HTICK 1.4-stable
Changes between htick-1.0-stable and htick-1.4-stable
1. MAJOR feature improvements:
- configurable announces about received files;
- purging for file echos with deleting description from files.bbs;
- New command line option: "-c config-file" - specify alternate config file
(optional);
- Change statistics information in log file;
- Allow unconditional forward subscribe when forwardFileRequestsFile for
link not defined in config;
- New command 'ffix!' in addition to 'ffix'. It does the same job as 'ffix'
and send subscride/unsubscribe letter to link that was manualy
subscribed/unsubscribed by filefix command like:
htick ffix! 2:464/910 -910.TEST
This command remove file echo link 2:464/910 from 910.TEST and produce
letter to 2:464/910 with body "-910.TEST";
- Write documentation at texinfo format.
2. CONFIG changes:
- area definition options -manual & -mandatory are different:
'-mandatory' prevent unsubscribe, '-manual' disable subscribe;
- FileArea parameter '-p <number>' : purge fileecho (files age in days);
- AnnounceSpool : directory for temporary announce files;
- AnnAreaTag : Name of area when annouce will be placed, begins new
announce definition section;
- AnnAddrFrom : announce message sender address;
- AnnFrom : announce message sender name;
- AnnAddrTo : announce message recipient address;
- AnnTo : announce message recipient name;
- AnnSubj : announce message subject;
- AnnInclude : Array of fileecho names|masks that will be announced in
this annAreaTag;
- AnnExclude : Array of fileecho names|masks that won't be announced
in this annAreaTag;
- AnnMessFlags : announce message flags ("k/s", "loc", "hld", ...);
- AnnOrigin : origin for announce messages;
- AnnFileOrigin : show system address that hatch file in announce;
- AnnFileRFrom : show system address which file recived from;
- AutoFileCreateFlag : create flag when filearea has been autocreated;
- FileFixNames : set of names on which filefix will respond;
- FileFixEchoLimit: limit fileechoes subscribe number for link;
- delNotRecievedTIC renamed to delNotReceivedTIC (spelling fix)
3. IMPORTANT bugfixes:
- fix forward subscribe;
- fix CR-LF for autocreated "echoarea" lines;
- fixed bug with missed files in report;
- recode filearea descriptions;
- save modification time for files in fileechoes;
- set 'Loc' flag on messages from FileFix.
- fixed crash while clean on passthrough areas with -p defined
HTICK 1.0-stable (started 25.06.2002)
This file describe changes between htick-0.9 and htick-1.0
1. MAJOR feature improvements:
- amiga style outbound suppurt;
- cygwin port;
- build htick/win32 with dlls (MS Visual C/C++);
- new command line option: -q (quiet mode);
- new log messages: 0-9A-D - user-level, E-Z - debug-level;
- do filefix before toss;
- fileboxes support;
- filefix from command line
- use hardlinks if posible (unixes, NT);
- Debuan Linux package;
- man pages install & uninstall;
- statistics generator (perl script);
- forward requests to uplink;
- '%avail' filefix command;
- pause fileechoes only;
- filelist building.
2. CONFIG changes:
- FileFixFSC87Subset : ignore unknown keywords in tic-file
- FileForwardRequest :
- RemoteFileRobotName (in link definition) : Name of remote file (tic) robot
(need for FileForwardRequest);
- FileDescName : file with archive description (usually file_id.diz);
- FileAreaDefaults : default parameters for autocreate filearea;
- BBSArea : BBS files directory (for file list building);
- FileEchoFlavour (in link definition) : set outbound flavor for fileecho
files (Imm, Crash, Direct, Hold, Normal);
- filearea option '-nodiz' : do not try to get description from
<fileDescName>;
- syntax of token 'SaveTic' expanded;
- new token for link "LinkFileFaseDir" : Where autocreated file echos
will be placed (may be "passthrough");
- pause statement syntax expanded;
3. IMPORTANT bugfixes:
- don't toss .tic with HIDDEN attribute set (non-unix version)
- fixed inbound file searching according to fsc
- fix memory fault if charset tables not defined in config;
- fix problem with autocreating;
- fix hatching from fileechodir: don't delete file;
- areadesc set into TIC at 'htick hatch';
- set 'Loc' flag on messages from FileFix.
- add own seen-by when hatch.
