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- Whats old and new with RATop.
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- Update History:
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- 10/10/90 - First Release 1.0.
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- 10/13/90 Bug - This one is weird. But I found that when processing
- v1.1 the index files after they are created to produce the
- bulletins, if a seek was done to the last record of
- users file, an eof condition was true, thus prematurely
- terminating the reads on the index file. This resulted
- in an imcomplete report of callers, downloaders or
- uploaders.
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- Fix - Took the Eof check out since direct seeks were being
- done anyway.
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- 09/24/91 - I did a complete rewrite from Pascal to Turbo-C. What
- v2.0 a difference. Anyway, a slow sort was abolished. It
- now sorts as fast as you can blink an eye.
- Allows up to the max users RA can handle (65535 I
- believe).
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- Security Level and Security Flag support was added.
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- A new feature was added to allow processing of an
- alternate control file. This is handy for making
- multiple bulletins using different securities and
- flags.
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- 10/27/91 - Added Group checking. This allows a bulletin to be
- v2.1 created using only certain user groups.
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- - Fixed a little bug. If the Path keyword was ommitted,
- default BULLET01 file was not being created.
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- Fixes:
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- 10/27/91 - Using the RA environment variable to find the USERS.BBS
- v2.2 created problems for some systems. Made a small code
- change to look for USERS.BBS in the current directory.
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- 10/30/91 - Key checking wasn't intrepting the user's key correctly.
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- Fixes:
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- 12/21/91 - Fixed a little problem with the title of the bulletin
- v2.3 not being exactly centered.
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- - The last line of the bulletin wasn't being displayed
- correctly. Although this had no impact on the
- performance of RATop, it was annoying to me.
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- Enhancements:
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- 12/21/91 - Supports user records who have the nolist status.
- This option can be overridden in the control file.
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- - Option to use handles intead of real names in the
- bulletins.
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- - RATop now uses the CONFIG.RA to find the USERS.BBS
- file. It is no longer required to run RATop from
- same directory that contains the USERS.BBS file.
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- Well, that about does it for all the fixes and enhancements to date.
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- I wish to thank Mark Thomas of King's Corner BBS for his suggestions and
- reports on how well RATop is doing.
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- I wish to also thank Randall Baker of The Outlaw BBS for his suggestions
- to improvements to RATop and help in being a distibution site for this
- software.
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