NEWSwatch version changes/bug fixes.

v2.11 11/07/98
.The path changes made in 2.10 broke the ability to retrieve articles 
 specified in the NOS GET or Oasis2 HEAD.OUT files. This has now  
 been fixed by including a separate path for these files too.

v2.10 11/07/98
.Now allows the incoming, outgoing, and history paths to be more 
 flexibly defined. Still defaults to the same path structure as 
 previous versions, but can now be overridden to suit your set-up.
 N.B. The History path is where the history, newgroups, and fullgroups 
 files will be stored. Use of single/double clicking on paths is now 
 the same as in POPwatch and CAB.

.If the user tries to quit the program whilst connected to a news 
 server and the warning alert is OK'd, then NEWSwatch now finishes 
 downloading any article is was in the middle of, *before* quitting.
 This prevents half retrieved articles which could cause Oasis2 to 
 crash when unbatching.

v2.01 23/06/98
.Finally fixed (hopefully) the problem where crossposted articles 
 with the same message-id are being downloaded more than once in a
 single session. It was a bug in the code that checks the history 
 file. Only applies when downloading using NEWNEWS.

v2.00 22/04/98
.Now works with nntp servers that do not support the NEWNEWS 
 command. Articles can now be downloaded by article number, instead of 
 date. Simply change the settings in the Program Preferences.

.Now works with news servers that require authentication.

.Can be set to automatically connect to the news server every so many
 minutes, downloading new groups and articles etc.
 Posting of outgoing articles is *not* performed automatically.
 
.New 'Get Server Help' menu option.

.Now responds to certain menu events even whilst downloading articles.
 The Verbose Window and About Window can be opened, logging can be
 turned on/off, and Quit works. All unavailable menu items are disabled.

.Now shows article count, when downloading requested articles via GET 
 file or Oasis2 HEAD.OUT file. Suggestion by David Bolt.

.New icon rsc, ICON.RSC, which will not cause problems with Ease's 
 icon editor. Thanks to Terry May for the new icon.

.All LOG files are now placed in a new folder called \LOGS\

.Oasis2 has problems with lines longer than approx 120 characters, such 
 as the Path: and References: lines in the article header.
 NEWSwatch now folds these lines (ie. splits them over two or more 
 lines) so that Oasis2 can cope with them correctly. This is only done 
 when retrieving articles in Oasis2 format.
 
.Closing of verbose window whilst connected to a news server no longer 
 quits the program. Thanks to David Bolt for spotting this one.
 
.No longer crashes when processing articles that have lines containing 
 more than 1000 bytes.
 Limit has been raised to 10K and will be removed completely in later 
 versions.

.When quitting whilst downloading articles (by clicking on the window 
 close gadget), the article number of the last article fully downloaded 
 will be written to nntp.dat, so subsequent downloads will start from 
 that point. Only applies when downloading by article number.

.No more E_EOF errors under STinG, when disconnecting from the NNTP
 server.

.Now updates the date & time/article number in NNTP.DAT against each
 newsgroup as soon as all articles have been downloaded, before starting
 on the next group.

.Verbose window now has an icon displayed when iconified. Also no 
 longer loses the icon for the main iconified window, if the verbose 
 window was previously iconified.

.No longer crashes inexplicably when the Verbose window is open.

.Now responds to window events (such as redraws etc.) more frequently 
 whilst downloading news articles etc.

.Environment variables used by the 'About' window can now be set in 
 STiK or STinG's DEFAULT.CFG. This is a more logical place for them 
 and makes it easier to set them for single-TOS users.
 N.B. The email link now looks for a variable called MAILER= instead 
 of EMAIL=
 
.Copying my URL and Email address to the clipboard from the About 
 window now actually works! Select whichever address is required and 
 press CTRL C or CTRL Insrt.

v1.30 19/11/97
.NOS mode only - The rnews byte count in BATCH.TXT now counts CRLF
 as ONE byte (as specified in RFC1036). It is also now created correctly
 when Safety Mode is OFF. These changes allow the BATCH.TXT file to be
 imported directly into Okami 1.29 and above.

v1.22 25/10/97
.Conversation when posting articles is also now displayed in the Verbose 
 Window.

v1.21 11/10/97
.New Verbose Display window. All conversation between NEWSwatch and the
 NNTP server can be seen in this window. Actual article content will
 not be displayed. 
 This window can be set to open automatically, if it is open when 
 program preferences are saved.

