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- UPGRADE INFORMATION:
- ====================
-
- If you currently are using FMail version 1.02, 1.20 or 1.22,
- do the following:
- - Backup you config files and your executables.
- - Copy the new executables over the old ones.
- - Start FSetup and go into the Area Manager and the Node
- Manager. Save changes when exiting.
-
- IMPORTANT: Some programs that access the FMail config files may
- not be able to do so any more after the upgrade. With the AutoExport
- feature, you can export FMail config files in the old 1.02 format
- to another directory thus enabling other programs to keep working
- properly.
-
-
- NEW FEATURES IN FMAIL 1.42g
- ===========================
-
- - GoldEd AutoExport files are now exported correctly (R/O Loc flags)
- - The import of BACKBONE.NA is now case insensitive
- - FSetup now uses less memory!
- - FMailX32 now runs archivers correctly again (fixed compiler bug)
- - Max number of nodes is now 1024 in DPMI versions and 32 bit versions
- - FSetup2 Netmail boards buffer problem fixed (compiler bug)
- - Nodes now can be made read/only, write/only or locked. In the Area Manager
- Exports list you can set nodes to Read Only by pressing R, to Write Only
- by pressing W and to Locked (both read and write not allowed) by pressing L.
-
-
- SOME OF THE MOST IMPORTANT NEW FEATURES IN FMAIL 1.40g
- ======================================================
-
- FMail
- =====
- - The message size is now variable (32 bit versions only).
- See FSetup->Mail options.
- - There now is a QuickBBS Goldbase version available.
- The message base maintenance features of FTools are not available
- in the Goldbase version.
- - You can change the time out period that is used when two copies of
- FMail are started (previously it was 30 seconds). See FSetup, System info,
- Miscellaneous
- - FMail can now create a list of all areas in which mail has been tossed.
- See FSetup, Micellaneous, Message base
- - If you place a file called AREAMGR.TXT in the FMail directory,
- the contents of that file will be appended to areafix messages.
- - The New Bundle date field is now updated correctly.
- - The 'Use AKA' field in the node manager now has also effect on the
- origin address of echomail messages.
- - Long file names are now supported for JAM areas. You have to enable it
- in FSetup: System info->Miscellaneous. Please make sure that the drive
- that you use for JAM supports long file names, as the internal checking
- isn't optimal yet.
- - I've taken a special safety measure in the JAM code. If some of the JAM
- pointers are not correct, a seek operation may occur that causes the file
- file to get very large. Such a seek operation now isn't executed anymore,
- but displays the message "Illegal Seek operation".
- IMPORTANT: for the export of area information to a BBS program, you should
- set the flag "BBS export" in the BBS info section to Yes.
- - Auto JAM path creation. FMail will generate a unique name for new JAM
- areas.
- - The '=' command can now be used in Areafix messages to rescan an area
- without having to disconnect it first.
- - FMail can generate Binary Conference Listings. Downlinks can request such a
- BCL file by using the command %BLIST in Areafix requests. In the Uplink
- Manager you can specify that an uplink can send BCL's. FMail will then
- automatically move received BCL files to the config directory and
- change the file entry in the Uplink Manager. See the included file
- FSC-0057.003 for more information.
- NEW SWITCH: Uplink Areas List in the Mgr Options menu. Currently this
- only works for BCL files. In future, it will be available for the
- <AREANAME> <DESCRIPTION> files as well.
- - Variable number of links per echomail area (is now 64).
- - JAR supporthas been added! Suggested formats are for compression
- "JAR.EXE a -y" and for decompression "JAR.EXE e -y -o%f %a". Suggestions
- for other/better switches are welcome.
-
-
- FSetup
- ======
- - Now there is a native OS/2 version of FSetup!
- - FSetup now always performs an AutoUpdate procedure when exiting.
- - IMPORTANT: when leaving the Area Manager, FMail now no longer asks you
- if you want to save the changes you made. FMail now saves the changes
- immediatly after you exit a specific area.
- - New alias F9 for the F5 function key in the Area Manager and Node Manager.
- New alias F10 to exit Area Manager and Node Manager.
- - New option in the Node Manager: you now can use the F8 key to get a list
- of all areas a node is connected to. Later it will be possible to add new
- areas this way.
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