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- News for Windows NT
- Copyright (C) 1994 Olav Tollefsen, All rights reserved.
- Mail address: olav.tollefsen@nwo.mts.dec.com
-
- This diskette contains a demo version of News for Windows NT
- (also runs under Windows 95). It has currently been tested on
- Windows NT 3.5 and Windows 95 Beta 2. This software will not
- run properly under Win32s.
-
- This release may be freely copied and distributed world-wide.
- If you do reproduce or distribute this material, all the files
- included on this disk must be reproduced in their original form.
-
- News for Windows NT is available from:
-
- gatekeeper.dec.com:/pub/DEC/news.zip
-
- Versions in this release:
- X1.0-62 for Alpha
- X1.0-62 for Intel
-
- INSTALLATION AND CONFIGURATION
-
- There is no installation procedure for this software. Simply
- execute the .EXE file which matches your processor architecture.
-
- By default, News will keep all the configuration information in
- the Registery database. If you want to use an external .newsrc
- file to store information about your subscribed newsgroups, select
- "Tools->Options->General" and change the settings. Make sure to make
- a backup copy of your existing .newsrc file before doing this!
-
- Before posting articles, you need to set up templates for
- creating new articles. Select "Tools->Options->Templates" and
- enter your templates.
-
- Sample templates
- ----------------
-
- - New Subject
- ------------------------------------------------------
- Newsgroups:
- Distribution: world
- Followup-To:
- From: <replace this with your mail address>
- Organization: <replace this with the name of your organization>
- Subject:
- Keywords:
-
- ------------------------------------------------------
-
- - Followup (Reply)
- ------------------------------------------------------
- Newsgroups:
- Distribution: world
- Followup-To:
- From: <replace this with your mail address>
- Organization: <replace this with the name of your organization>
- Subject:
- Keywords:
-
- In article <Message-ID>
- <From> wrote:
-
- <ArticleQuote>
-
- ------------------------------------------------------
-
- Note! It is important that you enter a space after each colon
- and enter a blank like after the last header field.
-
- CHANGES/NEW FEATURES
-
- X1.0-62
- -------
- - Improved the edit capabilities for the SMTP Send Mail view.
-
- X1.0-61
- -------
- - Added template suppport for mail messages.
-
- X1.0-60
- -------
- - Improved SMTP support.
-
- X1.0-59
- -------
- - Improved SMTP support.
-
- X1.0-58
- -------
- - SMTP support added for sending mail directly from News.
- Remember to configure "Mail" under "Options".
- - Bug causing filtered articles with action "Mark Read" not
- to be permanently marked as read is fixed.
-
- X1.0-57
- -------
- - New "Catch Up All and Close" menu item on Article menu while
- reading in a newsgroup.
- - A bug causing the receive LED and number of received bytes to
- be updated twice instead of once when data was received from
- the NNTP server has been fixed.
-
- X1.0-56
- -------
- - A bug causing the Newsgroup menu (and the popup) for the List All/New
- Newsgroups to always be greyed out have been fixed.
- - A bug causing the window to move when invoking the right mouse
- button popup menu has been fixed.
-
- X1.0-55
- -------
- - Improved color scheeme for highligted articles (was invible when
- selected with Pastel color settings)
-
- X1.0-54
- -------
- - Window placement of all types of windows are now saved/restored
- - A crash when invoking a popup menu in an empty newsgroup list
- window has been fixed.
- - A bug causing the "Show Read Articles" option not to take effect
- until settings where saved has been corrected.
-
- X1.0-53
- -------
- - Window placement of the "Subscribed Newsgroups" window is saved/restored.
- - Window placement and splitter position of the "Newsgroup" window
- is saved/restored.
- - Problem causing the Intel version to get a Windows sockets error
- code 10038 on startup is fixed.
-
- X1.0-52
- -------
- - A bug causing the Windows Sockets error code reported on a connect
- failure to always be zero is fixed.
- - New Article Filter action "Mark Read"
- - A new "Reply..." menu choice to send a reply to the author of
- an article by mail (needs SMTP gateway for MS Mail)
- - A better looking 16x16 icon for Windows 95
-
- X1.0-51
- -------
- - Crash on "Bad Article Number" is fixed
- - List new newsgroups since a date is implemented (date input a bit unfinished)
- - List of newsgroups can now be saved to a text file
-
- X1.0-50
- -------
- - Article Filters are now saved.
- - Article Filters matching have been improved. Both Newsgroup and Header
- Expression are now matched using a substring.
- - The View settings "Show Toolbar" and "Show Statusbar" are now saved
- in the user profile (registry).
- - The View setting "Show Column Headers" for the Subscribed Newsgroups view
- are saved in the user profile.
- - Show Tool Tips defaults to TRUE for new installs.
-
- X1.0-49
- -------
- - Fixed bug causing an infinite loop when displaying items shorter than
- the column heading in the article list view.
-
- X1.0-48
- -------
- - The problem with an incorrect window style for the article read
- window when running under Windows 95 has been fixed.
-
- X1.0-47
- -------
- - It's now possible to open a newsgroup directly from the list
- of newsgroups without subscribing to it.
-
- X1.0-46
- -------
- - Incorrect pixel below splitter bar in Intel version is fixed.
-
- X1.0-45
- -------
- - New prototype of "Article Filters" is included. You will not be able
- to save the filters in this realease and the matching is very primitive.
- Newsgroup has to match exact and the header must be a column in the
- view and is matched as a substring.
- - New popup menu when creating new articles.
-
- X1.0-44
- -------
- - Use a threshold of 5% change for automatic column width adjustment to
- avoid many small adjustments.
- - Implemented prototype dialog for adding an "Article Filter" (see
- "Add Filter..." on the popup menu while in an open newsgroup.
-
- X1.0-43
- -------
- - Added automatic adjustment of header columns in the article
- list view. This is based on the mean and standard deviation
- of the width of the headers that have been shown in the list.
- This algorithm is currently tuned so approxemately 90% of the
- headers should be fully visible.
- - Implemented more customizeable header features (customization
- of the headers is not saved in this release).
- - Show clock cursor while saving configuration and Newsrc data.
-
- X1.0-42
- -------
- - The user specified font is also used in the article template edit
- control.
-
- X1.0-41
- -------
- - Fixed bug causing the Del key not to function correctly in article
- windows.
-
- X1.0-40
- -------
- - Ensure that the selected article in the article list window always is
- fully visible.
-
- X1.0-39
- -------
- - New article quote functionality. The variable <ArticleQuote> in
- your followup article template will be replace with any selected
- text in the article view of the article you do followup on, or
- the body of the whole article (if no text is selected).
-
- X1.0-38
- -------
- - Fixed bogous error message about incorrect format on UUdecode
- - Catch Up with no artciles selected will do a Catch Up on all
- articles.
-
- X1.0-37
- -------
- - Fixed bug which caused the UUdecode menu item to be disabled
- even when reading an article with UUencoded source.
- - New integration with MS Mail using MAPI (Send Mail... from File menu)
-
- X1.0-36
- -------
- - Accvio on blank lines in Newsrc file is fixed
- - Some bug-fixes related to use of popup menus
- - Added support for File Manager drag and drop into News
-
- X1.0-35:
- --------
- - UUencode/UUdecode functionality is built into the article view
- (automatic splitting of large files is currently NOT supported)
-