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- SQUISH 1.11 REVISION NOTES -- SUMMARY OF CHANGES FROM 1.10
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- The following functional changes were made in Squish 1.11. (See
- later in the file for a list of changes between Squish 1.10 and
- Squish 1.01.)
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- * Squish now comes with SQFIX32.EXE and SQFIX32P.EXE. These
- are high-capacity versions of SQFIX which are capable of
- handling areas containing more than 5400 messages.
-
- Both versions of SQFIX32 have similar system requirements to
- Squish/386 and both require a 386 or higher processor.
- SQFIX32 uses the DOS/4GW extender. SQFIX32P is a native
- OS/2 2.x application.
-
- The 16-bit versions of SQFIX are still provided for
- compatibility with older systems. However, the 32-bit
- executables can be used on bases of any size, so the 16-bit
- versions need not be kept if the 32-bit versions run on your
- system.
-
- * Added the "DupeLongHeader" keyword. If this keyword is
- enabled, Squish will use the entire subject line when
- performing header-based duplicate checking. Without this
- keyword, Squish will check only the first 24 characters of
- the subject field when performing duplicate checking.
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- - Squish will now try to create the directory for a
- pass-through *.MSG area before writing the area's dupe file.
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- - With KillBlank enabled, Squish will also selectively delete
- blank messages that contain file attaches, as long as the
- destination of the message is your local system.
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- Blank file attaches that are destined to other systems will
- be left alone, as in 1.10.
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- - SQINFO is now a little more picky about Squish bases, and it
- identifies a few error types that were previously not
- detected.
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- - Removed the "MsgAPI Startup" and "MsgAPI termination"
- messages from the OS/2 MsgAPI code.
-
- In addition, the following problems from version 1.10 were
- corrected:
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- x Fixed SQPACK's area.dat-parsing routine so that it works
- with areas that use long filenames with more than one dot,
- such as "this.is.a.long.name.sqd".
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- x Squish will no longer crash if "Duplicates 0" is set in
- SQUISH.CFG.
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- x Squish will now properly process the "DupeCheck" keyword.
- Previously, Squish was always using the MSGID and header
- algorithms, regardless of the setting in SQUISH.CFG.
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- x Fixed a compiler library bug that prevented SQ386P from
- spawning archivers when running in a detached OS/2 session.
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- x Fixed a problem in the packet routing code that stopped
- routed messages to 4D points of other systems from having
- their headers stomped with the correct destination address
- and password.
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- x Removed the erroneous "% gained" statistics code from
- SQPACK.
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- x Fixed bug that caused Squish to incorrectly parse MSGID
- lines that contained double quotes.
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- x Fixed problems in HPFS filename handling with SQSETP.
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- x When Squish encounters a netmail message which is too long
- to pack, it will no longer skip the rest of the messages in
- the area.
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- x Fixed a bug in the MsgAPI that caused Squish to erroneously
- add junk characters to area tags when processing messages
- that had a zero-length control field.
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- x Fixed the erroneous "message too large to pack" message.
- This bug was sometimes encountered when trying to pack
- Squish-format messages (which had been converted from the
- *.MSG-format into Squish format using SQCONV for DOS) which
- contained only kludge lines and did not have a terminating
- NUL at the end of the original *.MSG message.
-
- x Fixed a problem that caused an infinite loop when processing
- "Send NoArc Normal World" in ROUTE.CFG.
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- x Squish will now gracefully skip linking an area if it does
- not have enough memory to read in all of the area's
- messages.
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- x If Squish cannot write a message to a given message area for
- whatever reason, it will now roll back the area's duplicate
- file to ensure that the message can be later tossed to the
- area after the damage is corrected.
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- x Fixed a bug in the MsgAPI code that accidentally allowed
- Squish to access a Squish base that was locked by another
- process. This fix should correct some problems that occur
- when using Maximus and Squish concurrently.
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- x Fixed the file-request processing logic to prevent improper
- treatment of "!" characters at the beginning of a requested
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- filename.
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- x Fixed a problem that prevented Squish from writing to an
- area if the max_msgs field for that base was set to 1.
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- x If Squish receives an insecure ACUPDATE message, it will
- place one message in the log file (only) and skip all
- following invalid ACUPDATE mesasges, instead of complaining
- very verbosely and renaming the entire packet to .BAD.
