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- TheNews V2.38 Changes
-
- Enhancements
- * Optionally uses Eudora for mailing followups
- * Allows cross-posting
- * Display quoted text in italics
-
- Bugs Fixed
- * A article line longer than 256 characters crashed the program (uucp version only)
- * Mail followup / forward article failed with some SMTP servers (TCP and CTB versions only).
- * Unread article count in group list doesn't get misaligned with large numbers.
- * Post/mail followup left some memory fragments
-
- Other
- * Changed author's USPS and email address.
- * Included canned preference files for UUCP and CTB versions.
- * Compiled with Think C V7.0
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- TheNews V2.37 Changes
-
- (This version was never released to the general public.)
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-
- TheNews V2.36 Changes
-
- Enhancements
- * none
-
- Bugs Fixed
- * A news groups file line longer than 600 characters crashed the program.
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-
- TheNews V2.35 Changes
-
- Enhancements
- * none
-
- Bugs Fixed
- * Attempting a "save as" operation after cancelling an "append" operation would
- sometimes crash the program.
- * A long subject line would sometimes crash the program (UUCP version).
- * An empty subject field would look strange when displayed in the subject list window.
- * Don't limit the number of article 'been read' ranges stored/retreived in the
- news group file.
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- TheNews V2.34 Changes
-
- Enhancements
- * none
-
- Bugs Fixed
- * Program stumbled over certain non-printable characters in the header (UUCP version)
- * Program stumbled over articles with more than 100,000 chars (UUCP version)
- * Program didn't incorporate GMT offset in date interpretation (sometimes led to
- incorrect ordering of articles in the subject list window)
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- TheNews V2.33 Changes
-
- Enhancements
- * Added the clipboard to the "Windows" menu.
-
- Bugs fixed
- * Posting an article created a "Date:" header line which included
- a mis-formed time (UUCP version only)
- * Cutting from the Article Text window occasionally copied text from
- the wrong pane.
- * Selecting the clipboard confused selection of other windows.
- * Using <RETURN> or <ENTER> to select a group or article from an
- empty list resulted in a crash or confusing error message.
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-
-
- TheNews V2.32 Changes
-
- Enhancements
- * Added an option to flush the input queue (CTB version)
- * Reposition the "Too many articles" dialog so that it doesn't
- cover up the "Fetching articles" dialog
- * Make the ">" followup prefix changeable (via ResEdit)
- * Don't line-break followup lines (ie, those beginning with ">"
- * Speed up the closing of article subject list window
-
- Bugs fixed
- * Read next/previous/next-unread sometimes caused a problem where
- the header would change but the article text would not change
- * Save/Append from the article subject list would never free up
- the memory used to perform the save/append
- * "Beeping" on attempts to read past the beginning or end of the
- article list would confuse the menu bar when the sound was turned
- off
- * Read next/previous/next-unread sometimes caused a crash (but not
- right away:-(
- * CTB version gave up too quickly when used on a sluggish server
- * A "read" failure while reading an article message would hang the
- program forever
- * Mail/post followup to very short articles would cause crashes on
- some systems
-
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- TheNews V2.31 Changes
-
- Enhancements
- * Add flag to inhibit passing the AUTHINFO (required for some
- news servers connected via CTB).
-
- Bugs fixed
- * Read forward, read backward, and read next unread now update
- the article list document.
- * Default transfer medium is now MacTCP.
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-
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- TheNews V2.3 Changes
-
- Enhancements in V2.3:
-
- * dynamic sorting of the article list window
- * dynamic threading/unthreading of the article list window
- * option to "open with refresh" by default
- * "read next unread" command (and <TAB> support)
- * save articles directly from article list window
- * append articles directly from article list window
- * change active window from the menu bar
- * serial link server support via CTB
-
- Bug Fixes in V2.3
-
- * correct mail from header line in followup mail (UUCP version)
- * correctly form user name as <USERNAME> + "@" + <DOMAIN> +
- "(" + <NAME> + ")" (UUCP version)
-
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-
- TheNews V2.24 Changes
-
- Enhancements:
- * Added more command-key equivalents.
- * Added "send" option for the "close window" dialog in post/mail.
-
- Bugs fixed:
- * An illegal header line like "From: schmoe@blough ()" caused trash to appear
- in the article list window.
- * The "cancel article" function didn't send the right message for the ANU
- version of the NNTP server (this meant that the cancel message was
- actually posted instead of being interpreted as a control message).
- * The program didn't respond correctly to a "transfer-only" connection
- status message from the server (this meant that the program would try
- to make server requests when it should know better).
- * Single-line edit fields in dialogs would not scroll if you typed beyond
- the end of the visible portion of the edit field.
- * Using <command><click> to make multiple selections in various lists
- selected the entire range of items between the top and bottom selections.
- * After posting or mailing, the menu commands for the active window
- (either the article list window or the article text window) were not
- available.
-
- Known bugs (sorry!)
- * If you switch to another application while the program is fetching
- information from the server, the program does not update the "Fetching
- whatever" dialog box (that is, if the application you've switched to
- covers up the dialog box, the text inside the dialog box does not get
- re-written).
- * Under System 7, keeping the signature file in the system folder causes
- an error message and prevents you from posting. To get around this,
- keep the signature file in the same file as TheNews.
- * There is an incompatibility with Norton Directory Assistance which
- makes saving certain articles difficult. To get around this, try changing
- the target file name to something other than the article subject (which
- is the default).
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- TheNews V2.22 Changes
-
- Bugs fixed:
- * Higher tolerance for trashy data coming from the NNTP server.
- * Built using a newer version of the Word Solutions Engine (this
- doesn't fix anything specific, but hopefully this results in a more
- robust product).
- * Fixed a bug which made it impossible to post a new article when
- there were no articles available.
-
- New features:
- * Added capacity for cancelling an article.
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-
- TheNews V2.2 Changes
-
- Bugs fixed:
- * Quit (CMD-Q) after changing subscription info crashed program.
- * Low tolerance for illegal article headers.
- * CMD-F and CMD-B forgot to change the article window title.
- * Large article and group list windows were 'confused'.
- * Article saves to a full disk didn't clean up the mess.
- * Sorting articles by subject used wrong secondary key.
- * Doesn't crash under 7.0 Multifinder (V2.02).
- * Supports read-only server via ResEdit (V2.03).
- * Runs on an SE (V2.04).
- * Faster on huge group files (V2.1).
-
- New features:
- * Signature file inclusion on posting and mailing.
- * Support for copy (CMD-C) from article text window.
- * Page up/down/home/end key support.
- * Case insensitive article sorts.
- * Domain name server and Hosts file support.
- * Limited CMD-. support (only on article header fetch).
- * Miscellaneous speed enhancements.
- * More readable article header list.
- * Support for Unix .newsrc group files.
- * Use 'Reply-to' and 'Followup' for replies and followup posts.
- * Support for huge articles (>32K).
- * Keyboard shortcuts for overriding preferences.
- * User-selected font and size.
- * Optional Bcc on mail followup.
- * User-selected saved article signatures.
- * Append articles to existing files
- * Supports international character translation on input/output.
-
- Known bugs/shortcomings:
- * CMD-. can't stop every lengthy operation. The problem here is
- that some requests must run to completion so the input buffer
- gets emptied. The program must wait for all of the input from
- the server before it can respond to the abort request.
- * Group list occasionally reports articles available but none shown
- when the article list appears. The problem here is that the
- server reports, for example, that it has articles 100 through 199,
- but in fact some articles within that range are unavailable (for
- instance they were cancelled by the poster). A 'catchup' operation
- from the groups menu will fix the group list.
-
-