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- Fixes (2.00e)
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- Whats Fixed?
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- NNTP Long line problem
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- NNTP bug reported in d.i.s.archimedes. Characters lost from long lines.
- Now fixed.
-
- Experimentation with test messages seems to indicate that either the
- Demon news server or post machine have a general line length limit of
- 500 or so characters.
-
- From the NNTP server source, it appears that header lines can be upto
- 1024 characters long. I have ammended !TCPIP NNTP client to be able to
- cope with 1024 characters header lines.
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-
- Windows re-opening
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- Closed windows can sometimes re-open when new text is written to them
- causing the cursor to move. This only applies when Cursor follow is
- enabled.
-
- Now fixed.
-
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- Save Selection
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- Save selection via the saveas dbox leaves a shaded option icon visible.
- It shouldn't.
-
- Now fixed.
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- FTP hash
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- FTP hash command now replies with the ftp prompt.
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- FTP server type
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- The FTP server in !TCPIP now replies to mode changes commands (A,I etc)
- with Image type OK or Ascii type OK as appropriate.
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- Changes
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- FTP prompt
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- When a transfer is in progress, the "ftp> " prompt changes to "ftp- ".
- Also a prompt appears upon completion being determined at this end.
-
- The purpose of this change is to make chat scripts easier to use in that
- batch fetch can be done by scanning for "ftp> " upon completion of any
- operation.
-
- If in use, you find an that a prompt doesn't appear as/when expected,
- please advise.
-
- The following is an example of an extended FTP command file to login to
- Demon's FTP server and retrieve a set of files, and then exit.
-
- -----8<---- CUT HERE ----8<-----
- ftp ftp.demon.co.uk \ \
- "name: " "anonymous\r\n"
- "assword: " "username@hostname.demon.co.uk\r\n"
- "ftp> " "bin\r\n"
- "ftp> " "hash 1\r\n"
- "ftp> " "get /pub/archimedes/developers/0README.TXT\r\n"
- "ftp> " "get /pub/archimedes/developers/tcpip2info\r\n"
- "ftp> " "quit\r\n"
- -----8<---- CUT HERE ----8<-----
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- username should be replace by your own user name,
- hostname should be replace by your own host name.
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- Command box
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- Command box at top of windows has had its buffer increased to 1024
- characters to better cope with longer command line chat scripts.
-
- General TCPIP command processing was, in an earlier V2 release, changed
- to allow upto 32 separate tokens to be be used in a command rather than
- the original 10 and should still cope with this new buffer length.
-
- To make extended command with chat scripts easier to prepare in !Edit or
- !Zap etc, newlines in a text file dragged into the command box are
- replaced with spaces.
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- If the resulting file plus contents of box exceed 1021 characters, a
- beep is heard, but error is given.
-
- Control characters other than '\n' ie normal end of line in !Edit may
- terminate command extraction from an imported text file.
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-
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- Small NNTP, SMTP and POP windows
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- These small windows were introduced in version 2.00d as an experiment
- for comment following comments made on versions 2.00a-2.00c.
-
- Further comments received on these small windows have led to a further
- change that should more or less solve the dialemma.
-
- These windows will now have their normal (80 x 24) maximum size by
- default, but will be opened at a reduced size, enabling them to be
- toggled to full size by the user. In the future, it is likely that the
- default work area extent of these windows will be linked to the trace
- level in use.
-
- In addition, the terminal size switches ('X<n>' and "Y<n>") have been
- renamed as "XE<n>" and "YE<n>" and two additional switches for setting
- the default visible workarea have been added as "XV<n>" and "YV<n>".
-
- Note that the wimp operation equivelent of these new switches is to
- adjust the visible size of a window in the normal manner, thus no
- dialogue box will be provided.
-
- In order to gain dynamically from this, the SMTP/NNTP/POP KICK commands
- will be extended to be able to accept terminal control switches in a
- future release if not in the 2.00e release.
-
- Telnet, FTP and Finger allready accept these switches.
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- Current session
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- Starting a telnet, ftp or finger session makes it the current session,
- allowing command files to be able to start a telnet session and follow
- with a record/upload command etc.
-
- A new command, "Terminal" has been added which allows terminal control
- commands to be applied to the current session. This includes chat
- strings, however, a new chat sequence will immediately over-ride a
- previous registered sequence. This will be ammend at some time.
-
- Terminal <switches> applies given switches to the current session's window.
- Terminal * <switches> applies given switches to the command window.
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- SMTP NNTP and POP
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- As mentioned above for NNTP, SMTP and POP have also have had their line
- buffers increased to 1024 characters. The main effect of this change is
- to allow NNTP, SMTP and POP to correctly parse long header lines. Longer
- buffers don't actually have any effect upon body text which should be
- acceptable in any line length.
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