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Revision History:
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0.20 - 98/12/06:

New features:

- Search function. Case-insensitve searching is available everywhere. It's
  still a bit limited, in that it only works within the current list (or
  letter); i.e., you can't yet search multiple letters at once. Hit '/' to
  bring up the text entry window and start the search, or '.' to repeat
  the last search. (Yeah, I know -- it needs better keys.) Searching is
  from the current line on down.

- Fido "hidden" message lines (marked with a ^A) can be displayed; 'X'
  toggles this function.

- New features in the tagline editor and address book: New entries in the
  address book are checked for dupes; also, tagline dupes, which were
  already checked, are now reported. The address book and the tagline
  editor allow you to Kill entries. And the tagline editor can be brought
  up directly, via ^T, in the same way as the address book. Old features:
  The reLoad function has been removed from the tagline editor.

- Rot13 function in letter window -- toggle with 'D'.

- If a new letter is not edited (as measured by the time stamp), you'll
  be asked if you want to cancel it on returning to MultiMail. Partly
  inspired by Gregory Paksi.

- Redundant colors can be omitted from the ColorFile. See
  colors/README.col for details. Also, there are some new colors, and some
  old ones are gone; be sure to check your ColorFile if you've customized
  it.

- Messages to or from you are highlighted in a different color in the
  letter list. After Ingo Brueckl (though this implementation is a little
  different from his).

- Read-only support for Blue Wave's .XTI files (last-read markers). This
  means that any old packets you read with Blue Wave will be marked in the
  same way when first opened in MultiMail; however, any changes made in
  MultiMail will not be seen by Blue Wave. Partly inspired by I.B., but
  this is a different (and more correct) implementation.

- "Home" and "End" keys are now available in text entry fields (i.e.,
   ShadowedWin::getstring()). After I.B.

Bug fixes and such:

- The FMPT kludge line is now supported, which means that in Blue Wave
  mode, the netmail addresses of points will be recognized.

- Aborting a header edit from the letter list could cause a segfault. (The
  fix in 0.19 was incomplete.)

- Some bogus ANSI codes (mainly, "ESC[?7h") are now semi-interpreted, so
  they no longer clutter the screen. Also, the ANSI background color is
  now hardwired to white on black, instead of being set by Main_Back.

- The highlight method for the active line was no good on a light
  background with ncurses 4.2 (was ok with 4.1). Some other changes for
  light backgrounds, too.

- High-bit, "low-bit" (below 32) and certain special characters are now
  handled better by MultiMail, being actually printed instead of
  interpreted as control codes. :-) Particularly useful for ANSI.

- TAB characters are now rendered as the appropriate number of spaces in
  the letter and ANSI windows.

- In text entry fields (getstring()), high-bit characters were showing up
  with weird attributes (due to a sign error). Reported (indirectly) by
  I.B., this bug has been present since about 0.10! I'm suprised no one
  from Fido zone 2 mentioned it to me before.

- Packets can now be renamed without MultiMail losing track of its last
  read markers. (This will, however, still result in a second .red file
  being created.)

- When entering a tagline manually via "E" in the tagline editor, the
  entry field is now placed correctly, instead of appearing to overwrite
  the last tagline. Also, bogus taglines are no longer generated from
  message lines which are just "...".

- In the Reply area, the help menu for the letter list was showing a 'K'
  where it should've been an 'S'. Also, capitalization in help menus has
  been standardized (only the keys that activate commands are in caps in
  the descriptive text), and the pop-up letter help window is now in two
  columns.

- Killing an item (in any menu) now moves down to the next entry,
  regardless of the position in the list (unless at the end).

- The 'L' command now remains available in the address book after a screen
  resize (SIGWINCH). Also, taking an address via 'L' automatically sets
  the active line to the last position (where the new entry is).

- Netmail addresses are now included in Saved letters.

- The resize (SIGWINCH) handler was causing a segfault in some
  circumstances. Although I just noticed it, this bug dates to 0.18.
  Curiously, it occurred for me only when running under "screen". The
  fix was to change Win::inkey() to remove the loop.

