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Changes and additions for timEd 1.01:
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* 'LowLevelKB Yes' is the default now. If you have problems (strange
  lockups, TSR's that do not work anymore or that lock the PC), set it to
  'No', but then ctrl-c may print some junk in the screen in some cases.

* timEd now supports reading and writing of messages without size
  limitations (apart from memory in the DOS version, of course).

* CC:'s are now expanded to "name (address)" form.

* You can prevent timEd from expanding CC:'s into <name (address)> form with
  the new 'CCVERBOSE' keyword.

  CCVERBOSE Yes - still expand CC:'s
  CCVERBOSE No  - only show to whom the original was addressed, and the
                  number of other recipients.

* Directory listings (internal editor 'file import' and file attach
  generation) are now modelled after Qedit: defaults to *.*, is sorted and
  allows you to move to other directories. There is also a limited
  'speedsearch': you can enter the first character of the filename you are
  looking for.

* The 'netmail semaphore' is now also touched if you delete messages and/or
  make other changes to the netmail area.

* It is now possible to enter a '%' in your hellostrings by putting '%%' in
  the strings.

* In Squish style areas, it is now possible to UNdelete messages. This
  function is added in the ALT-U Maintenance menu: 'Undelete messages'.
  All messages that can be undeleted in that area will be undeleted. They
  will be added at the end of the area, and have the scanned & sent
  attributes added to prevent re-export.

* You can now edit the text of a forwarded message before it is saved. If
  you don't want to, you can save immediately and leave the text untouched..

* Messages can now also be marked while reading a message (press <space> to
  mark) and marks are now 'sticky' (they will not be lost if you go in and
  out of the L)ist mode).

  When selecting copy, move, write, print, delete from the message reading
  screen, timEd will check if any messages are tagged. If that is the case,
  it will ask whether you want to perform the action on the tagged messages,
  or only on the current message..

  Message marks are also sticky between areas (you can go out of an area and
  the marks can stay). TimEd will ask what to do when you exit an area that
  still has tagged messages...

* Within an area, you can move to next/previous marked message with ctrl-up
  and ctrl-down.

* Support for the new structs used by Fastecho 1.41

* Support for the new structs used by Imail 1.50

* From within the internal editor, you can now edit the header with ALT-E.

* List mode is changed. The 16000 message limit (in the DOS version) is
  gone, the dates of the messages are also shown and the list mode will now
  take full advantage of a 132 column screen

* There is also a new function available in the List mode: pressing <TAB>
  will show the full header of the current message, including addresses,
  attributes etc.

* Fixed a problem where timEd would send an 'OrigReply' to the sender of the
  message with messages gated from Usenet

* It is now possible to tag areas (<space> on the area selection screen),
  you can save 'tag sets' to disk (ALT-W on area selection screen) and read
  'tag sets' back in (ALT-R). Each set has a number, 0..9 is possible.

  The default tag set is set number 0, which is read in (of it exists) when
  timEd is started up.

  These tag sets can be used to create a 'view' on your messagebase. With
  ALT-M (on the area selection screen) you can choose a mode (view) of
  looking at your message areas.
  One of the options is 'tagged areas', which will restrict your view to the
  areas you tagged, others will not be shown / scanned etc.
  This is mainly useful for SysOps who have many areas they never intend to
  read anyway (but want to be able to access them once in a while in order
  to check things).

  Another possible view is 'areas with new mail', which will show only areas
  that contain new, unread messages. This is an easy way to read all new
  messages: the number of areas that is shown will decrease until you have
  no more unread mail..

  These two modes (tagged & new messages) can also be combined.

* The mode at startup can be set with a new keyword: Startup_Mode

  Values: All, New, Tagged or NewTagged

* Scanning routines have changed a bit now:

  ALT-S - still scans areas for new mail, but only those that were not
  scanned before. This is useful when you change the 'mode' to include more
  areas: ALT-S when then only scan the new additions.

