07/24/93 v0.01á Initial general beta release 07/30/93 v0.02á Fixed a problem where there was no space between a password and time stamp on update requests. Fixed a problem where some files were displayed as "Missing" and they were not. Fixed a problem where "<" and ">" could be prefixed to request or send files request. .TIC files, if present, will now show up with the node they belong to. If a tick file is orphaned, it will have an address of "N/A". .BSY files are now displayed with a node number. Added file filtering. This is option is located in the menu bar "Options" menu. File filtering gives you the option of "filtering" what files in the outbound will be displayed. Add the option to prefix a file to be sent with "#" for truncate when sent and "~" for kill file when sent. Added an option to suppress "Are You Sure" messages. This option is set via a check box in the configuration dialog. If an orphaned ArcMail Bundle or ".REQ" file is selected an option has been added to "UN-ORPHAN" the selected item. 08/07/93 v0.03á Got a little confused and used '~' for kill sent instead '^' for kill sent. This problem also caused ".TIC" files to not show up with the correct node. When the flavor was changed on a packet or flo file, and another existed of the same type, SOB displayed a file rename error message. What now occurs, is you are prompted if you want to merge the two files. Started adding the online help. Though not complete, I expect to add more each release of SOB. The frequency of the beta release will be determined by the number of bug reports I receive. Changed the "Change Zone" dialog. Instead of prompting for a zone number, the dialog presents a list of existing outbounds. Selecting one of the outbounds will cause that directory to be the active outbound. 08/18/93 v0.04á Fixed a bug where SOB went into a loop in the cleanup routines, when Binkley had a file open that was the to be cleaned up. On the send file dialog, add a "Files Dialog" button. What this does, is presents a pick list of files in a directory (of your choice). You can then select one or multiple files you want to send. Added keyboard accelerator tables. For instance, if you want to generate a poll press ALT+P. The menus have the associated accelerator key for each menu selection. 09/08/93 v0.05á This version includes the long awaited node list editor. The node list editor is a fully functional editor allowing you to browse the nodelist, change a nodes data, insert new nodes, and delete existing nodes. To make life easier, the online help for the nodelist editor is complete and included. Fixed a problem (misunderstanding on my part) where an outbound with an extension (.002) was for zones other than zone 1. (I know, yankee ego). SOB now recognizes the "home" outbound has no extension and a foreign zone outbound has the zone number as an extension. Fixed a couple of other bugs, but I forgot to document them here. 09/19/93 v0.06á Held off on releasing beta 5 because of traps when doing a search of the nodelist using a SysOp name, when SOB is run in a Lan Server 3.0 peer-to-peer environment. All of the nodelist access stuff is now contained in V7NL.DDL. My hopes are to document this API so that other's wishing to develop OS/2 apps using the V7 nodelist can easily do so. Fixed a problem verifying the existance of a subdirectory in a Lan Environment. 09/25/93 v0.07á The entire actions menu is now displayed when selecting the last entry on the outbound window. Another slight problem encountered. It seems that during a nodelist search, the entire desk top was locked for the duration of the search. Squashed a real nasty bug where your entire outbound could be deleted. 10/17/93 v0.08á Due to popular and un-yielding requests, SOB now supports points. This support is the same as the 4D support provided by Binkley 2.50+. Mail destined for a point will appear with other outbound mail from your main mail outbound. New function on the MISC menu that allows you to delete all mail for a specific node. Added hot keys to the actions menu. Used *.?LO instead of *.?UT type files when generating polls and file requests. It made no sense to transmit an empty packet file when a FLO file would do the same thing without a "do nothing" packet being transmitted. This also means that deletion of empty file attach as a cleanup option is now gone. When the last or only entry in a .REQ file is deleted, the .REQ file is deleted. If the same thing occurs with a .FLO file, you will be asked if you want the .FLO file deleted. When re-addressing, and the new address is in a different zone, SOB just renamed the item and did not move the object to the correct outbound.