  FBB BBS SOFTWARE IS TEN YEARS OLD !!

  THE VERSION C64 SHOULD BE DISTRIBUTED AS AN "EVALUATION VERSION 7.00"
  =====================================================================

  Unfortunately, the doc is not ready for this version but I think that it is
not a too big problem for an evaluation version. I prepare the distribution
diskette and will give a copy first to the beta test sites to be sure that the
automatic installation works ok, and that the code inside is the right one.


w700a
- Problems with CR orCR/LF in export and log. Corrected.
- TimeOut did not work 100%. Corrected.
- GPF in review if list was empty. Corrected.
- Disks like D:\ were not accepted in FbbDOS. Corrected.
- Command NEW in FbbDOS did not give the prompt if no file. Corrected.
- F8 was programmed as F9. Should give the focus to the main window. Corrected.
- Any command beginning by T was accepted. Corrected.
- Send message in console could destoy the contents of the editor. If the
  editor is busy, normal line editing is used.
- Read was always verbose when reviewing messages. Corrected.
- Command W in FORWARD.SYS allows to skip one or more prompts (default one)
  before starting a forward session (mainly used when "Linked to ..." gives
  more than one prompt)
- EPURMESS.COM did not limit the number of lines returned to sender in any
  cases. Corrected.
- The generation of WP messages has been rewritten to correct the problem
  found on many BBS (but unfortunately not on mine !!).

