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- PacketSorter history
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-
- ! bug fix
- $ new feature
- V new version
-
-
- -- 20.11.1993 ! Fixed serious bug when a TMP environment variable was defined
- V Changed version to 0.8b.
-
- -- 22.11.1993 $ PacketSorter now shows the number of messages split.
- PacketSorter can write to a log file. Use -l<filename>.
-
- -- 22.11.1993 ! Bug fixed: ^AEID kludges were not recognized correctly.
- V Changed version to 0.9b.
-
- -- 03.12.1993 ! DOS version did not spawn archiver (Child process returns -1).
- This is now fixed.
-
- -- 03.12.1993 V Changed version to 1.0b.
-
- -- 14.12.1993 ! If PacketSorter processed packets from different nodes and
- there was an error while processing the packets of one node
- (i.e. disk full) but the packets of the other nodes could
- be processed, some messages from the packets that could not be
- processed could slip into successfully processed packets.
- Fixed.
-
- -- 16.12.1993 ! If PacketSorter encountered invalid packets, an inappropriate
- error message ("no such file or directory") was displayed.
- Fixed.
-
- -- 16.12.1993 V Changed version to 1.1b.
-
- -- 27.12.1993 Now using EMX 0.8h. Thanks to Eberhard Mattes for making EMX.
-
- -- 03.03.1994 $ PacketSorter options can be set via the environment variable
- PKTSORT.
-
- -- 06.03.1994 $ PacketSorter recognizes 4D-Point addresses in the packet header.
-
- -- 06.03.1994 ! PacketSorter now processes incoming packets in date/time order
- as specified in FSC-0015. This should solve the problem with
- getting replies before the original message after running
- PacketSorter.
-
- -- 08.03.1994 ! Fixed a weird bug that might have been the cause for rare
- crashes on some machines.
-
- -- 08.03.1994 $ PacketSorter can produce several smaller packets instead of one
- large packet. Use option -p<message_limit> where message_limit
- is the maximum number of messages to put in one single packet.
-
- -- 11.03.1994 ! Fixed memory hog in message splitting code.
-
- -- 11.03.1994 ! Message splitting inserted one extra line before the tearline
- in each split part. Fixed.
-
- -- 12.03.1994 $ 'Unsplit' messages. When the -s<msg_size> option is set,
- messages are not only split if they exceed <msg_size> but are
- also joined if they were split according to FSC-0047 before.
- Messages split and unsplit with PacketSorter are absolutly
- identical to the original ones.
-
- ! This also solves the problem of dupes detected erroneously by
- Squish (and thus having a good chance to lose messages) if
- large messages passed several systems running PacketSorter
- with different -s settings.
-
- -- 13.03.1994 $ PacketSorter can sort the messages within an area by subject
- and/or time. Use -osubject to sort by subject and time and
- -otime to sort by time only. Leading "Re:, Re2:, Re^2:" etc.
- are ignored when sorting by subject.
-
- -- 17.03.1994 $ Improved error logging.
-
- -- 22.03.1994 $ PacketSorter can be run as a DPMI client, i.e. in Windows and
- OS/2 DOS emulation. Thanks to Rainer Schnittker for making RSX.
- See pktsort.doc for details.
-
- -- 31.03.1994 $ PacketSorter can remove garbage from packets and recover
- messages beyond the logical end of packet. See option -g in
- pktsort.doc.
-
- -- 04.04.1994 $ PacketSorter can also be configured via a configuration file.
-
- -- 07.04.1994 Changed the legal status of PacketSorter from freeware to
- shareware. See license.doc and order.frm.
-
- -- 08.04.1994 V Changed version to 1.2b.
-
- -- 11.04.1994 $ Archivers can be defined in the configuration file and selected
- from the command line. See option -e in pktsort.doc
-
- -- 13.04.1994 $ Made PacketSorter more verbose about what is going on
-
- -- 14.04.1994 V Changed version to 1.3.
-
- -- 20.04.1994 ! When option -g was used the message following a message with
- a grunged date and having date + subject < 20 characters could
- be lost. Fixed.
-
- -- 20.04.1994 $ The frequently used one-space format in the dateTime field
- which is not conforming to FTS-0001 will be corrected on the
- fly.
-
- -- 20.04.1994 $ When -g option is used, grunged dates will be repaired (or
- replaced by 01.01.80). Too long from, to and subject lines will
- be truncated to the max. lengths conforming to FTS-0001. See
- section 'Removing garbage from packets' in pktsort.doc for
- details.
-
- -- 20.04.1994 ! PacketSorter could fail to rename packets to *.b0, *.b1 etc. if
- a *.bad was already present. Fixed, now using *.b00, *.b01 etc.
-
- -- 22.04.1994 V Changed version to 1.4b - not a public release !!!! Someone
- announced v1.4b, if you got a copy, then please delete it.
-
- -- 24.04.1994 ! Fixed bug in message scanning code. This should solve the
- problem with getting a SIGSEGV trap when run in MS-Windows'
- DOS emulation and page fault in QEMM.
-
- -- 24.04.1994 ! Now checking the capability word (and it's validation copy)
- in packet headers. This should solve the problem with packets
- from stoneage tossers not being merged because of invald point
- addresses in the packet header.
-
- -- 25.04.1994 ! Removed the registration reminding message in the unregistered
- version. It caused too much trouble.
-
- -- 26.04.1994 V Changed version to 1.4
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