diff --git a/batch/announcement-2.06.txt b/batch/announcement-2.06.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..b41d0330bba89de4d7b4e9d6125e49c922ce7858 --- /dev/null +++ b/batch/announcement-2.06.txt @@ -0,0 +1,396 @@ +You are about to receive version 2.06 of the PFC BULLETIN. + +BULLETIN is public domain software. (I will gladly accept +recommendations for new features, not for changes that are due to +"personal" preference.) + +As of V2.0, BULLETIN is able to read USENET NEWS via TCP/IP using either +CMU, MULTINET, UCX, TWG, or via DECNET. It can also serve as a NEWS +gateway for DECNET nodes without direct access to the NEWS server, i.e. a +DECNET node without Internet access will be able to read NEWS. + +NOTE: The following commands can be sent to BULLETIN@ORYANA.PFC.MIT.EDU: + SEND ALL [SINCE time] Sends all bulletin files. + If SINCE time specified, only files created + since that time will be sent. + SEND filename Sends the specified file. + BUGS Sends a list of the latest bug fixes. + HELP or INFO Sends a brief description of BULLETIN. + SUBSCRIBE Subscribes to mailing list for upgrade + notifications. + UNSUBSCRIBE Unsubscribes from mailing list. + +There is also a documentation file written by Chris Tanner from Chalk +River Nuclear Labs which can be used as handout. To obtain this, +request the file BULLETIN.DOC. (This does not describe the NEWS reader +feature, however.) + +NOTE: An old bug might have changed the protection on the BULLETIN data +files. The protection on all data files (i.e. B*.DAT, *.BULLFIL, and +*.BULLDIR) should be (RWED,RWED,,). + +This version includes all necessary modifications to work under VMS +V5.0. However, it will still be necessary to reassemble the ALLMACS.MAR +source under V5 and relink. The V4 version will not be installable +under V5 due to a change in a shared library which BULLETIN uses. +However, relinking by itself will not be enough. You MUST also +reassemble ALLMACS.MAR. If you only relink, BULLETIN can cause your +system to crash (the BULLCP process will do this because it uses the +routines in ALLMACS.MAR). + +If you are running a version of BULLETIN older than 1.52, this version +will modify the format of some of the data files. (This will be done +automatically when the new version is run). After successful +installation, the older versions of these files can be removed. This +format change can take a significant amount of time if the folder is +large. If your site has large folders, it is suggested that the new +version be installed during off peak hours. NOTE: Problems can occur +if the old version of BULLETIN is run after the data files have been +modified. Such a situation is possible on a cluster where each node has +installed the executable separately. To help installation, a new +command procedure INSTALL_REMOTE.COM has been included. This can be +used to install BULLETIN on several nodes from a single node. Read the +comments in the file for information on how to use it. + +NOTE: The BULLCP process should be stopped using the BULLETIN/STOP +command before the new version of BULLETIN is installed. It can then be +restarted using the BULLETIN/STARTUP command. (The INSTALL_REMOTE.COM +command procedure does this automatically for remote nodes.) + +You will be receiving 20 files (NOT NECESSARILY IN THIS ORDER!): + 1) BULLETIN.FOR + 2) BULLETIN0.FOR + 3) BULLETIN1.FOR + 4) BULLETIN2.FOR + 5) BULLETIN3.FOR + 6) BULLETIN4.FOR + 7) BULLETIN5.FOR + 8) BULLETIN6.FOR + 9) BULLETIN7.FOR + 10) BULLETIN8.FOR + 11) BULLETIN9.FOR + 12) BULLETIN10.FOR + 13) BULLETIN11.FOR + 14) ALLMACS.MAR + 15) BULLCOMS1.HLP + 16) BULLCOMS2.HLP + 17) BULLET1.COM + 18) BULLET2.COM + 19) PMDF.COM + 20) MX.COM + +(They will be identified in the SUBJECT header.) BULLET1.COM and +BULLET2.COM are command procedures which when run, will create several +small files. After you run them, you can delete them. If you have PMDF +at your site, you should also run PMDF.COM. Otherwise, you can delete +it. The same applies to MX. Then, read AAAREADME.TXT for BULLETN +installation instructions. + +NOTE: When creating these files (using the EXTRACT command) from the VMS +MAIL utility, you will have to strip off any mail headers that are +present, including blank lines. + MRL@NERUS.PFC.MIT.EDU +-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +Add REPLY option to READNEW feature when reading messages. Also, really fix +the REPLY command, as mentioned in V2.06. 