Unfinished update 34

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Pamho.

 

I have uploaded in the file area of this conference "(Computer) Programs

(devotee-made)" the unfinished v34 of Comfort and AddressBook. Unfinished

means: as they were when I stopped working on them half a year ago.

 

I release this version simply as a relief to those who are traumatically

suffering because of bugs in Comfort & AB v30. This version fixes the

problem with the Address Book not popping up in Win98, wrong e-mail receiver

pasted, etc. Also the batch sessions and various other bugs in Comfort are

fixed. (A complete list is at the end of this text)

 

* WARNING *

 

Neither me nor Ramakanta Prabhu support this half-finished version 34. There

is no use of reporting bugs in them, since there will not be any further

updates or fixes for this version 34. The new WinCOM 35 (which Ramakanta

Prabhu is making now) will have everything built-in, so there will be no

more need for COMFORT.EXE or ADDRBOOK.EXE.

 

 

Anyone who still wants to try it can download CMF34.ZIP (140 KB), but please

make a BACKUP COPY of your old COMFORT.EXE, ADDRBOOK.EXE and ADDRLIB.DLL

BEFORE YOU UNZIP THIS FILE CMF34.ZIP into your WinCOM root directory. So

that you can revert back to the old situation in case you experience trouble

with the new programs.

 

I have been using them personally all the time, and also sent them to a few

others who had serious problems with batch sessions, and none of us have

experienced any serious problems with them. But still it is an unfinished

version, so some buttons or menu items don't do anything, or their functions

have some bugs.

 

There is also a half-updated help file... The name is CMF34HLP.ZIP (200 KB,

32-bit version only). Also here make a backup of your old file.

 

ys rakt

 

 

COMFORT - Changes and new features:

 

- You can specify an expiration date for the note in "Commands / Set your /

Note". COM notes (not PRONTO) are now also sent to e-mail senders, not

only to COM users.

 

- Asks for your approval before changing a user name into something else.

 

- Previously you could write the conference name manually when trying to

join a conference (instead of locating the name in the list), but then if

the conference was private, the request was sent to the SysOp since the

organizer was not known. So now, when you try to put the cursor on the

Conference name field, the search box comes up instead.

 

- In a batch session, Comfort now does "wincom status myself" for every user

in the batch, instead of sending "(Get) Day/Time".

 

 

ADDRESS BOOK - Changes and new features:

 

- Ctrl-Shift-G makes a group out of all items in the list box.

 

- Searches first in own lists (e-mail addresses, aliases and groups), then

in COM lists, so that matching aliases and groups will be included even

when a small number of matches is specified in the Setup screen.

 

 

COMFORT - Bug fixes:

 

- Batch session caused identity crisis in certain circumstances with

undesired name and object number changes as a result.

 

- Batch session always downloaded mail zipped, even when PGP or Plain was

selected in Options / Login.

 

- Batch session also downloaded suspended conferences if "Download attached

files" was activated in Options / Login.

 

- If both "Quit when done" and "also do a batch session when I log on" were

on, Comfort did not do "wincom status myself" for the master user.

 

- If there were more than just a few files in a batch user's UP directory,

Comfort would crash. Now it warns that there are abnormally many files and

that they are probably old files that were never deleted, but gives you

the chance to upload them anyway.

 

- After a batch session, not all information about the master user would be

reloaded. For example, "Files / Start Explorer in my folder" would display

the folder of the last batch user.

 

- Comfort downloaded address updates for other nodes during batch session,

even for users who had set not to download them in Login Options.

 

- Commands / Window / Open Commands: created window was not the active

window.

 

- Online messages were captured wrongly.

 

- Time unit was not saved in "Options / Accounting". Note that settings in

Options / Accounting are global, ie. if one user changes something, the

settings will take effect for all users on the same WinCOM.

 

- If the directory name given in "File / Add a WinCOM user" contained a

character that must not be used in DOS filenames, Comfort asked to please

correct it, but then gave no chance to correct it.

 

ADDRESS BOOK - Bug fixes:

 

- Fixed for Win98: AB did not appear (one had to click the button in the

task bar)

 

- Manually writing a receiver's e-mail address only worked if it was the

first address. If more addresses were added, the first address would be

repeated instead.