w700b
- Histograms did not work without callsign in statistics. Corrected.
- WFBB crashes if the MESS.WP file has a size of 0. Corrected.
- Command SYS did not work for callsigns defined in PASSWD.SYS. Corrected.
- F7=Programmation of the TNC is now implemented in DED mode.
b2
- Only Sysops allowed to review will receive the "Nb of held" message.
- PK232 host mode introduced again.
- Variable %C gives the number of times a message has been read.
- DLL buffer for PG programs is increased to 32K
- INSTWFBB : PMS option added in the first connection mask
- INSTWFBB : PK232 option in the supported protocoles
b3
- GPF if using socket from gateway. Corrected.
- The default 3 strings for NetRom/TheNet are now : CONNECTED FAILURE BUSY
- TELNET interface has been improved. Do not forget to put address 17 in
  PORT.SYS for TELNET (means socket port 23 in decimal)
- File FBB\SYSTEM\LANG\TELNET.ENT may held the banner for the telnet access.
- The format of the window has changed. You must delete the line "position"
  in the part "main" of the file WINDOWS\WINFBB.INI before running the new
  version. 
b4
- Edit-User and Edit-Msg are no longer closed with the OK button.
- Telnet interface is working as modem interface except that password is
  mandatory.
- Debug informations for VE4KV's modem GPFs (debug info in DEBUG.BUG file).
b5
- Servers can be made as DLL provided they are fast enough (no multitasking
  during a DLL activity).
- Task was not run in background if more than one application in CRON.SYS.
- Swapping was not done after a local re-routing. Corrected.
b6
- Selection of zone in the channel windows. Accept copy (=Ctrl Ins) to
  clipboard and print. Menu is activated with the right button of the mouse
  inside the text window.
b7
- ListBox of connections has been fully rewritten to be more efficient. A menu
  is available in the list with the right button of the mouse.
b8
- PG called in a non-registered access gave a 23MB inf.sys. Corrected.
- L command in review did not unvalidate forwarding after reboot. Corrected.
- Command HO puts a message in the hold list.
b9
- selection of a word (left double click) or a list of characters (Ctrl left
  double click).
- INIT.SRV was not scanned after a modification from "main parameters" window.
- Protocoles TFPCX and DRSI added in the configuration.
- HO command did not delete held message. Corrected.
- some optimisations and minor modifications...
b10
- Import/Export display in options menu.
- Filter and substring in "last connections" window.
- Hang if the MESS.WP file is exactly 5000 bytes long. Corrected.
- in PORT.SYS, interface 9 (linux) has been added. LINUX can work via
  a serial port (letter D for DED) or via AX25 domain socket (letter X).
b12
- Problems with affectation of ports and channels in BPQ driver. Should
  be corrected.
- Problem with the colors in the DOS version. Corrected.
b13
- S line (choices of forward) now checks default as a last choice. Up to four
  previous choices ar checked as declared before. Warning, these tests are
  case independant.
- This was maybe undocumented : value after "use compressed forwarding" give
  the options between compressed protocoles :
    1 = FBB compressed forwarding
    2 = XFWD compressed forwarding
    "OK 3"    allow both FBB and XFWD.
- MODEM.ENT was sent without line feed at the first connection. Corrected.
- Command "?" gave a segmentation violation on the Linux version. Corrected.
b14
- One more color bug corrected !
- variable %E give the version code (Linux, Dos, Windows).
- debug.bug traces the current channels if "no more channel available"
- "Last connections" window was not created in Windows version. Corrected.
b15
- hold counter was not initialized in dos version. Corrected.
- Dialog window asks for import BBS in Windows and Linux versions.
- Reject was not always done when importing files.
b16
- Built-in editor validated (Linux version).
- Texts of menues corrected (Windows version).
- Connections were not recorded in the LOG. Corrected.
- PMS connections asked for FBB protocole. I have made a change, but did not
  test it.
b17
- management of C_FILTER has changed. Will be always called if it exists.
- Edit forward window (in edit message) now available in Linux version.
- Filter on callsigns (in last connections) now available in Linux version.
b18
- ReadOnly access if there is no password defined (modem/telnet)
b19
- Connect line is case dependant.
- Binary transfer implemented for telnet (with this version and up)
- Some bug fixes in the Windows telnet interface.
- Help was sometime crashing in linux version. Fixed.
- New xfbbd version : xfbb daemon for linux.
b20
- Flag F (PMS Forwarding) added in EU command.
- TH list sometime gave wrong numbers. Corrected.
b22
- Linux. Connection bip was disabling the X11 bell. Corrected.
b23
- ReadOnly mode was not 100%ok in xfbb. Corrected.
- No CrLf when first connecting xfbb on telnet. Corrected.
b24
- Labels management of FBBDOS have been rewritten. Path is no longer
  absolute but relative to the FBBDOS disks defined in INIT.SRV. TLABEL.COM
  program is no longer required. The format of the file is changed from
  YAPPLBL.SYS to YAPPLBL.DAT using MODLABEL.EXE program. Labels are compatible
  with DOS, Windows and LINUX version.
- Linux version : YI and YW command gave 0 bytes free. Corrected.
b25
- Possible corruption of INF.SYS in Linux version under Telnet. A change has
  been done.
- Get a Crc error when re-starting a FBB compressed forwarding session (XFBB).
  Corrected.
- Error in the "From" field when receiving mail from RLIBBS in XFWD mode.
  Corrected.
b27
- PortName in LINUX was often wrong. Corrected
- Epurmess did not count empty lines of INIT.SRV (Linux). Corrected.
- = <call> allowed to send data even if the remote station was busy. Corrected.
- Checksum of AUTOBIN was wrong under LINUX. Corrected.
- WHERE and DU did not work on LINUX partitions. Corrected.
- Channel names could not start whith a digit in PORT.SYS. Should be corrected.
- SIGSEGV was caught in LINUX version. Corrected.
- VIEW command of LINUX version calls fbb_view program. (or any program
  defined by the variable $FBB_VIEW). fbb_view may be a shell script.
- Telnet time-out is increased to 2mn (LINUX)
- /A command stops the BBS and exit with value 4
b28
- List of flags of the [FBB forwarding line] (INIT.SRV)
  1  : A space is mandatory before the @ in a send message command
  2  : The length of the fields of a hierarchical address is not 
       tested to be 6 characters
  4  : The header line of a message is not truncated to the space before
       the 79th character
  8  : Header MBL/RLI
  16 : If there is no BBS field, the callsign of the BBS is sent to the PMS
  32 : Deletes the DATA messages sent to SYSOP
  64 : Don't use the BID recovered from headers and use a new one
  128: Accepts forwarding only from pre-declared BBS
  256: WP Messages are not held.
  512: XForwarding protocole has priority on FBB protocole.
 1024: Generation of an alternate BID like F6FBB-12345 (for dual BBS site)
 2048: Checksum unvalidated on XFwd.
 4096: Test of callsign is more simple.
- DosFBB has a problem with the call and F10 command. Corrected.
b31
- WIN - /A gives a GPF. Corrected.
- DOS - Optimisations in Mini-Editor. Was crashing while loading a
  large file. corrected.
- DOS - ZModem transfer initialisation was wrong. Corrected.
- DOS - Commande DOS without argument crashes. Corrected.
- DOS - Some characters were lost in modem. Coorected.
b32
- ALL - If port.sys does not exist, FBB looks for port_d.sys (dos),
  port_w.sys (windows) or port_l.sys (linux). This allows to have the same
  tree for all versions.
b33
- LIN - Pacsat server : Some packets were lost. Corrected.
b34
- WIN - NO LineFeed in the modem driver. Corrected.
- ALL - MD2 password available for SYS command.
b35
- LIN - Problem with LF and CRLF in messages. 1st correction.
b36
- LIN - Segmentation violation on retry count exceeded. Corrected ?
b37
- DOS - WINDOWS DLL (C_FILTER, M_FILTER, F_FILTER) Implementation. DLL must be
  in the path of DOS (FBB\BIN).
- MD2 C_FILTER.DLL available for DOS and WIN
  MD2 C_FILTER     available for LINUX.
b38
- Password did not work for SYS command. Corrected.
b39
- Mail import was getting all system processing. Corrected.
b40
- DOS - AF5 and Esc closed the BBS. Corrected.
- DOS - DLL of KE0W0 was not running. Disabling local interrupts during DLL
  call. 
b41
- WIN - Change in maintenance to avoid some crashes. (1st try).
b42-b43
_ WIN - Corrections of multiple GPF
b44
- ALL - xfwd had problems when forwarding RLIBBS. Fixed.
b45
- ALL - Crashed when THEMES.SYS was empty. Corrected.

