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- W i n N E T M a i l (TM)
- Copyright (c) 1994 by Computer Witchcraft, Inc.
- ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
-
- Release Notes: WinNET Mail and News, v2.20
- August 1, 1994
-
- * Addition of self-correcting mechanisms to help insure that
- various of the WinNET database files (supporting the
- folder and mail system) do not become corrupt. Under
- most circumstances, recovery from damaged files is automatic,
- with easy recovery from other situtations.
-
- * Repair of problem with Mail Queue Editor Recycle function,
- which caused problems with the mail database (caused
- From: and To: fields in outgoing mail to appear blank,
- and sometimes caused the error "No OK from modem" in
- communications.
-
- * Work around to fix font problems when WinNET is run at the
- same time as Lotus Organizer.
-
- * Modification of UUCICO 3-way handshake algorythm for better
- compatibility with DEC and Taylor UUCP systems.
-
- * Fixed problem that caused Mail From: to show on MDI Windows
- without the address of recipient from v 2.05 on.
-
- * Bug fixed in main delivery agent that could cause runtime
- error under certain circumstances.
-
- * Misc corrections to text, etc.
-
-
- Release Notes: WinNET Mail and News v2.10
- March 8, 1994
-
- * WinNET can now be used with any UUCP service provider.
- During setup, the option is given to choose either
- Computer Witchcraft or an 'Alternate' provider. When
- used with an alternative service, WinNET is a shareware
- program with a registration cost of $99.00.
-
- * Added support for compressed news feeds (12 and 16 bit).
-
- * Some changes to mail delivery agent process to improve
- performance and reliability.
-
- * Bug fixed which caused problems finding attachments on
- first line of file.
-
- * Bug fixed which caused problems savings modified setup
- parameters when software installation copied to
- different drive:\path.
-
- * More International support (translatable resources).
-
- * From_ field header changed to systemname!username.
-
- * Changed Message-Id field to Message-ID in mailer
- headers for compliance with RFC.
-
- Release Notes: WinNET Mail and News v2.05
-
- * Enhancements to Reply functions: software now correctly
- picks up multiple recipients in either the From: or
- CC: fields and optionally allows users to respond to
- all or to just the original author.
-
- * Various additional header changes for better compatibility
- with other mail systems and software.
-
- * Additional configurability for uucp version of software.
-
- Release Notes: WinNET Mail and News v2.04
-
- * Extended chat script and changed syntax.
- INITIATE statement modified.
- Support for adding delay character.
- Removed complex true/false syntax.
-
- * From_ line syntax changed to bang-path style
-
- * Problem fixed which caused changing system name not
- to be updated in chat.rc
-
- * Address book fixed so that 1024 bytes of addresses
- work properly, rather than causing runtime error.
-
- Release Notes: WinNET Mail and News v2.03
-
- * Extended chat script syntax
- INITIATE statement added.
- * Emits standard From_ field in mail headers.
-
- * Various multiple version integration enhancements.
-
- Release Notes: WinNET Mail and News v2.02
-
- * Queue Editor bug that caused RUNTIME error when
- during "Recycle" operation fixed.
-
- * Time Zones corrected relative to GMT for US Time Zones.
-
- * chat.rc script file added for systems that require
- customization of login procedures.
-
- * International version integration support.
-
- * Bug fixed which caused setup to be unable to write
- setup files to the correct directory when application
- is copied to a new drive or path.
-
- * Word-wrap now default to on setting as "factory
- default."
-
- * Support for European keyboards enhanced.
-
- * Changed name of default, catch-all newsgroup from
- "news.bad.or.stale" to "news.not.subscribed.to" to
- avoid misleading user.
-
- * Bug fixed which caused articles posted to a group
- that is not locally subscribed to be posted twice
- in 'new.bad.or.stale'. Articles now post just once
- to 'news.not.subscribed.to' and a dialog box tells
- user that the article will post OK on the network.
-
- * When a user cancels subscription to a group and articles
- arrive on the system for a group that is subscribed to
- but which are also crossposted to the canceled group,
- the articles now post only to subscribed to groups.
-
- * Fixed problem which could result in failure to post
- articles properly if spaces occur in a list of news
- groups in the Newsgroups: field of header. Program
- now eliminates any spaces.
-
- Release Notes: WinNET Mail and News v2.01 STD version
-
- * Communications program timings adjusted.
- * News subscription hang problems resolved.
-
- Release Notes: WinNET Mail and News v2.00
-
- * Documentation completed for News subsystems of program.
- * Documentation completed for Cleanup program.
- * Documentation completed for Queue Editor.
- * Bug fixed which caused long aliases to sometimes
- fail when posting mail.
