News for Windows NT
Release Notes

News for Windows NT
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This zip file contains News for Windows NT. News for Windows NT is a 32-bit Internet newsreader and runs on Windows NT 3.51 or later and Windows 95. It will not run under Win32s.

This release may be freely copied and distributed world-wide. If you do reproduce or distribute this material, all the files included in this zip file must be reproduced in their original form.

Versions in this release:

• News for Windows NT X1.0-92 for Intel
• News for Windows NT X1.0-90 for Alpha

Installation

Simply unzip the .zip file and run the included .exe file.

Configuration

Before posting articles, you should invoke the Tools->Options dialog and enter your personal data.

By default, News will keep all the configuration information in the Registery database. If you want to use an external .newsrc file to store information about your subscribed newsgroups, select "Tools->Options->General" and change the settings. Make sure to make a backup copy of your existing .newsrc file before doing this!

Changes/New features

X1.0-92

• Fixed a bug introduced in X1.0-91 causing the non-debug version to not display correctly.

X1.0-91

• Fixed a problem where the list view control was destroyed before the settings was saved. This caused garbage heading to be saved in the registry. This problem was exposed when running under Windows NT 4.0 Beta 2.

X1.0-90

• The column settings in all the views are now saved and restored.

X1.0-89

• Kill by From has been added to the Article menu.

X1.0-88

• Kill by Subject has been added to the Article menu. This makes it very easy to hide a thread of discussion from the newsgroup view.
• A paint problem when running under some color scheemes other than the Windows default has been fixed.
• The address in the Reply-To field is now checked for correct syntax.
• A warning is now displayed when posting articles with lines longer than 80 characters.
• Select All is now implemented in most of the views.

X1.0-87

• The since date/time in List New Newsgroups now defaults to the last time you listed the newsgroups.

X1.0-86

• Fixed a problem with viewing previously read articles.

X1.0-85

• The subject in the article list is now indented according to the articles position in the thread hierarchy.
• Fixed a problem with the Find command in the Subscribed Newsgroups view.

X1.0-84

• Sorting the articles by threads is now implmented. This sorting is based on the references section of the articles and works only if your NNTP server supports the XOVER command.
• All the views are now respecting the windows colors customized by the user.
• Fixed a bug causing incorrect articles to appear in the article list.

X1.0-83

• Redesigned the All Newsgroups view. You can now subscribe to newsgroups by clicking on the toggle button next to the newsgroup.
• Fixed a problem with Find in the Subscribed Newsgroups view.

X1.0-82

• Redesigned the Subscribed Newsgroups view. Sorting is now available in this view by clicking on the column headers.

X1.0-81

• Redesigned a couple of icons.

X1.0-80

• The columns in the article list window can now be customized and the settings will be saved and restored.

X1.0-79

• The article window now correctly scrolls past the header lines and positions the article body correctly even if some of the header lines was forced to wrap.
• Fixed a minor memory leak.

X1.0-78

• Word wrap is now enabled in the article read and create windows.
• News for Windows NT can now be invoked from Microsoft Internet Explorer 2.0 using the "Read Newsgroups" command. You will however get an error message from the Microsoft Internet Explorer, but News for Windows NT will be started.
• The XOVER command is now used to get article data if your NNTP server supports XOVER. It will also work if your server lacks this support. Using XOVER seems to be a bit faster in most cases.

X1.0-77

• Create Shortcut on the File menu allows to create shortcuts to newsgroups on your desktop. This requires Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 95.
• An new menu item on the Help menu will invoke your Web brower and open http://www.ksedb.no/NTNews. This makes it easy for you to get new versions and updated information about News for Windows NT. This requires Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 95.

X1.0-76

• A bug causing the Stop Transfer command to be inactive while transfering data is fixed.
• Added a new Article Cancel command to cancel articles you have written after they have been posted.
• Fixed most cases of a bug causing the display of popup menus to loop.
• Cleaned up some of the icons.
• Changed some menu text items to be more precise .
• Added check on empty subject when posting an article .
• Added check on empty article body when posting an article.
• Added check on Followup-To: poster.
• The syntax of the From header is now checked against the RFC1036 rules.
• Changes in article filters are now reflected in all views automatically.
• Selection state and scroll positions are now preserved when views are updated.
• Some inconsistencies in replying to articles by mail is fixed.

