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Beta 6 6/24/90
*When a user is not in Prochat, it will no longer permit use of the "/SEND"
command to that node.
*Added support for larger boards with more than 9 nodes. Additional parameter
should be added to the configuration file. Line # 10 should now state how many
nodes are on your system.
*Added sysop-configurable help file. CHTHELP should be placed in your Prochat
directory. Thanks to Andy Keeves and others for this suggestion. "/HElp"
*Documentation modified to include sample PCBTEXT changes.
Beta 7 7/14/90
*It's been a while since the last beta. There is nothing much that is new
in this one, however we have gone from ProKit 3.1 to ProKit 3.2. This
upgrade has solved several bugs.
*When a user would abort the display of a text file, ProChat would not accept
any input from the modem. Fixed.
*All text in the program is now all encrypted do to some problems we were
having with people changing the text in the .exe file.
*Added a new configuration file line. Line 10 now contains the path and
filename of the help file to be displayed. If this line does not exist,
then the default of "CHTHELP" (in the current directory) will be used.
Beta 8 7/22/90
*When a user is typing a Prochat command (ie /SE, /PA, etc), if the line is
longer than 56 characters and wraps, the command will be issued and the
command will also be continued on the next line.
*Added checking for text changes inside the ProChat program. ProChat can
detect if any text has been changed in the exe file and will display an
appropriate message to the user if it has been changed.
RELEASE 9/22/90
*When a user enters more than 3 blank lines in a row, it will display a message
to the user telling the user how to get help.
*Released Prochat as ProChat 1.0
VERSION 2.0 - Beta 1 2/28/91
*Its been a while since I've made a release. I had hoped to have compiled it
with a new prokit in tp6.0, but I'm still stuck using tp5.5 because of the
lack of a version of prokit for tp6.0
*Switched from Prokit 3.2 to Prokit 3.3. Several bugs with prokit have been
hopefully fixed, although I am not aware of everything yet.
*I'm now using my own routines for the PCBoard node display. Previously I was
using the one supplied with ProKit. It'll be more accurate now since it has
support for PCBoard's new status identifiers (Logging on, Paging Sysop, etc)
Beta 2 3/03/91
*When displaying the usernet.dat file, ProChat would leave a () in the caller
name and location field when there was no caller on the node. Fixed.
*Added all new configuration program. No more line editors! Along with the
new configuration program I took the liberty of making several things
configurable. They are listed below.
*You may now disable the use of handles. When you disable handles, the user's
first name is used. When handles are enabled, the user's first name is the
default handle.
*You may now choose to not allow the use of SYSOP or SYSTEM in users' handles.
*You may now choose whether or not to allow 2 or more nodes to use the same
handle while in chat. Allowing users to have the same handles can become
confusing often times.
*You may now choose whether or not to display the user's calling location in
the PCBoard node scan. There is also an option in PCBSetup for this.
Unfortunately ProKit does not have this variable available to me and in order
to get it from PCBoard I would have to read in the entire PCBoard.Dat file
all over again. I decided to use this option instead.
Beta 3 4/08/91
*In previous versions, ProChat allowed users to page themselves for chat. The
caller would never receive the page, however. This has been corrected. Users
are no longer allowed to page themselves.
*In previous versions, if the user tried to change his/her handle to the same
handle as he/she was using it would tell the user someone else is using that
handle. Now it just acts as if no handle change had been made.
*Changed "Chatting with group" in the PCBoard node scan display to "Chatting
in ProChat".
*Added an all new split screen chat mode. Now the user can chat without his
or her typing becoming mixed up with the incoming messages. The screen can
be divided into two windows. The top one is where incoming messages are
displayed and the bottom is where the user's typing is displayed. See the
accompanying help file for more information
*Updated the help file for the new /SPlit screen command.
*Added a new program. ProView is now included in the ProChat package when you
register the program. Sysops that have already registered the door, please
contact the author at 401-726-3859 (Data) for the proview.zip file. This
program will allow you (the sysop) to view the chat.dat file and see what
your users have been chatting about. This is NOT distributed with the
unregistered version. If you have not registered your copy of the door, this
program will not run.
