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- WinVN Install notes:
- WinVN 16-bit:
- Place wvtb.dll in the same directory as the winvn executable.
- Move (don't copy) ctl3dv2.dll into your \windows\system directory.
- WinVN 32-bit:
- Place wvtb32.dll in the same directory as the winvn32 executable.
- Move (don't copy) ctl3d32.dll into your \windows\system32 directory.
-
- WinVN release 0.93.10:
- -- Bug Fixes
- (jcooper) Increased max header len to 800 (helps with long references
- lists), and increased max entry len in composition header
- field to 800
- (jcooper) With !NewArtWnd, click on art in one group wnd, then on art
- in 2nd group wnd, clicking on first art again failed to
- retrieve
- (jcooper) Only enable disconnect/reconnect once connection is really
- established
- (jcooper) Next/Prev buttons in article were not selecting the proper
- activeline in the parent group. ActiveLine selection out
- of sync with actually-displayed article
- (jcooper) Obtains refDoc headers immediately from doc on creation of
- composition window. Avoids problems if refDoc is closed
- before sending composition.
- (jcooper) Personal info dlg warns on clearing identical reply-to
- (jcooper) Main window paint strangeness while not connected.
- (jcooper) Fixed batch sends
- (jcooper) Changed NetHashTable to huge *
- (jcooper) Fixed group article-list window, missing 'n' indicator for new
- articles
- (ptirrell) Fixed Save Auth Password (again)
- (jcooper) Cleaned up some status-bar menu strings
- (jcooper) Allow news server to generate date header for postings.
- (jcooper) Fixed sort-by-subject to ignore leading "re:" notation
- (jcooper) Removed continue-mail-if-post-fails logic. Now if post or
- mail fails, entire send is halted
- (jcooper) In MultiSelect mode, Find did not properly start search from
- top of doc
- (jglasser) Fill article-list window with headers if possible
- (jcooper) Do not allow exit/close/quit while establishing connection.
- (causes GPF on return from gwinsock call)
- (jcooper) Include original keywords header in reply even if not shown
-
- -- New
- (jglasser) Selected newsgroups in main window will be automatically
- listed in the 'Newsgroups:' field of new composition
- (jcooper) Added customizable Composition Font
-
- WinVN release 0.93.9:
- -- Bug Fixes
- (jcooper) Fixed occasional posting bug - empty 2nd post on wrapped-
- text body
- (jcooper) Fixed crash bug in jpiraino's new IDM_POST NewsgroupsPtr code
- (jcooper) Handle mail addresses like "email (name(nickname))"
- (jcooper) Save button in article wnd now opens Save As instead of Save
- (jcooper) Horizontal scrollbar thumbtracking paint problems
- (jcooper) Thumbtrackers got stuck if held down when retrieval completes
- (jcooper) Fixed focus-grabbing problems during multi-article save
-
- WinVN release 0.93.8:
- -- New
- (dumoulin) Colorized toolbars
-
- -- Bug Fixes
- (jpiraino) char buffer size mismatches for .ini parmas fixed
- (jpiraino) hDC released prematurely in winvn.c
- (jpiraino) fix version checking for Windows95
- (rushing) send 'mode reader' command when appropriate
- (dumoulin) fixed GPF's in printing for some print drivers
- (dumoulin) fixed printing of selected text
- (jcooper) Crash if use prev/next function in an article whose
- parent group has been Updated
- (jcooper) Fixed beeps in control dialogs. Really this time 8^)
- (jcooper) Rearranged composition preferences dialog to fit in 640x480
- (jcooper) Memory overrun in ParseAddress caused occasional loss of
- Personal Mail Address
- (jcooper) Fixed In-Reply-To header generation in SMTP mails (was
- sending duplicate Organization line)
- (jcooper) Initiate 3d controls in time for initial newsrc/winvn.ini
- dialog window
- (jcooper) % received incorrect during Update from server
- (jcooper) Removed dormant 'read-only' and 'help' options from open-
- file dialogs
- (jcooper) The drive selected in the SelectPath dialog occasionally
- did not match the current directory shown
- (jcooper) Fixed Ctrl-F (Find) in article view window
- (jcooper) Deselect after copy in article view window
- (jcooper) Cleaned up some double-click-on-article-id retrieval
- interactions
- (jcooper) No longer use hourglass during post/send.
- (jcooper) Update From Server should not capture focus to main window
-
- WinVN release .93.7:
- -- Bug Fixes
- (jcooper) Fixed paint crash on Update from server in group window
- if prev TopLineOrd > new # in group
- (jcooper) Now allows additional headers to be entered at top of
- composition body text
- (jcooper) Fixed About menu item from main window system menu
- (jcooper) Crash if End key pressed in group article-list window
- while retrieiving headers, or during 'Update from
- server' if new # < old #
- (jcooper) Fixed mailbox header generation in multi-part posts
- (jcooper) Crash if lose connection while messagebox open which
- is followed by comm stuff.
