What's new with ESC
                                                

                                                April 25, 1992
                                                04:00
                                                
           ESC will now configure for both Msged and Golded. Use of either
           one can be toggled after initial configuration also.
           
           AREAS feature will now permit internet type message groups to
           be installed into the system. NEWAREA attempts to make the file
           name of squish areas unique by using the first and last four
           letters of the area name as the squish file name.                                     
                                                
                                                April 18, 1992
                                                07:10
                                                
           XAREA.EXE is no longer used. Area removal is accomplished from
           NEWAREA.EXE. The command line switch is handled in the MAIL
           MENU batch file as NEWAREA /x. If you are upgrading to v.1.3p,
           you may remove XAREA.EXE from your mail directory.
           
           A third submenu has been added for just the SQUISH message
           area maintenance and for the BONK 1.17 nodelist editor. You can
           make entries, removals and/or edits to your private nodelist.
           Just be sure to run PARSELST afterwards.                                     

                                                April 11, 1992
                                                06:16
                                                
           SETTING AREA MESSAGE LIMITS
       
           There is an option from the 2nd menu presented when you type
           MAIL at your Dos prompt. The SETSIZE option allows you to
           define exactly how many messages are allowed for an individual
           area. Initially, ESC offers a global static value which limits
           all areas to 200 messages. However, you may alter individual
           limits after ESC has created its MAIL menu system. To explain a
           little more in detail, some areas do not need to take up much
           room on your drive because of light traffic through them.
           Therefore allowing a limit of 200 messages in those areas would
           be a waste of space. On the other hand, some echoes may require
           a high limit due to the amount of messages which can be received
           in a short period of time. Because you don't want your oldest
           messages to be dropped off the end before you have had a chance
           to read them, you may wish to set a high message limit for such
           an area. With SETSIZE you simply choose the option and follow
           the prompts.
                                                 
       * 2.3            BONK AND THE ESC NODELIST
       
       Bonk is a nodelist (fidonet system address lookup list) utility
       created by Tom Kashuba. As a dual faceted program, it allows you
       to somewhat visually manipulate the contents of your outbound
       directory as well as permit you to view and make changes to your
       nodelist. Unfortunately, Bonk version 1.74 is restricted to the
       version 7 nodelist for manipulation. Version 1.17 was for a
       version 6 nodelist. This is what ESC creates for a minimal setup.
       Both BONK_117.ZIP and BONK_174.ZIP are available from this
       system. Once again, BONK version 1.17 is required for the ESC
       nodelist. However, with a little understanding, you should be
       able to edit the NODELIST.001 with a text editor and then
       compile it with PARSELST. Please be certain to retain the control
       Z at the end of the NODELIST.001!

                                                 April 8, 1992
                                                06:31
                                                
      ESC's MAIL menu system is in three modules. A DIRECT mailer
      mode is available from the first menu. This allows a POINT to
      send directly to another system as long as they have them in
      their nodelist.
                                                
                                                April 5, 1992
                                                10:45p

      ESC.EXE - creates the MAIL.BAT with a new feature for the SQUISH
      menu. It's called SETSIZE. It alows the user to set the static
      message level for each base without using a text editor. A  -s
      switch has been added to the Newarea.exe command line.
      
      NEWAREA.EXE - has been updated to allow the static message level
      setting. One of Squish's many attractive features.
      
      INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS:
      
      You must copy the new esc.exe and newarea.exe into your mailer
      directory. You then have to have ESC re-write the MAIL.BAT file
      for the new item to appear in the squish section.
                                                
                                                April 4, 1992
                                                09:13a
                                                
      ESC.EXE - creates the MAIL.BAT with a new feature from the SQUISH
      menu. It's called LSTAREA. It simply calls the NEWAREA.EXE with a
      -l switch to scan and list the message areas found in the SQUISH.
      CFG..
      
      NEWAREA.EXE - as stated above.
      
      INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS:
      
      Simply copy the ESC.EXE and NEWAREA.EXE into your mailer
      directory, run ESC.EXE, choose the Write option and tag
      the Mail.Bat file from the picklist window. Go to * FINISHED *
      and press ENTER. Your mailer is now updated..
      
      CAUTION:
      
      If you have customized the SQUISH Maintenance features, these are
      the areas which deal with SQPack SQFix SQSet etc., You will loose
      these edits. Currently ESC cannot parse that level of the bat
      file. Please take precautions if this is your case.
      
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