- * Maximum User Name length changed from 8 to 10 chars.
- * Forwarding mail when running a background search no
- longer causes a GPF.
- * Time Zone settings incorporated into setup process
- rather than requiring user to set an environment
- variable in autoexec.bat file.
-
- Release Notes: WinNET Mail and News v1.60U (Update)
- July 11, 1992
-
- Bug Fixes:
-
- * When news/copy, news/copy thread functions are used,
- the cursor no longer disappears.
-
- * News archiving "high water mark" now resets properly
- when all articles in a newsgroup are removed with cleanup
- (by setting a parameter of 0 days, or a low enough
- parameter to succeed in removing all articles in a news
- group).
-
- * Bug fixed in News/Search which would cause searches
- across "ALL" newsgroups to fail.
-
- * Bug fixed in News/Search which sometimes caused the
- Next Item function to behave erratically.
-
- * Bug fixed which caused 2 character system names to
- be rejected by setup program.
-
- * More stable edition of mailman.exe program which is
- less prone to runtime failures and GPFs.
-
- * Updated edition of QUEUE EDITOR which once again
- properly recognizes and processes news article postings.
-
- * Fixed bug which sometimes causes general protection
- faults when opening news folders.
-
- * Fixed minor bug which sometimes incorrectly fails to
- show number of lines in a news article.
-
- Release Notes: Version 1.60B
- June 30, 1993
-
- __ Main Program__
-
- * WinNET now has a context sensitive toolbar, with mail and
- news contexts.
-
- In the mail context, the toolbar sports the following
- buttons:
-
- Print
- Call
- Inbox
- Folders
- Compose
- Reply
- Forward
- Delete
- Move
- Previous Message
- Next Message
- News
- Cascade
-
- When the News button is clicked (or a news related window
- is opened), the toolbar switches to the news context, which
- has the following buttons:
-
- Print
- Call
- Inbox (to move back to mail context)
- Reply
- Forward
- Post
- Follow-Up
- Copy
- Mark
- Previous Message
- Next Message
- News
- Cascade
-
- * New functions have been added to the main program, including:
-
- - A Previous Message function that works in both mail
- and news to move to prior messages.
- - A Copy Thread option is available on the news menu
- that allows the user to highlight any article in a
- thread and copy the entire thread from the news
- hierarchy to a mail folder.
- - Search functions similar to those in mail have been
- extended to work for news as well.
- - The Queue Editor is now a WinNET menu choice (and has
- an accelerator key as well -- Ctrl+Q)
- - The preface "In article <message-id>, User Name (address) writes:"
- is now automatically supplied by the follow-up command.
-
- Additional Program Modifications:
-
- * The following accelerator keys have been added as an aid
- to more efficient operation of the program:
-
- Close Ctrl+Hyphen (this closes any open window)
- InBox Ctrl+Shift+I
- Mail Sent Folder Ctrl+S
- Folder List Ctrl+L
- Next Item Ctrl+N
- Previous Item Ctrl+L
- Reply to Ctrl+R
- Forward Ctrl+F
- Move Item Ctrl+Shift+M
- Copy Item Ctrl+Shift+0
- Address Book Ctrl+B (changed from Ctrl+A)
- Queue Editor Ctrl+Q
- Follow-up Ctrl+U
- News Group List Ctrl+Shift+L
- Mark Seen Ctrl+X
- Tile Ctrl+T
- Cascade Ctrl+Spacebar
- Word-wrap toggle Ctrl+W
-
- * A preference dialog item has been added -- Hide Old Articles --
- that, when set, causes articles previously seen to be suppressed
- from appearing in news group folders.
- * The operation of the Mark Seen function has been changed as
- follows:
-
- From the news viewer window, closes the window.
- From a news group folder, marks the currently
- highlighted item as read and advances one item.
- From the news group list, marks all articles in the
- currently highlighted newsgroup read en mass.
-
- * Added support for detaching binary files directly from system
- editor (previously, detach was only available from the
- mail composition or news posting editors).
-
- * The cursor now changes to an hour glass in during several
- lengthy operations where previously it did not (such as when
- closing a mail folder with many deleted items).
-
- * When the user enters a comma in an address book name, this
- is now detected by the program -- the user is warned about
- doing this, and the program explains to the user that the
- comma has been automatically changed to a semi-colon.
-
- * Some minor changes have been made to tab order and default
- buttons in address book dialog to make operations here
- more intuitive.
-
- * The functioning of the Next Item button has been changed to
- close the viewer window when transitioning from a new mail
- or news article to one that has been previously seen, so that
- the user knows he/she has moved out of the sequence of new
- material.
-
- * Added support for adding the Lines: line to headers of articles
- created by WinNET.
