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- PCBNet History File of Fixes and Added Features
-
- December 27th, 1990 4:35 pm
- ----------------------------
- - Found the culprit that was messing up anything above 119 for the
- Low conference number (i.e. /C:Low-High). The problem was due to
- a seek failure.
-
- December 18th, 1990 4:55 pm
- ----------------------------
- - Made MAJOR changes for speed. Here are the new stats:
-
- PCBNet 2.1 or below could scan 200 conferences (On my system) in 30
- seconds.
-
- PCBNet 2.2 will scan 200 conferences (On my system) in 9 seconds.
-
- This shows you the vast improvements made. It will be more noticable on
- networks as less disk access is used (Hence, that's why the speed increase).
-
- Note: Because of speed increase, more memory is used. If you get memory
- allocation errors, you will need to lower the number of conferences
- you are trying to scan at one time. Example:
-
- PCBNet /c:1-100 (You get allocation error).
-
- Try this:
-
- PCBNet /c:1-50 (NO allocation error).
-
- I suggest that you scan no more 200 conferences at a time unless
- you have lots of memory free. Because all my tests were based
- on 200 conferences, that's why I say 200 conferences. If you
- have more conferences, please expierment and let me know what
- your numbers were.
-
- - Added /INIT Previous versions in most cases will not work properly. I
- HIGHLY suggest that everybody use the /INIT option for first time
- initialization.
-
- This operation is only used for first time installation or updating. If
- you add or delete a conference (Change conference allocations), you will
- need to use the /INIT option for continued proper operation.
-
- November 29th, 1990 11:00 am
- ----------------------------
- - Added the command line switch: /NET:Path/Name
-
- Now some of you may ask why this switch was added. Let me explain. For
- those systems that act as HUBS for echo mail, these guys for the most part
- have NODES upload mail to them. Because they are constantly getting mail on
- different nodes on their BBS, this can cause problems. So to bypass this
- problem this switch was added so they prevent this problem. Or if you need
- to run PCBNet from the remote side using the 10 function from PCBoard, you
- can specify the path/file name where all the information is contained.
-
- I hope all this information makes sense <grin>......
-
- November 26th, 1990 11:00 am
- ----------------------------
- - Changed the MSGS.NET File(s) to be in ONE SINGLE File called: PCBNET.NET
- For those of you with LOTS of conferences, this will now save on Hard Drive
- space. The actual size of this file is 4 bytes time the number of
- conferences you currently have (Including the Main Board).
-
- The PCBNET.NET file will be placed in the same directory where you run
- PCBNET.EXE. I believe this resolves the MAJOR problem big systems were
- facing (And wouldn't use it).
-
- November 21st, 1990 1:15 pm
- ----------------------------
- - Removed Error displays from hanging in an event.
- - Added more error checking for MSGS file.
-
- November 19th, 1990 10:40 am
- ----------------------------
- - Added checking if a message has been read. If it has, the user's mail
- waiting flags WILL NOT be updated.
-
- November 16th, 1990 11:00 am
- ----------------------------
- - Added checking for KILLED MSGS.
- - Removed Debug Code (All is working just fine).
- - Enhanced Error checking for a VALID /C:xx-xx Some people were trying
- just the /C:xx which is an INVALID number and thus starting with
- conference #0 and working it's way up til the end. They were thus
- reporting that it wasn't working properly, however it was to some degree.
- It simply wasn't detecting two numbers (The LOW and HIGH).
-
- November 15th, 1990 5:10 pm
- ----------------------------
- - Found another problem and fixed. Hopefully this will solve the rest of
- the problems.
- - Added DEBUG code. Debug information is in PCBNET.LOG.
-
- November 15th, 1990 10:30 am
- ----------------------------
- - Added check for SYSOP in Message header. If SYSOP is found, record #1
- is updated (As this is the Sysop).
-
- November 14th, 1990 5:10 pm
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- - Added a little more error checking for not closing all the files.
-
- November 14th, 1990
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- - Fixed a problem with Too many files opened
- - Fixed a problem with updating the wrong mail waiting flags.
-
- November 12th, 1990
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- - Added some routines for more error checking.
- - Fixed a problem with only a maximum of 255 Conferences.