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Release Notes for
Arn V1.00 alpha
This is not an illegal hack, but
THIS IS JUST A PRELIMINARY VERSION OF ARN V1.00 TO SEE WHAT YOU HAVE
TO EXPECT FROM THE V1.00.
NOTE: Dillon's AmigaUUCP is now supported by Arnmaster, although
**** the scanning phase will be much longer without an active-file
that is supported by your news system. Matt refused to support
an active-file, yet.
If you have Dillon's AmigaUUCP you must specify the DOTDIRS keyword
(i.e. DOTDIRS Y) in the configuration files and use option -A for
ArnMaster (see Arn.doc and Arnmaster.doc for details)!!!
The pager now allows you to show _all_ previous pages.
If you have too much trouble with this version you should forget it and
switch back to V0.72 which is more reliable. So V1.00 alpha is not
a replacement for V0.72, but a completely different program.
This version is still VERY UNCOMPLETE but the basic functions work
(maybe not always as expected..:-). I use it everyday, but I know
where the potential bugs are...
You can use it if you find it stable enough, because it'll give
you much more comfort than Arn V0.72. But don't complain for
bugs or any loss of data or that the functions don't work as
described. Note that the docs are very UNCOMPLETE and many functions
will change as well as new ones are added. The online-help should
be the best way to find through this jungle...it's nearly consistent.
Besides bugs you have to accept a little inconvenience, too:
Arn now requires the program
Arnmaster (which is naturally included)
which must be invoked each time you get news. In later versions
you don't have to start it manually, because a daemon will do this
for you everytime rnews was activated. The daemon doesn't exist, yet.
To read news, just start "arnmaster" each time after you got news (they
should be already sorted in). After it has finished it's work you can run
'arn' and read news in a 'normal' way.
The file .arnmasterrc should be moved to UULIB:!!
The GROUPLIST-files of Arn V1.00
are incompatible with the ones earlier
versions, but it can read the old ones. The best method is to copy your old
GROUPLIST with a new name and set GROUPLIST to this file in your .arnrc.
WARNING: Don't use any of the search or goto functions, although listed in
arnhelp.txt: they are not completed yet and it often results in
endless loops!
Nevertheless I hope you'll get the idea what's going on with Arn.
Bugs:
Sometimes I got corrupted headers. You should see the message
WARNING: Headerbuffer is corrupt! <...>
in this case. Please send me a mail if you got this error AND
write your configuration (esp. whether you're using WShell2.0
or not). This bug is not caused by Arn, but by the CMD_CLEAR
console command.
Have fun,
Roland