8/11/91 + +V 2.06 + +Added code to keep track of which messages have been read a per message basis. +Added SEEN & UNSEEN commands. Added /SEEN, /UNSEEN, and /UNMARKED to +DIRECTORY, INDEX, READ, and SELECT commands. Modified directory listing to +indicate which messages have been SEEN. 7/31/91 + +Added /NOW to PRINT command. Messages no longer have to be printed one message +at a time. It now works identical to VMS MAIL. 7/31/91 + +Added code to NEWS users when new groups have been created. User will be +alerted when selecting a news group that new groups are present, and will be +instructed to type NEWS/NEWGROUP in order to see them. 7/31/91 + +Added /PRINT to DIRECTORY command to allow printing of messages which are found +by using the DIRECTORY command. 7/31/91 + +Modified directory listing display so that the first and last message in the +folder are now displayed at the top. Fixed bug which truncated very large news +group names. 7/31/91 + +Added FIRST command to read first message found in folder. 7/31/91 + +Modified REPLY command for folders associated with mailing lists, so that the +reply message to the mailing list rather than adding a local message. 7/31/91 + +Modified code to correctly store subject headers from BBOARD mail which are +more than one line long. Previously, the subject would be truncated. 6/18/91 + +V 2.05 + +The MARK code was modified to work with NEWS folders. 6/3/91 + +Added /FOLDER=(folder,[...]) to the SEARCH command to allow searching more than +one folder at a time. 6/13/91 + +NEWS/SUBSCRIBED listing was fixed. If the list could not fit on a single page, +a folder was skipped when the next page was shown. 6/3/91 + +INDEX was fixed. If it was used with the qualifiers /NEW or /MARK, and the +directory listing of a folder was displayed, and then RETURN is entered to +skip to the next folder, the directory display of the next folder would be +incorrect. 6/3/91 + +Fixed broadcast bug. If a message was added with /BROADCAST to a remote folder +from a node in a cluster which was not the node that BULLCP was running on. +The broadcast would appear twice on the cluster. 5/24/91 + +Added code to alert user if message too large to be fully broadcasted. 5/24/91 + +Added code to avoid erroneous notifications of new messages for an empty NEWS +group. Unlike a similar fix in V2.03 which was due to a bug, this fix may not +affect all sites, as it depends on the behavior of the server. 5/22/91 + +Fixed NEWS to FOLDER feed. A recent change broke it. 5/22/91 + +Added /EDIT qualifier for MAIL. 5/20/91 + +Added /HEADER qualifier for LAST, BACK, and CURRENT commands. 5/19/91 + +Added TWG (Wollongong) interface for NEWS. 5/18/91 + +Fixed bug which truncated subject headers of messages created when using REPLY +and RESPOND to messages which have long subject lines. 5/12/91 + +V2.04 + +Added ALWAYS attribute for folders. Any SYSTEM messages in a folder in which +ALWAYS has been set will be displayed every time a user logs in, rather than +just once. Also, non-SYSTEM messages will be displayed continuously (via +whatever mode is set, i.e. READNEW, SHOWNEW, or BRIEF) until it is actually +read. 4/29/91 + +Added capability of controlling the time between updates for BBOARD and NEWS in +BULLCP by defining the logical names BULL_BBOARD_UPDATE or BULL_NEWS_UPDATE to +the number of minutes of desired time in minutes. 4/27/91 + +Added /GROUPS= qualifier to all commands which post to NEWS groups. 4/26/91 + +Fixed bug which prevented SET SHOWNEW or READNEW from working with subscribed +news group folders. 4/25/91 + +V2.03 + +Added /FOLDER to SHOW USER in order to show the latest message that a user +has read in the specified folder. Also added /SINCE and /START (the former +for real folders, the latter for news groups). 4/11/91 + +Fixed logic so that defining BULL_NEWS_ORGANIZATION will override the +definition defined in BULLNEWS.INC. 4/10/91 + +Fixed SEARCH command, as it broke in V2.02 when /EDIT was added to read +message commands. There is a missing QUALIFIER EDIT in BULLCOM.CLD for the +SEARCH verb. /EDIT now works with SEARCH. 4/9/91 + +Fixed bug in BULLCP which prevented the DECNET/INTERNET NEWS gateway software +from working with UCX. 4/9/91 + +Fixed bug caused by V2.00 which caused incorrect listing of message during +BULL/LOGIN for remote folders. 