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.
- 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.
- 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
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