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- 09/02/93
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- Fixed - The modem initialization string wasn't being sent properly.
- Fixed - The program was sending sometimes sending an N when getting to
- the Main Board Prompt in a PCBoard Configuration. I believe I
- have fixed this problem.
-
- The above fix was due to the PROMPT file being setup wrong.
- The proble was with the MORE? and (H)ELP prompts. I changed
- them so they look like this:
-
- More - (H)ELP, MORE?
- Help - (H)ELP?
-
- Make sure that your PRESS (ENTER) prompt does NOT contain a N
- for the action. It shouldn't be sending an N character.
-
- Fixed - When using the Prompt Editor, it would sometimes keep
- switching between Yes/No prompts <arg>.. Not good!
- Fixed - I wasn't closing a file when first initializing the reader.
- This would eventually cause an out of memory problem.
- Fixed - Sometimes my Keyboard buffer wasn't being empty. This would
- cause certain areas of the program to not work properly.
- Normally this condition could be found when pressing the ESC
- key. What would happen is that after you hit the <enter> key,
- and you would try to access another menu and press <enter>,
- the program would think you pressed something else and nothing
- would work <g>...
-
- I also noticed something with the QMAIL door on Salt Air. A
- lot of their prompts are colorized in several places. What
- this means is that the actual prompt isn't what the program
- expects. Make sure you give a N;Q;NS on the Graphics question
- to avoid these problems (I haven't wrote an ANSI filter at
- time when looking for prompts, but plan to in the future to
- avoid this problem.
-
- 08/08/93 - 09/02/93
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- Quite a few things were added and things were fixed as well. I spent
- two or three weeks alone testing the communication routines (making
- sure that they worked properly). If you run into any problems with
- the communcation or automation of loggin into a BBS, please let me
- know ASAP!!
-
- INTERNAL EDITOR LIMITED - Due to the size of the program at this
- point and all of the text being in near
- memory, you will only have about 80 lines
- when replying to a message, but will have
- the full 150 lines when entering a message.
- If you need more than 80 lines for a reply,
- you'll need to use an external editor.
- Hopefully in Beta E I will convert all of
- near memory text into FAR memory to free
- up quite a bit of room. This will also
- allow you to customize some of the prompts.
-
- Added - File attachment Directory, Download Directory, and a
- Upload Directory! These are used when manually trying to
- upload/download files or when a QWK packet contains a PCBoard
- file attachment (will be adding WildCat's in the next
- release).
- Added - A message will now indicate that it has a REPLY if you reply
- to a message. I would suggest that you delete your BOOKMARK.*
- files since the file format had to be changed to include this.
- Added - You can now type the first letter of the Select Menu Screen to
- execute the option (Qwk Config, Auto Caller, etc..).
- Added - When using the internal QUOTE REPLY function and if you were
- using a mouse, the NORMAL CURSOR was not displayed. I've
- changed the code so that the CURSOR is displayed if a mouse is
- being used. This means that if you are using a MOUSE, you
- will have two cursors. The mouse cursor and the normal
- cursor.
- Added - Pressing ALT-D in the Select Packet Menu will DELETE the
- Highlighted Packet. Be sure as there is no YES/NO prompt.
- Added - When entering the SUBJECT/TO field, and these are blank and
- you try to save the message, you will be put back into the
- header portion of the message and will need to make sure they
- aren't blank (which one of them must be <g>).
-
- Fixed - When using the EDIT REPLY function and if you were using an
- external editor, you would be forced into using the Internal
- editor instead.
- Fixed - When Adding/Droping a conference, I wasn't closing a file.
- This would eventually cause an out of memory error and finally
- no file handles left <g>. This would only happen if you tried
- to add/drop about 10 conferences. Otherwise, you would of
- never of seen it. Hopefully it'll fix the problem some people
- have mentioned about the Adding/Droping not working properly.
- Fixed - If you enter a message for a QWK packet and there previously
- wasn't a REP packet, the Yes/No option in the Packet Menu
- wasn't being updated.
- Fixed - If you went into the Bulletin Menu, the temporary bulletin
- file wasn't being deleted, causing the prompt about your work
- directory not being empty to be displayed.
- Fixed - Request Return Receipt was spelled incorrectly.
- Fixed - There were several places where ALT- was spelled ATL- <arg>.
- Fixed - ALT-S wasn't working when trying to Save a Message. It was
- doing something else <arg>.
-
- 07/28/93
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-
- Added - Enable Taglines has been changed from a YES/NO option to:
-
- Yes/Pick/Random/Sticky
-
- The code has also been modified so that if you have a
- conference with its own tagline file, that conference will
- have its own set of pointers to keep track of what the last
- tagline selected.
-
- Also, if you have enabled Pick, it will automatically go into
- the tagline manager.
-
- Please note, if you are using a third party program to use
- taglines, please DISABLE taglines in the reader so you won't
- get duplicate taglines. In order to use a third party program
- to manage your taglines, you need to specify that you are
- using an external editor. Instead of calling your editor
- directly from the reader, you will need to use a BATCH file to
- call your EDITOR and your TAGLINE manager.