X1.0-75

• The state of the toolbar is now saved and restored.
• XOVER support in the NNTP server is not required anymore.
• Default article templates are now setup automatically.

X1.0-74

• Added Select All on the Edit menu with accelerator Ctrl+A.
• Added accelerator Ctrl+R for Mark Read.
• Added accelerator Ctrl+U for Mark Unread.

X1.0-73

• Multiple selected newsgroups can now be opened in one operation.
• Added Ctrl+F accelerator for Find.
• Major touchup of the icons used.

X1.0-72

• Fixed bug causing refresh of the Subscribed Newsgroups view to stop if the list contained a non-existing group.
• Fixed problem with refresh of the article window.
• Current article pointer is now set correctly after searching in multiple articles.

X1.0-69

• New Server menu with Connect, Disconnect and a new menu item Stop Transfer.
• New toolbar button for Stop Transfer - Improved UUdecode (better method to locate begin keyword).
• Improved error reporting when connection to the news server fails.
• The Newsgroups field of new articles created now correctly defaults to the current newsgroup.
• New option "Retrieve Article" in the Find dialog. When searching in the binaries newsgroups it's nice to be able to turn this option off.
• Added suuport for recent files on the File menu.
• Improved text search capabilities allows searching all the articles in an open newsgroups.

X1.0-68

• Improved multiple UUdecode (should now ignore most garbage between the encoded lines).
• Performance improvements when retrieving large articles.
• Authorization information is now passed on to the news server (limited testing has been done).

X1.0-67

• New menu item "Article->Retrive Articles" enables you to retrieve a set of selected articles from the server and then read them without waiting for each article to be retrieved. You may also use this to read articles offline.
• Fixed problem with wait cursor being enabled incorrectly.
• Fixed UUencode/UUdecode bug with multinational characters.

X1.0-66

• The signature edit control now correctly accepts the return key to enter multiple lines. - Articles that are saved to a text file or UUdecoded are now being marked as read even if you don't actually read the articles into the read window.

X1.0-65

• The font used in the Signature edit control is set to your customized font.
• The filename when saving articles now defaults to "N.txt" where N is the article number of the first selected article.
• The UUdecode code is more rebust and will recognize and ignore lines containing various known comment strings inserted by different UUencode packages.
• Bug causing two "Message sent successfully" messages after sending SMTP mail and potentially causing a crash is fixed.

X1.0-64

• UUdecode of multiple selected articles (Current restriction: The selected articles *must* be in correct order 1/N..N/N to produce the desired result).
• Save multiple selected articles to file.
• New user interface for entering user specific information (Email Address, Full Name, Organization, Reply To and Signature).
• New Signature suppport - Added support for News Server Authorization in the user interface (the information is currently not sent to the server).
• Improved Connect/Disconnect handling.
• Changes to the settings in all the tabs of a tabbed dialog are now saved when clicking OK. Previously only the settings for the visible tab was saved.
• New "Mark All Articles Unread..." menu item under the Newsgroup menu in the Subscribed Newsgroups view.

X1.0-63

• Improved functionality for the SMTP Send Mail view. This view is now an subclass of an article view. - Added an "Add..." menu item to the Newsgroup menu while reading in a newsgroup.

X1.0-62

• Improved the edit capabilities for the SMTP Send Mail view.

X1.0-61

• Added template suppport for mail messages.

X1.0-60

• Improved SMTP support.

X1.0-59

• Improved SMTP support.

X1.0-58

• SMTP support added for sending mail directly from News. Remember to configure "Mail" under "Options".
• Bug causing filtered articles with action "Mark Read" not to be permanently marked as read is fixed.

