[2572] in comp.os.os2.announce archive
UPDATE: Internet Adventurer v0.96
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kim Rasmussen)
Tue Mar 4 03:50:01 1997
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 4 Mar 1997 08:27:58 GMT
From: krasmus@post3.tele.dk (Kim Rasmussen)
Reply-To: krasmus@post3.tele.dk (Kim Rasmussen)
Reply-to: krasmus@post3.tele.dk (Kim Rasmussen)
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The eagerly awaited Internet Adventure version 0.96 has now been released, and
is available for download from <http://home3.inet.tele.dk/krasmus/>
Internet Adventure is OS/2's premier Internet Suite, which supports IRC, WWW,
FTP, Gopher, News and Mail all in one integrated fast and cheap package.
Major new features:
- Netscape/2 support
- Native Java support (running outside of a WWW-browser)
- WAV support !
- Extensive News/Mail filtering
- Crossposted news articles are now handled
- Native language support, and support for all the ISO-8859-x character
sets.
- MIME support added, view attachments easily
Here is the complete list of changes since the last version:
- Flushing of the news database is now only done after no activity has
occurred in 10 seconds. This should make retrieving of articles
faster.
- News database compaction added - this also means that news.p is no
longer needed. Compation can significantly reduce the disk-space
requirements of the news database - during testing, I reduced it from
9 MB to 5 MB by simply compacting it. Compaction is available from
the file menu.
- If you have a registered version, your real name will no longer be
displayed as part of the header in any sent messages.
- Older newsservers, which does not support the XOVER command are now
also supported, note however that the byte count will be 0, since
that information is not available. Also note, that these servers are
slow, and it takes considerably longer time to download from them.
- IA_NETSC.DLL added - This adds support for using Netscape for all
WWW and FTP URLs, instead of the browser in IA_WWW.DLL. In order to
use it, change a line in iaplugins.cfg (ia_www to ia_netsc).
- When deleting the last thread in a newsgroup, the article list was not
cleared properly.
- Whenever a program was started from inetadv, it inherited it's file
handles, thus causing InetAdv to think that the database was opened
by another process after re-loading, without shutting down the
started apps. This is now fixed.
- Huge bug concerning threading fixed ! Whenever deleting an
article list record from the database, it's assotiating thread was
also deleted, even if there were other records in the same thread.
- /URL command added to IRC
- Enhanced the install.cmd script a lot
The .zip file now has no quicklst.* files, but comes with a
orgquick.lst file that the install script imports into the quicklist
database, of no existing quicklist is detected.
- Added impnetsc.cmd, which imports Netscape Navigator's Quicklist
- The newsgroup list didn't remember it's container view
- Custom folders can now be created, and articles/mails can be moved or
copied to them.
- /joininv IRC command added - will join the channel you were last
invited to.
- Private messages will no longer be shown in the current channel, if
a private window is pop'ed up to show the message.
- Bug in copying to the clipboard from an IRC window fixed.
- WAV support added !! The following WAV files are played by InetAdv:
- ialoaded.wav when inetadv is started
- newmail.wav when new mail has arrived
- Added Java support, using IBM's JEmpower tool - the same one that
Netscape is using to support Java inside their browser !
- Changed the name of any runtime DLL's to a unique name, so IA will no
longer conflict with other program DLLs. All IA DLLs now also uses a
single runtime library, to minimize memory requirements.
- Changed the name of exceptq.dll to ia_trap.dll, to avoid conflicts
with PowerWeb which used an older version of exceptq.dll - Help is
finally added - few items are still in the help, but the list is
growing rapidly...
- You can now doubleclick on an email address anywhere, to prepare an
email and send it to that specific address.
- Registration menu item moved to the main menu.
- Filtering now implemented. This is a really useful feature, refer to
the help for details on what can be done with filters.
- Stuffed Xref support into the database
- The IRC notify-list only worked for nicknames of max. 9 chars, this
has now been fixed.
- Right-clicking the IRC nickname list only worked for nicknames less
than 10 characters.
- Timestamp has been removed from all messages that goes to the IRC
log.
- If posting a news article while offline, InetAdv would only try to
send it 3 times, and then give up, and require a restart in order to
try to communicate with the newsserver again.
- 'Mark all read' menuitem added to news.
- True Xref handling added, this means that if you mark one article
read, if it's crossposted, it will also be marked read in all the
other groups that the article also appears in !!!!
- Headers formatted according to RFC1522 (eg. =?iso8859-1?q?=3F?=) are
now translated to a more readable format. Charactersets are also
converted from iso-8859-? where ? is 1-9 to your current codepage.
The following codepages are supported: 437, 850, 852, 857, 860, 861,
863, 865.
- Drag'n dropping URLs from Netscape to Internet Adventurer's quicklist
is now possible.
- MIME is now supported, both MIME attachments, and uuencoded
attachments are shown as one line representing them, instead of
showing the whole attachment in the article window.
The following codepages are recognized: 437, 850, 852, 857, 860, 861,
863 and 865. Conversion between all these codepages and iso-8859-* is
supported. (* is 1 to 9)
- Quoted lines are no longer wrapped, when replying.
- Received duplicate messages are now shown as independent messages in
the inbox - this means that IA's duplicate handling has been disabled
for incoming mail messages.
- MIME and UUDecoding attachment support added
___________________________________________________________
Kim Rasmussen - Author of Internet Adventurer for OS/2 PM
President
Adventure Software
<Email> krasmus@post3.tele.dk
<WWW> http://home3.inet.tele.dk/krasmus/ or
http://www.teamos2.org/software/iadventure/
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