


                             Ezycom V1.02(05)


        This is basically a maintenance release.  Simply place
        all these EXEs over the top of your existing EXEs.  Then
        run UPDMGR, it will set up ECHOMGR.EZY to correctly work
        with the new features in EZYMAIL and EZYPACK.

        Since, most of you are awaiting the new version, which has
        been delayed, the Ezycom Development Team decided to release
        an old Beta Version that has proven to be reliable and elimante
        most of the current known problems in 1.02.

     o  If a line does not have a user on at the present time,
        a message can be displayed to users selecting the "who's
        online" feature for that line.  The message might contain
        something like "Call 578-0968 for V32bis!".  The message
        can be configured by making a 1 line textfile (maximum 70
        characters wide) in your ezycom system directory.  The
        textfile should be called "NODEINFO.<node>".  Where <node>
        is the node number for that message to be displayed.  If, the
        file is not present, nothing will be displayed for that node
        as per usual.
     o  added NOTIFY feature to EzyNet
        Format: EzyNet -LIST -U<address to list>
        The address should be a full 5 dimensional address.  That is, it
        should include the domain.
        eg: EzyNet -LIST -U3:633/104@fidonet
        The 5D allows newer "intelligent" software to distinguish between
        two totally different networks having 3:633/104 in them as a node
        number for example.
        The notify function will send out
        Help, List of Linked conferences, List of Unlinked conferences,
        and a list of all conferences.
     o  in the config, the network akas have had the domain attached to
        the same option.
     o  in config, you can now place a DIRECT flag for each individual
        node in the node manager.
     o  you can now add the domain of a nodelist in the ezynode control
        file.
        Format:  LIST <nodelist file> [optional zones] [@domain]
        Format: PLIST <nodelist file> <zone> [@domain]
        Eg: LIST NODELIST.* @fidonet
     o  you can now toggle flags with Menu Type 87.
        Data Format: <flag><flagpos><status>

        <status> can be:   "-" to turn it off
                           "+" to turn it on
                           "*" to toggle it

        eg: "A8* A7+ A6-"
     o  added a "redirect field" in the node manager.
        what it does is allow you to PACK mail for one of your exports
        to another address.  This would be useful, if you had a node
        off of you in 2 networks.  Say, in fidonet, and in ezynet.
        Instead of having two outbound mail bundles (for each address),
        you can simply have one, by redirecting one of them to the other
        address.  This can be used to GREATLY simplify your routing.
     o  added a new questionnaire command