-
- * Status of News Posts are not returned unless there is a
- problem. (Return status on *failure* only).
-
- * The File/Close function now works for *any* WinNET window and
- added accelerator hey (Ctrl+Hyphen) that allows user to easily
- move out of any window without using the mouse.
-
- * The size of the Select Folder dialog box has been enlarged
- for so user's with many folders defined can select a folder
- more easily.
-
- * Various minor menu modifications.
-
-
- Main program BUG fixes:
-
- * Fixed bug where Move Item would re-load same item if cancel
- pressed on dialog box.
-
- * Fixed bug where move operation from Mail Sent folder doesn't recall
- previous move folder as default. Fixed same bug in "Copy" operation.
-
- * Fixed bug which caused attached files with certain permission settings
- not to be recognized by the detach binary mail command.
-
- * Fixed editor bug that would not allow mousing down lines when
- caret positioned at last line of the document.
-
- * Fixed bug where closing a window when that window was the
- only remaining window left its status line below. Now, the
- status line clears completely.
-
- * Fixed bug where "opening folder xxx, please be patient" shows
- in the status line area when user clicks the InBox button
- when the Inbox is already open.
-
- * Made viewers less "sensitive" to detection of control characters
- in text files to prevent them from being classified as binary (this
- leads to new line characters showing up as blocks on the screen
- and loss of formatting of articles that sometimes are posted
- to clarinet groups that have tron/troff control characters.
-
- * Preferences dialog box minor cosmetic cleanup.
-
- * When new mail arrives in mailbox, previously highlighted
- selection is now properly retained.
-
- * Fixed a bug that caused the Lines: line of the incoming
- header to be improperly parsed as blank if the number of
- lines: is less than 10.
-
- * Fixed a bug in system editor related to saving files with
- the default name of "noname". When files are saved for the
- first time, the save file dialog box would allow the user
- to rename the file something more distinctive than "noname".
- However, the new name selected given by the user would not
- be reflected in the window title or status bar. Now these
- areas are properly updated.
-
- __Cleanup Program__
-
- * The cleanup program now has a full Windows "user interface";
- it is now controlled with buttons and dialog boxes.
-
- * Support for archiving newsgroups, on an individual basis.
-
- * Improved cooperative multi-tasking.
-
- * Settings retained from session to session.
-
- * The program can now be aborted in mid-session, without damage
- to news database, and without loss of state information.
-
- * The Cleanup "Days" parameter is now interpreted as >= days
- rather than > days, to avoid confusion and to allow deleting
- _all_ news by using a parameter of 0.
-
-
- __Mail Man Program__
-
- * Better fault tolerance
- * Better cooperative multi-tasking.
- * Improved parsing of non-RFC headers.
-
- __Queue Editor program__
-
- * New, and improved...
-
-
-
- Release Notes:
- May 16, 1993
- WinNET v1.53B
-
- - Added support for parsing of certain non-standard news article
- headers.
- - Setup now adds "Cleanup News" icon properly to Program Manager
- Folder.
- - Other minor bug fixes.
-
- Release Notes:
- March 5, 1993
- WinNET v1.52B
-
- - Fixed bugs in Subscriptions dialog box that caused system
- to hang and or spool numerous spurious files under certain
- circumstances.
- - Added "Copy to Folder" function for copying news articles from
- news database hierarchy to mail folder of user's choice.
-
- Release Notes:
- February 9, 1993
- WinNET v1.51B
-
- - Fixed bug that would cause Reply function to hang occasionally.
- - Fixed bug in UUCICO that caused input to be lost on
- receive file synchronization errors.
-
- Release Notes:
- January 31, 1992
- Version 1.50B
-
- - Added comprehensive support for Usenet News Groups.
- - Cleanup program for pruning news articles.
- - New Mail Queue editor provides interface to mail queue.
- - Fix to problem on some systems with font size problem.
- - Setup program modified to require correct length system
- and login ids.
- - Program changed so that it finds startup directory
- dynamically, rather than from data base file, so
- that it can be moved from system to system, or to
- a different disk, more easily.
- - Added disk space checking to communication's program.
-
- Release Notes:
- November 28, 1992
- Version 1.02
-
- - Routines that open, delete, and move messages changed
- so that the next message in the current folder is loaded
- into the currently open window, rather than destroying
- the currently open window and recreating with the new
- message.
-
- - UUCICO (WinNET Communications Program) modified so that
- it allows up to 100 seconds to connect with CWI server.
- This helps support international calling.
-
- November 12, 1992
- Version 1.01
- This release fixes some minor bugs in the account and setup
- programs, and also bugs with the alias dialog box.
-
- November 1, 1992
- Version 1.0
- Original release
-
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