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ROBOMAIL 1.1 TO 1.2 UPGRADE KIT 8/29/93 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to RoboMail 1.2! Thank you for using RoboMail, the ultimate QWK-compatible message management system for BBS enthusiasts. Included in the RM11TO12.ZIP archive are all files needed to upgrade to RoboMail version 1.2 from version 1.1. UPGRADING FROM VERSION 1.0 -------------------------- If you have not yet upgraded to version 1.1, the files in this archive will not work. You need to download ROBOM12U.ZIP. UPGRADING FROM VERSION 1.1 -------------------------- To perform the upgrade, simply place the UPGRADE.EXE file into your RoboMail home directory and run the program by typing the command UPGRADE at the DOS prompt. After verifying your files, the upgrade program will patch all the files that need to be changed. If no errors were indicated during the patching process, you should delete the following files from your system: ROBOMAIL.EX$ ROBOMAIL.OV$ UPGRADE.EXE That's all there is to it! CHANGES IN THE 1.2 VERSION -------------------------- RoboMail 1.2 is a maintenance release which provides fixes and improvements to the routines which are used to automatically detect and reconcile changes in the conference assignments on the BBS. Since your RoboMail installation can contain a complete database of all the conferences available on the mail systems you call, changes in the conference structure on the BBS require that your RoboMail message and conference databases also be updated. Under rare circumstances, the 1.1 version can get confused during the conference reconciliation process and enter an endless loop. For this reason, it is important that you upgrade your installation to the 1.2 version as soon as possible. Version 1.2 also fixes a problem where taglines could be truncated to 57 characters from RoboMail's default of 60 when re-editing an OutBox message. Finally, version 1.2 will automatically remove duplicate taglines whenever you use the "Sort" option on the tagline manager screen. The comparisons used during this process are not case sensitive. ROBOMAIL NEWS ------------- INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTORS - RoboMail is now available directly from distributors in several countries. If you are currently evaluating RoboMail and you live in one of the countries listed below, please contact your distributor to register your copy of RoboMail: United Kingdom and Ireland -------------------------- Contact RoboMail UK on London 081-500 5000. VISA/Access/MasterCard or EuroCard accepted Australia and New Zeland ------------------------ My Computer Company 25 Albert Street (P.O. Box 99) Erskineville NSW 2043 AUSTRALIA Phone: (02) 565-1991 Fax: (02) 550-4459 BBS: (02) 565-1044 The Fidonet RoboMail support conference is available in Australia through the My Computer Company BBS (3:712/411) and the latest copy of RoboMail can be file requested using the magic name ROBOMAIL. South Africa ------------ Fincompt Technologies P.O. Box 4472 Randburg 2125 SOUTH AFRICA Contact: Ian Gerada Phone: +27 11 789-6192 Fax: +27 11 789-6081 BBS: +27 11 789-6085 (Netline Flagship) NO DISK DISCOUNT NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE ------------------------------------- If you decide to take advantage of our Instant Gratification system to register your copy of RoboMail online at Group One BBS (312) 752-1258, we'll pay for the call! Since you already have the program, we'll deduct $2 from the registration fee to offset the costs of your call. Just answer NO when the online registration system asks if you need a disk mailed to receive the discount. CHANGES AND NEW FEATURES IN VERSION 1.1 --------------------------------------- RoboMail 1.1 contains the following changes and new features from the 1.0 release. Thanks very much to everyone who took the time to offer suggestions for enhancements. Many of your requests and suggestions were incorporated into the 1.1 release. Please keep the feedback coming, though, because we're always looking for way to improve the program. -------------------------------------------------------------------- o Added routines to automatically detect and handle changes to the BBS conference definitions during the QWK import process. RoboMail will now properly update your message database no matter what your friendly neighborhood Sysop does to the order of conferences on the BBS. NOTE: If your sysop decides to move conferences to new numbers and also change the conference name at the same time, then RoboMail will be unable to properly reconcile the changes. o Changed the F10 key on the message viewing screen to call the internal tagline manager (or TAGMAN.BAT if configured). The INS key is still used to access the message index screen. o Added the ability to specify the default, conference-specific or "other" tagline file when "G"rabbing a tagline. o Added support for PCBoard 15 style file attachments and receipt requests. These capabilities were created according to PCBoard 15 specifications and should become operational when mail doors are updated to support these features. o Added support for "@FROM" Internet addressing with PCBoard 15. o Added two options to the "Auto-Pilot and Sounds" configuration screen: [ ] Automatic page down with auto-pilot [ ] Automatic page down with assisted reading Use these options if you want the program to automatically do a PgDn operation when there is more of a message to read when you use the "." (auto-pilot) and ENTER (assisted reading) keys. The default for these new options is DISABLED. o Added the ability to successfully import messages of ANY length. During import, messages which exceed 32K will be automatically split into multiple parts. When reading these long multi-part messages you can press the "V" key to re-assemble the entire message into 1 part for viewing. o You can now start a reply to the recipient of a message by pressing [Alt-T] while the message is displayed on screen. o Improved the quick-merge macro capability. You can now include quick-merge macro tokens in the body of the text of your outgoing message while you are in your editor (external or internal), and RoboMail will merge them with the appropriate text as it reads the message data from the disk. Also, the selection of available macros has been expanded to include: Current Date: {DATE} Current Time: {TIME} Day of Week: {DOW} Conf #: {CONFNUM} Conf Name: {CONFNAME} BBS ID: {BBSID} BBS Name: {BBSNAME} Original to: {TO} \ Original from: {FROM} \ Original Date: {MSGDATE} -- Use only when creating Original Time: {MSGTIME} / a reply Subject: {SUBJECT} / o