FDRPR - FrontDoor Request Processor for RemoteAccess ---------------------------------------------------- The following changes have been made in FDRPR since the previous version. FDRPR 1.21 ---------- New features: Added a few new formatting codes for the line describing how the file information for a requested file should be presented. The new codes are: @0 - Expands to nothing. Useful as the first code on a line, if you don't want that line to begin with another code. @@ - Expands to the character @. @# - Expands to the character #. @N - Expands to a new line character. Useful if you want a file description to be on multiple lines. See FDRPR.DOC for an example. Changed: Improved FDRPR INSTALL to take some switches. If FDRPR isn't able to decide which version of FrontDoor that is installed, it's now possible to specify /NEW or /OLD. Also added the /[NO]SWAP switch to FDRPR INSTALL, to make it possible to decide if FrontDoor should swap out of memory before running FDRPR. Default is /SWAP. The maximum supported size of a description has been increased to 4096 characters. Bug fixes: FDRPR didn't work on all computers, due to some kind of a problem with optimization in the compiler. Fixed. FDRPR 1.20 ---------- Important: FDRPR does now require a 80286 processor or higher. If there is a problem with this, please let me know. Please note that the syntax for accessing a macro has changed in this version. Instead of using %[Macro] as were the case in earlier versions, you should now use $[Macro]. Please make sure that you change this in the configuration file, and in your message templates. Since FDRPR now uses the LISTED / UNLISTED parameter that FD can pass to it on the command line, make sure that you have /=W specified on the command line in FDSETUP. Or just FDRPR INSTALL to let FDRPR handle this automatically. New features: Added configuration setting [No]KeepPktFiles. If enabled, the *.PKT files sent to the requesting system, containing file descriptions and failure reasons, are not deleted when sent. Added configuration setting [No]FormatDescriptions. If enabled, FDRPR will ignore any newlines found in a file description, and wrap the description as fits the field best. If disabled, FDRPR will use any newlines found in the description, and use them, if possible. Descriptions without newlines, or with to long lines will still be wrapped by FDRPR. Added configuration setting MaxWildCards:<# of chars>. This setting can be used to disallow requests where too many wildcards are specified, e.g. *.* or FD*.*. (All * characters are first converted to ? characters, and it is these ? characters that are counted, not the * characters). Added configuration setting MaxBaseWildCards:<# of chars>. This setting can be used to disallow requests where too many wildcards are specified in the basename (before the .), e.g. FD*.ARJ. (All * characters are first converted to ? characters, and it is these ? characters that are counted, not the * characters). Added ReportMsgDir setting. If specified, all report messages, e.g. created with the ReportRequests or ReportFailures setting, will be created in the specified directory. If neither this, nor ReportMsgBoard is specified, these messages will be created in FD's netmail directory. Added ReportMsgBoard setting. If specified, all report messages, e.g. created with the ReportRequests or ReportFailures setting, will be created in the specified Hudson message board. Added UnlistedAlias and UnlistedList settings. If these settings are specified, only the aliases/directories specified in these files will be allowed for unlisted systems. If not specified, the same alias list / directory list as for unsecure sessions will be used for unlisted systems. Added UnlistedOnlyFree setting. If enabled, only files specified as free in RA's file database, or that exists in an area that are defined as free in RA, will be requestable for an unlisted system. Added DataFileDir setting. If specified, all files created by FDRPR (e.g. the *.RQ* files) will be created in this directory. Added support for sending an alias file as a netmail message instead of a file. If the file name in the alias definition begins with a colon (:), the file directly after the colon will be sent to the requesting person as a netmail message. Added possibility to define free files in the alias-file. A filename that has a slash (/) in front of it in the alias file is considered as a free file. Free files are, if the FreeFiles setting in the configuration file is enabled, not counted when checking the request limits. Changes: The ReportRequests and ReportFailures settings will now (by default) create *.MSG messages in FD's netmail folder, instead of creating a .PKT file as it used to do. Changed the support for alias names that only sends the newest matching file. Instead of replacing the * character with | character (as FDRPR 1.1x used), add a + character immediately before the filename, and continue to use * in the actual filename. (The | character is still supported for backwards compatibility, but is not recommended). Three files are now used for FDRPR's lists of requestable directories, and for FDRPR's lists of alias names, instead of two. The new file is for unlisted systems. The file ext- ensions are: *.RQS for secure sessions, *.RQL for listed systems during unsecure sessions, and *.RQU for unlisted systems. Macros, that earlier were accessed via the %[macro] form, should now instead use the new format $[macro], e.g. the macro should begin with a dollar ($) character instead of a percent (%) character. This is true for both macros used in the configuration file, as well as for macros in the template file. Added support for FD's new macros in SETUP.FD, e.g. $[TASK] instead of $TASK$. It's also possible to use environment variables, e.g. $[FD] in a pathname would expand to whatever the environment variable FD is defined as. Bug fixes: Aliasnames that were defined in both the list of unsecure aliases and in the list of secure aliases, were treated incorrect, and both files were sent to the user. Only the aliasname in the list of secure aliases should be used. Fixed. FDRPR could in rare cases generate a Exception error, which caused the computer to hang. Fixed. The session password wasn't correctly inserted in the .PKT file. Fixed. Alias files in the root directory wasn't handled correctly. If a file exists in the FDB, but is