RenegadeBBS.net: News

CHANGES Since Renegade v09-30.6 DOS was released.

Current versions can be downloaded from The Titantic BBS Telnet - [link]

--[ New ALPHA version in testing ]----------------------[ Update 11-28-2007 ]--

1. ADDED - Two new commands for the message read menu: (See Updated
MENUCMD.ASC File)

RS = Show Message Poster (User Information)
RV = Validate Message Poster (Level A-Z)

2. FIXED - When editing a message in the public areas, pressing E
for edit and then pressing D to display header only
displayed up to 5 lines. If the message was posted as
anonymous, you wouldn't see the 6th line for the real
name to whatever name.

3. CHANGE - Intergrating email read menus to work in the existing
public message read menus. And then in so doing the
"Back In Thread" and "Forward in Thread" now also work
when reading private messages. So, in the end, the
private mail read menus will use the same public read
menus, have the same look and feel.

4. FIXED - Cleaned up the Validate user from the ReadMail command,
this command allowed pressing a "Q" to quit, but in
doing so, you would validate the user at whatever
level "Q" was. This was removed and require just that
ENTER be pressed to avoid setting anything.

5. CHANGE - The move command to work to move messages from the
public message areas to the private (not sure when the
need might arise to do this, but maybe a flame in the
public area and the sysop wants to move it to private
if the receiver is a member of the bbs, rather then
just delete it).

6. CHANGE - The messages are now listed before selecting a message.
Before, all you got was a prompt that said what area
you were in and the range of the messages to select from.
Now, when reading all private mail or public mail, The
messages are listed (With header) up to 18 messages per
page. Pressing enter takes you to the next page or
listing of messages. Once you reached the end of the
messages (by pressing ENTER) and you press it again, it
will take you back to the first message and you can
continue to list messages that way until you select
one or quit.

7. FIXED - The creation of VDM*.TMP files in Windows XP caused by
Renegade are now fixed. These files should NO LONGER
be created because of file locking issues with Renegade.
It took a while to fix, but ... it's windows, yaknow.

8. ADDED - Added a new MENUCMD Key :

RJ - Forward Public Message into Private Mail and
also Private E-Mail to another Private E-Mail
account.

This CMD Key is for the READP Menu ONLY to FORWARD a
public message to private e-mail.

9. CHANGE - The High Read Msg Pointers are no longer updated after
a new account is created. This was taking a very long
time if a BBS had a large amount of messgae areas. This
is now done the first time the user scans the msg areas.

10. FIXED - A bug where if the sysop shells inside a background input
prompt (Blue for example) the screen will no longer turn
the color of the input box in the shell. It will clear
the screen using a black background, lightgrey foreground.

11. FIXED - RG would attempt to create the entire directory (Example:
C:\rg\dls\test). If dls didn't exist before the "test",
it would fail. Now, it will create the entire directory
(if the path is valid). It now also reports errors to the
user on screen.

12. CHANGE - You can now use a "D" to make the ULPath the same as the
DLPath instead of typing in the entire path if they are
the same when creating a new file area.

13. CHANGE - New History Editor - You can now edit dates and information
inside the HISTORY.DAT file to correct any errors that
are noticed. You can now view logons by BAUD RATE via the
history editor.

14. FIXED - Numerous updates to all the door drop files (ongoing).

15. CHANGE - Updated "RENEGADE.LNG" file, and new converter "RGLNG.EXE"
which compiles the few remaining strings and removes all
strings that were moved to differnt files and locations
on previous versions.

16. CHANGE - FILE_ID.DIZ File Descriptions are now expanded to 99 lines.
All you ASCII Art Freaks should scream "Hor-ray!"

17. FIXED - Time Slice Routines - RG now actually detects if it is
running under DOS, OS2 or Win32 and act accordingly. Before
Renegade ALWAYS thought it was under DOS and thus caused
some slow down which was sort of addressed with the time
slice setting in system config. This will help even more
now that it is hardcoded to look for this.

18. OLD/NEW - MENUCMD *= This allows Renegade to display long or short
menu cmd listings. *= with options set at 1 will display
short menu cmds. *= with options set at 2 will display
long menu cmds to the screen.

