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- Forte Agent 1.92 Release.
-
- Agent 1.92 is the official release version of Forte's newsreader
- and email client.
-
- This version introduces a major upgrade of Free Agent. Agent and
- Free Agent are now available as a single program, and Free Agent has
- many of the features that were previously available only in Agent,
- such as support for MIME atttachments and non-English character sets.
-
- For full details on what's contained in this new version, please
- consult the Release Notes in Agent's online help. (Simply select
- Menu option Help | Release Notes.)
-
- To purchase Agent, visit our web site:
-
- http://www.forteinc.com
-
- Also visit our web site to keep updated on the latest information about
- Agent.
-
-
- RUNNING AGENT FOR THE FIRST TIME
-
- When you first run Agent, you can choose to use it in one of three
- ways:
-
- - You can purchase a registration key from Forte to fully enable all
- of Agent's features.
-
- - You can try out all of Agent's features for 30 days free. At the
- end of the trial, you can either purchase a registration key, or you
- can revert to running the program as Free Agent.
-
- - You can run the program as Free Agent, a newsreader-only version
- with fewer features.
-
- After you have selected how you want to run Agent, the program will
- prompt you for the information it needs to operate. Once you have
- supplied the necessary setup information and Agent is operational,
- press F1 to display the online help. You may want to start by
- reading the Getting Started topic. To view this topic, click on the
- phrase Getting Started on the Agent Contents page or search help for
- "Getting Started."
-
-
- UPGRADING
-
- If you upgrade from a previous version of Free Agent or Agent, the
- installation program updates Agent and its components for you. Agent
- should immediately run for you, with all of your previous settings.
-
-
- WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 1.92
-
- Version 1.92 introduces a major upgrade of Free Agent. Agent and
- Free Agent are now available as a single program, and Free Agent has
- many of the features that were previously available only in Agent,
- such as support for MIME atttachments and non-English character sets.
-
- This release also includes the following improvements and bugs fixes:
-
- - We increased the maximum size of the database file for each
- newsgroup and folder from 2 gigabytes to 4 gigabytes.
-
- - We increased the maximum thread nesting level that Agent can
- display from 15 to 127.
-
- In previous versions, the maximum level that Agent would display by
- default was 6, although users could increase the level to 15. So, if
- you are an existing user who is upgrading to version 1.92, you may
- want to increase the maximum level. You can do that on the General
- Preferences dialog box, Message List tab. On the same dialog box,
- you may want to decrease the Follow-Up Indentation value, so that
- more follow-ups fit on the screen.
-
- If you are a new user, the default maximum nesting level is 30, and
- the default follow-up indentation is 3. Of course, you can change
- these values if you wish.
-
- - Agent can now display message line counts of up to 4 billion lines.
- In previous versions, the maximum count Agent could display was
- 500,000 lines. Agent would display "****" for larger counts.
-
- In the new version, for counts larger than 9999, the displayed value
- is only approximate. And, so that large counts will fit in the
- "Lines" column, Agent uses the suffixes K for 1000 lines, M for 1
- million lines, and G for 1 billion lines.
-
- NOTE: The K, M, and G suffixes indicate line counts, not message
- sizes in bytes. To make this fact more obvious, we changed the name
- of the message list column header from "Size" to "Lines."
-
- - We added a Help | What's New menu option. This command launches
- your web browser to visit FortΘ's web site to find out what's new
- with Agent. Each time you visit the site, it automatically shows you
- what's happened since the last time you visited.
-
- Agent also periodically displays a What's New Reminder dialog box, to
- remind you to visit our web site. On the dialog box, you can change
- how often you want to be reminded, or disable the reminders
- altogether.
-
- - On the launch attachment confirmation dialog box, we made the
- default pushbutton No instead of Yes, to make it harder for users to
- accidentally launch an attachment that may contain a virus.
-
- - When MIME-encoding a message subject, Agent no longer encodes the
- initial "Re:" for replies. We made this change because certain other
- programs fail to detect a reply when the "Re:" is encoded.
-
- - We added the option to disable automatic detection of yEnc-encoded
- attachments, either globally or for selected newsgroups. This option
- is on the Receive Files tab of the Group Properties dialog box.
-
- - We improved Agent's parsing of subject lines for multipart binary
- posts, so that Agent is better able to detect and join multipart
- binaries.
-
- - We added an Update Registration Key option to the Help menu. If
- you request a new registration key from FortΘ, you can use this
- option to update Agent with the new key.
-
- - Agent can now load its UI resources (menus, dialog boxes,
- accelerators, and strings) from a separate resource-only DLL. This
- will make it easier for us to release non-English versions of Agent.
-
-
- WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 1.91
-
- Version 1.91 adds support for the yEnc method for encoding binary
- attachments.
-
- This release also includes the following improvements and bug fixes:
-
- - We fixed an incompatibility with newer versions of Windows that
- sometimes caused Agent to freeze on startup or when launching a
- URL.
-
- - We fixed a bug that could, in rare cases, cause the groups/folders
- list to become corrupted when you added, deleted, or renamed groups
- or folders.
-
- - We fixed a bug that caused Agent to truncate extremely long URLs
- when launching a web browser.
-
- - We rearranged the Help menu to provide more direct access to the
- online help Contents, Index, and Find choices. We also added a Post
- Support Question option, so that it's easier to find. Finally, we
- added an option to go directly to our web site for support.
-
-
- WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 1.9
-
- Version 1.9 adds a Trash Folder feature that stores deleted messages
- for easy recovery. For more information about this feature, see
- "How to Use the Trash Folder" in the online help.
-
- This release also includes a number of improvements and bug fixes.
-
- - You can now use the Edit | Undo menu option to undo recent message
- move, copy, and delete operations. Agent remembers and can undo the
- ten most recent operations. Also, the Edit | Undo and Redo menu
- options now display what operation will be performed.
-
- - We improved Agent's handling of unknown attachment types, to better
- protect you against viruses. Now, Agent assumes that most attachment
- types are potentially dangerous, and prompts for confirmation before
- launching them. If you wish, you may declare specific types to be
- safe, if you don't want Agent to warn you before launching files of
- that type.
-
- - Agent now requires that you provide extra confirmation before
- deleting a group or folder, to better protect you from deleting
- one by mistake.
-
- - We improved the dialog box that pops up if you have messages ready
- to send when you go offline or close Agent. It now has various options
- for selecting what to do with the messages.
-
- - Agent now automatically disables the Windows Indexing Service for
- the folder containing Agent's databases. We added this feature
- because under certain circumstances, the indexing service could
- corrupt Agent's databases.
-
- - In the Address Book and Pick Addresses dialog box, you can now
- press ESC to terminate the current incremental search, leaving the
- highlight on the current address book item. This makes it easier to
- stop one search and begin a new one.
-
- - We updated the ISO 8859-7 charset COD file to include three
- characters recently added to the 8859-7 standard.
-
- - We fixed a bug that caused Agent to crash during startup when
- certain versions of Netscape Navigator were installed on the computer.
-
- - We fixed a bug that caused Agent to hang during startup when
- running under certain versions of Windows, especially Windows ME.
-
- - We fixed a bug that could cause Agent to fail to save a message
- being composed if you had saved the message, but Windows or Agent
- crashed before you closed Agent.
-
- - We fixed a bug that caused Agent to report a "connection closed
- unexpectedly by server" error when the server reported an error
- immediately before closing the connection. Now, Agent displays the
- actual error reported by the server.
-
- - We fixed a bug that caused Agent to crash when display messages
- containing Japanese text with certain invalid escape sequences.
-