$Id: whatsnew.txt,v 1.14 2004/12/12 19:45:56 mbroek Exp $



Important Changes since MakeNL 2.5x:

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FILENAMES:

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  If you use a case sensitive OS (Unix, Linux etc), then change

  all output filenames to lowercase. MakeNL writes the filenames

  to disk in lowercase on these OS's. On other OS's this doesn't

  matter.



NETADDRESS:

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  To allow better zone aware netmails, the netaddress must now 

  include the zone number, 28/0 should now become 2:28/0



ARC:

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  The ARC keyword no longer works as documented in the old MakeNL

  documentation and is obsolete. MakeNL 2.5x only had support for

  Arc compression, but 3.1.8 now supports multiple compression

  utilities, through configurable archiver entries following the

  ARCOpen and ARCMove keywords. These new keywords need between

  three and five parameters. To provide compatibility with MakeNL

  2.5x, the ARC keyword must be commented out of the MAKENL.CTL

  file, which will cause MakeNL to default to Arc compression as

  before.

  

  Currently, ARCCopy and ARCMove work for this feature. The difference

  is that ARCCopy creates an archive but leaves the original file,

  ARCMove creates and archive and removes the original file.

  Since version 3.2.1 MakeNL can now send hub and host networks segments

  compressed to. Add the following lines to makenl.ctl to use it:



    threshold   0 -1

    arccopy     z zip -jo      ; Infozip

    arcmove     z zip -jmo



  If you use the arccopy keyword you must also use the arcmove keyword

  so that both the nodelist and nodediff will use the same archiver

  such as zip. If you onmit one of these, MakeNL refuses to start.

  If you don't use both keywords, the default arc archiver will be

  used.



  The new syntax of the ARCXxxxx keywords are as follows:



  ARCXxxx [x] [archiver exe name] [archiver command] [command switches]



  The [x] tells MakeNL what the first character of the final archive

  of the stub will be. For zip, you would list z, resulting in *.znn

  output files.



  Here are some examples of commonly used archivers, and the commands

  that work with them:



  PKZip:   ARCCopy z pkzip -ex (or: ARC z pkzip -a)

  InfoZip: ARCCopy z zip -jo

  Rar:     ARCCopy r rar -a -ep

  Arj:     ARCCopy j arj -a -e

  Lha:     ARCCopy l lha -a -m1



  To allow received segment files in different formats maximum 10

  ARCOpen commands may be defined in the MAKENL.CTL file. If in

  MAKENL.CTL in the FILES section a file is defined as hub.50 then

  in the mailfiles and uploads directories a zipped segment with the

  name hub.z0 or hub.zip will be unpacked and the unpacked file will

  be processed. The syntax form the ARCOpen command is the same as

  for ARCCopy, but 10 lines are allowed and 10 different archive

  formats are recognized. The following archives are recognized:



    Pkzip or Infozip, Arc, Lha, Zoo, Arj, Rar, Ha, Bzip2, Gzip and

    Unix compress.



  The following are examples of entries in MAKENL.CTL:



    Arc:      ARCOpen a arc ew

    Infozip:  ARCOpen z unzip -oj

    Lha:      ARCOpen l lha ef

    Rar:      ARCOpen r rar e -o+ -y

    Gzip:     ARCOpen g tar xfz

    Bzip2:    ARCOpen b tar xfj

    Compress: ARCOpen c tar xfz

    Arj:      ARCOpen j arj -y e

    Zoo:      ARCOpen o zoo eq:0

    Ha:       ARCOpen h ha ey



ALLOwunpub:

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   ALLOwunpub is a new keyword that will cause MakeNL to allow the

   -Unpublished- string to be present in the sixth (phone number)

   field of node listings, without requiring the Pvt keyword to be

   present in the listing. This keyword is disabled by default. To

   enable it, add ALLOwunpub 1 to your MAKENL.CTL file.



ALPHAphone:

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   ALPHAphone is a new keyword that will cause MakeNL to allow alpha

   characters to be present in the sixth (phone number) field of node

   listings. This keyword is disabled by default. To enable it, add

   ALPHAphone 1 to your MAKENL.CTL file. 



LOGFile:

--------

   The full path and filename to the logfile to use. It is best to

   place this keyword as first keyword in the .ctl file, logging

   starts as soon as this keyword is seen.

   If not defined then nothing is logged. This is the old behaviour.



LOGLevel:

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   The level of logging, must be between 1 and 4. Level 1 is the

   default. The meaning of all levels is:

    1 - Normal and error messages

    2 - Verbose messages

    3 - Debug messages

    4 - Severe debug messages



FORcesubmit:

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   FORcesubmit is a new keyword that will cause MakeNL to submit 

   unchanged segments. Normally unchanged segments are not submitted.

   This keyword will only work if MakeNL is started with -P on the

   commandline. This keyword is disabled by default. 

   To enable it add FORcesubmit 1 to your MAKENL.CTL file.