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- FeConv History-File as of 04 Aug 1993, 21:36
- --------------------------------------------
-
- V1.10:
- ------
- -first revision that did something, only used on my system
- -Only textfile-creation implemented
-
- V1.20ß:
- -------
- -added support for MESSAGES.RA
-
- V1.20: (15.9.1992)
- ------------------
-
- -first official release
- -included key-routines for registration
- -included a doc-file
- -revised demo-configuration
- -revised logging-levels
- -added some error-handling
-
- V1.20a: (22.9.1992):
- --------------------
-
- -added some sorting options (Name/Boardnumber/Group)
- when converting to textfiles, registered only.
-
- -added the ability to use DaysKill, MailsCount and the
- Read/Write-Security settings of FastEcho when converting
- to MESSAGES.RA, registered only.
-
- -added the EC-Commands for conversion to Remote_Access:
- ECBOARD, ECREADSEC, ECWRITESEC, ECSYSOPSEC, ECKILLRECV,
- ECKILLDAYS, ECKILLCOUNT, ECATTRIB, ECACCESSTYPE
-
- -"Number of mails to keep" may now be ranged 0 - 65535
- instead of only 0 - 255 (can be called a bug-fix :-) ).
-
- -added keyword "CREATION" to textfiles-options:
-
- "Created by (YOUR NAME) on (CREATION DATE) using FeConv (VERSION)"
- "----------------------------------------------------------------"
-
- will be inserted before a specified header (if any).
-
-
- V1.20b: (7.10.1992):
- --------------------
-
- Global:
- -colors are no more done using ANSI-sequences, to use ANSI
- you have to insert USE_ANSI in the global part of the config-
- file.
- -did some cosmetical changes to logging and the internal structure.
- -added code to check the content of FECONV.CFG (seems to be neccessary).
-
- Textfiles-Part:
- -added export-list (%e), days before deleting (%d),
- number of mails (%n) and origin-adress (%o) to LISTFMT
- -added read- (%r) and write-security (%w) to LISTFMT
- -the maximum length of a line is now 1950 bytes
- instead of 255 (%axx and %sxx still are limited to 99).
- -included FOOTER <path and filename>
- -included NO_ZONE and NO_POINTS, zone- and/or pointinfos will be
- ommitted when specified.
-
-
- V1.20c: (22.10.1992):
- --------------------
-
- Bug-fixes:
- -Flag-settings in the GENxxxx-statements were not used (did
- really nobody realize that ? ;-) ).
-
- New features:
- -implemented support for SuperBBS, additional keywords:
- GENUSEAKA, GRUSEAKA, ECUSEAKA, GENBEHAVE, GRBEHAVE, ECBEHAVE,
- GENREPLYSTATUS, GRREPLYSTATUS, ECREPLYSTATUS, GENAGE, GRAGE, ECAGE
- and QWKNAME. See demo configuration-file for details.
-
- TAKE CARE: SBBS 1.17 is needed, maybe it'll run with 1.16 too, but
- I did NOT check that out since I run Remote Access.
- (e.g. the AKAs will not be set properly in 1.16 since they are
- contained in CONFIG.BBS(1.16) instead of BOARDS.BBS (1.17).)
-
- -before converting, the existing files (MESSAGES.RA/BOARDS.BBS)
- will be saved as MESSAGES.BAK/BOARDS.BAK, maybe you'll need it ;-)
-
- -USE_ANSI is ommitted, no use of it anymore, see next point.
-
- -did SOME (one can also say MUCH) improvement on FeConv's output.
- Hope you'll like it, if not, bad luck for ya ;-) (Ok, we can talk
- about the colors...)
-
- Others:
- -added some more code to check the config-file.
-
- V1.21: (17.01.1993):
- --------------------
-
- Bug-Fixes:
- - ??
-
- General:
-
- -the parameters for [AREAS] will be stored in FECONV.TMP instead
- of in memory so FeConv uses less memory now.
-
- -it's time to mention the NO_SOUND feature... guess I forgot to
- include it into the demo-configuration. sorry for that.
