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- TurboGopher 2.0 Change History.
-
- The latest version is TurboGopher 2.0.3
- Look in the directory:
- <URL:GOPHER://boombox.micro.umn.edu:70/11/gopher/Macintosh-TurboGopher>
- <URL:FTP://boombox.micro.umn.edu//pub/gopher/Macintosh-TurboGopher/>
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- TurboGopher 2.0.3
- November 1995
-
- Bugs fixed:
- 1. Get via URL bug (2nd resolution failure)
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- TurboGopher 2.0.2:
- October 1995
-
- Bugs fixed:
- 1. Problems with OpenTransport.
- 2. Clipboard sometimes not claimed when using Get Via URL.
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- TurboGopher 2.0.1:
- July 1995
-
- Bugs fixed:
- 1. Scroll position got confused when fetching very large documents.
- 2. Reopening closed documents from the Finder did not work right.
-
- New features:
- 1. TurboGopher will now use Open Transport if it is available.
- 2. Can paste any URLs into any list window; you can use TG's
- lists to organize non-gopher URLs as well as gopher items.
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- TurboGopher 2.0:
- March 21. 1995
-
- Bugs fixed:
- 1. Opening wrong self-extracting-archive.
- 2. Cancel after failed connect for downloads caused crash.
- 3. You could attempt to connect to a server without specifying a hostname.
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- TurboGopher 2.0b9 bugfix release:
- February 6. 1995
-
- Bugs fixed:
- 1. Bugs in failure handling.
- 2. Null read on open connection failure.
- 3. If download folder disappears (unmounted, trashed), downloads didn't work.
- 4. By special request: Command-P added for Print menu item :-)
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- TurboGopher 2.0b8 bugfix release:
- January 25. 1995
-
- Bugs fixed:
- 1. Download folder selection bug.
- 2. Memory leak in forms.
- 3. Improved failure handling.
- 4. Better notification from background.
- 5. Menu enabling bug on close all windows
- 6. Sometimes garbled text in pop-up (control-click) window
-
- New features:
- 1. New option: Hide Bookmark Worksheet on startup.
- 2. Popup menu for gopher type in Another Gopher and Edit Gopher Descriptor.
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- TurboGopher 2.0b7 bugfix release:
- January 10. 1995
-
- Bugs fixed (since 2.0b6):
- 1. Gopher type "I" works correctly
- 2. Telnet 2.6 communication bug fixed
- 3. Alternate views now have name and type displayed
- 4. Binhex errorline bug...
- 5. Cases of Prefs file corruption.
-
- New features:
- 1. Closed windows in recent menu don't leave files open.
- 2. Control-Enter/Return will bring down text files without opening a window.
- 3. Uses GetURL event to communicate with Ph 1.2
- NOTE: You need to get the new version of Ph from the helper-apps
- directory or by anon ftp from ftp.acns.nwu.edu. (Thanks John!)
-
- Some new CodeWarrior CW5 optimizations are turned on.... and we don't
- think they'll cause any new problems... but...
-
- Known problems:
- 1. Some display/update bugs
- 2. Not all strings are localizable.
- 3. Thread Manager is not compatible with Mode32
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- TurboGopher 2.0b6:
- January 1, 1995
-
-
- Bugs fixed:
- 1. Remove colons from standard file dialogs.
- 2. Open Preference window saved on quitting app
- 3. Gopher+ server errors displayed.
- 4. Telnet session prompt is now displayed.
- 5. Fixed sporadic inability to find helper apps on disk.
- 6. Download window does not close if helper app could not be launched.
- 7. Another darn Binhex bug...
-
- New features:
- 1. Can choose text file helper application.
- So BBEdit fans can save files for BBEdit....
- 2. Can choose BinHex file helper application.
- We like StuffIt Expander....
- 3. Can choose GetURL suite helper applications.
- 4. Preferences dialog layout changed (made clearer).
-
- TurboGopher (and InternetLink and POPmail) now uses the standard
- GetURL event to communicate with MacWeb. You need the latest version
- of MacWeb (1.00A3) for this. Get it from the helper applications
- directory.
