home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
Text File | 1989-12-06 | 2.3 KB | 64 lines | [TEXT/QED1] |
- What’s New…
-
- Version 1.6 of AreaFix is a small code cleanup, with reduced memory
- requirements and compatibility with Fido point standards. Versions
- 1.2, 1.3, 1.4 and 1.5 were skipped to align the AreaFix version number
- with its littermates, TImport, TExport and TSet.
-
- Version 1.1 of AreaFix has several substantial changes.
-
- The configuration dialog now offers three options, as follows:
-
- • Message to Sysop: if enabled (checked), sends a message to the local
- sysop anytime the areas.bbs file is altered by
- AreaFix.
-
- • No Password for List: if enabled (checked), allows remote sysops to
- use the -L and -Q switches to get listings of
- Echoes, even if they don't have a password. They
- cannot, however, make any changes to the areas.bbs
- file without a password. To request listings without
- a password, they enter only the switches (-L and/or
- -Q) in the subject line of the message to AreaFix.
- If this option is disabled, a password is required
- for all AreaFix functions.
-
- • Write to Tabby Log: if enabled (checked), AreaFix writes a short
- status report to the Tabby Log whenever it runs.
-
- Other new features:
-
- • AreaFix now backs up the areas.bbs file before altering it. The backup
- can be found in the Tabby folder under the name “areas.bbs.bak”.
-
- • AreaFix now displays its icon while it’s running.
-
- --------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Version 1.0 of AreaFix looks in the Tabby folder for a file called
-
- AreaPass
-
- to use for passwords. This provides a couple of benefits:
-
- <1> You can exceed the six-character limit of Tabby 2.0 passwords.
-
- - and -
-
- <2> You can have an extra level of security by assigning a different
- password for AreaFix functions than you use for normal
- board-to-board communication.
-
- If there is no file called AreaPass in the Tabby folder, then AreaFix
- uses the Password file created by Tabby for its password source.
-
- Format for the AreaPass file is identical to the Password file:
-
- NodeID <tab> Password <return>
- NodeID <tab> Password <return>
-
- etc., with no spaces. For more information, *please* read the AreaFix
- documentation.
-
- -- Pete Johnson
-