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=================================================================== _____ _ _ \_ \_ __ | |_ ___ _ __ _ __ ___| |_ The / /\/ '_ \| __/ _ \ '__| '_ \ / _ \ __| Internet /\/ /_ | | | | || __/ | | | | | __/ |_ Suite for \____/ |_| |_|\__\___|_| |_| |_|\___|\__| OS/2 Warp _ _ _ /_\ __| |_ _____ _ __ | |_ _ _ _ __ ___ _ __ //_\\ / _` \ \ / / _ \ '_ \| __| | | | '__/ _ \ '__| / _ \ (_| |\ V / __/ | | | |_| |_| | | | __/ | \_/ \_/\__,_| \_/ \___|_| |_|\__|\__,_|_| \___|_| 17. November 1996 =================================================================== Version 0.95 Copyright (c) 1996, Kim Rasmussen All rights reserved. SEE MY WEB PAGE at http://www.teamos2.org/software/iadventure/ for newest info !! =================================================================== N O T I C E =================================================================== This IS a shareware package, and does require a registration fee if you choose to continue using it after 30 days. The registration fee for this product is currently $30 US. When Internet Adventurer is out of beta, this price will grow for new registrations, so register now while it's cheap !. Note that after v2.99 I might select that your registrations have expired, and you need to re-register in order to upgrade to versions higher than 2.99. See the file REGISTER.TXT for more information about how to register =================================================================== L E G A L S T U F F =================================================================== As usual with shareware, I'm not responsible for any damages you may suffer by using Internet Adventurer in any form or way. If you are going to jail because of unpaid huge phone-bills, then it's not and never will be my problem. Any damages/faults/whatever arising from the use of Internet Adventurer is entirely your own problem. If your harddisk vanish after installing, or your wife leaves you it's your own problem - got it ? =================================================================== R E Q U I R E M E N T S =================================================================== Internet Adventurer requires OS/2 Warp, with min 8Mb Memory - it probably will run on 4Mb, but I wouldn't to it :) It seems to work fine under Warp 4 (Merlin) Also, WebExplorer from IBM is required. At least BETA web0814 is required, you can get the newest from ftp.ibm.net /pub/WebExplorer You also need to have internet software, at least TCP/IP v3.0 (or what your WebExplorer needs) is required. Also, I recommend installing fixpack 17, and the updated PMMERGE.DLL. Doing so, really fixes alot of traps especially in PMCTLS and PMMERGE. I haven't tried fixpack 22 yet - I've heard conflicting stories about it some say that after installing it, they couldn't open the settings dialog, and some say that it has improved pretty much everything. I've also heard of problems with the InetAdv settings-notebook - please let me know if you have any problems there. =================================================================== A C K N O W L E D G E M E N T S =================================================================== I would like to thank all the people in #os/2 and #os2prog who have helped me with this, especially the ones who have given me sample code, and tolerated my bugs :) -------- Contents -------- 1. Contacting the Author (that's me) 2. Current Features List 3. Known Bugs/Workarounds 4. Missing Features / ToDo List 5. Command-line arguments 6. Supported IRC Commands 7. REXX Scripts 8. REXX Quicklist 9. Toolbars 10. Database recovery 11. Version history ------------------------------------ 1. Contacting the Author (that's me) ------------------------------------ You can contact me in a number of ways. Unfortunately, I can't provide neither a fax or phone number at this time. Mail: Adventure Software Kim Rasmussen Gartnervang 2C, 3tv DK-4000 Roskilde Denmark Web: http://home3.inet.tele.dk/krasmus/ http://www.teamos2.org/software/iadventure/ Internet: krasmus@post3.tele.dk - but if at all possible, _please_ use my mailing-list for all questions/suggestions about InetAdv !! IRC: I can usually be found hanging around in #os/2 or #os2prog you might even catch me in #inetadv :) My nickname is usually Starlord_, but look for Kim Rasmussen in my real-name. Mailinglist: Cliff Wood has setup a mailing list for me, to join it send a mail to <majordomo@infinity.beve.blacksburg.va.us> This mail MUST have the first line in the BODY of the message set to "subscribe inetadv-l" - without the quotes. Support: I'll try to help as much as I can, go to #inetadv on IRC, or use the mailing list. If you can't reach me in other ways, send an email to krasmus@post3.tele.dk ------------------------ 2. Current Features List ------------------------ - Consistent userinterface - all the sections of Internet Adventurer share the same toolbars, and the same look and feel - you can even drag toolbar items from eg. the WWW window to an IRC window. - IRC (rfc #1459 compliant) - CTCP (Client to Client Protocol) commands supported - DCC CHAT fully supported (private chat - remember to set your IP address) - DCC Multiple concurrent filetransfers are fully supported, both ways - Multiple Threads, one per IRC channel - Fully multithreaded 32-bit code - no 16-bit code at all - No class libraries, uses PM functions directly, for maximum speed - Multiple Windows - one window for each channel or for private messages - Multiple colors, get a complete overview in seconds, configure strings that will be shown with different colors. - Configureable fonts and colors - WWW support, using WebExplorer's API, to ensure that the newest available browser technology is supported. You should even be able to use Internet Adventurer with a newer version of WebExplorer (no guaranties though...) It's even faster that WebExplorer ! - Proxy and Socks support for WWW, gopher and FTP - You never need to cancel loading of an URL, to begin loading another, you just click on the link you want, even if the page you're currently loading isn't complete yet. - REXX Scripts support, compatible with the GammaTech IRC-Client v2.00. - Nickname list in channel-windows - User Configureable toolbars, click on the toolbar with your right mouse button, and add/edit/delete buttons. You can also drag buttons to other windows, if you press ctrl while dragging, they get copied. - DLL PlugIn's - support for extending Internet Adventurer with customized tools. - Fully configureable quicklist with support for multilevel groups, where you can put your URL's. One group for eg. "Internet Search Engines", one for "OS/2", one for "Fun stuff" etc.... - Smart URL resolving by 'nickname', enter eg. 