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Short: Advanced offline-reader for QWK/HIPPO/ABBS/MBBS
Type: comm/misc
Author: Eivind Nordseth (eivindno@idt.unit.no) and Petter Nilsen (petter@pnilsen.adsp.sub.org)
Uploader: Magne ╪stlyngen (magneoe@stud.cs.uit.no)
- THOR -
The Ultima Thule Offline Reader System
Release 1.2
Copyright (C) 1993-1994 Ultima Thule Software,
All Rights Reserved.
New features in 1.2:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
o THOR is pure and re-entrant, and can be made resident.
o Faster memory handling.
o Extensive ARexx support in THOR, with a separate ARexx port for
each internal editor open. Several useful ARexx scripts included.
o Macro support for ARexx scripts.
o AmigaGuide online help added for all parts of THOR.
o QWK-parser improved.
o Database searching.
o THOR will now convert itself to a CLI prosess, if started from
Workbench. Please note that the WB startup code in Toolmanager
2.1 is buggy, so this trick will not work from TM if THOR is
started as a WB prosess.
o THOR can now be opened on any public screen and several THOR can share
the same screen or have separate screens.
o Optimized window refresh for V37/V38 users.
o Support for several new international character sets.
o Loading data from the message database is 2-10 times faster.
o Pattern matching when entering a conference name.
o Several new event types like Get Newfiles, Autologoff etc.
o Command events.
o Messages can be marked with KEEP and DELETE flags.
o Function for deleting duplicate messages in the database.
o Tab size for the internal editor can be configured.
o 11 different ways of marking a message or a range of messages:
- Set message pointer, all messages after this pointer
will be marked as unread
- Mark current message as unread
- Mark a message with a given number as unread
- Mark messages from a given date as unread
- Mark messages within a given range as unread
- Mark messages in this thread as unread or read
- Mark unread messages with the current subject as read
- Mark unread messages not from or to you as read
- Find and mark messages to you, within a given range,
as unread
- Mark unread messages from the author of the current
message as read
o Style tags will now be detected by THOR and converted to the
appropriate ANSI codes in the message window.
o Iconify will also iconify all open internal editors.
o The configured list font is used in all requesters.
o A gadget font can be configured.
o Detailed description can be edited for Upload.
o "Last saved" added to the Global Configuration.
o Checkboxes will be scaled under V39 and higher.
o The internal Full Screen Editor in THOR is now spawned as a prosess,
and will run async in THOR.
o Sideways scrolling in the Newfiles window.
o New external programs, PackBBS and ListEvents.
o $ver and $time is accepted in signatures and will insert the release
number of THOR and the time and and date when the message was written.
o Better optimized code.
.. and more
Bug fixes in 1.2:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
o Fixed the bug which added an extra line betweeen each line when
saving a message.
o Correctly updates the number of unread messages in the conference
window when marking a message as unread.
o Fixed various bugs in the ANSI parse routine.
o Fixed various bugs with allocation and freeing of memory.
o ANSI codes will be stripped when replying to a message.
... plus others
For a complete list of changes, please read the file THOR.history included.
Petter Nilsen
petter@pnilsen.adsp.sub.org