entry. Version 0.78 - Experimental versions, not generally released. and Version 0.79 Version 0.77 - Several changes. First, the ASCII 0 characters in the reports 3/3/92 have been eliminated. You should be able to display them as bulletins in PC Board now, without problems. The second issue was the occasional "PC Board Conference not found" errors. Several had requested logging of those errors in an error log. That is now provided. Look for "ERROR.LOG" in the uupcb directory. However, it also appears that there was another problem. The situation: - A multi-part, multi-newsgroup article is received. - Only a few of the total groups are carried on the BBS. - A uncarried group follows a carried group on the newsgroup line. If the above three items occur, uuPCB tried to write the article to a non-existent message base. Hence the "PC Board Conference not found" errors. You should not be seeing these errors so frequently now. When you do, look at error.log to see if you have configuration problems. Third, there is now a Junk report. The Junk report is an optional report that reports the newsgroup lines for any articles that are posted in your "junk" conference. This should help you detect any newsgroups added to your feed. This happened to me recently. I carry "alt.conspiracy". A new newsgroup, "alt.conspiracy.jfk" was established. C News, the unix news software that my feed sites use, automatically sends new subgroups to anyone taking the main group. To utilize the junk report, just add "JUNKLOG={filespec}" to uupcb.ini. Version 0.76 - This is a special release for Bob Emerson. Fixed problem with 2/27/92 batches that contain a large number of messages (i.e., over 300) It now handles 1000. Version 0.75 - Fixed a couple of things. First, it has been modified to 1/26/92 handle incoming email with more than one addressee. This is somewhat unusual, but some mailers will put this out occasionally. Now, UUPCBIN will post the message to all addressees. Secondly, UUPCBIN now will not post control messages to newsgroups. We will handle control messages more completely in a later release, but this at least prevents some .QWK doors from choking. No modifications to UUPCB.INI required for this release, just plug 'n' play. Version 0.74 - Well, 0.73 didn't last long. While 0.73 fixed most problems 1/16/92 it still allowed long, multi-newsgroup messages to get fouled up. The result, a multi-part, multi-group message posted part 1 several times, but never posted the rest. The fix was easy, but missed it in 0.73. Multi-part, single group messages didn't have a problem. Version 0.73 - Major item here is fixing some things that were 1/15/92 broken earlier. This will fix overly verbose and generally screwed up headers. uuPCB was ignoring the KEEP= statements and sticking ALL of the header in the message. Now fixed. Also, the program will now append the time of each successful mail/news run in the file NEWSTIME.LOG. Note, this file is appended. It will show a history of successful runs. The time reported is the time that UUPCBOUT.EXE *CONCLUDES* processing. This one is important - Please get it ASAP. Version 0.72 - Added further reporting options. 1/10/92 Modified INPUTLOG. This is a verbose log of all messages posted. There are three columns in this report: Msg#, Msg-Id and Conference Name. The header now contains the date and time that UUPCBIN.EXE has concluded. The INPUTLOG parameter in UUPCB.INI stays the same: INPUTLOG=[FILENAME] This is an optional parameter. in UUPCB.INI where [FILENAME] is the filename or path and filename you wish to use for the log. Added POSTLOG. This is a summary total, by newsgroup, of messages imported. To activate POSTLOG, enter POSTLOG=[FILENAME] in UUPCB.INI where [FILENAME] is the filename or path and filename you wish to use for the log. Version 0.71 - Some systems send batched, compressed news without 1/02/92 the "cunbatch" header. Fixed UUPCBIN.EXE to handle batches with or without this header automatically. Version 0.70 - 1/1/92 - Original release version.