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1991-06-26 New feature: pressing Alt-P in header overview mode
1.29 (Alt-F9 screen) prints the current message or all
tagged messages. Optionally instead of the printer
an ASCII file may be specified for output. All printer
related parameters from Setup.Fd | Fd.Sys (page layout,
print style switches) will be used. The page layout
(page length, page width, left margin, top margin and
bottom margin) can be changed via a menu (for users
of the non-commercial FD version).
Message text dump mode: if a search for a part
of the message text has been done and the search
string was found in a message, this search string
will be highlighted in the text display.
1991-06-23 When deleting a message existing reply-links to
1.28 the now deleted message will be cleared.
Especially for Sico Bruins: the program now should work
again on 8088/8086 machines. I have no possibility to
verify this, but I did use the right compiler switches.
1991-06-17 Beginning with FrontDoor 2.01.bM, Fd.Sys has been
1.28 renamed to Setup.Fd (if I were Joaquim I would have
chosen Config.Fd). The program now first checks for
Fd.Sys; if this attempt fails, Setup.Fd will be used.
1991-06-15 New commandline parameter "-nolog" suppresses logging
1.27 messages to FrontDoor's logfile. The help screen has
been updated to reflect this change.
1991-06-12 Included logging of status messages and program activities
1.26 to FrontDoor's logfile.
Pressing Alt-D from the Alt-F9 screen prompts for and
executes a DOS command of your choice.
1991-06-09 Revamped the Alt-F9 help screen a little bit. Added a
1.25 mini bar chart to the weekly message posting frequency
table.
1991-06-08 Added the "^aREPLY: [reply MSGID]" and "^aTZ: [timezone]"
1.25 kludge lines to messages generated by the program.
"TZ" will be used if a corresponding entry is found
in the DOS environment (for example "SET TZ=UTC-2").
Also the FM like " * Reply to message in [folder name]"
will be used as first line in the message text.
Updated the program's internal domain table according
to a message thread regarding "Zone-numbers" in the
zone 2 sysop echo.
Played a little with the statistical features of the
program: from the Alt-F9 screen, press "T" for the
tag menu, hit [return], then Alt-S. Answer "Y" to
the question "Create verbose overview for folder?".
After viewing the table showing the messages subjects
and the user names, hit [return]. A little pop-up
table showing the message posting frequency per week
is available by pressing Alt-D. Hope you like it.
1991-06-06 The commandline options are listed on a second help
1.24 screen. Press F1 from header list view, PgUp and PgDn
to switch between the two help screens.
1991-06-04 I've encountered system crashes (exception #13) on
1.24 80386SX machines using Quarterdeck's QEMM 5.12 memory
manager: after pressing Alt-T to view a message text,
the program uses interrupt 1Ch to display a real time
clock in the screen's upper left corner. On startup
now the program checks if QEMM or QRAM are installed
and does not use the real time clock if it looks as if
they are detected. I use 386^Max on my 20 MHz 80386DX
machine and never had similar troubles.
1991-06-01 Removed the blinking attribute from the question mark
1.23 which is used to highlight all "one word only" names.
Fixed a bug which for some unknown reason sometimes
just wrote only message headers without message text
when flaming users with "one word only" names.
The program now may be used to search for a string
in the message text. See the "Search" command on the
Alt-F9 screen for more.
1991-05-30 After pressing "?" to mark all "one word only" names
1.22 the program optionally generates netmail messages to
those folks kindly asking to use their full name when
writing echomail messages.
Made some slight changes to the bottom menu box of
the Alt-F9 screen.
1991-05-27 Joaquim Homrighausen decided to change some filenames used
1.21 by FrontDoor: "Folder.Sys" will be renamed to "Folder.Fd"
in the announced beta version 2.01.bK. I changed the
program to first attempt to open "Folder.Sys"; if this
failed "Folder.Fd" will be used. This should keep the
editor compatible with FrontDoor 1.99c, 2.00, new beta
2.01.bK and later versions.
