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- Welcome to the Forte Free Agent 1.21 release!
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- REQUIREMENTS
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- 16-bit Free Agent requires the following:
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- 1. Windows 3.1 or higher, or Windows NT 3.5 or higher.
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- 2. A TCP/IP driver that supports winsock 1.1 applications.
- Agent has been tested with the following drivers:
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- - Trumpet Winsock 2.0B and higher
- - NetManage Chameleon 3.11N
- - Microsoft TCP/IP-32 for Windows for Workgroups 3.11
- - Microsoft Windows NT TCP/IP
- - Microsoft Windows 95 with Microsoft TCP/IP
- - Spry dialer (Internet in a Box; CompuServe)
- - NetCruiser 1.6 or higher
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- 3. Access to an NNTP news server.
- For posting email, access to an SMTP mail server.
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- 32-bit Free Agent requires the following:
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- 1. Windows 95/98 or Windows NT 3.5 or higher.
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- 2. 32-bit TCP/IP protocol support with a 32-bit winsock.
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- 3. Access to an NNTP news server.
- For posting email, access to an SMTP mail server.
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- WHAT'S NEW IN FREE AGENT 1.21?
- ===============
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- This version fixes the following problems related to Y2K:
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- 1. When displaying dates, the year was not padded for two-digit
- years less than 10. This happened if you had the date format configured
- in your Windows control panel to display two-digit years. For years
- 2000-2009, the software failed to pad with the leading zero, and displayed
- the year portion of the date as 0 - 9 (e.g., 11/12/9, instead of 11/12/09
- or 3/8/0, instead of 3/8/00. This problem was cosmetic only, however, as
- messages would be displayed and purged correctly.
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- 2. Handling of certain two-digit years in a message's Date: field
- was incorrect. If the Date: field in a message received by the software
- had a two-digit year, the software did not correctly interpret the year
- for values between 00 and 69. The software assumed the century was 1900,
- and subsequently incorrectly interpreted the date because it could not
- handle dates prior to 1970. In addition, the software assigned the wrong
- time. Messages affected by this problem were displayed and purged
- incorrectly. Note, however, that the vast majority of messages used
- four-digit dates, and were not affected. Free Agent now correctly
- interprets the year value. Free Agent assumes that any year in the range
- 00-69 is in the 21st century, and any year in the range 70-99 is in the
- 20th century.
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- 3. When getting newsgroups (e.g. Get New Groups, Refresh Groups
- List...), Free Agent did not format the year correctly for years between
- 2000 and 2009.
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