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----- 1.999.9

this is the last beta... i'm working on the documentation and any bugs
that are reported here.

some of the bios screen code is now in assembler, slightly faster

cleaned up a bunch of cosmetic problems in the editor, among other things
it now works right when deleting a blank line with ^d

some more minor fixes

redid menu.  it looks a likely funky when scrolling but works better now

----- 1.999.8

find now quits if you enter a zero length search string

you can no longer scan all areas from the area menu.  you can
still do it via the '*' command in the reader though.  the
areas menu is cleaned up and laid out a bit better (at least in
my opinion). the biggest implication is that autostart macros
that go to the areas menu and scan for new messages should be
changed to scan for new messages and THEN go to the areas menu..

msged attempts to avoid writing a new message over old ones.  i
don't multitask so i have no idea if this will work or not. the
biggest problem i can foresee is that it may be susceptible to
'race' conditions where msged and the tosser fight over the
highest message....

msged now remembers the last file name you wrote a message to...

msged no longer clears the cost field or the times read field.  and now
increments the times read field when you read a message to you the first
time.

changed the clear line key in the field editor from <ESC> to <ctrl><X>.
you can abort a message whilst entering the message header by pressing <ESC>.
additionally you can abort from fields in the settings screen.

reduced memory requirements, you might be surprised at how much. do
not exepack or lzexe though as the code is overlayed now. it will now run
in less than 100k(!) but it will be VERY slow and somewhat limited in
message size, etc.

began adding support for clarkson spell checker

ANSI support might be a little better..

fixed bug when displaying internet addresses

fixed bug when scanning areas with '*', quickbbs areas were coming up as
empty everytime.

fixed bug in editor when deleting from last line of text

----- 1.999.7

if you don't have a config file msged will go directly to the settings screen.
additionally, you'll have to play with the settings functions to
determine exactly how it works.

settings screen is back.  now better than ever before.  you can
change just about everything (except the video addressing
segment).  this includes colors, area information, switches,
attributes, everything that can be changed in the config file.
and msged will write out a new config file for you as well...

<alt><r> rotates text when entering a message, same as the < or > key
when reading messages.  first press is rot13, second is rot10, third
returns text to normal.  be warned!  the text is echoed rotated, so it's
tough to read what you type...

----- 1.999.6

fixed no display bug in search

rot10/13 returned

no longer adds a ^areply when changing a message

----- 1.999.5

tamed the wild scroll.  seems my code had the same problem a
few bioses have.  telling them to scroll 0 lines essentially
tells them to scroll 65536 lines!  i think it's fixed now.

you can now delete messages from the quickbbs message base.  boy, is the
quick base funky...  and badly documented.... arrgh..

the quickbbs reader is fixed.  you still can't enter or delete, but you can
read messages.  and it positively FLIES!  you can scan 100 messages in ten
seconds by holding down the right arrow key... and msged keeps up with key
repeat....

fixed the mysterious problem with domains. wasn't so mysterious after all,
just dumb...

----- 1.999.4

quickbbs support is still out, as are the settings and help screens.  i'm
freezing this version temporarily to allow bill andrus to catch up the os/2
code.  when that's done i plan to fix quickbbs support and add the help and
settings screens back in.

msged now compares area paths instead of area tags. this allows you to assign
multiple attributes (like uucp and netmail) to the same area.  the first
description given for an area is the one that is used.

fixed problem when replying to messages with a domain when you don't have
one defined.

changed the way exporting to a textfile is handled.  if in the editor,
things work essentially as they did before.  however, msged no longer asks
if you want to rplace or append to the destination file.  you specify this
the same way you specify you want to append to the tosslog... if you want
to append to the file, put a plus sign (+) in front of the file name. this
applies to the <alt><w> command in the reader as well... however, there
are some additional changes to this command, you can specify how you want
the text export.  if you append the string ",q" to the filename, msged
formats the exported text the same way it does quoted text in a message.
this lets you quote from a number of messages by quote exporting several
messages into the same file (with append), then importing the file into
a new message. the other option is ",t" or text.  this tells msged to
append a newline to the end of each line and puts a text header at the
top of the message.    this makes the file useful for exporting to other
software. finally, if you specify no options at the end, the message is
written out to the file with newlines only at the ends of paragraphs and
no text header... this makes it useful for re-importing into a msged
message.

more optimizations for speed. rot10/rot13 is temporarily disabled.

direct video access is now written in assembler code

----- 1.999.3

fixed a rather embarassing bug in usenet quoting..