Version 700b distributed

c01 
- DOS - Crashed when device not ready. Fixed
- DOS - CR/CR/LF sequence when exporting mail to disk. Fixed.
c02
- ALL - Crashed in REDIST server fixed.
- DOS - TFPCX interface crashing at boot. Fixed.
- DOS - Added TFPCX interrupt level in INIT.SRV :

        # DRSI and TFPC interrupt (Hexadecimal, default FF and FE)
        FF FE
        #
        # BBS-UP program (default empty)

- DOS - Fwd line : Tried some modifications to fix the UPCASE callsign.
c03
- ALL - Added lock files when importing and exporting mail (same filename,
        extension added or replaced = "lck")
- W32 - TfWin32.DLL interface validated.
c04
- ALL - Hierarchy is now managed in SWAPP.SYS
- DOS - Resync counter did not work. Corrected.
- WIN - File/Maintenance always gave the "STOP" icon. Corrected.
- ALL - NEW now works in console.
- ALL - UNKNOWN ROUTE and 10 times "routed to" message corrected.
c05
- ALL - Variables were interpreted when xfwd sends the list of BID. Corrected.
- ALL - Lock files deleted (if possible) if older than 1 hour.
c06
- ALL - Alternate callsign of PORT.SYS was not working. Corrected.
c07
- ALL - Title of message sometime greater than 60 characters. Corrected.
- LIN - SP and others did not work from xfbbC. Corrected.
- WIN - WP list of BBS was limited to 40 chars in instwfbb. Increased to 79.
- ALL - S Line in forward.sys is case dependant.
c08
- DOS - I Fxxx was crashing in Nomenclature. Corrected.
- ALL - DF command added to list all PMS users.
- DOS - /R was crashing. Corrected.
- ALL - HomeBBS of a reviewed message was wrong in WP. Corrected.
- WIN - No LF in modem after a forwarding session. Corrected.
- WIN - GPF with BPQ in gateway in command mode. Corrected.
- ALL - Conference allowed calling to TCP interface. Corrected.
- ALL - Channel number was 1 more in log. Corrected.
c09
- ALL - Added the date correction for > 1999
- ALL - WP was update with local BBS at first connection. Corrected.
- WIN - Garbage characters in SERVERnn.IN. Corrected.
c10
- ALL - Unproto were sent duplicated if more than one "!" line in BEACONn.SYS
        file. Corrected.
- ALL - Message counter went negative when using "edit message". Corrected.
- ALL - Implementation of "exit 5" for PG : Level is not incremented.
- ALL - Number of held messages is re-calculated after CRON and PG
- WIN - WFBB crashed when opening a non-existing file in editor. Corrected.
- ALL - Channel number in conference was wrong. Corrected.