Included "Joaquim", "Joho", "Joque" and all variations
of "Every" in the exception list of "one word only" names
(see paragraph below).
1991-05-26 Alt-F9 screen: if the "By:" or the "To:" field of a
1.20 message header contains only one word it will be marked
by a red blinking question sign in front of this name.
Of course I've coded some -- smart, I hope -- exceptions.
*Undocumented command* -- Alt-F9 screen: pressing "?"
(question sign) will tag all headers which have been
marked by a red blinking question sign (you're right,
I don't like handles).
Alt-F9 screen: reworked the help screen popping up after
pressing "F1" to include the program's new features.
If a feature is not available the corresponding key
will be displayed black on gray instead of red on gray
in the help screen (yes, I *do* know the Mac).
Replaced the word "Hit" with "Press" in most of the info
boxes.
1991-05-22 If a batchfile called "Editor.Bat" is found in the DOS
1.19 path it may be executed from within QBBedit by pressing
F10 from the Alt-F9 screen (header listing mode).
QBBedit swaps itself to harddisk or EMS memory (if available)
and requires approximately 10.5 kb RAM while resident.
I think this feature is extremely useful to switch between
QBBedit and FM (or any other message editor you may prefer).
1991-05-21 Included a sliding scroll bar on the rightmost position
1.18 of the Alt-F9 screen. Don't panic -- a mouse is *not*
supported (yet).
The box "Press Alt-L to re-establish the reply links"
only will pop-up if more than one message header has
been changed during a search and replace command.
Starting with this version the program only will run
on machines using an 80286 or above.
Switched to PKware's PKlite 1.05 to compress the
executable file. Use "PKlite -x Qbbedit.Exe" if
you encounter any problems related to compressed
*.Exe files on your machine.
1991-05-19 Added the new commandline parameter "-list" or "/list"
1.17 to immediately switch the program into "list" mode.
This is functionally equivalent to pressing Alt-F9
after the program started.
1991-05-16 Found another new message editor which is inserting
1.16 "S: " in front of message subjects. Updated again
the program's junk table...
1991-05-12 A new message editor is adding the junk string "Re "
1.15 in front of reply subjects. Therefore I've updated
the program's internal junk table.
1991-05-10 If the string to be searched is identical to the string
1.14 by which it should be replaced the search and replace
function will be aborted. -- This feature I should have
implemented quite a while ago.
1991-05-05 Changed my string editing library routines to support
1.13 Ctrl-left and Ctrl-right. These keystrokes move the
cursor to the character following the next blank on
the left or respectively right side of the current
cursor position.
Changed the prompt indicating the possibility to press
Alt-L to relink the message base after a search and
replace operation on message subjects.
1991-04-25 Pressing Alt-N from the message list activated by Alt-F9
1.12 will check for lowercase only ("cool") names and change
them to the proper style of writing if necessary.
Browsing starts at the current cursor position and continues
until the end of the message file is encountered or any key
has been pressed.
Tsutil.Exe now is searched in the current subdirectory
prior to searching the subdirectories specified in the DOS path.
1991-01-21 If a message subject is being searched the string to be
1.11 searched for is displayed within double quotes (") in the
"Search for Subject: ... Replace with Subject: ..."
dialog box. This makes it easier to notice leading or
trailing blanks in the search item.
Included my changed network address (2:310/11.100) in some
info boxes.
1991-01-08 The popup window with the note "Tsutil.Exe was found in
1.10 the DOS path. Press Alt-L to re-establish reply links..."
now only appears if the message subject ("Re:" field)
has been changed.
A few minor changes in the source code. Nothing important.
1991-01-07 Looks as if Felix has found the error in the swapfile
1.10 assembler routine. The swapfile no longer should remain
on harddisk after terminating the program. The swapfile
of course only was created on machines without EMS memory,
so you probably may have never noticed this bug.