.The status of the logging function is now *saved* when you save the 
 program preferences. This means that you no longer have to remember to 
 keep turning logging on.
 
.If a STiK/STiNG error occurs, then NEWSwatch now retrieves the error 
 text correctly under STiNG. It has always worked correctly under 
 STiK.

v1.20 02/10/97
.If NEWS.IN exceeds 999,999 bytes then the corresponding NEWS.IDX 
 file contained incorrect data. Thus any articles after that limit
 were being lost by Oasis2 when unbatching.
 Should now be ok up to 9,999,999,999 (more than enough).

v1.10 01/10/97
.Fix to a *major* bug. Sometimes history.dat was being written with 
 entire contents of memory thus on a a 14meg machine it was 9 meg or 
 more. Thus filling the partition it was being written to.
 This could hopefully also fix the domain.txt corruption that some 
 people have reported.

v1.00 20/09/97
.First public release of NEWSwatch.

v0.07 18/09/97
.History file was being filled with complete rubbish. Now fixed.

v0.06 14/09/97
.News Hound has now been renamed to NEWSwatch which is more in keeping
 with POPwatch.

.Improved cacheing of disk access. Should improve data throughput.

.New Program Preference; Safety Mode. The default is OFF.
 If turned ON, then every file is closed after retrieval of EVERY 
 article. This ensures maximum safety in case of a crash, but slows 
 down retrieval time. It's up to you if you wish to turn it on, but I 
 personally have it turned OFF.

.Keyboard shortcuts should now also work on non-UK keyboards.

v0.05 06/09/97
.Now only downloads cross-posted articles once. Previous versions used 
 to download multiple copies (one for each subscribed news group), and 
 then multiples would show up when unbatched by Oasis. This has now 
 been fixed.

v0.04 26/08/97
.Now looks for the NOS GET file in the correct directory ie. SPOOL/NEWS/GET
 This means that News Hound can now be used with Guy Harrison's 
 Make_Get program. Use Make_Get to generate the GET file and News 
 Hound will process it and retrieve the requested articles.
 Make_Get is available from http://www.swampdog.demon.co.uk/

v0.03 25/08/97
.When fetching specific articles from Oasis2 HEAD.OUT file, garbage 
 was being written to the history file.

.Sequence of OK, Cancel buttons changed to conform to Atari Compendium 
 standards.

.Now deletes NG.IDX (Oasis2) when downloading entire list of 
 newsgroups. This index is then rebuilt automatically by Oasis2 when 
 merging newgroups or when viewing the list in Oasis2.

.CPS and bytes received are now only reset at initial connection, thus 
 giving a more accurate picture of overall CPS etc.

.Less flicker when updating the stats on the screen.

.Now updates stats whilst downloading large articles, not just at the 
 end of an article.

.Now has it's own icon instead of using the same one as POPwatch.

v0.02 23/08/97
.Now doesn't get confused between email and news articles when sending 
 from NOS/Oasis1.

.Headers only can be retrieved for particular newsgroups.
 Prefix the newsgroup line in nntp.dat with an = sign.
 ie.
 =demon.test (to retreive headers)
  demon.test (to retreive articles) The space is important.

.Oasis2 HISTORY file now uses correct name of HISTORY.DAT

.Completely rewritten the interface to STiK and dramatically improved 
 the CPS throughput.

.BubbleGEM support now fully functioning.

.Should now update the times in nntp.dat even if no new articles 
 found.

.More positive completion message at end of retrieval.

.New program preference - Post outgoing articles automatically before
 retrieving new articles via Retrieve.

v0.01 31/07/97
Initial beta release.


