NewsCoaster 1.57 is now available, either from
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=84081 , or Aminet
comm/news.

Credit for this release (and 1.56) goes to Pavel Fedin.

Recent changes are:

New for version 1.57 (by Pavel Fedin):
UPDATED: Added language catalogs support. Russian catalog is written.
UPDATED: Removed no more needed ARexx scripts for AmigaPL character set
           conversion from the installation package
FIXED:   NNTP server port number could contain only 3 digits, so ports greater
           than 999 (some private servers, for example) could not be used.
FIXED:   In v1.56 russian character set had a wrong name ("koi-8r" instead of
           "koi8-r")
FIXED:   Pasting text into editor field when writing/editing/replying a
           message was slow.

New for version 1.56 (by Pavel Fedin):
UPDATED: Added charsets support. Currently default charset for reading and
           writing is the same, i see no real sense to have them different. But
           this is easy to implement now, so this can be done on request. Note
           that charset selection gadget in program settings window is changed
           completely. Also conversion table format is changed to make handling
           them easier. Old AmigaPL charset is converted to a new form, and its
           name changed to iso-8859-2, but it is not tested.
UPDATED: Reorganized message view window: attachments list now resides to the
           right from headers, like in Microdot-II. Also two buttons for viewing
           and saving attachments are added.

And as you can see, there is now a Sourceforge.net project for NewsCoaster
( http://sourceforge.net/projects/newscoaster ).

Mark

NewsCoaster v1.55 is now available from Aminet in comm/news under
newscoaster.lha . The source code is also available under
newscoastersrc.lha . Alternatively see
http://newscoaster.tripod.com/download.html .

New for version 1.55: (18.1.2003)
UPDATED: Warn against editing messages that have already been sent.
UPDATED: FETCHNEWSBYPOS ARexx command removed (not that it was ever
documented!)
UPDATED: Warn against sending messages with no message body, or only quoted
text.
FIXED:   Enforcer hits when viewing, composing or editing a message
(WinUAEEnforcer
           hits to be precise, since I can't run Enforcer on WinUAE;)
FIXED:   'Fetch news for this Group' option didn't recognise download a
group for the
           first time, if group list was in tree view mode.
FIXED:   Don't allow 'newline' characters to be saved into message headers
when writing
           a message (eg, Subject).
FIXED:   'Forcing' a quit shouldn't show requesters for unsaved messages;
now they are
           automatically saved.
FIXED:   Slow performance when drag selecting messages.

mark

NewsCoaster v1.53 is now available from Aminet in comm/news under
newscoaster.lha (complete archive) or nc_update.lha (update archive).
Alternatively see http://newscoaster.tripod.com/download.html

Also note that NewsCoaster is now released under the GPL, and the source is
available in comm/news under newscoastersrc.lha .

New for version 1.53:
- New option to allow using multiple newsservers for posting; if you've set
up a
    non-default newsserver for a group (under Newsgroups / Advanced
Settings), you can
    tick 'Post with this server', and then any messages posted to that group
will be
    posted to the newsserver for that group.
- In threaded view, opening a thread causes the entire thread to expand.
- Clicking on column headings to change sorting now works in threaded mode too.
- Faster threading.
- Download from groups in a more sensible order to avoid repeatedly
connecting to a
    newsserver.
- New option to delete all duplicated messages in a group (under Messages /
Permanently
    Delete).
- Bug fix; in v1.52, messages wouldn't get deleted from the deleted folder
(they'd
    still be on the hard disk).
- Bug fix; bugs in base64 encoding and decoding.
- Bug fix; in threaded mode, not all messages were getting displayed.
- Bug fix; various other problems related to threaded mode.
- Bug fix; 'Groups Manager' under Program Settings was always displaying
groups for the
    default newsserver.
- Bug fix; if you switched between two groups on two newsserver in online
mode, it
    would fetch from the wrong newsserver.
- Bug fix; was leaving a space at end of lines when quoting messages.

thanks,
mark

NewsCoaster v1.50 is now available from Aminet in comm/news under
newscoaster_b.lha (complete archive) or nc_update_beta.lha ('update'
archive). Alternatively see http://newscoaster.tripod.com/download.html

New for version 1.50:
- New 'Join Messages' option (under 'Messages' menu) which joins the
selected messages together - can be used for multiple-message binaries.
- Support for yencoded attachments (see http://www.yenc.org ) (CRC checking
isn't done yet, and multipart messages is rather basic atm).
- New Killfile options - can choose to match on messages that don't contain
the text in a header; can choose to mark as Important instead of deleting
the message.
- New 'Kill' options to set up a killfile for messages from a particular
server (based on the Message-ID), and from the NNTP-Posting-Host.
- Newsgroup folders will have their AmigaDOS comment set to what you enter
the description field as.
- Option to Quit without being asked for confimation.
- Icons supplied for the toolbar (in newscoaster_b.lha only - thanks to
Jules for the currently supplied set; more will be supplied in future
versions, meanwhile visit http://newscoaster.tripod.com/download.html to
find some more).
- Bug fix; problems when the message 'View' window is viewing messages from
a group different to the currently selected one (messages weren't getting
marked as Read etc).

thanks,
mark

NewsCoaster v1.49 is now available from Aminet in comm/news under
newscoaster_b.lha (complete archive) or nc_update_beta.lha ('update'
archive). Alternatively see http://newscoaster.tripod.com/download.html

New for v1.49:
- Toolbar is now provided with 'Toolbar' MUI class. No graphical icons are
currently provided however - please send me some:) (they should be located
in the 'icons' folder, under the names "main.toolbar" and "main_G.toolbar"
- see toolbar.mcc docs for more details).
- Improved performance on 'threaded view'.
- Post immediately option finally returns for writing messages.
- Bug fix; disposing MUI objects from a hook called with such an object is
not a good idea.. (also before some objects weren't getting freed at all).
- Bug fix; couldn't abort on moving/copying/undeleting messages.

thanks,
mark

NewsCoaster v1.47 is now available from Aminet in comm/news under
newscoaster_b.lha (complete archive) or nc_update_beta.lha ('update'
archive). Alternatively see http://newscoaster.tripod.com/download.html

New for v1.47:
- Find Text option for the View window (at long last!)
- Choose which columns to display for the message list and search window
('Lists' under Program Settings).
- Sorting of messages in search window results (click on a column, as with
the main messages window).
- Search window updates better to reflect changes to displayed messages
(eg, if a message is deleted it will be removed, or if moved to another
folder you can still display it).
- Popup "help bubble" for message list displays info. on the currently
selected message.
- Popup "help bubble" for group list displays info. on the currently
displayed group.
- Various minor MIME and message parsing improvements/fixes.
- More sensible sorting on statistics list for "By Person" (ignores quotes,
etc).
- Bug fix; leaving stray ascii '0's in message text when saving/viewing the
raw text of the entire message, that weren't in the original message.
- Bug fix; downloading body of messages in 'deleted' (or outgoing/sent if
you decided to copy them there..) didn't work.
- Bug fix; sizes of some attachments in list were one byte too big.
- Bug fix; was marking all uuencoded files as "text/plain" - should work
out MIMEType from filename extension.
- Bug fix; new killfiles entered wouldn't work until NewsCoaster was restarted.
- Bug fix; clicking sort messages by size resulted in sorting by number of
lines in v1.46.

See the Readme on Aminet for a complete history.

thanks,
mark

test 2

mark