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- SQUISH 1.10 REVISION NOTES -- SUMMARY OF CHANGES FROM 1.01
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- * Squish now comes in 16-bit and 32-bit versions, for both DOS
- and OS/2. The 32-bit versions of Squish are particularly
- useful for systems which carry large numbers of EchoMail
- areas and have many downlinks.
-
- See the following sections of the documentation for more
- information:
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- INSTALLATION: 16-bit or 32-bit? SQ386 and SQ386P
- SQ386 USAGE NOTES
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- The 32-bit DOS version uses the DOS/4GW extender (included).
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- The 32-bit OS/2 version is a native OS/2 2.x application.
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- * The OS/2 version of Squish comes with a new copy of
- MSGAPI.DLL. A 32-bit version called MSGAPI32.DLL is also
- provided.
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- * The Squish file access code was rewritten, and as a result,
- message base access should be much faster. The new code
- should be 100% compatible with older versions of Squish, so
- older programs should be able to read and write the same
- Squish areas.
-
- In addition, the restriction of 5,200 messages per area has
- been lifted. Squish areas can now be of any size, limited
- only by available memory. (As long as the .SQI file can be
- read into real or virtual memory, Squish can handle the
- area.)
-
- These changes were also propagated to MSGAPI.DLL and
- MSGAPI32.DLL, so any OS/2 programs which use the .DLL should
- be able to handle the larger Squish bases.
-
- * The OS/2 version of Squish now includes "installable
- feature" functionality. This allows third-party developers
- to write .DLL modules that get called when Squish is
- executing.
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- These feature hooks allow third-party code to be executed
- every time Squish tosses, scans or packs a message.
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- Possible applications include message filtering, nodelist
- checking and message bouncing, and many other additions.
- Interested developers should see the Squish Developer's Kit
- for more information.
-
- * The new "NoStomp" keyword instructs Squish to not stamp over
- the packet header with the interim destination address when
- performing routing.
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- * Squish can now perform update requests from the command-
- line, using the "SQUISH UPDATE" command.
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- * The "Buffers" keyword now allows each of the three main
- buffers to be adjusted individually. The 16-bit versions of
- Squish now support messages up to 63K in size, while the 32-
- bit versions support messages up to 256K.
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- * Added the "KillIntransitFile" keyword.
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- * Added a "MaxArchive" keyword to control the maximum size of
- archives created by Squish.
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- * Squish now supports multipass operation when 4D points are
- being used, as long as no *.MSG areas are used. (To use
- *.MSG areas with 4D points, single-pass operation must be
- used.)
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- * The maximum line length in AREAS.BBS has been expanded to
- 1024 bytes.
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- * Squish now supports schedules which run through midnight.
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- * Exceptions can now be specified for the TinySeenbys keyword.
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- * Squish now supports an "Include" keyword in SQUISH.CFG.
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- * The -n command-line parameter can now be used to override
- the LogFile keyword.
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- * The NetFile keyword can now include a "NoEcho" modifier to
- prohibit Squish from tossing EchoMail from the directory in
- question. Note that this option cannot be used in
- conjunction with BatchUnarc.
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- * If a packet contains a message which is too long to be
- tossed, Squish will rename the packet to .LNG (instead of
- .BAD) after all of the other messages in the packet have
- been tossed.
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- * The StripAttributes keyword can now be used to strip
- attributes on a node-by-node basis.
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- * The new "-u" command-line switch can now be used to toggle
- TossBadMsgs mode.
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- * The new "LinkMsgid" keyword instructs Squish to link message
- bases using MSGID and REPLY kludges, instead of the standard
- subject-based linking.
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- * The new "DupeCheck" keyword can be used to enable either or
- both of header-based and MSGID-based dupe checking.
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- * Squish now supports broadcast message modification and
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- deletion, configurable on an area-by-area basis.
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- * SQFIX will now attempt to save the user's lastread pointers
- file when fixing an area.
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- * Squish will now decompress archives in order of ascending
- date, rather than simply searching for the file extension.
- This is in addition to the date sorting that was previously
- performed on packets alone.
-
- * The BusyFlags keyword now supports InterMail-style busy
- flags when running in ArcmailAttach mode.
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- * Squish now ensures that area definitions are consistent if
- an area is duplicated in both SQUISH.CFG and AREAS.BBS.
- (This means that the DupeArea should be placed in SQUISH.CFG
- only, not in AREAS.BBS.)
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