My programs "Ghostwriter" and "QBBsort" also are affected
by the changes in the assembler source code, so you may
try to get updated versions of this programs.
1991-01-06 There seem to be some problems caused by the new heap manager
1.10 Borland introduced with Turbo Pascal 6.0. Rewrote some
dynamic memory related stuff.
On machines without EMS memory sometimes the program hangs
after pressing Alt-Q. Looks as if there is a bug in the
assembler routine which removes the temporarily created
swap file. Felix Kasza currently tries to locate the bug.
1990-12-30 The real time clock in the upper left hand screen corner
1.09 in message text dump mode now only is available on 80386
systems. On 8088/8086 and 80286 systems the commandline
switch "-noclock" or "/noclock" is not required anymore
to suppress the clock display.
Keyboard speed and keyboard status will remain unchanged
during program startup.
The program no longer looks for Lastread.Bbs; after being
invoked it will always display the message with the lowest
message number.
Switched to the Turbo Pascal 6.0 compiler.
1990-12-27 Fixed again a bug with the "L" command from the Alt-F9 screen.
1.08 In earlier versions "link tagged messages" only worked properly
if the folder number from the tag menu was set to 0.
1990-12-24 The folder name now is included in the result display
1.07 if a verbose folder report is generated (Alt-S from the
Alt-F9 screen after an echomail folder has been selected).
X-mas is quite a lonesome evening; especially if the woman
you fell in love with last night doesn't stay with you.
1990-12-20 Fixed a bug with the "L" command from the Alt-F9 screen
1.06 ("Link tagged messages").
1990-12-16 Included some default "replace with" strings if the
1.05 search and replace function is used on the "By:" or
"To:" field of the message header.
1990-12-11 Fixed some screen update bugs which occured during
1.04 search and replace with confirmation.
1990-12-03 The "OK" button in the "mouse support" window now also
1.03 accepts any keystroke. I've changed this because obviously
not each so-called "Microsoft compatible" mouse really is
Microsoft compatible.
1990-12-02 Before shelling to DOS the program changes the DOS prompt
1.03 to "Type Exit to return to QBBedit". Many thanks to Trevor
Carlsen, 3:690/644@fidonet, for posting a routine to change
the DOS prompt in the "Pascal" echomail conference.
As first step ahead in the direction of a full blown message
editor (oh my gosh!) I added word wrap and a lot of screen
update speed to the text view mode (Alt-T). Currently I'm
working to implement some basic text scroll functions.
New goodie: pressing a key between "1" and "9" in the text
view menu allows to locate a message by number. The program
prompts for a message number and displays the corresponding
message text.
At program start the "Caps Lock" key is switched off, the
"Num Lock" key is switched on and the keyboard is set to
a repeat rate of 30 characters per second and a repeat
delay of 0.25 seconds (I don't like slow keyboards).
1990-12-01 Included the message "There are no tagged messages" if
1.02 "M"ove messages was selected from the Alt-F9 screen and
no messages were tagged before doing so.
1990-11-30 Changed my library routines for switching to a full size
1.02 cursor and flushing the keyboard buffer. The keyboard
buffer now is flushed completely if running under DESQview.
Ctrl-Home and Ctrl-End in the folder selection screen
now moves the scroll bar to the first or the last folder
respectively.
1990-11-28 New commandline switch #1: "/quiet" or "-quiet" suppresses
1.02 any sounds the program eventually generates.
New commandline switch #2: "/norodent" or "-norodent"
suppresses the initial "OK" box if a Microsoft compatible
mouse was found.
Sounds generated by the program now confirm to the "Audio
begin time" and "Audio end time" found in Fd.Sys
(Setup Mailer / Audio control).
1990-11-27 The list of folder names appearing in the tag menu now
1.01 can be left by pressing [tab] or [shift-tab]. If any of
those keys is pressed the currently highlighted board
number is accepted as selected board number. Changed also
the behaviour of the [PgUp] and [PgDn] keys in this list.
