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- Release Notes for
-
- Arn V1.00 alpha
-
- This is not an illegal hack, but
- THIS IS JUST A PRELIMINARY VERSION OF ARN V1.00 TO SEE WHAT YOU HAVE
- TO EXPECT FROM THE V1.00.
-
- NOTE: Dillon's AmigaUUCP is now supported by Arnmaster, although
- **** the scanning phase will be much longer without an active-file
- that is supported by your news system. Matt refused to support
- an active-file, yet.
- If you have Dillon's AmigaUUCP you must specify the DOTDIRS keyword
- (i.e. DOTDIRS Y) in the configuration files and use option -A for
- ArnMaster (see Arn.doc and Arnmaster.doc for details)!!!
-
- The pager now allows you to show _all_ previous pages.
-
- If you have too much trouble with this version you should forget it and
- switch back to V0.72 which is more reliable. So V1.00 alpha is not
- a replacement for V0.72, but a completely different program.
-
- This version is still VERY UNCOMPLETE but the basic functions work
- (maybe not always as expected..:-). I use it everyday, but I know
- where the potential bugs are...
- You can use it if you find it stable enough, because it'll give
- you much more comfort than Arn V0.72. But don't complain for
- bugs or any loss of data or that the functions don't work as
- described. Note that the docs are very UNCOMPLETE and many functions
- will change as well as new ones are added. The online-help should
- be the best way to find through this jungle...it's nearly consistent.
-
- Besides bugs you have to accept a little inconvenience, too:
- Arn now requires the program
- Arnmaster (which is naturally included)
- which must be invoked each time you get news. In later versions
- you don't have to start it manually, because a daemon will do this
- for you everytime rnews was activated. The daemon doesn't exist, yet.
- To read news, just start "arnmaster" each time after you got news (they
- should be already sorted in). After it has finished it's work you can run
- 'arn' and read news in a 'normal' way.
-
- The file .arnmasterrc should be moved to UULIB:!!
-
- The GROUPLIST-files of Arn V1.00
- are incompatible with the ones earlier
- versions, but it can read the old ones. The best method is to copy your old
- GROUPLIST with a new name and set GROUPLIST to this file in your .arnrc.
- WARNING: Don't use any of the search or goto functions, although listed in
- arnhelp.txt: they are not completed yet and it often results in
- endless loops!
-
- Nevertheless I hope you'll get the idea what's going on with Arn.
-
- Bugs:
-
- Sometimes I got corrupted headers. You should see the message
- WARNING: Headerbuffer is corrupt! <...>
- in this case. Please send me a mail if you got this error AND
- write your configuration (esp. whether you're using WShell2.0
- or not). This bug is not caused by Arn, but by the CMD_CLEAR
- console command.
-
- Have fun,
- Roland
-
-