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      The history of FEBBS
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    1.70  1991-03-14

    ■ Here we go again. ( All new Stuff at the End )

    ■ SuperBbs 1.06a have a different structure on the Areafile
      called FLSEARCH.BBS. Febbs has changed to reflect this change.
      Reported by Aki Antman.

    ■ If you made a filelist from the menu and after that wished
      to enter an area for editing then the Arealist had been
      partialy lost from memory. The other way around Edit first
      lists after that was no problem.

    ■ I realised that allthough Febbs supports descriptions up
      to 150 Characters per line it chopped of them to 80 when
      you added the DL counter.

    ■ Febbs now removes Avatar codes when creating filelists in
      Remote Access mode as well. This is due to the fact that
      RA v1.00 will be able to handle the Avatar codes.

    ■ Febbs didn't recognice Avatar codes sometimes when you
      where editing in the editor. It acted just like all
      codes was spaces.

    ■ < F5 > Added a viewer for how the Files.Bbs looks to the user.
      It displays the page your standing at in the editor and it
      is aware of some Avatar codes. Press < F5 > to have a look at it.

    ■ Added support for The ^Y<Char><Repeat> Avatar code in both
      the viewer < F5 > and when creating lists. That way your
      users will get a filelist that looks just like the list they
      saw on the screen while they where online.

    ■ < Ctr-P > Add character literal at cursor position.
      Press < Ctrl-P > and then Any key ( or use Alt-Keypad ) to
      add any character to the Files.Bbs. Even if it is occupied by
      a function usaly.

   ■  < Alt-F9 > Added an easy way to add some nice Avatar colours
      to your file lists. Simply press < Alt-F9 > and choose colour
      from the colour chart. Press Enter and the Proper Avatar code
      is inserted at the cursor position.

    ■ < Ctrl-L > Copy description from line your standing on to
      file below. Nice when youre adding same description to multiple
      files.
      Suggested by Andreas Birgerson

    ■ Febbs now fully supports the listpath option most BBS packages
      have. Before the Files.Bbs file had to be called Files.Bbs but
      now it can be called anything. With a few restrictions ofcourse.
      The name of the Files.Bbs compatible file must include both a
      name and an extension and the extension must not be .BAK.
      Otherwise that there should be no restrictions. This also cures
      the fact that if the path to Files.Bbs wasn't terminated with
      a backslash then Febbs would go a directory level to high.
      Suggested by Lars Hellgren.

    ■ The texts "Matrix File request possible" etc under the header in the
      filelist have been made configurable. This is so that you can put
      a message in your own language there.
      Suggested by Klaus Breuer.

    ■ < Ctrl-N > Touch all tagged files. Works just like < Alt-N > that
      touches the file on the current line, allthough this one touches
      all tagged files. By touching i mean setting current date and time
      on the file.
      Suggested by Ludvig Norin.

    ■ Support for the 43/50 row mode on EGA/VGA adapters added. Febbs also
      supports other modes of Screen length as long as you doesn't shell
      to dos and reset the screen to an other mode. If you do that youre
      on your own!

    ■ The first try to get Febbs into some sort of mode where you can
      edit the whole line has been made. Now you can edit the whole
      150 Character description line.

    ■ I have upgraded to Turbo Pascal 6 and at the same time i upgraded
      Turbo Professionals Toolboxes. I have also dropped CFi that was
      the Unit i used to access the archives. The reason for that was that
      i didn't have the source to it and i couldn't use it with TP6.
      So i built my own interface to the archives.

      Febbs now supports the following Archivers.

                LHArc  1.13 -> 2.11        SFX
                AR     0.20                SFX
                LArc   1.33                SFX
                ARJ    1.00                SFX
                PKZip  1.10                SFX
                ARC    6.02
                PKArc  3.61
                PAK    2.51
                Hyper  2.50
                ZOO    2.01                SFX

      The Archives programs with the SFX flag are Febbs also able to
      peek into the so called SelF-Xtracting files made by these Archives

    ■ Added support for a monochrome mode of Febbs. If you're running on
      a non colour screen then supply the /M parameter and Febbs will
      use it's set of B/W-Colours. Of Course you can edit the colours
      with Feppla as well but if you wan't to run Febbs temporarily
      on another machine then this is the way to go.
      Suggested by Tommi Jansson.

    ■ The Column that the TAB key indents the line your standing on is
      now configurable. This is because some people like the second line
      of description to begin to the right of any Download counter.
      Suggested by Paul Leffler.

    ■ Febbs now remembers what lines that where tagged when you shell to
      DOS or to any other external support program.
      Suggested by Ludvig Norin.

    ■ A check to see if a DL Counter already is present is performed when
      you try to add a DL Counter. The Check is very hard to do, due to all
      the different styles of the DL counter. Hopefully it works
      satisfactory most of the time.
      Suggested by Mark bayles.

    ■ When Shelling to external support programs Febbs will change directory
      to the directory where the files are before executing any external
      program. Works just like the DOS-Shell. This is because some programs
      doesn't support full path to the files.
      Suggested by Paul Leffler.

    ■ The number of Files displayed in the Best Download list is now
      configurable. A value between 5 and 50 is valid.
      Suggested by Paul Leffler.

    ■ Five new slots for external support programs installed.
      These programs can be anything you like. They are assigned the
      Ctrl-F1 to Ctrl-F5 keys. Just like all the other external programs
      these can be accessed via the DOS path. And if not in the path
      please supply full path name.

      The following meta strings are availiable on the command lines:

       ~C = Current directory
       ~P = Path and Name of Current files.bbs
       ~N = Name and full path to file on current line
       ~@ = Text list containing full names of all tagged files in area
       ~D = The description of the file on the current line.
       ~A = The Areaname of the current area as found in the Areafile.

      The meta strings can occur more than once on the same line.

      Ex1. If Febbs is executed from C:\FEBBS with this commandline

           MTA /@~@

           Would execute Make Them Anything <Tm> Rob Van.Hoeven with a
           commandline looking like :

           MTA /@C:\FEBBS\FBTAGG.TMP

           The FBTAGG.TMP file is the file where Febbs puts the list of
           all tagged files in the editor.

      Ex2. If your standing on a line looking like this:

           FENRIR.GIF   Nice Picture of Your SysOp.

           And the Command line looked like this :

           HATCH /cTIC.CFG /f~N /d~D

           Then his would expand to :

           HATCH /cTIC.CFG /fFENRIR.GIF /dNice Picture of Your SysOp.

           Allowing you to easily hatch files into different File echos.
           ( Hatch <Tm> Barry Geller )

    ■ You may now configure if you want Febbs to pause before returning
      from a shell to let you see the last screen of the program that
      you shelled to. This function however does not affect the "look
      inside archives" function.

    ■ When you use