Short: NewsCoaster FULL VERSION (v1.44) (MUI) Uploader: Mark Harman (mdwh2@cheerful.com) Author: Mark Harman (mdwh2@cheerful.com) Type: comm/news NewsCoaster is a freeware MUI newsreader. 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 and TextEditor yourself. Optionally, NListtree is needed for tree views. Easiest way is to download 'newscoaster_beta.lha' - this will also give you up to date 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/home.html My personal homepage at http://mark_harman.tripod.com/home.html New for version 1.44: (*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. New for version 1.39: (29.6.1 - *BETA*) - Rewritten message parsing routines - now should cope with some rare MIME messages properly, that before did not display. - Bug fix; when displaying messages found in a search. New for version 1.38: (23.4.1 - *BETA*) - Changing of message flags (if you read an unread message, or mark/unmark as important) gets written to the index straight away (and much more quickly). - Bug fix; up/downloading no longer goes slow in WinUAE v0.8.8r8 onwards (and possible minor speed improvements for older versions and real Amigas too). New for version 1.37: (19.4.1 - *BETA*) - New menu option "Change Date To Current" - changes dates of selected outgoing messages to the current date. - 'User Info' no longer nags you to register:) - NewsCoaster now warns if you reply to an old message (>90 days old). - Bug fix; messages sometimes didn't thread properly - Bug fix; 'standard' icon had stack set only to 40000 bytes (and wasn't even a standard icon..) - Bug fix; 'threaded' messages view displayed random characters in the list. New for version 1.36: (21.1.1 - *BETA*) - Total number of messages, and number of unread messages displayed in titlebar. - Bug fix; enforcer hit when messages with long subject lines were marked as 'Important' - Bug fix; messages didn't thread if the references line spilled over to the next line. - Bug fix; timezone ignored when sorting messages in v1.35. - Bug fix; hang if downloading message with ASCII 0 char (rare). - Bug fix; various minor memory leaks. - Gone back to pre-v1.33 method of reading indices (slower, but hopefully more stable) New for version 1.35: (3.12.00 - *BETA*) - Current directory is remembered on ASL requesters. - 'Save' menu option when writing messages to save the message without closing the window. - If you are writing messages and quit the program, you will be asked if you wish to save those messages. - Rest of application goes 'to sleep' when showing certain windows (eg, asking to select a newsgroup to move/copy to). - Bug fix; it was possible to edit the same message twice in v1.34. - Bug fix; trying to send a message without subject caused message to cancel in v1.34. - Bug fix; signatures cycle gadget didn't work in v1.34. - Bug fix; references got lost in v1.34 after saving an edited message. - Bug fix; possible illegal memory access when reading/writing indices New for version 1.34: (14.11.00 - *BETA*) - Multiple 'Write' Windows. - Things don't get so 'sluggish' when downloading. - 'Get Groups' and 'Get New Groups' menu items return (they download for the default newsserver). - Group Manager behaves more sensibly; writing and redownloading group list refers to the newsserver whose groups you are currently viewing. - Bug fix; 'Abort' didn't work when importing messages. - Bug fix; 'permanently deleting' all messages in a group sometimes would take ages or wouldn't work. - Bug fix; if you aborted when downloading a message body (online viewing), downloading any more gave 'No Longer Available' errors, until you reconnected to the newsserver. - Bug fix; memory leak and possible illegal memory access when cancelling a message. - Possible bug fixes for crashes on some systems? New for version 1.33: (8.10.00 - *BETA*) - Multiple newsservers. - Significantly faster index reading (*much* faster reading when downloading, searching etc). - Faster writing of indices. - Doesn't delay for so long when you finish writing a message. - Marking messages as Important/Normal in the 'View' window is much quicker. - NListtree.mcc used for 'tree' views instead of Listtree.mcc (still a bit buggy though). - HTML only messages are converted to text. - Deleting all online messages is quicker. - 'Sv: ' recognised as meaning 'Re: '. - Recognises messages with repeated 'Re :' or 'Sv: ' at start, and treats them as having the same subject where relevant (eg, sorting, searching). - Remembers setting for message viewing ('Email Format' or 'Plain Text'). - If a folder doesn't contain an index file for whatever reason, a new (empty) one is created. - Toolbar buttons no longer 'flicker' between enabled/disabled. - Other minor speed improvements. - Bug fix; 'Permanently Delete' submenu disabled when it shouldn't have been. - Bug fix; permanently deleting all messages in all newsgroups didn't work. - Bug fix; can abort downloading whilst halfway downloading a message (before NewsCoaster would only abort between messages, oops). - Bug fix; NewsCoaster hanged when downloading message with empty body. - Bug fix; crashed when replying to messages with subject line > 1024 chars. - Bug fix; downloading online message bodies had stopped working - Bug fix; if the last message on a newsgroup was killed/duplicate/not available, then NewsCoaster would try to download it each time you went to fetch news (whilst it was still the last). - Bug fix; related to composing messages with attachments. - Bug fix; on rare occasions, part of header would appear in the body section. New for version 1.32: (18.6.00) - Can now specify alternative name and/or email address for each newsgroup individually. - Option to delete all 'online' messages that you haven't yet downloaded the body for. - Can mark message as Important/Normal from the View window menus. - Option to 'Cancel' messages - Can connect to newsserver on any port (not just 119). - When choosing to edit a message, you don't see the text formatting taking place - Sender as well as Subject displayed on message window titles. - Bug fix; on very rare posts, downloading would hang. - Bug fix; downloading message bodies (online mode) failed on rare occasions. - Fixed various (minor) stupid bugs. - Please note my new email address mdwh2@cheerful.com; mdwh2@cam.ac.uk will not work after 17 July! 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. - 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 1.10: - 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 11.11.1