*Updated CHTSETUP to include online help. You can now press F1 and a help
window will pop up for any one of the setup fields. A new file called
CHTSETUP.HLP is distributed now with the program. This is the online help
file. If it is missing the program will still run but you will not have the
help feature.
*When a user paged another using within prochat, the chat page would be sent
to every user in prochat. Fixed.
*When choosing a squelch value, it was case sensitive. Fixed. It is now all
uppercase.
Beta 4 04/27/91
*Various cosmetic changes.
*Added a new command (/WH) to display who is
currently chatting with the same channel and squelch settings as the user
executing the command. The format is the same as what is displayed at login
to the door.
*When the channel or squelch value is changed, the users with the same channel
and squelch settings are listed for the user
*Eagles Nest BBS is no longer a support system for ProChat. Due to some
circumstances beyond my control, I no longer wish to have any affiliation
with that system or the sysop. Please call 401-726-3859 for online support
and/or registration. Thank you.
*Switched to ProKit 3.4. Hopefully this will be a beneficial switch. There
hasn't seemed to be much of a difference as far as ProChat is concerned in the
new versions of ProKit over the years, but the advantage 3.4 has over 3.3 is
that it is for turbo 6.0 instead of turbo 5.5.
*ProView is now distributed with the prochat package. Please note, however,
that you must register Prochat for it to run. Without your registration
information it'll return to dos with an errorlevel of 2.
*Added a new option in CHTSETUP called "Msg Show only after enter". I think
this needs a little bit of explanation. In the past, ProChat would check
for incoming messages every 5 seconds and after the user pressed enter on
his/her entry line. With this option set to no, it will remain that way. If
this option is set to yes, ProChat will not check for incoming messages every
5 seconds. Instead, ProChat will only check for incoming messages after the
user has pressed enter on his/her entry line.
*Updated the included CHTHELP file. Added the new commands to it, and also
took out the BBS name that was in it. It is now just a generic reference to
the BBS as "system".
*Included a new text file that may be substituted for the CHTHELP file called
BRFHELP. This is simply the list of commands available without the
descriptive text following them.
*If there are no bug reports back to me within a couple of weeks, I will go
ahead and release this as ProChat 2.0R! Following the release of 2.0, I will
begin work on version 3.0 which will include all of the features listed below
FUTURE
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*I would very much like to drop the Prokit interface and use my own. This
would give me MUCH more flexibility and allow me access to some of the new
PCBoard 14.5 specific features. This will hopefully be coming soon!
*I plan on making much more of the prochat door configurable. The only problem
is that I am going to have to add more pages to the chtsetup program. This
is not a problem but I do not want to make Prochat difficult to setup.
*I would like to add some sysop functions in the door where the sysop (if
calling in remotely) can control the other nodes in chat. This is not a
definite thing, but it is being considered.
*Private one-on-one REAL TIME chat is being planned. This will probably not
be seen for a couple of more versions to come. However, it will be added to
ProChat soon!
*As it stands, if anyone edits the EXE file and changes any of the text in the
program, the callers will be notified of the hacked copy of ProChat. However
the changed text will never be displayed. I am considering changing this and
making all of the display text an external file and allowing multiple
languages to be used just as in PCBoard. If this is done, a text editor
program will be supplied for editing the text. This is not a definite thing,
but it is being considered.
*Beta 3 will hopefully be the last beta for the 2.0 series. Following the
release of the 2.0 series of the program I will be working on switching over
to my own PCBoard interface (ie dropping Prokit). This will correct MANY of
the bugs that I have no control over (ProKit bugs). After this conversion,
only I can be blamed for bugs in the program - I won't be able to brush them
aside and blame Sam any more. However, I would like to give credit where it
is due. Sam has provided a wonderful interface for ProChat for a long time.
But there comes a time for change. This is the time. Thank you Sam for your
fine toolkit! ProChat with the new door kit will begin the 3.0 series of
betas. This will hopefully be around by the summer of '91.
*Following the 3.0 series, I would like to begin working on ProChat itself once
again by adding the private one-on-one chat mode and other little things.
After that, I really don't know at this time what will happen with the
program. Perhaps by that time PCBoard will have adopted a new internal chat
facility and the need for ProChat will be gone. Only time will tell.