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- TurboGopher 2.0b5:
- December 11, 1994
-
- Bugs fixed:
- 1. Menu enabling bug.
- 2. Word select bug. (Thanks JP)
- 3. Download window staggered.
- 4. Preferences dialog changed.
-
- New features:
- 1. Option-Close closes all windows.
- 2. Option-Copy copies URL.
- 3. Large windows option available.
- 4. New Finder icons for TurboGopher documents and directories (bookmarks).
- (You'll probably have to rebuild your desktop to see these)
- 5. Select multiple items in list windows.
- 6. Cut-Copy-Paste multiple items between windows.
- 7. Fetch multiple items.
- 8. Memory needs slimmed down (although we left the default
- partition the same, memory use is more economical).
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- TurboGopher 2.0b4:
- December 2, 1994
-
- Bugs fixed:
- 1. BinHex failed on some 68000 boxes.
- 2. Prefs dialog Enter and Return key didn't do what they should do.
- 3. Open document button did not work if you used Enter/Return.
-
- Stuff added:
- 1. Autoscrolling in documents.
- 2. Type "i" (ickk!) support.
- 3. Form scrolling speeded up.
- 4. Document scrolling slowed down (too fast for most folks)
- 5. Recent menu speeded up.
-
- Still Most Frequently Asked Question:
- Q: How do I convert my old (1.0.x) bookmark files.
- A: If you have not already saved the TurboGopher 1.0.x bookmarks in
- your bookmark window to a file, select the bookmark window and
- choose 'Save As a Bookmark File' from the File menu. Now quit from
- the old TurboGopher and launch TurboGopher 2.0. Select Open from
- the File menu while holding down the Option key. You will be able
- to select your old Bookmark file and it will be converted to the
- new format. You'll have a chance to save in the new format.
- Remember, with TurboGopher 2.0 you can cut-copy and paste any gopher items.
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- TurboGopher 2.0b3:
- November 23, 1994
-
- Bugs fixed:
- 1. Menu flashing bug. (menu update on Quit)
- 2. Occasional read of NULL (heh heh)
- 3. Pending connections not aborted before refreshing w/ Esc key.
-
- Stuff added:
- 1. Autoconnect to Home on startup (configurable).
- 2. Option-Double-click closes parent window after opening selected item.
- 3. Bookmark Worksheet can be closed via Close box.
-
- Still Most Frequently Asked Question:
- Q: How do I convert my old (1.0.x) bookmark files.
- A: If you have not already saved the TurboGopher 1.0.x bookmarks in
- your bookmark window to a file, select the bookmark window and
- choose 'Save As a Bookmark File' from the File menu. Now quit from
- the old TurboGopher and launch TurboGopher 2.0. Select Open from
- the File menu while holding down the Option key. You will be able
- to select your old Bookmark file and it will be converted to the
- new format. You'll have a chance to save in the new format.
- Remember, with TurboGopher 2.0 you can cut-copy and paste any gopher items.
-
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- TurboGopher 2.0b2:
- November 18, 1994
-
- Bugs fixed:
- 1. Update bug. (extra flashing of directories)
- 2. URL resolution bug
- 3. Memory use bug.
-
- Stuff added:
- 1. First time find in Help window works correctly.
- 2. Bookmarks can be copied for enclosing window.
-
- Most Frequently Asked Question:
- Q: How do I convert my old (1.0.x) bookmark files.
- A: If you have not already saved the TurboGopher 1.0.x bookmarks in
- your bookmark window to a file, select the bookmark window and
- choose 'Save As a Bookmark File' from the File menu. Now quit from
- the old TurboGopher and launch TurboGopher 2.0. Select Open from
- the File menu while holding down the Option key. You will be able
- to select your old Bookmark file and it will be converted to the
- new format. You'll have a chance to save in the new format.
- Remember, with TurboGopher 2.0 you can cut-copy and paste any gopher items.
-
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- TurboGopher 2.0b1:
- November 15, 1994
-
- This version of TurboGopher marks the start of our move toward a
- component architecture for Internet access tools as well as adding
- PowerPC native mode support and several significant new features.
