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┌── · ▄▄▄. ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ .■▄█▀▀▀▀■. RENEWAVE v2.00 - WHAT'S NEW IN THIS VERSION │
■▄█░█▒ · ▄ Copyright 1994-1996 Lars Hellsten, All Rights Reserved │
░███████▄▄▄▄██ Another great MatrixSoft product! │
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
└──────── Blue Wave / QWK offline mail door for Renegade 05-11 ────────┘
INTRODUCTION
This file contains a list of major changes that have been made since the
last version of RENEWAVE was released. It is best when upgrading to a
new version, to search this file for the release of the version you're
currently running, and then read *UP* from that point. That way you see
the changes in the order they were made.
IMPORTANT! If you are currently running ReneWave v1.xx, and wish to
upgrade from that, make sure you read INSTALL.DOC carefully before
proceeding. Also, not all changes since v1.xx have been listed, only
the major ones. There have been so many little changes that were made
when most of the code was revamped that I can't possibly remember them
all (and they weren't all made note of).
HISTORY
(%)=Bug fix, (+)=Added, (-)=Removed, (*)=Note
v2.00 / Wednesday, August 28
* ASYNC mode now uses up a lot less CPU time - even less than FOSSIL
mode in fact. Running in ASYNC mode may now be advantageous under
multitasking environments.
% Fixed up a few minor bugs when aborting transfers with the
internal protocols, such as sometimes having to press ESC twice to
abort, etc. Generally, the internal protocols should be much more
responsive now to local or remote aborts.
+ The current block size is now displayed with the internal
protocols, and subsequently, the messages window has been
increased in size to 5 lines.
v2.00 Gamma-2 / Thursday, August 15
+ The old Renegade user file format is now supported. This means
you can now use ReneWave v2.00 with Renegade v10-05 or Renegade
v10-31. I was reluctant to support the older versions, but
decided it was worth the 20-30 minutes to implement the kludge.
MAKE SURE THE "RENEGADE VERSION" FIELD IN RWSETUP (under misc.
options) IS SET CORRECTLY AFTER UPGRADING!
+ Internal protocols have been added. It's basically nothing more
than MSZ (my new protocol driver which as of this writing has not
yet been released) internal to ReneWave. In conjunction with
this, there is now a "Type" setting in the protocol configuration
which allows you to toggle whether the protocol is an internal or
external one, and if internal, which protocol it is.
* In FOSSIL mode, the FOSSIL driver is no longer left "hot" (active)
during DOS shells. This seemed to be sometimes causing problems
with lost characters (and consequently garbled ANSI).
v2.00 Gamma-1 / Monday, July 22
* Changed the status characters in the scan table listing. I think
the new status string is more intuitive. If an area is set to the
default settings (just selected normally), the status string will
be blank. Here's what each space represents now:
------
123456
(1) Only bundle "P"ersonal messages, or personal+"A"ll
(2) Only bundle messages containing "K"eywords
(3) Do not bundle messages containing "F"ilters
(4) "B"undle first n after lastread, or "L"ast n messages
(5) "U"pdate lastread pointers in area after download
(6) Bundle "O"ld messages in this area
+ Added an install program to the package. All new installations
and upgrades should be done via the install program.
+ You can now abort the display of text files, menus, etc. by
pressing SPACE while the file is being displayed. Also, when
displaying help files, RW now pauses automatically when it hits
the user's line length, so you can remove all the %PA's from
your .HLP files.
+ Added an internal file list compiler. You can still use an
external file list compiler, or none at all. The internal
compiler slows things down slightly, as it has to compile the
listing before the user downloads the packet.
The advantages are that it will only process file areas the
user has selected for newscans, and will include files newer
than the last time they scanned for new files, and update
their last scanned pointers.
* New communication routines written from scratch (FKFOSSIL is no
longer used) which support communications by both via your FOSSIL
driver, or alternatively via direct port access. There is now a
toggle in RWSETUP.MiscOptions for toggling the communications mode.
99% of sysops out there will want to use FOSSIL mode, although
direct port access is about 2% faster.
* The bundling command and message area selection systems have been
revamped. The "filter", "keyword", "personal", and "personal+all"
status flags are now applied permanently.
* File attach downloading features have been implemented. ReneWave
now allows you to download any file attaches with your mail packet.
You can also manage the queue of available file attaches from the
download prompt to add or remove files.
+ Seamless Fido<->UUCP Internet e-mail gateway support has been
implemented. This allows users running Blue Wave v2.20 or
compatible readers to post Internet e-mail with no strings
attached. Destination addresses can be up to 99 characters in
length.
There is a new menu in RWSETUP for configuring this feature. If
the feature is toggled ON, ReneWave will include a "fake" Internet
e-mail area at the beginning of the user's mail packet, for posting
e-mail messages.
+ All prompts and strings are now configurable. ENGLISH.RWC is your
language configuration file, ENGLISH.RW contains the actual
language text, and ENGLISH.RWL is the compiled language file. The
name of the language files must be ENGLISH.xxx - that's hardcoded
right now since Renegade itself does not have multiple language
support.
Any changes you want to make to your configuration should be done
by editing ENGLISH.RW, with a plain text editor. After you're
finished making changes, you must compile it using RWLCOMP.EXE.
For more information on language file modification, refer to the
docs, or the comment lines in ENGLISH.RW or ENGLISH.RWC.
+ Fully sysop-configurable menu files/structure. ReneWave's menu
system works on the same concepts as Renegade's, only it's not
nearly as complex or involved (there's no need for it to be).
ReneWave will look for RW_MAIN.MNU (or whatever name you define in
your ENGLISH.RWC file) in your menus directory for the main/startup
menu. That file MUST exist. After that, everything is read off
that menu. Nothing is hardcoded anymore.
For a list of ReneWave cmdkeys, and more detialed explanation,
see RWMENUS.DOC. For sample menus, unzip RW_MENUS.ZIP (the menu
screens are now contained in RW_TEXT.ZIP) from your SAMPLES\
directory.
- The (V)iew configuration screen has been removed. You can now
replace it with a screen in the MENU directory using MCI codes
and a -F command. A sample VIEWCFG.ASC has been included in
RW_TEXT.ZIP.
+ Users can now view and edit their current packet number (which
is equal to the ex