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- Short: NewsCoaster Full Version (v1.49) (MUI)
- Uploader: Mark Harman (mark.harman@ntlworld.com)
- Author: Mark Harman (mark.harman@ntlworld.com)
- Type: comm/news
-
- NewsCoaster is an MUI newsreader, for both online and offline reading. Please send bug
- reports, enforcer hits, feature suggestions etc to me at mdwh2@cheerful.com
-
- There are two archives:
-
- nc_update_beta.lha - this is the 'update' archive - you need to find BetterString,
- NList, TextEditor and Toolbar yourself. Optionally, NListtree is needed for tree views.
- Easiest way is to download 'newscoaster_b.lha'- this will also give you the
- documentation.
-
- newscoaster_b.lha - the full archive. Download this if you are not upgrading from an
- older version (or you want the updated documentation).
-
- NewsCoaster homepage at http://newscoaster.tripod.com/ (contains the documentation in
- HTML form).
-
- Mailing list to hear about announcements of new releases etc at
- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/newscoaster-announce/
-
- My personal homepage at http://mark_harman.tripod.com/
-
- New for version 1.49: (27.1.2 - *BETA*)
- - Toolbar is now provided with 'Toolbar' MUI class. No graphical icons are currently
- provided however - please send me some:) (they should be located in the 'icons'
- folder, under the names "main.toolbar" and "main_G.toolbar" - see toolbar.mcc docs
- for more details).
- - Improved performance on 'threaded view'.
- - Post immediately option finally returns for writing messages.
- - Bug fix; disposing MUI objects from a hook called with such an object is not a good
- idea.. (also before some objects weren't getting freed at all).
- - Bug fix; couldn't abort on moving/copying/undeleting messages.
-
- New for version 1.48: (12.12.1 - *BETA*)
- - When downloading a message body (online mode), if the server claims the body is not
- available, try again using the article number instead of the messageID (this fixes
- the curious behaviour where NewsCoaster says a message is no longer available, even
- though you only just downloaded the header).
- - New option to not display From/Subject of messages when downloading news.
- - Don't display message about groups being downloaded into a file if checking for new
- newsgroups, and none are found.
- - Minor improvements to index reading/writing.
- - Bug fix; enforcer hit when opening the View Message window.
- - Bug fix; if messages that you hadn't downloaded bodies for appeared in a search
- result, and then you fetched the body, clicking to read the message in the search
- window would result in NewsCoaster fetching the body again.
- - Bug fix; couldn't cope with messages that didn't have spaces between messageIDs on
- the References header line.
- - Bug fix; ARexx command SETFOLDERBYNAME was rereading index when that folder was
- already being displayed.
- - Bug fix; adding/deleting or changing the order of newsgroups whilst downloading could
- cause silly problems like checking one group twice, or not checking a group at all.
-
- New for version 1.47: (5.12.1 - *BETA*)
- - Find Text option for the View window (at long last!)
- - Choose which columns to display for the message list and search window ('Lists' under
- Program Settings).
- - Sorting of messages in search window results (click on a column, as with the main
- messages window).
- - Search window updates better to reflect changes to displayed messages (eg, if a
- message is deleted it will be removed, or if moved to another folder you can still
- display it).
- - Popup "help bubble" for message list displays info. on the currently selected
- message.
- - Popup "help bubble" for group list displays info. on the currently displayed group.
- - Various minor MIME and message parsing improvements/fixes.
- - More sensible sorting on statistics list for "By Person" (ignores quotes, etc).
- - Bug fix; leaving stray ascii '0's in message text when saving/viewing the raw text of
- the entire message, that weren't in the original message.
- - Bug fix; downloading body of messages in 'deleted' (or outgoing/sent if you decided
- to copy them there..) didn't work.
- - Bug fix; sizes of some attachments in list were one byte too big.
- - Bug fix; was marking all uuencoded files as "text/plain" - should work out MIMEType
- from filename extension.
- - Bug fix; new killfiles entered wouldn't work until NewsCoaster was restarted.
- - Bug fix; clicking sort messages by size resulted in sorting by number of lines in
- v1.46.
-
- New for version 1.46: (27.11.1 - *BETA*)
- - Groups Manager menu option - displays the groups manager for the default newsserver.