- Changed the .mmailrc separators from " = " back to ": ", which makes
  them compatible with 0.18 and earlier. I'll probably change them again.
  (I was trying to achieve a more "classic" style of .rc file, but in
  fact, it still wasn't quite right.)

- The cursor was not being disabled in PDCurses versions.

- "Read" indicator in the letter window was not updated after Saving.

- Changed interface/Makefile and mmail/Makefile to allow "make clean" to
  work in DOS. Suggested by I.B.

- And of course, various internal changes.

0.19 - 98/10/25:

New features:

- The .mmailrc has been redesigned. New versions of MultiMail will update
  it automatically; comments will be lost, but old data will be preseved.
  Note: the new form is not readable by 0.18 or earlier, because of the
  use of '=' as a separator. Partly inspired by Ingo Brueckl.

- Non-fatal errors. Currently, this is used only for the previously fatal
  "Could not uncompress packet" and "Packet type not recognized".

- You can change the colors MultiMail uses without recompiling. See the
  automatically generated "~/colors" for details; also, some sample color
  schemes are included in the 0.19 archive. This feature is due largely to
  Ingo Brueckl.

- "Marked" messages are kept in the active letter list, whether read or
  unread. In combination with the "Save" changes (see below), this means
  that marking is now actually useful. :-)

- Extensive changes to the "Save" dialog: When you Save from the letter
  list, you're given a choice of "All", "This one", or "Quit"; if any
  messages are marked, you also get the option "Marked". Saving "All" now
  saves all messages in the active list, rather than all in the area. (To
  get the old behavior, just toggle the full list on first.) Saving a
  message sets the "Read" flag, and turns off "Marked". The last-entered
  filename is retained (separately) for "All", "This One", and "Marked".
  If no name is entered manually, the automatic name is regenerated with
  each use; otherwise, the manual name is kept until you exit MultiMail.

Bug fixes and such:

- Segfaults in saving All, in some cases.

- Certain ANSI pics, with codes in the form "<ESC>[;27H" (i.e., with an
  empty parameter before a semicolon) were causing segfaults.

- After the cursor was turned on, e.g. by the Save window or an aborted
  message header edit, it was left in the middle of the screen on some
  terminals. It is now forced down to the corner.

- The header editor was being left on screen after exiting via ESC.

- Removed the text "Fatal Error" from fatal errors. :-) It was sometimes
  redundant, and other times wrong.

- When the last packet was deleted from the packet list, a segfault could
  occur. Reported by Alan Ianson.

- Functions which redrew the letter window (e.g., toggling character set
  translation) were setting the Read marker each time.

- The tagline window now looks better on screens other than 80 columns.

- Various internal changes, and added comments.

0.18 - 98/08/14:

New features:

- MultiMail can now read QWK packets without .NDX files. Partly inspired
  by Simon Callan. Note: It's still preferable to include them, since it
  takes about three times longer to open the packet without them. (But
  that's not counting the unpacking time, which is much longer still.)

- The letter list now allows toggling between showing all messages, and
  showing only those which are unread; when entering an area, it defaults
  to unread (unless all the messages are marked read). I've found that
  this makes a BIG difference in the feel of the program -- it's more like
  a newsreader now. ;-) Use the 'L' key to toggle between the long and
  short lists (as in the area list).

Bug fixes and such:

- Removed a lot of redundant code from the interface section, and
  reorganized it... There are many new features that need implementing,
  but so far I've been concentrating on cleaning up and simplifying the
  existing code, so as to have a solid base to build on. I think I'm
  almost there. ;-)

- Found a couple small memory leaks, in AnsiWindow (the statbar was not
  being deleted) and main_read_class. Also, the tagline file was being
  left open after reading it.

- Now gives a fatal error (instead of segfaulting) if the screen is
  smaller than 60x20.

- The address book and tagline window now respond correctly to SIGWINCH.