'Yahoo' - and that will take you to http://www.yahoo.com, or enter 'inetadv' - which will take you to http://home3.inet.tele.dk/krasmus/ - Intelligent URL handling and interfacing, from a www document, select a link called 'irc:/server irc.dd.chalmers.se' and InetAdv will open up an IRC window, and connect to the specified server. - Viewing HTML source, saving to disk, displaying from disk. - Registration via registration keys - easy upgrading of registered versions. - URL Parsing REXX scripts - You can completely customize the URL handling. - Quicklist database accessible from REXX scripts - Importing of WebExplorer quicklist - Quicklist supports Drag & Drop - URL objects can be dragged into the quicklist - IDENTD support for those IRC servers that require it. - Newsreader with both online and offline newsreading support - Support for multiple simultaneous newsservers (requires registration) - Support for UU-Decoding both news and mail messages - Mail, support for retrieving via POP3 and sending via SMTP - Multiple mail accounts (requires registration) - Selectable loading of plugins - eg. if news/mail is never used, it can be left out, and thus never uses any memory. - Automatic recovery of any eventual damaged quicklist/news databases - Threaded viewing of News and Mail - True news threading (by references) - Lot's of other features - too many to mention here ------------------------- 3. Known Bugs/Workarounds ------------------------- - 'Time' is not updated in filetransfers, but always set to 00:00:00 ------------------------------- 4. Missing Features / ToDo List ------------------------------- - Full MIME support will be in the next version - Global address-book, where you will be able to put name, URL, email telnet, notes etc. into the book, and thus use a common entry for both email, telnet etc. - Filters for news and mail - both static and REXX filters - Custom folders for news and mail - Password protected folders for news/mail groups - Example REXX scripts - I'm currently working with the authors of IRC/2 and GTIRC to create a standard for REXX scripts that we can all agree on, so when we are ready, there should be lots of sample scripts. - Presentation mode in WWW - for now, you can disable the toolbars to make the window overhead as small as possible. - I'll document the PlugIn DLL API real soon, I have already gotten some indications of people wanting to write either new plug-ins, or write scripts in C - mail me if you have anything specific you want, and I will try to rush it even more. - I'll clean DCC up a bit, I don't like the way it works now - I'll add tons of options for blocksize etc. and I'll make one DCC window that shows the status of all the current DCC filetransfers instead of the tons of windows you see now. - WAV file support, I'll add lots of options, for playing different WAV files depending on what is going on. I'll also add more options for eg. switching the WWW window to the foreground after an URL has completed loading. - Connections to multiple IRC servers simultaneously - DCC firewall support is almost ready - Flood protection to come... - Gopher and FTP is currently only supported via the WebExplorer API I probably won't touch gopher, but you'l get a beefed up FTP, with support for upload/download etc. - Telnet isn't supported yet - If you have any suggestions for other features, please email me at krasmus@post3.tele.dk and tell me what you want. - I have a _huge_ todolist, and tons of small yellow pieces of paper glued to my monitor - so don't dispair if you can not see your suggestions here. ------------------------- 5. Command-line arguments ------------------------- Syntax is: INETADV.EXE [/I:<inifile>] [/P:<pluginfile>] [URL] Example: INETADV.EXE /I:inetadv.ini http://home3.inet.tele.dk/krasmus/ Example: INETADV.EXE http://home3.inet.tele.dk/krasmus/ Example: INETADV.EXE irc:/default /P:www_only.cfg URL is an optional URL to retrive immediately after starting Internet Adventurer. /I:<inifile> where <inifile> is the name of the ini-file to use for storing the settings. If this option is not specified, OS2.INI is used. The .cmd file copyini.cmd can be used to copy settings to/from OS2.INI - uninst.cmd must be used for uninstalling and deleting settings from OS2.INI /P:<pluginfile> where <pluginfile> is the name of a plain text file, where each line in the file contains the name of the DLL to load - eg. ---- Cut here ---- IA_WWW IA_IRC IA_NWSML ---- Cut here ---- Note that only the firstname of the DLL should be present - not the extension ! If you never use IRC, you can just delete it from the file, and same memory by not loading the IRC DLL. Note that if you do not load it, and have any toolbar buttons that have some kind of IRC action, InetAdv will complain about the buttons and you must then change or delete them. The default pluginfile is called "iaplugins.cfg" - if this file is found in the current directory when InetAdv starts up, it will use it. If no file is found, all the DLL's will be loaded. ------------------------- 6. Supported IRC Commands ------------------------- In a channel window, if you just write a string, it's sent to that channel if you put a '/' in front, it's treated as a command. eg. to get statistics (uptime) from you server, type '/STATS U' All RFC 1459 commands are supported, just type '/' in front, and whatever you type will be sent to the IRC server directly (with exceptions) The exceptions are: /JOIN <channelname> /CHANNEL <channelname> Join a new channel, eg. "/JOIN #os/2" joins the #os/2 channel. /CTCP <nickname> <command> This commands send's a CTCP request <command> to <nickname> eg. /CTCP Starlord_ VERSION to get the version of Starlord_'s client. /DCC CHAT <nickname> Ask <nickname> to open a private chat conversation with you. This causes Internet Adventurer to open a socket, waiting for a call from the other client. Data on this session are NOT sent through the IRC server, and you are therefore sure that no IRC-Operators can listen in. /DCC SEND <nickname> <filename> This command is used if you want to send a file to <nickname>. This causes Internet Adventurer to open a socket, and wait for a call from <nickname>'s client. If <nickname> accepts, he will then connect's to you for receiving the file from you. /ME <text> /ACT <text> /ACTION <text> Use this command to tell that you're performing an action, if your nickname is Starlord_, and you type "/me thinka Internet Adventurer is great", it will be displayed to the other people on the channel as: "* Starlord_ agrees that Internet Adventurer is great" /MSG <nickname> <text> Uses this command to send a private message to <nickname>, this message will not be sent to the channel you're in, but only to the <nickname> you specify. If you wan't to be sure that no one can intercept your message, you might consider using /DCC <nickname> CHAT instead, to get a true private connection. /LEAVE This command causes the window for the current channel to be closed, and it leaves the channel - it's the same thing as closing the window by double-clicking on it's icon. If this command is issued in a DCC Chat window, the chat connection is disconnected, and the window is closed. /SIGNOFF If issued in a channel-window, this command causes the connection to the server to be closed. The windows will still remain on the screen. If issued in a DCC chat window, the DCC connection is closed. /BEGONE This command removes all the windows, and disconnects. /VERSION <nickname> /VER <nickname> These commands do the same as /CTCP <nickname> VERSION - it ask's <nickname> for his version. /USERINFO <nickname> This command does the same as /CTCP <nickname> USERINFO - it ask's <nickname> for his userinfo. /FINGER <nickname> This command does the same as /CTCP <nickname> FINGER - it ask's <nickname> for his finger info. /PING <nickname> This command does the same as /CTCP <nickname> PING - it ask's <nickname> to return the ping response, so the delay between the two clients can be measured. /EXECUTE <command> This executes the given command, eg. to put a directory listing into a file, you can use "/exec dir >\file.txt". /SERVER <hostname:[port]> This command closes the connection to the current server, and connects to the new specified server. /MODE <channel/nicname/*> [mode parameters] This command changes the mode of either a channel, or a nick. If * is entered instead of channel-name, the current channel is used. If no parameters are given, the mode is queried instead of set. /TOPIC <channel/*> This is a topic This command changes the topic of a channel. If * is entered instead of channel-name, the current channel is used. If the topic itself is excluded, then the current topic is displayed. /CLEAR /CLE These commands clear/erase the contents of the