improved performance somewhat by rewriting part of the direct video code
and one library function in assembly language.

quickbbs support is temporarily broken... not that it ever worked
right in the first place!

underscores (_) in the quote string are now converted to spaces

fixed a problem with spurious spaces being added when using soft-crs

fixed the notorious 'delete at end of message' problem (i hope!)

fossil video may not work properly at the moment, i changed some keyboard
handling and haven't updated the fossil input routines yet...

fixed a problem with changing addresses.

direct video now uses the bios ONLY for keyboard handling, everything
else is done direct. (including scrolling)

fixed speed problem when loading messages. everything now loads faster
than before.

hidden lines are not quoted unless you turn them on before quoting
the message. unfortunately, this also turns on seen-by lines.

large messages (over about 12k) load slower than they had. sorry,
i'm working on it though.

removed the address from the to line in echomail and local areas

added support for VERY large message, up to available memory.. should
satisfy even the most verbose user

----- 1.999.2

full usenet/internet addressing is now supported in areas tagged as uucp
or news. one caveat... msged looks for an @ sign to determine that what
is being entered on the to line is an address instead of a name. if you
are entering a bang path with no @, prefix it with a @, msged will strip
the leading @ before writing the address to disk.

since to, from and date are shown properly in the message header above the
text, msged doesn't display them a second time in the actual message text

quoting and replying to usenet/internet messages uses the correct addresses.

usenet/internet address display is now done correctly. additionally, the true
date a usenet/internet message was entered is now parsed from usenet header.

began replacing inter/usenet support

figured out a new way of parsing origin lines.    seems to work ok..

fixed a number of null pointer problems in config.c and some in fido.c

message numbers are done slightly differently for consistency between
quick and msg message bases. the number displayed on the top corner is
which message out of how many, the real message number, i.e. the filename
of a .msg file is displayed in parens after the area description

eids are no longer generated by msged in any case, no point in it..

most of bill andrus's changes for os/2 have been integrated in. however, i
may have missed a few

went to large model, permanently... i know when to surrender! working to
keep inside small model was too constraining and limited my ability to
make the thing work right.

fixed bug with intl lines.    it is now put in if the destination zone
doesn't match either your zone or the originating nodes zone.

---- 1.9991

fixed the BIOS video bug..

removed all the secondary ways of  doing things in the config file.   if
the sample config warned that a keyword was obsolete, it's probably gone
in this version.

ANSI support is temporarily #ifdef'ed out

quickbbs support is in... it even works after a fashion

removed support for the binkley colors statement (needed the space)

---- 1.999

i lied about quickbbs support.. it'll have to wait for 1.9991, had to do too
many other fixes to get it in here.

fixed a bug with vfossil handling (don't ask...)

did some more optimization of direct video i/o

fixed a bug when backspacing at the top of a message

fixed the "error: null pointer" bug and possibly a few others in the process

i think i've finally gotten the wordwrap and delete logic working properly

added some preliminary (VERY) support for ANSI video access. when complete
should allow remote operation..

fixed problem with delete line not pulling in the right line at the bottom
of the screen

redid the word wrap logic yet again.  i believe that this version should
be considerably more stable than previous versions. it is iterative
rather than recursive and uses less stack space. it also does a lot less
memory allocating and freeing, so it shouldn't fragment the heap as
often (you'll see fewer "heap corrupted" errors.

punctuation wrap problem is fixed.

fixed a problem with trailing spaces in the config file.

the boss keyword is no longer supported in the config file.  use a fully
qualified address and the privatenet keyword.

one more command has been added to the reader, scan.  scan is initially
bound to the * key (either will do).  this command scans all areas for new
messages.  used in conjunction with next and prev area, you can check for mail
without ever hitting the areas menu.

delword is fixed! (finally...)  now works as you'd expect it to.

added two new commands to the reader, next_area (+) and prev_area (-). if areas
have been scanned (via alt-s on the areas menu), the commands go to the
next and previous areas with unread messages in them, if no areas have
new messages or if areas have not been scanned, then they move to the next
and previous areas.

fixed at least one of the problems with doing a lot of deletions via
delete character.  also fixed a bug that was corrupting the heap when you
aborted a message that had been heavily edited.

finally fixed the alias address lookup again.  sorry about the mess...