- (jcooper) Window positions are now saved for Mail window, Post window,
- block status window and decoding thread status windows
- (jcooper) Window positions messed up if Save while window minimized
-
- (jcooper) I built in Pearse's splash stuff, all #ifdef'ed just so
- we don't lose this code. Works well when #def'ed.
- (jcooper) Allow right-click dragging (duh)
- (jglasser) More fixes for the rare toolbar problems
- (jcooper) Fixed CalcNumUnread - was reporting invalid #'s for
- never-seen groups
- (jcooper) If resize window, large enough to hold entire doc, should
- autoscroll to top (in addition to removing vscrollbar)
- (jcooper) Inaccurate horiz scrollbar range in articles: fixed longestline
- (jcooper) ViewArticle reusing a window always did SHOWNORMAL -
- ignoring if the window was maximized or minimized
- (jcooper) Confirm Reconnect question Yes/No logic backwards
- (jcooper) Fixed Sort by Threads menu disabling (again)
- (jcooper) Fixed status text of System menu "Close Alt+F4" - was
- "Quits WinVN"
- (ptirrell) Fixed Save Auth Password
- (jcooper) Mouse drag problem in win32 if article view window - if
- drag and release above the window, got reversed selection
-
- WinVN release .93.6:
- -- New
- (jcooper) New 'mark all as unseen' or 'mark all as seen' menu items
- in group article-list Articles menu
- (jcooper) Single right-click in group article-list window toggles seen
- (jcooper) Added 'Reconnect' option under main window Network menu
-
- -- Bug Fixes
- (jcooper) Reset Server Protocol should not be allowed while receiving
- info from server. Now prompt for reconnect instead.
- (jcooper) Fixed horizontal scrollbars in subscribe dialog
- (jcooper) Fixed WM_INITMENU messages for Win16
- (jcooper) Fixed scroller thumbtrack/thumposition painting problem
- (jcooper) Crash on group update from server with less than original
- num_to_retrieve
- (jcooper) Better calculation of # unread articles upon opening a group
- (jcooper) Composition header edit controls now scroll to beginning on
- losing focus
- (jcooper) Fixed beep when tabbing between Compose header controls
- (jcooper) Article window clears during next/prev article retrieval
- (jcooper) Gray 'Update from server' when comm is busy
-
- WinVN release .93.5:
- (jcooper) Crash on authinfo failure (if invalid name or password)
- (jcooper) Arrow right in a window will only scroll if appropriate
- (jcooper) Next/prev etc now _do_ get grayed when you start retrieving
- (jcooper) Fixed if invalid Save Article name, problems with next save
- (jcooper) Changed status text of "Save" menu items
- (jcooper) Minimized article window in selected-art save should not grab
- focus.
- (jglasser) Fixed toolbar strange rare random/message dialog problem
- (jglasser) Toolbar connect button would become unpressed if info-clicked
- while connected
-
-
- WinVN release .93.4:
- (rushing) Code indenting cleanup
-
- WinVN release .93.3:
-
- -- Bug Fixes
- (jcooper) When doing save/decode on selected articles, now wraps to start
- when reaches last article in case user selected articles above
- starting point after operation was underway
- (jcooper) If empty newsrc, initializes newsrc with news.announce.newusers
- and news.newusers.questions
- (jcooper) Double-click on group title for already-opened group now
- activates the group window correctly
- (jcooper) Decoder is now more careful with MIME boundaries (fixes the
- netcom Dilbert problem 8^)
- (dumoulin) Title of Logging Options dialog was wrong (it said 'Dialog')
- (jcooper) 'n' group indicator goes away as soon as group opened.
- (jcooper) If changed Always On Top from Syscommand menu while status block
- window minimized -- weirdness
- (jcooper) Changed scroll behavior of article-list at end-of-retrieval, now
- scrolls to first unread article instead of last
- (jglasser) Fix for start-minimized problems - when start minimized, screen
- was messed up when the window was restored
-
- -- New features
- (dumoulin) New sub/unsub toolbar button
- (jcooper) Use the hourglass during blocking operations
-
- WinVN release .93.2:
-
- -- Bug fixes
- (jcooper) Will now upgrade from pre .93 ini file
- (jcooper) Mail address dialog opened from To: or Cc: will be prefilled
- by whatever was already in the To: or Cc: control
- (jcooper) Crash if threads were initially disabled, then retrieved an
- art-list then enable threads in the dlg, then sort by threads
- (jcooper) Reduces size of WinVN system font to 8pt MS Sans Serif (makes
- compose heaer controls smaller)
- (jcooper) Fix in decoder to deal with encoded lines whose count value
- incorrectly includes the count-character in the count
- (jcooper) TZ env variable not needed in NT
- (jcooper) Execute Decoded now uses CreateProcess if Win32
- (jcooper) From: control was not being filled properly
- (jcooper) Crash if select Update from server, then cancel from the
- threshold dialog.