X1.0-57

• New "Catch Up All and Close" menu item on Article menu while reading in a newsgroup.
• A bug causing the receive LED and number of received bytes to be updated twice instead of once when data was received from the NNTP server has been fixed.

X1.0-56

• A bug causing the Newsgroup menu (and the popup) for the List All/New Newsgroups to always be greyed out have been fixed.
• A bug causing the window to move when invoking the right mouse button popup menu has been fixed.

X1.0-55

• Improved color scheeme for highligted articles (was invible when selected with Pastel color settings)

X1.0-54

• Window placement of all types of windows are now saved/restored.
• A crash when invoking a popup menu in an empty newsgroup list window has been fixed.
• A bug causing the "Show Read Articles" option not to take effect until settings where saved has been corrected.

X1.0-53

• Window placement of the "Subscribed Newsgroups" window is saved/restored.
• Window placement and splitter position of the "Newsgroup" window is saved/restored.
• Problem causing the Intel version to get a Windows sockets error code 10038 on startup is fixed.

X1.0-52

• A bug causing the Windows Sockets error code reported on a connect failure to always be zero is fixed.
• New Article Filter action "Mark Read".
• A new "Reply..." menu choice to send a reply to the author of an article by mail (needs SMTP gateway for MS Mail).
• A better looking 16x16 icon for Windows 95

X1.0-51

• Crash on "Bad Article Number" is fixed.
• List new newsgroups since a date is implemented (date input a bit unfinished).
• List of newsgroups can now be saved to a text file.

X1.0-50

• Article Filters are now saved.
• Article Filters matching have been improved. Both Newsgroup and Header Expression are now matched using a substring.
• The View settings "Show Toolbar" and "Show Statusbar" are now saved in the user profile (registry).
• The View setting "Show Column Headers" for the Subscribed Newsgroups view are saved in the user profile.
• Show Tool Tips defaults to TRUE for new installs.

X1.0-49

• Fixed bug causing an infinite loop when displaying items shorter than the column heading in the article list view.

X1.0-48

• The problem with an incorrect window style for the article read window when running under Windows 95 has been fixed.

X1.0-47

• It's now possible to open a newsgroup directly from the list of newsgroups without subscribing to it.

X1.0-46

• Incorrect pixel below splitter bar in Intel version is fixed.

X1.0-45

• New prototype of "Article Filters" is included. You will not be able to save the filters in this realease and the matching is very primitive. Newsgroup has to match exact and the header must be a column in the view and is matched as a substring.
• New popup menu when creating new articles.

X1.0-44

• Use a threshold of 5% change for automatic column width adjustment to avoid many small adjustments.
• Implemented prototype dialog for adding an "Article Filter" (see "Add Filter..." on the popup menu while in an open newsgroup.

X1.0-43

• Added automatic adjustment of header columns in the article list view. This is based on the mean and standard deviation of the width of the headers that have been shown in the list. This algorithm is currently tuned so approxemately 90% of the headers should be fully visible. - Implemented more customizeable header features (customization of the headers is not saved in this release).
• Show clock cursor while saving configuration and Newsrc data.

X1.0-42

• The user specified font is also used in the article template edit control.

X1.0-41

• Fixed bug causing the Del key not to function correctly in article windows.

X1.0-40

• Ensure that the selected article in the article list window always is fully visible.

X1.0-39

• New article quote functionality. The variable in your followup article template will be replace with any selected text in the article view of the article you do followup on, or the body of the whole article (if no text is selected).

X1.0-38

• Fixed bogous error message about incorrect format on UUdecode - Catch Up with no artciles selected will do a Catch Up on all articles.

X1.0-37

• Fixed bug which caused the UUdecode menu item to be disabled even when reading an article with UUencoded source.
• New integration with MS Mail using MAPI (Send Mail... from File menu)

X1.0-36

• Accvio on blank lines in Newsrc file is fixed - Some bug-fixes related to use of popup menus - Added support for File Manager drag and drop into News

X1.0-35

• UUencode/UUdecode functionality is built into the article view (automatic splitting of large files is currently NOT supported)