config files are broken again.  i've changed the way areas are declared
in the msged.cfg file.  the syntax is shown below:

fido    mail ATTRIB "description"   path    areatag
quick   uucp                        board #
    news
    local
    echo

each line indicates an alternative value for a field.
ATTRIB is zero or more of p,c,k,d and h indicating the default attributes
for the message area, p being privileged, c crash, k kill/sent, d direct
and h hold. the description must be enclosed in double quotes, unlike
previous versions, single quotes no longer work here. path applies only
to fido style message bases, if the area is a quick message base, this
field is interpreted as a board number. areatag only applies to echomail
areas.

not only am i breaking config files, i'm breaking batch files too... msged
now returns MUCH more information in the errorlevel.  the following are
additive...

    type of message entered            errorlevel
        netmail                         1
        echomail                        2
        uucp mail                       4
        uucp news                       8
        local messages                 16

so, if you enter a netmail message, a uucp news message AND an echomail
message, msged will exit with errorlevel 11.  as you can see, this gives
you great flexibility in what you run when exiting, but it is going to
require a significant batch file change.  i'm including my readmail.bat
in the distribution..

---- 1.998z

the next version will be 1.999 and WILL have quickbbs support working, it
will be basic, but it will work.  additionally, proper support for quoting
usenet messages will be back sometime in the 1.999s along with the setup
screen. i really am planning on releasing 2.00 someday!

fixed search... it looks at the to, from and subject lines in the header
again

writing a message to disk now puts the area description in as well

quickbbs reader improved a bit more, now reads the first message in the
base..

finally got rid of blank ^AREPLY: lines in changed messages

---- 1.998y

^APATH lines should no longer be stripped from changed messages..

fixed (i think) blank ^AREPLY: to INTL messages

fixed FMPT problems.

fixed the color problems.

still can't write to a quickbbs message base... not that works anyway.

significant error checking and bulletproofing added to the quick support,
won't lock up at the drop of a hat anymore...

you can now delete messages from a quickbbs message base

added more error checking to date routines.  invalid dates are now flagged
as such

fixed attribution line bugs...

---- 1.998x

emergency bug fix for intl line support.

---- 1.998w

the settings screen has been temporarily removed.  it will be back soon,
bigger and better than ever.

fixed bug with the message attribute keywords

msged now lets you design the usenet style attribution line. it is done
with the new command "attribution" in the config file.  essentially, you
put the attribution keyword followed by the string you want used into your
config file.  the default is:

    attribution In a message of <%m %d %h> %f (%a) writes:\n

the percent (%) signs indicate a special format character follows.  the
format characters have the following meanings:

    %t      name of person original message was two
    %f      name of person original was from
    %a      address of sender of original message
    %w      day of week original was sent (3 letters)
    %d      day of month original was sent (1-31)
    %m      month original was sent (3 letters)
    %y      year original was sent (00-99)
    %h      time original was sent (hh:mm)
    %%      a percent sign

if you want a blank line separating the attribution line from the text,
make sure you add the \n at the end...

reformatting now updates the screen more quickly and with less fuss.  and it
works better to boot...

if you seem to be having trouble with your userlists, make sure that you
don't have tabs in them, that will confuse things..  a common way of screwing
up a userlist is to use an editor that converts multiple spaces to tabs

added the area a message was forwarded from into the origination line on
a forwarded message.  this doesn't mean that you can automatically forward
across areas (although you could easily write a macro to so) but it makes
it easier to forward a message then move it somewhere else.

changed the way messages are written to disk internally.  let me know if
something strange happens that you can't explain

fixed <del> when on the last line.  the line is now refreshed properly

don't use <del> to delete more than a paragraph or so one character
at a time, it will cause problems.  i'm sorta working on it, it doesn't crop
up too often.

<delword> also has a tendency to do strange and amazing things if you try
to delete too much with it.

fixed handling of soft-cr's in incoming messages.. took me long enough!

the domain keyword no longer works, put your domain at the end of your
address.  this has been gone for a long time, but i had forgotten to
document it. it'll be back eventually though.

---- 1.998v

all bugs that i know of are fixed... i'm counting on y'all to find the ones
i don't know about.

to my knowledge the only thing left to add is the quickbbs support.  that
will become the main item to test in 1.999.  hopefully, the 1.999 series
won't have to go alphabetical!

delete word right is bound to <ctrl><t>, if you're on a word, deletes the
word and trailing whitespace to the next word.  if you aren't on a word,
deletes whitespace to the next word.  a word is anything surrounded by
whitespace

an intl line is put in the message whenever the destination zone is not the
same as that in your primary address (the first one listed in your config
files).  if this is a problem i'll make it optional

put in the infrastructure for fidozone support, will complete
it as soon as i find out the proper formats

opusdate format is now included. to turn it off use NO OPUSDATE, it will
be mutually exclusive with FIDOZONE

msgid's are now placed in echomail as well as netmail

moved the word scanning up a couple of lines on the areas screen

fixed problem with deleting <cr>'s and single blank lines in the editor,
the editor now refreshes the screen correctly when necessary.

