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Version 1.3 8/17/93 Added QWK NETWORK node-level capability. See
QWKNET.DOC and QWKNET.CFG for information.
According to SLTPU.REF, Searchlight's maximum
line length is 76, but I changed Valence's max
to 78, and it works.
Changed default maximum number of messages per
subboard and packet.
Pointer files modified slightly.
Changed format of SESSION.TXT - empty/unjoined
subboards no longer listed.
Rationalized file access. Should be faster.
Removed checking of "visible" flag in file
areas.
Fixed nulls in subject field.
Added "reverse renaming" (keyword "RevRename")
for those not using the SYSOP account. Modified
INSTALL to prompt for use of SYSOP or real name
and check if real name is already defined.
Spell-checked the documentation. Oooh. Usually
I'm a better speller than that. That's what
happens when you stay up all night typing.
Logic-checked the documentation (manually). Oh
dear.
Doubled output buffer size, as planned. QWK
messages can now be longer, and Valence should
run just a tiny bit faster.
Local console screen is now restored after
shelling to archiver or protocol.
Added checking for infinite loops in corrupted
file areas.
Valence and BUPDATE, like Searchlight, will now
search for included files by adding ".ANS" and
".TXT" to the filename, if the extension is not
given. (They always look for ".ANS" first.)
Finally found and killed the elusive and rare
"no included files in bulletins" bug.
Added a short pause at the end so you can read
the stats or error messages. I had no pause
before because the systems I first tried Valence
on took a while to reload the board.
Temporary use of a 486 leads to rapid progress.
Forced protocol selection was broken and causing
lockups. Fixed.
Version 1.2 5/08/93 Added ability to upload messages with long subject
lines and "Fwd From" fields.
Added intelligent packet sizing - if Valence
reaches the limit on a subboard but there are
five or fewer messages left to pack, it will
include them.
Increased time-slicing; should be less of a drag
on multitaskers.
Recompiled with new SLTPUs. Should prevent
lockups on corrupted messages when downloading.
Added indentation to the log file for clarity.
UPLOADS.BBS was being created in the wrong
place. Fixed.
Style of creating .PTX files changed; will now
work with Xmodem, etc. Old .PTX files may still
be used as well.
In multiple mode, the user record is now saved
after each successful download of a packet.
If the selected protocol command string is
blank, Valence now forces a new selection.
Cosmetic change: "Last Read" to "High Msg" and
"New Last" to "New High" in download scan. For
consistency.
Code tightened slightly.
Numerous tiny changes to fix rare, obscure bugs.
Version 1.1 4/01/93 Added Netmail support. See VALENCE.DOC for
details.
Added automatic scanning for ZMODEM.EXE,
GSZ.EXE, DSZ.COM and DSZ.EXE for "internal"
protocols. INTPROT.CFG should now be less
necessary.
Added full pathnames to packets for downloads.
Should fix operation with some unusual protocol
setups.
Some reader programs didn't like the way Valence
made its CONTROL.DAT. Fixed. Thanks to Rick
Godby for first reporting this.
Improved high-speed download time estimation
(for Searchlight 3.0+ only).
Made cosmetic changes to the Options screen.
Version 1.04 introduced a cosmetic bug in the
bulletin header printing - the numbers were
being printed as "Msg# xx of yy" instead of
"Msg# xx". Fixed.
Those who had a "light" color as their Inverse
Background in Searchlight would get flashing in
Valence. Fixed.
Added scanning of UPLOADS.BBS for uploaded .REP
and .PTR files. This should fix any problems
with bidirectional protocols.
If an unextractable .REP packet was uploaded,
Valence would go into an infinite loop. Fixed.
If someone received mail while in Valence, after
the MAIL subboard was scanned but before the
pointers were updated, it could be deleted
unread. Fixed.
SubList "High message" lower limit and "Join"
default high message were one too high. Fixed.
It seems most reader programs don't like ANSI
codes in NEWFILES.DAT, so I reluctantly changed
the default for "Color the filelist" to No.
Changed the default scan mode from "manynum" to
"wordy".
Added the new QWK-format fields for total number
of messages and netmail conference number in
CONTROL.DAT and logical message numbers in
MESSAGES.DAT.
Added more details to the log file.
Added "U" (for "Update") parameter to Install.
See READ.ME for details.
Added elaboration of several points to the
documentation.
Version 1.04 3/20/93 Rewrote the bulletin scanning again. The way I
had it in 1.03, subboard attribute bytes could
drift to the wrong subboards.
Version 1.03 3/19/93 Major bug: The elusive "LOCK Error 33" finally
nailed down. If a user didn't have access to the
BULLETIN subboard, sometimes this error would
appear; other times, bulletin scanning would
simply be skipped. This turned out to be due to
my misunderstanding the way the SLTPU "opensub"
function worked; I was removing the BULLETIN
entry from the subboard list while it was still
needed there. Fixed. Thanks to Skip Sanders for
starting me in the right direction on this one.
Scanning for new messages to ALL was broken.
This worked before 1.0, ironically, but while
writing the manual, I realized that messages to
anyone named "Allan" would also be marked. I
"fixed" this, by scanning for "ALL ", but this
ignored "ALL<CR>". Fixed for real now.
Added automatic joining to MAIL subboard if not
joined.
Removed inclusion of "Destination:" messages.
There was no informational content there.
Added comments on ZMODEM.EXE to READ.ME. Please
read this, it's important.
Version 1.02 3/16/93 Argh! In removing <CR> and <LF> characters from
the translate table in 1.01 (an undocumented
change), I moved the translate table up one, so
uploaded messages would be scrambled. Fixed.
Version 1.01 3/16/93 Oops, looks like I blew it with that one.
Major bug: Local uploads of .REP and .PTR files
thwarted by truncation of the pathname. Fixed.
Thanks to Joe Tailleur for first reporting this
error.
Install bugs: Install put the new menu one
command off from where it was supposed to.
Fixed. Exclude preference attributes were not
zeroed out. Fixed. Also Install will now prompt
for overwrite if it finds the Valence menu
already in place.
Added monochrome mode colors.
Made the Subboard List Editor more forgiving.
You can now abort the Join/Unjoin/High commands.
Added display of first and last messages to
Subboard Attribute screen.
Made tiny additions to VALENCE.DOC.
Version 1.0 3/14/93 First release.