missing on the disk this is now handled properly, and the failure is reported to the user. The description of an alias file wasn't sent, if the alias file was located in a directory that wasn't listed in the list of requestable directories. Fixed. Fixed a problem with the request passwords. It wasn't possible to request a file with an entry in FDSETUP's request manager, where the password field was left empty. Fixed. No failure message were sent when a file request failed due to the time limit. Fixed. FDRPR 1.11 ---------- Bug fixes: The =M macro wasn't properly handled in all cases. Fixed FDRPR 1.10 ---------- Important: The program has been renamed to FDRPR. When updating from the previous version, you will have to change the name of the request processor in FDSETUP, so taht FD uses FDRPR intead of FDRQPRA. (To do this, you can use the FDRPR INSTALL command, if you would like. See below for details on FDRPR INSTALL). Since the name of the program has changed, you will also have to rename the configuration file from FDRQPRA.CFG to FDRPR.CFG. The key system has changed. This means that the old key is not valid anymore. However, your registration still is, and you will receive a new key. If you haven't done so already, please contact the registration site where you registered your copy. Changes: There is now a difference between the command line switches and the config file settings, they can not longer be used in both places. See FDRPR.DOC for a list of which switches that can be used on the commandline, and which settings that can be specified in the config file. The /CREATE switch, which used to force a creation of the *.RQ* files has been changed to a command instead. (A command should be run without the slash (/) character, e.g. FDRPR CREATE. Both the secure and unsecure files will be created, it is not necessary to run FDRPR twice anymore. New features: Added configuration file parameter: WorkDir. It can be used to specify the directory where the temporary .PKT files are created. If not specified, the directory pointed to by the TEMP or TMP environment variables are used, or if none of them are set, the root directory of the current drive is used. Added an easy install option. To install FDRPR, all that is needed is to copy the files to a directory, and in that directory type 'FDRPR INSTALL'. FDRPR will then update SETUP.FD, so that FD will use it for file requests in the future. Added two configuration file parameters: Message and FailMessage. They can be used to specify template files, which FDRPR will use when creating the file with file descriptions, or the reason a request failed, respectively. These files can contain macros to insert different values, and also a line containing a format descriptions on how the file description lines / fail reasons lines should be formatted. See FDRPR.DOC for information on how to use these template files, and FDRPR.DSC/FDRPR.FAI for two examples of templatefiles. FDRPR will now request more time from the remote mailer while processing the request. This will make sure that the line isn't disconnected before FDRPR has finished processing all request. This function can be disabled with the NoMoreTime parameter in the configuration file. Added ResolvePath (and NoResolvePath) setting in the config file. If enabled, which it is by default, FDRPR will do path resolution on all path names when comparing the paths specified in RACONFIG and the list of requestable directories / alias names. For certain systems, especially for a system with CD-ROM, it could be a good idea to disable this setting. It seems like certain CD-ROM drivers access the actual drive when this setting is enabled. Added a UPDATE command (e.g. FDRPR UPDATE) which will create the *.RQ* files if needed. Useful in your nighlty events. Both the secure and unsecure lists will be updated. When files are copied from a CD-ROM, they are now first sorted, and then copied in sorted order. This will minimize the number of disk changes when using a CD-ROM changer with many disks. Added ReportRequests and ReportFailures setting to the config file. If either of these are enabled, FDRPR will create a netmail message to you with information about successful and failed file requests, respectively. Added support for the FD setting 'Stop after first match'. Added support for the new FD macros =E, =M, =Q, =W and =Y. New switches are /node:=Y and /=W. The =W macro is currently not used for anything though. Added a fatal error handler, to make sure FDRPR doesn't lock up with a Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail prompt. Added support for alias names that only sends the newest matching file. Instead of using a * character in the definition of the files to send, use a | (vertical bar). For secure sessions, FDRPR will now use both the list of requestable directories for unsecure sessions, as well as for secure sessions. This means that a directory that should be available for both type of sessions only have to be defined in the unsecure list of directories. The same thing is true for the alias list. Added PasswordErrors setting to the configuration file. If enabled, FDRPR will include all files that should have been sent if the correct password was used, in the message with the list of failed requests. By default, only the requested filename will be included in the message. Bug fixes: Comments in the file with requestable directories / alias names are now supported. (Comments can be added after a semicolon (;) character. FDRPR didn't send a message with descriptions when only free files were sent. This has been fixed. FDRPR didn't honor the number of minutes left to next event, which didn't allow file requests, in certain situations. Fixed. Fixed incompatibility problem with PC-MOS/386 The time it takes to create the *.RQ* files have been significantly lowered for certain systems. If no alias file was defined in FD, FDRPR refused to run. Fixed. The filedate/time was set to the current time when copying a file from a CD-ROM. Fixed. Small, not-so-important :-), changes The session level password used for the current session will now be added to the pkt file as the pkt password. NOTE! This requires that the /Info switch is used, the password is taken from this file. Added possibility to disable the advertisement FDRPR adds to each message with the noadvert configuration parameter. FDRQPRA 1.00 ------------ Initial version