current window. /QUERY <nickname> /PRIVATE <nickname> These commands open a private window, where all messages you type are sent to the nickname as private messages. /SCR <script name> [script parameters] This command executes a REXX script and passes the script parameters (if any) directly to the script. The other parameters passed to the script are the same as the one passed to the incoming/outgoing scripts. /RUN <filename> This command executes each line in the file, just as if each line was a command, entered on the command-line. This command can be used to "type" a file to the channel. /QUIT <quit reason> This quits - you can optionally specify a quit reason, eg. "time for dinner", or "gotta install new version of InetAdv" :) /LOG ON <filename> | OFF | DELETE /LOG ON <filename> enables logging, and writes all lines in the window you specified to the file you specified. /LOG OFF disables logging again /LOG DELETE deletes the current logfile. - when log is started, logging is always appended to the logfile. /IRCTRACE ON <filename> | OFF | DELETE /IRCTRACE ON <filename> enables irc tracing, and writes all incoming and outgoing lines to the file you specified. These lines are exactly as they are received from / set to the IRC server. /IRCTRACE OFF disables tracing again /IRCTRACE DELETE deletes the current trace-file. - when trace is started, new trace info is always appended to the trace-file. //<string> This one sends the <string> unmodified to the server. This might be usefull for some people. --------------- 7. REXX Scripts --------------- There are currently 2 kinds of REXX scripts: URL parsing, and IRC scripts. --- URL Parsing scripts --- You can specify one script in the General settings in the Settings Dialog. This script will then be called with the URL as a parameter everytime an URL needs to be resolved. This can happen when eg. selecting a link in the WWW Window, or pressing a toolbar button that's linked to an URL. The script gets only one parameter (the URL) and it _must_ return either an empty string (if it has handled the URL itself) or the URL that could be parsed by Internet Adventurer. These scripts give you a chance to fully customize Internet Adventurer, you can eg. use them so all ftp:// URL's are parsed to an external FTP client that downloads the appropriate file - it's up to up, the possibilites are virtually endless. --- IRC Scripts --- Yes, I now support REXX scripts in IRC. I've tried to make them compatible with GT-IRC, as far as possible, this means that you are able to run eg. the IceBerg scripts for enhancing the IRC client. NOTE: IRC Scripts can now also be used to change the messages to/from the server - see 'Return codes' for info about what to return. --- First, a warning ! --- REXX scripts can really eat away at your CPU, it can take some performance, especially for large scripts. I'm currently working on it, to see if I can speed the performance of the REXX scripts up, but for serious scripting, you should use the DLL plug-in interface that I'll soon be adding. They work the following way: You specify the name of 2 rexx script files, one which is called for every command typed by the user (outgoing), and one which is called every time the host sends a line (incoming). The incoming messages scripts are called with 3 parameters as follows: script.cmd <hwnd> <current_nickname> <string> The outgoing commands scripts are called with 4 parameters as follows: script.cmd <hwnd> <window-name> <current_nickname> <string> The <hwnd> must be used when displaying messages, the <current_nickname> is for the script to use if it want to, and the <string> is either the command that the user has typed, or the line received from the IRC server. The window name is one of the following: - Channel name (starting with # or &) - if command is issued in a channel window - Nickname (not starting with #, & or !) - if command is issued in a query/private window. - ! if command is issued in another window (usually main window) --- Return codes --- The script must return an empty string if Internet Adventurer should not process the command, they must return "OK" when InetAdv should process the command unaltered, and finally, they can return a modified command that InetAdv will then handle. This can come in handy, for eg. scripts that needs to do translation of special characters. Example of return codes: ------------------- return '' - This causes InetAdv to ignore the command return 'OK' - Causes InetAdv to process the original command return 'anotherstring' - Causes InetAdv to process anotherstring instead of the original command. This is especially usefull for scripts that do any kind of translation, because if IrcRexxCommand is used, the script is called again, causing delay and it makes the script more complex because it must be sure that it doesn't translate the string again. Returning the modified/translated command does NOT cause InetAdv to call the script again, but it immediately processes the command. ------------------- There are 5 functions available to the script writer: IrcRexxDisplay(<text>, <hwnd>) This function displayes <text> in the window <hwnd> if <hwnd> is a null-string, the text will be displayed in the main irc window. IrcRexxCommand(<text>, <hwnd>) This function let's the rexx script enter a command. This command will be processed by Internet Adventurer in the excact same way, as if the user typed the command himself. The command will be passed to the script again. Note however that playing recursive commands should be avoided, eg. a script handling the command "/PLAY" should never send the same command in response to a "/PLAY" command. IrcRexxSend(<text>) This function can be used by the script to send a command directly to the server. Internet Adventurer will not do any processing of the command, but it will forward it directly to the server. IrcRexxWildCard(<wildcard>, <string>, <options>) This function check if a given wildcard matched the string. If a match if found, "MATCH" is returned, otherwise "NOMATCH" is returned. <option> is optional, and can currently only have one value if specified. The value is: 'NOCASE' to turn case sensitivity off. Wildcards that can be used are ? to match one char, and * to match any number of characters. Use \* or \? to look for * or ? as characters. NOTE: The pattern matching matches the whole string, eg. "a" does _not_ match "abcdef", but "a*" matches "abcdef". "c" does not match "abcdef", neither does "*c", but "*c*" does ! IrcRexxIsOp(<channel>, <nick>, <hwnd>) This function can be used to query if the nickname is currently operator on the specified channel. If channel is "*" then the current channel is assumed. This function returns "YES" if the user is op, "NO" if he isn't, and "ERROR" if the channel can't be found, or the user is not on that channel. NOTE: This command can be used to determine if a user is on a given channel. Also, if you need any special function, let me know, and i will probably put it in. ----------------- 8. REXX Quicklist ----------------- Internet Adventurer stores all it's quicklist entries in a database. This database can now be accessed via REXX scripts, and a sample script for importing the WebExplorer quicklist is also included (import.cmd). General note about return codes: All the functions (except IARX_QOpenDatabase) returns an error code which says if the requested operation has succeeded. A return code of 0 means that everything went OK, and another return-code indicates an error. For examples on how to use it, look it the .cmd files - a reference of the available functions comes here: IARX_Register This function must be the first one to be called from the REXX script. It registers all the other functions with REXX, so they can be