DW_TIC History File 2.06 DW_TIC - Added code to fix a problem with "blank passwords" causing tics to fail for invalid passwords. 2.05 DW_TIC - Added a limited way to add information to an announcement, such as BBS information. If the file ANNOUNCE.HDR exists in the DW_Tic directory, it will be added to the beginning of each announcement. The limitation is that it is added to the beginning of the initial message. If you have enough files that the messages gets split, only the first will have the header. On the plus side, the same replacement @variables@ that can be used in the welcome and unauthorized message files, can also be used in this file. (See docs for list) DW_SM - Updated the Area definition form code so that the conference lookup can be done from DOSDir, BBSDir, or MsgFile fields, and all fields will be updated. 2.04 - Updated my PCB library to fix a slight problem with message posting. DW_SM - Updated the conference lookup for the Message Base file. Now when the Msg Base file is looked up, the DOS Upload Directory and BBS Upload Description File will be put in the appropriate fields. This works both in the area dialog and the NA import dialog. - Minor updates to the online help file. 2.03 DW_SM - Fixed a NASTY problem with the IDX files not getting updated properly or rebuilt if missing (don't know how that one slipped by me). If you run into a problem where you've added/imported areas and they aren't showing up in the list/edit, try exiting dw_sm, deleting the areas.idx file, and restarting dw_sm. That will force a rebuild of the index file. DW_TIC - Fixed a cosmetic bug in announcements on incoming files. Files that contained FILE_ID.DIZ files were getting ten lines in the announcement messages even if it only contained one. This could lead to large gaps between file descriptions in the announcement messages (did not affect bbs descriptions). 2.02 - All registrations and support are now done by me (Herbert Bushong) DW_TIC - Vacation Mode was not implemented correctly and wasn't working. Fixed. - MSG file processing was broken. Fixed. Also fixed various bugs that showed up once MSG file processing started working. Unknown_Areas weren't being correctly processed (a bug was causing DW_TIC to think the directory didn't exist). Fixed. Added additional debug logging for MSG processing Added missing logging of maintenance requests - areas with no password defined or included in TIC would cause file to fail with a password error I've added some minimal checking for this to allow the files to pass, but the easiest solution is for you to set up a password with your hub. DW_SM - Changing the directory for an area in DW_SM caused files to no longer get copied during processing if the trailing backslash wasn't included. Fixed. - F2 Conference Number Lookup not working for MsgFile field Caused by PCBDAT variable not being set. Fixed so that first the CFG pcbdat value will be tried, then environmental variable will be looked for. If a PCBOARD.DAT file can't be found, then F2 lookup won't work. Also fixed bug preventing lookup of conferences above 117. Reported bugs - It's been reported that files coming down a hatching lane from a feed are sent back up to the feed. This occurred on a Planet Connect system and I haven't been able to verify or track this one down yet. 2.01 (9/4/97) - Oops, forgot to post announcements for incoming files. (Hatching did have announcements posting) Fixed. I had added some code to my PCB tool library for looking up conference MSG files, so I've incorporated it into DW_SM. Pressing F2 while in the MsgFile field for an Area (either Add, Edit, or import) will prompt you for a conference number, then look up the MSG File entry from the CNAMES files. Press escape to abort. There was no way to change a feed back to 0 once it was selected to something else. Now, just F2 to get the popup list, and hit ESC which will reset it to 0. 2.00 - 8-27-97 - Fixed (I hope) alternate spawn routine for executing the various command lines so that the path and extension isn't required if the program/batch file can be found in the current directory or along the path. If you have problems with it, try including the full path and extension to the file. 2.00b - 08/97 - This is a complete re-write of DW_TIC from the ground up, in C. It is still owned by ZT Technologies but all programming has been turned over to Herbert Bushong (me). Since it has been totally re-written, I have been able to implement several features that would have been "difficult" at best, to implement in the old version. All the config files have been completely re-structured, and will require a complete install. The System Manager program was built in parallel with Tic Processing program (actually before it!) To make configuration easy and painless. A couple of important major new features deserve mentioning: - extensive Online Help was added to DW_SM and Interactive Hatching in DW_TIC. Most of the program text is also stored in the compressed help file to reduce the size of the EXE's. - Tossing when Hatching. Now you can hatch files and toss them to your BBS directories, all at the same time if you desire! - Passthru areas have been implemented with automatic linking/unlinking to the hub as nodes add/drop areas defined as passthrough. - Most of the limits have been expanded greatly. up to 65535 Nodes, Feeds, and Akas and Drops per area can be defined. Areas have a limit of 2^32 Area definitions. This version will run a bit slower than previous versions when processing files because of the expanded limits mentioned above. This is because the program will have to look up information more often on disk. A good disk-cache should alleviate much of the delays, and I'm still looking at ways to wring as much speed as possible out of it.