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     | What has changed in MBUTIL 1.10 |
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     Added or Enhanced
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     * Export  now  writes  the  file  TRAFFIC.MBU  to  your  message  base
       directory.  It  contains information  about  the amount  of exported
       messages in all  boards. The -Report  switch creates a report  about
       this. To reset the counters, just delete TRAFFIC.MBU.

     * Link will now ignore "(R)" in the subject field too.

     * 'MBUTIL Link -Clean' will remove all "Re:"  and "(R)" texts from the
       subjects.

     * The Purge ,  help screen  and documentation were  revised.
       Hopefully it is more clear now.

     * Sort can  now  sort up  to about  32700 messages.  With the  '-Pack'
       switch it can  remove the header  records of deleted messages  while
       rewriting MSGHDR.BBS.

     * Fixed some  typos in MBUTIL.DOC and  added more examples. It  is now
       printable on a laser printer with a 10 pitch font. Because I usually
       print with  a 12 pitch  font using WordPerfect 5.0,  I didn't notice
       that a laser  printer can only  print 77 characters  on one line.  I
       also removed  extended ASCII, so it should print fine on any printer
       now.



     Fixed
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     * 'MBUTIL   Purge  [-Days  ]  [-Msgs  ]  [-Rcvd]  -Convert
       
' now converts the AreasFile as was intended.

     * 'MBUTIL Purge   -Days   -Msgs   -Rcvd' no  longer
       deletes messages in ALL boards.

     * Purge no longer messes up the  message attributes, which could cause
       big problems if you undeleted purged messages.

     * Purge would hang in the 'Updating reply chains' phase if there was a
       message with a non-existing Previous Reply.

     * Posted files now have a valid date field.

     * Running 'MBUTIL Export [-ReTear]' without  an USERS.BBS, or with  an
       empty  USERS.BBS  or with  a NetmailPath  without  any .MSG  file no
       longer results  in a "Insufficient  memory available to  store data"
       error.



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     * The maximum  number of  messages exported  in one  scan couldn't  be
       higher than  the number of .MSG files  in your NetmailPath. This has
       been fixed.

     * Export didn't turn  the local bit on  in the created .MSG  files, so
       they couldn't be sent without turning it on manually.

     * Exported netmail  messages  only had  the  Kill/Sent status  if  the
       message in the  QuickBBS/RemoteAccess messages  had that status  and
       the -Keep switch  was not  used. Now they  will always be  Kill/Sent
       unless you use the -Keep switch.

     * Trying to Undelete  message in an  unknown area no longer  truncates
       your MSGTOIDX.BBS file.

     * MBUTIL Pack and Sort now compare the needed and available disk space
       in clusters  rather than in bytes and add  one extra cluster to make
       sure there will be enough disk space left to write to the log file.

     * 'MBUTIL Pack -Renumber'  will now  correctly update the  HighestRead
       field in USERS.BBS  and no  longer use the  highest of the  LASTREAD
       pointers for each user.

     * 'MBUTIL  Pack -Overwrite -Renumber' will  now correctly create a new
       LASTREAD.BBS and reformat it if missing and there is a USERS.BBS.

       Renumber could also under some  still unknown circumstances fragment
       memory, which  could result  in the  impossibility  to load  another
       program after  MBUTIL or  an "Memory  allocation error,  cannot load
       COMMAND. System halted".  It may  sound unbelievable,  but this  was
       caused by a bug  in the Turbo C compiler. Believe it  or not! It has
       been avoided by moving the position of the renumber routine.

           Finally.  There is  quit  some confusion  about  whether or  not
     MBUTIL replaces Qecho.  IT DOESNT'T.  It only imports/exports  netmail
     echomail between RemoteAccess and .MSG format, it DOESN'T unpack  mail
     archives or packets  and forward them to other nodes, but I am working
     on an echomail processor.  At the moment MBUTIL replaces  or obsoletes
     (whatever you like to call it) at least:

           MsgUtils,  MsgPack,  Qlink,  MailToss, MailScan,  QMARK,  RAMES,
     ReTear, TSUTIL, RAMSG, QBBSort, and maybe more...

           Maybe  you  know  of  another  candidate  for  this  list?  Good
     suggestions are still welcome!

           I apologize for the bugs in version 1.00. It appears that MBUTIL
     wasn't tested as good as I thought it was, but I learned a good lesson
     from it. MBUTIL was released only  4 weeks after I started writing  it
     from scratch in my  leisure hours, so you could say I  rushed a little
     too much.

     Gerard van der Land,
     FidoNet 2:283/1.5 and 2:283/108.1