- In the tagline window, the key for rereading the file has been changed
  from 'F' to 'L'. This allows 'F' to be used as an alias for PgDn, as on
  other screens. (The real purpose was to merge the code into the rest of
  the keyboard-handling code.)

- If there was only one area (i.e., REPLY), and the right arrow was
  pressed, an infinite loop would occur. Reported by Tamminen Eero.

- The 'N' key, for Netmail, is now disabled when no Netmail area is
  available. Partly inspired by Francois Thunus.

- Sample filenames in the default .mmailrc now conform to the OS (i.e.,
  8.3 (FAT) format for DOS and OS/2), and the unused "ReadDir" line has
  been removed. Inspired by F.T.

- Stripping and adding of blank lines at the end of messages works a
  little better now, but still needs work.

- The addressbook was crashing, when empty (0 items). Reported by Marc D.
  Williams.

0.17 - 98/07/06:

New features:

- Netmail addresses, when present in Blue Wave packets (or reply packets),
  are displayed in the From: or To: fields in the letter window, as
  appropriate; and when entering a netmail message, the address can now be
  edited. (Note: Netmail is largely untested yet.)

- In the header editor (From, To, etc.), you can now use the up and down
  arrows to move between fields, or press ESC in any field to abort the
  edit. Press ENTER on the last field to exit normally.

- Reading a message in the QWK Personal area marks it as read in its
  original area.

- A full area list is now available in both QWK and Blue Wave modes; it
  can be toggled by pressing 'L' in the area list. (The compile-time
  "shortlist" definition has been removed.) One benefit is that you can
  enter a message in any area, even when only the short list is being
  displayed.

- When re-editing a message, you can now edit the header as well as the
  text.

- ANSI animation. While in the ANSI viewer, press one of the ANSI
  activation keys again (or 'A') to see an animated view. Press any key
  to abort the animation.

- The ANSI viewer supports the screen-clearing code.

- The cursor is turned off, wherever possible. Less visual clutter. :-)

- True scrolling instead of redrawing; minimized the redrawing done for
  letter window, ANSI viewer, and all ListWindows. It's now MUCH faster on
  slow machines and slow terminals.

Bug fixes and such:

- MASSIVE rewrite... Almost everything that was crufty in previous
  versions is now done the right way. :-) General fixes include: plugging
  memory leaks (there were a lot of these, I'm sorry to say), elimination
  of one-based arrays, adding more limit checks, and removal of all kinds
  of kludges and redundant code. The interface is more fully separate from
  the specific drivers; adding new packet types now requires changing
  only mmail/driverl.cc.

- The netmail area is found by attribute rather than name, and (owing to
  the full area list now available in Blue Wave mode) can always be found,
  instead of only when you have received netmail. :-)

- Character set translation is applied to the area list, and to area
  descriptions in the letter list and letter window.

- The number of replies shown in the REPLY area is updated immediately
  when it changes.

- The method of adding blanks before taglines and tearlines is changed;
  it should no longer be necessary to type an extra CR at the end of
  replies.

- QWK replies are automatically word-wrapped at 80 columns, if they're
  not wrapped already. (In Blue Wave, this is not desirable. QWK doors
  seem to prefer individual lines; Blue Wave, paragraphs.)

- MultiMail now ensures that QWK replies end with a line-ending character,
  instead of letting the last line run off into the padding area. Without
  this, certain QWK doors would strip off the tearline.

- The path is no longer displayed in the Save window, and the suggested
  filename is conformed to FAT (8.3) standards. Note that you can still
  enter any pathname, and any filename that will be accepted by your
  system.

- Specifying pathnames that end in a slash or backslash (e.g., in
  .mmailrc) should now work correctly.

- The extraneous "bw" prefix found on many of the .mmailrc variable names
  is no longer needed, though it will still be recognized for backwards
  compatibility.

- Space bar now works in the little area list.

- The QWK "Personal" area no longer appears in the little area list, nor
  can messages be entered in it from the area list.

- Unrecognized packets no longer cause a segfault (just an exit).

- Added trivial SIGWINCH handlers for AddressBook and TaglineWindow (they
  just exit that menu).

