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Mustang Software, Inc. is happy to announce that the first minor update
to Wildcat! 4 is being prepared for release. Version 4.01 is in late
development and is scheduled for release in October of 1994. The
program will be made available to all purchasers of Wildcat! 4.00
who either purchased directly from MSI or whose registration card is
on file on the release date. It will be a free upgrade and will be
mailed to all users. It will not be available for download.
[Note, this message is almost 250 lines long. If you are reading a
truncated version on a BBS that cannot handle long messages, you may
obtain the entire text on the MSI HQ BBS as WC401.TXT.]
The following list of additional features, changes and fixes is
published at this time:
New Features
- Added the ability to run wcPACK while the system is operational and
taking calls.
- Added the ability for Wildcat! to look for .WCX files BEFORE running
.BAT files such as THMBNAIL.BAT or LOGON1.BAT etc etc. This also applies
to all doors and menu hooks. It allows substitution of .WCX code for
every system batch file.
- Wildcat! now creates dynamic clickable RIP menus if custom RIP menus
are not found. In this case Wildcat! will first display a background
file with the same name as the current menu with the extension .RMB
instead of .RIP. For instance, if your menu is MAIN.RIP the program
will look for MAIN.RMB to display as the background, it also uses the
menu extension the same way as the regular menus.
- Added new RIP settings in the new Makewild. You can once again turn rip
completely off.
- Added a /R command line option that allows you to run WCX files
directly from the command line, the format is as follows:
/R PROGRAM.WCX [PARAMETERS]
- Added a /U command line option that allows you to login with a username
and password.
- Added a new wcCODE file called PRELOG.WCX that runs just BEFORE the user
is asked for a name and password.
- Wildcat! now logs the Caller ID Number for illegal logon attempts,
for password and for birthdate and phone information.
- Changed the way Wildcat! deals with batch files that are run as
events. If you do not specify a path to your batch file, Wildcat!
will look in the Batch directory for the file, if you do specify a
path then it is picked there and run.
- Added the ability to change the WILDCAT! MAIL ROOM text by placing it in
the prompt file, one word of caution though: if you change it you will
invalidate some message because Wildcat! looks for that specific text when
handling wcMAIL messages.
- Added a new @ code called @FAX@ that displays the users fax number.
- Added a new drop file for internet e-mail called INETENTR.BAT, this works
EXACTLY the same way that FIDOENTR.BAT works except for the name.
- Added a new environment variable called WCPROMPT, it is the path where you
want Wildcat! to look for the WILDCAT.PRM and WILDCAT.MNU files. So for
example
SET WCPROMPT=D:\LANGUAGE
will make Wildcat! look on device D for the prompt and menu files, this
allows you to place them in a RAM drive.
- Added a new feature so that when you are listing files and the user presses
'D' to download and they are asked for a filename they can type in the
file number and it will be added to the list.
- Changed the login routines so that you can now use a comma to separate names
and passwords.
Changes
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There are several program fixes that we view as significant. In
addition there are many less important changes relating to minor
anomalies and cosmetic operation that are listed as well. The main
operational problems that were addressed include:
- Fixed the upgrade program in several areas to ensure the best conversion
- Fixed a problem with changing secondary access in doors.
- Fixed a problem with secondary accesses being lost on the return from a
door under some situations.
- Fixed a problem with Wildcat! leaving the BadNames file open in certain
cases.
- Fixed the long info on a file so that if the system cannot find the
uploader it does not offer the [W]rite option.
- Fixed the problem with uploads losing memory during FILEDESC.BAT
processing.
- Fixed the update conference routine so that it is as fast as possible,
it is at least 20 times faster than it was before.
- Fixed a problem with uploading duplicate files and using the allow
dupes setting.
- Fixed the problem with new users logging in with a different language
and Wildcat! not keeping the language through the newuser login.
- Fixed a problem with users being able to select internal protocols
when they did not have access.
- Fixed a problem that sometimes allowed users incorrect access to
conferences.
The following represents the balance of the changes made, and includes
reference to even the most insignificant items:
- Fixed the help, menu and disp display routines to look for a .RIP file
when in RIP mode, if one is not found then it displays a POSTRIP.RIP.
- Fixed the Bulletin counting routines so that if nothing exists in the
current language directory it defaults back out to the root to count
bulletins.
- Fixed the problem with Wildcat! not clearing a RIP screen when the user
changes from RIP to another emulation during a call.
- Fixed the bulletins and newsletter so that if you are in a language it will
look for new files in the respective directories.
- Fixed the your settings menu so that when you go from RIP to ansi or
mono it first clears the rip screen.
- Fixed a problem with searching for user names in the sys/user that would
display the name twice.
- Fixed the sysop status screen so it no longer attempts to determine the
size of a CD-Rom that is in the drive table in makewild.
- Fixed the /b command so that it no longer throws a 103 when given a bad
baud rate.
- Fixed the k-ratios so that they work correctly.
- Fixed a problem with the Sysop being out of time and the system making
him go back through the login procedure when he hits F1.
- Fixed a problem with logging in with another users name when using the
/n option for Novell.
- Fixed the newsletter so that if you are in rip and it does not exist the
system will display a POSTRIP.RIP
- Fixed the bulletins so that if you are in rip and it does not exist the
system will display a POSTRIP.RIP
- Fixed the problem with some messages causing the header to scroll by one
line off the top.
