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- v1.41 03/07/1995
- ==================
- + Kivi saves the read/reply status of messages whenever you quit
- (or change work directory). If you have sorted the messages,
- index files have to be written also to ensure that right messages
- are marked as read/replied when you start Kivi again. Therefore
- saving message status is a bit slower if you have sorted
- messages. Save read status can be turned off from General
- dialog.
- + PERSONAL.NDX is supported. All the messages that are addressed
- to you are placed in a special conference "Personal", if this
- file is present. You can reply in this conference and the
- replies will go to correct conferences, but you can't write
- new messages there, because it is not actual conference in
- the BBS.
- + Kivi supports FidoNet mail. When replying, or writing new
- messages you can enter the FidoNet address in the Message
- Header dialog to Address-field. Internet users can use
- this same field if they want to send e-mail to someone
- whose address is too long to fit in the To-field.
- + Presets can be written for Address-field in the same
- manner as for To-field. The file name have to be
- BBS_ID.ADR (where BBS_ID is the BBS's id) or KIVI.ADR.
- An example file is included with the packet. This feature
- needs AES >= 3.40 (Falcon, MultiTOS).
- + Translation can be chosen with pulldown menu under
- AES >= 3.40.
- + Kivi can now merge replies if you unpack a reply packet and
- there are old replies in your reply directory.
- + Search string's short-cut is changed to <control>-F to accomodate
- to Atari style guide. Also its menu name is changed to "Find string".
- + Find again added. Continues the search with the same parameters
- as in last search.
- + Bulletin window stays open until you select nothing to view or
- close the window. This way you don't have to always open bulletin
- window again if there are multiple bulletins in packet.
- + A new menu entry, Create Index files, added. Some BBSs don't include
- index files (or they might be corrupted!), so use this to create
- (or recreate) them. Index files can be created for messages or
- to your replies or for both.
- + Your reply packets can be packed to include only .MSG file. Some users
- have told me about crappy QWK-doors that do not work with reply packets
- that have .NDX file. This option is configurable in General dialog.
- + If reply packet doesn't have .NDX file, Kivi creates it automatically
- when unpacking replies.
- + Newfiles is removed from the menu (it can be accessed from Bulletins).
- + Added sort cuts for: Rescan work-dir, Clean workdirs, and all the
- sort functions.
- + Sort by date works now correctly.
- + The speed of Sort by date increased drastically. A sort by date which
- took 21 seconds with the old version, took only 2 seconds with the
- new version. I didn't test it further, but it's a _lot_ faster.
- + If the colours you use in Kivi are too high for the screen mode
- you launch Kivi in, default colours are activated.
- + When you select Edit msg, the Edit button is the default one, not
- OK button.
- + Change work-dir bug + some others, which I can't remember
- anymore ;), are fixed.
-
- v1.37 25/04/1995
- =================
- + ANSI bulletins are supported. They are displayed with colours
- if your machine handles 16 or more colours.
- + ST-guide online help added. Just press HELP anytime. You
- have to have ST-guide installed as an accessory (or as
- a program if running multitasking OS).
- + Bulletin dialog includes now also Welcome and Logout bulletins
- and Newfiles and BBS News bulletins. BBS news is removed from
- the menu as it is rarely needed (at least I need it rarely).
- + The Bulletin dialog pops up automatically after loading a new
- packet if the packet contained bulletins. This doesn't however
- apply to Welcome and Logout bulletins, as they never contain
- anything new.
- + In the tagline selection window you can define a tagline to use
- by pressing Insert.
- + In the conference listing window the amount of messages to you in
- the area is shown.
- + Export/to clipboard/print also applies to bulletins now, if a
- bulletin window (one selected from Bulletins dialog or Newfiles)
- is on the top.
- + A header can be exported along with the message (Kivi asks this
- when selecting Export).
- + The colours Kivi uses can be set from Options - Colours.
- + Due to requests, signatures are entered before taglines.
- + KIVI.BBS file supports three more options: quote header string
- (QuoteHeader), quote format width (QuoteTo) and packer to use
- (Usepacker).
- + Extra spaces from the messages are removed when replying and
- quoting. This feature can be set off.
- + New messages are up-dated correctly when altering the "areas w/
- msg" option.
- + If using format quote, the words are wrapped.
- + BBS Information (File - BBS Information) contains information
- about current BBS packet.
- + In the main windows title there is now BBS's name instead of
- BBS's ID. The BBS ID can be seen from the BBS Information
- dialog.
- + The memory that is reserved by an old packet is released
- before loading a new packet. This way more memory is available
- for the packer.
- + More busy bees, if not under MultiTOS.
- + A couple little bugs removed.
- + Some options have become irrelevant, such as Inverted,
- and are therefore removed.
- + The option file (KIVI.OPT) has changed little: The quote
- header string has a different name, and therefore you have
- to configure it again if you don't use the default string.
- Sorry for the inconvenience...
- + History file now contains the versions from newest to oldest
- The changes are also separated to make it look clearer,
- and to ease Danny's work at Hensa ;-).
-
- v1.30 05/03/1995
- ==================
- + Reply flag is updated directly after replying.
- + Area names now have more room (40 characters).
- + You can use return/enter key to take you one message forward.
- + The main windows place and size is saved along with other options.
- + Different quote styles added: optionally name initials are added
- before quote char, quote can have a header (eg. "Someone wrote to
- anyone:") which can be user defined.
- + Format reply option can use different widths.
- + Export msg remembers previously selected path and file name,
- path and file name are also saved to options.
- + Busy bee is shown while scanning messages if not under MultiTOS.
- + <Control> + up/down arrow takes cursor to the top or the bottom
- of the window.
