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- Acornet upgrade 0.16 - 0.17
- ===========================
- 8 December 1996
-
- NOTE
- ----
- This upgrade to version 0.17 affects only the 'infrastructure' of Acornet -
- the configuration program, provider files, slipdial script and front-end
- control panel - i.e. the bits I'm responsible for. A companion upgrade to
- version 0.18 incorporates updates to many of the component applications -
- ArcWeb, FreeNews, Slipdial etc. - i.e. the bits other people have written.
-
- The reason for splitting into two upgrades is that some people will have
- already updated many of the component applications by hand; they can simply
- apply this upgrade and update any remaining applications using my new
- semi-intelligent upgrader application (included here). This will save them
- downloadeding the 0.17-0.18 upgrade which is nearly 1.8Mb compressed.
-
- Changes since 0.16
- ------------------
- ADDITION: New providers: PIPEX, Planet, Asia Online, Inrete, Poptel,
- VoyagerNZ
-
- UPDATE: ZyNet provider has new IP addresses; alternative ZyNetFixIP for users
- with fixed IP addresses.
-
- ADDITION: A new program, !AnUpgrade, to allow intelligent upgrading of the
- component applications. Accessible from the menu from the 'front panel'.
-
- BUGFIX: The program SeeRes was supposed to boot the component applications
- but sometimes caused a clash in use of Wimp Scrap file (seemingly only
- affecting RISC OS 3.1). Now replaced by BootApps program.
-
- BUGFIX: Sportster 28k now selects the generic Sportster driver - the
- Courier28k driver was not appropriate
-
- BUGFIX: Slipdial script did not honour the pulse-dial option
-
- BUGFIX: Configuration of ArcWeb for provider with no proxy server was
- disabling http, ftp & gopher fetching altogether.
-
- BUGFIX: The newnntp program, run when switching between FreeNet and KA9Q,
- didn't handle newer versions of FreeNews
-
- ADDITION: New "mtu" option in provider files to override default (required
- for Poptel).
-
- UPDATE: Modified nameserver and router IP addresses in IFL provider.
-
- Instructions
- ------------
- Open the archive (Upg016-017) and copy the !AnUpg017 found inside onto your
- hard disc. Run it. Drag your !Acornet into the window which appears, as
- directed, and click on OK. After a while you should be told that the upgrade
- has completed.
-