-
- -- New features
- (jcooper) Added ShowFromHeader option
- (jcooper) Added PrefillCcAddress option for followup postings
- (jcooper) First pass at massively renovated help files
-
-
- WinVN release .93.1: these version numbers are getting silly
-
- -- Bug fixes
-
- (jcooper) Find-again in usenet window acted strangely
- (jcooper) SMTP mailer still failed '251 User not local' on Cc:
- (jcooper) Changed default color back to Subscribed:black, Unsub:blue
- (jcooper) Moved Signature ini stuff under [Compose]
- (jcooper) Fixed Browse button in Compose dialog (for Signature)
- (jcooper) Fixed SelectPath occasional memory overrun (long volume
- names)
- (jcooper) Fixed crash bug. If, while retrieving an article, closed the
- parent group/article-list window, crashed on retrieve complete
- (jcooper) Can now tab/arrow into edit control from compose headers
- (jcooper) After post, occasionally leaves "Waiting for news server
- acknowledgement" in stat bar
-
- Internal WinVN release .93.0:
-
-
- -- New features:
-
- (jglasser) Toolbars and status bars
- (jglasser) Configurable Min # articles to retrieve
- (jglasser) Article threshold dialog box shows you # of unread
- (jglasser) New optional multi-selections (using standard windows
- shift/anchor and ctrl keys) in group-list and article-list
- (active line has indicated by focus rectangle)
- (jglasser) Keyboard support in lists: down, up, end, home, pgup, pgdn
- (jcooper) New post/mail composition window with separate header edits
- - word wrap option in article body
- - configurable headers (summary, keywords, distribution, etc)
- (jcooper) New attachment procedure
- - allows multiple, configurable attachments
- - attachment are not processed until send
- - all size limits have been removed (not dependendent on
- memory/disk)
- (jcooper) New send engine. Mail/Post/Logging will happen simultaneouly
- and more efficiently.
- (jcooper) Forward article is now editable
- (jcooper) New categorized config dialogs and modified WINVN.INI layout
- (jcooper) 3D controls
- (jcooper) Saved articles and log files are stored in mailbox compatible
- format
- (jcooper) Configurable article scroll-past-headers
- (jcooper) New Trim-Headers option in article retrieval
- (jcooper) Optional Wrap-Text during article retrieval
- (jcooper) New WinVN "system" font used for header-composition,
- init status, and status bars
- (jcooper) Configurable 'Says' templates for reply/follow-up
- (jcooper) Mail follow-ups generate In-Reply-To header
- (jcooper) New 'Read file into buffer' option from Compose window
- (jcooper) Decoding is now more memory-efficient and faster
- (jcooper) Can now forward mail using MAPI
- (jcooper) New option to include any open articles in selected-art decode
- (jcooper) Signatures are now preceded by the standard "-- " delimiter
- (jcooper) All menus are appropriately grayed at appropriate times ;-)
- (jcooper) On printouts, added subject after page number on pages > 1
- (jcooper) New auto-minimize coding status window option
- (jcooper) Coded block window now tracks number of articles to go in
- multi-article decode (i.e. "5 to go")
- (jcooper) In group-list, instead of '*', shows a 'n' if there are
- new/unread arts and a 'u' if unread, but no new arts
- (cnolan) Path Select dialog now determines volume label of CD
- (jglasser) Optional true reverse selections
- (pct@brownvm.brown.edu)
- Enable/disable saving of NNTP password in Config Comm
- (tmenshik@hpcvitlm.cv.hp.com)
- Group Filter support (i.e. "rec.*|comp.*")
-
-
- -- Bug fixes:
-
- (ishido) Auto-show-unread wasn't operating correctly
- (kulokari) Allows exucute files when running Winvn16 under NT
- (jglasser) variable used before initialization could cause crash when
- using DumbDecoded (lkahn also spotted this one)
- (jglasser) Reduce comm polling time from 1sec to 250ms - fixes some
- flakiness in Chameleon and Trumpet(maybe) Winsocks
- (ishido) Article dates were being reported incorrectly betw midnight and
- 1am (due to bogus daylight-savings-time variable)
- (peterk@borland.com)
- Avoids crash if receives bogus blank XOVER info line
- (theg@snoopy.nsainc.com)
- Rare scrolling crash-bug
- (jcooper) Occasional call to close_socket on already-closed socket
- causing GPFs
- (jcooper) Service failures (auth/server-disconnect) didn't clean
- up properly (led to GPFs)
- (jcooper) Increased stack size in link - fixes some general flakiness
- (jcooper) Path-select now works properly for root-dir selection
- (jcooper) Title of coding block status always said "encoded block
- status" even when decoding
- (jcooper) SmartFiler ext mapping listbox now works a little better
- (jcooper) Black text selected wasn't showing up
- (jcooper) SMTP mailer now handles result '251 User not local'
- (jcooper) Logging dialog now tests for ability to write to files
- (jcooper) Fixed crash bugs in F6 NextWindow function
- (jcooper) Fixed occasional stray bytes at end of decode
- (jcooper) Fixed SmartFiler handling of dupe names -- if file
- was F, dupe would lead to F0, then F01, then F012...