resolved. IARX_QOpenDatabase This function opens the quicklist database, and makes it available for reading. Remember _always_ to close the database after use. This function returns a string with an error-message if the database could not be opened, and it returns an empty string if the database was opened successfully. IARX_QCloseDatabase This function closes the opened database IARX_QCreate This one is use to create a new record in the quicklist, this can be either a group or an item. It needs one parameter, the name of a stem variable that holds the record to insert, eg. rc = IARX_QCreate("q") - where the stem variable _must_ have been setup like this: q.id - Record ID q.parent - Parent ID q.children - Number of children q.type - Type (0 = Group, 1 = URL/Item) q.title - Title of Item of Folder q.nick - Nickname of item (must be unique and non-numeric) q.url - The URL (if type = 1) Upon successful return, q.id contains the assiged ID. If this function fails, it is usually because either the stem variable is not setup correctly, or because an item already exists in the quicklist with the same nickname. IARX_QUpdate This one is used to update a record in the quicklist, and it will fail if it does not already exist. It needs one parameter only (look at IARX_QCreate for info about it) IARX_QDelete This one is used to delete a record from the database, note that you must only delete a group if it is empty - trying to delete a non-empty group could cause bad things to happen to the quicklist database. It needs only one parameter, which must contain the ID of the record to be deleted. IARX_QGet This function retrieves a record from the database, it requires two parameters, the id of the record to read, and the name of the stem to place the results in. Note that the parent of all quicklist records had ID 0 IARX_QMakeTree This function is used to read an entire level of entries, it takes two parameters, the first is the name of the stem variable to place the results in, the second is the id of the parent record, eg. specifying 0 as the parent ID gives a list of all the records in the root-level of the quicklist tree. The stem will look like this on output: rc = IARX_MakeTree("tree", 0) tree.items - Number of items returned tree.1.id - ID of record tree.1.parent - ID of parent tree.1.children - Number of children tree.1.type - Type (0 = Group, 1 = URL/Item) tree.1.title - Title of Item of Folder tree.1.nick - Nickname of item (must be unique and non-numeric) tree.1.url - The URL (if type = 1) this continues with tree.2. tree.3. etc. up til tree.items has been reached. Note that this function will later be enhanced, so it returns the contents of the entire tree - this can be done manually in the REXX script now, but just calling it again for each group discovered. WARNING: Before you make your own script to play around with the quicklist, be sure to take a backup of your quicklist database first, this can be done by copying quicklst.* to another directory, and copying them back (after stopping Internet Adventurer) if something goes wrong. ----------- 9. Toolbars ----------- Internet Adventurer supports user-configureable toolbars. That means that you can create your own buttons on the toolbars, and assign actions to them. To change the buttons on a tool-bar, click on it with the right mouse button, and a menu will appear. You can then select 'Create item' to create a new button, and a notebook will appear where you can assign actions to it. Select an action, and enter eventual parameters for it. After assigning an action, you need to give the new button a name and/or a bitmap. You can select from a list of built-in bitmaps, or you can load one from a file. It is also possible to drag/drop buttons from one toolbar to another. By default, the following actions exist: 1. About InetAdv Parameters: None Action: Pop's up an about-dialog for Internet Adventurer. 2. Execute program Parameters: Programname, and eventual parameters for the program Action: Starts the selected program with the command "start /N <program" Example: To start intercom.cmd, you must set the parameters to: "cmd.exe /c intercom.cmd" to call the cmd-shell, and let it start the .cmd file. To start a .exe file, just type the name of the .exe file in the parameter list. 3. Open URL Parameters: The URL to open Action: This command opens an URL. Example: Set parameters to "settings:irc" to open the settings dialog, and to "http://home3.inet.tele.dk/krasmus/" to open my homepage. You can also type "mailto:krasmus@post3.tele.dk" to send a mail to me, or even "irc:default" to open an IRC connection with the default setup. Internet Adventurer will look at the protocol, and decide what way to initate the communication. 4. Settings Parameters: Notebook Tab Name Action: Opens the settings dialog Example: Set the parameter to "IRC.HOST". Pressing the button, will open the settings-notebook, and display the Host page under IRC settings. 5. IRC: Connect Parameters: None Action: Opens an IRC session to a server, this is actually the same as opening an URL called "irc:default" 6. IRC: Join Channel Parameters: None Action: Opens the 'Join channel' dialog, and let's up select the channel you want to join. 7. IRC: Command Parameters: IRC Command Action: Executes the IRC command, just as if it was entered on the command-line, eg. "/msg Starlord_ Internet Adventurer is great" will send the message "Internet Adventurer is great" to Starlord_. 8. IRC: Userlist Parameters: None Action: This will display the list of active users in the channel. Note that this action only has effect if the window it's issued from is an IRC channel-window. 9. WWW: Start Parameters: None Action: Opens the WWW window if it's not already open. 10. WWW: Back Parameters: None Action: Retrieves the previous WWW document 11. WWW: Forward Parameters: None Action: Retrieves the next WWW document (only if a Back command has been issued) 12. WWW: Reload Parameters: None Action: Reloads the current WWW document 13. WWW: Cancel Parameters: None Action: Cancels loading of the current document 14. WWW: Add to Quicklist Parameters: None Action: Adds the current document to the quicklist 15. WWW: Open File Parameters: None Action: Opens a file for display in the WWW window 16. WWW: Save current file Parameters: None Action: Saves the current document 17. WWW: View Source Parameters: None Action: Displays the source (HTML code) for the current document 18. WWW: Search Parameters: None Action: Searches the current document 19. WWW: Search Again Parameters: None Action: Searches for the next match in the current document 20. WWW: Print Parameters: None Action: Prints the current document List of URL protocol types currently recognized: Protocol Parameter settings: <settings-page> (eg. IRC.FONTS) irc: <irc-action> (see explanation) mailto: <emailaddr> (eg. krasmus@post3.tele.dk) http: <http_host> (eg. home3.inet.tele.dk/krasmus/) ftp: <ftp_host> (eg. hobbes.nmsu.edu) gopher: <gopher_host> (eg. gopher.almaden.ibm.com) file: <filename> (eg. InetAdv.htm) quicknick: <nickname> (eg. yahoo) quicklist: None (brings the quicklist to the foreground) news: None (Starts the newsreader) mail: new (Checks for new mail) Explanation of 'irc:<irc-action>' : The action can be: 1 - default This causes a normal connection to be established 2 - /command This executes the specified IRC command. The command will be treated as if it was entered in the main IRC window. (eg. "irc:/join #inetadv" NOTE: You can use this to create a button that connects to a certain IRC server, just set the action of the button to "Open URL", and the parameters to "irc:/server irc.epix.net" - this will open the IRC window, and connect to the specified server. Explanation of 'quicknick:<nickname>' : This 'nickname' will be looked up in the quicklist database, and if a match is found, the matching URL will be taken instead. Imagine that you have in the quicklist an item called 'Searc Yahoo', with nickname set to 'Yahoo' and URL set to 'http://www.yahoo.com'. When InetAdv sees 'quicknick:yahoo' then it will look up yahoo in the quicklist database, and change the URL to 'http://www.yahoo.com' This URL will then be used. Also note that in the WWW URL-line, just 'Yahoo' can be entered if you want to connect to http://www.yahoo.com - this can be a _great_ timesaver. --------------------- 10. Database recovery --------------------- If you quicklist database get's damaged, it is now possible to recover as much as possible from it. just follow these steps: - close Internet Adventurer - start an os/2 window and switch to your inetadv directory - Now, you should make a backup of your quicklst.