- !!registered only!!
-
- -Only taking the BBS-Configuration that is specified in FASTECHO.CFG
- so there's no need any more to comment something out.
-
- New Features:
-
- -included conversion to FrontDoor's FOLDER.FD.
- Keywords possible: NOBACKUP, FIDO FIRST|LAST|KEEP, DESCRIPTION and
- FD_AKA_MATCHING
- FrontDoor must be set as mailer in FastEcho.Cfg.
- !! registered only !!
-
- -added sorting for FrontDoor: FDSORT NAME|BOARD|GROUP
-
-
- -added NETMAIL-report. !!Only for *.MSG-Netmail-directories.!!
- Possible reports: PASSIVE_AREAS, PASSIVE_NODES, NO_DESCRIPTION,
- SQUISH_AREAS, FIDO_AREAS and PASSTHROUGH_AREAS.
- All information neccessary (path, sysop-name, main-address) will be
- taken from FastEcho's configuration.
- !! registered only !!
-
- -creating netmail containing logged errors of FastEcho, keyword:
- ERROR_LOG
- !! registered only !!
-
- -added command-line switch -NoNetmail for disabling netmail-report.
-
- -added ProBoard support.
-
- -added conversion to QuickBBS 2.75. New keywords:
- GENTYPE, GENCOMBINED, GENALIAS, GENDELETES, same for
- GRxxxx and ECxxxx. See sample CFG for details.
-
- -added Environment-Support whereever a path has to be specified,
- including FastEcho.Cfg, Setup.Fd etc.
- Example: LOGFILE %FE%\FECONV.LOG
-
- -added GENUSE_FE_ORIGIN and GRUSE_FE_ORIGIN for conversion to
- BBS-Settings
-
- -added keyword USE_FE_RECV to QuickBBS and Remote_Access section.
- See demo-config for further detail.
-
- -Origin-Lines for Remote_Access, QuickBBS and ProBoard will now
- be taken from FastEcho (see xxxUSE_FE_ORIGIN-Keyword)
-
- -added ECSYSOP and ECREPLY for ProBoards "Sysop Name" and
- "Reply Area"
-
- -added NOBADMAIL and NODUPEMAIL to Remote_Access.
-
- -added SEPERATE_GROUPS, GROUPFILE and GROUPTEXT to the [Areas]-
- section.
-
- -LISTFMT-Macros can also be used for GROUPTEXT and GROUPFILE(!)
-
- -added %u and %U to [Areas]-Listformat
-
- -added %p and %m to AreaListFmt: will show 'p' if area is passive,
- 'm' if area is mandatory.
-
- -added EXCLUDE_POINTS: The whole address will be hidden in %e if the
- Pointnumber is >0, so the own address is not listed anymore as it was,
- when NO_POINTS was specified.
-
- -for %d and %n the Default-Values set in FastEcho.Cfg will now be
- used when the corresponding Area-Setting is zero.
-
-
- V1.25: (08.03.1993):
- --------------------
-
- Bug-Fixes:
- -corrected date-field in Netmail-Report
- -corrected GENUSE_FE_ORIGIN
-
- General:
- -added _strerror-functions
-
- [RemoteAccess]
- -added support for Ra 2.00g1, still works with 1.1x too!
- (RaConfig.VersionID)
- -new Keywords: GENAGE, GRAGE, ECAGE, GENGROUP1, GENGROUP2,...
- GRGROUP1,..., ECGROUP1,... and GENEXTATTRIB.
-
- [FrontDoor]
- -added DESC for FDSORT
-
- [Areas]
- -added %l = CR/LF
- -added %\ = Path of Squish/Fido-areas
- -added %k = Type of Board (Q/S/F/P)
- -added NOSQUISH, NOFIDO, NOPASSIVE, NOQBBS
- -added parsing of GROUP-File content
- -added SORT_BY_DESC
-
- [Netmail]
- -added ONE_LINK_WARNING and TWO_LINK_WARNING
-
- [BBS's general]
- -added EXCLUDE_GROUPS
-
-
- V1.26: (04.08.1993):
- --------------------
-
- BugFixes:
-
- - environment-support
- - macro-handling within the GROUPFILE
-
-
- General:
-
- -Changed [FrontDoor] to [Mailer]
- FeConv looks into FastEcho.Cfg, whether to create
- InterMail- oder FrontDoor-style files.
