Readme for ProNews/2 Version 1.00 Beta 2C
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Thank you for evaluating ProNews/2, the best USENET reader for OS/2! 
To install please type install on the command line.

Whats new in this version
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*(beta2C) Group windows now have the first unread message selected when
the window is opened.

*(beta2C) Fixed problem with the settings notebook crashing the program
when opened.

*(beta2C) Fixed some problems causing random crashes and crashes when
opening group windows.

*(beta2C) Fixed crash on opening group window when there was a date that
we could not parse.

*(beta2C) Fixed problem causing the program to crash if there was
corrupt data in the POSTQ directory.

*(beta2C) Subject entry field now has focus by default when opening the
article find window.

*(beta2C) Email entry field is now started with the focus when
forwarding an article.

*(beta2C) Fixed some clipped text in the programs dialogs.

*(beta2C) Fixed problem with default pronter always getting used.

*(beta2C) Added an option to the control panel to get all headers for
all groups.

*(beta2C) Added catchup group and catchup all groups to the control
panel.

*(beta2C) Changed the look of the tab control.

*(beta2C) Fixed problem that was causing group signitures and group
setting for email addresses not to get used.

*(beta2C) The posting window now uses the default dialog color so that
if it is overridden that color will be used.

*(beta2C) Logging added to the program.

*(beta2C) When a connection fails to a mail server the program is no
loger placed into offline mode.

*(beta2C) The filter string is now shown (and can be edited) when
creating a filter using the menu items in the group window.

*(beta2C) Fixed a problem with the add bitmap file dialog in the
toolbar not to be called more than once.

*(beta2C) Work on properly inserting email addresses for replies.

*(beta2C) There is now a way to impoet a text file into a posting
window.

*(beta2C) Lots of work on help files.  Still not complete, though.

*(beta2C) RMB button on the newsgroups entryfield in the posting
windows now brings up a menu with all subscribed newsgroups.

*(beta2C) There is now a menu item to append a signiture to a message.

*(beta2C) Outgoing email now has a To: header line.

*(beta2C) There is now an option in the groups window to close the
current window and open the next subscribed group.

*(beta2b) Fixed a major problem with warp 3.  All sorts of strange
things were happening.  

*(beta2b) Fixed a problem with the all groups window.  The maximum
number of newsgroups has been raised to ~150,000.

* A major source of memory corruption was found.  We believe that this
was the cause of a lot of the major glitches in the program.  Let us
know how the current version works for you compared to beta 1.

* The program now uses much less memory than the previous beta.

* Many of the dialogs were cleaned up where text was getting clipped
or they were being impropperly centered.

* Conflicting hotkeys were found and removed.  Also many of the hotkeys
were moved to single keys, making it easier to navigate by keyboard.

* The tree control can now keep it's expanded state when new headers
are retrieved or the group is manually filtered.

* The program is now much more robust when responding to server errors.
Errors sending rejected posts should no longer crash the program.

* Added the ability to subscribe or unsubscribe to an entire tree
branch.

* Once an article is downloaded and marked read it's new flag is
removed.

* When a group does not exist on a server you are now told what group
caused the error.

* The filter/watch dialogs were merged.  Some new actions for filters
were added (hide, delete, mark as read, copy to saved messages, decode,
download, highlight, keep).

* Keeping was added.  Articles that you want to keep can now be locked.
They will not be deleted during automatic purges.

* Added reply options to the article body popup menu.

* Increased the size allowed for the netscape parameters.

* The header titlebar in the groups windows now report how many
articles, read article, and filtered (hidden) articles are in the
group.

* Colors and fonts in the queue window and connections window are now
properly restored.

* Saved and sent message groups are no longer purged or filtered.

* Changed a bug that was causing the dates on all outgoing posts to be
incorrect. Also fixed a bug that was causing July dated posts and
incomming messages to do strange things.

* Added an option to kill all tasks in the queue manager.

* Added a menu option to send an email to panacea.  Along with this an
option was added to visit the panacea page.

* Added the ability to specify a default reply-to.

* Added the ability to specify a default organization.

* Each major process type in the queue manager show the amount of items
in the queue for it's type.

* Added a way to undelete headers marked for deletion.

* Added an option to manually purge a group, to get rid of articles
marked for deletion.

* The bug that was causing a the 'unable to open ... for update' was
fixed.

* Articles may be filtered on flags.  Read, decoded, unread, retrieved,
queued, new, kept, highlighted, and hidden are supported.

* The spacebar can now be configured to skip to either the next
article, next unread article, next unread article with body, or next
article and download body.

* It is now possible to open the group windows and have either all
tree's auto expanded, those with new articles auto expanded, or those
with unread articles autoexpanded.

* There are now menu items in the help menu that allow you to easily
send us email or visit our website.

* Sorting headers is now implemented.

* The program now respects the reply-to field in a message header and
give you a choice to where you wish to reply.

* Custom heading lines may now be specified.

* The file dialogs now save the last directory in which they were used.

* More work was done on the help system.  There still is very little.

Notes about this version
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+ A number of things are not implemented, including help and POP3
posting.  Many of the routines have not been optimized for CPU
consumption. This will be addressed before the final release of 1.00.

+ There are probably numerous bugs, and without your help we won't be
able to find them.  If you have a problem, please email us
(support@panaceasoft.com) and let us know.

+ This version will quit working on September 1st 1997.  We have put
this timeout in the code to ensure that people are using the most
current beta.  There will be a new beta posted to our website at LEAST
two weeks before this version times out.

+ This (and all beta versions of version 1.00) are free until it times
out.  What this means is that if the beta cycle lasts 3 months, and you
use the program for that period you are not expected to pay any money. 
By using this beta and reporting bugs/requests you are doing us a
favor, not the other way around.  Of course once the final 1.00 is
released this program will become shareware.

Non obvious features
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+ Using the TAB key on the article windows switches between the article
bodies and article headers windows.

+ The SPACE key pages down the article body window, and when the end of
the article is reached, advances to the next unread article.  The
default action of the spacebar may be configured in the program's
settings notebook.

+ Each toolbar in the program can be customized.  Right click on the
toolbar to learn more.  Toolbars for individual groups are saved so you
can give each group you read it's own toolbar suited to it's content. 
To copy an item from one toolbar to another CTRL-Drag it.

+ Double clicking on the [+] [-] items in the tree views expands all
subtrees.

+ Selecting all articles in a group will automatically scan for
multimessage binaries and properly decode them for you.  Binaries with
missing parts are not downloaded, and are highlighted to let you know
they have missing pieces.

+ To edit an article or message that is queued for send you have to go
into the Queue window and double click on it.

+ Right click on everything.  Nearly every part of the program has a
context sensitive menu.  Some options may only be reached in this
manner.

+ Do not select retrieve and then decode to decode a binary article. 
Decode is the only option needed.  It will download AND decode the
article.

Known Bugs and Limitations
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High CPU usage when downloading large numbers of small articles. Will
be addressed in a later beta.

The help system is in it's very early stages.

Problems with the program opening a new copy of Netscape each time the
Jump to URL option is selected.  This feature only works with a certain
DLL supplied by Netscape with it's installation.  Fixpack 1 for warp 4
replaces this DLL with a broken version. 

Again, thank you for trying ProNews/2!