fixed problem with domain when doing cc:s

---- 1.998u

fixed lastread pointers in new areas.

slated for next beta are options to enable opus format messages and fido 12
format messages (mutually exclusive)

added an asterisk in the upper right corner to indicate a message is loading,
it changes color as the load progresses.

rewrote the word wrap and reformat code in the editor.  it's faster, cleaner
and easier for a mere mortal to understand.  as a side benefit, it now works
correctly <grin>

---- 1.998t

sped video writes up somewhat

when you write a message to disk, the message number is replaced with the
word Date:

when you start a subject line with D:\ where D is a drive letter, msged will
assume a file attach and set the attach bit accordingly.

<ctrl><home> and <ctrl><end> go to start and end of message respectively
when in the editor.

<ctrl><pgup> and <ctrl><pgdn> go to the top and bottom of the screen

backspace and delete now automagically reformat as you use them.

reformat (<alt><f>) in the editor is finally fixed! yippee!

fixed bug in editor, pressing <ctrl><end> to go to the end of a message
caused strange and harmful things to happen.

---- 1.998s

a feature that deserves a bit more documentation is the paste buffer.
when you use <alt><a>...<alt><c> to cut out a block of text, that block
remains in the paste buffer until you cut another block out.  this includes
across editing different messages.  this is useful when quoting from
multiple messages, quote the first message and cut out the text you want,
then abort the edit with <esc>.  next quote the second message, you can
now paste the quote from the first message into the quote of the second
message using <alt><p>

fixed the list problem, turns out i wasn't freeing up memory allocated
to a message when i was done with it.  this will make the rest of the
program more stable as well.

fixed bug in cc: which truncated last character of a name in some cases

---- 1.998r

the list command now exits when an area is empty.

BROKEN CONFIG FILE ALERT!!!   some of the configuration options have been
changed.  the following keywords have been eliminated:

    softcr, seen-bys, tearline, shownotes, confirm

they have been replaced with a new keyword called "No".  all of the above
options now default to ON.  to turn them off, use "No " followed by one
of:

    softcr, seen-bys, tearline, shownotes, confirm, msgids, eids, strip

msgids will turn off the automatic generation of a msgid and eids will
turn off automatic generation of eids.  strip will prevent msged from
stripping pre-existing <ctrl><a> kludge lines from the message when it
is written to disk.

note: moving the cursor around a lot in the message list screen will
cause problems.  if you see bogus message numbers, IMMEDIATELY press <esc>
twice to exit msged.  i'm working on fixing this, but don't know when
it will be done.

changed areas menu again.  added another numeric column, cleaned up
the format somewhat as well.

---- 1.998q

rewrote part of the code in assembler.  makes a very slight speed
improvement, but you'll need a stopwatch to see it.

fixed cc: so explicit address overrides implicit address

fixed bug where local was being on all messages written by msged.

---- 1.998p

fixed deleol <alt><k> (delete to end of line) in editor

added support for secondary lastread pointers using the "lastread" config
keyword, syntax is:

    lastread <filename>

where <filename> can be any filename.  it'll be the same in every message
area though...

fixed a rather insidious bug in the macro handling for getkey(), showed
up when i added the fossil support.

corrected message counts on the areas menu

fixed bug for points in that the point was being put on all addresses (oops)

video fossil support has been added to all versions of the program. one problem
is that it means msged no longer compiles with production ZTC.  #ifdefs will
be added before release to compensate

the "username" config keywaord has been removed. use "name" or "sysop" instead

---- 1.998o

significant (to me!) size reduction

changes to source so it would compile under msc again

---- 1.998n

fixed a bug in the color setting logic... leading spaces confused it

changed the date display format a bit... makes it a bit more readable

fixed the bug in forward where a <cr> was being stuck in after the datestamp

address lookup doesn't work properly with one word names when doing cc:s, it
works fine in other situation... i'm working on it..

---- 1.998m

fixed a rather embarassing bug that prevented you from sending messages
to /0 nodes.  i was a little overzealous in the defaulting...

fixed another heap corruption bug.. this is getting monotonous!

this has been in a while, but i forgot to document it.  if you list
multiple addresses in multiple zones in your config file, when entering
a message, msged will look for the first address with a zone matching the
destination of the message and will use that as the originating address.

changed the area screen a little... it now shows the number of unread
messages, then the total number of messages in the area.

