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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 RELEASE 11/17/91 *Released as ProChat 2.0R VERSION 3.0 - Beta 1 11/22/91 *Moved most display text to an external file. Some of the display text is still contained in the EXE file, most notably the version ID, copyright, etc. All text is still in the EXE file incase the CHTTEXT file becomes corrupted or lost. *Added a new option into CHTSETUP "Display Text Filename" which is the path and name to the CHTTEXT file. This file should not have an extension since there may be multiple versions of this file for various languages. Should anyone create this file in another language, I would like a copy of it, Thanks! *Included a new file with the ProChat package called TEXTEDIT. This program will modify the display text file. It is basically the same thing as PCBoard's MKTXT145 program. There is no documentation file for this program. All the documentation you should need is displayed on the screen. *VERY IMPORTANT! Make sure you delete your data files with this release!!! The file formats are slightly different. In the past I tried to keep all of the data files as small as possible so I left no extra space. Now we shall all pay for that mistake. No big problem though. Just delete the files and Prochat will rebuild them for you as they're needed. *A new command has been added: /AV. This command will allow users to toggle their availability for chat page. When chat page has been set to off, other users are not allowed to send a chat request to that user. When it is on, other users may send any number of chat requests to that user. *CHTSETUP has been changed a little bit. BIOS screen writes are now supported. Type CHTSETUP without any parameters for more information on this. *Many new configuration options have been added. They are listed separately below. Please run CHTSETUP and set these values as you wish before running this version. *Added option to allow or disallow paging users that are in PCBoard. If you do not want your users disturbing others that are in PCBoard then set this flag to yes, otherwise users will be able to page users in PCBoard. *Added option to allow or disallow paging users that are in ProChat. If you do not want chat request messages to be passed back and forth between users in ProChat then set this flag to yes, otherwise users will be able to page other users in ProChat. *Added option to display the time left to the user every so many minutes. If you do not want time warnings to be sent then set this value to 0. Otherwise time left messages will be automatically displayed every however many minutes you have this set to. Usually 5 or 3 is a good value for this. *Added option to display /SE messages to the sysop whether they are addressed to the sysop or not. The sysop is assumed to be using user record number 1. If this flag is set to yes and you are not user record number 1 then whoever is using record number 1 will be able to see all /SE messages. If you do not want to see /SE messages that are not to you set this to no. If a message comes through that is not addressed to you, a red asterisk (*) will be shown between the colon and actual message text. *Added option to allow or disallow use of the help status line in split screen mode. If you do not want users to be able to have the help status line on the top of their screen, set this option to no. *Added option to allow or disallow adjusting the size of the display windows in split screen mode. If you do not want users to be able to adjust the size of the display windows, set this option to no. *Added option to place all users into a channel other than 1 when ProChat is initialized. If you set this to a value other than 1, make sure you update the CHTTEXT file to reflect the proper channel! *Added option to place all users into a squelch value other than group when ProChat is initialized. The default for this setting is to leave it blank. ** MAJOR UPGRADE FOR PROCHAT 3.0!!! ** *ProChat has been completely rewritten from scratch to make room for the new PCBoard 14.5a/Xnnn versions. The file format for the UserNet.Dat file is totally different so I decided rather than hacking through tons of code to make the appropriate changes, I'd redo the whole program. While rewriting the entire program, I decided to take advantage of it ... Quite a bit has changed. Everything (I think) is outlined below. *New setup program. The setup program is now *required* to configure prochat. I've tricked prokit into thinking that the binary file used for configuration information is a text file. (pretty nifty, eh?) The switch from the text file format to the binary file format has one major advantage ... On some systems, sharing violations would occur of two nodes were trying to read the same configuration file at exactly the same time. This won't happen any more because everything is read in much faster and the appropriate file locking methods are used. *File formats for the prochat.dat and chat.dat files have changed. Make sure that you DELETE YOUR OLD PROCHAT.DAT AND CHAT.DAT FILES BEFORE RUNNING THIS VERSION OF PROCHAT. You may also wish to delete your old config file and start from scratch. A new file has also been added called CHANNELS.DAT (actually you can name it anything you like) This file is used internally by Prochat and should require no intervention on your part. *Handle trashcan file has a new feature. If the first column of a line has an asterisk (*) in it, the text following the asterisk will be interpreted as a string that should not be allowed anywhere in the user's handle. *A new command has been added: /AD. This command is only available if you have a security level of 110 or higher. With this command, you can adjust a user's time limit if he/she is on another node inside prochat. *A new command has been added: /GO. User's may now log off of the system from within ProChat. *Channel monitoring has been greatly enhanced. In prior versions only channels could be monitored, but now squelches may be monitored as well. A full explanation is included in the docs. Also, the number of monitors has been increased from 5 to 10. *Added support for paging nodes inside PCBoard with /Xnnn version of the code. *Added support for the new status commands in the new usernet.dat format. *Command /SE has been enhanced *Various (ahem, many) cosmetic changes *Upgraded from ProKit 3.4 to ProKit 3.44 --03/23/92 *Fixed monitor bug where initially there would be garbage monitors set. *Cosmetic changes Beta 2 4/27/92 *Fixed bug where chat pages sent to PCBoard below version /Xnnn were not actually reaching users. *Add PCBoard style node scan prior to requesting node to page in page user command. *If user is not in expert mode, the menu is automatically displayed when the user presses / to enter command mode.