Version 700c distributed

d01
- ALL - JK gives a wrong channel number. Corrected.
- WIN - Socket access : "." before the callsign removes pre-processing and
        post-processing (transparent mode).

Version 700d distributed

e01
- ALL - Sharing violation when importing a file. Corrected.
- WIN - Socket interface rewritten
- ALL - FB command was only printing P messages. Corrected.
- W32 - Avail memory gave a wrong value. Corrected.
- ALL - D (bin) status of 7+ mail was lost when "RE". Corrected.

e02
- ALL - Problems with review command. Debugging version.

e03
- LIN - Del User crashed in xfbb. Corrected.
- LIN - TCPIP interface did not re-run without a pause. Corrected.

e04
- W32 - PG dir has now changed to PG32
- ALL - Copied messages keep the original sender, So SR is now possible on
        copy (like SYSOP messages).
- ALL - Review bug corrected! Thanks to F1HCI for help...

e05
- W32 - Lock timeout was not 1 hour. Corrected.
- WIN - Language was not ok after sending a message. Corrected.

Version 700e distributed

f01
- ALL - Disk size could be negative in big disks (>2GB). Corrected.
- ALL - PASSWD.SYS now accepts comment lines
- ALL - Global password did not work using MD2. Corrected.
- ALL - Only CP SYSOP originator is changed, not the SC command.
- ALL - When replying to a CP SYSOP message, title is changed back to original.

f02
- ALL - Variable %e added. Date of the compilation (english only).
- ALL - Time of connection was wrong in talk command. Corrected.
- WIN - List of connections was not refresh at end of talk. Corrected.
- ALL - Crash if "XFWD" validated and "FBB forwarding" not. Corrected.
- ALL - Added commands for WP:
        IN substring -> Gives WP records including "substring" in Name
        IQ substring -> Gives WP records including "substring" in Qth
- WIN - First watchdog implementation. Sends characters 0 and 1 each second to
        the port specified in INIT.SRV. This port must be free :
        #
        # Test mode / Watchdog (1->9 = COM1->COM9, 81->84 = LPT1->LPT4)
        NO 81
        #
- ALL - Support of the SCS/PCT-II pactor TNC
        TNC is in Extended/WA8DED emulation with a "H" character in port.sys :
        #
        #TNC NbCh Com MultCh Pacln Maxfr NbFwd MxBloc M/P-Fwd Mode  Freq
         0   0    0   0      0     0     0     0      00/01   ----  File-fwd.
         1   1    1   0      250   4     1     10     30/60   HU    Pactor
         2   8    1   1      250   4     1     10     30/60   HUWY  1st Packet
         3   8    1   2      250   4     1     10     30/60   HUWY  2nd Packet
        #
- WIN32/LIN - Message was recompressed at each forward. Corrected.
- ALL - Added cron_d, cron_w, cron_l.sys taken in priority for DOS, WINDOWS
        or LINUX system. If this one doesn't exist, cron.sys is taken instead.
- LIN - Wrong callsigns were recorded in INF.SYS in telnet mode. Corrected.

