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- Version history of Yanoff
-
- 2000-05-11 1.4.4
-
- Fixed:
- + When you tried to edit an article in Outgoing, Yanoff told you that
- the config isn't complete and deleted the article. This somewhat
- annoying bug is fixed now.
-
- Changed:
- + Removed some commands from the menu in article list view to make it
- a bit more clear that they apply to the whole article database, not
- only the current group.
-
- Added:
- + Patch from Jan-Pascal van Best to allow Yanoff to sort the list of
- subscribed newsgroups at startup after a HotSync operation.
-
-
- 2000-02-?? 1.4.3
- Quick bug-fix version for some bugs. Forgot to write down which ones.
-
-
- 2000-04-10 1.4.2b
-
- Changed:
- + Yanoff sorts the subscription database at startup, which is needed
- for working with the Yanoff Java Conduit v0.9.10.
-
-
- 2000-04-10 1.4.2b
-
- Changed:
- + Yanoff sorts the subscription database at startup, which is needed
- for working with the Yanoff Java Conduit v0.9.10.
-
-
- 2000-02-08 1.4.2
-
- Added:
- + The newsgroup pref form is called right after the user (you)
- subscribed to a newsgroup.
-
-
- 2000-02-08 1.4.1
-
- Fixed:
- + Yanoff crashed when you tried to change the Type field in the server
- prefs.
-
- + Yanoff crashed when you set From Style to "Name" and Yanoff
- encountered an article with a From line of the form "foo <address>".
-
- + The top article number in Article list view is properly updated when
- articles are purged.
-
-
-
- 2000-02-06 1.4
-
- Changed:
- + Minor cosmetic changes
-
- + Polling now has it's own preferences. The numerous menu items have
- been removed.
-
- + Posting and Server prefs were integrated into one form (see below).
-
- + Most of the databases needed some changes so a reinstall is neccessary.
-
- + Moved the threading feeature from Misc Prefs to Newsgroups Prefs.
-
-
- Added:
- + Added "Poll" button to newsgroups list and several other buttons.
-
- + Added skip-to-next-group-when-down-button-pushed-and-at-the-end-
- of-article-list-feature. Similar thing for the up-button.
-
- + Added option to download either the last n articles (as before) or
- the next n articles starting with the first article that hasn't been
- read yet.
-
- + Yanoff can now be called with a special LaunchCode to make it poll
- directly after start - useful in conjunction with GNU GotMail
-
- + Multi server feauture - incorporates many changes everywhere in Yanoff
-
- + Polling preferences. Select how you want to poll in most cases and
- then simply hit the Poll button
-
- + Yanoff can now download the rest of an article that has been cut
- of during the download. This feature can also be applied to
- all selected articles.
-
- + Added Reply-To for the eMail server prefs
-
- + Added user customizable headers on per-newsgroup basis.
-
- + Yanoff now remembers the position where you left Yanoff to another app.
-
- + Users can select whether they want to see the author's address, his
- name or his name and address in list view.
-
- + Users can select whether they want to see the subject or the author
- line (configurable like above) in the form title in article view.
-
- + Line lenght for wordwrapping can be configured in misc prefs.
-
-
- Fixed:
- + If no field was selected (had the focus) and the user selected a
- clipboard command from the Edit menu, a FatEx was generated.
-
- + Version information is now displayed correctly in SavedPreferences
- and info section of the app launcher.
-
-
-
- 1999-10-24 1.3
-
- Changed:
- + Format of newsgroups database. Reinstall strikes again. Sorry.
- (But I included some padding bytes so it probably won't be neccessary
- to reinstall too soon...)
-
- + Included code to determine free RAM size exactly like Launcher III does.
- Thanks to Bozidar Benc for the code.
-
-
- Added:
- + Resetting of all newsgroups.
-
- + Per-newsgroup settings like maximum article size, maximum number of
- polled articles etc.
-
- + Go-to-next-unread-article in active newsgroup (enter a dot "."
- in article view (in Graffiti, that's two dots, of course)).
-
- + Go-to-next-newsgroup (enter a space or a plus in article list view)
- + Go-to-previous-newsgroup (enter a minus in article list view)
- + Go-to-next-article (enter a space or a plus in article view)
- + Go-to-previous-article (enter a minus in article view)
-
- Fixed:
- + Bug that resulted in a fatal exception: If you tapped on "switch app"
- while in a preferences form Yanoff crashed (without deleting any data).
- The cause is probably the multi-segment code. The symptom vanished after
- moving some objects to another segment. Thanks to Bozidar Benc for help
- with this matter.
-
- + The old bug that prevented Yanoff from working on PalmOS 2.0 and
- PalmOS 3.3 (it was a bug in the gcc compiler and I got around it
- using some lines of code from Ian Goldberg - thanks, Ian!)
-
- + If you tried to quit Yanoff while in some of the preferences forms
- Yanoff crashed with a Fatal Exception.
-
- + Yanoff didn't save some preferences.
-
-
-
- 1999-8-23 1.2
-
- Changed:
- + Changed the message "Network library open failed" to "Network connection
- failed" because this reflects more exactly what happened when this message
- is printed.
-
-
- Added:
- + Threading of articles. This is of complexity O(n^2) concerning the
- number of articles to be added to the newsgroup (in other words: it is
- very very slow). You might want to turn this feature off (/Prefs/Misc).
