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Whats old and new with RATop.
Update History:
10/10/90 - First Release 1.0.
10/13/90 Bug - This one is weird. But I found that when processing
v1.1 the index files after they are created to produce the
bulletins, if a seek was done to the last record of
users file, an eof condition was true, thus prematurely
terminating the reads on the index file. This resulted
in an imcomplete report of callers, downloaders or
uploaders.
Fix - Took the Eof check out since direct seeks were being
done anyway.
09/24/91 - I did a complete rewrite from Pascal to Turbo-C. What
v2.0 a difference. Anyway, a slow sort was abolished. It
now sorts as fast as you can blink an eye.
Allows up to the max users RA can handle (65535 I
believe).
Security Level and Security Flag support was added.
A new feature was added to allow processing of an
alternate control file. This is handy for making
multiple bulletins using different securities and
flags.
10/27/91 - Added Group checking. This allows a bulletin to be
v2.1 created using only certain user groups.
- Fixed a little bug. If the Path keyword was ommitted,
default BULLET01 file was not being created.
Fixes:
10/27/91 - Using the RA environment variable to find the USERS.BBS
v2.2 created problems for some systems. Made a small code
change to look for USERS.BBS in the current directory.
10/30/91 - Key checking wasn't intrepting the user's key correctly.
Fixes:
12/21/91 - Fixed a little problem with the title of the bulletin
v2.3 not being exactly centered.
- The last line of the bulletin wasn't being displayed
correctly. Although this had no impact on the
performance of RATop, it was annoying to me.
Enhancements:
12/21/91 - Supports user records who have the nolist status.
This option can be overridden in the control file.
- Option to use handles intead of real names in the
bulletins.
- RATop now uses the CONFIG.RA to find the USERS.BBS
file. It is no longer required to run RATop from
same directory that contains the USERS.BBS file.
Well, that about does it for all the fixes and enhancements to date.
I wish to thank Mark Thomas of King's Corner BBS for his suggestions and
reports on how well RATop is doing.
I wish to also thank Randall Baker of The Outlaw BBS for his suggestions
to improvements to RATop and help in being a distibution site for this
software.