- (jcooper) Optimized drag-selection for long lists.
- (jcooper) Drag-select scrolling in article text failed in up/left
- directions with Win32
- (jcooper) Select-all in article text failed with Win32
- (jcooper) Fixed bogus upgrade msg if start with empty winvn.ini
- (jcooper) Make sure newsrc and winvn.ini are writable at startup
- (jcooper) Loads of general interface cleanup...
- and a bunch of other stuff 8^)
-
- Also thanks to jglasser, cnolan, lkahn for their efforts porting to Win32.
-
-
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------
- WinVN release .92.6:
-
- -- New features:
-
- - In article window, after marking text with left-mouse-button/drag,
- clicking the right button copies to clipboard a la cmd.exe. (brydon)
-
- - new smart-filer - customizable extension remapping (i.e. jpeg->jpg),
- as well as configurable renaming of too-long file names. (jcooper)
-
- - new cc-by-mail option when posting - only available for SMTP
- mail (jcooper)
-
- - new Window menu with Cascade, and Close window operations (jcooper)
-
- - now remembers the last search keys used in the group, article-header,
- and article windows. also, pressing search-again if no search key present
- will pop-up find dialog instead of doing nothing (jcooper)
-
- - main window now shows '-' next to groups instead of '0' when the number
- of articles in the group is undetermined (jcooper)
-
- - new post/mail logging dialog (with browse buttons) (jcooper)
-
- - new open-path dialog with folder/disk bitmaps for decode-path (jcooper)
-
- - In SMTP mail address dialog, add/delete buttons are greyed at
- appropriate times - more intuitive operation (jcooper)
-
- - all Mail-related menu items are greyed if mail is disabled
-
- - Forwarded article header now references original article header
- instead of always saying "Forwarded usenet article" (jcooper)
-
- - Decode Block Status window now has "Always on top" option,
- selectable from its alt-space system menu
-
- - Subject template for attachments now allows zero-padding in
- part num. Use %0p for zero-padded part num. part num is padded
- with zeros to length of total num parts. (jcooper)
-
- - new decode/save multi articles option: keep current article header
- visible in group window (jcooper)
-
- - When reading articles with the power key (space), the article
- header is automatically kept visible in the group window (jcooper)
-
-
- -- Bug fixes:
-
- - MAPI now disabled in win32s (rushing)
-
- - ini and newsrc files with "Archive", "System" or "Read only" bit now
- work ok. (brydon)
-
- - any group windows open on winvn exit were not updated in newsrc -
- seen articles were not properly saved (jcooper)
-
- - last-seen-article id's were getting lost on winvn exit for groups not
- accessed in the current session (jcooper)
-
- - doesn't allow attachment generation if decode session active (jcooper)
-
- - Catch-up & exit is not allowed in article window until article header
- retrieval is complete, and is not allowed during multi-save/decode
- operation (jcooper)
-
- - a slash at the end of the decode path name is now handled properly (jcooper)
-
- - using browse to select a save-to path, when the append-to-file box
- is checked now works properly (jcooper)
-
- - color schemes with background color set to black will now work
- correctly (jcooper)
-
- - using Reset server protocol during a post/decode/etc properly ends
- the work-in-progress (jcooper)
-
- - isnumber returned true on '+' and '-'. caused some problems in
- decoding files. (jcooper)
-
- - decoder no longer pops up a message box upon attempting to decode
- an article containing a invalid custom table (caused stack crash if
- multiple articles with invalid tables encountered) (jcooper)
-
- - decoder now handles early WinCode v1.x info headers (jcooper)
-
- - changing the Show Full Subject from the Misc dialog now causes a repaint
- of all open group windows (jcooper)
-