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- Friday, September 23, 1994 17:53 EST
-
- Version 0.92.6
-
- This is an NNTP newsreader for Microsoft Windows 3.1 or Windows/NT. You
- can use it to read and post Usenet News, and send email (via SMTP or MAPI)
-
- Requirements:
-
- For WINSOCK (v1.0 or higher) compliant TCP/IP stacks (called WINSOCK.DLL):
- (using gwinsock.dll)
- A WINSOCK compliant TCP/IP product such as Trumpet, PC/TCP,
- NetManage TCP/IP, Microsoft LanManager 2.2, DEC Pathworks 5.0.
- Make sure WINSOCK.DLL is in your path before starting Windows.
-
- *or*
-
- For NON-WINSOCK TCP/IP stacks:
- (using pwksock.dll)
- A DEC Pathworks v4.1 or Microsoft LanManager 2.1a compatible
- WSOCKETS.DLL Dynamic Link Library. Make sure Windows can find it.
- (set your PATH environment variable).
-
- An NNTP News Server. It *must* support one of the following
- NNTP extenstions:
-
- XHDR (most news servers can do this)
- or
- XOVER (InternetNetNews is an example of a news server that does XOVER)
- WinVN will use XOVER if your server supports it.
-
- A 'NEWSRC' file. An example is provided. You *must* have the
- file there; WinVN won't write one out just randomly. It can be
- empty.
-
- A 'WINVN.INI' file. Edit this file to point to your news server,
- or you can later change parameters from within WinVN.
-
- An optional 'WINVN' environment variable, telling WinVN where to find
- its two configuration files: 'WINVN.INI' and 'NEWSRC'. You have to
- set this variable BEFORE you start up windows.
-
- You can also tell WINVN where to find the two files by giving
- command-line options with the 'Properties' menu under the Program Manager
- - here are a couple of examples
- (specify a directory to look in)
- winvn.exe d:\winvn\myserver
- (specify each of the two files separately)
- winvn.exe e:\winvn\myserver\winvn.ini u:\users\rushing\newsrc
- [I use this to set up different icons for different news servers.]
-
- The on-line documentation no longer matches the program exactly.
- Lots of new undocumented features have been added, but most should
- be obvious.
-
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Thanks to Mark Riordan for the original WinVN!
-
- Many people have worked on WinVN - it's been a fun, international
- project.
-
- Here are a few of them:
-
- Matt Bretherton MBretherton@cmutual.com.au
- Harvey Brydon brydon@tulsa.dowell.slb.com
- John S. Cooper jcooper@netcom.com
- Michael Downs mdowns@eos.arc.nasa.gov
- Jim Dumoulin dumoulin@titan.ksc.nasa.gov
- Michael Finken finken@conware.de
- Don Gardner gardnerd@keystone.ksc.nasa.gov
- Jody Glasser jglas@tdycont.com
- Masaki Ishido ishidou@yhp.hp.com
- Conor Nolan cnolan@tcd.ie
- Mark Riordan mrr@scss3.cl.msu.edu
- Sam Rushing rushing@titan.ksc.nasa.gov
-
- (countless others I don't really mean leave out)
-
- You can send comments to the WinVN developers by sending mail to:
-
- winvn@titan.ksc.nasa.gov
-
- If you don't mind alot of traffic on WinVN, you can join the developers
- by sending mail to:
-
- winvn-request@titan.ksc.nasa.gov
-
- (This is not a snazzy list server, it's an alias entry on a VMS Vax.)
-
- An easy way to keep up on winvn developments is to point your
- newsreader at 'niven.ksc.nasa.gov' (128.159.4.21). There should be a
- single newsgroup, (mail.winvn) which is a gatewayed version of the
- mailing list. Announcements and discussions of common problems can
- be found here. It's very likely the best place to get the scoop on
- _your_ problem. If mail gets much worse, we may consider starting
- an ALT group.
-
- The official FTP site for WinVN is at ftp.ksc.nasa.gov (128.159.4.20)
- in the directory [pub.win3.winvn]
-
- Always check there for the latest binaries and sources.
-
- Matching hardcopy documentation by Jim Dumoulin (dumoulin@titan.ksc.nasa.gov)
- for this release is available on FTP.KSC.NASA.GOV.
