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WWIVTOSS(c) WWIV <-> Fido Mail Tosser/Translator Written by Craig Dooley All Rights Reserved History ======= 12/05/96 ============ Version 1.34 Release WWIVTOSS ■ Finally tracked down the problem that caused some messages to show up as originating from your feed, rather than from the system they originated from. This was caused by 2 things - the originating BBS's mail tosser was NOT fully compliant, as it did not have the MSGID kludge line. However, WWIVTOSS was also at fault because it was not checking the origin line, like I thought it was. WWIVTOSS now checks the origin line for an address as well as the MSGID kludge, so that problem (actually more of an annoyance than a problem) shouldn't appear any more. ■ Fixed a couple of bugs and added some features. See Beta 1.33.1 for details. 11/22/96 ============ Version 1.33.1 Beta WWIVTOSS ■ Added support for packet-level passwords. ■ Found section of code that *MIGHT* be causing some posts to come in as from your feed, when they aren't really. WSETUP ■ Fixed bug that was not saving HIGH ASCII setting if ROUTE MAIL was turned off - minor variable problem. ■ Fixed potential problem with using unarchiver that needs no switches (i.e. ARCE). 11/08/96 ============ Version 1.32 Release Released to the public with some additional, requested features. (see 1.31, 1.31a) 11/07/96 ============ Version 1.31a Beta WWIVTOSS ■ Finally fixed removal of messages with the KILL/SENT *FLAG*. ■ Fixed problem with how bounced email was being addressed. I had a couple of variables incorrect, and wasn't setting another, causing WIERD things to happen. That's been fixed. WSETUP ■ Fixed a major bug with WSETUP that was not correctly saving the Route Mail? Variable. The bug was introduced in the 1.31 beta, and was NOT present in the 1.30 release. 11/04/96 ============ Version 1.31 Beta WWIVTOSS ■ Added code to log who outgoing mail was going to. ■ Added code to write incoming messages to LOCAL.$$$, then rename to LOCAL.NET after processing is finished, to prevent multi-node systems with wierd setups from processing at the wrong moment. Requested by The Weatherman. ■ Added code to allow more control over carriage returns on mail import. Also added code to allow high ascii on outgoing mail (messages are controlled on a per-echo basis). ■ Added code to control mail-routing, allowing you to disable it at will. Requested by The Weatherman. WSETUP ■ Increased size of Origin Line field to 50 characters. 10/19/96 ============ Version 1.30 ■ Released to the public! The crowds go wild! 10/17/96 ============ Version 1.29 Beta WWIVTOSS ■ Fixed a glitch that was causing WWIVTOSS to only process one network at a time for outgoing messages. ■ Added code to check for a node in Node Manager if you are sending mail. If that node exists, it checks the archive status (NONE/HOLD/CRASH) and sends the mail out that way, overriding the route mail setting. ■ Added code to ensure that received messages which were marked as Kill/Sent were deleted after processing. ■ Changed the exporting of email function to correctly handle BinkleyTerm. BinkleyTerm functions differently from Front Door, using .PKT and .?LO files for regular email as well as messages. Front Door uses .MSG files for email, which is what I had the program using. WSETUP ■ Cleaned up a few minor aesthetic items in WSETUP. 10/16/96 ============ Version 1.28 Beta WWIVTOSS ■ Put in code that would correctly handle mail if your crash setting was 0 (No crash) AND you didn't have Route Manager set up correctly. Eliminated last of 0:0/0.0 possibilities, I believe. ■ Found minor glitch in BinkleyTerm file attach creation. An extension of .PKT could be inadvertendly added to the proposed filename. Since the '.' was already there, you'd get a filename with *2* '.'s before the extension. That's been fixed. Hopefully. :) 10/15/96 ============ Version 1.27 Beta WWIVTOSS ■ Still had a slight problem with phantom node(s) showing up when packing up outbound packets. I found code that was creating a packet using some variables that were never assigned a value. This was in the archiving routine, where it created a file attach file for systems running BinkleyTerm. Because