  ALT-T - T)horough scan: scan all areas again (can be useful when new mail
  was tossed in the background).

* timEd now reads all areas from tosser configs (not only echomail areas) if
  you add:

  ReadLocalAreas yes  - to read local (incl. bad_msgs, dups, pmail) areas.
  ReadNetAreas   yes  - to read netmail (incl. sent, received mail) areas.

* The arealist can now be sorted, on the following criteria:

  T - Type of area (order: Netmail, Local, Echomail).
  N - Nametag ('areatag' of the aea, like 'Artware').
  D - Description of the area
  A - Aka used for that area
  G - Group of the area.

  You can combine more than one criterium.

  Keyword: AreaListSort <criteria>
  Example: AreaListSort TGN
  Sort on type, then on group, then on Nametag.

* Implemented crossposting, use XC: <area> [,area] etc.

* Fixed a bug in the internal editor: for paragraphs longer than 2 Kb (who
  writes those? Yeah.. :-), you could get in trouble.

* It is now also possible to generate cc:'s in local areas.

* When generating a freq with ctrl-f, you will now have the ability to edit
  the entire header, including doing a new lookup on the name of the sysop
  to pull out one of his AKA's with the fancy high speed modem or ISDN link
  :-)

* New keyword: Startup_Lines. This control the videomode, the number of rows
  on the screen. This mode will be set on startup of timEd.
  The values that are allowed depend on the version and mode:

  DOS: 25, 28, 50.

  OS/2 fullscreen: try it and you'll know (depends on videocard), in
  addition to the above, 30 and 40 or 45 may work.

  OS/2 window: anything from 25-60 AFAIK.

* Internal editor command: ALT-Z.
  This will zap the quoted and empty lines below the cursor, until a
  non-quoted, not empty line is found.
  This is useful when editing a quoted message. With this, you can 'zap' all
  quotes until the end of the message, without deleting your signoff and
  origin lines.

* You can now force akamatching by using the AKAFORCE keyword.
  Format:
  AKAFORCE <mask> <address to use>
  example:

  AKAFORCE 50:*/*.* 49:500/1

  means: always use 49:500/1 as address when mail is sent to any zone 50
  address. This forcing will then always be active (regardless of your
  'AKAMATCHING' setting), and will take precedence over 'automatic'
  akamatching.

* New keyword: FREQATTRIBUTES, values: i)mmediate, c)rash, d)irect, h)old,
  k)ill.
  This is the default status of a file request message created by the ctrl-f
  function.

* Extra parameter for the external editor when using a batchfile: %2 will be
  the areaname.

* Bookmark will now also be set if you enter an area directly in L)ist mode.

* You can make an area 'read-only' if you add -Ar in the area definition in
  timEd.cfg. The term 'Read-Only' is not really correct, but replying to a
  message in that area or creating a new one is not possible. It is meant as
  a convenience and certainly not as a security measure!
  Deleting a message, for example, is possible. So is mass copying/moving to
  such an area.

* Multi-user support for lastread pointers in Hudson bases as well: use the
  Hudson_Offset keyword to specify offset in lastread file. First user (and
  default) is offset 0.

* The ALT-I screen (from the message reading screen: info) will now also
  show the size(s) of the files that are attached (if there are any).

* Added a new kind of replying: 'Bounce reply' (ctrl-B, only available in
  netmail). This will generate a reply, but not quote the message. Instead,
  it returns the original message text (including a copy of the message
  header).
  It will dump you in the message editor, so you can add the reason for your
  bounce-action.

* Added support for Watergate configs, keyword:

  WtrGateCfg <main cfg file>

  Watergate is a scanner/tosser that includes support for Usenet news/mail.