        Format:  SETFP <filepoints>
        Eg:      SETFP 10

        This will set the users filepoints to a given value.  Its purpose
        for implementing, was to reset the users file points after a
        registration has expired, but you may have another use for it?
     o  A new option exists in config>messages>misc>real_name_kludge
        Basically, if a user posts a message with an alias, whether that
        be their alias, or a selected one.  Ezycom will place a REALNAME
        kludge line (if turned on) in the message text.  This will also
        be exported through FTN networks in echomail and netmail.
     o  change to area with new mail, now displays the number of
        messages unread in each area.  if the messages unread is
        greater than or equal to 1000, then  '***' is displayed instead
        of the number due to lack of space in 80 columns
     o  your maximum age can now be 91 years old.  checking is
        now done on the new user date of birth
     o  ezycom now writes MSGDLTD.BBS when a message is deleted
     o  menu type 88 implemented.  it allows the users to reset
        their lastread pointers to the beginning or end of the message
        base (global)
     o  added a forward to field in ezyed page 2...
     o  single erase now does not require the "-"
        to remove a file by number... ie -1 1 etc
        note: ranges are not permitted.
     o  on menu type 67 (change to area with unread mail), if you
        place a /NEWMAIL on the "data" line, then only conferences
        with new mail in them, will be shown to you.
     o  ezypack now handles messages with no INTL line.  If, it
        has a MSGID line, it will use the Zone from that, otherwise
        it will ignore the message as before.
     o  ezynet now checks the message area on importing netmail.
        if the message area is private, it will mark the message
        private on import.
     o  A new switch has been added to EzyMail.
        -FULLCHECK.  Normally, when you only have one node to export
        echomail to in a conference, EzyMail will not bother checking
        to see where the mail came from, it will just assume, it was
        that node.  This forces EzyMail to check that.  The reason the
        switch has been implemented, is for utilities which produce
        .PKTs for importing, but without having an export for them.  Thus,
        EzyMail would never export mail to an uplink, if you had no other
        nodes off of you for that conference.
        Eg: EZYMAIL -Toss -FullCheck
     o  ezymail now readdresses netmail to sysop, to the
        actual sysops name.
     o  msgcomp now checks the whofrom, whoto and subject fields for
        'correct lengths' and if it fails, then the message will be
        deleted.
     o  2 switches had to be changed in ezynet due to clashes.
        -nozonegate now -zonegateno
        -nousers now -usersno
     o  all the mail utils (msgcomp, ezymail, ezynet, etc) will delete
        EZYMSG.NOW if it is more than 5 hours old.   That is, something
        probably happened, and the file was not erased.  So, the mail
        utils will start working again after 5 hours.
     o  there is now a one second delay when logging off, to allow the
        modem buffer to clear.
     o  a switch has been added to EZYMAIL. -STOPFORWARD.  It stops ezymail
        from tossing mail to other nodes.
     o  EzyPack now does a nodelist lookup if there are no INTL or MSGID
        kludge lines to find the zone, for netmail packing.
     o  Added Binkley/POP support to EzyMail/EzyPack.  Your Outbound dir
        must live off your Ezycom system dir.  To turn it on use the
        switch in messages->misc
        Use "SETBINK ON" to turn on Binkley Support.
     o  ezycom now checks for novell netware, before the double dos
        test, so that it will not report Double Dos under a novell shell
     o  added menu type 89... display rumour
        what it does is goes through your rumours file, and displays
        one of them randomly.. ideally this would be a automatic option
        used after your type 40 ansi display... it will allow users
        to make up a 1 line comment, and have it displayed on the bottom
        of any menu you desire... (registered version ONLY!)
     o  added menu type 90... add rumour
        this option actually allows a user to add a rumour to the file
        it is 1 line of text max!  certain colour codes can be used.. they
        can be used by 1 or both of the following methods
        (registered version ONLY!)

        Method  Colour
         1  2

        |b |01  Blue
        |g |02  Green
        |c |03  Cyan
        |r |04  Red
        |m |05  Magenta
        |p |05  Magenta (Purple)
        |y |06  Brown
        |w |07  Light Gray
        |B |09  Light Blue
        |G |10  Light Green
        |C |11  Light Cyan
        |R |12  Light Red
        |M |13  Light Magenta
        |P |13  Light Magenta (Light Purple)
        |Y |14  Yellow
        |W |15  White

        lower case means dull, upper means light.. an example might be

        |01P|02e|03t|04e|05r|06 D|07a|09v|10i|11e|12s

        or

        |bP|ge|ct|re|mr|y D|wa|Bv|Gi|Ce|Rs


        "Peter Davies" that is, but with colours.

     o  Added menu type 92
        List rumours
        lists all the rumours in the rumours file

        an option /SHOWUSERNAMES in the data line can be used to
        display the user names of users that wrote the users as well

        this could typically be used by the sysop
        (registered version ONLY!)
     o  Added menu type 91
        Delete Rumour
        This option allows a user to delete a rumour that the user
        has entered.
        An option /DELETEANY on the data line, allows the user to
        delete any rumour... this would be used by sysops normally.


Problems fixed in 1.02(05)

     o  fixed a bug in initilization.  the netmail boards were
        incorrectly set to 0.  making a runtime error if you tried
        to reply in echomail areas.
     o  fixed a bug in rescanning echomail with the %+ALL command
     o  fixed a bug in ezynet with the -ALL and -R on the subject
        line
     o  fixed a bug on converting lastread pointers for a different
        amount of message boards.  anything over 400, would have the
        pointers come out is pure random values.  Although, as soon
        as the message board was packed, it would be fine.
     o  Ezyutil message importer, now correctly handles the private bit
     o  when in the multiline chat, and you just pressed spaces, and
        then return, it exited the chat... fixed
     o  when scanning/quick scanning messages, it updated the lastread
        pointers... fixed
     o  in config->events if you pressed P to pick an event, it would
        not update the lastrun field
     o  fixed a bug in install not correctly making constant.ezy
     o  fixed a bug in %PAUSE %RESUME in areafix requests.  It was
        backwards.
     o  fixed a bug in ezyutil message importer.  when importing into
        a netmail board, it placed an INTL line in there.  Meaning that
        the message was exported with 2 INTL lines.
     o  fixed a bug where under some circumstances ezycom would not
        delete ezyex???.???.

