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December 24, 1993
First of all, Merry Christmas. Only a true Atari nut would sit here
on Christmas eve and type up a pre-release package!
Right, this is a pre-release version of NITRO-Scan. NITRO-Scan is a
visciously fast new mail scanner replacement for QBBS/ST. If you
have any problems setting up or running NITRO-Scan, please, PLEASE,
contact me and explain the problem.
I can be reached via Netmail at 1:244/150@fidonet.org, or via
either the international Atari ST echo, or ST programming echo on
FIDONet. Or, you may call me voice at my number listed in the
documentation.
UPDATE: (March 17, 1994)
Well, its been a while since I did any work on this program,
naturally, with a first version, their was bound to be a bug or
two - and true to form, their was. Actually, thier was a glaring
bug that didn't turn up until after it got a good workout on my
system. It seems that 2 different user names could return the same
CRC value. Which meant that one person would get mail flagged for
another person. Not good, especially for your regulars.
So, now, during a rebuild or update, NITRO builds a database of your
current password file in memory and will ONLY index messages to
legitamate users on your system. This has five effects, 3 good, 1
not so good. (Steve, this doesn't total five?)
1: No more false 'hits' (Good)
2: The index size is about 99% smaller because were not indexing
everything, just the important ones. (Good)
3: Everybody knows their is never a third feature.
4: Its even faster than before (because of 2) (Good)
5: Due to its speed, it can warp time in its immediate vicinity.
Please use extreme caution. This can only lead to more entropy,
and consequently, the heat death of the universe. (Not so
Good).
Sorry about my attempt on humor, but I've been working on this
problem for a while and I'm in a good mood. The radio station even
co-operated - during the fix-up, they played, Free Bird, All along
the Watch Tower, Seals tribute to Jimi Hendrix, The Battle of
Evermore and a couple of old Heart tunes. Good programming music.
All in all, some worthwhile time spent.
UPDATE: (July 10, 1994)
Its all Theo's fault :-)
Really. Theo released a new version of QBBS, that, among other
things, drastically increased the number of message areas you could
define... which naturally changed the structure of the BOARDS.BBS
file. (thanks Theo.. I really needed the extra areas, I'm at over
275 and counting :)
Anyway, since it broke in a big way, I set about to changing the
structures for QBBS 1.12. While I was at it, and since the new QBBS
directly supports Internet (Usenet) newsgroups, and they are ALWAYS
addressed to 'All' - I thought it would be a good idea just to skip
them entirely.
So, what you have here are TWO versions of NITRO-Scan, NITRO.110
and NITRO.112. Simply rename the appropriate file to NITRO.TTP and
your ready to rock. (I was far to lazy to bother decoding/declaring
the proper structures on the fly.. :)
Enjoy!
P.S. If you use NITRO-Scan, please, send me some mail at either
1:224/150 or Steve.Barnes@lchurch.mcd.on.ca - I really want to know
if its worth me distributing this sucker!
P.P.S. - Theo, the screen writes in QBBS with a box stock 1040STf
are a huge bottle-neck. Please PLEASE give us a command line switch
so that 14.4 modem users don't have to risk an epileptic seizure
watching thier screen...