-
- Why use this version?
-
- 1. Runs native on both 68K Macs and PowerMacs.
- 2. Displays and resolves Gopher URLs and calls helper
- applications to resolve URLs for other access methods.
- Turbogopher currently can call Anarchie (for FTP), NewsWatcher
- (for NNTP), MacWeb (for http). TurboGopher also calls helper
- applications to render documents (for instance, Adobe Acrobat
- Exchange or Acrobat Reader for PDF documents, MacWeb for HTML
- documents), and calls Ph to handle ph/qi directory queries.
- 3. TurboGopher can be called by other applications using get URL
- and Fetch URL appleevents; this is used by the InternetLink
- plugin in Acrobat Exchange to resolve URLs embedded in Acrobat
- PDF documents and by NewsWatcher for resolving Gopher URLs.
- 4. Cut-Copy-Paste any gopher items which makes it easy to arrange
- (and rearrange) your gopher bookmarks.
- 5. Document/Directory size only limited by available memory. You can
- view documents larger then 32K without saving the document to disk.
- 6. Many other bugfixes and enhancements...
-
- Why would you not use this version?
- You are running System 6 on your Mac.
-
- Prerequisites:
- System 7 required.
- Thread Manager required.
- MacTCP required.
- (All three come standard with System 7.5)
-
-
- Comments and Bugs to: <gopher@boombox.micro.umn.edu>
-
- Why a component architecture for network applications?
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-
- Internet protocols are not static, but continue to change and
- evolve. This makes it difficult to adequately support several
- protocols in a single monolithic application. At the same time,
- non-Internet applications (such as word processors, page
- description languages, spreadsheets, etc.) are starting to
- incorporate references to network resources via URLs. Expecting
- every application to contain Internet client software
- to resolve URLs and also track ongoing changes in network
- protocols is unrealistic. Instead, a suite of optimized network
- access components that can be called by other programs to resolve
- URLs makes it easier to add internet awareness to non-Internet
- applications (for instance Adobe PDF documents) and make it
- easier to write and maintain Internet access components.
-
- A group of Macintosh developers including
- Peter Lewis (Anarchie)
- John Norstad (Ph, NewsWatcher)
- Steve Dorner (Eudora)
- Internet Gopher team (Turbogopher, POPmail, InternetLink)
- John Hardin (MacWeb)
- have defined and implemented an AppleEvent suite that Macintosh
- network applications can use to call each other to fetch resources
- pointed to by IETF-standard URLs. This approach makes it easy to
- add URL support to most any application since you can call
- appropriate helper application to handle the URL. So... this
- version of TurboGopher functions as a standalone gopher client and
- it can be called by other applications that want to resolve a Gopher
- URL. Turbogopher also calls other applications to resolve ftp,
- nntp, and http URLs, so you don't have to settle for a monolithic
- application with mediocre support for several protocols anymore.
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- TurboGopher 2.0a2:
- November 2, 1994
-
- Changes
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- 1. Added Editing Gopher Items.
- 2. Added Alternate views support.
- 3. Holding down the option key and selecting 'Open' will open old
- TurboGopher Bookmark files.
- 4. 'Show Gopher Descriptor & URL' and 'Get Attribute Information' has
- been condensed into one item named: 'Get Attribute Information & URL'.
- 5. Escape key refreshing of a network directory or document has been added.
- 6. Maximum line widths can be set and are remembered.
- 7. Windows now stagger correctly. So that the status pane in the lower
- left portion of the window is always on the screen.
- 8. Several bugs related to pressing the shift key and clicking an item
- to see information have been fixed.
- a. Window has been enlarged to always show the full info.
- b. Fixed case where the mouse was clicked past any of the items
- and showed garbage.
- 9. Helper application bindings are now saved in the preferences file.
- 10. Enlarged the text area in dialog for selecting helper apps. J.P.
- 11. Default bookmarks will be restored if the user deletes all bookmarks.
- 12. Closed network directories or documents are purgeable. Re-fetched when
- opened if necessary. Improved memory cache handling.
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