Internet
Neighborhood v1.3 Release Notes
© Copyright 1996-1998 KnoWare, Inc., All rights
reserved.
April 13, 1998
This document is intended to provide up-to-date or late-breaking information
about the current release of Internet Neighborhood from KnoWare, Inc.
For more information about common questions and solutions to any issues
you might have with Internet Neighborhood, visit our website at http://www.knowareinc.com.
Contents
Installing Internet Neighborhood under Windows
95
Installing Internet Neighborhood under Windows
NT
Entering your Serial Number/Registration Code
New Features, Fixes and Changes
Known Problems
Purchasing Internet Neighborhood
Uninstalling Internet Neighborhood
Installing Internet Neighborhood under
Windows95
Installing Internet Neighborhood under
Windows NT
Entering your Serial Number/Registration
Code
In order to unlock the full functionality of Internet Neighborhood,
you are required to purchase a license for the program. If you would like
to purchase an Internet Neighborhood license, click here.
Once you have purchased a license for Internet Neighborhood, you will receive
a Serial Number, also refered to as a Registration
Code. To enter your Serial Number into Internet Neighborhood,
you need to:
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Double-click on the Internet Neighborhood icon on your desktop.
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Once Internet Neighborhood launches, select Help from the
main menu.
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Under the Help menu, select About Internet Neighborhood.
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When the Internet Neighborhood About Box appears, click on the Unlock
button.
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Enter your Internet Neighborhood Serial Number into the dialog box and
click OK.
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If you have entered your serial number correctly, you will receive a Congratulations!
message. If you entered it incorrectly, you will receive an Invalid
Serial Number message.
Once you have entered the correct serial number, Internet Neighborhood
will remember it and you should not need to enter it again.
NOTE: Keep your Internet Neighborhood Serial Number in a safe place,
since you will need it for technical support and in the event that you
need to reinstall the program.
New Features, Fixes and Changes
What's New in this Release?
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Added support for FTP Software's FTP server.
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Added support for for VAX/VMS A5.5 systems.
What's Fixed in this Release?
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Fixed bug which was causing Deletes to fail on certain servers when specifying
the full directory path.
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Fixed bug which was causing new folders to periodically be created incorrectly.
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Fixed bug which was preventing status messages from being displayed when
the + sign was clicked on in the treeview.
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Fixed bug which was causing drag-drop to fail with an "Unable to retrieve
clipboard data; aborting" error message.
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Fixed bug which was causing SHDOCVW.DLL to crash during the download of
a large directory.
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Fixed bug in MACOS server parsing.
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Fixed bug which was causing the firewall password to be initialized incorrectly
in the 'site wizard'.
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Fixed bug which was causing firewall connections to fail if the firewall
did not return a welcome message.
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Fixed bug which was preventing the 'Retry Connect' status dialog from displaying
any messages.
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Fixed bug which was ignoring the error code during the uploading of a file.
Now, an error message is displayed if an upload cannot be done.
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Fixed bug which was causing connections to fail through firewalls.
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Fixed various potential memory leaks.
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Fixed bug which was preventing the status bar from being updated correctly.
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Fixed bug which was preventing IN from loading on various systems.
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Fixed bug which was causing filesizes to be displayed incorrectly for MS-Offices
files.
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Fixed the toolbar/tooltips bug. The toolbar buttons now have text and tooltips!
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Fixed bug that caused the improper parsing of cached directories when you
were not connected to an FTP server.
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Fixed bug in the FTP engine that was preventing connections on various
platforms.
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Fixed bug that was causing a reconnect for every file transfer.
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Fixed bug that caused IN to fail to generate a filelist when the remote
FTP server returned a ':' in the initial remote directory.
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Fixed bug in FTP engine that periodically caused connection failures on
certain systems.
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Fixed bug that was preventing the ftp server type from being retained between
connection sessions.
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Fixed bug which caused the Disconnect and Reconnect functions to fail when
called from the context menu of a folder in the treeview.
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Fixed bug that was causing upload failures for filenames that contained
spaces.
Known Problems
The is a list of known issues. These are either problems with Internet
Neighborhood, or limitations of the current version.
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You cannot rename anything from within the treeview pane; All renaming
needs to be performed by right-clicking on the selected item in the listview
pane, then choose the command from the context menu.
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You cannot currently copy-paste an FTP-Site definition.
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The following system types are not currently supported. VM, MVS, VOS, and
TANDEM.
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You cannot move/copy/drag-drop files between ftp sites.
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You cannot move/copy/drag-drop files between directories on a single ftp-site.
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When dragging and dropping onto a remote folder in the treeview
pane of Explorer, the listview pane is not always being updated/refreshed
correctly. To refresh it, right click in the listview pane and select
Refresh.
Purchasing Internet Neighborhood
Internet Neighborhood can be purchased directly from KnoWare, Inc.,
or on-line from one of our distributors. For more information concerning
pricing and availability, visit our website at http://www.knowareinc.com/buyit.html.
Uninstalling Internet Neighborhood
As with any program, it is required that Internet Neighborhood not
be resident in memory during the un-installation process. So, to insure
that Internet Neighborhood is unstalled completely, the following steps
will need to be performed.
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Restart Windows95/NT. This will ensure that Internet Neighborhood has been
removed from memory. If Internet Neighborhood is resident in memory during
the un-install process, the process will fail.
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Once Windows has restarted, click Start then Settings
followed by Control Panel.
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In the Control Panel program group, double-click on the Add/Remove
Programs icon.
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Find the entry labeled Internet Neighborhood and double-click
it.
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Choose Yes to uninstall Internet Neighborhood from your machine.
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Once Internet Neighborhood has been uninstalled, you may need to restart
Windows95/NT again so that the icon will be removed from your desktop.
If Internet Neighborhood does not uninstall, you can download the Internet
Neighborhood Icon Remover which will remove IN from the desktop (and
the system registry).