- Fatal errors are now reported correctly in the OS/2 version, even when
  they occur before curses initialization.

- In the ANSI viewer, there are no more segfaults in OS/2, and no more
  stray characters on the status line in either PDCurses version.

- ANSI Reverse attribute now works with PDCurses.

- ANSI viewing works in reply area.

- A SIGWINCH can no longer result in the active (highlighted) line being
  displaced off the screen.

- New default LHA parameters for MSDOS version (the Unix ones didn't work
  for it).

- The currently selected address is preserved between calls to AddressBook.

0.16 - 98/05/28:

New features:

- This version compiles for OS/2, with EMX. This entailed substantial
  changes to the Makefile (q.v.), as well as some code.

- The environment variable MMAIL can now be used instead of HOME, to
  specify the directory of the .mmailrc (or mmail.rc) file. If neither
  variable is defined, MultiMail will use the current directory (this is
  also new).

- The DOS-to-Latin 1 character table has been improved, for translation of
  graphics characters, by stealing most of the table from DOSEmu.

- Truly automatic packet recognition, by packet contents instead of name.
  Patch by Robert Vukovic.

- Internal ANSI viewer. Works on all platforms (except that it sometimes
  segfaults when scrolling, under OS/2). Much better than the "less"
  viewer, and it will form the basis of new file list and bulletin
  viewers.

Bug fixes and such:

- Another big bug in the DOS version (argh!): Last read markers were not
  being saved. This bug was the result of an error in the bug fix in 0.15.
  :-/ I'm surprised no one has reported this.

- In the previous DOS versions, under some arrangements of directories,
  the temporary directories would not be removed.

- The man page has been renamed to "mm.1", and the title changed, so that
  "man" and "apropos" will work more appropriately. The install will make
  a link to the old name (mmail.1).

- The "Replied" flag is now set by O- and N-type replies, as well as R.

- Some code reorganization.

0.15 - 98/05/12:

New feature:

- If you back out from a packet, to the packet list, you can now reselect
  the same packet without it being decompressed again. Thanks to Robert
  Vukovic for convincing me of the need for something like this.

Bug fix:

- In DOS, the default editor (edit.com) didn't actually work, because it
  didn't understand paths with slashes instead of backslashes. I missed
  this because it worked with Qedit. :-) The slashes are now flipped on
  the pathnames passed to external editors and archivers (in DOS only).
  Thanks to [e-mail] for reporting the problem.

0.14 - 98/04/25:

Bug fix:

- A more subtle line-ending bug... under MSDOS, extra characters were
  sometimes added to the end of a reply. (Unix versions were not
  affected.)

0.13 - 98/04/24:

Bug fix:

- While making changes to accomodate MSDOS line endings, I made a small
  oversight that caused replies to be truncated at one character if they
  were re-edited.

0.12 - 98/04/23:

New features:

- Compatible with MSDOS. All source code files have been changed to
  single-case, 8.3 form, and #ifdef's are used on filenames internally
  where necessary. (Most other issues are taken care of by DJGPP, though
  some Makefile changes were necessary, and the starting directory is now
  restored on termination -- needed in DOS, but not in Unix.)

- Compatible with PDCurses (as distributed with DJGPP), and SysV curses
  (specifically, Solaris). Note that the shadows on windows are opaque if
  you compile with SysV curses. (I also added "#define USE_SHADOWS", which
  you can comment out or remove to get rid of the shadows altogether.)

Bug fixes and such:

- After the reorganization of resource.C in version 0.11 (if not before),
  any change to the value of mmHomeDir in .mmailrc would leave the
  bwPacketDir, bwReplyDir, etc. variables unaffacted.

- memError() now works correctly, even before initialization of the
  interface. Fatal errors in general will be reported better in this
  version.

- Some additonal bounds checking on sprintf() calls.

- tmpnam() checked. In principle, as few as 26 temporary filenames might
  be available from it (which should still be enough, unless you write a
  whole lot of replies).

0.11 - 98/03/21:

New features:

- Area and system descriptions added to saved messages.