---- 1.998l

fixed a hidden bug in the message creation routines... it only came out in
foul weather (a pointer was being free()ed, but still was used)

what quickbbs support there is is extremely unstable.  i would strongly
recommend against its use.

finally fixed the video reinitialization.  you can now change video modes
from a dos shell from msged (using the dos command for example). when you
return from the shell, msged will use the new video mode properly.  IT WILL
CHANGE THE RIGHT MARGIN TO BE 1 LESS THAN THE SCREEN WIDTH!

added the "dos" command and bound it to ! when in the reader (sorry, not
available from the editor).  basically, this command executes a single dos
command and returns to msged. it requires a keypress to return.  this could
be used to implement an external editor interface when combined with a macro.

to have msged append to confmail.out instead of rewriting it, prepend
a '+' to the filename in your configuration.

when you move or copy a message into an area, that area should now be
listed in the confmail.out (or whatever you call it) file

msged now longer chdirs about the disk

added a nifty little feature to the areas menu... you'll notice that the
vertical separator bar has been removed.  but that's not the nifty part,
when you scan areas using <alt><s>, msged will now display your current
position in the area and how many messages are in the area.

---- 1.998k

fixed most of the problems with the cc: command

when the address search routine fails, it now returns your address.
however, the address is then displayed in the warn color, so that you know
it wasn't found.  unfortunately, this doesn't apply to address lookups
within the cc: function (the color display that is)

when doing cc:s msged checks the primary and secondary userlists BEFORE
it checks to see if you put an address on the line manually.  if the name
is found in the userlists, the address on the line is ignored.  would y'all
prefer that it be the other way around?

in case you're wondering, i'm trying to clean up all the nits in the main
program before i start fighting with the quickbbs stuff again...

---- 1.998j

color settings are changed slightly.  compatible for the most part, except that
gray and brown are no longer recognized (use white and yellow). only three
characters of the color are needed, i.e. magenta is mag, blue is blu and
black is bla.  if you append a + sign to the foreground color, you get high
intensity, appended to the background gives blinking.

fidostyle quoting has been removed.  if you wanna fidostyle quote, delete
the attribution line.

number of bug fixes, message attributes are now set properly when entering
new messages.

a number of internal hooks were removed for stuff like encryption that
i don't ever plan to implement.  this speeds up stuff, makes it smaller
and makes writing messages easier.

anybody want to write the new docs?

---- 1.998i

message timestamps are now standardized and converted into a unix style long
int internally.  makes things work better when copying from quick to msg bases
and vice versa

simplified parsenode() in config.c.  does the same things, only more
efficiently.  it's significantly smaller

dropped support for internet addresses for the time being.  i bumped my head
on the roof of small model for the first time...

---- 1.998h

EIDs are now fixed to be compatible.  i use 20 bits of the 32 bit timestamp

---- 1.998g

i'm procrastinating 1.999... mainly because i want to make sure i've got
everything else working before i finish screwing around with quick.

this version fixes a number of problems, mostly having to do with deleting
messages

msged now does EIDs of it's own flavor.  they shouldn't cause qmail any
problem though.

kludgelines are stripped properly when you change a message. (finally!)

the kludgeline config keyword is no longer necessary.  all kludgelines are
shown when you use the <alt><v> (view) command.

---- 1.998f

i lied about the docs (i hate writing documentation...)

fixed lockup when deleting first message

removed usenet address parsing... it just confused things anyway

fixed the great seenby quoting bug

---- 1.998e

still nothing new in the quickbbs department.

fixed heap corruption bug when entering a new message into an empty area

put the settings screen back... sorry guys!

next version will have a preliminary copy of the docs and should have most
of the quickbbs support finished (except for niceties like message
threads). if things continue to stabilize nicely i'm looking at a general
beta for version 1.999 with a release early to mid september of 2.00

---- 1.998d

nothing new in the quickbbs department

fixed a couple of problems with deleting messages (was running out of
handles, of all things!)

fixed heap corruption errors when quoting messages (i hope... let me know if
a "heap corrupted" message shows up and what you were doing when it happened)

---- 1.998c

you might have noticed that the search command isn't checking the message
header... that will be corrected in the next release, it's because of a
change in the way the program does things..

added read-only quickbbs support, write is coming in next alpha

fixed heap corruption problem (fingers crossed!)

to use quickbbs areas you need to add two new lines to your config file, the
first is:

    quickbbs PATH

where PATH is the directory containing the quickbbs msg*.bbs files.  the
other line associates board numbers with a descriptive area name. (this will
be extended in the future).  currently it is in the format:

    quick DESCRIPTION BOARD

where DESCRIPTION is the area description (in double quotes) and BOARD is the
integer board number (>0).  the quickbbs message base takes significantly
less disk space and is also faster.  there are currently some things missing
from the quickbbs support, namely, it can't be used for netmail, no reply
threading and a few other miscellany.

