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- Short: Newsreader Version 1.31 (MUI)
- Uploader: Mark Harman (mdwh2@vdirect.com)
- Author: Mark Harman (mdwh2@vdirect.com)
- Type: comm/news
-
- NewsCoaster now requires the very latest TextEditor.mcc (version 15.7) in order for
- rot13 decoding to work - otherwise you will not be able to select text properly. This
- file is included in the nc_update.lha
-
- NewsCoaster is a newsreader, which requires MUI. NewsCoaster is shareware, and
- the unregistered version if limited to viewing a maximum of two newsgroups. Please see
- the documentation for details on registering.
-
- NewsCoaster homepage at http://newscoaster.tripod.com/
-
- My personal homepage at http://mark_harman.tripod.com/
-
- Known bugs:
- - For those upgrading from version 1.27 or previous, there was a bug introduced from
- v1.28 onwards which may result in some minor preferences settings being loaded
- incorrectly, in particular the x-no-archive option, linelength and MIMEPrefs. If you
- are already using a v1.28 or later then no need for further worry (though you might
- like to check your prefs). In rare cases, this *may* cause NewsCoaster not to run in
- which case do the following (you may wish to do this anyway to ensure prefs are
- preserved ..again this only works if upgrading from v1.27 or before):
- From CLI, change directory to the NewsCoaster directory, and type:
- stack 80000
- run newscoaster FORCEPATCH1
- Please email mdwh2@cam.ac.uk if you need further help.
-
- New for version 1.31: (27.05.00)
- - Bug fix; killfile wasn't working in v1.30!
-
- New for version 1.30: (8.5.00)
- - Customised attributation line
- - When exporting, ascii 13 characters no longer appear in header like they did in v1.29
- - If folders have somehow been deleted on hard disk, but not in NewsCoaster, they are
- now automatically recreated on startup
- - Article ID displayed in status when messages are killed/duplicates
- - Patch introduced for prefs bug (see known bugs, above)
- - Bug fix; signatures were getting lost!
- - Bug fix; possible small problem when downloading messages online
- - Bug fix; bugs in 'Update Groups'
- - Bug fix; if you deleted messages with 'Del/Next' on a View window, and another View
- window was open displaying the same message, it didn't get closed.
- - Bug fix; multi-line subjects were trunctuated if they contained a ':'
-
- New for version 1.29: (18.4.00)
- - Faster downloading!
- - Bug fix; the text on the View window 'Previous' button had disappeared!
-
- New for version 1.28: (16.4.00)
- - Option to disable confirmation requester when deleting messages
- - 'Write grouplist' on the groups manager is now disabled if viewing new newsgroups!
- - Downloading new groups doesn't display list if no new groups are found
- - Bug fix; newlines were being placed into the logfile when logging was disabled
-
- New for version 1.27: (17.02.2000)
- - View windows now have their own menu
- - Rot13 decoding menu option when viewing messages (req. TextEditor.mcc v15.7)
- - Can export an author's name/email address to YAM's addressbook
- - Can optionally specify an 'Organization'
- - Options are now 'disabled' a lot more when they aren't available (as opposed to
- displaying a 'you can't do this' requester
- - Downloading message bodies whilst downloading/uploading other messages is now allowed
- - You can now edit and create folders whilst downloading/uploading
- - You can now read messages, etc, when downloading news in 'online' mode
- - 'Fetch New Groups' now displays a list of the new groups
- - ARexx commands added for fetching and sending news
- - New 'Advanced Settings' option for newsgroups; provides option to automatically add
- an 'Approved:' header, for newsgroup moderators
- - Bug fix; 'Previous in Thread' didn't always work
- - Bug fix; incorrect charset / encoding specified when using ascii characters > 127
- - Bug fix; message not quoted when followingup in rare cases
- - Bug fix; changing the ordering of the folder list whilst downloading messages caused
- problems
- - Bug fix regarding MIME viewer preferences
- - Bug fix; copying messages to the same folder now works properly (ie, duplicates them)
-
- New for version 1.26: (6.2.00)
- - Faster downloading (possibly up to 35% or more, though this is on a fast connection -
- I suspect modems will experience smaller increases)
- - Downloading group list is much faster (about 25 times faster on my very fast
- connection - modems will experience smaller increases)
- - Multiple view windows! (must be enabled from Prefs if upgrading from older version)
- (they also behave more sensibly, eg if you switch to a different folder, you can
- read from the old folder by doing Prev/Next on the view window)
- - Doubleclick on a message in the search window immediately opens the message without
- need to change the current folder
- - Option to read timezone from Locale preferences
- - 'Shortcuts' removed on the requesters for Permenant Deleting of all messages (either
- in one or all groups) - just to be safe!
