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12/07/93
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CAM-MAIL.EXE
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RELEASED version 1.40 of Cam-Mail.
Added - File attachment support in REP packets. Please be aware that
your users must be using an offline reader that supports the
PCBoard style of File Attachments. The only ones that I know
of right now that support this are Camster <g> and RoboMail.
Added - A new command line switch has been added called /NOCHECK
If you have a LOT of conferences on your system, you'll find
that it might take a while for the "Initializing Door.." to
take place. What is happening is that the door is checking
for any public conferences that the user isn't registered in.
By adding this switch, the door won't check for public
conferences.
Added - A new command line switch has been added called /READ
What this means is that if a user downloads a QWK packet and
a message is addressed to them, then the READ flag in the
message is updated. Some Sysops like this, while others
don't. It's simply preference.
Added - A new command line switch has been added called /NETCONF
What this means is that if you are a HUB and you want to
limit the the conferences your NODES have access to (only
NetStatus Conferences), then add this command line switch
to your MAIL batch file.
This will also only create a CONTROL.DAT file according to
the conferences they have netstatus in.
Fixed - The Mail door wasn't working properly with the "R" flag set
in a users account with USERSM.EXE. It would only work if a
user had NetStatus. It should work with or without
netstatus. It also would only with if the message had not
been read by the person to whom it was adddressed to.
Fixed - Hopefully the problem with the door not working properly
with time has been fixed. I was able to get the door to do
some weird things and finally spotted the potential problem.
If you were having problems with the door and timelimit,
please let me know if this fixed your problem.
Fixed - On the last release I forgot to mention that if a user was
using an internal protocol, and they simply didn't start
their transfer, the door would report the transfer was
successful (opps).. I fixed it in the last release, but
thought I had better mention it before I forget (it's been
bugging me for the last two days <arg>).
Fixed - The internal protocols didn't work with the Fossil version
when uploading a .REP/.PTR file.
Fixed - When someone was uploading a .REP/.PTR file using the
internal protocols, the door was closing a file twice and
freeing some memory twice (opps). This could cause anything
to happen. After I had uploaded around 6 .REP packets, it
locked up my machine <arg>..
09/04/93
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PRESCAN.EXE
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Fixed - If a user contained more than Two seperate names (meaning
something like JON DE BUCK), prescan wouldn't work
properly with PCBoard.
08/17/93
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CAM-MAIL.EXE
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Fixed - If you had around 8,000 conferences defined in PCBSetup,
the door would most likely give a out of memory error.
This should no longer happen. I've tested the current
code with 24,000 conferences and it worked just fine.
Although, PCBSM wouldn't work and locked up my machine
due to the increase number of conferences. Time to give
Clark Development a phone call <g>.
08/12/93
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CAM-MAIL.EXE
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Fixed - When uploading a REP packet, it was possible that the
door might end up doing WEIRD things when a message was
REJECTED. This was because I wasn't updating the number
of message blocks <arg>.
Fixed - In the new code that supported file attachments, I was
going out of my index array. This basically would carry
over into the next variable (which wasn't anything too
important, but one never knows what might happen).
08/11/93
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NETSM.EXE
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Added - You can now define in each conference whether PRIVATE
MAIL should be echoed. The default is NO.
EXPORT.EXE
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Modified - The program will now work with Private Mail. I also
changed the program so GROUP/SENDER Passwords would not
be echoed. Also, COMMENTS to the Sysop cannot be echoed
as well.
08/09/93
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IMPORT/EXPORT.EXE(S)
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Modified - The tosser of Cam-Mail has undergone some BIG changes.
Basically, the tosser will not import messages unless you
have NETSTATUS.
Also, when checking for Duplicate messages, the old
version of the software created a file called CRC.DAT.
The program now creates a file called bbsid.CRC (where
bbsid represents the name of the QWK packet(s) that you
are inserting). This will allow for the program to keep
smaller CRC files for each network and will make sure
that messages are being imported from each network. Some
people post the same message in several networks.
Although the chances of a message not being imported
between different networks is very unlikely, this is
definately the better way to go.
To tosser also now puts the version number on the tagline
to avoid any problems with networks that want a version
number on the tagline.
08/05/93
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CAM-MAIL.EXE
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Fixed - Opps... The door was sending file attachments *IF* a user
had the necessary security level AND there was a file
attached to any message (this includes messages that the user
didn't even have in their packet). Basically, the door was
sending file attachments when it wasn't suppose to <arg>.
08/04/93
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CAM-MAIL.EXE
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Added - File attachments are now added to a QWK packet.