those variables were not being set, it was creating a file for 0:0/0.0. The packet itself was correctly done and packed, but the file attach message itself was not. This has been fixed, and hopefully is the last problem! WSETUP ■ Put code in WSETUP to check the name of the filename that information was being exported to. It will abort the operation is the filename is the same as a WWIVTOSS data file. 10/11/96 ============ Version 1.26 Beta WWIVTOSS ■ I think I finally solved the problem of why WWIVTOSS wouldn't always archive packets during the first run. I did some testing, and got "Permission Denied" errors when it tried renaming the *.QQQ files to *.PKT. Apparently, it wasn't always closing the .QQQ file before it tried renaming it. I tracked it down and fixed it. ■ Hopefully, I've also got the problem of "phantom nodes" fixed. WWIVTOSS would occasionally create packets to nodes that weren't listed anywhere...they just appeared. I juggled some variables, made sure others were cleared, and think the problem is solved. ■ Fixed a problem with the month variable in the outbound packet header. It was 1 month ahead. ■ Found a problem with disappearing email. When mail was routed, if there was crash mail between routed mail (or maybe even messages), the second group would just disappear. That's been fixed. ■ Fixed a glitch that was allowing the WWIV network routing lines to go out sometimes. 10/09/96 ============ Version 1.25 Beta WWIVTOSS ■ Oops! I goofed when trying to track down some problems and ended up screwing things up to where it could not pack up an outbound packet. The command line that it was trying to use was screwy. It should be fixed now. ■ Was notified by my connect of a glitch. WWIVTOSS was not correctly creating packets. It was creating type 2+ (FSC-0039) packets, but had code in there that caused recieving systems to think it was a type 2.2 (FSC-0045), which made a few things screwy. This has been fixed, and outgoing packets are now fully type 2+. ■ Finally got WWIVTOSS to correctly strip out alt-141 characters from incoming messages. ■ Added logging of passthrough messages (if you feed echos to another node, your log will reflect what went where.) Toggleable. WSETUP ■ Added toggle option for logging passthrough areas to the log file. ■ Fixed help line glitch for Areafix Password in Node Edit. 10/03/96 ============ Version 1.24 Beta WWIVTOSS ■ <sigh> Still trying to track down some bugs. Found some code that when exporting mail and trying to route it, it was looking for 20 "route to's", when there were only 10. This *may* be the cause of some phantom exports that have popped up on occasion. 09/23/96 ============ Version 1.23 Beta WWIVTOSS ■ Oops! Somehow, the code to ignore alt-141 characters was causing WWIVTOSS to ignore the letter 'a' at the same time! Not Good! 09/18/96 ============ Version 1.22 Beta WWIVTOSS ■ Put in code to ignore alt-141 (ì) characters ■ Put some additional debugging code in to track outgoing messages. ■ Found where memory was being allocated during post export, but that memory was never used nor freed up. Could cause problems when a large number of outgoing messages are processed. 09/13/96 ============ Version 1.21 Beta Welp, the problem that I fixed in 1.20 with the number '13' spawned another problem. I noticed that my data files were getting corrupted on areas that had a feed with the number 10 in there. I just can't win! Anyways, this is a fix for that specific problem, so hopefully the data file corruption is gone. WWIVTOSS ■ Changed the way outbound packets were created and processed. The old way had WWIVToss creating a new packet each time a message was to be sent out...if you sent out a lot of messages to other nodes, each node's archive would have a BUNCH of files in it. Now, all messages processed in that session will go into 1 file for each node that you feed to. 09/05/96 ============ Version 1.20 Beta Fixed the last major problem that I'm aware of. Byte was having a problem with data files getting corrupted on his second network. I was finally able to trace the problem to a problem I had earlier - the number 13. The way I was reading in data files was taking 13 and treating it as a carriage return, and thus