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- Internet in a Macro
-
- History of changes since the beginning
-
- This is a complete list of changes to Internet in a Macro since the first
- beta release. If you are upgrading from a previous version, please take a
- moment and look at this file to learn what new features have been added and if
- any bugs were fixed.
-
- 1.1 MINOR UPGRADE--INETM11.ZIP--02/19/96
- Bug fixes
- A status line bug when connecting to a WWW site was fixed
- New features
- Added options to import sites from a file on on the screen
- Added an option to import email addresses that are on the screen
- Added an option to the site menu to display statistics about the site file
- and the current site menu
-
- 1.02 MAINTENANCE RELEASE--INETM102.ZIP--02/09/96
- Bug fixes
- Well, major goof, this one should work right when exiting
-
- 1.01 MAINTENANCE RELEASE--INETM101.ZIP--02/09/96
- Bug fixes
- Fixed a major bug that would produce an error message when exiting
- Fixed a bug that would not handle all addresses found using the import
- option correctly
- New features
- Many info boxes are now replaced with status line messages thus causing
- site connections to occur quicker in some instances
- Reworked the status line routine; now it will always be on the bottom of
- the screen even if you don't use a status line
- A message will now advise you of a menu with no options on it and tell you
- how to add some
- Changed the format of most menus slightly
-
- 1.0 OFFICIAL RELEASE--INETM10.ZIP--02/07/96
- Bug fixes
- Another telnet error was not being recognized
- Fixed a bug that prevented exiting from manually editing a mail message
- Fixed a status line bug
- Hitting escape from the search prompt no longer exits the program
- Fixed some problems with badly used braces
- Compatible with versions of SZ that have a bug that causes a crash when
- specifying a single file that doesn't exist
- New features
- The global options on the site menu have been moved to more logical
- letters; these letters are skipped for sites
- An automatic installation macro has been added
- You can now jump to most menu or configuration items from anywhere in the
- program
- Inet_mac can now search a file for Email addresses and prompt you whether
- or not to add them to the address book
- A view current configurations option has been added to the main config menu
- If you search for a site, the program will keep on displaying matches until
- you select one or there is no more matches
- The send bug function now appends a copy of the configuration settings
- A toggles menu has been added to the configuration routine
- An 8-bit Rlogin toggle has been added
- You can now put comments in the configuration file
- Canceling a connection to a site now works more cleanly
- WWW addresses that start with http:// no longer have to contain this; it is
- added by default
- Some formatting checks are now added for addresses and an error box will
- pop up if an address is badly formatted
- When adding a site, the site type is now selected from a menu
- The site name is now trimmed to 64 characters
- You can now manually distribute a mail message
- Aliases can now be put in a distribution list
- The configuration file can be updated from betas 9/10 and will be updated
- automatically in future versions
- A confirmation prompt has been added before sending a manual mail message
- A confirm tagline toggle has been added; if enabled, you may select a
- tagline, pick another tagline, enter one manually, or not append one at
- all
- Some dialog boxes now have a more expanded and detailed format
- A sound toggle has been added
- Inet_mac now sounds a beep upon exit
- The number sign # will be appended to an IRC channel if it is not present
- The delete file routine has been refined and does not exit the program
-
- BETA 10--INET_B10.ZIP--11/28/95
- Bug fixes
- Fixed a bug prohibiting manually editing a mail message
- Sometimes in Lynx, a bad address would not cause Inet_mac to recognize it
- Fixed some lingering problems with the site menu
- New features
- Error messages now give extended information
- A search option has been added to the site menu
- The manual message routine for mail has been improved
-
- BETA 9--INET_B9.ZIP--11/23/95
- Bug fixes
- Some configuration prompts were being cut off
- Fixed a bug that caused a telnet error to go unnoticed
- The site file was being reformatted incorrectly when removing a site
- New features
- The inet_mac files can now be stored in a different directory
- The picklist can now be used for uploads
- Inet_mac will now tell you if a file transfer was unsuccessful
- If an error occurs when connecting to a site, it will be written to the
- log file
- When removing a site, the site to remove is displayed in the confirmation
- box
- An error box will pop up if an external macro label was not found
-
- BETA 8--INET_B8.ZIP--11/16/95
- Bug fixes
- This is actually beta 7, but beta 7 is actually another beta 6
-
- BETA 7--INET_B7.ZIP--11/16/95
- Bug fixes
- Fixed major bug that prevented upgrading from previous versions of Inet_mac
- New features
- The built-in variable %iver contains the current Inet_mac version for use
- in taglines, signatures, and external macros
-
- BETA 6--INET_B6.ZIP--11/15/95
- Bug fixes
- The Program kept choosing the same tagline and sending it rather than a
- random one
- Running Lynx and IRC did not clear the screen
- New features
- Uploading and downloading files from Unix is now supported
- A hotkey has been added to send a random tagline and exit
- A message is written in the log file for a succesful IRC connection
- A message is now displayed to the screen when connecting to IRC
-
- BETA 5--INET_B5.ZIP--11/12/95
- Bug fixes
- The new option for the FTP command-line was not being used properly
- If no log file was specified, a log file was sometimes created anyway
- New features
- Added an IRC menu and an IRC configuration menu
- A finger feature has been added
- An option has been added to the mail menu to send a comment to the program
- author
- Improvements have been made to the load configuration routine
- The online help routines are now built-in
- Other
- External macros are called using call rather than goto so
- inet_mac is not unloaded
-
- BETA 4--INET_B4.ZIP--11/10/95
- Bug fixes
- Cleaned up some minor bugs in the sites menu
- A macro error no longer occurs if the message file for a mail message is
- not found
- New features
- Added tagline support for outgoing messages
- If an external editor is defined in the setup file, it will be used
- An option to set the FTP command-line has been added for users without
- NCFTP
- The program now allows for not putting a subject on a message
- More messages are written to the log file
-
- BETA 3--INET_B3.ZIP--11/7/95
- Bug fixes
- Fixed a bug that caused an error if the name field was skipped when
- adding an entry to the address book
- The delete file command from the Unix menu now works properly
- When hitting escape at a prompt in the config menu, the program jumped back
- to the main config menu rather than the current menu
- Inet_mac no longer searches the type field of a site when finding sites
- to remove
- New features
- You can now tell the program to jump to an external macro after a
- succesful connection; separate macros can be defined for each type of
- site; the variable %addr contains the address of the site for use by
- the external macro
- A bulkmail option has been added to the mail menu
- Some of the configuration options can now be left blank for no default
- Other
- F2 is no longer hardcoded into the macro as a key to start it
-
- BETA 2--INET_B2.ZIP--11/5/95
- Bug Fixes
- New menus were not being created properly
- Fixed a bug causing Inet_mac to exit after the user aborted the config
- menu without saving
- New Features
- The program can now maintain an optional log file
- Commo internal editor rather than Unix mail used to manually edit a mail
- message
- VT102 keyboard assignments loaded for arrows, home/end, CTRL-home, insert,
- delete, backspace and CTRL-backspace, and CTRL-pgup/pgdn
- Added option to restore default configurations
- Easier-to-understand prompts for adding new sites and menus
-
- BETA 1--INET_B1.ZIP--11/2/95
- First beta release
-