Added - Use the /REPLACE@ codes command line switch if you want
your Bulletins and News and GoodBye files replaced with
the appropriate ANSI color codes or the @macro@ codes.
Because more and more readers are supporting @ codes, I've
made the default set not to replace @ codes. The Camster
Reader is one example that supports @ codes internally.
07/31/93
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CAM-MAIL.EXE
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Fixed - When a @USER@ was found in the TO field, it wasn't being
replaced by the users real name <sigh>..
Added - Support for the CNAMES.ADD file was implemented. That's
the ONLY thing that was added. File attachments and such
will be coming.
07/05/93
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CAM-MAIL.EXE
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Added - Added the /SWAP variable so CAM-MAIL.EXE has enough memory
for some compressors like ARJ.
07/01/93
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CAM-MAIL.EXE
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Fixed - If a user wanted to RESET their message pointers, the HIGH
and LOW options were REVERSED <arg>. In other words, if
a user wasted to get the last 50 messages, they would need
to do RESET 0 HIGH-50. Well, what would actually happen
is it was treated as a LOW+50 <g>.
This isn't documented in the CAMUSER.DOC file, so here's
how to use it:
TO: CAM-MAIL
SUBJECT: CONFIG
Text would contain:
RESET confnumber LOW+/HIGH-/MessageNumber
repeat as many times as you want
So if I wanted to reset conferences #'s 0,5,6, and 9 I
would do something like this:
TO: CAM-MAIL
SUBJECT: CONFIG
RESET 0 HIGH-50
RESET 5 LOW
RESET 6 300
RESET 9 HIGH
What would happen is conference #0 would be reset to the
message pointer HighMessageNumber-50. Conference #5
would be reset to the LowMessageNumber. Conference #6
would be reset to MessageNumber 300. Conference #9
would br reset to HighMessageNumber.
06/28/93
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CAM-MAIL.EXE
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Added - Cam-Mail wasn't supporting Expired Security Levels. I had
actually started implementing it at one stage, but must of
gotten a phone call or something and forgot to add the rest
of the code (as parts of it was in place, I didn't even
know it). Cam-Mail will now look at the expired date and
use the appropriate logic on Public Conferences.
If the door isn't working how you expect it to, please let
me know so I can fix it (assuming there is something
wrong <g>).
06/24/93
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CAM-MAIL.EXE
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Fixed - If a user downloaded a mail packet in an Alias conference,
the mail was not be FLAGGED as PERSONAL mail. Meaning,
it wouldn't show up in their reader or in the mail scan
as personal mail.
06/16/93
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CAM-MAIL.EXE
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Removed - Cam-Mail now longer processes Bulletins or WELCOME or NEWS
files for PCBoard @ codes. It leaves them in. It's up to
the reader to handle this (Camster does and so should
all of the other readers <g>).
06/11/93
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CAM-MAIL.EXE
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Removed - If an invalid conference was selected (meaning no name was
defined), Cam-Mail would issue an "Invalid Conference"
message and would pause for 2 seconds. I removed the
2 second delay because some people thought it was hanging
if they used the SELECT;ALL command and had a lot of
conferences defined that weren't defined.
06/10/93
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IMPORT.EXE
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Fixed - The <BBSID>.LOG file contained the wrong conference
information when using the /LOG option.
06/09/93
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USERSM.EXE
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Fixed - The U and Y flags were not working inside the NetWork
Conference (Individual).
06/03/93
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CAM-MAIL.EXE/EXPORT.EXE/IMPORT.EXE
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Added - These programs will now leave alone the Extended Status
byte to be compatible PCBoard 15.0.
By doing this, the Camster Reader can take advantage of the
new information which makes things look real slick!!
06/02/93
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CMSETUP.EXE/CAM-MAIL.EXE
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Fixed - PCBoard 15.0 now allows users to scan the Recent Upload
directory if you have it defined as Private. See their
WHATSNEW history on WHY they did this.
I changed the routines so the Recent Upload can be
selected in the New File Scanning area whether this flag
is set to YES or NO.
05/26/93
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CAM-MAIL.EXE
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Fixed - If you had your DIR files Text Delimeter Character set at
anything than position 35 (or thereabouts), the |
character would be displayed. This was incorrect. The
Door will now remove the | character and replace it
with a space.
05/24/93
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CAM-MAIL.EXE
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Fixed - If a user did the Operator Page option and the Sysop
had the page bell turned on, a user could hit the
Space Bar to enter Chat Mode, but couldn't get out
without the help of the Sysop. The other way to get
out would require the drop of carrier.
Enhanced - Combined the FOSSIL/COMM support into one EXE. This
should fix any problems with confusion <g>. Don't know
why I didn't do it a long time ago.
