- You can mail to addresses in your local domain without appending the domain suffix. Names in the format "first last" or "first.last" will work as well as single word names.
- The Net Monitor window can be opened from the WIndows menu or with a cmd-Y.
- Fixed a bug that would cause crashes during posting and mailing at sites that do not have the DNS configured properly.
- A change in the design of the "Add Newsgroup" dialog.
- The option-open-newsgroup operation now gets 100 articles instead of 50.
- Fixed a bomb in the Help window if you scroll to the bottom of the topics.
- All authentication methods use the host name and method name in error dialogs.
- Vax authentication is now called VMS.
- Default shell prompt appears in the Host Addressed dialog for Unix authentication.
- The default name for saved compostion now uses the the subject line as a base.
- Fixed a bug that sometimes caused the Send Message button to stay gray after changes in personal preferences.
- Some redesign of the Help topics.
Version 1.0.1b12-15 Feb.16, 1994
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• You can now scroll the bottom pane of a reading window while articles are being received from the server. You can scroll with the mouse or the keys described in the Help: Helpful Hints topic under Keyboard Shortcuts.
• Cmd-J now scrolls the next article to the top of the reading pane whether it is already visibel or not. Shift-cmd-J does what cmd-J used to do (scroll the next invisible article to the top).
• The is a new menu command "Clear New Newsgroups" that will remove all of the newsgroups from the New Newsgroup subscription without deleting the subscription.
• Fixed a range check error bug when there are over 1490 topics in a newsgroup.
• Fixed two INN authentication setup bugs.
Version 1.0.1b11 Feb. 4, 1994
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• 1.0.1b10 had a couple of problems in the IMAP, POP, and FTP authentication methods.
• Fixed an incompatibility with the MenuChoice control panel.
•Increased the suggested memory to 850 KB.
• When running under System 7, file names starting with a dot are allowed for .newsrc import and export (and anything else to do with files).
Version 1.0.1b10 January 31, 1994
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• Things, in general, are faster.
• Users with Unix authentication can enter a custom shell prompt in the "Set Host Names..." dialog. Also, the reliability of the Unix authentication method has been improved.
• The CMS authentication method has been removed. It only works at sites that have CMS configured to accept a command line connection for login. It is available by special request.
• Added an FTP authentication method for users who cannot find a workable Unix shell prompt and users who want to authenticate on a CMS machine or any other host that supports FTP but is not represented in the InterNews authentication list.
• Posting now ends with a new progress message and allows cancelling if the host has a problem that previously caused InterNews to hang.
• Help text follows tabs in preference dialog.
• Delete Subscription... now has a warning alert.
• Messages are now tagged with a header line containing authentication information.
Bugs fixed:
• Tab order of Site Configuration Dialog.
• Printing at reduced sized clips text at margins.
• Cmd-period is more responsive when the progress alert is in front.
• Cleaner quitting when memory is low.
• Occasional bomb while sorting newsgroups on startup, new newsgroup check, and tuneup.
• Horizontal split-bar positions are remembered correctly for Reading windows.
• Local IP address is correct for message headers.
• A few other small ones.
Version 1.0.1b8 December 17, 1993
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• Added authentication methods for Unix Mail, Vax Mail, and CMS Mail. All of these need testing.
• Changed menu item "Set Network Configuration..." to "Set Host Addresses...".
• Cmd-Shift-F will open the find dialog with the "Topic" button set instead of the "Newsgroup" button.
• Page Setup works correctly. Setting are remembered across sessions.
• You can set the maximum character length of lines in outgoing articles. This was fixed at 72 characters. Use the "Composing" preferences to change it if you like.
• Your signature can now be a full 80 columns wide. Make sure to set the max character length to 80 if you do, or it will get wrapped.
• Various small cosmetic changes and bug fixes.
November 11, 1993
Version 1.0.0b7 is that same as 1.0.1b6 with just 2 bug fixes:
• The command-space keyboard shortcut has been changed to command-1 so as not to conflict with the Apple Script Manager. And now it works.
• If the connection to the newsHost is lost while opening a subscription, the program does not get stuck with the progress dialog in front and all mouse clicks ignored.
Version 1.0.1b6
New Features
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• There is a new window layout available as an option. To use it, click on the small icon that appears in the upper right corner of any reading window. Each window can use either layout and it will be remembered for each window individually.
• You can select the font of each pane of a Reading window. There is a new "Set Reading Font" item in the Reading window for this. Fonts are remembered separately for each of the two window layouts, but not for each individual window.
• Support for the ISO 8859-1 international character set. This has not been tested thoroughly yet. To try it, choose the new "Miscellaneous" category of preferences and choose the relevant radio button. This is a global preference; it is applied to all newsgroups equally. Note that changing to ISO 8859 will cause some confusion if you have newsgroups with 8-bit characters in their names. I had no way to test this. I think that the best bet is to do a "Tune Up" from the Subscriptions menu to correct the newsgroup names. It is likely that InterNews will forget that you have read articles in those groups. I have no good way to keep that from happening.
• Whether or not you are using ISO 8859, 8-bit characters are no longer trapped when you compose a message. They are allowed to pass through. Be warned that some readers may not be able to understand them.
• The "Help" menu is gone. Help is now condensed into a smaller browsing window. To see it, choose "Help" from the "Windows" menu, or cmd-? or get it from the System Help menu.
• The "Edit" menu has been rearranged a little bit.
• A small improvement for downloaders: the "Append article to text file" now has a command key equivalent. (D for download?)
• The command-space keyboard shortcut has been changed to command-1 so as not to conflict with the Apple Script Manager.
• We no longer send a "Path" header line. Some news software is upset by them.
• We send an extra line between the header and body of a mail message. Some mail programs prefer that.
• The composing window font is set using a menu item in the Composing menu rather than by using a preference.
Bugs Fixed
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• No longer crashes while creating a subscription file when the number of newsgroups exceeds 3000.
• No longer crashes during newsgroup list sort.
• No longer crashes during a "Find" of a newsgroup name.
• The "phantom menu" that appeared if you click in the top of the progress box is gone.
• The preference to "mark articles read when n lines are seen" has been fixed for the case where there were not n lines in the article.
• An extra dot is no longer present in header lines that contain host names.
• The default file name when saving an article is now truncated to 32 characters.
• No more crash when you press the cancel button in the dialog asking you if you really want to cancel an article.
• Fixed a bomb in .newsrc importing if there are extra long lines and/or no <returns>.
• Append to File dialog has the correct prompt and button name.
• The preference to mark an article read when n lines at the start of an article have been shown now works correctly if the article has less than n lines.
