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 https://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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