05/17/93
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CAM-MAIL.EXE
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Enhanced - When updating mail waiting flags, it will no longer use a
case sensitive compare on the Name.
Added - You can use a GENERIC FORCE file to make sure that everyone
is getting a specific conference. Just use the name of
FORCE and these conferences will be added. This file will
ONLY be used if a FORCExx file cannot be found. Please be
aware that Record #1 in the USERS file will NOT be forced
to get the conference. So if you try and see if this
file really works, make sure you log on as a normal user
and not as the Sysop.
Some other fixes were made (minor), but they were fixed.
IMPORT.EXE
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Enhanced - When updating mail waiting flags, it will no longer use a
case sensitive compare on the Name.
Fixed - The "qwkname was not deleted due to..." message contained
garbage. I forgot to pass the name of the QWK packet to
the log file, which caused garbage to appear.
Fixed - Rosemail does not conform to the MESSAGES.DAT standard. I
added some code so the /KILLQWK option would work
correctly with RoseMail and QWK packets.
05/03/93
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Released an update for PCBoard 15.0 called v1.35
05/01/93
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CAM-MAIL/EXPORT/IMPORT.EXE
Fixed - There was a bug in the converting a date to a number. This
could cause unknown results or causing the program to abort
immediately.
Fixed - The High and Low numbers were reversed in the LOG file when
using EXPORT.EXE.
04/28/93
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Back from vacation....
CAM-MAIL/EXPORT/IMPORT.EXE
Fixed - The .IDX file could sometimes be created incorrectly. This
could cause hangs or HUGE .IDX files.
04/06/93
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CAM-MAIL/EXPORT/IMPORT.EXE
Fixed - If a message base is corrupted somehow and these programs
would update the .IDX file, it could do it incorrectly.
This would happen very rarely, but it was possible. PCBoard
would simply recreate the .IDX if it wasn't created properly.
04/03/93
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CAM-MAIL/EXPORT/IMPORT.EXE
Fixed - When creating a .IDX file, sometimes the previous message
would go into a non existing message area. This would simply
duplicate a file being read twice (in certain cases).
04/02/93
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IMPORT.EXE
Added - If you use the /OLDINDEX swtich and the .NDX file doesn't
exist, IMPORT will now create the file.
Added - If the .IDX file doesn't exist, IMPORT will now create it.
Fixed - I wasn't closing the .IDX file <g>.. Eventually you would
run out of file handles and the program would abort.
04/01/93
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IMPORT.EXE
Added - If you use the /KILLQWK paramter, I've modified it to put
a message in your LOG file stating why your QWK file was
not deleted.
You need to be using the /LOG option in order for this
message to be written.
04/01/93
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PRESCAN.EXE/LOCALCAM.EXE
Modified - Prescan/Localcam was calling PCB145.EXE. It now calls
PCBOARD.EXE for proper support of PCBoard 15.0.
03/31/93
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EXPORT.EXE
Enhanced - EXPORT now uses the .IDX files for information. The .NDX
format is no longer supported for this program.
Added - If a .IDX file has not been updated, then EXPORT will
update it for proper usage.
03/30/93
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IMPORT.EXE
Added - Use the /OLDINDEX switch if you want to update the .NDX
files used by PCBoard 14.5 or below.
Added - IMPORT.EXE will update the .IDX file if it hasn't been
updated by other Third Party Software.
Enhanced - IMPORT.EXE will now use the .IDX file for file updating.
This means that .NDX files are no longer needed by IMPORT.
03/29/93
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CAM-MAIL.EXE
Enhanced - Mail Waiting flags are now updated faster.
Fixed - I was 99% compatible with the 15.0 code. However, I
missed one part in the USERS.SYS code (due to PCBoard 15.0
creating a larger file). That has now been fixed.
Cam-Mail will now be compatible with any PCBoard USERS.SYS
file.
Changed - Cam-Mail no longer maintains the .NDX file UNLESS you use
the /OLDINDEX switch on the command-line.
You use the /OLDINDEX switch to maintain compatibility with
old PCBoard Third Party Software (Such as Qmail <g>) that do
not recognize the new message format.
Added - If you have programs that don't update the .IDX file,
Cam-Mail will update the .IDX file for you. This will
slow down the process (not by much), but at least your
users will be getting their mail. PCBoard does the EXACT
same thing.
What happens is when uploading/downloading a mail packet
and Cam-Mail scans a conference, it will first check the
.IDX file and see if it is up to par. If it's not, then
Cam-Mail will update the .IDX and will work correctly.