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What's Fixed, New, and Changed in
The Blue Wave Offline Mail Door, Version 4.01
for PCBoard v15.2x (DOS and OS/2)
Copyright (C) 1992-1996 by Cutting Edge Computing
All Rights Reserved.
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WHAT'S FIXED
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*> Resetting last-read pointers would sometimes produce strange results,
i.e. setting pointers to the last 20 messages might set some to 14
messages. This usually happened in conferences containing deleted
messages.
*> If the To: field in NetMail messages contained a FidoNet address (i.e.
"John Smith@1:234/567.89"), the address was not being stripped during
message bundling. This would cause the door to not flag the message
as being a private message, if the user performing the download was
named John Smith.
*> The DOS door was not detecting the comm port configuration in some
instances. See the "What's New/Changed" section for more details. In
addition, various comm-related problems in both the DOS and OS/2 doors
have been addressed (hopefully!).
*> The protocol driver modules (BWMAIL.OVR and BWMAIL2.OVR) were not
working properly, for various reasons. New versions of the driver
modules are included with this beta release, and should take care of
the problems.
*> For PCBoard v15.22 and later, the door was reading the wrong origin
line information out of ORIGINS.DAT for FidoNet areas defined with
custom origin lines.
*> Personal FidoNet NetMail messages were not showing up as personal
during the message scanning phase, even though they were being shown
as such in the reader.
*> The user's real and alias names were being reversed when written to
the *.INF file. This caused the reader to use the real name on
conferences assigned as "use aliases" and vice-versa when the user
created new reply messages.
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WHAT'S NEW/CHANGED
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*> The DOS door will now parse the PCB environment variable (defined in
the PCBoard startup batch files) in order to determine the comm port
configuration for each node. This is necessary when PCBoard is set up
for multiple nodes using a single PCBOARD.DAT file. Hopefully, this
will solve the problem certain people are having of not being able to
use the door with a FOSSIL driver.
The OS/2 door does not need to parse the PCB variable, as it performs
all comm functions via the OS/2 API (unlike the DOS version, which
supports several different comm methods). As such, all necessary info
is obtained through the OS/2 API using the comm port handle passed to
the door by PCBoard.
*> The door now distinguishes FidoNet EchoMail and NetMail conferences by
the same criteria used by PCBoard: If the conference type is set to 5
(FidoNet) *AND* the echo tag (NOT the filename!) is set to "NETMAIL",
then the conference is NetMail; otherwise, it is EchoMail.
*> Messages marked as "comment to SysOp" can now only be downloaded by
the SysOp (the user identified in user record #1, per the PCBoard
documentation), and will be marked as "personal". If any other user
downloads a mail packet, "comment to SysOp" messages will be skipped.