* files before tampering with them. - run qexport.cmd - this will export the quicklist into quicklst.txt - delete quicklst.ix* and quicklst.dat - run qimport.cmd - this will then recreate the database with all the quicklist entries from quicklst.txt - exit the os/2 window, and restart Internet Adventurer - Now, the database should be fixed again - if you still have any problems, please let me know. If you find a way to reproduce any damaging of the database, please let me know that also. If something bad happens to your news database, you can delete the current one by simply deleting the art* and newsgrp* files. This will cause all your mail and news to be destroyed, so beware !! You should take frequent backups of your news/mail database to make sure that it won't be totally destroyed. If you get the message "Newsgroup database has been currupted - delete newsgrp.* and artlist.* and start again" - and you've got some real important messages in it, then let me know, and I'll try to see if there is a way to recover the database. I'm going to build an automatic recover utility into InetAdv soon !! ------------------- 11. Version history ------------------- Version 0.11 - Fixed nickname size bug, now you can only enter 9 char nickname. - Fixed bug with "World Wide Web" menu-item only selectable once. - When opening a window, it's now in the foreground instead of in the back. - Bug resurfaced, private messages were shown with your nickname, and CTCP ACTION command was not recognized. - CTCP PING command implemented - Bug in DCC Filetransfer, the number of received bytes was not set to 0 before starting receiving a file. - Private messages no longer popup in a window automatically, they are now displayed in the main IRC window - Profile information is now stored in a .ini file, that makes it easier to upgrade without hurting the old configuration - Autojoin flag for channels added, if set, the channel will automatically be joined when connecting. - If nickname already exists, I now cut one character from the nick, and try again, until it's not rejected. - Yes, I now got rid of the MLE's for the channel-window, and I've made my own MLE lookalike, with color support. - Fixed WWW, so forms work Version 0.12 - Scroll-back in channel-windows now possible - Additional colors added for nicknames - A list of strings can now be configured, when Internet Adventurer sees one of these strings, it will change the color, so you'll be alerted. This is extremely usefull for eg. inserting nicknames of friends etc. - Firewall-settings for DCC is on the way (it doesn't work yet, but the dlg is there) - Now you can cancel loading a WWW document, and news, proxy and socks settings are now possible for the WWW. - Reload and back menu's added to WWW window. - It's now possible to interrupt loading of a WWW document, by just selecting a new link. The current document will then be cancelled, and the new one will be loaded. Version 0.13 - Fixed trap when messages arrived in a minimized window :( Version 0.14 - Now, word-wrap is really word-wrap, lines are no longer cut in the middle of a word, but words displayed whole. - Font's are now selectable from a standard font dialog box. - Colors are now selectable - Fixed trap when a command was sent by the server, without a from name - Fixed a trap which occured if no inetadv.ini file was present (oops) Version 0.15 - Fixed a few spelling mistakes :) - Messages to your nickname now goes to the active window, as well as the main IRC window - Moved the 'Leave Channel' menu into the action menu - Fixed an eventual trap, if a DCC CHAT request was refused. - Incoming DCC messages were not shown (oops) - If the userlist was minimized, and then restored, it would resize wrong. - Fixed a bug in the channel-windows, sometimes if the lines were very long the window could get obfuscated while scrolling. - Previously, the buttom of the chars on the last line couldn't be seen, this is now fixed. - Command /leave implemented - Command /signoff implemented - Command /begone implemented Version 0.16 - DCC command-line is no longer disabled when not connected. - Command /version implemented - Command /ver implemented - Command /userinfo implemented - Fixed bug: Userinfo wasn't sent to the nick asking for it :( - Changed "/DCC <nick> <filename" to "/DCC SEND <nick> <filename>", and "/DCC <nick> CHAT" to "/DCC CHAT <nick>" - /WHO /WHOIS /ISON etc. replies have been beautified a bit, and are now also shown in the active window. - Command-line scrollback now implemented. Internet Adventurer now remembers the last 20 commands you've typed (much like the cmd shell), use arrows up/down to scroll in the commands. You can also use ESC to clear the input field. - Command /finger implemented - Command /ping implemented - Command /execute implemented (beware of IceBerg's /exec) use this one instead - Command /clientinfo implemented - CTCP responses are now also shown in the active window. - Autodetect IP address now works - When a partially overlapped channel-window was scrolled, sometimes the contents could get corrupted. - It's now possible to specify channel-name and password in the join list, just type "#channel pass", that should work. - Notify list implemented. Version 0.17 - Added '***' to a lot of messages, to make it clear where they come from. - When other people are joining a channel, their username/hostname is now also shown - Fixed a _huge_ memory leak - for every line you've typed, I would loose 513 byte memory :((( This should fix the problem some people have had after running it for a long time. Sorry about that one folks :)) - Fixed problem with using then newer WebEx API's (1.1a and the Java demo) they required that I read the display settings, and set them again - I didn't have to change them - in order to view text. - User-Configureable toolbars have been added to the main InetAdv window. - Nickname list has been added to the channel-windows. - Context-menu has been added to the nicklist, try selecting a nickname, and right-clicking. - User-Configureable toolbars have been added to the channel-windows. - Mode command is now parsed and displayed. - Fixed a trap, if you scrolled up/down when there was 0 lines in the windows it would trap. - It now beeps when a /msg arrives, I'll put it on an option soon. Version 0.18 - When a user got de-opped, it wasn't shown in the nicklist. - Fixed bug that caused that /who, /whois and a few other replies was not shown in the active window, if the active window was the first one created. - CTCP Userinfo, and CTCP Finger added to context-menu for nicklist. - Channel-names were case sensitive when saving toolbar settings, they are now case insensitive. - Fixed a big memory leak related to DCC, all bytes received/sent were never deallocated, sorry about that one :( - UCMENUS.DLL eliminated, I've compiled it into the .exe