- I removed the last remaining command-line option, "-m", on the grounds
  that it was useless. (This is a new UNfeature.) After testing it on my
  9600 bps terminal, it doesn't appear to improve the speed; and the
  alternate color scheme, which it was originally designed to select, was
  never implemented. (Instead, I've added inversing to the top and bottom
  bars in the letter window, and made a few other changes to make it more
  monochrome-friendly.)

Bug fixes and such:

- resource.C and resource.h rewritten and simplified to allow compilation
  with gcc 2.8.1. (It's not yet clear to me why the old version didn't
  work, but this is better anyway.) There are still a few warnings, but it
  works OK.

- When entering the From:, To:, and Subject: on replies, the full width
  of the fields had not been available. Under some circumstances, this
  could even cause a segfault. These lengths still need to be checked
  more stringently.

- Automatic "Re:" adding now takes place before subject-line editing,
  instead of after. This allows users to see that it will be added, and
  to override it if desired. (It also saves a few bytes of code!) I don't
  know why I did it the other way before. ;-)

- In the event of a "Fatal Error:" exit, MultiMail will now clean up
  after itself, as with normal exits. Also, failed memory allocation is
  now explicitly checked.

- Default paths for "zip" and "unzip" removed. (These would only show up
  if the paths were not defined in the .mmailrc -- as they are with the
  default .mmailrc.) Thanks to Carey Bloodworth for pointing this out.

- If the message numbers exceeded 5 digits (i.e., 100000+), they would
  mess up the display in the letter list. Now, it takes 6. :-)

- Much internal reorganization.

- Fixed a bug with my website -- the new-style URL (/~wmcbrine/) messed
  up some relative pathnames. :-)

0.10 - 98/03/07:

New features:

- Shadowed windows! Tell me if you like them.

- SIGWINCH support. You can now resize the terminal (e.g., maximize the
  xterm) while MultiMail is running, and it will adapt to the new size.

Bug fixes and such:

- Under Solaris, the help menu area was not being cleared when changing
  from one menu to another.

- One more space available in letter list (now consistent with the other
  lists).

- On some systems (such as Linux w/ glibc, and NetBSD), if you attempted
  to read a packet that didn't already have a "bbsid.red" file (mm's read
  markers) in it, MultiMail v0.9 would segfault right after unzipping a
  packet, due to a very stupid attempt to call fclose() with a NULL
  pointer. Under Linux w/ libc.5, this actually worked OK; and I didn't
  notice it on my NetBSD test system because the packets there already
  had .red files in them. Thanks again to Cesar Cardoso for reporting the
  problem.

  Due to the seriousness of this bug, I'm releasing v0.10 early.

0.9 - 98/02/26:

New features:

- Added alias, "!", for F2. Added Tab as an alias for right arrow (next
  unread) in letter list.

- Better handling of screen widths other than 80; better use of available
  screen space even in 80 columns. Still to do: handle SIGWINCH.

- QWK now has the option (on by default) to show only those areas which
  have messages in them, instead of the full area list. I set this on by
  default to match the behavior of the QWK side; you can change this in
  the top-level Makefile. Currently, it's only a compile-time option. (In
  the future, I'll add the ability to do a full list in Blue Wave mode,
  and to toggle the mode at runtime.)

- .REP and .NEW filenames are now forced to lowercase. Should be easier
  to type. :-) But if you have any uppercase-named reply packets from
  previous versions, you'll have to manually rename them before 0.9 will
  recognize them. Sorry.

- Blue Wave mode now works on big-endian systems! The full functionality
  of MultiMail is now available on all platforms where it compiles. And
  "-fpack-struct" is no longer needed in the Makefile -- which I hope may
  mean increased portability.

- system() calls to rm and sed have been eliminated.

Bug fixes and such:

- Strip spaces from Blue Wave subject lines; fixes sorting in some cases.

- In Blue Wave mode, MultiMail was using LF as a paragraph delimiter. The
  correct behavior is to use CR as the delimiter and ignore any LFs.
  Thanks to Marc D. Williams for submitting a packet that required this
  fix.

