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UPDATE: Internet Adventurer v0.26 - OS/2's premier Internet Suite
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kim Rasmussen)
Thu Sep 26 00:52:12 1996
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 26 Sep 1996 04:31:13 GMT
From: krasmus@post3.tele.dk (Kim Rasmussen)
Reply-To: kr@belle.dk (Kim Rasmussen)
Reply-to: kr@belle.dk (Kim Rasmussen)
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As the subject says, v0.26 is now ready for download.
Take a look at my new WWW page ( http://www.belle.dk/~kr/ or
http://home3.inet.tele.dk/krasmus/ ) to see where to get it.
Internet Adventurer is OS/2's premier Internet Suite - it supports WWW, IRC,
Newsreading, Gopher, FTP Download etc. Coming up next is Mail and Telnet (with
XYZModem)
Remember to register at BMT Micro ( http://www.bmtmicro.com/ )
Here is a list of changes from v0.25 to v0.26:
Version 0.26
* If the IRC notify list was large, the server would think I was flooding it
when I sent ISON requests for all the nicknames in the list - so now I send
one name at a time.
* 'gopher://' URL's were replaced by 'gopher://gopher://' oops :((
* Fixed a trap in news, that could occur after retrieving marked articles
twice.
* Names sometimes still didn't show up in the userlist - I thought it was
fixed in 0.25, but obviously it wasn't :(
* Channel-list window implemented in IRC
* A command-line parameter has been added to inetadv.exe - /I:inifilename
This allows you to specify another .INI file than the default, which is to
use OS2.INI - Using OS2.INI is much faster than using a private ini file,
but it uses a little extra memory (around 20K, depending on number of
channels, nicknames etc.) in OS/2 for caching OS2.INI A private ini file
has the advantage over OS2.INI that you can copy it to another computer.
* copyini.cmd added - copyini.cmd can be used to copy settings to / from
OS2.INI.
* install.cmd and uninst.cmd added.
* When unsubscribing a group, or deleting headers, the articles did not get
deleted.
* Select/Unselect all headers in news is now possible. NOTE: If the newsgroup
is very large, and contains many articles, this will take a long time. I
will look at these performance problems once the basic functionality is
completed.
* Cross-posted articles generated error 2 if they were retrieved in
more than one group.
* You can now doubleclick on an URL inside the article-window - this will
load the URL.
* IRC would trap if a string > 500 chars was entered on the command-line.
* News articles can now be sorted by article-id, subject, author, date and by
number of lines. Sorting can be both ascending and descending
* You can now select all headers (the ones without articles) and delete them.
* Search in headers implemented - later search inside articles will come too.
* Colors added - unread articles / headers have other colors in the subject
than the ones that are read.
* Marking messages / headers read / unread now possible.
* Presentation parameters (colors/fonts) now saved for quicklist and for all
the news windows.
* News toolbars now follow the 'show toolbars' setting.
* URL Command-line parameter added - you can now load an URL when you start
InetAdv.exe - just add eg. http://something or news: or irc: etc.. to the
parameters.
* IRC - if scrolling back using the mouse to move the slider, cut/paste could
get corrupted.
* Authinfo support added in news.
* News and WWW statusbars enhanced visually
* Offline posting of news articles now possible - the articles will be sent
as soon as you are online again - InetAdv will periodically try to send
articles.
* Posted articles are saved in a 'sent' group, for later reference.
* Articles can now be saved to a file (right-click the article window)
* New option for doubleclick on an article header - should it mark it for
download, or retrieve it ?
* Option for wrapping posted messages on x (default 72) characters
* IRC /QUIT command now works with spaces in the quit reason - eg.
"/QUIT will be back later" - previously, only "QUIT will" was shown.
* Support for signature files added.
* Multiple newsserver support added - every group now has it's own
newsserver.
NOTE: Only registered users can specify multiple newsservers !
* Support for autogetting all new article bodies added - usually this
function should be used on a per-group basis, and only for groups with
relatively few messages - eg. comp.os.os2.announce
* Option for marking all articles headers read before retrieving new
headers added.
* In IRC, you can now see who changed the topic.
* Alt/Ctrl up/down can now be used to scroll between messages.
* Ctrl-U and Ctrl-A can be used to select the next unread header, or the next
unread article.
* Option for specifying the desktop as parent of all the news windows now
implemented. This was a pain - all menu accelerators had to be resolved
manually, because the windows are no longer children of the one which
contains the menu.
* Newsgroup names can be changed before subscribing them - this means you can
now subscribe to any newsgroup/server.
* Clicking on the news-icon now puts the newswindow in the foreground
instead of giving an error message.
* All dates (in the newsreader) are now parsed and displayed in national
language format.
* Download directory moved from IRC settings to main settings
* News can now decode single-part UUEncoded files.
* % counter now shown when retrieving article bodies.
* If an old news-database is found, the user is warned that he should
delete it.
* UU-Decoded files can now be viewed - great for all those alt.binaries
groups :)
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