19. FIXED - "FC" CMD KEY (Files.BBS Importer)

1. Optimized by removing a duplicate procedure.
2. Reports duplicate files in the Sysop.log.
3. Reports missing files in the Sysop.log.
4. The "Hatched" flag is now set for all imported files.
5. The user can now enter file points per file uploaded
when not in the waiting for caller screen (Parameter
switch -F).
6. All User/System upload statistics are checked for
variable overrun.
7. FILE_ID.DIZ will only be checked if allowed by
System Config setting.

20. FIXED - "*1" CMD KEY (Edit Files)

1. File name change will no longer allow renaming a
file if the new file names exists in the upload or
download path.
2. The Filesize limit as been increased to allow for
a maximum of 1.9 Gigs. You now also have the choice
of updating with the actual file size or entering
whatever you like up to the 1.9 Gig limit.
3. You may now interactively edit the file description.
4. Changing the user name or number now reports an error
if the user does not exist.
5. Changing the upload date of the file will not allow
entry of a date beyond the current date.
6. The number of downloads has been increased to allow
up to 2147483647.
7. The modify extended description option has been
revamped. If one exists, you will first be asked if
you would like to delete it, if one doesn't, you will
be asked if you would like to create one. If you
decide to keep the exisiting one or created one,
you will be taken to the standard full screen message
editor, the old line by line edit mode has been
removed. Existing extended descriptions will be
copied into the message editor for editing. All
message editing option are available for line edit
or full screen edit mode.
8. The file move cmd has been revamped provides clearer
error message.
9. The User Editor option will now display messages if
the user doesn't meet the access requirement and
also default to User #1 if the current owner of the
file has been deleted.
10. All User/System upload statistics are checked for
variable overrun.

- NOTE -

A. While editing the file owner name, the owner name
will be checked against the user name stored in
the user editor. If the names do not match, the
file owner name will be converted to the Sysop name
(User #1). The editor will assume that the orignal
uploader account has been deleted.

B. While updating the file size, if the file does not
exist, you will be asked if you would like to set
the file to offline or request status.

C. Use File_ID.DIZ must now be turn on in System
Config to be able to update or upload the Extended
Description (if it exists).

D. The internal archive viewer will now only attempt
to display files with the following extentions
(ZIP,ARC,PAK,ZOO,LZH,ARK,ARJ). IF the extention is
valid and the file doesn't exist, you will be
prompted to set the file to offline or to request
status.

21. CHANGE - FILE_ID.DIZ File Descriptions are now extended to 99 lines
of text per file.

NOTE:

The way extended description were handled has
been revamped. Prior to this release, every
extended description required 950 bytes of
hard drive space rather the description required
it or not and was limited to 19 lines. This
version now allows up to 99 lines of 50 chars
each and will only require space for the actual
characters utilized plus one byte for every line
in the description. For example: "This is a great
file" would only require 20 + 1 byte or 21 bytes
of harddrive space verses the old minimum of
950 bytes.

22. ADDED - "OB" CMD KEY (User Statistics)

1. Renegade now has built in User Top 10 Statistics.
I recommend that a new menu be created for these
cmds. Menu options are listed below along with
the title of the action performed.

2. Adding ;## will not allow that specific user to
be included in the stats file. Example: A;1
would not all User #1 to be posted in the current
stats screen.

Option Top 10 Result

A High Time Users
B File Kbyte Uploaders
C File Kbyte Downloaders
D Private Message Senders
E Public Message Posters
F SysOp Feedback Senders
G All Time Callers
H File Uploaders
I File Downloaders
J File Points
K Upload/Download Ratios
L Post/Call Ratios
M Top Download Files

23. ADDED - "L7" CMD KEY (File Archive View Tagging)

Used on FILEP menu to allow file tagging when
viewing internal archives. Sames some time from
having to type out the full filename.

24. CHANGE - Added 2 60 character lines to voting editor. This
replaces the 1 line of 65 characters. Now you have
2 lines to ramble on about for your voting pleasure.
[Submitted by admin]

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