YaBom V1.20 What's New since 1.00 (C) Berin Lautenbach 1991-92 1.20 from 1.10 o OS/2 version. This is the first version for OS/2, and as such has its own version number. (There is no version 1.20 for DOS). After 1.20 all new releases will have a DOS and OS/2 version released more or less at the same time, and they will have the same version number. o Changed YaBom to a medium memory model. As such there are two new commands when doing a nodelist lookup - Ctrl-PgUp and Ctrl-PgDwn for large listings of nets. At this time, as far as I know, this only affect Zones 1 and 2, where around half of the nets are loaded to be lists, and the other half can be swapped in and out using these two keys. 1.10 from 1.10á/f o Added the 'N' command to the outbound help screen. This is NOT a new command, it was there all along, but wasn't well documented. (Wasn't at all actually ). The 'N' allows you to redirect a packet to any node in any zone/domain combination, not necessarily the current. o Didn't support "direct" in route.cfg. Now supported. o Added directories into the file search function. Can now move around the disk while searching for files to send, as long as those directories are within the file mask. I.e. selecting c:\binkley\*.* will show all the directories off Binkley, followed by all the files in the same directory. o Fixed a STUPID bug that caused the manager to hang when opening a packet with messages that contained a ^AFLAGS field. o Added "F10" to the file search function, to allow use over modem. o Fixed up some of the share problems with the V7 nodelist. Now opens everything in deny write mode, unless actually writing to the file involved. o Allowed for up to 24 outbound directories. o Fixed cosmetic problems with the domain window and empty outbound window. o Will not put garbage on the screen when a message being viewed contains a "%" character. 1.10áf from 1.00 o Fixed a strange bug that just appeared one morning. YaBom would delete the old packet when adding new mail to it. Made for some VERY strange mail leaving the system. o Fixed a MAJOR problem when YaBom was running under only one domain. It would not recognise that one domain properly when packing mail. (There was a memory allocation error that for some reason only made problems under one domain). o Added a nodelist lookup function when entering an address. Pressing F2 will now bring up a list of nets in the current domain and zone (providing YBNode has been run on the nodelists). Choosing a net will bring up a list of nodes int that net, and choosing a node will tell YaBom that is the address you want. If the node in question also has points, then these will be listed for selection. (The main node is the first, so pressing return twice will select the node). o Created the program YBNode to compile the nodelists for YaBom to use. It must be run AFTER the V7 nodelist has been compiled, and simply creates a list of nets in the nodelists. (It compiles all the nodelists). No additional setup for this program is needed, it runs from the YaBom configuration file. o Completely re-wrote the outbound interface. Now has a menu type system, where you move the line to the entry you want to manipulate. Pressing Return will activate the default function for that mail type (for instance opening mail and file attaches and going into a points directory). o Added sorting on the outbound area. o Added a help line to YBConfig - it now tells you what the entry is for. o YaBom now has the ability to edit certain fields in the V7 nodelist entries - these are the password, phone number, modem flags and general flags fields. o Fixed a problem of choosing the right domain. Previously YaBom was always assuming that the Zone field in a message header was correctly filled out. It turns out it isn't :>. YaBom now tries to match a net with a zone, and if it fails, it uses the main zone of your address list. This will automatically be overridden by an INTL or MSGID kludge line. o 'N' on a packet in the outbound area will re-route the packet to a new destination, including a new zone. o Del on a file attach now checks if there are any files that need to be truncated and/or deleted in the ?LO file. If so asks the user if they should be. o New command line options for starting up YaBom in the outbound area : YABOM 3 - Start in the first zone 3 outbound found YABOM 3 fidonet - Force startup in zone 3 of fidonet At this point in time, YaBom exits from the outbound straight back to DOS. o You can now create progress files from the main menu. And progress files now show up in the outbound area. o YaBom can create point and zone directories Known Bugs o When a new zone directory is created, the change is not noted in the domain menu. Exit and restart YaBom for the changes to take effect. o File sharing only exists in the YBNode - it will open the index files in deny-write mode, allowing others to read. However, the outbound manager opens EVERYTHING in deny all mode. o Has a tendency to do funny things when it runs out of memory. If windows fail to open properly, then YaBom has run out of memory.