4/3/91 + +Fixed bugs which caused erroneous new message notifications for subscribed +NEWS groups that were empty. 3/27/91 + +V 2.02 + +Include BBOARD support for MX (courtesy of goathunter@wkuvx1.bitnet). + +Changed BBOARD algorithm so that it is now possible to have only one real +BBOARD account, and have all the others be VMS MAIL forwarding entries. +See HELP SET BBOARD MORE_INFO for more info (it's been updated). + +Added hook to allow postings from BULLETIN to a LISTSERV mailing list to use +the BBOARD account from it was subscribed to. See HELP SET BBOARD LISTSERV. + +Fixed many bugs in POST, REPLY, and RESPOND. + +Fixed /ALL for COPY, PRINT, and EXTRACT when using NEWS groups. + +Included RMS optimizer procedure for indexed files to optimize BULLNEWS.DAT +to speed up NEWS updates. Can be used on other files (in particular +BULLINF.DAT) in order to save space. + +Add /EDIT to BACK, NEXT, LAST, and when entering message number. + +Modify ADD/REPLY command to local (non-NEWS) folders so if there are new +messages present, it doesn't reset the newest message count. Previously, +adding a message would reset the user's last read message date to that message +in order to avoid notifying the user of new messages due to the user's own +message. + +Fixed code so that when reading new messages, and if READ/EDIT or DELETE/IMMED- +IATE IS entered, a carriage return will read the next new message. Previously +the wrong message would be displayed. + +V 2.01 + +Fixed many bugs associated with USENET NEWS reading feature. + +Added UCX interface for NEWS. + +Added signature file for POST and RESPOND messages. + +Added capability to specify file name for POST, REPLY, and RESPOND. + +Added the line "In a previous message, <message-owner> wrote:" to the +beginning of a message when /EXTRACT is specified + +Added hook for network mail to run command procedure rather then using +VMS MAIL. BULL_MAILER can be defined to point to the procedure, and it +is called with the username and subject as the parameters. + +V 2.00 + +Added USENET NEWS reading feature. + +V 1.93 + +Fixed bug which wouldn't allow a permanent message to be added by a +non-privileged user in a remote folder (the folder had been setup to allow +permanent messages from non-privileged users, of course). + +Fixed bug which causes the DELETE command not to delete a SHUTDOWN message +without the use of /IMMEDIATE. + +Fixed the algorithm which prevented duplicate notification of messages in +remote folders on different nodes, as duplication was still possible. + +V 1.92 + +Fixed bug which causes BULLCP to loop when trying to cleanup a folder which +has more than 127 identifiers granted access to a folder. Also correct +SHOW FOLDER/FULL, which had a similar problem when trying to display the +identifiers. + +Fix PMDF interface to recognize to recognize PMDF_PROTOCOL. + +V 1.91 + +Disallow SPAWN command for CAPTIVE account. + +Fix MAIL command to correctly allow passing addresses with quotes, i.e. +IN%"""MRL@NERUS.PFC.MIT.EDU""". + +V 1.90 + +SET NOTIFY now works for remote folders. + +Avoid generating notification message due to SET NOTIFY flag if the message +was broadcasted when added using ADD/BROADCAST. + +Bug in DIR/SINCE for remote folders fixed. If no new messages were present, +it would incorrectly show messages. + +Added /FF to EXTRACT command to seperate messages in the file with form feeds. + +Allow specifying CURRENT and LAST when specifying a range of messages for +commands that accept a range, i.e. EXTRACT 1-CURRENT, CURRENT-LAST, etc. + +Open folder files with READONLY when not writing to them in order to avoid +changing modification date, which results in unnecessary backups. + +Modify HELP so that it won't prompt for Subtopic is there is none. + +Prevent screen from being erased after exiting HELP. + +Fix bug which causes CREATE/NOTIFY to crash. + +SET NOTIFY/CLUSTER has been removed. As of VMS V5.2, it is possible to obtain +the list of users logged in to all nodes of a cluster, so this qualifier is no +long necessary. NOTE: You can delete all the BULL_DIR:*.NOTIFY files, as they +are no longer used. + +BULLETIN now will use the editor specified by the SET EDITOR command within +MAIL for editing messages. + +Typing