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- SEE THE UPDATE.DOC FILE TO LEARN HOW TO UPDATE YOUR SOFTWARE TO TAKE ADVANTAGES
- OF THESE NEW BUG FIXES AND FEATURE ENHANCEMENTS.
-
- 05-21-94
- --------
- * New command line parameters added as follows:
- -READ This will place the user from the calling menu directly into the
- read/write functions of QSOGATE.
- -SELECT This will place the user from the calling menu directly into the
- select functions of QSOGATE.
- -QUITKEY=<c> This will automatically simulate a keypress AFTER a -SELECT or a
- -READ from the command line. This would normally be used to
- help you allow a user to go from a TBBS menu entry into either
- a SELECT or READ function, and then quit out of the program.
- Note: YOU MUST DEFINE THIS AS -QUITKEY=<c> WITH NO SPACES. THE
- <c> IS A (1) CHARACTER KEYPRESS AND IS ENTERED WITHOUT THE <>'s.
-
- EXAMPLE #1 OPT DATA=C:\Qgate\Qsogate /q -READ -QUITKEY=X
- EXAMPLE #2 OPT DATA=C:\Qgate\Qsogate /q -SELECT
- EXAMPLE #3 OPT DATA=C:\Qgate\Qsogate /q -SELECT -QUITKEY=Q
-
- Example #1 would allow a user to go right into the READ functions and then a
- keypress of X would be selected from the MAIN MENU of QSOGATE for him after
- he exits the READ function. (NOTE: No MAIN MENU of QSOGATE will be displayed
- in this mode). If the keypress of "X" was to exit the program (as defined in
- the file QSOGATE.CTL) then he would exit the program.
-
- Example #2 would allow a user to go right into the SELECT function and then
- when he quits that area, he would go to the MAIN MENU of QSOGATE because
- there is no QUITKEY= statement on the OPT DATA= line of the program when it
- was called.
-
- Example #3 would allow a user to go right to the SELECT functions and then
- a keypress of "Q" would be automatically selected at the MAIN MENU of
- QSOGATE (with no menu display at all). Assuming that you may have defined
- "Q" to be a call to QSO, then the user would be sent immediately to QSO
- after exiting the SELECT function.
-
-
- * New users treated differently. In the past, it was logical to display a
- NEWUSER.xxx file to new users of QSOGATE because it *could* be confusing for
- them since they are selecting conferences in QSOGATE but selecting OPTIONS
- in QSO itself. Since QSOGATE has evolved to a sort of "Full Featured" message
- handler, this treatment itself could add to the confusion... especially if you
- don't even use QSO!!
-
- If a NEW USER is encountered, QSOGATE must still create an account for him but
- that part was/is invisable anyway. The visable part was to display a file
- called NEWUSER.xxx (xxx = ANS or TXT). If that file WAS not present in the
- past, an error occured. This fix allows you to delete that file and if it is
- not present, the file is not displayed and the user enters "VISUALLY" as if
- he had been a user before. In other words, if the file is present, it is
- displayed.... if not, it isn't.
-
-
- 05-03-94
- --------
- * Bug fix. When using the DROP FILE clause from within the QSOGATE.CTL file,
- the actual process would not happen until AFTER the actual function that
- was being called. This needs to happen BEFORE the function you are calling
- in order to be effective. It now works as normal.
-
-
- 02-17-94
- --------
- * Version 2.0 Released.
-
- * <-D:\TBBSPath> no longer needed on command line.
-
- * Changed KEY's in the QSOGATE.CTL file. Keys 1 & 2 are now configurable
- using the following (note type=999 are now internal commands)
-
- KEY=1
- TYPE=999
- OPT DATA=QSO (to enter QSO)
-
- KEY=2
- TYPE=999
- OPT DATA=SELECT (to select conferences)
-
- KEY=3
- TYPE=999
- OPT DATA=READ (to read messages on-line)
-
- * Provided ability to read/write messages on-line using QSOGate's normal
- interface.
-
- * Provided ability to read PcBoard v14.5 message bases on-line.
-
- * Added the ability to use the SPACEBAR in the QSOGATE.CTL file for key
- presses. This is done by using KEY=` in the CTL file. The ` will translate
- to the proper SPACEBAR KEYPRESS.
-
-
- 02-04-94
- --------
- * Allowed key press ('S') during a display of conferences when at ZERO page
- length (continuous listing). This will stop the display and prompt user.
-
- * Fixed minor bug where user viewed <H>elp file, the database ORDER was not
- reset...thereby showing conferences in random order.
-
- * Changed color in search hits to BLACK ON WHITE (much more visable now).
-
- 01-14-94
- --------
- * Fixed minor bug in CTL2GATE.EXE which was causing some sporatic results
- during an import job. Also added ZAP switch to allow a total reimport rather
- than just append to what was already in the database.
-
- * Added FIND feature to QSOGATE. This can be very big impact on very large
- databases but works very well.
-
- 01-1-94 (yes, I worked on New Years Day and I have no life)
- -------
- * Fixed CTL2GATE.EXE bug. Did not always properly recognize a comment character
- (;) and also did not always respect END-OF-FILE (eof) marker and would try to
- process forever.
-
- 12-24-93
- --------
- * Allowed the inclusion of a CONFHELP.xxx file to read in as a help file when
- a user enters the ? key during conferences selection. File names are
- CONFHELP.ANS and CONFHELP.ASC for ANSI and TEXT callers. Must reside in
- current directory.
-
- * Also fixed bug where a REQUIRED conference was not being highlighted with
- a √ automatically.
-
- * Fixed problem with ? key not working properly with a TBBS TYPE=1 on the
- QSOGate face menu. NOTE!- You must have a trailing / after the path to the
- file you want to display. This is a TDBS/TBBS bug and cannot be worked around
- for some strange reason.
-
- example:
- KEY=?
- TYPE=1
- OPT DATA=C:\Text\Display.txt /
-
-
- 12-15-93
- --------
- * Added the ability to use the ^M in the QSOGATE.CTL file for key presses.
- This is done by using KEY=~ in the CTL file. The ~ will translate to the
- proper ^M (ENTER KEY).
-
- 10-21-93
- --------
- * Added menu parameter to invoke a DROP FILE function in event you would like
- to run QWKFIX or some other QWK extraction process in another area of the
- system other then from the QSOGATE main menu.
-
- 10-20-93
- --------
- * Added keyword DROP FILE to qsogate.ctl
- This fixed problem where if you were using QWKFIX from ASR and the user did
- not yet enter the QSO module, his selected areas would not be written and
- QSO would choke on the upload of the reply packets because QSO would not yet
- be aware of the users selected conferences.
-
- 9-21-93
- -------
- * Updated CTL2Gate.Exe to parse for RESTRICT BLOCKS in the QSO.CTL file during
- setup.
-