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- ALLFIX 5.11
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- ALLFIX the most complete fileecho and request processor
- Copyright (C) 1992,98 Harms Software Eng., all rights reserved
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- This document contains a summary of the new features that this new version
- of ALLFIX will offer. Our primary goal with this update release was to
- solve as many problems in the previous release. This means that we did not
- add any new features to this release of ALLFIX. The following list quickly
- summarizes the problems that have been fixed:
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- There were situations where ALLFIX and ASETUP could end up in an
- endless loop when calling up FCOMP to recompile the FILEAREA.FIX
- file. This could happen when the wrong version of FCOMP was being
- used.
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- When trying to add a system using the Global edit routines, you have
- to select a status field because you can not exit the window without
- selecting one. Leaving them all blank would result in ASETUP using
- default values. It should, therefore, be possible to leave them all
- un-selected (i.e. blank).
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- When adding a node to the system list in the group manager and the
- fileecho manager using the global edit routines, ASETUP was not using
- the RAID defaults. Using the RAID defaults would make it much easier
- for the sysop to add new people to the system lists.
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- The "CC to SysOp" feature in the Request Processor did not work. The
- result was that regardless of its setting, ALLFIX was not creating a
- carbon copy of the file request report for the sysop.
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- The duplicate file checking did not work in one very specific
- situation. This problem only occurs when the duplicate file criteria
- includes the file crc, the TIC file contains an incorrect crc, and
- the -NoCrc switch is used.
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- After automatically adding a new file area to the Remote Access file
- database, ASETUP always reported that the FILEAREA.FIX file was
- unreliable and proceeded to recompile it. This should not be
- necessary since the FILEAREA.FIX file is updated by ALLFIX when
- auto-adding new file areas to the BBS.
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- ALLFIX was not properly updating the index files used by PMMail.
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- ALLFIX could sometimes abort in a runtime error if the TOBEREP.FIX
- file exists without the accompanying TOBEREP.IDX file.
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- The PKT files created as a result of the "CC to SysOp" feature were
- not terminated properly. BinkleyTerm, for example, reported that the
- files were corrupt and refused to unpack them.
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- ASETUP was asking the user if the files should be moved to the new
- destination directory when adding a new fileecho. This dialog should
- only be displayed when changing the destination directory of an
- existing fileecho.
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- When converting an archive with a long filename that contains more
- than one dot (.), the filename was being truncated. For example,
- INETMAIL-1.2.1.PRO.ZIP was being truncated to INETMAIL-1.2.1.ZIP.
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- On really large and very busy systems, it was possible that ALLFIX
- could create TIC files with a name that was not unique. It is
- impossible for ALLFIX to overwrite an existing TIC file, so normally
- this will not present a problem. However, when the TIC files waiting
- on hold are moved to another directory, ALLFIX can create new ones
- with the same names. Moving those to the same directory as the first
- batch, will result in overwriting of the old ones. ALLFIX should
- ensure that it can not create TIC files with the same names within a
- 30 day cycle.
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- ASETUP will give a small warning if it feels that the user has
- entered the registration key in the wrong field. This is simply a
- warning and the user may continue.
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- When converting archives, something goes wrong if the AV seal on the
- archive is incorrect. If the FILE_ID.DIZ file is unpacked, PKZIP (in
- this case) will report an error since the AV seal is incorrect.
- Then, ALLFIX will continue to convert the archive, but it will then
- report that it is converting a nested archive of the same name as
- the parent archive, even if the parent does not contain such an
- archive.
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- When inside the file echo manager, hitting tab brings up the "Enter
- tag to search for:" dialogue, however, the first character was already
- filled in in the input field. The 'bell' character appears at the
- first position in the input field.
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- When moving files to the bad tics directory, the file time was being
- altered. The minutes value was being incremented, which could result
- in a file time like 2:60, which should be 3:00.
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- In ASETUP, hitting F3 on the Echotoss field called up the editor with
- the Unwanted file. Hitting F3 on the Unwanted field, called up the
- editor with the Wanted file.
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- As all Turbo and Borland Pascal programs, ALLFIX was aborting with a
- runtime error 200 (division by zero) on really fast Pentium II
- machines.
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- The internet support for Eudora was not functioning properly. There
- were many things going wrong, including the fields used in the email
- messages and the index files that were being updated inproperly.
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- The passwords used in PKT files should support lower case letters as
- well as upper case letters. ASETUP was only allowing upper case
- letters.
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- Please consult the UPDATE.LOG file for a more detailed list of these
- problems that have been fixed.
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- If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us!
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- Harms Software Engineering Tel: +31-15-2850220
- PO Box 175 BBS/Fax: +31-15-2850218
- 2600 AD DELFT email: support@allfix.com
- The Netherlands web: http://www.allfix.com
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