f03
- ALL - Added the PTC-II remote control from forward file.
- ALL - Added the fequency-status information before connection
- ALL - Added the PTCTRX built-in program to pilot the transceiver from PTC-II
        The parameters are the same that the TRX command of the PTC-II
        ex : "  X PTCTRX SCAN 1 "  will start scanning from forward file

f04
- ALL - Changed BUSY to DISCONNECT when a frequency is busy. Allows
        multi-choices from the FORWARD.SYS file.

f05
- ALL - More debugging of pactor mode

f06
- WIN - Added the "Immediate disconnection" command.

f07
f08
- WIN - Some more debugging in PACTOR interface

f09
- WIN - L !TRX command was crashing when out of block. Corrected.
- WIN - Packet ports of the PTC-II implemented.
- WIN - Update of InstWfbb for PTC-II protocole

f10
- WIN - Connection was still sent if aborting during wait phase. Corrected.
- WIN - MAINT file did not work with PTC-II. Corrected.

f11
- WIN - PTCTRX was not run from CRON.SYS. Corrected.
- WIN - Display of long path callsign was wrong. Corrected.
- ALL - Compilation of the f11 version on all architectures.

f12
- WIN - Added a scanning control command.
- ALL - Forced disconnection if not disconnected after 10 sec.

f13
- ALL - New variable %k = Nb of KB to forward to the connected station
                     %l = Nb of msg to forward to the connected station
- ALL - Flag R (Read-Only) in port.sys available for any port.

f14
- ALL - Added a "IF G hour" test in GMT time for FORWARD.SYS and CRON.SYS
- WIN - Retry field in main window increased to 3 digits
- WIN - ChangeOver button for pactor mode

f15 
- ALL - More debugging

f16
- WIN32 - Size of NTFS disk was wrong. Corrected.

f17 - f18
- ALL - More debugging

f19
- Command line starting with a ";" is ignored
- Speed information in the footer when sending in pactor mode
- PTC-II is fully reset to work in binary mode. Think that all parameters will
  be erased in the TNC.

f20
- New alternate files :
  INIT.SRV    -> INIT_x.SRV
  FORWARD.SYS -> FORW_x.SYS
  PROTECT.SYS -> PROT_x.SYS

f21
- New command line in CRON_x.SYS :
  M port U : Port nb is changed to USER  mode
  M port B : Port nb is changed to BBS   mode
  M port G : Port nb is changed to GUEST mode

Version 700f distributed

g01
- WIN - INIT.SRV is not found when reloaded from Config->MainParameters
- ALL - PACTOR - Added F command in gateway for frequency selection.
        Added the gateway.sys file to configure the frequencies. This file
        accepts the following commands :
        IF / ELSE / ENDIF (for port and time)
        BEGIN : commands sent when entering the port of the gateway
        END   : commands sent when leaving the port of the gateway
        FREQ  : Affectation of a frequency / TNC command

g02
- ALL - Gateway was crashing when all channels are busy. Corrected.

g03
- ALL - ChangeOver was not sent from the gateway. Corrected.

g04
- ALL - Added Minute/Period option in the "P" command line in CRON_x.SYS :
  M port U 10/20 : Port nb is changed to USER mode and min/per to 10/20
- ALL - CRON file accept the litteral port definitions of PORT.SYS. Ex :
  M PACTOR U 10/20
- ALL - The callsign of the pactor channel was lost in the gateway. Corrected.

g05
- ALL - Implementation of the CQ command of the gateway for pactor.

g06
- ALL - Bug in the gateway made it crashing when no port was selected.
- LIN - xfbbC and client interface of xfbbd fully rewritten.
- LIN - maintinf has been compiled

g07
- LIN - Added monitoring options in xfbbC

g08
- LIN - Added MD2 authentication in xfbbC

g09
- ALL - Default password allowed in MD2 authentication.

g10
- LIN - Added new services for xfbbd client (xfbbC).
        Source code and makefile of xfbbC supplied.

g11-g16
- LIN - Evolutions of the PTC-II hostmode

g17
- WIN - Added the Flex95 support in WinFBB32

g18
- WIN32 - New FBBIOS32.DLL for WIN32 modem interface
- WIN32 - Console callsign did not work in Flex mode - Done.

