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- │ ░░░░░ │ TurboEDIT Version History │ ░░░░░ │
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-
- ┌───────┐
- │ ░░░░░ │ July 1, 1996, v1.35a
- └───────┘
-
- Please see BENEFITS.REG for important information about the
- new registration policy that will be taking effect as of the
- *NEXT* verrsion of TurboEDIT.
-
- Major New Features
- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
- ■ Added support for arrow keys in editing fields (entering
- taglines, signatures, etc).
- ■ Users can now return to the editor from the tagline menu.
- ≡ Users can now have TurboEDIT automatically append their
- signatures (without prompting).
- ≡ Alt+Fx macros can now run external programs, import text-
- files, or insert text strings.
-
- Setup Program
- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
- ■ Rearranged setup program -- should make more sense now.
- ■ Added complete lightbar support to configuration program.
- ≡ Added *$, *X, and *Y parameters to Alt+Fx key macros
-
- Censoring
- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
- ■ Added 5 more slots for words to censor.
-
- Editor
- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
- ■ User inactivity timeout can now be changed or disabled.
- ■ Number of lines to scroll when end of page is reached can
- now be changed.
-
- ┌───────┐
- │ ░░░░░ │ May 20, 1996, v1.30a
- └───────┘
-
- Major New Features
- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
- ■ Random tagline picking is now INSTANTANEOUS -- so fast
- that the bar graph is no longer needed!
- ■ Added feature to allow remote file import/export.
- ■ Added status line with name/time left/help.
- ■ Added automatic install & configure to TESetup.
- ≡ Added "Auto Tagline" option to User Config menu.
-
- Phrase Expand
- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
- ■ Added several new built-in expansions:
- ■ @DATE@ - Insert today's date.
- ■ @TIME@ - Insert current time.
- ■ @SYSOP@ - Insert SysOp's name.
- ■ @BBS@ - Insert BBS name.
- ■ @TO@ - Insert recipient's name.
- ■ @FROM@ - Insert sender's name.
- ■ @RE@ - Insert message subject.
- ■ @VER@ - Insert TurboEDIT version number.
-
- Function Keys
- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
- ■ Added SysOp time-changing keys (F7=+5mins, F8=-5mins).
- ■ Added *$ parameter to Alt+Fx keys to force TurboEDIT to
- export to MSGDATA.TXT before running the program, and
- import from this file after running the program.
-
- Parameters See TEDIT.DOC for more info
- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
- ■ Added -M parameter (offline mail reader support).
- ■ Added -T parameter (alternate message text file support).
- ■ Added -F parameter (force user to write certain number of
- lines, and disable aborting).
-
- Editor
- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
- ■ Added better remote keypress handling routines (arrow keys
- will work in more situations now).
- ■ Added page number indicator to the status bar.
- ■ Added "[Overstrike]" to the status bar when in that mode.
- ≡ User can now press <esc> to return to the message at the
- "Spellcheck?" and "Add sig?" prompts.
-
- Miscellaneous
- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
- ■ TurboEDIT now looks for all of its datafiles (BADUSER.CTL,
- HEADER.CTL, etc) in the same directory as TEDIT.CFG.
- ■ Added "[ENTER] to abort" instructions to import/export.
- ■ Added "2 minutes remaining" warning.
- ≡ Registered features are now pointed out in this file using
- a "≡" character rather than a "■" character.
- ≡ If header file only contains comments or blank lines, the
- default header will now be used.
-
- Bugs Fixed
- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
- ■ Added space between "[TE]" and the rest of the tagline.
- ■ Quote initials are no longer added to blank quote lines.
- ■ Occasional "chainsaw effect" no longer occurs.
- ■ TurboEDIT now erases its temporary files.
- ■ Taglines macros now expand properly. Finally.
- ■ Added a more space to enter paths to the dictionary file
- and tagline file (not really a bug, just an annoyance).
- ■ Fixed a few cosmetic and other minor errors.
- ■ Fixed problems with changing quote window size.
- ■ ^A+NOTE: kludgeline is now only appended on RemoteAccess
- systems (Synchronet and some others don't support NOTEs).
- ■ New users to TurboEDIT now receive the colors defined in
- the setup program, rather than the shades of blue.
- ■ Cursor now moves to top of the document after importing a
- file.
-
- ┌───────┐
- │ ░░░░░ │ Mar 20, 1996, v1.20a
- └───────┘
-
- Major New Features
- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
- ■ Added user signatures! Users can now use ^K to enter their
- signature. Whenever they save a message, they'll have the
- option to use that signature on their message.
- ■ Added spellchecker! Users can now check the spelling of
- their messages.
- ■ Added RemoteAccess v2.50 support! (Only affects registered
- users of TurboEDIT).