changing it to something else, totally screwing stuff up. So I re-did the way I read in data files, and the problem cleared up! WWIVTOSS ■ Added ability for PASSTHRU areas. If the subtype for an area is '0', then it will be considered a PASSTHRU, and WWIVTOSS will only send the messages to systems listed in your EXPORT list. It will not attempt to import the message to your BBS. ■ Fixed glitch that wasn't skipping mail if the destination address was listed in SKIPMAIL.LST. WSETUP ■ Added option to automatically add areas to your AREAS.DAT if the area is not already listed. Added areas will have a subtype of '-1'. A message will be sent to you informing you that an area has been auto-added, and the messages will go to the bad echo directory. Attempts to process bad messages for that area will fail if the subtype is not changed from '-1'. 09/04/96 ============ Version 1.19 Beta WWIVTOSS ■ Guess I didn't fix all the glitches that I thought. We still had a problem with WWIVToss locking up on Byte when processing a large number of unknown areas. I found another spot where I needed to free memory, and also found where it would lock up (QEMM error, no less!) if it tried to import mail on a network that didn't exist. That's been fixed. If the network number listed in Network Addresses is doesn't exist in INIT, the incoming mail will be tossed to the Bad Echo directory. ■ Did some minor code cleanup and aesthetic changes. WSETUP ■ Did some minor code cleanup and aesthetic changes. 09/03/96 ============ Version 1.18 Beta WWIVTOSS ■ Found a glitch that caused a lockup when WWIVTOSS processed a large number of undefined area and/or undefined networks. I was allocating memory, but not freeing it when tossing messages to the BADECHO directory. ■ Fixed problem where WWIVTOSS would go into endless loop if there was an error in the incoming archived packet. WWIVToss will now try to unarchive the packet, and if it fails to do so, will copy it to the BAD ECHO directory. WSETUP ■ Added code to prevent WWIV Subtype entries of more 7 characters, which can cause problems and corruption of the data files for AREAS.DAT 08/30/96 ============ Version 1.17 Beta WSETUP ■ Added code so that you can choose the archiver (in Archiver Setup and Node Manager) by pressing the number of the archiver as well as using the arrow keys. ■ Fixed bug when cycling through mailer choices - it would display 'FRONTDOOR' twice. ■ Added 'Compiled On' to the About WWIVToss screen. ■ Cleaned up code for displaying Network Addresses, Route Addresses, and Export Addresses. Eliminated a lot of unnecessary code. Chopped off 5 k of compiled code! ■ Added default archive/unarchive lines for RAR compression. ■ Added online help for editing keys/functions (F1) WWIVTOSS ■ Fixed bug that put program in an endless loop if it encountered a WWIV control code in the middle of a line. I don't know why it would show up, but one did on my system... ■ Put in code to detect if the network number listed for an echo in AREAS.DAT is greater than the number of networks listed in INIT. If it is, it tosses the message to the Bad Echo directory. ■ Removed some code that would sometimes cause NODES.DAT to, well, disappear. At least, the information inside would disappear. Strange. Not sure exactly why, but it won't happen anymore. 08/20/96 ============ Version 1.16 Beta Fixed some spelling errors and typos in the WWIVTOSS.DOC WSETUP ■ Wierd bug popped up. I've seen this before with other programs that I've written. If you try to read a number directly from a file, the program will crash if that number is a multiple of 13. I don't know why. I had to get around the problem by storing the number of areas and nodes in WWIVTOSS.DAT, rather than the respective data files. Hopefully this will solve that problem. You *MUST* run CVTAREA1.EXE on your data files to take care of the conversion. ■ Added toggleable option to set the IMMEDIATE flag on outgoing messages. If simply setting CRASH doesn't send them out, try setting SET IMMEDIATE to 'Y'. 