instead, because come people reported problems with ultimail using the same name for a dll. Version 0.19 - Fixed a trap, if a /topic response arrived before the channel-wnd was created, a sprintf would go haywire :) - Fixed toolbars, so if 'Load Default' is selected on the context-menu, the correct default menu is restored. - The 'Reset Styles' item on the toolbar context-menu didn't work. - Major internal changes ! DLL PlugIn's are now supported, IRC is moved to it's own DLL, and used the PlugIn API. - All settings have been moved to a single notebook - Toolbars are now selectable from the keyboard. - Oops, intercom wasn't started from the main menu, the parameters /C inetadv.cmd were missing from the command-line. - Nuke protection implemented. - Very long nicknames could get InetAdv to trap. - /whois response (msg 311) was not parsed correctly - A DCC SEND from someone with a very long filename (>100 bytes) caused a trap. - If we received multiple JOIN messages from the same channel, more than one window for the same channel would be created. - WWW moved to it's own DLL, and now supports interface to IRC and settings. You can now start IRC from a WWW Link - WWW now saves it's window position - When a user got kicked from a channel, the nicklist wasn't updated - Oops, you could create empty entries in the notify list, but you (almost) couldn't delete them again. - I finally managed to get the WebEx API to receive files it hasn't any viewer for, there were some undocumented messages that I had to use, it took a while to debug them and find out what way to use them, but it works now, thanks to some help from one of the WebEx developers. - You can now double-click on an entry in the join dialog to join the channel. - I've reworked the settings save a bit, so no matter how InetAdv is closed it will save it's window and toolbar settings. NOTE: Positions for minimized windows will not be saved ! - It's now possible to use the cursorkeys, and page up/down in the WWW window. - I've added some IRC options (like beep on incoming msgs) see them on the IRC Options page in the settings notebook. - Fixed a but, page up/down in channel-windows didn't always scroll the correct number of lines. - Added option to start a private window when an incoming /msg arrives. - I hopefully fixed the nickname list, on some channels it didn't occur, it should work now, but please tell me if it doesn't. - Now the REXX functions are not so strict with checking the number of parameters, the IceBerg scripts sometimes specify more parameters than needed. Version 0.20 - FCF_NOBYTEALIGN now set on all frame windows - this means that you can now position the window freely. - Found a memory leak in IRC, for every line displayed in the irc channel windows, a block of memory was leaked. - Size of message queue increased from PM's default 10 messages, to 100 messages. - /server command implemented. Auto-rejoining of channels is also implemented. - Display options added to WWW settings - When downloading a file via WWW, and the user wants to load another URL, I now display a warning allowing him to regret. - Title of WWW document is now displayed in the titlebar, some status messages have also been moved to the title-bar. - Progress indicator for loading of WWW documents had been inserted. - Hoverhelp now displays the URL in the WWW window. This one looks _nice_ ! - Pressing 'Back' in the WWW while loading, is now possible. - Problem with loading/going back to documents with relative path fixed. - /topic command implemented - with * meaning current channel - /mode command implemented - with * meaning current channel - /clear and /cle commands implemented - /query and /private commands implemented - Fixed problem with the nicklist sometimes not appearing - the server seems to send data differently that the standard defines, but only for some channels. Strange, but it works now. - REXX function IrcRexxIsOp implemented. - Fixed a trap relating to the /names command - strlen(ptr+1) instead of strlen(ptr)+1 - The settings-buttons now link to the correct settings-page. - Forward button in WWW implemented. Version 0.21 - Improved the nuke protection a bit - setting: and irc: URL's were not resolved properly when entered manually in the WWW. - Pressing ESC on a page in the settings notebook could cause the dialog to disapper from the page, this is now fixed. - OK button in userlist is now disabled until the whole list is received. - In 0.20, I intoduced a bug. When asked to confirm closing InetAdv, no matter what was selected, it exited. - Fixed bug with WWW URL Bubble showing in other windows. - Fixed bug, URL-entry field was overwritten when loading completed. - Bug when sending more than one mail to the same person in WWW fixed. - Some documents containing forms weren't reloaded even though they should have been. - /topic can now be used to display the current topic - Autodetect hostname now works - oops, no matter what socks host you selected, when you started up again, it always changed the hostname to the name of the current font - this has now been fixed. - Fixed bug in UCMenus that caused corruption the menu-bar. It also has the side-effect that most windows can now be fully resized (made real small) - Finally !! I've put in a quicklist - here, you can organize your URL's into multi-level groups, and you can assign 'nicknames' to URLs, eg. assign Yahoo to http://www.yahoo.com, then just type 'Yahoo' in the WWW URL entry-field. Yahoo will then be looked up in the quicklist database, and converted into the correct URL which will then be fetched. - Beautified the WWW menus a bit - Added another lot's of actions for WWW - Fixed a trap in UCMenus when saving toolbars while exiting. - Font in WWW window can now be entered. - Added search and search-again to WWW - Added 'Load File' and 'Save File' to WWW - 'View Source' is added to WWW - Added option on IrcRexxWildCard function, for turning off case sensitivity - Added cache options in WWW - Added option for displaying Bubble URL Version 0.22 - Fixed bug in UCMENUS, if another program was using UCMENUS.DLL, it tried to load it's resources from that dll, instead of from inetadv.exe - Fixed trap, when pressing <TAB> and <UP/DOWN> in IRC windows. This means that you can also use the keys to scroll up/down in the IRC windows now. - When the cache-directory was empty, Drag'n Drop got disabled due to a strange feature in the WebEx API. I've fixed it now, so if nothing is entered, I use the TMP environment variable setting. - Pressing 'Back' while loading a page in www, could trash the history list. - If the quicklist database became inconsistent (which shouldn't happen in the first place) then inetadv.exe would trap. Now it displays a warning that the database is inconsistent instead. - Fixed a few traps related to ctcp messages. - Fixed trap in WWW after requesting 50 different URLs without pressing back. - Registration code inserted. - Fixed the nicklist bug that some nicks were not removed from it when they exited the channel. - This should also fix a few traps I've heard about in connection with deleting a nick from the list. - The top part of the status-line in the bottom of the www window was partly gone. - /SCR commmand added to IRC. - Added URL parsing scripts - see more under REXX scripts. - Added IRC startup command - Nicknames are now only auto-cut on connect. - /RUN command added to IRC. - All leading blanks are now stripped from the URL - If a toolbar button has the action 'Open URL' and it has no parameters, a dialog is now shown where the user can enter the URL to retrieve. - WWW window now has a list of the 15 previous URL's - Entry-field for IRC commands are now changed to MLE's - so you can use eg. ctrl+left or ctrl+right to jump