1990-11-26 Locally generated messages which are already exported
1.01 now additionally are displayed as "Sent".
If there are no tagged messages to move and the "M"ove
messages option is selected from the Alt-F9 screen the
program prompts to tag some messages first.
The "M"ove message option now doesn't generate new message
numbers for the moved messages. Only the "board" field
in the message header is changed to the destination
board's number.
For increased speed the program does not "bang" anymore
while cleaning up message headers ("R" from the Alt-F9
screen).
Encountered a cold boot including POST after pressing Alt-H
from the single header screen while testing the program
under DESQview 2.31. Therefore I decided to include a
"use it on your own risk" alert screen if the program
detects operation under DESQview.
1990-11-25 New command from the Alt-F9 screen: "M" moves all
1.0 tagged messages to an other destination folder.
Rodent lovers are asked if they have three hands.
The program does not update Lastread.Bbs anymore.
It was a mistake to include this "feature", sorry.
Decided to hatch the program as first release version
into SDS. I'm hungry for more feedback.
1990-11-24 Tag menu: board numbers now can be selected from a
0.29α list of folder names. This makes it easier to select
a specific echomail folder for tagging.
Changed the character to mark tagged headers to a
lightred triangle pointing to the left in column 80.
Added a new command line switch: if "/date" or "-date"
is used all message headers will be checked for
questionably dated messages. Messages dated more
then one day ahead in the future or prior to
1 Jan 1988 automatically are tagged and may be
located from the Alt-F9 screen by pressing ^T.
1990-11-24 Text dump mode: right to the network address in the
0.28ß first screen line a real time clock is displayed.
Unlike FM's time display also the seconds are included.
Use the command line switch "/noclock" or "-noclock"
if there seem to be any troubles with this feature
on your computer. This may depend on the "stacks"
setting in Config.Sys. On my machine "stacks = 0,0"
is included in Config.Sys, but maybe QBBedit's clock
display only works on 80386 systems with this setting.
New menu command "R" in the Alt-F9 screen removes all
braindead junk like "RE:", "RE.", "(R)", "RE :" and "RE;"
from the message subjects. Thanks to Carlo Ballarini,
2:331/316, for this suggestion.
Fixed the wrong initial US date format in the date fields
of the tag menu (thanks, Felix!).
Modified the text display routine to display characters
with an ASCII value > 0x7e in kludge lines also in "lowvideo"
attribute. Henk Wevers, 2:500/1, uses "^aPID: Dutched Versie
2.91eß" (sic) as PID kludge line.
1990-11-23 Changed the text dump mode's bottom line prompt:
0.28α if a prompt option isn't available, its screen colour
is changed to black on gray; otherwise it remains
red on gray.
1990-11-22 Added percentage display to the table "Message posting
0.28α frequency per day". Changed the colour for user names and
message subjects in the verbose folder overview table.
<cursor left> and <cursor right> now can be used also
in the text dump mode to move to the last or the next
message respectively.
The program now updates Lastread.Bbs before terminating.
1990-11-21 Included an option for a verbose overview of the contents
0.28α of a specific message folder. Try this: use Alt-F9 to switch
to the header list screen. Use the tag menu, select a message
folder; clear the "By:" and "To:" field, enter "-365" in the
first date field to tag the messages of a whole year.
Press Alt-S; answer "Y" to the question: "Create a verbose
overview for the message folder [Y,n]?".
Enjoy the next three screens!
Pressing "L" in the Alt-F9 screen now creates reply-links
for all tagged messages within the folder selected from
the tag menu, regardless if message subjects match or not.
Included an "alert" screen for the case that Alt-L (execute
Tsutil link -t -a) was pressed and Tsutil.Exe was not found
in the DOS path.
1990-11-18 The text view has been modified to look like an FM-clone.
