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- I finally found that stupid bug that has been causing crashes for so long! rnMac is now
- safe and 32-bit clean (tested on an LC II, if that counts).
-
- NOTE: if you don't like the loooooong delay during startup as rnMac builds the subject
- files, hold down the option key as you start up. This will force rnMac to skip building
- the files until you open a group (and *then* it will be slow). Hopefully I can convince
- John Mah to have ToadNews build complete threaded subject lists. (I have March break
- in a week, so maybe I can write the code and he can plug it into ToadNews.)
-
- Other notable improvements include:
-
- March 1993 - v 0.5b
- - removed the SysBeep “feature” that caused rnMac 0.4b to beep constantly (a leftover
- debugging warning, activated when *((long *) 0L != 0x50FFC001, which I was doing as
- part of an attempt to catch dereferences of nil handles and pointers))
- - added REALNAME capability
- - added a “Discard” option to the alert shown when mail/news is being sent (sorry!)
- - fiddled with newsrc and article reader to allow for really monstrous feeds and large
- files (i.e. use long's instead of int's wherever possible)
- - Ha! Got that #&^%!#*&^%$* bug in the newsrc.c code that caused all those crashes.
- It's about time.
- - improved TE32K code to v1.2 with modifications suggested by Lee A. Fyock
- <laf@mbunix.mitre.org> and Patrick C. Beard <beard@cs.ucdavis.edu>; TE32K now supports
- colour highlighting, better double-click + dragging, and also correctly returns a copy of the
- text via TE32KGetText
-
-
- The Help menu describes the important parts of the new features; most are
- intuitive and overdue.
-
- As always, the UUPC and ToadNews docs are better than anything I've got written up, so
- read them if you're stuck or confused. Or maybe e-mail to me at rrwood@canrem.com.
- I like getting mail, and I appreciate bug reports.
-
-
- Special thanks to Stefan Zingg, Joe Morrison, and Stuart Castergine for registering their
- shareware fees. Now that rnMac is stabilizing, the rest of you who are using it can
- send in your fees, too. If you can't afford the $$, then e-mail me and at least tell me you
- like the program. If I can't be rich, at least let me have a large ego. =)
-
-
- Oh. Here's what the future holds. The "To Do Soon" items are useful and
- otherwise not easily possible. The "To Do Later" items are esoteric or are
- currently possible by a simple alternative (READ THE COMMENTS IN CAPITALS
- FOR FURTHER EDIFICATION ON THESE MATTERS).
-
-
- To Do Soon:
- ===========
- - better cooperation with ToadNews in the area of subject lists
- - graceful handling of system 7 aliases
- - general system 7 behaviour, such as suspend/resume, etc.
- - posting of articles to the local system, as well as the usual spooling
- - support for multiple users on the same machine (i.e. separate newsrc's, etc.)
- - a submenu of groups for "Post To"
- - call WaitNextEvent occasionally during long operations like building subject lists
- - threaded article lists
-
-
- To Do Later:
- ============
- - background building of subjects list, then shutdown (USE QUICKEYS AND THE
- "BUILD DATABASE" OPTION UNDER THE GROUPS MENU)
- - allow for saving a range of articles to disk (OKAY)
- - sortable subscribed groups list, perhaps alphabetically, though by preference
- is better (FOR NOW, JUST USE A TEXT EDITOR ON THE NEWSRC FILE!)
- - kill subject/author, now/forever (SLOWS THINGS DOWN A LOT)
- - automatic removal of dead groups from the newsrc (GOOD IDEA)
- - send AppleEvents to Eudora for creating mail, a la Nuntius (OKAY)
- - multiple subscribe/unsubscribe at one time (USE A TEXT EDITOR OR THE OPTION KEY!)
- - auto de-hqx'ing of binhex'd articles (WHERE CAN I STEAL CODE FOR THIS?)
- - better routing of outgoing mail and news on sites with multiple
- feeds/connections (FOR THOSE WITH WEIRD SETUPS)
-