Short: Newsreader Version 1.25 (MUI) Uploader: Mark Harman (mdwh2@cam.ac.uk) Author: Mark Harman (mdwh2@cam.ac.uk) Type: comm/news This version doesn't include the required BetterString.mcc, TextEditor.mcc, NList.mcc and Listtree.mcc - if you don't have these, please download comm/news/newscoaster.lha instead. 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: - There is sometimes a crash when clicking the '+/-' icons for editing groups (Newsgroups or Followup-To header) .. you are advised either to not use this, or to save anything you've written (click Postpone, then re-edit). Please don't write your message than click the '+/-' button since you might lose your message! New for version 1.25: - 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 23.1.00