- Some statistics: 150 articles take 5 minutes to be sorted, 300 articles
- take 25 minutes (!). Times on a PalmPro with PalmIII upgrade, 16MHz
- without EcoHack or Tornado or whatever.
-
- + Yanoff now beeps when it is finished with a network transfer. This is
- nice but you may want to turn this off though, too.
-
- + SMTP. Yanoff can now send Replies (eMail answers to newsgroup articles)
- and "normal" eMail messages. (Recieve eMail is neither implemented nor
- planned.) Yanoff also handles "Followup-To: poster" correctly.
-
- + Cut off signatures if wanted.
-
-
- Fixed:
- + Generation of References-Line was erroneous. (D'OH!)
-
- + Check whether online or not was not very smart. Yanoff now recognizes
- whether the network layer is up or down, even if the Palm device was
- in sleep mode and thus closed the network itself.
-
- + "Small" bug: Articles that you've stored in the outgoing group, were
- deleted when purging old articles. To make this even worse, Yanoff did not
- update the outgoing group - so the article counter still showed a value
- not equal to 0 but no articles were in the group. The last effect also
- occurred after deleting all articles.
-
-
-
-
- 1999-7-14 1.1
-
- Changed:
- + Changed the article database records so uninstall/install neccessary
-
- + Shortcut for "Go online" is now /C (Connect) as opposed to /D (Disconnect)
-
- + Built with multiple code segments using multilink from David Williams -
- so there is room for more enhancements!
-
- + Some minor user interface re-designs
-
-
- Added:
- + Posting of articles, preferences form for posting
-
- + Polling bodies of selected articles (this also works for global polling).
-
- + If you try to scroll down at the end of an article, Yanoff switches to the
- next article in the active group. Similar for scrolling up.
-
- + Reindexing: If Yanoff crashed during network download (maybe because of
- low batteries) there were new articles in the database that were not
- added to the newsgroups. Now you can reindex the article database and
- so the lost ones are back again.
-
- + Resetting a newsgroup: Set the internal counter to 0 to download only
- the last n articles instead of all articles not read yet.
-
- + Yanoff shows amount of free RAM in newsgroups view for orientation. Uses
- some code from Sam Denton.
-
-
- Fixed:
- + Yanoff crashed when you tried to connect to a server that was hidden
- behind a firewall or else refused the connection.
-
- + Yanoff entered a very long loop when polling bodies and it entered
- an empty newsgroup.
-
- + Finally: Did you ever try to download some articles with Article max at
- about 3 K? In my test environment it was very unstable: timeouts, group-
- unknowns and stuff like that. Now I finally fixed a couple of very subtle
- bugs in NPGetAnswer and hope the infamous heisenbug is fixed. (Gosh! It
- was a missing 0-character!)
-
-
-
-
- 1999-6-10 1.02
-
- Changed:
- + Changed the time Yanoff waits for the Abort button while downloading
- article data to 0.05 second (from 0.5 second) for performance reasons.
-
- + Some outputs during and after network transfer have changed. One change is
- that during installation of new articles colons are printed - one colon
- represents ten articles. You'll notice the other changes. I hope, they
- are useful.
-
- + The preferences has been split into two sections.
-
- + The distribution archive no longer contains the source files. The are
- available in a separate archive.
-
-
- Added:
- + Added changeable layout in article list view and newsgroup list view
- and a button to leave the article list view without need to have read
- the documentation...
-
- + Added menu item to delete all articles stored in the Pilot.
-
- + Added Copy-To-Clipboard and Select-All in article view
-
- + Added Export-To-Clipboard in article view
-
- + Added Go-To-Next-Article and Go-To-Previous-Article in article view
-
- + Added NNTP authentication
-
- + Added version checking so Yanoff will no longer crash on PalmOS 2.0
- devices
-
-
- Fixed:
- + Fixed scrolling flaw (the rightmost pixel column was not scrolled
- correctly) and some other display and cosmetic bugs
-
- + Removed some undocumented features (fixed some bugs)
- - Yanoff tried to retrieve an article's body although the header
- wasn't retrieved either (because already in database)
- - If the users entered a sample arts count of n but in a new subscribed
- newsgroup are N < n articles, Yanoff refused to download these N
- articles.
- - If the user changed a purge value in Prefs and pressed a Purge button
- Yanoff didn't respect the new value. Now Purge operations are
- only accessible by menu and the semantics is clear
- - After getting headers the Pilot tended to switch itself off due to
- auto-off timer. Now Yanoff resets the auto-off timer after getting
- headers or bodies.
- - Yanoff crashed when the User tried to scroll either the newsgroups
- list or the article list if there were fewer articles than rows
- in the table.
- - The datatype for the numberation of articles stored on the server
- was sometimes ULong and sometimes UInt. The UInt values only represent
- values up to 65535 - so articles with higher numbers were not found.
- - Yanoff got stuck in an infinite loop if you tried in online mode
- and in article view to get a body that was not longer on the server.
-
-
- Still known (infamous) bugs:
- - When Yanoff downloads articles it will sometimes get result codes
- that are in alphanumerical form instead of the expected
- three-digit-form. This is a genuine heisenbug. If you try to debug the
- routines they work perfectly well on articles that generated the error in
- previous test runs several times in a row. If you only made "cont" in
- the debugger the problem would arise again. (4-letter-word!)
-
-
- 1999-6-9 1.01▀
- First public beta release. Runs only on Palm-III devices.
-