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- Short: V2.2 Personal Communicator like ICQ (MUI)
- Author: hakan@parting.nu (Håkan Parting)
- Uploader: hakan@parting.nu (Håkan Parting)
- Version: 2.2
- Type: comm/net
- Requires: dev/mui/MCC_NList0_92.lha
-
- This version is for MC68020/Kickstart 3.0 and higher. A MC68000/kickstart 2.0
- version of an old AmiComSys version, namely 1.20, may be found at http://parting.nu/AmiComSys/
-
- The contents of this archive is PGP-signed at may be checked against my public key found
- at http://hem.passagen.se/hparting/hparting-public-key.pgp
-
- AmiComSys is a program that you use to communicate with other people on
- a tcp/ip-net - e.g Internet. At the same time it make it easier to find
- people's IP-addresses, for use with Internet games, and home pages.
-
- It uses AMarquee.library by Jeremy Friesner & Håkan Parting for most of
- it's network handling.
-
- Now you can say "Hello!" to your friends on the net, or just see if they are
- online.
-
- You can:
- * send text messages
- * send chat requests
- * send WEB-requests.
- * transfer files.
- * have a public realtime chat
- * have a private realtime chat, with photos.
- * advertise your homepage, ftp-site, IRC-server, ICQ id and own-made programs.
- * extend the pogram by using plugins
-
- Future updates will include more.
-
- Please put it in your WBStartup drawer and enjoy ...
- Then it will automatically connect to the server when you connect to the Internet.
- It won't allocate memory for the GUI before it recognizes that you are online.
-
- AmiComSys requires:
-
- * amarquee.library v.54+ in LIBS:. It's included in the archive and will
- be installed together with AmiComSys.
-
- and Magic User Interface (MUI) version 3.8 or higher
-
- (The third party packages below is most certainly already installed on your
- Amiga. They are used by many other Internet programs, like for example YAM 2.)
-
- * and NList.mcc by Gilles Masson, available at Aminet:dev/mui/MCC_NList0_92.lha
-
- * and Toolbar.mcc by Benny Kjær Nielsen. Included in the archive
- (MUI/libs/Toolbar.mcc).
-
- * optionally you may also use NewString.mcc by Rüdiger Sopp. (found in
- the Ibrowse-archive)
-
- * or Textinput.mcc by Oliver Wagner (found at ftp://ftp.vapor.com/misc/textinput_13.xx.lzx)
-
- * or BetterString.mcc by Allan Odgaard. Included in the archive
- (MUI/libs/BetterString.mcc).
-
- Note that the above only apply if your friends is using AmiComSys,
- and have an Amiga. AMarquee.library is ported to JAVA(tm) but AmiComSys is not.
-
- Features:
-
- * Send text messages.
- * Includes a client list, which shows people which have logged in.
- * Send WEB- or Chat-requests.
- * Uses Magic User Interface (MUI).
- * A message history buffer, which saves all the received messages.
- * Logging
- * Arexx interface
- * File transmission.
- * Public chat (HotLine)
- * Private chat (PChat)
- * Friendsbook.
- * TAB- and ':'-nickname-expansion in chat-fields.
- * Every window is iconifiable separately from the MUI-application.
- * Send WWW, FTP, IRC -addresses to your WEB-browser, FTP-client respective
- AmIRC.
- * Optional string-gadget class. Choose from Betterstring.mcc, Newstring.cc
- and Textinput.mcc
- * Show all/Show only friends/Highlight friends.
- * Check you Pagoo message box.
- * See a photo of the one you are chating with.
- * Hide you IP-address from others.
- * Ignore users in HotLine, Client-List, PChat, SendFile & Messaging.
- * May be put in the WBStartup drawer, and will then automatically
- connect to the server when you are online.
- * Fully configurable GUI with toolbars.
- * Plugin interface, which makes it possible for ACS to host other applications
-
- History changes:
-
- 2.2 (28.07.2002)
- ----------------
- NEW: The default server name is now amicomsys.2y.net
- NEW: Requires v.54 of amarquee.library which is included.
- NEW: Requires v.20.106+ of NList.mcc (release 0.92).
- NEW: New Firewall section in the network/security settings named "Firewall/Internet sharing".
