GHOST BBS - What's New......

Version 1.10

- fix for improper recycling of both Ring Monitor and GHOST BBS. 
V.1.00 was sometimes sending "phantom" init strings to both GHOST and 
Ring Monitor, which resulted in effectively disabling Ring Monitor, 
even when it was selected for use, and also sometimes resulted in poor 
connections with GHOST due to improper initialization of the modem.

- GHOST BBS v.1.00 did not watch carrier enough to satisfy me. There 
are too many places where it is possible for a dropped carrier to go 
unnoticed by GHOST 1.00 for some time, or where GHOST 1.00 does not 
recover properly after carrier is unexpectedly dropped. GHOST BBS 1.10 
now watches the carrier state constantly throughout a remote log in.

- GHOST 1.00 shows the current date as your last date on in the 
message during log in, rather than the actual last date on. GHOST 1.10 
shows the correct last date on, and furthermore, does not record that 
information until you log off, so that if you lose carrier just after 
logging in, it's not recorded as a log in.

- GHOST 1.00 has a problem with a change of year. A NEWS file created 
in one year will ALWAYS be shown to a user logging in during the next 
year. This has to do with how Wasp compares dates as strings. I have 
changed to comparing dates as long variables, and this problem no 
longer surfaces.

- The connection sequences, and recycling sequences have been 
rewritten for faster times where acceptable, and more reliability, 
even if slower recycling, where needed.

- Several internal "speed hogs" have been rewritten to improve overall 
throughput in GHOST.

- one user (in France!) reported that there is a problem with 
ProComm's interpretation of the French keyboard. It seems that PCP/Win 
does not see either a "\" or "/" when sent from a French keyboard. 
This meant that it was impossible to end a message when written using 
a French keyboard. Although it took some careful recoding, GHOST BBS 
1.10 recognizes the escape key during message writing, and uses that 
to end things. It does not need to be on a line by itself. If GHOST 
finds <ESC> on a line with text, it records the text up to the <ESC>, 
and then exits the edit.

Version 1.00

- first release of GHOST BBS
