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Demon Internet Simple News v1.28
================================
[ This is a copy of the standard PC documentation with the Atari specific ]
[ details interspersed. ]
[Atari differences indicated thus].
[ Atari port by Graham Judd - gjudd@siward.demon.co.uk ]
[ gjudd@cix.compulink.co.uk ]
[ Port released 18 June 1994. ]
[ Please note that I am working in California until the end of September ]
[ 1994 and I will not be available for any support questions so use this ]
[ release at your own risk! ]
GENERAL
=======
1.28 is a minor upgrade to fix bugs that have been reported in
Snews 1.27 over the last 4 months.
Colour processing from the snews.rc file now ignores incomplete
lines, rather than setting to black.
[ Colour is not supported in the Atari port].
Support has been added for a list of suspended newsgroups. This
is functional in Snews, but will only be of real value when the
DIS front end has been updated to support suspended newsgroups.
The suspend list is an ascii file containing one newsgroup per
line. The file is called 'suspend' and should be placed in the
snews directory, the same location as the file 'active'.
A newsgroup placed on the suspend list is highlighted in Snews
newsgroup display with brackets '[----]' and is bypassed by the
normal TAB key reading functions unless deliberately entered using
the enter or arrow keys.
Attempts to post to or follow up in a suspended group are met
with a warning message, which must be accepted before posting
is permitted.
Rmgroup will refuse to delete any newsgroup on the suspend list.
NOTE: Unbatch and Expire will still process suspended groups as
normal.
UNBATCH
=======
1) Error checking has been improved in a number of situations where
previously error handling was left to DOS.
2) Unbatch now attempts to remove all its lock files when it finishes.
This can not be 100% as there are valid reasons for not removing
lock files. (e.g. Removing lock files when they were present
before unbatch was invoked)
3) Unbatch did not account for the increasing size of the in memory
history list when running. This is the cause of some of the 'out
of memory' errors. Corrected.
4) The bugs preventing unbatch processing multiple batch files in a
single pass have been corrected.
[ The function of the -f and -l switches have been reversed. ]
[ If -f is specified, it now means DO NOT filter non-printables. ]
[ If -l is specified, it now means DO check article length. ]
[ I have done this because the default action for -f could cause ]
[ bus errors and I have not had time to find out why; ]
[ and the default action for -l was causing #!rnews headers to be ]
[ missed, with the result that messages were being appended to ]
[ other messages and hence being placed into the wrong group. ]
[ If you are specifying either the -f or -l switches when running ]
[ unbatch, do not do so; if you were not, you will have to specify ]
[ them to get the same functionality as SNews1.27. I would ]
[ recommend that you do not specify these switches unless you have ]
[ a particular need to do so. ]
SNEWS
=====
1) The 'K' command now prompts for confirmation (in non expert mode)
at both the thread and article levels.
2) The 'o' command is now supported at the thread level for printing
a full thread.
[ I inadvertantly forgot to define 'stdprn' to be 'stdprt'. It is ]
[ defined to 'stderr' so printing will be to the screen unless you ]
[ can redirect stderr. You will have to save a group/thread/article ]
[ and then print the saved file. Sorry... ]
3) At the thread and article levels the 's' command now permits an
abort, replace or append choice if the file named already exists.
4) XX.YY style added to smart thread matching routine.
5) The text from an entire newsgroup can be saved by entering 's' at
the newsgroup selection screen, with the pointer marking the
group to be saved.
6) In article display, lines were being wrapped 1 column early. e.g.
at col 79 on an 80 col display. Corrected.
7) There is a limit in alias handling in that a name prompt can be
answered with an alias, *or* a proper name. A mixture of alias
and full names, or multiple aliases is not correctly processed.
This, and the limitation of aliases not being accepted after
entering the editor will be addressed in a future version.
8) When an article with follow-up to poster is followed up, but to
the newsgroup, not the sender, it was posted to newsgroup 'poster'.
Corrected.
9) New item in snews.rc - footers. When set to 'on' snews will add
the signature separator "-- " before the signature and will also
stop quoting included text (for example when quoting messages for
followups) when this separator is found. The default is 'on' which
corresponds with current behaviour for adding the separator. This
setting can be altered for the current session from the F3 settings
screen.
[ So, if you have "-- " in your .sig file, take it out. ]
10) If a newsgroup is on the suspend list, it is displayed on the
newsgroup selection screen enclosed in square brackets '[--]'.
Selecting groups by the TAB key, will bypass this group, rather
than enter it of there are any new articles to read. Enter and
arrow keys will still enter the suspended group.
EXPIRE
======
1) A check has been added to prevent expire removing out of time
sequence articles when expiring articles. This should reduce the
incidence of 'Article xx found, when yy expected'.
Thanks to ubik.demon.co.uk for assistance in adding this feature.
2) If articles are found out of time sequence when expiring, they are
now retained and the time corrected to match the sequence.
3) The bug preventing 'expire 0' from working has been corrected.
REINDEX
=======
No changes.
ADDGROUP
========
No changes.
RMGROUP
=======
1) If a newsgroup is on the suspend list, rmgroup will refuse to
remove the newsgroup form the active file.
Malcolm@muir.demon.co.uk
2 Apr 1994
=========================================================================
[ gjudd@siward.demon.co.uk, gjudd@cix.compulink.co.uk ]
[ 18 June 1994 ]
[ Please note that I am working in California until the end of September ]
[ 1994 and I will not be available for any support questions so use this ]
[ release at your own risk! ]