-
- -Sam Rushing & Jim Dumoulin
-
- -----------------------------------------
- WinVN release 0.92.6:
-
- -- New features:
-
- - In article window, after marking text with left-mouse-button/drag,
- clicking the right button copies to clipboard a la cmd.exe. (brydon)
-
- - new smart-filer - customizable extension remapping (i.e. jpeg->jpg),
- as well as configurable renaming of too-long file names. (jcooper)
-
- - new cc-by-mail option when posting - only available for SMTP
- mail (jcooper)
-
- - new Window menu with Cascade, and Close window operations (jcooper)
-
- - now remembers the last search keys used in the group, article-header,
- and article windows. also, pressing search-again if no search key present
- will pop-up find dialog instead of doing nothing (jcooper)
-
- - main window now shows '-' next to groups instead of '0' when the number
- of articles in the group is undetermined (jcooper)
-
- - new post/mail logging dialog (with browse buttons) (jcooper)
-
- - new open-path dialog with folder/disk bitmaps for decode-path (jcooper)
-
- - In SMTP mail address dialog, add/delete buttons are greyed at
- appropriate times - more intuitive operation (jcooper)
-
- - all Mail-related menu items are greyed if mail is disabled (jcooper)
-
- - Forwarded article header now references original article header
- instead of always saying "Forwarded usenet article" (jcooper)
-
- - Decode Block Status window now has "Always on top" option,
- selectable from its alt-space system menu (jcooper)
-
- - Subject template for attachments now allows zero-padding in
- part num. Use %0p for zero-padded part num. part num is padded
- with zeros to length of total num parts. (jcooper)
-
- - new decode/save multi articles option: keep current article header
- visible in group window (jcooper)
-
- - When reading articles with the power key (space), the article
- header is automatically kept visible in the group window (jcooper)
-
-
- -- Bug fixes:
-
- - MAPI now disabled in win32s (rushing)
-
- - ini and newsrc files with "Archive", "System" or "Read only" bit now
- work ok. (brydon)
-
- - any group windows open on winvn exit were not updated in newsrc -
- seen articles were not properly saved (jcooper)
-
- - last-seen-article id's were getting lost on winvn exit for groups not
- accessed in the current session (jcooper)
-
- - resized some dialog text items to avoid font clipping (jcooper)
-
- - will not allow attachment generation if decode session active (jcooper)
-
- - Catch-up & exit is not allowed in article window until article header
- retrieval is complete, and is not allowed during multi-save/decode
- operation (jcooper)
-
- - a slash at the end of the decode path name is now handled properly (jcooper)
-
- - using browse to select a save-to path, when the append-to-file box
- is checked now works properly (jcooper)
-
- - color schemes with background color set to black will now work
- correctly (jcooper)
-
- - using Reset server protocol during a post/decode/etc properly ends
- the work-in-progress (jcooper)
-
- - isnumber returned true on '+' and '-'. caused some problems in
- decoding files. (jcooper)
-
- - decoder no longer pops up a message box upon attempting to decode
- an article containing a invalid custom table (caused stack crash if
- multiple articles with invalid tables encountered) (jcooper)
-
- - decoder now handles early WinCode v1.x info headers (jcooper)
-
- - changing the Show Full Subject from the Misc dialog now causes a repaint
- of all open group windows (jcooper)
-
- - DEF file now properly exports _all_ callback functions (jcooper)
-
- --------------------------------------------------------
- Improvements and new features in Version 0.92.4
- (martin/smr) bug fixes in hashtable stuff, now _really_ should work
- with lots of groups.
- (mrr) update to online help
-
- Improvements and new features in Version 0.92.3
- This is mostly a bug-fix release.
-
- (jmartin) new newgroup dialog, more robust with lots of groups
- (jcooper) encoding/decoding bugfixes, understands more encodings
- (mrr) new authorization-control capability
- (smr) various winsock fixes
- (jg/mi) bogus # of articles in dialog caption fixed
-
- Improvements and new features in Version 0.92.2
-
- (smr) fixed problem with determining NNTP vs port number
- (jd/smr) fixed problem with Gensock not returning error strings
- (jd/finken) fixed problem with estimated num of articles getting zeroed.
- (jd) fixed conflicts with Accelerator Keys
- (jd) fixed up strict function specs in WVUTIL.C and WINVN.C
- (jcooper) decoder now understands WinCode, TIN, EnUU, POST etc
- (jcooper) Attachment now allows disabling of MIME
- (jcooper) New attachment dialog
- (jcooper) Customizable experimental MIME types
- (jcooper) Menus in group/article windows are disabled when retrieving
- (jcooper) fixed coding window minimize problem fixed finally
- (jcooper) fixed close-window bugs and cleaned up
- (jcooper) fixed util/encode bug
- (cnolan/smr) fixed Auto-Execute for Win32
- (smr) better handling of nntp server disconnect
- (smr) ensure QUIT command is sent to server on exit/disconnect
-
- ---------------------------------------------------------
- Improvements and new features in Version 0.92.1
-
- (smr) simpler and more reliable winsock support
- (smr) fixes to support Microsoft Chicago Beta
- (smr) more robust SMTP send code
- (smr) removed debuging code for SMTP 250 messages
- (smr) better handling of long header lines with word wrap
- (gardnerd) copy to clipboard from article windows
- (cnolan) fixes for win32, bugfixes
- (jcooper) auto-execute of decoded files (via file manager/associate)
- (pearse) show only articles newer than last read
- (jd) fixed additional printing problems with some drivers
- (jd) made version info box a scrollable dialog
- (jd) fixed startup errors for people that have no printers
- (jd) fixed crashes upon new connects to servers >3000 new groups
- (jd) made nntpserver and mail address scrollable for long names
- (jd) fixed improper casting for more reliable operations
- (jd) standardized border on all WinVN dialog boxes
- (jd) fixed bug with truncating long mail addresses
- (jd) fixed improper cleanup on canceling Threshold dialog
- (jd) changed look and feel of article Threshold dialog box
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------
- Improvements and new features in Version 0.91.6
-
- (JD) Printing bug introduced in V0.91.5 is fixed
-
- (JD) New Printing Dialog Box with support for printing individual
- pages, multiple copies, and changing default printer.
-
- (JD) Added a Printer Setup Entry in Article Window
-
- (JD) Gensock include code fixed in WinVN.RC so the App Studio
- can now be brought up for developers without errors.
- Also, identifiers are now in sorted order in WinVN.h.
-
- (JD) Added an option in the Article View Menu for Find Next Unseen
-
- (JD) Added the beginnings of a "POWER" button. You can now
- press SPACE while reading an article and it will scroll
- down the page. If at the end of the page, it will fetch
- the next unread article in the selected group. In a future
- release, it will also be made to switch to the next unread article
- in the next subscribed group. The F2 key can also be used.
-
- (JD) Fixed Save on Exit to read the Confirm Save on Exit flag.
-
- (JD) Changed Menu text of the Quit command to Quit without Saving.
-
- (SMR) Bug in Mail forwarding is fixed
-
- <DG> Horizontal Scrolling is now by pixels instead of Chars
-
-