- - Folder list displays whether the newsgroup is online or offline reading
- - Priority is set to -2 when downloading to try to avoid slowdown of any other programs
- that are running (if not already lower)
- - Bug fix; the 'x-no-archive : yes, only if following up to a message with that header'
- didn't work (it never put the header in)
- - Bug fix; some SMTP servers require a correct email address to send from - you can now
- specify this in the Preferences
-
- New for version 1.25: (23.1.00)
- - When downloading news, searching, performing statistics, etc, the currently viewed
- folder no longer changes (this also makes things faster)
- - Messages can now be viewed as 'threads' in a tree - note this is experimental and
- doesn't work too well atm.. ('View' menu under 'Messages')
- - Doubleclicking works on the 'tree' view for the grouplist. Drag 'n' drop sorting also
- works (but not too well atm)
- - Messages marked as 'important' aren't deleted by the 'auto delete after x days'
- option
- - Included an updated version of TextEditor.mcc in the archive (though this updated
- isn't required, v15.5 works fine still)
- - 'Cancel' buttons have shortcut changed from 'c' to 'a', since Amiga-c is copy in
- string gadgets of course
- - Bug fix; aborting 'Update Index' / 'Update All Indices' now works again
- - Bug fix; 'Update All Indices' read from each group in turn, but each time overwrote
- the index file of the first group
- - Bug fix; v1.24 would truncuate messageIDs at 64 chars when sticking in the
- 'References' line on a followup.
- - Bug fix; group list was sorted alphabetically automatically upon loading
- - Bug fix; message count wasn't updated immediately when downloading news, or after
- composing a message
- - Bug fix; 'permenant delete' displayed errors (when there weren't any)
- - Bug fix; index wasn't updated properly if followingup a message in 'outgoing' (not
- that you would, but..)
- - Bug fix relating to headers which took more than one line
-
- New for version 1.24: (16.1.00)
- - Groups list can now be viewed either as a list or a tree (the latter is fairly simple
- atm, though - doubleclicks and dragsorting don't work), go to 'View' menu under
- 'Newsgroups'
- - Sorting type of messages is now saved
- - Option to trace back through the thread (will not function on messages downloaded
- with a version previous to v1.24)
- - Undelete option (will not function correctly on messages downloaded with a version
- previous to v1.24)
- - Deleting messages is quicker
- - Option to 'permanently delete' messages (messages are deleted straight away rather
- than copied to 'deleted', but this method is much quicker) - either selected messages,
- all messages in a group, or all messages in all groups
- - Option to mark messages as 'Important' - these messages are highlighted
- - Messages that have been downloaded in online mode, and the body has not yet been
- downloaded, are marked with a '*'.
- - When downloading, status window displays newsgroup currently being downloaded
- - Bug fix; if the body of a message wasn't found, the file opened for message was not
- deleted, and left 'Open'
- - Reports that some other newsreaders interpret 2 digit dates as being in the 1900s -
- NewsCoaster now outputs 4 digit years (NewsCoaster has itself always assumed two digit
- dates of less that 78 to be in the 2000s).
-
- New for version 1.23:
- - Multiple users allowed, each with their own location for storing news, and optional
- password protection
- - Specify different newsservers for posting and reading
- - Last used settings for expire type/time on killfiles are remembered and used as
- defaults
- - Toolbar buttons are disabled when appropriate (and some menuitems too)
- - Bug fixes; hangs whilst downloading, due to date parsing - is a lot more flexible now
-
- New for version 1.22:
- - Index reading *much* faster (about 2.5-3.0 times:)
- - Sizes of messages displayed (only for messages downloaded from now on)
- - New Logging Option - virtually all function calls logged to 'newscoaster.log' if you
- wish (shouldn't be used in general, but if you are experiencing bugs/crashes, sending
- a log will make things a lot easier for me:)
- - Bug fix; dates were parsed incorrectly in rare circumstances
- - Bug fix; enforcer hit when an empty message is composed
-
- New for version 1.21:
- - Bug fix; random characters sometimes appeared at end of messages written by the user
-
- New for version 1.20:
- - Wordwrapping on quoted text is set to a longer line length than on new text
- - A Killfile can be set to expire a certain number of days either since being created,
- or since it was last used
- - Killfiles editor now works a bit more intuitively
- - Killfiles editor displays creation and last used dates of each killfile
- - Option to archive newsgroup messages into a single text file
- - More resistance to crashes (before if there was a crash between having downloaded,
- and before quitting, vital information would not get saved meaning next time you
- downloaded, the old messages would be overwritten! There were other similar problems.
- Now this information is saved immediately after downloading, and other vital places.
- Additionally, even if something still messes up, messages should now never overwrite
- existing files.