- Messages in Blue Wave packets are supposed to have a leading space, but
  packets produced by the ReneWave door lacked them. They also contained
  nulls in messages (a no-no). MultiMail now deals with these problems
  without flaking out. Thanks again to M.D.W.

- With Blue Wave packets, MultiMail now scans for "*.inf", instead of
  assuming that the packet name minus the extension is the basename.
  Normally, that is the case, but the "welcome!.000" packet that comes
  with the Blue Wave reader -- which uses "welcome" internally -- is a
  counterexample. MultiMail can now read this packet. :-)

- Startup for QWK packets is much faster, especially on slow systems.
  Previous versions would attempt to open the .ndx file for each area
  defined in the control.dat (and would do so several times for each
  area), whether it existed or not; 0.9 scans to see which .ndx files
  actually exist first.

- Changed ANSI viewer to work better with certain messages. Really, I
  should make it user-definable, instead of being hard-wired to "less";
  but I'm probably going to make it into an internal function anyway.

- Added "#include <sys/types.h>" to mmail/mmail.h. Usually I wouldn't
  mention a change of this type, but in this case, it was done to get
  MultiMail to compile with glibc (libc 6). Thanks to Cesar Cardoso for
  reporting the problem and testing the solution.

- Saved messages are now wrapped at 80 columns, regardless of screen
  width at the time of saving; and the date is now added to the saved
  header.

- Replying to a message no longer messes up the right margin of the
  original when viewing it immediately after replying.

- Paths are no longer stored with the .red file when using LHA. In
  previous versions, this could cause the storing of multiple .red files
  into a packet.

- Next/previous unread in letter list now work correctly, even with
  messages that have manually been marked Unread.

- Miscellaneous minor internal fixes and optimizations.

0.8 - 98/02/10:

New features:

- "Re: " is stripped from subject lines, for sorting and display purposes,
  and added automatically on replies (unless doing so would truncate the
  subject). Subject sorting is now case-insensitive.

- Letter window now displays "bbsnum (x of y)", for consistency with the
  letter list and to provide more information.

- Slightly expanded the area description length to make better use of the
  available space. Also, in the letter list, more of the subject is shown.

- Restored the "line/lines" counter found in early versions of MultiMail.
  This shows the length of the message in lines, and the number of the
  top line on screen.

- Temporary files are now cleared at the end of a session. Also, since
  MultiMail now generates a unique temporary directory for each session,
  a single user can run multiple concurrent sessions. (Just don't try to
  read the same packet in each one!)

- System uname added to Blue Wave tearline (if it will fit).

- Character set translation can now be toggled at runtime, by pressing
  'c', instead of at compilation time.

- Packet type is now recognized automatically, based on the filename's
  extension. (You can still force the other type.) Consequently, the "-b"
  and "-q" options have been removed.

- The Blue Wave area list now uses the description instead of the echotag.
  This is much more useful, and conforms to the Blue Wave reader.

- The number of the original message is now passed to the door for reply
  linking.

- In the letter window, the top and bottom bars are now inversed when in
  monochrome. In the various lists, the highlight bar is now drawn with
  stdout(), for greater contrast.

- Many changes to the top-level Makefile; it's now more portable, and
  commented. You can now set the location of the ncurses header file
  here, instead of editing the source.

- The packet list is now sorted, and shows file sizes as well as dates.

- The backquote character (`) is converted to an ESC when using the ANSI
  viewer. (Some systems recode ESC characters this way.)

- You can now Kill packets from the packet list.

Bug fixes and such:

- If all preexisting replies were deleted, attempting to create a new
  reply during the same session could cause a segfault.

- Terminal newlines stripped from replies. Conforms to the Blue Wave
  reader; supresses gaps after the tagline with some doors.

- QWK subject fields had been truncated at 24 characters. (The field is
  25 chars.)

- The tagline file can now be hand-edited without introducing blank lines.