0.27ß Included the command Alt-H to view the message text in hex
format in a scrollable window <phew!>
Changed the archive filename to "Qbedxxx.Lzh" to avoid
confusion with the "Qedxxx.*" filenames used for "QuickED"
(thanks to Roland Mausolf, 2:243/43, for this hint).
Didn't do anything else. Today's my son's seventh birthday;
I'm engaged the whole afternoon with the investigation of
a new Nintendo's secrets :-)
1990-11-17 The tag-menu has been completely rewritten. Date range and
0.27α folder numbers now also may be used to tag messages.
If message subject and folder number are defined as "tag keys"
in the tag-menu the program now optionally creates reply-links
on the tagged messages. Since also part of message subjects
can be used as "tag key" this new feature allows reply-links
on different message subjects containing a common string.
For example the message subjects "ZC2", "Why I probably won't
be ZC2", "Zc2???" and "This f*cking new Zc2!!!" now can be
linked to one message-thread by using "ZC2" as tag key.
* I suppose this is a quite nifty feature, dude! * :-)
The statistical overview now consists of two screens:
one screen contains the message numbers, a small bar chart
and the folder names, the other one shows percentage and
a bar chart with higher mathematical resolution.
Fast switching between those two screens is possible.
Pressing Alt-F in the single header screen now is possible
even if no message flags are set. The popup window "Pressing
Alt-F will display..." has been removed.
1990-11-16 Fixed the lousy bug causing the question "Mark this message
0.26ß as deleted [Y,n]?" to remain in the bottom help box of the
Alt-F9 screen. Thanks to Mark Howard for indicating this fault.
Pressing ^T in the Alt-F9 screen advances the scroll bar
to the next tagged message. Reworked the tag key menu and
the Alt-F9 help screen. The default "To:" tag key now is
the sysop's name. The key sequence <Alt-F9>, T, <return>,
^T allows to browse quickly through the message base and
stop at each message addressed to the sysop :-)
If messages have been deleted the program now optionally
updates the files Msginfo.Bbs, Msgidx.Bbs and Msgtoidx.Bbs
before terminating.
1990-11-16 Reduced the program's resident size to 8816 bytes while
0.26α shelling to DOS or executing "Tsutil link -t -a". Had to
re-shuffle most of the source code (approximately 135 kb
main source in the moment) to structure the program into
more and smaller units.
Added a new command to the Alt-F9 menu: pressing "T" brings
up a submenu which allows tagging messages by "By:" and "To:"
usernames and message subjects.
*I think this feature is quite useful!*
1990-11-14 Fixed a bug which caused two scroll bars to remain on the
0.25ß screen if the continuous scroll up/down was stopped.
Changed the archive filename to Qedxxx.Lzh to avoid confusion
with the popular "Qedit" shareware editor.
1990-11-13 The "search" and the "search and replace" commands have been
0.25α speeded up. Screen update only will take place if a match was
found.
In the Alt-F9 screen dubiously dated message headers will be
indicated by a blinking red question mark in front of the date.
Deleted headers will be shown in low intensity in the Alt-F9 list.
Fixed a bug in the statistical overview display (Alt-S from
the Alt-F9 screen). Added also percentage display to statistical
window.
Pressing <space> in the Alt-F9 screen now is used to toggle a
"tag" on the current header. If a header is marked this will
be indicated by a rectangle in column 80. Pressing <delete>
in the Alt-F9 screen now sets the "deleted" flag on the current
or all tagged headers. Pressing "C" in the Alt-F9 screen clears
all tags, pressing "I" inverts all tags.
Network address, site name and site location will be displayed
in the upper right hand corner of the screen if FrontDoor 2.00
or higher is used.
Oops! Today's Fidonet 3rd anniversary in region 31 (Austria).
If I only had known what I've started...
1990-11-12 Mark Howard, 1:260/340, suggested to write this history file.
Quite a good idea.