g19
- ALL - Security problem with files owner under FBBDOS corrected.
g20
- LIN - Added the TCP address and port for telnet access in port.sys.
       #Com Interface Adresse(Hex) Vitesse/Tcp-Port
        8   9         44.151.31.6  1022
- LIN - External set of commands added (or replacing) the default set.
        These commands are defined in system/commands.sys. Ex :
		#
		# commands.sys file
		# format : fbb_command external_command parameters ...
		#
        TX cat /etc/ax25/axports
        FPAC /usr/sbin/fpacnode
        TELNET telnet
g21
- LIN - Daemon version now allows the T (talk) command. Must be answered with
        either xfbbC or xfbbX. New versions of xfbbC et xfbbX.

g22
- LIN - Filenames in F_FILTER file are now in UNIX format.

g23
- LIN - Source code of the daemon version is released

g24
- LIN - Compilation with libc6 ok (RedHat 5.1)

g25
- ALL - Spurious empty lines - corrected (PA3FWM).
- ALL - Redist to field too short - corrected (OH2KKU)

g26
- LIN - Sources compatible with 2.2 (SuSE 6.0 / 2.2.4)


============== release 7.01 for 2.2 kernels ===================

added support for the new libax25 with glibc 2.x
X11 applications can compile with motif2.0 and lesstif 0.88 (motif 2.0)
all X11 applications moved in src/X11 directory

- LIN - New configuration file /etc/ax25/fbb.conf replaces init.srv. It is
        not compatible and is now organized as keyword = value
- LIN - To be compliant with the files organization on LINUX, a new tree 
        has been defined :
		- configuration files in /etc/ax25/fbb
		- data files in /var/ax25/fbb
		The program fbb_tree script creates/check the full tree.

7.01b : 
- LIN - xfbbC and xfbbX did not work. Corrected.
- LIN - reqdir server modified following the patch of 7m3tjz Satoshi
- LIN - xfbb and xfbbX compiles with lesstiff 0.88

7.01d :
- LIN - Segmentation violation if a directory in fbb.conf has no leading /

7.01e :
- LIN - fixed a segmentation violation in AX25 socket.

7.01f :
- LIN - PG programs did not work. Fixed.

7.01g
- LIN - "CP SYSOP" messages can give wrong WP information when re-forwarded.
        Fixed.
- ALL - Y2K bug in satellite computation. Fixed.

7.01h
- ALL - Y2K bug in LD and WP import processing. Fixed.

7.01i
- LIN- Y2K bug in fbbdos. Fixed.

7.01j
- COPY command could only copy onto an existing file. Patch PA3FWM.
- YN never find new files. Patch PA3FWM.
- Added #MYPACTOR command to set the pactor callsign from inittnc file.

7.01k
- PPC and SPARC support. Patch JE1SGH - Ichiro Hieda.

7.01l
- MAIL.IN did not work correctly. Fixed.
- FB commmand now take in account the data mode (J line of forward.sys)
- Patch fbb_old_ax25.patch.gz : allow using this version with 2.0 kernels
  run "zcat fbb_old_ax25.patch.gz | patch -p0" from the fbb distribution
  base directory. Thanks to Jose.

7.01m
- Added line "T Onn" in forward.sys where "nn" is the number of hours of 
  the message forward delay. If nn is 24, then only mail older than 24 
  hours will be forwarded to the connected BBS.
- New "install_fbb" and "fbb" scripts. The software is no longer run by 
  xfbb.sh but by "fbb".
    
7.02
- full distribution and pre-compiled binaries

7.02a
- added remote config directory list, upload and download for the xfbbC client.

7.02b
- L commands may be combined on a single line :
  LR 101-110 & LS string
- CHANGED the directory tree (see FBBTREE file) to fit the linux specifications
- Added the TCP-IP driver for remote traffic and monitoring operations

7.02c
- L> l@ were L<. Corrected.

7.02d
- Other patch for L>, L< and L@
- Added remote forward maintenance for clients
- Added EO sysop command to edit sytstem options
