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- Changes for PCBoard 15.0 that effect callers
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-
-
- ADDED A brand new chat module! The CHAT # and NODE # commands no
- longer work. The user must now go into CHAT G and from there
- use the CALL command to call a user into chat.
-
-
- ADDED The (P)rotocol selection at the prompt that PCBoard issues
- just before a file transfer begins. This will let the caller
- easily change the protocol before beginning the file transfer.
-
-
- ADDED Immediate detection, after an upload, of the existence of a
- FILE_ID.DIZ file within a .ZIP or .EXE file. If a FILE_ID.DIZ
- file is found AND the sysop has configured the system to
- verify uploads, the user will *not* be asked for a
- description.
-
-
- CHANGED The upload process will now allow you to type H to hangup
- before the upload testing process begins. Also, any
- unannounced files that need to be described will be recognized
- immediately after the upload is finished and the user will be
- prompted to describe all of them before any testing begins.
-
-
- CHANGED Messages can now be uploaded into the message editor using any
- available protocol. ANSI files, with lines longer than 79
- characters, may be uploaded into the message editor and
- saved - but cannot be edited online.
-
-
- ADDED The ability to immediately read your mail whenever there is
- new mail waiting for you. This is set by answering YES to
- "Prompt to Read Mail when Mail Waiting" in Configuration
- Options : Messages. PCBoard will prompt the caller like this:
-
- New messages found in conference XYZ...
-
- Read your personal mail now: (Y)es, (N)o, (A)ll new mail
-
- If you answer Y or A, PCBoard will scan all conferences that
- have the "Mail waiting flag" turned on. These conferences
- NEED NOT BE selected - as in the R A S command.
-
- If you select Y then PCBoard will display new messages, which
- are addressed to you, in each of the conferences that were
- listed as having new personal mail. NOTE: Last Message Read
- pointers will NOT be updated.
-
- If you select A then ALL new messages, your personal mail or
- not, in each of the conferences that were listed as having new
- personal mail, will be displayed. PCBoard will keep track of
- and update your Last Message Read pointers while reading the
- mail.
-
- One more thing: the mail waiting flags have been made much
- more reliable! It is still possible for the flags to NOT be
- set, due to the message having been posted by software that
- does not support the mail waiting flags. But you should now
- NEVER see a pop-up "You have mail waiting in conference XYZ"
- message *except* when you really DO have mail waiting for you
- there. PCBoard also no longer clears the flags just because
- you were reading mail (on the assumption that you *might* have
- read the new mail) since it can now verify whether or not new
- mail actually exists.
-
-
- ADDED New message base commands:
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- TO read messages addressed TO a specific user
-
- FROM read messages FROM a specific user
-
- N read messages NEW since a specific date
-
- WAIT read all conferences where the mail waiting flags are
- set
-
- LONG view long message headers
-
- SHORT view short message headers
-
- FLAG flag a file for download while reading messages
-
- V view a file while reading messages
-
- QWK creates a QWK packet (can be combined with any other
- valid read commands; i.e. R 1+ QWK, R A QWK,
- R A Y QWK, TS blah QWK, etc)
-
- C,D,Z These commands can now be used while reading messages
- to capture and download the current message
-
-
- ADDED The message base has new capabilities including:
-
- - File attachments (1 per message)
-
- - A Return Receipt message can be requested when writing a
- private message in a conference where Return Receipts are
- enabled
-
- Return Receipts are visible only to the user who requested
- them and, optionally, anyone (presumably a sysop) who has a
- security level high enough to see them. The sysop can,
- therefore, avoid seeing the return receipts by setting the
- security level for that feature to something higher than his
- or her security level.
-
- PCBSetup allows you to determine which users, by security, can
- request return receipts on a conference-by-conference basis.
-
-
- CHANGED All users may now use the Read-(O)nly message command now
- regardless of their security level. The "R O" command has
- been change so that all it does is avoid setting the Last
- Message Read pointers. The sysop may still assign a security
- level to that command. The question in PCBSetup now asks:
- "Level Needed to NOT Update Msg Read Status (R O cmd)". If a
- user has that level or greater than the "R O" command not only
- avoids setting Last Message Read pointers, but it also avoids
- updating the "Message Read Status" when reading personal mail.
-
-
- ADDED The ability to FLAG or (V)iew a file while reading messages.
- This can be a file attachment that is being flagged or viewed,
- or it can be any file found in the current conference download
- path.
-
-
- CHANGED At an input prompt you can now press ESC to abort what you
- have typed so far and re-enter the information.
-
-
- ADDED Built-in support for QWK packets. That is, the ability to
- create a QWK packet and send it to the caller, plus the
- ability to receive a reply packet and integrate the messages.
- New commands are as follows:
-
- QWK D (p) (bye)
- QWK U (p) (bye)
-
- After either of the two QWK commands you can optionally stack
- the letter of the protocol to use and/or the word BYE to
- logoff when done.
-
- While the QWK D command is simplistic, performing nothing more
- than an R;A;S command (scan all conference for new mail) and
- turning it into a QWK packet, the full power of PCBoard's
- message reading capabilities can still be used in an alternate
- form. Like this:
-
- R (...) QWK where (...) is any valid Read Command
-
- Example:
-
- R A TO JANE DOE FROM JOHN DOE TS THIS | THAT 1+ QWK
-
- NOTE: None of the more advance features of QWK-mail doors will
- be implemented here. This feature is simply an "easy to
- use" method of obtaining QWK packets which can be
- performed on any v15.0 BBS.
-
-
- CHANGED Increased the timeout when starting a file transfer from 60
- seconds to 90 seconds. Should give those slow modem users a
- little more time to get the ball rolling before the system
- calls it quits.
-
-
- CHANGED (L)ocate command has been enhanced so that if the user types a
- multi-word search criteria PCBoard will split it up and put
- ampersands (&) in between each word. Since a command such as
- "L RECOVER DATA" is invalid, we might as well do what we can
- to help the caller find what he's looking for. In v14.5a
- PCBoard turned "L RECOVER DATA" into "Z RECOVER DATA". For
- v15.0 we'll take it a step further and turn it into "Z RECOVER
- & DATA".
-
-
- CHANGED PCBoard now remembers across sessions how your Chat Status is
- set. If you make yourself unavailable for chat and later
- logoff, on your next call you will be unavailable for chat.
- Likewise, making yourself available for chat will be
- remembered the next time you log in.
-