- In the letter window, PgDn, End, and the down arrow now stop at the
  actual end of the text.

- No more extra junk in Blue Wave reply packets.

- Blue Wave replies can now be safely reedited. (Previously, the line
  endings could be messed up -- left in Unix format.) Stray characters no
  longer appear at the end of Blue Wave replies while viewing them.

- Blue Wave mode, like QWK mode, now shows the BBS message numbers in the
  letter list, instead of the messages' position in the packet.

- Trailing ", Sysop" stripped from sysop name in QWK mode.

- Opening reply packets that were generated by the Blue Wave reader caused
  a segfault, due to case mismatch; it now works correctly.

- Version number "encryption" for Blue Wave replies fixed (so the number
  appears correctly in tearlines). (IMO, the Blue Wave specs are in error
  in describing this feature -- bluewave.h refers to addition when it
  should say subtraction.)

- Left and right arrow keys in the area list now work much faster when
  skipping empty areas, and can take you to the first and last areas,
  instead of second and next-to-last.

- Killed the stupid repeating-REPLY-area bug in Blue Wave mode.

- When creating Blue Wave replies, MultiMail now makes the proper choice
  between "real name" and "alias", depending on the area flags.

0.7 - 97/12/07:

New features:

- Right and left arrow keys now select next/previous unread message in an
  area, similarly to the way they function in the area list (jumping to
  non-empty areas).

- ANSI viewer. Hit ^A while reading a message to view it in color, if it
  has ANSI codes embedded. This is still rudimentary; it uses "less" as
  the viewer, and it depends on the terminal to interpret the codes.

- Private flag support. Complete, except for Blue Wave area flag checks.

- Character set translation is essentially complete. The only further
  changes I envision are the ability to turn translation on or off at run
  time, instead of at compile time; some possible changes to the
  translation table; and maybe additional character sets.

- Stolen taglines are checked for dupes, included only once.

- With some minor changes, I got it to work under SunOS (Solaris). No longer
  just a Linux program! :-) So, the tearline is now derived from the uname.
  Blue Wave mode still requires a little-endian system.

- QWK "Personal" conference.

- Many key aliases added, mainly for use on terminals that don't support
  keys like PgDn and F1. Also, Space Bar now functions as a combination
  PgDn/Enter in the letter window, to allow paging through a conference.

- Marking and read/unread toggle now work from the letter list,
  simplifying bulk marking. In the REPLY area, Kill now works from the
  letter list.

- Automatic creation of .mmailrc and the mmail directories; no more "make
  install_dirs".

- Changed bluewave.h to version 3. (No related feature changes yet.) I now
  use it in unmodified form; "-fpack-struct" is sufficient.

Bug fixes and such:

- Suppression of "hidden" text lines added for Blue Wave (already present
  for QWK).

- Append saved files instead of overwrite.

- If saving without a path specified, save in the "save" directory.

- Better adaptation to nonstandard screen sizes.

- Really random taglines (previously, there was no call to srand).

- "Save lastread pointers?" and "Reply area has changed..." messages now
  come up only when appropriate.

- "Personal" column in area list removed in QWK mode. Maybe not a bug,
  but it was unused.

- Fall back to login name if no alias name defined. (It was using only
  the alias name, sometimes leading to blank From: lines in Blue Wave
  mode. This feature needs more work -- the alias should not always be the
  default.)

- Various date fixes (QWK and Blue Wave).

- Print the right area type for QWK Replies.

- Area names padded out with spaces when necessary to correct a cosmetic
  defect in the REPLIES/PERSONAL letter lists' "Area" fields.

- Version number references made consistent.

- Remove extra bytes from ends of messages (QWK and Blue Wave).

- A big one: Kill the *correct* reply messages with 'K'. (!)

- A BIG one: QWK reply area numbers fixed. It was using the internal area
  number, rather than the QWK number; so replies would go to the wrong
  areas! (Under specific conditions -- a packet with conferences that were
  numbered serially, starting from zero -- this would actually work right,
  which is doubtless how the bug snuck in to begin with.)