BACK after typing a DIRECTORY command will now show the previous +DIRECTORY display entries rather than reading the previous message. + +Several bugs related to the MARK command were fixed. Also the software has been +optimized so that scanning for MARKed messages should take less time. + +/EXPIRATION added to DIRECTORY command to show expiration rather than creation +date of messages. + +Any BULLETIN interactive command can be executed at DCL level by typing +BULLETIN "command" or BULLETIN "command1;command2;etc.". + +The CHANGE command has been modified so a range of message can be specified, +i.e. /NUMBER=1-10. Also, the code incorrectly misinterpreted /TEXT as meaning +to extract the old text message, whereas it should have meant that only the +text was to be changed. This prevented a user from specifying that only the +text should be changed if that user didn't have editing enabled. This has been +fixed. To eliminate confusing, the /TEXT qualifier on the ADD command has been +removed (previously it was a synonym for /EXTRACT). + +SHOW FOLDER/FULL display of access IDs was fixed to correctly display UICs. + +Removed security hole which occurs if you are using the old method of accessing +a remote node via /NODES (it would have required looking a the sources to find, +which one installer did and was worried about). Because of this, if you use +this old method (i.e. via BULLETIN.COM), the object BULLETIN must be installed +in the NCP database pointing to the file BULLETIN.COM, i.e. the command +"MCR NCP SET BULLETIN FILE directory:BULLETIN.COM NUMBER 0" must be executed +during the system startup. + +Fixed bug in /LOGIN display when erasing page if terminal is hardcopy. No +page would be erased (of course), and the next line outputted would start where +the previous line left off, rather than starting on a new line. + +Added BULLETIN/WIDTH=page_width for users who have BULLETIN/LOGIN in their +login procedure before the terminal is known, and whose default page width is +larger (i.e. 132) than what the terminals are (i.e. 80). + +Added BULLETIN/PGFLQUOTA and /WSEXTENT in order to set those quotas for the +BULLCP process. + +Added ATTACH command. + +Modify SET STRIP so that it saves the date that the message was sent and +leaves it at the to of the message. + +BULLETIN will search BBOARD message headers for a line that starts with +"Expires:" or "X-Expires:", followed by a date (DD MMM YYYY or similar). It if +finds that line, it will use that date as the expiration date of the message. + +Added /REPLY to SEARCH command. Modified so that it's possible to abort out of +a /SUBJECT or /REPLY search using CTRL-C (previous possible only if searching +the text for a string. Also, if you hit CTRL-C at the wrong time, BULLETIN +would abort totally rather than just aborting the search). + +Added /SEARCH= /SUBJ= and /REPLY to the DIRECTORY command. Basically this is +combining the DIRECTORY and SEARCH commands. + +Fixed design flaw which allowed the following to occur: If a folder is a +remote system folder, when BULLETIN/LOGIN was executed, the same messages might +be displayed on both the local and remote nodes. BULLETIN now will know that +the user has seen the message on one node and will not display it if that user +logs in on the other node. + +Optimized code which caused slow display of new messages when executing +BULLETIN/LOGIN without /REVERSE for a remote folder. + +Added /PERMANENT to SET NOTIFY, SHOWNEW, BRIEF, and READNEW. The affect is +that users will not be allowed to change the setting. The main intent here +was to allow the removal ofthe permanent setting of SHOWNEW from the GENERAL +folder. + +Fixed bug which would cause a SYSTEM message not to be shown if SET BRIEF was +selected for that folder, and a non-SYSTEM message was also present. + +Added SET CONTINUOUS_BRIEF. This causes the SET BRIEF setting to show that +there are unread new messages every time BULLETIN/LOGIN is executed, rather +than just the one time. The BRIEF notification code has also been optimized +so that it'll take less time to notify you of new messages. + +A major bug was fixed which was introduced in previous mods to speed up +BULLETIN/LOGIN. The effect is that no notifications will appear for certain +folders via BULLETIN/LOGIN. This would only happen if a folder was removed at +some time.