- ■ Added 100% configurable screen header! (HEADER.CTL)
-
- Quoting
- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
- ■ Added use of Home/End/PageUp/PageDn in Quote Window.
- ■ Added ability to make ^W the default key to open the Quote
- Window (some OS/2 systems don't like ^Q).
- ■ Added option to allow the SysOp to change the size of the
- quote window.
- ■ Redid quote text reformatting routines -- chainsaw effect
- should be *completely* gone now on *all* systems.
- ■ Quote lightbar now scrolls up/down (instead of quote text
- scrolling).
-
- Censoring
- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
- ■ If censoring is ON, TurboEDIT now censors quoted text.
-
- Function Keys
- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
- ■ Added Export Message to File option (hit F2).
- ■ Added Import File option due to popular demand (hit F3).
- ■ Added Return user to BBS option (hit F4).
- ■ Added Beep User option (hit F5).
- ■ Added Disconnect user option (hit F6).
- ■ Added Drop to DOS option (hit F10).
- ■ Added option to configure Swapping before dropping to DOS
- (Disk, EMS, XMS, and order of attempts).
- ■ Added function key macros Alt+F1 to Alt+F10, which may be
- used to run external utilities. See docs/setup program.
-
- Editor
- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
- ■ Added /H (help), /Q (quote), and /C (user config) shortcut
- strings to existing /S (save) and /A (abort).
- ■ Maximum # of msg lines can now be changed.
-
- Miscellaneous
- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
- ■ Made tagline searches more random.
- ■ Up to 256 more phrase expansions may be added, with the
- use of EXPAND.CTL.
- ■ Tearline (-*- TurboEDIT ...) can now be removed. In the
- unregistered version, it can be replaced with a [TE+] on
- the tagline. In the registered version, it can be removed
- completely.
- ■ Multiple TEDIT.CFG's are no longer required -- TurboEDIT
- will now search for TEDIT.CFG in the following order:
- - Search for "TEDIT" environment variable (see docs).
- - Search in current directory.
- - Search in TEDIT.EXE's directory.
-
- Bugs Fixed
- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
- ■ Fixed forced-censoring bug.
- ■ Fixed bug where pressing delete at the end of a line would
- only hoist one word from the next line.
- ■ Fixed bug where phrase expansions might not work.
- ■ Fixed bug where wordwrap would sometimes not work.
- ■ Fixed local mode "MSGINF. not found" bug.
- ■ Fixed arrow key abort during taglines.
- ■ Fixed problems on some systems with color changing func-
- tioning improperly.
- ■ Fixed bug with message # being dislocated when posting to
- certain users/addresses.
-
- ┌───────┐
- │ ░░░░░ │ Jan 20, 1996, v1.11a
- └───────┘
-
- Major New Features
- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
- ■ Significantly sped up TurboEDIT under OS/2 (*VERY* sig-
- nificantly -- main reason for this release!)
- ■ Switched to RAR SFX format (w/Authenticity Verification).
-
- Quoting
- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
- ■ ^Q (quote) now displayed on main TurboEDIT screen if re-
- plying and quote text is available.
- ■ ^W now does the same thing as ^Q, due to problems with the
- ^Q character under some terminals/systems.
-
- ┌───────┐
- │ ░░░░░ │ Jan 01, 1996, v1.10a
- └───────┘
-
- Major New Features
- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
- ■ Added support to fix RemoteAccess' quoting problem (lines
- chopped off halfway).
- ■ Added [K]eyword option from Tagline menu (users can enter
- a new keyword, on the spot, for the current message).
-
- Censoring
- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
- ■ Added new censoring overstrike feature (use of !@#$%* all
- at once for censoring).
- ■ Added optional vowel-only censoring.
-
- Miscellaneous
- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
- ■ Added "EXCEPT" keyword to BADUSER.CTL.
- ■ Added "Return to Default Colors" option to TESetup.
- ■ Added better color change handling routines.
- ■ Added local mode (-L)
- ■ Added REGISTER.EXE, to create your registration form. =)
- ■ Color changing is no longer a registered-only feature.
-
- Bugs Fixed
- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
- ■ The text "* In a message originally to..." no longer has
- quote initials added to it.
- ■ Fixed bug with quoting quoted text.
- ■ Fixed DOOR.SYS reg error. (Thanks, Zsolt!)
- ■ Fixed first-initial-only quote bug.
- ■ Fixed bugs with User Keywords.
- ■ Fixed Tab key RTE bug.
- ■ Fixed tagline macro expansion bug (didn't work!).
- ■ Fixed color bug with hilight bar on some long taglines.
- ■ Fixed "breakdancing cursor" effect... =)
-
- ┌───────┐
- │ ░░░░░ │ Nov 1, 1995, v1.00a
- └───────┘
-
- General
- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
- ■ Initial release.
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