between words. - Context-menu for nickname list now works when DragText is installed. - Courier 8 point is now the default font on startup. - Scripts are now GT-IRC 2.00 compatible (window name added as parameter) NOTE: You can *not* use scripts suited for previous versions, but it's easy to fix this, just change the paramters in the top of the outgoing script (put a window name before the nickname) - REXX access to quicklist implemented - WebExplorer quicklist can now be imported - use import.cmd - 'quicklist:' URL added, and 'Switch to quicklist' added to WWW menu. - You must now use PGUP/PGDN to scroll through commands in the IRC command line. - Multiple lines can now be pasted into the command-line Version 0.23 - IRC trapped if /run or /scr was entered without any parameters - Fixed a trap that occured if you pressed tab + left or shift up - possibly other keys too - in IRC. - Quicklist window is now restored if minized (when quicklist: URL) is selected. - The option "Minimized window in foreground when msg arrives" now works. - IRC REXX scripts are now enhanced, so they can also filter commands. See the REXX Scripts section for details ! - You can now double-click on a group in the 'Move to group' quicklist dialog. - Changing colors didn't update the nickname listbox. - Quicklist now remembers it's view - Drag & Drop now works in the quicklist - you can drag URL objects into it, but you can't drag URL objects out of it. - IDENTD support added. - Pressing ALT to go to the notebook system-menu now fixed. Thanks to Billb for helping me find this one :) - 'Copy' added to quicklist context-menu - The 'you are not registered' box is now system-modal - Fixed a trap that occured if InetAdv was trying to remove a nickname from an empty nickname list. - IRC text can now be marked and copied to the clipboard - Added /CHANNEL command - if a command is started with // then the rest is sent directly to the server - eg. //MODE #os/2 is sent to the server instead of being processed by InetAdv. - /MODE command can now be issued with only channel as parameter, to query the current mode. - When the slider was moved to the top in IRC windows, the text didn't scroll. - You can now double-click on an URL or quicknick in any IRC window. - URL's enclosed in <> () "" or '' is now resolved too. - All leading and trailing spaces are removed from any URL/quicknick. - If the URL starts with www, ftp or gopher, http:// ftp:// or gopher:// is automatically set in front. - WWW Window should now always display the correct full URL, as soon as it is available. - Added options for confirmations and for displaying toolbars - Added option for preferred editor (for now, only used for viewing source in WWW) - When saving a WWW document to a file, InetAdv now makes an educated guess on the filename, and suggests that. - If the DCC download directory doesn't exists, it will be created automatically. - Context-menu added to WWW window. Currently, it's the same as the normal menu, but I'll add more options to it later, like placing the cursor over an URL, and adding it to the quicklist without retrieving it. Version 0.24 - Fixed the bug that made toolbar bitmaps green in > 256 colors. This was a bug in the UCMenus toolkit I use for my toolbars. - Moved all configuration from INETADV.INI to OS2.INI - this unfortunately means that you configuration needs to be entered again (not the quicklist items, but the rest) but it also make InetAdv MUCH MUCH FASTER when loading and saving settings. - Fixed bug that caused identd to work only once. This also caused InetAdv to slow down when connecting to some servers. - the /scr command was broken - and the helloscr.cmd needed updating. - Fixed a lot of bugs related to the /server command - sometimes you could risk being connected to two servers at a time, and receive all messages twice :( - Changed the /server command, so if it is given without any parameters, a list of servers will pop up. - The quicklist's view was not saved correctly if it was name-view. - Printing added in WWW - Removed 'URL added to quicklist' box from WWW. - Made IRC a little bit more nukeproff - Now, changes on all toolbars, and window positions should always be saved even you do not close the windows before closing the main InetAdv window. - WWW History list is much improved - now it also shows the title of the page, not just the URL. Any given URL can only appear once in the list. - You can now double-click the entry-field in WWW to clear it. - Quicklist records are now displayed sorted alphabetically - I have spent _alot_ of time on news, and it's almost ready - however, I have decided to wait a little longer before I put it out in beta - I want it to be rock stable when you first try it, so you won't be put off. However, I can tell you that it's going to beat all the current newsreaders out there - both in functionality and in looks ! Version 0.25 - If a TMP variable was not defined in the config.sys, the WWW part would trap immediately after starting it. - In some cases the quicklist database was reported as corrupted, even though it wasn't. - I've made rexx scripts for importing/exporting the quicklist. Look at qimport.cmd and qexport.cmd - These scripts are a but crude at the moment, but they are enough for saving your quicklist if the database get's damaged. - If you double-click with the right mouse button in the WWW entryfield, the field is cleared, and the contents of the clipboard is pasted to it. - I have changed some of the bitmaps on the buttons - thanks to Seth McFarland (ptackbar@vnet.net) for the new bitmaps ! - Sometimes, the IRC nicklist was empty when joining a channel - this should be fixed now - please let me know if you see this problem again ! - Fixed a trap in WWW - sometimes, when moving back and forth between pages, InetAdv would trap trying to deallocate an invalid pointer. - Nicknames in IRC can now be up to 32 characters - REMEMBER: this is only possible on some servers - eg. on EFNet servers you can only have nicks up to 9 characters long. - Newssupprt is now added - both online and offline newsreading is possible, and support of up to 10 simultaneous connections to the newsserver is implemented. This means that eg. while you are retrieving the list of new articles, you can still download a single article and look at that. Version 0.26 - If the IRC notify list was large, the server would think I was flooding it when I sent ISON requests for all the nicknames in the list - so now I send one name at a time. - 'gopher://' URL's were replaced by 'gopher://gopher://' oops :(( - Fixed a trap in news, that could occur after retrieving marked articles twice. - Names sometimes still didn't show up in the userlist - I thought it was fixed in 0.25, but obviously it wasn't :( - Channel-list window implemented in IRC - A command-line parameter has been added to inetadv.exe - /I:inifilename This allows you to specify another .INI file than the default, which is to use OS2.INI - Using OS2.INI is much faster than using a private ini file, but it uses a little extra memory (around 20K, depending on number of channels, nicknames etc.) in OS/2 for caching OS2.INI A private ini file has the advantage over OS2.INI that you can copy it to another computer. - copyini.cmd added - copyini.cmd can be used to copy settings to / from OS2.INI. - install.cmd and uninst.cmd added. - When unsubscribing a group, or deleting headers, the articles did not get deleted. - Select/Unselect all headers in news is now possible. NOTE: If the newsgroup is very large, and contains many articles, this will take a long time. I will look at these performance problems once the basic functionality is completed. - Cross-posted articles generated error 2 if they were retrieved in more than