* A clock can be shown in the message reading and edit screen.
  Keyword: Clock <yes|no>
  In the DOS version, this works, and 'No' will give you the amount of free
  mem instead of the time. In OS/2, you can choose between a clock and a
  clock :-)

  The DOS version will give up time slices to DV and Windows (or call INT 28
  if neither of those are found), because updating the clock means it cannot
  be blocked on I/O anymore. With "Clock No" it _will_ be blocked on I/O
  again, so that's the way to go in case of an unacceptable performance hit
  / unsupported multitasker.

  In the OS/2 version, all this nonsense doesn't apply of course.

* Maximum number of 'name' lines in timEd.cfg increased to 20.

* Nodelist details added: when a selection screen is shown, with names found
  in the nodelist, you can press <TAB> for details about the highlighted
  name.

* Nodelist lookup in all areas:

  F10       : Lookup origin ADDRESS of message
  Shift-F10 : Lookup TO: NAME of message
  F9        : Lookup FROM: NAME of message

  This is the same code as a 'normal lookup', so <TAB> should work here as
  well.

* Squish stuff updated to Squish v1.10 "there's no limit" standard. This
  means the 5400 msgs limit for Squish areas is gone. The limit is now set
  by available memory. The index handling of Squish areas had to be
  significantly changed for that.

  timEd should now be 100% compatible with Squish v1.10.

* The find feature is rewritten:

  - It now also supports large messages.

  - It looks different (colours definable - see below).

    color_findactive  : colour of the frame of an active window
    color_findpassive : colour of the frame of an passive window
    color_findtext    : colour of normal text (search strings, and 'lables'
                        like 'Action:'
    color_finddata    : colour of data-items (value of a label, 'Read' as
                        the value of the 'action' parameter for example).
    color_findhigh    : colour of the highlighted ('selected') entry
                        (highlighted bar).

    Default is good for mono screens, as usual. Colour guys can add this as
    a start:

    color_findactive   11
    color_findpassive   1
    color_findtext      7
    color_finddata      3
    color_findhigh    113

  - It can search kludges as well.

  - It supports new options: whole words only, case sensitive, 'NOT' present.

  - In addition to 'or' searches, 'and' searches are possible.

  - Unlimited amount of 'OR' searchstrings can be defined.

  - It can scan current, all and now also tagged areas.

  - It can scan 'forward' but also 'backward' now.

  - You can define an action to be performed on found messages, apart from
    reading, which was already possible, you can now also mark, write to
    file, delete, copy or move.

  - When reading a found message, or even DURING the scan, new actions are
    possible:

    '+'     : skip to next area (don't scan rest of this area).
    '-'     : skip to previous area (don't scan rest of this area).
    <right> : go on scanning (forward direction).
    <left>  : go on scanning (backward direction).

  - The config can be saved (still ALT-S), but will be saved to a 'database'
    in the timEd directory (fdb.dat and fdb.idx).

  It works basically still like the old 'find' feature.

  Adding strings can be done with <ins>, deleting with <del>, resetting
  everything can (still) be done with ALT-R.
  ctrl-enter starts the search.
  ALT-O will let you edit 'global values' (areas to search, action to be
  performed etc).

  When adding strings from the main screen (string will be added below last
  string, so vertically) you are adding items for an 'OR' search.

  You will then get a smaller pop-up window with space for about 10 strings,
  strings added there are items added for an 'AND' search. So ALL strings
  added in that smaller box must be found in order to get a match!

  So, with the main screen looking like this:

  aaa (-----)  &  bbb (------)  &  ccc (------)
  ddd (-----)
  eee (-----)  &  fff (------)

  You are looking for messages that contain:

  'aaa' AND 'bbb' AND 'ccc'

  OR that contain:

  'ddd'

  OR that contain:

  'eee' AND 'fff'


  Goddit? :-)

* When you enter an empty area, ALT-I, ALT-U, CTRL-A and CTRL-N are
  available now.

* timEd would sometimes add a 'hard return' if kludges were longer than 512
  bytes (Hudson and *.MSG areas only). This would display part of a kludge
  as normal text (and looks ugly :-). This should now be fixed.