08/15/96 ============ Version 1.15 Beta WSETUP ■ Fixed error that allowed you to put in more areas than were allowed by the data structure. ■ Increased number of availible areas to 130. You *MUST* run CVTAREA.EXE on your areas.dat!!!! 08/14/96 ============ Version 1.14 Beta Wrote program to convert WWIV.INI and WFIDO.DAT config files to WWIVTOSS Data files. Main advantage is WTINST will define your nodes and your areas for you! WSETUP ■ Added code to define what groups a node (as listed in Node Manager) has access to. WWIVTOSS ■ Enabled Areafix Support for: +ECHO_NAME -ECHO_NAME %HELP %LIST %QUERY %UNLINKED %PASSWORD <NEW PASSWORD> %COMPRESSION <NEW COMPRESION TYPE> %+ALL %-ALL ■ Changed code a bit for how WWIVToss determines if incoming mail is to be imported or not. Added code to show message status attributes when processing with the /D parameter. 08/12/96 ============ Version 1.13 Beta ■ Enabled Character Translation Tables for import/export of areas. Translation does not occur on email. WWIVTOSS ■ Added support for '0FIDOADDR:' field proposed for WWIV 4.25. ■ Fixed glitch where HOLD status wasn't correctly being put on outbound file attaches that should be held. ■ Added code to delete incoming messages if they are file attaches. ■ Fixed glitch in code where WWIVToss sends me a notification when it's being used. I *think* the glitch caused Wayne to get the ssm's instead of me! <G> WSETUP ■ Enabled WSETUP Password checking. ■ Added /Q command line option. When WSETUP is run with the /Q parameter, all beeps will be supressed. Requested by David Jones (1@4161.WWIVNet) 08/07/96 ============ Version 1.12 Beta WWIVTOSS ■ Enabled file-sharing on all file operations ■ Fixed bug where incoming netmail in .PKT form was NOT being skipped if the 'Skip Mail' toggle was set to Yes. ■ Included code to shrink WWIVToss out of memory when archiving or unarchiving packets, and cleaning up networks, thus freeing up lots of memory. WSETUP ■ Included code to shrink WSETUP out of memory when shelling to DOS. ■ Fixed some minor glitches with linefeeds/carriage returns when exporting information. Formatting needed some work. ■ Enabled Global Export Node Editing in Area Manager. ■ Started adding code for Translation Tables 08/06/96 ============ Version 1.11 Beta WWIVTOSS ■ Major emergency release! I had put a piece of code in that caused all messages to get rejected by the network software. They were coming in as if from the BBS node, rather than the fake node. It cost me about 1.2 meg of messages to discover this stupid mistake... ■ Fixed a few minor glitches dealing with importing of email. Added some more debugging code to the log and console. Fixed problem where if a packet was determined "bad", WWIVToss would rename it and stop. It should continue with the next packet. Fixed problem with bad message headers when the Import Received toggle was set to 'N'. WSETUP ■ Fixed minor glitch in WSETUP Shell To Dos operation. It would lose the path and other environment variables after shelling 2 or 3 times. I'm still not happy with that code, but it's been patched so that at least the path in the shell will remain. The master environment was not, nor is, affected in any way. 08/05/96 ============ Version 1.10 Beta WWIVTOSS ■ Fixed a problem where WWIVToss wasn't properly processing incoming echos when you had your node number listed twice under network addresses. It was supposed to read the WWIV Net NUM from Area Manager and send the incoming message that way. Well, it was, but it wasn't changing the network data directory....Not good. Noticed by Byte (1@1350.WWIVNet) ■ Fixed Aesthetic error when running WWIVTOSS /I /D. WWIVToss wasn't completely clearing the line "Sending Message #XXX in area:AREA_NAME". Noticed by David Jones (1@4161.WWIVNet) ■ Fixed error with date of incoming packet. Month was 1 off. Noticed by David Jones (1@4161.WWIVNet) ■ <sigh> That damned lockup problem was STILL occuring. One message that I noticed was locking was kinda strange in that WWIVToss couldn't process it as normal...it was coming in as 1 long string, instead of being broken up into lines as WWIVToss normally does. The problem was related to the 1.09a fix. The buffer of 400 characters was apparently too small, so I increased it to 8000 characters. That *SHOULD* fix the problem once and for all. ■ Translation of WWIV Centering Codes is now enabled. WSETUP ■ Added Dos Shell option (Shift-F10) availible from any point