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SOFTWARE: Internet Adventurer v1.20 released
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kim Rasmussen)
Sat Oct 25 12:07:36 1997
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 25 Oct 1997 11:06:00 -0400
From: kim@inetadv.net (Kim Rasmussen)
Reply-To: kim@inetadv.net (Kim Rasmussen)
Reply-to: kim@inetadv.net (Kim Rasmussen)
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Internet Adventurer v1.20 is now released !!
Internet Adventurer is OS/2's premier Internet Suite, it integrates all major
internet protocols into one program.
IA supports WWW, IRC, News, Email, Java, FTP and Telnet.
For further info and download, refer to http://www.inetadv.net - where a free
demo is available.
Internet Adventure has been awarded 5 cows by TUCows - the highest possible
score, and Software Showcase has rated IA "Excellent".
The newest edition of the EDM/2 magazine has this to say about IA:
"In conclusion the Internet Adventurer suite of programs is an excellent
program which has great potential. The GUI design is clean and direct. The
user is never overpowered with too much information even though at times the
program has several presentation manager windows opened."
it also says
"In short, this program can fulfill the needs of all but the most demanding of
Internet users."
Internet Adventurer is shareware, and costs $40 to register - you can register
direct from http://www.inetadv.net
At WarpStock, IA will be sold at 25% discount, $30, and you'll even get a free
tshirt if you register there.
So, see you at WarpStock...
This is a list of changes since the last version...
Version 1.20
- Pressing Ctrl-Up or Ctrl-Down sometimes confused the treeview control, so
it could loose track of the current cursor position.
- '+' and '-' can now be used to expand/collapse in the treeview.
- Attachments of type <message/rfc822> are now shown in a 'spawned' window
so attachments within attached messages can be decoded.
- If more than 30000 groups exists, IA would choke when trying to display
them, causing the scrollbar to be grayed out, and only about 20.000
groups to be shown in the 'All groups' list. Now, a max. of 60.000 groups
can be shown in the list.
- Wordwrap now only wraps on whitespace (space, tab etc.) - previously, it
would wrap in the middle of URLs, at these characters: ".;:,?!"
- If exactly one new message existed in a newsgroup, it would not be
retrieved - if 2 or more message existed, they would both be retrieved.
- FTPPM.EXE and TELNETPM.EXE are now used instead of their command-line
equivalents.
- Totally new PM Install program - makes installation much easier !
- IRC Nuke detection/avoiding improved !
- New popup in the unregistered version - you can now register directly from
the initial screen.
- The navigation buttons sometimes didn't 'go up' when the mouse was moved
away from them.
- The news database format has been changed, and there is now one set of
files for each newsgroup. This should make access to the article list a lot
faster, but it also makes compacting the database a little slower, because
there are more files to compact.
- The cursor was not always displayed in the edit window initially, when
composing email/news messages.
- Clicking on the fieldbar in treeview controls didn't change the window focus.
- The 'Download marked articles' menuitem in the articlelist popup menu didn't
do anything.
- A setup wizard has been added - it will run the first time you start IA,
and can be started manually later - it makes configuring the basic parts of
IA a lot easier, and advanced setup is still available though the settings
notebook.
- Proxy support added to WebWatcher, so you can now check www-pages though
your company firewall !! Use of the proxy can be disabled for individual
entries in the list, so both internal and external sites can be checked.
- The quicklist would sometimes be corrupted, and not save the latest change.
- If a subject was more than 512 characters long, IA would trap trying to
display it.
- Headers marked as 'not on server' were not deleted automatically when
expired headers were deleted.
- Search news/mailgroups added, you can search on all the things a filter can
search on, and it is also possible to save search templates for later use.
- Stability under warp3 has been improved, and a few userinterface glitches
has been taken care of.
- Draft and trash folders added, drafts can now be saved, and re-edited or
sent at a later time. The trash-folder can guard against unwanted deletes.
- If a group contained less than 100 articles, and IA was told to load the
last 100 articles from the server, nothing would be loaded.
- The action 'download body' in the filters didn't work.
- A compose wizard has been added, this makes composing new messages easier,
since the newsgroup, subject, and email address are all entered on the same
page.
- IA previously thought that any line that began with "begin" meant that the
rest of the file was uu-encoded - now, it is a bit more intelligent.
- A bug in uu-decoding has been fixed - if a message didn't have a newline
after the word 'end' then the last part of an uu-encoded file would be
lost.
- CTCP SOUND support added to IRC - make sure that any eventual REXX scripts
you are using is not filtering SOUND requests out.
- The <Enter> key now works as doubleclick in the articlelist.
- Alt-1, Alt-2 and Alt-3 in the news window, previously restored maximized
windows, now they keep their size. Also, 1 2 and 3 can be used without the
ALT key.
- Reply-To and Forward wizards have been added - you can now also send carbon
copies to all other recipients of an email.
- WordWrap now also wraps when viewing articles, not just when composing them.
- Column sizes are now saved for all treeview controls, including the
webwatcher, address book and group list.
- A subject can now also be added to the killfile, from the menu.
- Database compaction has now been split into two - one for compaction only,
and one for the whole show with full error-recovery.
- The help system has now been changed, so all the help is in HTML format.
This makes integrating graphics and links much easier, and it also allows
for some nicer looking help.
- The last used email account in a compose-message is now remembered for the
next compose.
___________________________________________________________
Kim Rasmussen - Author of Internet Adventurer for OS/2 PM
President
Adventure Software
<Support> support@inetadv.net
<Sales> sales@inetadv.net
<Home> krasmus@post3.tele.dk
<WWW> http://www.inetadv.net
http://home3.inet.tele.dk/krasmus/
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