- -added command-line switches:
- -bbs -> Only create BBS-Config
- -mailer -> Only create Mailer-Config
- -netmail -> Only create netmail-reports
- -areas -> Only create textfiles
-
-
- [Mailer]
-
- -added Intermail
- -added AREAMIXED to DESCRIPTION, showing
- AREATAG ->AREADESC
- (FASTECHO ->Fido: Tosser Fastecho)
- -added CONFERENCE to FDSORT
- -added FDUSER <Users> <Boardname>
- see FeConv.Dmo for further detail.
-
- [ProBoard]
-
- -removed 1.2x and added 1.30-Support
- -New Keywords: ECHONAME and QWKNAME
-
- [Netmail]
-
- -Error-Report: The offending Node is shown, when
- a 'Security violation' occurred.
-
- [Areas]
-
- -added %y = conference number, important for
- ProBoard 1.30-Users
- -%b now always has 3 digits, leadings zeroes blanked out.
- -added SORT_BY_CONFERENCE (of course ;-) )
- -fixed the %k-Bug
- -%% will show as single '%'.
- -%-xxyy : Part of description, starting at xx, ending at yy.
- !no checking of the start- and end-values is done!
-
-
- V1.30: (06.09.1993):
- --------------------
-
- General:
-
- -finally added WME (1.00b)
-
- -added commandline-switch -WME
-
- -Put all texts into FeConv.Msg, so releasing FeConv with
- different languages should be no problem now...
-
- -wrote a German language file. Copy FeConv.Ger to FeConv.Msg.
-
- -introduced DESCRIPTION AREAMIXED for BBS-Software instead of
- only for [Mailer]
-
- [WME]
-
- - to use the WME-Part, call Feconv with -WME
- - Introduced new keywords for WME:
-
- xxxMOD, xxxPASSWORD, xxxAREASEC,
- xxxGOTOSEC
-
- see FeConv.Dmo for further detail.
-
-
- [QuickBBS]
-
- - added keywords xxxFMAIL and xxxGROUP
- see FeConv.Dmo for further detail.
-
- [Remote_Access]
-
- -For RA 2.00, the areas will be converted like this:
-
- QBBS-Style: Boardnumber is always < 201, so the
- first 200 entries in MESSAGES.RA will
- be used.
- JAM-Style: There is NO Boardnumber, so to get a
- somehow "permanent" order, the conference
- number is used to determine the offset in
- MESSAGES.RA. To avoid any conflict, the
- figure 201 is added to the conference number,
- so conference '0' will be at position 201
- (behind the QBBS-Boards) in MESSAGES.RA.
- Since the conference number can get as high
- as 992, and because it's to much work to
- determine the highest conference number, all
- possible entries (1200) are created when
- KEEP_AREAS is not specified.
-
- I also suggest NOT to use KEEP_AREAS when having
- JAM-Areas since it might be possible that
- new areas will not be inserted into MESSAGES.RA.
-
- [ProBoard]
-
- - applied the same logic to ProBoard as there is for RA
- (see above, but for Squish/*.MSG instead of JAM)
-
- [Areas]
-
- -added keyword NOJAM -> JAM-Areas will not be listed in
- the textfile. Same as NOSQUISH, NOFIDO, etc...
-
- -added %f to force a number for Squish/JAM/*.MSG-Areas
- (perhaps some of you create their Mail-Menues with
- FeConv, such as I do ;-) ).
-
- [Netmail]
-
- -added JAM_AREAS -> Same as SQUISH_AREAS, FIDO_AREAS...
- -writing a PID-Kludge: FeConv 'Version' 'Reg-Nr'
- just for fun ;-)
- -Sender of Netmail is no longer FeConv 'Version' but the
- Sysop (you ;-) ).