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GHOST BBS - What's New......
Version 1.10
- fix for improper recycling of both Ring Monitor and GHOST BBS.
V.1.00 was sometimes sending "phantom" init strings to both GHOST and
Ring Monitor, which resulted in effectively disabling Ring Monitor,
even when it was selected for use, and also sometimes resulted in poor
connections with GHOST due to improper initialization of the modem.
- GHOST BBS v.1.00 did not watch carrier enough to satisfy me. There
are too many places where it is possible for a dropped carrier to go
unnoticed by GHOST 1.00 for some time, or where GHOST 1.00 does not
recover properly after carrier is unexpectedly dropped. GHOST BBS 1.10
now watches the carrier state constantly throughout a remote log in.
- GHOST 1.00 shows the current date as your last date on in the
message during log in, rather than the actual last date on. GHOST 1.10
shows the correct last date on, and furthermore, does not record that
information until you log off, so that if you lose carrier just after
logging in, it's not recorded as a log in.
- GHOST 1.00 has a problem with a change of year. A NEWS file created
in one year will ALWAYS be shown to a user logging in during the next
year. This has to do with how Wasp compares dates as strings. I have
changed to comparing dates as long variables, and this problem no
longer surfaces.
- The connection sequences, and recycling sequences have been
rewritten for faster times where acceptable, and more reliability,
even if slower recycling, where needed.
- Several internal "speed hogs" have been rewritten to improve overall
throughput in GHOST.
- one user (in France!) reported that there is a problem with
ProComm's interpretation of the French keyboard. It seems that PCP/Win
does not see either a "\" or "/" when sent from a French keyboard.
This meant that it was impossible to end a message when written using
a French keyboard. Although it took some careful recoding, GHOST BBS
1.10 recognizes the escape key during message writing, and uses that
to end things. It does not need to be on a line by itself. If GHOST
finds <ESC> on a line with text, it records the text up to the <ESC>,
and then exits the edit.
Version 1.00
- first release of GHOST BBS