Short: Newsreader Version 1.31 (MUI) Uploader: Mark Harman (mdwh2@vdirect.com) Author: Mark Harman (mdwh2@vdirect.com) Type: comm/news This version doesn't include the required BetterString.mcc, NList.mcc and Listtree.mcc - if you don't have these, please download comm/news/newscoaster.lha instead. 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 https://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