Changes in 0.10.g1 ================== Enhancements ------------ * Increased the limit of files able to add in one count for EleMGR. * EleBBS now supports Squish mesagebases. The recommended messagebase format is still JAM. * Menu-items can now share a hotkey, where all items are executed upon pressing of that hotkey. You can enable or disable this behaviour in the menu editor. * EleBBS will now log the originating IP address of a telnet call in the log. If you write an telnet server replacement, you can use -XI to pass the IP address of the caller. * EleBBS now has an FreeBSD native version. * The interpretation of a menu file should now be faster on large and complex menus. * EleServ is a new application, replacing both NEWSSRV, IDENTSRV as well as TELSRV. This greatly simplifies maintenance on the code, and uses less resources. EleSERV currently knows 3 operational modes: -TELNET - Activates the telnetserver -NEWS - Activates the newsserver -IDENT - Activates the ident server You can combine those switches to provide for a complete set of functions. * The colour samples available in ELCONFIG are a lot faster, now. * When any of the programs that modify configuration files are run, a sempahore file is created. This should help prevent corruption of some configuration files where two programs would try to update the file at the same time. * When telnetting outbound, the Escape key is no longer the termination key. Instead, upon pressing of CTRL-[ an EleXer script is run (see TELNMNU) offering you a few options. * You can now run automatically spawned EleBBS nodes fully hidden, not interfering with your regular use of the desktop. A special option has been added in ELCONFIG. * You can now run, remotely controlled using EleMON, the programs ELCONFIG and EleMGR. You need to pass the *) parameter on the command line. To avoid any problems of running this command while not connected using EleMON, EleBBS will not run any command with the the *) in it, when there is no EleMON session connected. When the EleMON connection is lost, ELCONFIG and EleMGR will exit immediatly without saving changes. * For systems where the ALT-keys might not work, i added a workaround. If you press CTRL+Z and then the key you want to have "altted", the program will treat this as an alt-key. So to press ALT-M on an system where the ALT is not supported, just type " " EleXer changes -------------- * FileReadStr (EleXer command) could sometimes cause unpredictable results. * RunMenuCmd (EleXer command) did not function as advertised * Added HistoryDate() function * It's now possible to start an EleXer script from another EleXer script without causing problems in the first EleXer script. * Tab characters (ascii-9) was not understood by EleXer and reported as an invalid character * TCP/IP Socket routines have been added to EleXer, see upddyn.pas and srvtest.pas for an example. * Added a routine named MakeDir() Bug Fixes --------- * ELCONFIG/386 could crash without a real cause. * Deleting a message would be impossible. * Deleting message threads, would not clean up the reply thread, causing problems (most obvious) in EleWEB. * Some small debug-information was left in concerning running EleXer scripts, confusing some Sysops * EleXer would hang when it would not find a terminating end. statement. * Redid large parts of the base TCP/IP client class to optimize it for more performance, and to prevent issues with large streams of data without pause. * When a user would be disconnected, before EleBBS could open the socket, EleBBS could end up in a dead lock. This behaviour was most commonly seen with noisy port scanners or gateway detectors. * Internode message viewing was horribly broken, silently deleting messages and not displaying them. * Writing messages would add an extra whitespace line between each line. * Uploading of pre-defined message text was not functional. * Using the "`" key (also used for EleBBS control codes), was not ignored in binary mode. * A lot of textfiles are dumped to disk to enhance performance, those files would have a padded null terminator. * The compiled used for EleBBS/386 and EleBBS/Linux, had some bugs in it's set handling, causing issues in the input routines. This would be most visible by the fact that you could not enter a capital "L" in the username prompt. * Default colours of EleIRC were unreadable, the defaults have been changed. You should update the default colours (if you havent changed them already) in your language file to enhance the usability of EleIRC. * Sometimes an EleMON disconnect was not properly recognized, and thus made subsequent connections with EleMON not possible. * EleUSER could sometimes generate an access violation when creating the USERSELE.BBS file. * If a NWSFILT.ELM didn't exist, EleNEWS would slow down considerably. Developer information (Long FileName Support) --------------------------------------------- Starting from EleBBS v0.04.g1 there is support for filenames longer than the standard 8.3 (DOS) format. Because the original RA structures does not allow this, there had to be made an extension to these structures. There has been added an 4-byte field and the "FreeSpace" field has been reduced to remain compatible with earlier versions of EleBBS and other BBS programs/utilties. The added field is called LfnPtr and is basically the same as the LongDescPtr field but gives an file-offset to the longfilename field as stored in the same file as the descriptions are. Where possible (Windows95/98/NT) the short version of the filename is also stored in the normal name to make sure that EleBBS/DOS can handle the file. For more information look at LFNEXAM.ZIP which includes Pascal example code.