- If you are behind a "firewall/Internet sharing" and the one you are connecting to via PChat or
- Sendfile also is behind a "firewall/Internet sharing" it would not work.
- The solution is to you setup a pair of ports in the firewall which are forwarded via NAT to
- the machine which is running AmiComSys. Enter the ports in the settings and it should work
- as if you were not behind a firewall. If there are several hosts running AmiComSys behind
- a single "firewall/Internet sharing" those would use different ports.
- NEW: AmiComSys is now able to connect via PChat and Sendfile to hosts on the same LAN.
- V.2.2+ is required on both ends.
- NEW: Removed the group border from the Message History settings page.
-
- BUGFIX: AmiComSys could crash after the Friends book had been modified.
- BUGFIX: If you are behind a "firewall/Internet sharing" and someone which is also behind a
- firewall was connecting to you via PChat a message about refused connection appeared.
- BUGFIX: There was a double set of menus in the Client Info, PChat Image Download and Sendfile
- windows.
- BUGFIX: There was a screen locking issue with the PChat, PChat Image Download and Sendfile windows,
- which could make the public screen it opened on to freeze and also ACS to either freeze or open
- windows on the workbench screen.
- BUGFIX: After a certain type of message was received and closed AmiComSys would freeze sooner
- or later.
- BUGFIX: There was a number of instability issues with the Message History window.
- BUGFIX: It wasn't possible to delete the last user from the banned list on the network
- settings page.
- BUGFIX: Enforcer hits occured when:
- 1. Right-click in an empty Task List window.
- 2. Press "cursor up" or "cursor down" when in PChat or Hotline.
- 3. Select "Save As" from the PChat or Hotline menus.
- BUGFIX: The following didn't work since version 2.0 of ACS:
- 1. Cursor up/down in PChat/Hotline.
- 2. Tab expansion in PChat/Hotline.
- 3. Away message count appears in Information bar at top of ACS when a message was received
- while away.
- BUGFIX: The "Iconify Application" menu item didn't always affect the "Client Info" window.
- BUGFIX: The layout of the "GMT Offset" gadget on the program settings page could look strange.
- BUGFIX: Changed the "More recipients" button text in the "new message" windows to:
- "Show recipients >>" and "<< Hide recipients".
- BUGFIX: "Start X-coord" and "Start Y-coord" on the program settings page was mis-spelled.
- BUGFIX: When the PChat window pops up from an iconified state (ie. "Popup window when
- message arrives") the scrollbar was not at the very bottom to display the newest message.
- BUGFIX: If you picked the Close menuitem from the SendFile and the Chat Image Download windows
- to abort the transmission AmiComSys locked up.
- BUGFIX: If you tried to break the AmiComSys process while it was showing a modal message dialog
- it could lock up.
- BUGFIX: When the message requesters are set to close after replying a message, it was possible
- to press enter in the text field again initiating a new send before it had been closed, causing
- it to close twice and deallocating memory twice.
- BUGFIX: When using the default public screen setting for Message requesters all windows now
- open on the current default screen after they have been deiconified too.
- BUGFIX: When having the Message History window opened while switching between several groups and
- sending and receiving messages the display hook function of the history list sometimes get an
- invalid pointer (0x1) from NList.mcc which caused an Enforcer-hit and lockup. I have no idea why
- this happen but I implemented a check on this.
- BUGFIX: The reply button (Email/ICQ) in messages sent from the message center was not shown.
- BUGFIX: If not "Last ten" was selected in the Message History and the items were wordwraped
- then there were trouble to remove the last or the first item to keep it to ten items when a
- new message was sent or received. The routine tried to remove items to make it ten but failed,
- and there by creating a busy loop, i.e making ACS freeze.
-
- 2.1 (02.12.2001)
- ----------------
- BUGFIX: When all the checkboxes in the Client list settings/Show which information were checked the computer crashed.
- So if you had that setting in v. 1.34 and tried 2.0 the computer just crashed.
- BUGFIX: It didn't work to install plugins directly from the plugin installer, by setting
- the environmental variable ACS_INSTALLPLUGIN.
-
- This program is ShareWare.
- Version 2.2 (28.07.2002)
- Copyright 1997-2002 Håkan Parting
-