in WSETUP. Requested by David Jones (1@4161.WWIVNet) ■ Added Domain naming for each aka address for your system. Currently, this is only implemented in the Network Addresses menu, and is entirely optional. Requested by David Jones (1@4161.WWIVNet) 08/03/96 ============ Version 1.09a Beta WWIVTOSS ■ Emergency release. WWIVToss was locking up on some packets. I figured out (finally) that it was an occasional buffer overflow, so I increased the sizes of some input variable. Hopefully, this will take care of the problem. ============ 08/02/96 Version 1.09 Beta WWIVTOSS ■ Added ability to skip user mail or define user numbers for various aliases. See the docs for details. Requested by Ford (1@1266.WWIVNet) and Byte (1@1350.WWIVNet) ■ Added better error checking. If an error occurs while trying to send out a packet, WWIVToss will NOT delete the packet. (hopefully) ■ Added code to attempt to determine archive used to archive packets. It first looks to see if you have the sending node in NODES.DAT. If you don't, then it tries to determine the archive type. If it can't determine that, it will try to use the default compression. If WWIVTOSS finds the sending node in NODES.DAT, tries the listed compression and is unsuccessful, it will also try to determine the archive type. ■ Added code that added the 'IMM' flag to messages if they were either Direct or Crash messages. ■ Added support for FSC-0035 - the REPLYADDR and REPLYTO kludge lines. These come into play whenever the from_user (WWIV->Fido) exceeds 34 characters. This will facilitate email on multiply gated messages when the from_user can get quite long. Requested by David Hamiter (1:376/140@fidonet) WSETUP ■ Enabled full global options in Area Manager. You can now globally set: Group Use Alias Pass WWIV Color Pass High ASCII Keep BBS Tag WWIV Net Num Origin Line Export Nodes (Add, Delete, Edit) (Edit is not yet working) ■ Added 'Oh Shit' coding to the delete command in both Area Manager and Node Manager. If you press the 'Del' key, it will ask you if that's really what you want to do. Requested by Byte (1@1350.WWIVNet) ============ 07/31/96 Version 1.08 Beta ■ Finally figured out how to tell my compiler to warn me of useless (i.e. declared but never used) variables. Recompiled both programs and eliminated quite a bit of dead space, which should improve speed. WWIVTOSS ■ Completly re-wrote import routine. Fidonet messages are sent as a continuous stream of words with no line feeds except for End-Of-Paragraph. Although WWIV automatically wraps words when displaying them, it can cause havoc when trying to quote messages. I tried several different ways to fix it, and whenever I though I had it fixed, I'd get a message that I couldn't quote in reply. So, I re-wrote the entire routine for translating incoming messages. Now, messages will be displayed correctly AND you will be able to quote. Beta Testers: Please watch incoming messages carefully for something that I might have missed. Fidonet control lines are currently imported as 0 lines. This change also sped up processing by a small amount! WSETUP ■ Fixed Area Manager Export setup to prevent filling the list with 1:0/0.0 nodes. ■ Increased Area Name field to 40 characters. This can be increased further if neccessary, as the total field size is 81 characters. The input field is limited to 40, but that's an arbitrary number. Requested by Byte (1@1350.WWIVNet) ■ Added Export Configuration Options for Areas and Nodes. Includes ability to export Node Manager, Area Manager, Area Groups, Echo Listing with or without WWIV Subtype, and Echo listing sorted by WWIV Subtype. ============ 07/29/96 Version 1.07 Beta WWIVTOSS ■ Fixed bug that gave BinkleyTerm extensions to ALL outgoing uncompressed packets, regardless of mailer type. ■ Fixed bug that I thought I fixed in 1.06 but hadn't. <grumble!