- - Switch back to storing temporary files on disk, so as to not waste RAM; will make the
- location an option in future.
- - New 'Lines' column.
- - Bug fix; if the user aborts whilst downloading the message body, should not delete
- the message header!
-
- New for version 1.45: (21.11.1 - *BETA*)
- - Option (on by default) to delete message header automatically if you try to download
- the body and it's no longer available (ie, in online mode).
- - New 'View Header' menu option under 'Messages' which will display the header; if
- you haven't yet downloaded the body for the message, it won't attempt to do so.
- - If mime type is multipart/alternative, still list all parts on the attachments page.
- - Fix some problems when/when not to append .sig; also the first .sig is used as the
- default when creating a new message that isn't initially to any specified group.
- - Store temporary files in RAM: instead of the newscoaster folder.
- - Bug fix; if name of uuencoded file had a space in it, only the first word would be
- used as the default filename when you saved it.
- - Bug fix; possible illegal overwriting of memory when some parts of code dealt with
- messages with long lines.
- - Bug fix; if the system crashes/resets whilst downloading, we should make sure that
- next time we download for the group, we switch to checking for message duplicates
- again (and do so until we're up to date with the group again).
- - Bug fix; illegal memory accessing when viewing messages with attachments!
- - Bug fix; quoted-printable decoding wasn't working properly.
- - Bug fix; if appearance type was set to 'Plain Text', newly opened messages were still
- displayed in 'Email Format'.
-
- New for version 1.44: (11.11.1 - *BETA*)
- - Improved speed of reading in the newsgroups list to the Groups Manager.
- - Got rid of 'Write List' and 'Sort List' options from Groups Manager; groups are now
- sorted by default before being displayed.
- - New 'System Information' menu option which outputs a text file containing some
- information about your system - useful to send to me when reporting a bug.
- - Bug fix; Security Hole - escape characters are now stripped from downloaded text (see
- http://www.abraxis.com/SA-2001-11-08.html for more details).
- - Bug fix; 'Previous in Thread' option didn't work in threaded view mode.
- - Bug fix; the 'Export' menu option on the View Message window was opening the old
- version of the export message code.
- - Bug fix; When downloading bodies of messages (online mode) that were very small, part
- of the "X-NewsCoaster-Flag-Online: yes" text would appear in the message.
- - Bug fix; using 'View/Save UUEncoded Attachment' then meant using 'View/Save
- Attachment' on the message would stop working, until you reopened the window.
- - Bug fix; Groups Manager wasn't displaying 'y' or 'n' flag to indicate moderation
- status of group.
-
- New for version 1.43: (10.11.1 - *BETA*)
- - When downloading, only read in indices of a group if we actually need to check
- messages for duplicates.
- - Improved performance when checking messages against killfile whilst downloading.
- - Bug fix; possible stupid infinite loop when downloading message bodies (online mode)
- in v1.42.
- - Bug fix; menu option 'Mark as Normal/Important' didn't write changes to disk!
-
- New for version 1.42: (6.11.1 - *BETA*)
- - Possible minor speed improvements.
- - Uninlined a function since it seemed to be confusing compiler.
- - Bug fix; killfile was working incorrectly in v1.41!
-
- New for version 1.41: (4.11.1 - *BETA*)
- - New menu option to delete all read messages in a group.
- - New menu option to select all read or unread messages in a group.
- - Menu option when viewing messages to toggle between some/all headers.
- - Group name shown in bold if it contains unread messages.
- - 'Archive Group' now exports in a standard mailbox format.
- - Faster copying/moving/deleting.
- - Slight speed improvement for 'Statistics'.
- - Minor speed improvement when logging is not enabled.
- - Bug fix; didn't jump to first unread message in 'threaded' view.
- - Bug fix; underestimated cps readout (particularly in 'online' mode).
- - Bug fix; various problems when downloading in online mode.
-
- New for version 1.40: (16.7.1 - *BETA*)
- - Display author/subject of messages when downloading.
- - Bug fixes to do with MIME type popups.
- - Bug fix; hang when downloading some (rare) messages.
-
- See the documentation for a complete history.
-
- Mark Harman
- 27.1.2
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