* timEd will now properly reset path/drive after using ALT-U (if your
  batchfile or whatever changed it).

* timEd will now create the file 'mbunlock.now' if it cannot lock the Hudson
  base. If any program (like your tosser) has the Hudson base locked (and it
  supports the RA 1.11 message base locking specs) it will then unlock it
  within 10 seconds, so that timEd can write to the base...

* The area list will now show the areatag at the top.

* Subject lines could be messed when replying (if they looked like a
  filepath).

* When issuing a file request with ctrl-f from the last message in an area,
  timEd would sometimes complain about non-existing messages.

* Added a new keyword: 'EnterMarks <Yes|No>'.

  If this is set to 'Yes', the <enter> key will mark a message.

  If this is set to 'No', <enter> will not mark a message but will function
  as <cursor right> and move you to the next message. In this case, <space>
  will mark messages.

* timEd will now ask (depending on your 'zonegate' cfg setting) whether it
  should use the gate for every single message in a CC:, instead of just for
  the first one..

* Using the ctrl-f function, changes to the subject line while editing the
  header would be ignored.

* When calling SQPACK from the ALT-U (Maintenance) menu, timEd will now call
  SQPack with two parameters:
  SQPack <dir/basename of area> <areatag>

  SQpack.exe will not use the second parameter, but if you make a batchfile
  called SQPack.bat (dos) or SQPack.cmd (OS/2) you can use the second
  parameter, for example to link the message area as well, like this:
  sqpack.bat:
  sqpack.exe %1          <-- Don't forget .EXE!
  squish link -f%2

* Memory loss problem when scanning Hudson base solved.

* Major surgery on lastread pointer handling: timEd would always convert
  the lastread pointer to an existing message, but that messes up new mail
  scans (if there's one message in an area, and the message is new...).
  This meant quite some fiddling, and since lastread pointers are used in
  many places (fast scanning, personal mailscan, 'normal' scan, find, etc),
  there are many places where it can go wrong :-)

* Undeleting lines at the top of the screen would give strange effects
  (internal editor).

* In JAM netmail areas, the ^AVIA lines would not be shown correctly.

* Fixed sometimes strange behaviour of TAB in internal editor.

* Fixed a bug that messed up handling of quotes when pressing <enter> in
  the internal editor.

* Better error reporting when an error in the config file(s) is
  encountered.

* Fixed memory corruption problem in list mode for Squish areas. This
  problem sometimes popped up if mail was tossed in that area, after you
  entered the area (background mail tossing), but before you entered the
  list mode.

* The 'save hellostrings' edit function would regard strings as unchanged,
  if only the case (upper/lower case) was changed. As a result it wouldn't
  save these changed.

* Undeleting lines could sometimes lead to traps/exceptions.

* Fiddled a bit with error conditions in mass copy/move.

* Fixes to the MSGAPI, Squish message writing function. Please check
  carefully for area corruption after "C)hange message".

* New keyword: JAM_Zonegate_bit <Yes|No>

  This will affect the way timEd does zonegating when saving a message in a
  JAM area: if this is set to 'Yes', it will just set the 'MSG_GATE' bit
  and do nothing else.

  If this is set to 'No', it will use the 'old' strategy of addressing the
  message to the zonegate and adding an INTL kludge. This doesn't always
  work well in JAM bases, due to the inner workings of JAM.

  At this moment, no released program supports this, but both GEcho
  [probably in version 1.11] and  Fastecho [probably in version 1.42] will
  support this soon.

* The OS/2 version could run out of filehandles when crossposting from one
  JAM area to another (shouting "can't open echomail.jam" to indicate this).

* Some Hudson lastread pointer trouble fixed.

* A certain error in the config could confuse timEd to a point where it
  started to whine about the registration key being invalid (without
  displaying useful error info first).


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