> You wouldn't believe the problems that one glitch caused me. AARRGGGHHH!!! ============ 07/28/96 Version 1.06 Beta WWIVTOSS ■ Fixed bug that wasn't processing all of the outgoing messages. It would process the first 1 or 2 and then skip the rest. Stupid programming error on my part. <g> ============ 07/26/96 Version 1.05 Beta WWIVTOSS ■ Support for multiple zones with Binkleyterm. ■ Support for Semaphore files with Front Door and Intermail, to force rescans of the message areas after WWIVToss runs. ■ Limited D'Bridge Support added. No furthur work will be done on D'Bridge support unless someone wishes it. ■ Fixed bug that wasn't letting ANY high ASCII characters to be exported, even if the area was set to allow it. WSETUP ■ Added capacity to keep BBS taglines on a per-echo basis. Requested by Ford 1@1266.WWIVNet ■ If you change the default origin line, then any area that was using the default origin line will have it's origin line changed. Requested by Ford 1@1266.WWIVNet ============ 07/25/96 Version 1.04 Beta Re-wrote code to make Direct setting more like Crash setting WSETUP ■ Area Export Nodes now check for duplicate nodes ■ Area Manager now has better display for a large number of Export-To nodes. ■ Path Setup checks for the existence of the paths and will create them if they don't exist. WWIVTOSS ■ Limited AREAFIX Support begun. ■ Fixed Glitch where WWIV Color codes were not being stripped out of the to: field. This only occured if you had modified your WWIV Source to have color in the RE: line on messages. ■ Fixed glitch where, if you had compression turned OFF for a node, it would delete the outgoing .PKT file. <sheepish grin> ■ Limited BinkleyTerm Support Begun. Support for multiple zones with BinkleyTerm is NOT supported at this time, although I'm working on it. ■ Fixed a glitch where it wasn't processing multiple networks. (oops!) ============ 07/22/96 Version 1.03 Beta Fixed minor lockup bug. WWIVToss froze on a message for some reason. Wierd fix...hopefully it won't happen again. Never happened before. Added "Help Lines" to WSETUP. Added 'DELETE' capability of export nodes in Area Setup. Area Export nodes are now sorted numerically in WSETUP. ============ 07/19/96 Version 1.02 Beta Cleanup Net option enabled. When set to 'Y', WWIVToss will run NETWORK2.EXE on any Fidonet network with a LOCAL.NET in it's directory. Registration Incentive nags included WWIVToss will now nag the sysop if WWIVToss is unregistered. Nags include beeps at the beginning, and short messages sent to the sysop every 10 times that WWIVToss is run. WWIVToss Documentation completed in draft form. Type 26 (alphanumeric) subtype support added Requested by Ford 1@1266.WWIVNet Incoming mail now checks to see if the user has been deleted or not. Added sysop notification SSM of bad messages/mail If the mail is undeliverable due to the user being deleted, the mail being addressed wrong, or no such user on the BBS, then the mail will be bounced back to the originator on either network. ============ 07/17/96 Version 1.01 Beta Skip Mail option enabled Fixed formatting glitch in importing mail/messages Imported messages would sometimes come in with carriage returns at the wrong spot, making for some strange looking, although readable, messages. Also, the way messages were being imported made it impossible to quote a message in it's entirety because of the carriage returns. Fixed formatting glitch in exporting mail/messages WWIVToss would drop characters at the end of a line sometimes, and would occasionally leave a 0 at the end of a line (where WWIVEdit put a heart-0 - the heart would get removed, but the 0 wouldn't.) ============ 07/16/96 Version 1.00 Beta First Beta Release to Beta Team ============ 7/15/96 Version 0.9 Alpha WWIV/Fido Email gating (from other boards!) enabled Wsetup Program enhanced Processed incoming messages entirely in memory, rather than writing them to a file, then processing from the file. ============ 7/8/96 Version 0.8 Alpha WSETUP Program re-written Data Structures completely re-written ============ 7/1/96 Version 0.7 Alpha Outgoing Archived Bundle Handling Enabled ============ 6/24/96 Version 0.6 Alpha Incoming Archived Bundle Handling Enabled ============ 6/17/96 Version 0.5 Alpha WSETUP Program Begun Data Structures Re-written ============ 6/10/96 Version 0.4 Alpha WWIV -> Fido Enabled (Mail) ============ 6/3/96 Version 0.3 Alpha Fido -> WWIV Enabled (Mail) ============ 5/27/96 Version 0.2 Alpha WWIV -> Fido Enabled (Echos) ============ 5/20/96 Version 0.1 Alpha Fido -> WWIV Enabled (Echos) ============ 5/15/96 Version 0.001 Alpha - Project Begun