Release Notes - IM/Mac 1.0b28f

Written by Ivo Van Ursel, ON1XK
Copyright 1991-1995, Ivo Van Ursel

IM/Mac is copyrighted freeware software. Copies of IM/Mac may be freely
distributed for non-commercial purposes, provided copies of this Release
Notes file and IM/Mac are included together in unmodified form.
Commercial distribution, including distribution on compilation CD-ROMs,
must be done under license.

- Typing a special address like 'remco%utr.pa3fym@pi8rni,remco' does no
  longer crash IM/Mac.

- Corrected a minor unBinHex problem: when a message contained only a few
  lines of a larger BinHex file, the unBinHex code would try to decode the
  file over a length equal to the sum of the data fork and resource fork of
  the original file. This not only lead to a CRC error but took much more
  time than necessary since non existant lines were decoded. Such a situation
  now gives an 'end of file' error.

- When unBinHex fails no longer a file remains in the invisible 'Temporary
  Items' folder.

- BinHex coded messages over 64k in length did not decode reliably.

- The Outbound Mail window was not updated correctly after a new message was
  sent.

- Added 'open' resource to application and 'kind' resource to preference file.

- 'Fwd: ' is added in front of the subject when a message is forwarded.

- The AppleScript command 'activate' did not bring IM/Mac to the foreground.

- The message size was 10 bytes short after being read.

- Disabled default buttons (usually the 'OK' button) use a blended gray on
  color systems.

- Made it pass through the Think C 7.0.4 compiler (thank you Adam!).

- Added an option to delete a file when sent (this item does not have a
  help balloon yet).

- Removed a longstanding issue in which all processing comes to a halt when
  an IM/Mac notification shows. The notification is removed after 1 minute
  only when a dialog shows.

- Outbound messages are stuffed only once and the temporary file is only
  deleted when all destinations are served.

- Sending binary files to more than one host resulted in a corrupted date
  and time in the second and following outbound message.

- Made it pass through the Think C 8.0 compiler.

- ISO 8859-1 transliteration menu item did not have a help balloon.

- MacsBug installed on a pre-system 7 Macintosh was not detected.

- Under System 6.0.x, desk accessories can be launched in IM/Mac's partition
  by opening them with the option key held down. Doing so did crash IM/Mac
  once in a while with an address error.

- Trying to print (or Page Setup=C9) with no printer selected (e.g., a
  fresh system software installation) resulted in a crash.

- StuffIt Classic segments have a filetype of 'SegM'. Those were not in the
  list of filetypes not to compress.

- Changed the color of Stop, Note and Caution icons.

- Very long pathnames confused the edition of the 'bm.rc' file. Such strings
  show with an elipsis character in the middle. Of course that character
  should not be stored in the file like it did before.

- Made it compile with 'MW C/C++ 68K 1.2.2' and corrected flagged errors.
  IM/Mac's soure code is not yet fully compatible with MetroWerks Code-
  Warrior 6 since the BinHex function was implemented in 68k assembler.

- Added 'CNTL' resources for scrollbars and removed embedded code.

Tuesday, June 20, 1995 - 19:43:46 UTC


PS (by PA2AGA)

This version obsoletes all versions of info-mac/comm/radio-im-mac in
the Sumex-Aim.stanford.edu archives.

The new IM/Mac has (hopefully) been uploaded to:

 - oak.oakland.edu, to the directory /pub/hamradio/mac/digital
 - ftp.ucsd.edu, to directory /hamradio/packet/tcpip/incoming.
   If it's not there (anymore), then look at /hamradio/packet/tcpip/mac.
 - hamster.business.uwo.ca, to directory /pub/amsoft