---- 1.998b

fixed bug in usenet address support

fixed delete bug

fixed change bug

fixed move/copy (again!)

warning, very long messages may appear to lock up the machine.  give them
some time before you decide it's dead. (at least 30 seconds)

cross y'all's fingers...  with any luck the next version will have the
quickbbs support in it.  the infrastructure is in place, i just have to write
the actual low level access routines.

---- 1.998a

this was a long time coming... had to work around a couple of compiler bugs

anyway, you may not notice much different, except...

move/copy doesn't work again..

---- 1.9988

redid move/copy.  think i fixed the bug there...

smaller...

quickbbs support is now scheduled for 1.999

if this version works satisfactorily for all alphas, i am planning a beta
release by 1.999.  let me know...

---- 1.9987

fixed bug that truncated subject line when setting read bit

---- 1.9986

fixed the forward command

---- 1.9985

message list fixed (i think)

better large screen support

---- 1.9984 notes

move/copy message bug fixed.

delete message leaves you at next available message in area

some fixes to message list, however, still not working quite right.

fixed bug in find command that kept it from working properly

reported bugs that i can't reproduce:

   message list off by one
   grunged message lockup

---- 1.9983 notes

this is just a fix to repair a rather embarassing bug in 9882...

---- 1.9882 notes

WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!

this version may be hazardous to your mental health... it may be a bit
fragile still.  i think i've worked out most of the big problems, but
you may have a lock up or two...

some internal changes to how the message list is stored.  this should
give people who don't renumber more room to play with as less room is
required for non-contiguous message numbers now.  this is also
preparatory to adding the quickbbs stuff.

---- 1.9881 notes

fixed cc: bug!!!  yippee!!  hurray!!  <dancing in the streets>

---- 1.9980 notes

fixed the out of memory error when scanning

cc:s still go into neverneverland the second time you use them, i know what
the problem is, just not why....

---- 1.998 notes

msged now saves and restores the current directory when shelling to dos

areas menu is finally fixed and behaves as you'd expect (i have 30 areas,
so i finally noticed the problem!)

home and end go to the first and last areas in the areas menu

msgid's are added to netmail (EIDs coming to echomail soon...)

domain kludge lines are back in

initials are properly inserted into quote strings

new quote string macro!  the & (ampersand) expands to all initials, i.e.
for the name "Randy Van de Loo", the string ">&:" would expand to ">RVdL:"

---- 1.997F notes

msged now does a chdir() to the message area directory.  seems to be a bit
faster.  your home directory is saved and returned to when you exit.

this version should have all the functionality of 1.99 restored, plus some
new stuff.  i believe i've finally cleaned everything up after the great
axe job...

---- 1.997E notes

cc: is back.  needs more testing....

cc: address parsing should be more robust

qm passthrough areas ignored (but you already knew that <grin>)

---- 1.997B notes

cc: temporarily disabled pending rewrite (i'll show it!)

commands now work from the message list screen (like delete, etc)

---- 1.997A notes

smaller!

NO linefeeds are put into messages, lines are terminated only by
a carriage return

soft carriage returns automatically added to usenet messages

usenet addresses support improved (not yet complete)

internal message structure completely redone.... watch for falling bits!

search now starts from the CURRENT message

new compiler

message ids temporarily removed (until the dust settles)

msged now uses the comspec to find the proper comspec

---- 1.9972 notes

added message id hidden lines

more scrunching

message size limit set to 10k in small model versions

---- 1.996 notes

have done some serious scrunching, optimizing for size (cuts 10k off final!)

message flags supported on a per area basis, use PDKCH before the area
description, the old settings still apply to the first area.

direct flag disables all gating for a message, sets xx2 attribute

quoteright sets the right margin for quoted text.

function 0 is an autostart macro, executes when msged is started.

internet style addressing supported for fido addresses, full ufgate addressing
rsn.

other stuff i don't remember...  you'll find it <grin>