Added the ability to delete an outgoing REPly file by highlighting an OutBox cell (with an "R" entry) on the control panel and pressing DEL. If no rep is found, you will be prompted to mark all outgoing messages with DISCARD status. o Alt-A,O and C are now a more intelligent about finding the message you really want to see when you try to look up a thread reference in another message class. o Added a "Q"uery key to the tagline manager. Uses the same search methods as in the other queries in the program. This will allow you to quickly find taglines relating to specific topics. o Added "message stitching" compatible with the method used by Sparkware's 1st Reader. Any multi-part messages with [ANSI...] in the 1st line will be stitched automatically and displayed. Other multi-part messages can be stitched together and displayed with the "V" key when reading messages. During REP export, any messages which are split will get the necessary formatting to enable re-assembly by others sing compatible software. NOTE: RoboMail will split messages longer than 32K using this method during import. So, if you're using RM to read Internet mail and encounter a jumbo message, just press "V" when the first part of the message is displayed, and RoboMail will assemble the complete message and display it using your defined message viewing utility. After viewing a stitched message, the complete message is still on your disk in a MESSAGE.TXT file. NOTE: The characters used to enable stitching in 1st Reader do not travel through all mail doors and networks properly. If you encounter a message that looks like it should stitch but does not function properly, the message may have traveled through a FIDO, Internet or Wildcat mail system. Alternative stitching techniques are currently being developed. o Removed the vertical scroll bar from the message viewing screen. This will provide an unobstructed view of 79 column messages. To scroll up and down using the mouse, click on the lines above and below the message text window. NOTE: You can also use the "V" key to view a message which is too wide to fit on your screen. The internal viewer will display lines up to 512 characters long. Use RIGHT and LEFT arrows to pan. o RoboMail will now automatically add a space to the end of your defined quote characters if they are three characters long. this should enhance the readability of FL> type quotes. o Added a key to perform a solid disk write of all buffered data to the message viewing screen. Press [Shift-F10] to do this. People doing risky things in other sessions of multi-tasking environments can use this key before performing the operation. This may help in data recovery in the event of a system crash. MEA CULPA! -- RoboMail 1.1 Fixes -------------------------------- All in all, it was a pretty clean 1.0 release. However, a few things did slip through our internal and beta testing. The following anomalies from version 1.0 have been fixed for the 1.1 release: -------------------------------------------------------------------- o Upgraded virtual memory management system is much more tolerant of other software. You should not see "VM Integrity Error" messages any more. o Sped up the responsiveness of the internal editor. It should now keep up with even the speediest touch typists. o Changed the routines that do the "RE:" stripping from subject lines so that the subject is padded back to 25 character width using ASCII 255. This should fix the situation where replies with "RE:" prefixes that had been stripped were appearing before the original message. o Fixed invalid "Unable to open standard dictionary" error message that was preventing people from importing words into their standard dictionaries. o Modified text output routines to sort messages by BBS+CONFERENCE+SUBJECT+NUMBER before writing them to a text file. o Fixed bug with bulk marking a thread when the thread contained some subjects with mixed or all lower case letters. o The main tagline configuration field would allow you to leave it blank resulting in "DOS Error 2" aborts. Input is now required. o Hitting "O" in the chron to copy a message to the OutBox was duplicating the tagline. Fixed. o RoboMail was not checking defined conference-specific alias names when determining if a message was "personal." Fixed. o Fixed problem that would cause the exit query for exporting to be skipped if all outbox messages were discarded or on hold and the only other outbox items were offline configuration requests. o During export, messages were getting the system date and time rather than the date and time they were saved. Fixed. o When re-editing an outbox message with the internal editor, RoboMail would preface each line in the "original" message with the defined quoting characters. Fixed. o Fixed problems when ESCaping from the pop-up assistant menu with a special sort or query active. o Fixed incorrect quote characters when using AlT-Q in the internal editor. o Fixed problems when specifying a BBS ID in conjunction with the /e command line parameter. o Fixed "DOS Error 31" problems. o Fixed problems that could occur when attempting to add a name to the address book before any mail systems had been defined. o Fixed bug which could result in messages getting saved to the wrong folder if you pressed ENTER while the folder list was still getting filled in. o Fixed bug which could result in a crash when saving a message from the external editor if spell checking was enabled and the standard dictionary file could not be opened (handles or not found). o The C,M,L,V and E options on the attachment manager were operational even if no files were listed. Fixed. o Tags were not being cleared when processing messages marked for discarding. Also, tags were being passed along to folder messages when sending messages to folders. Fixed. o Fixed problem which would assign discard status to outbox messages when you pressed the [+] or [-] key while in the outbox and the conference was set to default to Discard status. This was the elusive cause of phantom outbox messages. o Fixed problems which could cause an error when attempting to edit or use an address book entry containing a BBS that has been deleted from the system. o Fixed problem with selecting taglines with the mouse. o Fixed "Sort On" pop-up menu so that mouse clicks would work. o Added better error trapping for disk full conditions when accessing DBV files. When this happens, RoboMail will display a informational screen and attempt an orderly shutdown. o Clicking on the "Age", "Keep" or "Discard" options in the message header will now move you on to the next message after making the assignment. # # #