JOHNSON@nuhub.acs.northeastern.edu (I am only an egg.) (07/18/89)
Is there a run down anywhere of what new and improoved functionality
will be in v5.9? Aside from bug fixes I mean.
(This is also to see if my NEWS really will transmit a message.)
Chris Johnson
ANU-NEWSer
Northeastern Universitygih900@UUNET.UU.NET (Geoff Huston) (07/20/89)
Chris Johnson writes :--
> Is there a run down anywhere of what new and improoved functionality
>will be in v5.9? Aside from bug fixes I mean.
I must admit that I have been working on NEWS in very small time slots cause of
pressure of work (so what else is new!) and have not been that careful in
documenting the effects of the code changes that I have been putting in -
The gross changes are (as I remember them off the cuff!)
OPEN/MAIL
CLOSE/MAIL
will open your mail file with each folder mapped to a mail newsgroup. So far I
have managed to open the mail file, support deletion of mail messages and
folders, wastebasket management, purging, compressing and display of items. I
have a fair bit to do on it. Right now I am looking at making the MARK command
do the same things in MAIL and NEWS.. this could take a few hours!!
I have added more class types: (DIR/CLASS=something)
dir/class=comp.
will display all newsgroups of the form "comp.*", and in general any pseudo
class name terminating with a period will display those newsgroups which match
the initial part of the class name.
I have also added dir/class=$local and dir/class=$net to display a listing of
local or network newsgroups, and also allowed the system manager to add new
class names of the form "$name" as pre-defined classes into a startup file.
This was a request from Ken Wallenein some months ago.
SEARCH now displays the located string in highlighted video. and positions the
first screen at the first occurrence of the search string.
ADD FILE has gone through the wringer a number of times to make the parser more
robust - I'm not sure if it covers all cases, but it seems to be better than
the 5.8 version.
There was a recent posting wanting some of the logical names to be replaced by
SET PROFILE commands - this is almost complete
Tim Russell started a debate about local and network signature files - I have
implemented the action where if all the newsgroups being posted to are local
then a local sig file (if defined) is used, otherwise the default sig file is
used.
I have also included a setting for newsgroups to indicate that the newsgroup is
in reality a mailing list, and when any local user posts to that newsgroup then
mail (without the news headers) is to be sent to the mail list address. This
posting is a forced posting, and will happen regardless of whether the posting
also is to be sent to a network moderated newsgroup.
I have fixed a number of bugs which have been reported over the last weeks,
most of which I've forgotten.
I'll post the V5.9 sources complete in VMS_SHARE format in mid August - and
this version will in all probability be a bit shakey with respect to MAIL
support. This will of course present a few hiccups as the sources will break
into about 30 parts, but at least it gets ever reader back to a common base.
KEEP these original 5.9 sources - all updates will be in SHARE format SLP files
using this 5.9 set as the comparison file.
That's all for the moment - as usual thanks to all those who have posted bugs
or fixes or suggestions - If I haven't replied it either means a) it's still
somewhere in my mail file - b) I've implemented the fix or c) it's too hard!!
> (This is also to see if my NEWS really will transmit a message.)
looks like it works!
cheers,
Geoff Huston
gih900@csc.anu.oz.au