- Fixed the full file listing to deal with long descriptions. Wildcat!
will always try to get two files on the screen at one time, unless one
has a description that will prevent it being shown fully.
- Fixed the problem with listing files in full detail were you could select
a third file even though it was not on the screen.
- Fixed the problem with msg attachments being marked and then being lost
when the user exited to a door.
- Fixed the problem with wcCODE events causing POSTCALL.BAT to run after
the event was finished.
- Fixed sysop chat so that it always shows the sysops name when chatting,
instead of showing the alias when the user was in an alias conference.
- Fixed the upload K Ratios so that they work correctly now. also added
a KRATIO.BBS file.
- Fixed the sysop window to deal with mono systems, it no longer displays
color when in mono mode.
- Fixed a problem with listing conferences for a user in the sys/user menu
that would not show a conference the user was locked out of.
- Fixed a problem when you uploaded a duplicate file, Wildcat! would not
delete to old file (this is true for local uploads only)
- Fixed a problem with uploading duplicate files locally where it would keep
the stored path for the new file.
- Fixed the problem with languages at login using the wrong menu file.
- Fixed Wildcat! so that when a program passes the connect rate to
Wildcat! it stores the connect rate in the string used by wccode and
the @ connect command.
- Fixed the problem with users being able to request offline files regardless
of their settings.
- Changed Prompts 1281 and 1282 to reflect new offline request changes.
- Fixed a problem with marking a set of files locally and then going to the
download screen and hitting ALT - and the system crashing.
- Fixed the problem with the @PAUSE command not allowing Previous if it was
the last prompt in the file.
- Fixed the msg/sys/user editor so that it now goes to the next and previous
user when coming from the sysop message menu.
- Fixed the sys/file/editor so that if the uploader is not real it will not
let you go into the user editor.
- Fixed the problem with certain @ code combinations causing some of the
screens to be shifted incorrectly.
- Fixed the problem with @ codes messing up the line editor.
- Fixed the problem with input prompts being full and then hitting CTRL-Y
or delete and having it delete the whole line.
- Fixed the problem with questionnaires not counting the correct number of
ques files when using a language.
- Fixed the problem with bulletins not counting the correct number of
bulls when using a language.
- Fixed comment to sysop so that when called from wcCODE you can specify
whether to prompt the user or not.
- Wildcat! now reads back in the drop files for a wccode app when calling
SHELL from within wcCODE.
- Fixed wcCODE events so that they can no longer "Time Out".
- Fixed a problem with wcCODE apps calling doors directly and getting the
wrong doors.
- Fixed the listing file access so that in order to view or list a
filearea you have to have List access, v4.0 would use download or list
access.
- Changed the way door and menu files operate, Wildcat! now copies in a
DOOR.BAT file for batch files instead of using the batch filename as
it was doing before, this means that terminate on shell users do not
have to change their scripts.
- DOOR.SYS now sends the password, encoded or not.
- Fixed a problem with forcing a conference in the message search and
the user is in the same conference.
- Changed the sys/file Xfer and #13 so that if you are moving a file that
has a matching stored path and the file is successfully moved Wildcat
will update the stored path as well.
- Fixed the problem with questionnaires using / instead of << to import
files as the manual states, it now uses <<.
- Fixed a problem with certain file descriptions causing the file listings
to add a blank line.
- Fixed the problem with Wildcat! reporting the wrong error code for bad or
missing FILEAREA.UX files.
- Fixed the problem with direct downloads not honoring the ? wildcard.
- Fixed the problem with setting the scrollback buffer below 3.
WcMail 4.01
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- Fixed tagging problem when downloading net-status packets.
- Fixed problem with yes/no characters when using languages other than
English.
- Now only updates last-new-files date after a successful download.
- Network sysops will now properly get attachments.
- Now updates last-read pointer when downloading personal only mail
(even though it is not necessary).
- Now properly handles Daily Download and Daily KByte set to 0 when
processing file requests.
- When selecting a particular conference number, the conference list
display will be updated to show the conference just changed.
- Now properly shows autologoff status when uploading a REP packet.
- Fixed problem with adjusting a user's time within the door.
- The version reported with @VER@ is now just '4.01' without 'MP'.
- Fixed problem with accepting some messages longer than 150 lines.
- Dupe checking no longer includes taglines in the message body. This
will eliminate many of the dupes
- Fixed infinite loop problem with long file descriptions.
MakeMenu 4.01
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New Features
- MakeMenu will now let you print from the menu tree picklist.
- MakeMenu can now edit up to 65520 lines in the Menu Tree. This means
you could conceivably have 65520 menus defined.
- MakeMenu has a new option 'F7' on the menu tree screen. This new option
allows one to insert a default menu system over the current menu system.
This new menu system is the same as the one on the production diskettes.
Fixes
- Added the @INCHAT@ variable to the Test Menu mode.
- Added support for the language directories in the bulletin/questionnaire/
display/help file paths.
- MakeMenu is now overlaid. The reason for this is simply memory
requirements. MakeMenu utilized much more memory than it should have
if you had a fairly complex system.
- MakeMenu will no longer do strange things in the test mode if you have a
command to display text file and it doesn't have any parameters.
- MakeMenu will now let you edit up to 40 characters for the text file name
in the display text file command.
- Under display text file, you can include a full path and filename.
WcRepair 4.01
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Fixes
- Fixed a bug related to having 18 or 19 conferences defined in makewild.
- Fixed a bug related to the doors in use flag.