Changi NNTP Server 1.0

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Beta Test Info

The following infos are included for our betatesters.

New with Version 0.9w

Two long living bugs have been detected and removed.
  1. On some systems Changi crashed about 15 seconds after the client disconnected. I wasn't able to reproduce this on my machine, until - believe it or not - I run Changi without a syslog daemon. After properly initializing the socket interface and adding a bit more stack to some threads, the error is gone.
  2. The rare 'skipped lines in batch' occured, because Changi didn't properly handle articles containing carriage returns.
A new flag Tc has been added to the newsfeeds file. Changi is now able to create compressed batches for remote sites. A new environment variable named CHANGICOMPRESSCALL may be used to define a specific compression program. By default GZIP.EXE is used.

New with Version 0.9v

You probably noticed the 1.0 in the title. We are just one step in front of the very first final release.

Joe has updated the page about How to Install a Syslog Daemon.

Alistair contributed a perl script containing an autoresponder.

A bug has been corrected, which prevents lines in the mailpaths file without %s.

Rnews will now accept options -W and -p.

Queuing while the server is flushed has been reduced. Only articles received by IHAVE are queued, local posts are rejected. Currently it looks impossible to sufficiently approve the post to guarantee the poster, that it will be accepted after the server enters the running mode again.

A bug has been corrected, which let Chanx report a far to large up-time.

A new environment variable CHANGILOCALHOST has been added to avoid further confusion between machines with and machines without local interface. We are now back to the situation, that, by default, the local server is connected via 127.0.0.1. Hosts without local interface can simply specify a different ip address with CHANGILOCALHOST.

Chanx AUTHINFO support wasn't quite reliable and has been improved. It should now work with most newsservers.

Windows NT Alpha Version Available

An early alpha version of Changi for Windows NT is available now. We're looking for testers, who will receive a free copy of this commercial product later. Free beta versions are expected to be released early next year.

Chanco Going Java

A second release of a visual Chanco running on Java platforms is available separately.

Announcing Development of a Threaded Newsreader

Naaaahh - just kidding. :-) There are too many of them available and more are expected to come (Netscape?).

Multithreaded Rnews

John Summerfield is currently investigating the amount of work to get Rnews running in a multithreaded manner. The current version of Rnews may process about four to five articles per second. A multithreaded version is expected to process about twenty within the same time. You can reach John via email at summer@iinet.net.au or visit his Webpages at http://iinet.net.au/~summer.

Enhanced Chanx Mode Using XOVER

Ed Tomlinson suggested a different approach to filter and retrieve news from a remote server. He is well known among the OS/2 net community for several REXX procedures he created or improved (pppdial). Now he plans to use NetREXX to implement a new exciting algorithm. Ed can be reached by email (tomlins@CAM.ORG) or visited on the Web at http://www.cam.org/~tomlins.


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URL: changi/manual/betatest.html
Created: 28 October 1996
Revised: 13 December 1996
Author: harald@os2point.ping.de