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Short: V2.3 Personal Communicator like ICQ (MUI)
Author: hakan@parting.nu (Håkan Parting)
Uploader: hakan@parting.nu (Håkan Parting)
Version: 2.3
Type: comm/net
Requires: read below ...
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 2.0+)
* and NList.mcc 0.92+ by Gilles Masson & Sebastian Bauer, available at
http://home.t-online.de/home/sebauer/MCC_NList.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:
2.3 (08.09.2002)
----------------
NEW: A send message bar was added to the Toolbar menu. In addition to the normal message send
procedure you may now use this bar. Select the one to send a message to, enter the message
in the text field and press enter. Optionally select the type of message. This is the way
it worked in ACS 1.34. The bar may be moved to the upper area by draging it with the mouse.
Registered users can save the bar position.
To enter a multi-line message use the normal procedure, i.e. double-click the client you want
to send a message.
NEW: Send File now increases the transfer buffer when it recognizes that the connection is
fast enough. There by increasing the transfer rate.
NEW: Tab-expansion in hotline and pchat now match all clients online instead of just those
having hotline open.
BUGFIX: From version 2.2 events and sounds were not hit when a buddy went online and the
"Show in list" was set to "All".
BUGFIX: If the "Show in list" menu item was changed to "All" from "Only friends" the contact
list went empty.
BUGFIX: If you changed the string class setting from Textinput to any other while having a pchat
or hotline window open it crashed.
BUGFIX: The current cps in Send File wasn't accurate. When the system was heavy loaded it
was too high.
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.
This program is ShareWare.
Version 2.3 (08.09.2002)
Copyright 1997-2002 Håkan Parting