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- Msg # 63 Kill/Sent
- Date: 03 Feb 94 23:28
- From: Trev Roydhouse
- To: All
- Subj: Opus 1.80 Feature List
- ____________________________________________________________________________
-
- A Product of the Opus Covert Action Committee
-
- The fact that a feature appears in this list does not automatically guarantee
- that it will ever appear in a release version of Opus. Conversely, the fact
- that a feature does not appear in this list does not mean that it will not
- appear in a future release version of Opus.
-
- Please, do not ask when the next Opus release version will be ready. You know
- as much as anyone. It will be ready when it is ready <tm Wynn Wagner III>. It
- is not possible to give any definite time frame. There is no team of
- full-time programmers. People work on Opus in their spare time. They are not
- paid to do so. Please be gentle. Slippery when wet.
-
- WHAT'S NEW
-
- * A new message database. The message database is heavily based on Doug
- Boone's work, although the utilities have been pretty much reworked the
- intellectual rights remain with Doug and Wynn.
-
- * Scan lines are now 4d aware, and output either type-2 or type-3 packets
- dependant on flag's set ... (The default is type-3)
-
- * New Verbs in the CTL file ...
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- Message Areas
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- SEEN % Keep SEEN-BY'S
- RENUM RECEIVED
- RENUM QUICK
- RENUM MAX <Number>
- RENUM LOW <Number>
- RENUM DAYS <Number>
- RENUM THRESHOLD <Number>
-
- System Section
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- MULTITASKER OS2
- MULTITASKER PCMos
- MULTITASKER MultiLink
-
- Equipment Section
-
- FAX STRING <eg /Fax>
- FAX EXIT <range 5 - 254>
-
- Matrix and Echomail Section
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- PATH Inbound Secure <path> % Path for Prot Inbound
- ECHO Statistics <file> % Path to Echomail Stats
- ECHO PACKETMAX <Number> % Max size of pkt in Kb
- PATH DupMsgs <path>
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- * New menu commands
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- _LIST_MSGS Scan for new mail (MAILCHECK AT LAST!)
-
- * The following embedded commands have been added:
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- ^FD display user's birthday
- ^FE display user's alias/real name
- ^FF display user's address
- ^FG Check for all new mail
- ^FH Check for new mail in this area
- ^FI Display BBS Name
- ^FJ Display Sysop's name
- ^FK Display system's primary address
- ^FQ display user's answer
- ^FT display user's phone number
-
- * Opus now finally displays the correct zone info on messages which
- originated somewhere other than 'myzone' as now with point addresses.
-
- * Changed the way Opus asks a user for his birthday at logon, etc.
-
- * Opus now marks received messages as 'Recvd', honours private messages, and
- diplays the kludge info properly.
-
- * Fixed Opus timing routines so no longer machine dependant.
-
- * ALT-X now exits as well as ALT-Q.
-
- * Support for baud rates 16800, 21600, 57600 and 115200.
-
- * Fixed mite which caused Opus to dial out at the baud rate in the Nodelist
- rather than it's own Max Baud rate, thus connecting at 9600 baud rather than
- 14,400 in some circumstances.
-
- POSSIBLE ENHANCEMENTS
-
- o Echomail Statistics reports
-
- o Full Screen Mode (selectable in PRM file)
-
- o Support for Bark style update requests
-
- o Support for .BSY flags
-
- o Look at including Janus and Video Fossil support in place of Opus' buggy
- video fossil (or just fix the Opus one).
-
- o DSZ Moby-Turbo
-
- o Support for Binkley's point directories.
-
- o Support for 4d Points.
-
- o Improve multiline support
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- o Redesign the menu system to use a file similar to the Opus language files
- at present.
-
- TREV.
-
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