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- The Blue Wave Offline Mail Reader
- v2.12
-
- Upgrade and New Feature Documentation
- Copyright (C) 1992 by Cutting Edge Computing
- All Rights Reserved.
-
-
- This information is provided for those people who are extremely familiar
- with previous versions of the reader, and who do not care to comb the
- full documentation to find what has been added.
-
- However, if you are unsure of how to use a feature that is described
- here, consulting the appropriate section in the full documentation
- (BWAVE.DOC) will be necessary. The following features were added and/or
- enhanced between version 2.11 and version 2.12 of The Blue Wave Offline
- Mail Reader. If you have not upgraded from v2.10 to v2.11 of The Blue
- Wave Offline Mail Reader yet, you should also review the file called
- WHATSNEW.211, which contains new feature documentation since v2.10 was
- released.
-
-
- INSTALLATION
- ------------
- If you already have any version of The Blue Wave Offline Mail Reader
- installed on your system, upgrading to v2.12 is very simple. Simply
- replace the following files from the BWAVE212 archive with those
- currently on your system:
-
- BWAVE.EXE
- BWAVE.DOC
- BWSETUP.HLP
-
- All other files contained in the distribution package (mostly with the
- file extension .BW) are sample support files. If you have customized any
- of these files since you first installed the mail system, do not
- overwrite them with the sample files. A full listing of file names and
- their purpose is included in the file FILELIST.212.
-
-
- NEW FEATURES
- ------------
- * When deleting messages from either Blue Wave mail packets or .QWK mail
- packets, you can now choose to delete UNREAD messages. At the "Choose
- Area to Read" selection window, pressing <Alt-K> will give you a menu
- with the following options:
-
- - Purge DELETED messages
- - Purge UNREAD messages
- - Purge READ messages
- - Purge DELETED + UNREAD messages
- - Purge DELETED + READ messages
-
- * When displaying ANSI messages with the <Alt-V> command key in message
- reading mode, the reader no longer stops with the message "Press any key
- to continue". The message is shown in its entirety with only a
- wait-for-keypress at the very end.
-
- * A new option on the SETUP menu under Miscellaneous->Global Settings
- allows you to set the ANSI display speed for viewing ANSI messages with
- the <Alt-V> command key in message reading mode.
-
- There are 3 settings for this option: FAST, NORMAL, and SLOW. The FAST
- option displays ANSI messages almost instantaneously. The NORMAL option
- will display messages at about the same speed as DOS's ANSI.SYS. The
- SLOW option pauses for 5 milliseconds between each character written to
- the screen in order for you to view "animated" ANSI messages without
- overworking your brain.
-
-
- WHAT'S FIXED
- ------------
- * In version 2.11, random characters were sometimes placed in NEW messages,
- as if the message had been quoted. This problem should no longer occur.
-
- * If line 5 of a QWK-CONTROL.DAT was formatted with a <space> before the
- name of the mail packet root, the reader was not finding the correct .REP
- file to ask if the packet should be added to.
-
- * Fixed "Open Mail Packet" from showing up in read window in speech mode.
-
- * All input prompts that are YELLOW on CYAN are now mapped to BLACK on GREY
- when -LCD or the LCD config parameter is used. This should allow those
- with troublesome LCD displays to see all configuration menu input
- prompts.
-
- * In order to cure all of the problems dealing with the fact that v2.11 did
- not delete the *.NEW/*.REP file before repacking a mail bundle, any
- *.NEW/*.REP file is now renamed to *.SAV _just_ before the archiver is
- called.
-
- If the compression fails, you will be informed with a window, and the
- *.SAV file will be renamed to *.NEW/*.REP.
-
- If the compression is successful, the *.SAV file will be deleted.
-
- These procedures should *always* leave you with a *.NEW file in the
- upload directory if anything fails, and even if it was successful. If a
- *.NEW file should not be there (all messages in a packet have been
- deleted), the *.NEW/*.REP file will also be deleted.
-
- If your computer "crashes" before a mail packet is successfully been
- packed, you should look for a file called *.SAV in your UPLOAD directory
- in order to recover any previous replies.
-
- * A new critical error handler has been built into the reader. Now,
- instead of asking "Abort, Retry, Fail", the reader should automatically
- issue a "FAIL" response to DOS, and the reader should handle the error
- appropriately.
-
- For instance, if the "Download Directory" is set to "A:\", and there is
- no disk in A:, the DOS Abort, Retry, Fail message should *not* appear,
- and the reader should say "Can't find any mail in A:\".
-
- The previous DOS critical error handler would sometimes cause system lock
- ups.
-
-