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- Demon Internet Simple News v1.28
- ================================
-
- [ This is a copy of the standard PC documentation with the Atari specific ]
- [ details interspersed. ]
-
- [Atari differences indicated thus].
-
- [ Atari port by Graham Judd - gjudd@siward.demon.co.uk ]
- [ gjudd@cix.compulink.co.uk ]
- [ Port released 18 June 1994. ]
- [ Please note that I am working in California until the end of September ]
- [ 1994 and I will not be available for any support questions so use this ]
- [ release at your own risk! ]
-
- GENERAL
- =======
-
- 1.28 is a minor upgrade to fix bugs that have been reported in
- Snews 1.27 over the last 4 months.
-
- Colour processing from the snews.rc file now ignores incomplete
- lines, rather than setting to black.
- [ Colour is not supported in the Atari port].
-
-
- Support has been added for a list of suspended newsgroups. This
- is functional in Snews, but will only be of real value when the
- DIS front end has been updated to support suspended newsgroups.
-
- The suspend list is an ascii file containing one newsgroup per
- line. The file is called 'suspend' and should be placed in the
- snews directory, the same location as the file 'active'.
-
- A newsgroup placed on the suspend list is highlighted in Snews
- newsgroup display with brackets '[----]' and is bypassed by the
- normal TAB key reading functions unless deliberately entered using
- the enter or arrow keys.
-
- Attempts to post to or follow up in a suspended group are met
- with a warning message, which must be accepted before posting
- is permitted.
-
- Rmgroup will refuse to delete any newsgroup on the suspend list.
-
- NOTE: Unbatch and Expire will still process suspended groups as
- normal.
-
- UNBATCH
- =======
-
- 1) Error checking has been improved in a number of situations where
- previously error handling was left to DOS.
-
- 2) Unbatch now attempts to remove all its lock files when it finishes.
- This can not be 100% as there are valid reasons for not removing
- lock files. (e.g. Removing lock files when they were present
- before unbatch was invoked)
-
- 3) Unbatch did not account for the increasing size of the in memory
- history list when running. This is the cause of some of the 'out
- of memory' errors. Corrected.
-
- 4) The bugs preventing unbatch processing multiple batch files in a
- single pass have been corrected.
-
- [ The function of the -f and -l switches have been reversed. ]
- [ If -f is specified, it now means DO NOT filter non-printables. ]
- [ If -l is specified, it now means DO check article length. ]
- [ I have done this because the default action for -f could cause ]
- [ bus errors and I have not had time to find out why; ]
- [ and the default action for -l was causing #!rnews headers to be ]
- [ missed, with the result that messages were being appended to ]
- [ other messages and hence being placed into the wrong group. ]
- [ If you are specifying either the -f or -l switches when running ]
- [ unbatch, do not do so; if you were not, you will have to specify ]
- [ them to get the same functionality as SNews1.27. I would ]
- [ recommend that you do not specify these switches unless you have ]
- [ a particular need to do so. ]
-
- SNEWS
- =====
-
- 1) The 'K' command now prompts for confirmation (in non expert mode)
- at both the thread and article levels.
-
- 2) The 'o' command is now supported at the thread level for printing
- a full thread.
- [ I inadvertantly forgot to define 'stdprn' to be 'stdprt'. It is ]
- [ defined to 'stderr' so printing will be to the screen unless you ]
- [ can redirect stderr. You will have to save a group/thread/article ]
- [ and then print the saved file. Sorry... ]
-
- 3) At the thread and article levels the 's' command now permits an
- abort, replace or append choice if the file named already exists.
-
- 4) XX.YY style added to smart thread matching routine.
-
- 5) The text from an entire newsgroup can be saved by entering 's' at
- the newsgroup selection screen, with the pointer marking the
- group to be saved.
-
- 6) In article display, lines were being wrapped 1 column early. e.g.
- at col 79 on an 80 col display. Corrected.
-
- 7) There is a limit in alias handling in that a name prompt can be
- answered with an alias, *or* a proper name. A mixture of alias
- and full names, or multiple aliases is not correctly processed.
- This, and the limitation of aliases not being accepted after
- entering the editor will be addressed in a future version.
-
- 8) When an article with follow-up to poster is followed up, but to
- the newsgroup, not the sender, it was posted to newsgroup 'poster'.
- Corrected.
-
- 9) New item in snews.rc - footers. When set to 'on' snews will add
- the signature separator "-- " before the signature and will also
- stop quoting included text (for example when quoting messages for
- followups) when this separator is found. The default is 'on' which
- corresponds with current behaviour for adding the separator. This
- setting can be altered for the current session from the F3 settings
- screen.
- [ So, if you have "-- " in your .sig file, take it out. ]
-
- 10) If a newsgroup is on the suspend list, it is displayed on the
- newsgroup selection screen enclosed in square brackets '[--]'.
- Selecting groups by the TAB key, will bypass this group, rather
- than enter it of there are any new articles to read. Enter and
- arrow keys will still enter the suspended group.
-
- EXPIRE
- ======
-
- 1) A check has been added to prevent expire removing out of time
- sequence articles when expiring articles. This should reduce the
- incidence of 'Article xx found, when yy expected'.
-
- Thanks to ubik.demon.co.uk for assistance in adding this feature.
-
- 2) If articles are found out of time sequence when expiring, they are
- now retained and the time corrected to match the sequence.
-
- 3) The bug preventing 'expire 0' from working has been corrected.
-
- REINDEX
- =======
-
- No changes.
-
- ADDGROUP
- ========
- No changes.
-
-
- RMGROUP
- =======
-
- 1) If a newsgroup is on the suspend list, rmgroup will refuse to
- remove the newsgroup form the active file.
-
- Malcolm@muir.demon.co.uk
- 2 Apr 1994
- =========================================================================
- [ gjudd@siward.demon.co.uk, gjudd@cix.compulink.co.uk ]
- [ 18 June 1994 ]
- [ Please note that I am working in California until the end of September ]
- [ 1994 and I will not be available for any support questions so use this ]
- [ release at your own risk! ]
-
-