- Stop truncating replies. (This bug complimented the extra byte bug,
  preventing segfaults in the old version.)

- I changed the default directories from "bwdown", etc., to "down", etc.
  This wasn't a bug, but it was too Blue Wave-centric for a dual-
  function reader. (I believe the original intent of K.T. & T.I. was that
  the QWK implementation would have its own directories, e.g., "qwkdown";
  but as implemented by J.Z., a common directory was used. I may revert
  to the putative original design at some point. Internally, the "bw"
  prefix is still used on many shared structures.)

- Make .REP packets from the BBSID, not the base packetname.

- "Unread" now counts all messages marked unread, not just those which
  are also unmarked and unreplied.

- Letter sort fixed (now sorts by number within each subject), and faster.

- Eliminated the defaulting to "reply" when an otherwise undefined key
  was pressed.

- Calls to todos replaced with internal code.

- QWK .ndx parser replaced with faster, non-endian-dependent version.

- Many ncurses changes. Most importantly, shells and (normal) exits now
  restore the screen mode. (Error exits still need fixing.)

- Makefile changes (including centralizing options in top-level
  Makefile). Could do with a bit more changing, I think.

- A big one (since it prevented me from even using 0.6, as it was): Fixed
  segfaults on opening packets with uppercase names within (i.e., those
  from most or all DOS-based BBSes).

- Many minor changes to suppress warning messages during compilation.

- Many, many more. :-) These are just the user-visible ones.

Bugs unfixed:

- The lockup-on-exit bug, described below as having appeared in 0.3 and
  disappeared in 0.4, has resurfaced. I too am unable to trace it. It can
  come or go after almost any random change in the code.

-- William McBrine

0.6a - 97/03/25:

* Oops! The signature was in the wrong place. Right order is: signature,
  tagline, tearline ;-)

+ Tagline adoption is supported! (Doesn't check dupe tags yet.)

* QWK-reply packs contained '\n' as a line terminator. It's incorrect! We
  have to use softCR (char#227).

+ Character conversion is somewhat in! For ISO 8859-1 <--> CP437 (DOS)
  translation, #define ISOCONVERT in /interface/interface.h

- ISO conversion doesn't do the from/to/subj yet

0.5a - 97/03/22:

* Fixed another date bug (when reloading QWK replies, the date would be
  mangled).

+ You can now use a signature file after each letter (specify its filename
  in .mmailrc)

+ Says error, if ~/.mmailrc isn't found. (The program needs this file!)

+ File open errors printed, inside a BW/QWK packet, it tries four
  variations of the filename (eg. mybbs.dat, MYBBS.dat, MYBBS.DAT,
  mybbs.DAT).

- The annoying bug, which occurred when quitting, has disappeared! ;-o

0.4a - 97/03/12:

+ Fixed the date handling with QWK packets. Should do it well. That part
  wasn't even implemented before.

* Colors should be fine now, everywhere.

! One small, but ANNOYING bug introduced: the program doesn't exit
  properly, sometimes you have to kill it! Sorry, couldn't trace this bug
  yet. Maybe you can help.

0.3alpha - 97/02/16:

  Took out many more bugs. This version now is almost usable ;)

  You can now (re)Edit your reply!

  Major design and color changes... Still not done, but doing good!

  Added message Marking, Read/Unread toggle.

0.2alpha - 97/02/12:

  Debugged the program, fixed lots'a bugs, added QWK support. Only a
  preview! Don't use it, that's my advice! ;)

-- John Zero

0.1c.staticbin - 96/??/??:

  statically linked elf executable of 0.1c. Problems were reported with
  gcc 2.7.2 and libc 5.2.?.

0.1c - 96/03/19:

  bugfix, now uses "todos", instead of "/usr/bin/todos", only elf binary
  included

0.1b - 96/02/05:

  Compiles on RedHat 2.1 + dynamic elf binary included

0.1a - 96/02/03:

  INSTALL file created (cut from readme)

0.1 - 96/01/27:

  initial release

-- Kolossvary Tamas & Toth Istvan