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CENTURION
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InfoMail 1.10
An Document Server for Fidonet Systems
Copyright (C) Damian Walker 1996
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WHAT'S NEW IN 1.10
GLOBAL HEADER AND FOOTER FILES FOR OUTGOING MESSAGES
You can now add a standard header and footer file to all
outgoing document messages. This can include macros. Macros?
See later on...
16-CHARACTER DOCUMENT NAMES
As per a request I received I expanded document names to 16
characters. Well, it wasn't too difficult and I was changing
the file format anyway :-)
DOCUMENT ACCESS COUNTER
Just a bit of fancy nonsense to mimick what is often seen on WWW
pages-- an access counter. It is displayed on the local screen
when entering document details and it can be displayed within a
document, header or footer using macros.
MACROS FOR USE IN HEADERS, FOOTERS AND DOCUMENTS
Ah, these macros I was talking about. There are now a few
expandable macro sequences such as {N} for user name and {U} for
user address. These can be placed in document text files, and
they will be expanded when the document or header or footer is
sent.
SECRET (UNLISTED) DOCUMENTS
Rather than include a password for reading, I decided to allow
document names to be kept off the document list. If you don't
want unauthorised people to get this document, don't tell them
about it :-)
EXPANDED SUBJECT LINE FOR OUTGOING MESSAGES
If you think your document name is too terse as a subject
header, you can specify a more descriptive comment for the
subject header of outgoing document messages. This feature can
also help with other message flags, see below.
OPTIONAL KILL AND OTHER MESSAGE FLAGS FOR EACH DOCUMENT
The global kill flag of InfoMail 1.00 has been scrapped, and
instead, this and other flags are configurable for each
individual document. Combined with the expanded subject line
feature mentioned above, you can create file requests (why?) or
file attaches as responses to document requests. You can even
crashmail the response, if you've got more money than sense.
REMOTE MAINTENANCE OF DOCUMENTS (PASSWORDED FOR SECURITY)
You can now give users and points their own document if they
can't run InfoMail themselves. Set up a document, include a
remote maintenance password, tell the user what it is, and they
can keep the document text updated themselves without further
action from you.
POSTS DOCUMENTS UP TO 16K IN SIZE
Some people (myself included) found that 8k was a bit
restrictive so I've increased the maximum message size to 16k.
This is about the limit now, as there are some systems out there
which cannot easily route messages above this size. If your FAQ
or other document is bigger, you might want to split it and
offer it as separate documents.
AUTOMATIC UPGRADE FACILITY
If you're upgrading from InfoMail 1.00 you can upgrade with a
single command at the DOS command prompt. Needless to say, you
won't be taking advantage of any of the new features until you
actually change your configuration or documents.
INCREASED SPEED OF DOCUMENT POSTING
InfoMail 1.00 was incredibly slow at posting documents on my
little 386SX. No-one else seemed to notice so perhaps my system
is more than a little out of date. Still, I've improved this
for my own requirements if nothing else.
A COUPLE OF AESTHETIC MINOR INTERFACE BUGS FIXED
As DOS doesn't store the netmails in any relevant order the
netmail counter looked a bit silly, and if netmail 123 was read,
followed by netmail 42, the display would say 423. There were a
few other things I didn't like about the interface, too petty to
mention. They've all been fixed.
A 386 VERSION OF THE PROGRAM
Yes, it seems to be the done thing to supply 386-optimised
versions of programs. So INFO386.EXE has been provided. I
don't have a DOS extender or anything so this is just a version
of INFOMAIL.EXE compiled with 386 instructions. I don't know if
the speed upgrade is worth the effort, but you might as well use
it now it's there (provided you're not running on an 8086 or
286, of course).
THAT'S ALL FOLKS!