[3044] in comp.os.os2.announce archive
SOFTWARE: MR/2 ICE v1.29 Released (email)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (nick@secant.com)
Sat Jun 14 01:48:01 1997
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 14 Jun 1997 01:05:07 -0400
From: nick@secant.com
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More info: http://nick.secant.com/mr2ice.htm
Changes included in v1.29
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If you have registered MR/2 ICE and are not receiving my release
announcements, please write and report you e-mail address, name and serial
number. You may have changed email addresses. If you registered with BMT or
OS/2 Shareware BBS in the "early days", your address may have been lost or
never reported (the BBS never asked for it until recently).
If you are receiving announcements at a Compuserve address and which to switch
to another address, just write.
My email address is nick@secant.com
Registrations are taking no more than a week to turn around. If you don't get
your key within this time frame, please (you guessed it :) write. I often
have keys bounce, and the address I entered matches that provided on the
forms. I have no recourse until you write me!
Finally, the NEWSREADER addon to MR/2 ICE is progressing nicely. I plan at
least one more expansion, where I add beta testers. Maybe more When I add a
group, we are testing the setup and initial user reaction. At this time, I am
only accepting REGISTERED USERS as potential testers. If interested please
write nick@secant.com with a subject of NEWSREADER BETA EXPANSION. Use this
subject, please.
o Keyboard fixups and changes relating to the SOURCE and REPLY window
hotkeys. Was interfering with the use of ALT-4 and ALT-6 to enter hi-end
ASCII.
o Removed the case where too many charset translations were performed when
replying to messages with hi-end ASCII in subject. Previously, the reply
subject would lose the characters.
o Spacebar will now "page through" the current folder's messages, one screen
at a time, switching to the NEXT message when at the end of the current.
I'll add a configuration for "direction". Still may need an adjustment so
as to minimize wasteful end-of-message displays of a single non-text line.
o You may now sort messages lists by SIZE.
o FILTER->Special should finally work as claimed in the last release :)
o Some menu mnemonics changed to avoid collision.
o Environment variables are set with message-context information for ALL
external REXX invocations. Msgutil.org has examples of how to get to
pre-parsed pieces of message data.
o Header alignment (when not displaying header) should be much more
accurate. No more parts of header showing because long header lines are
wrapping.
o The internal message viewer (designated by a viewer of "*" in MIME
association settings) now opens the message in SOURCE mode, so it may be
replied-to.
o Appledouble attachment viewing now formats the part to display correctly.
o Mailto.exe has now switched to another large SMTP server for its default.
IBM Advantis placed security on their server so that non ibm.net users
cannot use it.
o Minor security issues added. Very few will ever see evidence of these.
o As usual, I know there are more, probably minor issues, but I don't have a
record of them.
Changes included in v1.28
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o Clipboard History / Manager. The PASTE menus now contain up to 5 of the
previous copy/cuts since MR/2 ICE was started. While running, MR/2 ICE
can record cut/copy from ANY application. However, the history is private
to within MR/2 ICE and is reset on each restart.
o NETSCAPE interfacing. Options->Settings->Advanced now offers the chance
to control a running instance of Netscape, if this is your browser of
choice. You may load a selected URL into Netscape's main window, or
request a secondary window (still within the same instance) to be opened.
o Copy to folder bug. If the same message is somehow sent to the same
folder twice, the original copy's index entry would incorrectly record the
folder's collision-adjusted file name. In other words, two copies would
end up in the folder, the second copy with a newly generated unique name.
That name would also get recorded in the inbox (for example), where the
file was NOT renamed. This would result in:
- The message reporting a "MR/2 ICE file system error" when opened.
- Deletions would remove the index entry but fail to find the matching
message file (not reported to the user). A later reindex would show
the original message. This would appear as if the message was "lost"
and never seen. Not so.
While not actually a loss of data, this bug was confusing and
confidence-shaking. The algorithm has been changed and the original
message file name preserved.
o %Z variable in templates will now equate correctly to the header date's
timezone. This variable is always replaced by a numeric (signed) value,
and the attempts to offer text literal values (e.g., "EST") have been
ceased.
o Filter - Special. The list of special criteria is now represented as
CHECKBOXES instead of radio buttons. IOW, you can check for multiple
special circumstances in a single filter.
Disposition screen now has longer textual descriptions of choices.
Nick
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Nick Knight <nick@secant.com> http://nick.secant.com
Senior Software Engineer
Secant Technologies, Inc. http://www.secant.com
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