- + Character translation is included (Options - Translation),
- the translation file consists of 512 bytes, at the time two translation
- files are included : SF7.TRN (used in Finland) and ISO.TRN (this
- translates characters from Amiga to Atari and from Atari to Amiga).
- Look documents for more about Translation (hopefully). Different
- + Translation files can be assigned to different BBS packets in
- the KIVI.BBS file (more about this in the document, hopefully :-)).
- + In the enter message dialog (when replying or writing a new message)
- you can have presets in the TO: field. This means that you
- can write to KIVI.NAM (or BBS_ID.NAM, where BBS_ID is packet's name)
- often needed names which you can easily pop-up and select by clicking
- To-box. This is feature requires AES 3.30 and is therefore only
- available on Falcons. I might fix this to work on all STs in future.
- + You can optionally set Kivi to pack replies when you quit
- (it is settable from General dialog), if you have this option
- and Clean workdir option on, work dirs are also cleared when you quit.
- + Message scanning is now much faster than it used to be on STs.
- I tested this with ST and ramdisk: a packet which took 22 seconds
- to scan with Kivi v1.21 took only 2 seconds with Kivi 1.30!
- Surprisingly a Falcon with a HD didn't speed up noticeably.
- + Message printing is added.
- + Small header works now also on ST-medium and some other bug fixes.
-
- v1.21 11/01/1995
- ==================
- + Added "Use small header" option to General dialog. When selected, header
- display in message viewing will use smaller font.
- + When viewing own messages, the area name is displayed in the info field
- of the window.
- + New option "Format reply". When selected, quoted replies will be formatted
- so that they fit within 80 columns.
- + If file exists when using "Export msg", you can Append the message to
- file or overwrite it.
- + Messages can be exported to clipboard.
-
- v1.20 07/01/1995
- ==================
- + Added "Only areas w/ msg" option to General dialog. When selected, only
- areas that have messages are shown (except when Reply To is selected).
- + Added an optional check to Kill Message (selectable from General dialog).
- + Messages can now also be sorted by message's Date.
- + Added Next and Previous reply (<control>right/left arrow), which scans
- next or previous message with the same subject (or with a "Re: " in
- + front) as current message.
-
- v1.18 03/01/1995
- ==================
- + Clr/Home takes to beginning and <shift>Clr/home to the end.
- + Kivi QWK doesn't hang anymore under early TOS versions if you configure
- window elements.
- + Added Close window and re-scan workdirs and not case sensitive search
- and search backwards.
- + Fixed a bug in the message viewer which caused date & time to be displayed
- wrong sometimes.
- + Fixed a problem with unpack replies.
- + Windows aren't closed anymore if a program is launched in cursor-mode.
-
- v1.16 29/12/1994
- ==================
- This is mainly a bugfixed version.
- + Included all message flags.
- + Added a non-standard feature to bulletins; BBS sysops can include a
- file called BULLETIN.DSC where every bulletin are given names. The
- first line should be bulletins name (eg. BLT-1.1) and the second line
- its name and so on.
-
- v1.15 23/12/1994
- ==================
- Added search string. Sort messages (by From, To, Subject), if you're on the
- top-level (ie. the conference listing) window Sort messages sorts all areas
- beneath and under cursor, if you're on header listing level or viewing a
- message it will sort only current areas messages. Taglines (reg. only): Taglines
- are obtained from KIVI.TAG or BBSNAME.TAG (BBSNAME is QWK-packet's name) if
- present. Taglines can be configured from General dialog, Select = you can select
- which tagline will be added, Random = random one, no = no tagline added.
- Few little bugs fixed.
-
- v1.10 5/12/1994
- =================
- + Added Cycle windows.
- + New option dialog (Options - Window), where you can change the window
- components of the main window.
- + Vertical sliders, updated in pauses.
- + Horizontal sliders, only in use while reading messages.
- + Now you can change to next/previous message also by clicking arrow
- left/right.
- + There is a new option in General dialog, "Add signature". If this is set,
- "KIVI.SIG" file, if found, is added to the end of messages. This file
- should contain your signature, whatever it is. You can also make BBS
- specific signatures. Just create file which name consists of BBS's name
- (Kivi shows this name in main window's name) + .SIG. If Kivi founds this
- file, it is added instead of "KIVI.SIG".
-
- v1.09b 30/11/1994
- ==================
- + Sometimes (this is rare) Kivi hangs in loop after TOS program running
- in window has returned, now pressing a key in Kivi you can abort.
- + If work path is changed, Kivi will rescan the new one for messages.
- + Old versions couldn't use work paths that were on different drives
- (in fact, it caused serious problems), this is fixed now.
- + When loading packet using Drag & Drop, Kivi didn't check if you had
- unpacked replies.
- + Minor bug fixes & improvements.
-
- v1.09 15/11/1994
- ==================
- + Help-dialog for keys added.
- + Miniwin couldn't run if its path wasn't set to PATH environment, now
- it can.
- + Kivi supports Drag & Drop protocol. Just grab your QWK-packet to one
- of Kivi's windows and it will be loaded.
- + Several bugs with TOS <4.00 removed.
-
- v1.08 11/11/1994
- ==================
- + TOS-programs can be run (if wanted) in windows under MultiTOS.
- + Added Unpack replies.
- + Ugly bug fixed: Kivi didn't scan the messages of the last area.
-
- v1.05 5/11/1994
- =================
- + Added Reply to (reg. only), text export (ie. save message to file) and
- removed couple bugs.
- + Kivi closes itself automatically when changing
- resolution under MultiTOS.
- + QWK-packets name can be obtained from the command-line.
-
- v1.00 28/10/1994
- ==================
- First released version!
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