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SOFTWARE: EmTec Network Suite 4.6b Released (internet apps)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Bradford)
Tue Feb 11 05:29:16 1997
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 11 Feb 1997 10:19:44 GMT
From: tbrad@wilmington.net (Thomas Bradford)
Reply-To: bmt@wilmington.net
Reply-to: bmt@wilmington.net
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EmTec Innovative Software Releases
Version 4.6b of the EmTec Network Suite
File Info
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Filename: ens46b.zip
Filesize: 1,754,838 bytes
Web URL
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Web site: http://www.emtec.com/ens
FTP Sites
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ftp://ftp.us.emtec.com/netsuite/ens46b.zip
ftp://ftp.bmtmicro.com/bmtmicro/ens46b.zip
Product Description
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The EmTec Network Suite is a 32 bit multithreaded PM based internet
suite featuring:
1. Usenet Newsreader
2. FTP client
3. Gopher Client
Also includes a PM based full featured address book that integrates into the
newsreader and a PM based ping application for pinging hosts.
All components are WPS aware and allow customization of fonts and color
schemes via font and color palettes.
Features of the newsreader include:
a. context sensitive help
b. keyword searches
c. multiple connections with selected news server
d. multiple sort / message view options available
e. offline posting
f. offline reading
g. selective and mass decoding of binary news articles
h. sending of email via SMTP
i. support for message threading
j. support for multiple servers
Features of the FTP client include:
a. drag and drop support
b. firewall support
c. mark and download files from different directories
d. multiple connections to several servers at the same time
e. multiple connections to the same server
f. multiple file selection
g. resume aborted downloads
h. save server feature
Features of the Gopher client include:
a. add / save servers
b. cascading windows and/or tree viewing
c. receive ASCII and binary files from any gopher server
Version History
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02/97 ALL REL: ENS V4.6b Bugs fixed in News and FTP
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01/97 ALL FIX: news/gopher were missing from Help-Index
01/97 FTP FIX: did not recognize Hethmon (former NeoLogic) FTP server
01/97 FTP FIX: access to empty dirs on Warp-4 FTPD crashed
01/97 NEWS NEW: allow use of NetScape (see Help->How Do I ...)
01/97 NEWS CHG: made the disk in the "msg on disk" icon a bit bolder
01/97 NEWS FIX: messages with load-errors now restored to unread state
01/97 NEWS FIX: errand crashes when msg was killed from read-article win
01/97 NEWS FIX: group descriptions bug that caused a crash in 4.6a (and
probably some of the errand crashes in earlier versions)
01/97 INST FIX: minor glitches in READ.ME and install doc fixed
01/97 NEWS FIX: sometimes crashed when closing article list
01/97 NEWS FIX: sometimes reported errand replies to recent postings
01/97 NEWS FIX: UUDECODER skipped files
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01/97 ALL REL: ENS V4.6 first EmTec Release
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01/97 ALL CHG: name changed to EmTec Network Suite
01/97 ALL CHG: optical redesign (program icons, lists, colors)
01/97 ALL CHG: removed some stuff from the program to shrink archive
12/96 FTPD CHG: FTPD no longer included (see README.DOC)
10/96 NEWS FIX: crashed after attempt to step to next article after
opening new msg. window
10/96 NEWS FIX: crashed on marking in empty msg list
10/96 NEWS FIX: ref line of posted msgs no longer messed up
10/96 NEWS FIX: infinite loop in decoder on failed binary articles
10/96 NEWS FIX: MIME decoded more reliably
10/96 NEWS FIX: no more line too long messages on followups
10/96 NEWS CHG: jargon demystifier not case insensitive
10/96 NEWS FIX: Read/Unread thread counts were messed up when unmarking
10/96 NEWS FIX: subscription window context menu now displays properly
10/96 NEWS FIX: message list display problems, particularly
the format of output when sorting by author.
10/96 NEWS FIX: the program now corrects minor corruption such as missing
spacing in the reference line before posting a message
10/96 NEWS FIX: dragging articles to the decoder window when off-line
will not start the autodecode, if it is enabled
10/96 NEWS FIX: after a highlight/unhighlight command, News now steps
to the next unread message in the message list
10/96 NEWS FIX: the highligh/unhighlight thread options now work for
threads with only a single article
10/96 FTP FIX: program no longer crashes when attempting to read
inaccessible directories on NT servers
10/96 FTP FIX: local and remote dir fields now scroll automatically
10/96 FTP FIX: names containing colons now modified when downloading
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