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AMail History
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Version Date Modification
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1.0 13/05/92 First attempt at getting it working. Many problems with
floating point numbers, (for the IDX files) and with
the message formatting.
1.1 14/07/92 First beta release. Ian Coates and Stu Barnes testing,
along with various users. Lots of bugs, and suggestions.
1.2 25/07/92 First general release. Seemed okay at first, but there
were untold bugs with the packing of messages, and the
archivers. Two registrations, Paul Whitaker, and David
Thomas. Kim Andersen complaining that nothing worked.
1.3 14/08/92 Beta modifications again. This time, a bug with the
packing of messages (which causes AMail to bomb) was
discovered and squashed. (I was doing a malloc with the
address of a long, instead of a long)
1.4 18/09/92 General release. This time, much more successful.
No problems reported.
1.4a 21/09/92 Disaster! Two major bugs cropped up at the last minute,
spotted by Ian Coates. Firstly, one message could only be
imported, and secondly the archivers bombed out if they
were called more than once. (due to not doing a wait()
after each forkl()). Cured both bugs and released v1.4a
with various apologies..!
1.5 27/09/92 Begun the next release. Incorporated batch packing.
1.51 10/10/92 Bug fixed version of 1.5beta, allows breaking out of
message packing, and local copying of files.
1.52 27/10/92 Properly fixed batch packing. Implemented new files exit
and default protocols.
1.53 28/10/92 Bulletins corrected.
1.54 29/10/92 Implemented beginning of new conference selection.
1.55 04/11/92 Pass parameters to new files programs, and create
AMAIL.INF
1.56 07/11/92 Added TidyQuit and cleaned up before a batch pack. Also
only write the LASTREAD.BBS pointers after a successful
download.
1.6 14/11/92 Released.. Fingers crossed!
1.6a 24/11/92 Arrghh!! Disaster again! This time, the PC users can't use
AMail. This is due to not having CR/LF at the end of each
line in CONTROL.DAT and the PC readers complain about this.
Also, the maximum messages option stopped working. The key
request program didn't seem to work. Hopefully, this is
fixed now.
1.70 13/12/92 Corrected Own Messages flag, and added a CR/LF in the
conference menu.
1.71 15/12/92 Beta release mods. BinkleyLog and NoLog options.
1.72 06/01/93 Range capability on conference selection
1.73 18/01/93 Oldest message date option, and '.' sent to RS232 during
external programs, to keep the user happy.
1.74 15/02/93 Stop reading DORINFO1.DEF in batch mode
Add option 'F' for batch packed mail
Add NetMail facility
1.75 18/03/93 Add SysOp Option, and maintenance option
1.76 30/03/93 Corrected bugs with maintenance mode. It wasn't renaming
pre-packed mail packets when a user was deleted. Also
tidied up the sysop displays, and added graf_mouse calls
to make the mouse appear on file selectors.
1.8 05/04/93 General Release.. Let's hope there's no 'a' version !
1.9 05/06/93 Next beta modifications begun. Read sysop user record
if DORINFO1.DEF not read, so that DORINFO1.DEF is not
needed for batch pack mode and maintenance. (Which caused
the corruption in USERS.BBS)
1.91 12/06/93 Add AMail messages - ADD and DROP, so you can write to
AMail to request conferences.
1.92 14/06/93 Add MaxSecPack and MaxSpeedPack, which enables the sysop
to set limits on the number of messages packed for users
with certain securities, or baud rates. Add Chat mode -
F1 to enter, ESC to exit. Add RESET AMail message, which
allows you to modify your last read pointers. Add
confirmation message on exit, so you don't accidentally
exit without downloading packed mail. Add BadPkt keyword,
and area.
1.93 19/06/93 Add Replies keyword
1.94 03/09/93 Add Ignore Lastread option, and correct message writing
to *.MSG files. (introduced in an earlier beta version)
1.95 04/09/93 Change to spawnl(), rather than forkl(), and wait(), so
I can pass the environment to external programs. Make
QuickBBS config keyword obselete, as I now look for the
environmental variable QBBS.
1.96 18/09/93 Add chk_error, to test for external program errors. Add
prog_exec, to execute external programs. Revert to the
forkl() and wait() method of executing programs due to
problems with passing arguments using spawnl(). Expand
maximum message size to 32K.
2.0 03/10/93 Released..