one group. - You can now doubleclick on an URL inside the article-window - this will load the URL. - IRC would trap if a string > 500 chars was entered on the command-line. - News articles can now be sorted by article-id, subject, author, date and by number of lines. Sorting can be both ascending and descending - You can now select all headers (the ones without articles) and delete them. - Search in headers implemented - later search inside articles will come too. - Colors added - unread articles / headers have other colors in the subject than the ones that are read. - Marking messages / headers read / unread now possible. - Presentation parameters (colors/fonts) now saved for quicklist and for all the news windows. - News toolbars now follow the 'show toolbars' setting. - URL Command-line parameter added - you can now load an URL when you start InetAdv.exe - just add eg. http://something or news: or irc: etc.. to the parameters. - IRC - if scrolling back using the mouse to move the slider, cut/paste could get corrupted. - Authinfo support added in news. - News and WWW statusbars enhanced visually - Offline posting of news articles now possible - the articles will be sent as soon as you are online again - InetAdv will periodically try to send articles. - Posted articles are saved in a 'sent' group, for later reference. - Articles can now be saved to a file (right-click the article window) - New option for doubleclick on an article header - should it mark it for download, or retrieve it ? - Option for wrapping posted messages on x (default 72) characters - IRC /QUIT command now works with spaces in the quit reason - eg. "/QUIT will be back later" - previously, only "QUIT will" was shown. - Support for signature files added. - Multiple newsserver support added - every group now has it's own newsserver. NOTE: Only registered users can specify multiple newsservers ! - Support for autogetting all new article bodies added - usually this function should be used on a per-group basis, and only for groups with relatively few messages - eg. comp.os.os2.announce - Option for marking all articles headers read before retrieving new headers added. - In IRC, you can now see who changed the topic. - Alt/Ctrl up/down can now be used to scroll between messages. - Ctrl-U and Ctrl-A can be used to select the next unread header, or the next unread article. - Option for specifying the desktop as parent of all the news windows now implemented. This was a pain - all menu accelerators had to be resolved manually, because the windows are no longer children of the one which contains the menu. - Newsgroup names can be changed before subscribing them - this means you can now subscribe to any newsgroup/server. - Clicking on the news-icon now puts the newswindow in the foreground instead of giving an error message. - All dates (in the newsreader) are now parsed and displayed in national language format. - Download directory moved from IRC settings to main settings - News can now decode single-part UUEncoded files. - % counter now shown when retrieving article bodies. - If an old news-database is found, the user is warned that he should delete it. - UU-Decoded files can now be viewed - great for all those alt.binaries groups :) Version 0.95 - Blank (empty) lines were not always shown in the MLE window. - When sorting on subject, and 2 equal subjects are found, they are now sorted by date. - Memory allocation tweaked here and there - a few people have experienced traps, relating to memory overwrites. - Fixed a strange bug - if sorting on article-id was selected, selecting to sort articles descending caused a trap. - Logging added to IRC - The signature file was not used when creating new messages. - In the outgoing folder, and the sent folder, CR characters were displayed as a flag - they shouldn't have been there at all. - After unsubscribing a group, all database operation would slow down. - Doubleclicking on an article header where the article exists, brings the article window to the foreground. - When deleting articles, you now get asked if you want to delete the headers as well as the articles, or if you want to leave the headers. - Fixed a huge bug in the newsreader - if the newsserver was fast (really fast) then news could halt/hang and required restart of InetAdv. - /irctrace command added to IRC. - Fixed a bug, when doubleclicking on an URL in News, a linefeed could sneak it's way into the URL. - If an URL ends with a . then it is now removed. This ensures that links like "(http://www.something.com)." can be resolved. - If settings for a group was opened, while the database was heavily used then sometimes the settings couldn't be found. - install.cmd has been modified to handle directories with spaces in them. - When retrieving news articles, the last already retrieved article was retrieved again. - The WWW Window now jumps to the foreground whenever you tell it to load a new URL. - If posting a follow-up message to multiple newsgroups, the server for the newsgroup would not be used, and the message could not be sent. - When a quicklist item was edited, and the nickname was empty, the change was not always saved in the database. - Even if CTCP replies was disabled, an error-msg would still be sent if a partial CTCP command was received. - News database performance increased a lot, but it has been change to single-user mode, which means that only one instance of InetAdv can use the database at a time - if you want to invoke multiple instances, you have to run them from different directories. - Added option to only show unread articles/headers, and hide read ones. - Max. number of simultaneous connections to the newsserver had been increased to 20 - Mail is ready - up to 5 simultaneous accounts are supported now - if you need more than one account, you must register. Mail can be retrieved via POP, and sent via SMTP. - Added checkmarks to the sort menuitems, so you can see which one is selected. - Fixed a trap that sometimes occured when DCC ended. - Added <unread>:<total> number of messages to the groups list, so you can get a quick overview of how many unread/total messages a group contains. - Added the /P: option, so now you can select which DLL's to load. eg. if you never use IRC, you can leave that out - see the command-line options section for details. - Changed the quicklist database to single-user mode - this means that you can only run one inetadv.exe from any give directory - if you want to run more than one, you have to do it from different directories. You also can not run eg. import.cmd while InetAdv is still running. - Fixed a bug where a few garbage characters sometimes were appended to posted articles. - Automatic recovery of a corrupted database is now added. - News and mail articles can now be viewed threaded ! The threads are sorted alphabetically by subject, but with threads containing unread messages at the top. - Expired article headers (the ones that are not on the server anymore) are now deleted after retrieving the article list, instead of being deleted one the group is shown. - It is now possible to perform actions on entire threads, eg. you can delete all articles in a thread, mark them read/unread etc. - Presentation parameters are now saved for both the news and www statuslines. Colors can now also be changed. - A new article window can be spawned from the current one. This window will not change content when another article is selected, so you can thus view the contents of multiple articles simultaneously. The window positions and presentation parameters are saved (for up to 10 windows) - Option to confirm delete of articles added. - New icons added, and toolbars have been modified a little, so now you can set the size of the bitmaps to 0