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- From: spector@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: AppleNET 2.0 (upcoming features)
- Message-ID: <7NOV199222091681@vax2.concordia.ca>
- Date: 8 Nov 92 03:09:00 GMT
- Sender: usenet@daily-planet.concordia.ca
- Organization: Concordia University
- Lines: 106
- News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41
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-
- For those interested, here's a list of features to be found in the upcoming
- release of AppleNET Pro v2.0 (Summer'93). It is in no way complete, as more
- features can, and will likely be added between now and it's release date.
- Comments or suggestions should be forwarded to Derek Fong, author of ANET 1.5a,
- at his NetMail address: "dfong@cam.org"
-
- --
- AppleNET Pro v2.0's Planned User Features
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- o Easy-to-read menus, and easy-to-select commands make navigation
- through AppleNET easy.
- o Message-writing utilities include a notepad (for grouping many
- replies into one message), an easy-to-use text editor, scanning
- of message titles, and more!
- o The User Utilities now includes an option for you to configure
- your default file protocol (Xmodem, Ymodem, and Zmodem are
- currently available). File transfers are now more automated!
- o Easy-to-use files section is fast, efficient, and much-improved
- over previous versions.
- o At the sysop's discretion, TTY, ProTERM Special, ANSI, and DEC
- VT-100 emulation is provided for your preferences.
- o Again, at the sysop's discretion, you may login at any speed,
- ranging from 300 bps to 19,200 bps!
- o Mailing lists make carbon copy mailings a breeze!
- o Configure menus to appear automatically before menu prompts,
- display command keys only, or go straight to the menu prompt.
- o System information is now more detailed (more on that in a later
- post).
- o Conferencing allows you to jump straight to the topic of interest
- you want to see, without having to read messages in other bases
- that don't interest you.
- o File enclosures allow you to send private files to a friend of
- yours on the BBS, as well as carbon copies of those Emails and
- file enclosures without having to reupload the file!
- o Create custom signatures so that you don't have to signoff Emails
- manually or with macros. Just save your message, and your
- signature is automatically appended to the end of it!
- o Upload parts of a file, and resume the transfer later, using
- Zmodem Resume in the files section!
- o Help can be obtained from most prompts by pressing "?".
- o And much more! This list was intentionally kept short, as things
- are bound to change during development.
-
-
- AppleNET Pro v2.0's Planned Sysop Features
- AppleNET Pro v2.0's Planned Sysop Features
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- o Various sysop utilities to help make installation and setup much
- easier and require less guess-work than previous versions of ANET.
- o Configurable options include a definable cancel key, stopping the
- time clock for uploads or chats, number of days before users are
- purged from the system for inactivity, "forcing" users to read
- system announcements that you post, and much more!
- o AppleNET's new accounting system will allow you to have a system
- where users must pay for access in certain areas, but may get other
- areas free of charge! You may configure hourly rates for system
- usage, surcharges for other areas and options, and more!
- o Support for file transfer protocols include Xmodem, Ymodem, and
- Zmodem, with the ability to easily add new ones as they become
- available!
- o Terminal emulations supported include TTY, ProTERM Special, ANSI,
- and DEC VT-100, again, with the ability to easily add more.
- o All written in Applesoft (with AmperWorks and ModemWorks
- ampersand extensions) for maximum customizability.
- o A new "graphical" RAMDisk loader imitates System 6.0's bootup
- thermometer! Changes to the bootup procedure are now a lot
- simpler, and more straightforward than in previous versions!
- o Conferencing support is now included for all areas (ie: messages,
- online games, and files). You can have up to 36 conferences,
- with 30 messages bases per conference. That's a total of 1080
- message bases!
- o Support for future networking modules is included.
- o AppleNET system events are now configurable! No need to manually
- change events so that they "daisy-chain" one another after
- execution as with previous versions of AppleNET. Now, simply
- enter the Event Editor, make your changes, and presto!
- o User Editor retains the flexibility of previous AppleNET
- versions. Time and calls/day limits, security settings, and
- sysop notes on a user are all user-specific! Even if one user
- has level 3, you can have another user at level 3, but they don't
- have to have the same priviledges as each other!
- o And much, much more, as the old saying goes. MANY more features
- would've been added to this list for viewing by everyone
- interested, but considering this is a pre-release list of what we
- PLAN will be in the final version, I wouldn't like to get hopes
- up, just to end up telling you that a feature you liked has been
- scrapped. What you see above might change quite a bit by the time
- AppleNET Pro v2.0 is released (we're hoping for the end of summer
- 1993), so don't use this against us! ;-) Also, I must admit that
- another reason for the shortness of this list is just in case some
- unscrupulous individuals get any ideas of copying our pre-release
- ideas... This is just the tip of the iceberg anyways...
-
- --
-
- ..For those who don't already have the current version of AppleNET v1.5a, I'll
- be sending it up to an FTP site *very* shortly, and hopefully a binscii'd copy
- to comp.binaries.apple2 soon! I'll post a message here when I've made it
- available for download :)
-
- (Remember, all comments and questions should go to : dfong@cam.org)
-
- Mitchell Spector
- spector@vax2.concordia.ca
-
-