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O_QWKer - QWK Mail Door for Opus 1.7x
(C) Bernardo Cardoso 1992 (2:361/1)
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Revision History
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31-Dez-92 V1.0 - Public Release
29-Dez-92 V0.8F - Added FORCE NOVICE option (to enforce Novice Menus)
and an User Option to allow the correspondent toggle
- Yet some small fixes
* Problems with compressor during download are now
reported to the user
* ARCA/ARCE and ZOO support
* slight changes on some menus and sample .OEC's
* messages to SYSOP are now correctly redirected
to his name
- Run-time errors are now sent to Log file
- Sysop reference Manual reviewed by Mark Shultise
22-Dez-92 V0.8D - Added HELPPATH option in .CFG (where to store .OEC's)
- Some small fixes
* File mode on opening BBS.PRM
* LOCAUSER file is now correctly used
* Problems with user compressor selection
* Problems with unpacker during upload are now reported
to the user and logged
15-Dez-92 V0.8B - Some refinements introduced on the user interface
- Improved on-line Help, with more OEC files and [enter]
- Set of default Help OECs included in the distribution
archive
- Improved multi-line support with ## task wildcards
allowing a single .CFG (on LOGFILE and TEMPDIR)
- The existence of a QWK file area (for hurling packets
after D/L errors) is now optional.
- After a D/L error it's now possible to retry transfer
without rescanning message areas
- Added optional console Status Line
- Redirection of compressor output is now possible, for
compressors using stdout (ZIP, LHA ok, but not ARJ)
- New/Changes on the following .CFG commands:
REDIRECT COMPRESSOR, STATUS LINE, ALTER TEARLINE,
LOGFILE, TEMPDIR, QWKAREA. Please refer to O_QWKERS.DOC
- Introduced multiple tear-line handling to cope with
non-Fido readers and misbehaving echomail processors
(--- is changed to -*-)
- The name of Read-Only areas now start with R/O in Areas
configuration and in CONTROL.DAT
- Some changes in the initial parameter passing in order
to allow the Outside EXIT option
- A couple of fixes
* If ECHOTOSS.LOG is not defined O_QWKer doesn't try
to use it
* Remaining time is now correctly displayed
- Added support for FTS-0001 time/date (including SEAdog)
as fallback for binary Opus date not being defined
27-Nov-92 V0.7F - Support for multi-line improved (shareable file access)
- On-line Help introduced, based on OEC external files
- Small fixes on the user interface
* Hitech menus are now much more Opus-like
* Fixed problem with TTY menus
* Command stacking now allow spaces between commands
- Added a LOCALQWK line in the MINIMAL.CFG sample file
21-Nov-92 V0.7C - Full Opus menus and ANSI/AVATAR have been introduced based
on routines by Erik Likvarn (OColour and OMenus)
- Added support for command stacking
- Now FOSSIL is accessed using an unit also written by Erik
Likvarn (the same from OBank). We hope that problems with
O_QWKer using other ports than COM1 have been finally
completely eradicated.
- Bad messages may now be sent to a pathname disregarding
BAD_ECHO BBS.CTL option. Please refer to O_QWKERS.DOC
for the new .CFG option BADPATH
- Some problems fixed:
* Area names in CONTROL.DAT are now correctly generated
* Nulls produced in message body by some offline readers
(eg. quoting names) are now sent to the byte bucket
* Current (.EXE) path is now also searched when shelling
to packers and transfer protocols
* Message #1 in echomail areas isn't created anymore
* Fixed problems with more than one screen in the Areas
Configuration menu (noticeable with M)ore command)
- A minimal sample file has been added to distribution
archive (MINIMAL.CFG), for those we rely on defaults
30-Sep-92 V0.6E - Major update. Code has been widely optimized/rewritten
- Some problems fixed:
* User LREAD pointers are now correctly set
* Carrier Masks different from 128 should now work
* Abnormal Carrier Lost message upon door entrance and
lack of remote user menus when not using COM1 fixed
* Sysop/AsstSysop may now introduce messages in areas
marked Excluded
* O_QWKer$PTR is now created inside Swap Directory
- QWKAREA .CFG command now can be either an area number
or just an ordinary pathname
- New .CFG commands: FULLSCAN AREA, SHOW KLUDGE, NEWLINE
MAXLINES and ASSIGN
- QWK packet now include the PERSONAL.NDX file
- Door now automatically adjust user message pointers
when beyond higher message
- Messages above MAXLINES are automatically split by the
door to avoid limitations on some off-line readers
- Area Selection and Reset Pointers split in different
on-line configuration commands
- Swap directory is now unconditionally created and
kept inside TEMPDIR, to hold O_QWKer$.PTR and the swap
file when needed
- Improved local usability:
* It's now possible to abort copying .QWK packet to
LOCALQWK directory
* Using ASSIGN commands it is possible to use O_QWKer
in stand-alone or via Opus across a network
* Up to 2,147,483,647 messages may be included in the
QWK packet, in local use under PROPORTIONAL MODE.
Hope this is enough :-)
* Door doesn't quit anymore if .REP doesn't exist
21-Sep-92 V0.5G - FOSSIL isn't re-initialized by the door anymore
14-Sep-92 V0.5F - ASCII date added to uploaded messages
- Parsing of some CFG commands has been improved
11-Sep-92 V0.5E - Fixed several quirks:
* Now it's possible to have other .CFG filenames
* O_QWKer$.PTR temporary file is now correctly erased
* .LOG file is now closed after an error
* NEWFILES option may now be omitted from .CFG file
* Swapfile is now created on a temporary directory
inside door TEMPDIR (O_QWKer$.SWP) in the absence
of EMS, XMS or a TMP or TEMP environment variable
* It isn't possible anymore to upload messages in a
Read-Only area
* UPLOAD and PEEK privileges/keys are now correctly
verified
* Rec'd flag is now correctly set in private messages
during the scan process
- There is now an explicit warning that the .QWK packet
does not contain any messages, before the user has the
chance to confirm the D/L or abort it
- Cheryl Buzzell's sample files added to distribution
archive (SAMPLE.CFG, RZ.BAT and SZ.BAT)
- Several additions/changes in Sysop Reference Manual
31-Aug-92 V0.5C - Release to the Opus Beta Test Team
25-Jun-92 V0.1A - Initial installation at 2:361/1 for testing by
selected users
12-May-92 - Implementation kick-off