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- The Blue Wave Offline Mail Reader
- Version 2.05
-
- Copyright (C) 1992 by Cutting Edge Computing
- All Rights Reserved.
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-
- The following is a list of "fixes" to The Blue Wave Offline Mail Reader
- since v2.00. Some of these were not bugs, but the operation or feature
- was made to work slightly differently (not quite a new feature, and not
- quite a bug). Some items were changed to be compatible with more
- systems; and some of them were just plain, outright BUGS.
-
- --------------------------- Changes in v2.05 ---------------------------
-
- * Fixed a bug that would cause the reader to exit to DOS in a very few
- circumstances when the "Enter Mail in Any Area" menu option was used.
-
- * The reader now updates the "Replied: Y/N" field on the message
- display screen immediately after replying to a message.
-
- * The reader now handles a ^Z in the Signature file properly.
-
- * The message header information was mis-aligned when pressing <Alt-P>
- to print a message to the printer.
-
- * The "Replied Tag" (~) is now updated on the Title Scan screen for
- netmail message areas.
-
- * Message text that contained over 79 columns of text without a space
- or a carriage return would cause the reader to do all sorts of
- unpredictable things. The reader now wraps lines containing 80+
- columns of text to the next line.
-
- * When adopting signatures (Alt-A), the reader would lock up if more
- than one was on the screen at one time. The reader now only takes
- the LAST signature line that is on the screen and imports it to your
- signature file when <Alt-A> is pressed.
-
- * The reader can now properly auto-detect the .PAK archive format.
-
- --------------------------- Changes in v2.01 ---------------------------
-
- * The reader's video routines didn't get along real well with some CGA
- video cards. The video routines were also changing the font of some
- EGA/VGA systems. The majority of these problems were verifiably fixed.
- Hopefully they won't cause any more trouble on Not Quite Compatible
- systems.
-
- * MONOCHROME systems had some trouble when a BWCOLOR.200 configuration
- file was present. If BWCOLOR.200 was present, the reader would load
- it. Some people had managed to get a BWCOLOR.200 from a color system
- onto a monochrome system, making one heck of a mess. For this
- reason, the reader NO LONGER LOADS THE COLOR CONFIGURATION FILE when
- a monochrome system is detected, or the -M(onochrome) switch is used
- on the command line. If a monochrome system *really* needs to load a
- color configuration file, YOU MUST USE THE -O(verride) COMMAND LINE
- PARAMETER.
- EXAMPLE C:> BWAVE -m -o <==Forces monochrome, and READ color file
-
- * The reader was sometimes rebooting machines when run under DESQview
- and/or QEMM. This has been fixed.
-
- * Once in a great while the reader would throw "garbage" to the editor
- when quoting a message. We contacted our local landfill, and now
- have a contract to dump our garbage there. We won't be getting rid
- of it on your system any more.
-
- * Reader now remembers the last filename used when saving a message to
- disk. This operation can be modified, however, by using the "Set
- SaveFile to AreaName" on the SETUP->Options Menu.
-
- * There was a bug that would not allow the editing of NETMAIL messages
- from the "View, Edit, Kill" menu. Squashed.
-
- * Sometimes the reader wouldn't let you edit ANY message from the
- "View, Edit, Kill" menu. That, too, has been fixed.
-
- * The reader now deletes *.BAK files from your REPLY directory before
- compressing your upload (*.NEW) packet. Some editors like to create
- these files when you edit a text file.
-
- * The Conference/Area Name was left off when printing a message or
- saving it to disk. It is now printed in the message header.
-
- * The selection windows used within the reader were modified to perform
- more consistently. Please see WHATSNEW.201 for a description of the
- keys to use to perform various movements.
-
- * Setting the reader's "Beep on Errors" option sometimes did not work.
- The reader will now remain silent when this is turned OFF.
-
- * When items were tagged from the Purge Packet menu, the reader would
- sometimes report an erroneous number of packets that it was about to
- purge. This has been fixed.
-
- * The reader no longer will accept an <ESC> key when you have "Save
- Read/Reply Pointers" set to "Prompt", and it is asking you if you WANT
- to save them. You must answer "Y" or "N". Why? People were
- slapping <ESC> to get back to the main menu a few too many times, and
- sometimes they DID want to save their message pointers. This was
- requested by several users.
-
- * There were numerous other minor changes, but nothing that should
- affect the operation of the reader.
-