- - Slight improvement in speed when downloading bodies of articles in online mode
- - Repeated clicking on column headings switches order of sorting
- - Bug fix; crashes related to online viewing
- - Bug fix; autorewrap sometimes didn't work correctly
- - Bug fix; the line below 'References:' in the header was ignored in some circumstances
- - Bug fix; headers which have line breaks in are now parsed correctly
- - Bug fix; enforcer hit when downloading news
- - Other minor improvements
-
- New for version 1.19:
- - Faster downloading! (Possibly up to 2x speed on a fast connection)
- - Online viewing - NB This is *EXPERIMENTAL* and may have a few bugs in it..
- - Option to discard messages after a certain number of days
- - Select All/None/Toggle/With From/With Subject option
- - Rot13 encoding option (decoding to follow..)
- - Other minor improvements and bug fixes
-
- New for version 1.18:
- - Bug fixes; under some circumstances, NewsCoaster would crash upon downloading
- certain messages
- - Other minor improvements and bug fixes
-
- New for version 1.17:
- - New 'supersede message' item, to overwrite your old posts on a newsserver
- - New statistics feature!
- - Better multithreading when download news; items appear as soon as they are
- downloaded; you can delete messages whilst downloading too
- - Option to download news for the currently selected newsgroup
- - Very simple ARexx port (more commands to come!)
- - Doubleclick on URLs to launch in a browser (via external ARexx script)
- - Can now locate news messages elsewhere (ie, doesn't have to be in
- NewsCoaster folder)
- - Copying to the same folder (ie, to duplicate message) is now allowed
- - Slightly faster moving/copying/deleting routines
- - Hopefully a bug fix in moving/deleting for some systems
- - Other minor improvements
-
- New for version 1.16:
- - Configurable colours for Message View window :)
- - Can configure which headers are to be displayed
- - Toolbar on main window
-
- New for version 1.15:
- - Bug fix - corrupted messages downloaded when a killfile was used, or messages with
- duplicate messageIDs found
- - Bug fix - dates may have been written incorrectly when posting messages using a
- machine with non-English language
-
- New for version 1.14:
- - Faster downloading.
- - Improved searching - in headers, body or entire message.
- - New option to add to the killfile based on a message (eg, kill on author, responses,
- etc), to make creating new killfiles much easier and quicker.
- - Option to reset article pointers in newsgroups.
- - Option to read in text from a file into the message you are writing.
- - Option to read in signature from file.
- - Bug fix - duplicate messageIDs weren't always being ignored.
- - Bug fix for dates on machines with non-English languages (you must select 'Update
- Index' on you newsgroups for this to take effect on old messages).
- - Aborting during move/copy/delete messages now works.
- - Option to update all indices. You can also abort updating an index, too.
- - Faster moving/deleting routines.
- - Other minor bug fixes and improvements.
-
- New for version 1.13:
- - Bug fix - when downloading from groups, in rare cases the article ID information was
- parsed incorrectly.
- - Group list is now not automatically sorted, allowing you to rearrange them as you
- wish (though you can do a sort if you wish).
- - Bug fix - now when you change the ordering of the groups list, NewsCoaster doesn't
- reread in the messages for groups unnecessarily.
- - Faster copying/moving/deleting routines.
-
- New for version 1.12:
- - New killfile - will detect a number given as the last word in Subject, eg, 'Make
- lots of money 1206' Such numbers usually indicate an advert or other off-topic
- announcement. You can now tell NewsCoaster to avoid these (when the number is 100 or
- greater).
- - Recognises '|' as a quoting character (before was just '>', ':' and '!').
- - Bug fix when copying from a view window and pasting into a write window.
-
- New for Version 1.11:
- - Added 'Deleted' folder.
- - Added button on View window to delete current message and move onto next message.
- - When a new message is created, the folder no longer changes to 'Outgoing' (thus
- speeding things up, too).
- - Move/Copy doesn't require a folder change to the destination folder (speeding up
- things again).
-
- New for Version 1.1:
- - Email SMTP support! You can now reply to authors by email aswell as or instead of
- following up messages.
- - Search facilities.
- - 'Pop up' window on Write window to easily add/remove newsgroups to post and followup
- to.
- - Recognition of 'Followup-To: poster'.
- - Move and Copy messages to any folder.
- - Colours for quoted text have been set to something more sensible (no pink! -
- configurable colours will hopefully follow shortly..)
- - Fixed Authentification bug.
- - Fixed Move bugs when sending messages.
- - Changed shortcut of 'Close Window' on View window from 'c' to 'w', so you can copy
- text! (oops..)
- - Left and right cursor keys now move between messages on View window.
-
- Mark Harman
- 27.5.00
-
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