-
- Fixed - The Packet Screen was not being updated after reading a QWK
- packet.
-
- Fixed - I added code to keep track of messages in a conference, but
- never fully implemented it. If you read a conference and
- decide you want to quit that conference, and then later
- rejoin that conference, it will take you back to where you
- left off.
-
- This acts as what most people know as a BOOKMARK. The bookmark
- will automatically be saved and be read in if you decide to
- start reading this packet. That way you don't lose your
- place.
-
- Fixed - When using the STATS command to display your BBS Information,
- the USERS FULL NAME was being displayed twice (opps).
-
- Enhanced - When using the internal scrollback buffer with the MOUSE
- enabled, the mouse release key was too fast. This could
- cause text to be tagged and untagged very easily.
-
- I also modified it so if you press the RIGHT button mouse,
- it will act as if ESC was pressed (this is how it should
- act anyways). This was causing people to go insane <g> due
- to them tagging text and then hitting the right button and
- nothing would happen.
-
- Enhanced - When using the LIST Messages function, it will now take you
- to the exact message that you were currently reading. That
- way you won't lose your place when you're reading a
- conference that has a LOT of messages.
-
- Changed - I made a new TAGLINE.TGS file. It contains only about 300
- taglines and I believe it doesn't contain anything that
- might be offensive. If there is, please let me know.
-
- Fixed - When using the internal editor, it wasn't very clear on how to
- QUOTE part of a message. In order to quote part of a message,
- simply hit the SCROLL LOCK key.
-
- Fixed - The HELP file didn't contain any information on how to import
- a text file into the internal editor. You use the ALT-I key
- to import a text file.
-
- Fixed - If replying to a message and using the external spell checker,
- and you wanted to spell check your reply message, it wouldn't
- do it.
-
- Added - You can now have a Signature file. You define the file in the
- QWK Configuration, Messages/Editors Options.
-
- Fixed - If you tried to use the Bulletin Option when reading a packet,
- and you didn't have any bulletins, a file would be created and
- was left open (meaning it couldn't be deleted).
-
- Added - You will now be prompted to delete a REP packet if it is older
- than the QWK packet you are going to read.
-
- 07/27/93
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-
- Added - For each conference you can now define whether or not you want
- the LIST function to be displayed before reading messages in a
- conference. Basically, this means that you can see the TO,
- FROM, SUBJECT, and NUMBER header fields before you actually
- start reading messages. This allows you to select where you
- want to start reading in a specific conference.
-
- In order to enable this, you need to use the ALT-C option in
- the Conference Screen (where all of the conferences are
- displayed). This allows you to specify which conferences you
- want this option to be enabled with.
-
- Added - When using the Conf/Message/List option (insert key when
- reading messages), it will now display a √ if a message has
- been read.
-
- 07/23/93
-
- Fixed - The BBS Name in the Qwk Packet Selection Area wasn't being
- displayed.
- Fixed - The Read (Yes/No) wasn't enabled. It will now display
- whether or not you've read this QWK Packet. The TERM READ in
- this case means whether or not you have looked at this packet.
-
- Probably in the future I'll change it to work according to
- how much of the packet has been read, but currently, it's
- either YES or NO (sorry folks).
- Fixed - The HEADER portion of entering/replying to a message had no
- HELP.
- Fixed - The TagLine manager was pointing to the WRONG HELP files.
- Fixed - If you turned off (Beep On Personal Messages), the program
- would still beep on personal messages.
- Fixed - There was a small problem with animating an ANSI message with
- ANSI MUSIC. This is a very TRICKY area because not all people
- follow the standards, so you have to try and make up the parts
- they don't add <arg>. At any rate, hopefully this will do the
- job a little better.
- Fixed - When editing the HEADER of a message (TO,FROM,SUBJ,etc) the
- <enter> key would only move between the TO,FROM, SUBJ fields.
- You can now also use the <enter> key to scroll down to the
- Private/ConfNumber/CarbonCopy/RequestRR/TagLines.
- Fixed - The EDIT REPLY options was not working(PERIOD).
-
- Added - You can now KILL a reply. Please note that if you KILL all of
- your reply messages AND if you previously had a REP packet,
- the REP packet will not be deleted. This is done for SAFETY
- reasons.
- Added - You can now use the Right/Left arrow keys to go to the
- next/previous message.
- Added - You can now specify up to four Tagline Quote characters. Also,
- if you use the %N% in this option, please note that it
- defaults to the Users Initials and adds a '>' character.
- However, if you wish to bypass the '>' characters when using
- the %N% parameter, simply add the character of your choice.
- Examples:
-
- %N% Looks like - CD> Hello there
- %N%? Looks like - CD? Hello there
- %N%α Looks like - CDα Hello there
-
- Added - Updated the CAMSTER.HDX file to reflect the new additions.
-