1 15Apr01=======================================================================
2 1. made some mods to the sgml documentation for 1.47
3 2. added show/connect command
4 11Apr01=======================================================================
5 1. fixed more of the "xxx disappeared from yyy" messages
6 2. altered the build no logic so that it always checksums the same files
7 regardless of whatever else you might have in the directory.
8 3. made shortcut at shutdown so that you don't get a storm of PC21s on busy
9 nodes as each connection goes down. Just send a pc39 to each interface and
11 4. changed action of SIG{INT} and SIG{TERM} so that they now work on MSWin32
12 10Apr01=======================================================================
13 1. altered PC21 logic somewhat to eliminate dup PC21s
14 2. disconnect should remove dangling local users in the routing table.
15 3. fixed nasty recursive timer bug
16 4. added some extra info to make connect tracking a bit easier.
17 5. improved docs on connect scripts a bit (to include agw connects)
18 09Apr01=======================================================================
19 1. changed lockfile name to cluster.lck (from .lock) for MSWin's benefit
20 08Apr01=======================================================================
21 1. added a quick installation guide to the admin manual and removed references
23 01Apr01=======================================================================
24 1. changed agwrestart semantics. You need to use main::agwrestart() in your
25 crontabs rather than AGWMsg::init();
26 2. try to thread winclient.pl for MSWin32.
27 31Mar01=======================================================================
28 1. added agwrestart command
29 2. add Iains Windoze installation manual (g0vgs)
30 3. various alterations to adminmanual and initial version of the CVS changes
32 30Mar01=======================================================================
33 1. fix errors on accept in ExtMsg and in Msg
34 2. fix the non-blocking problems of connects (and other things in general).
35 non-blocking only works for unix implementations at the moment.
36 3. add rinit command (sends a PC20)
37 4. improve debuging so that stuff is always escaped and a new 'raw' debug
38 mode that shows everything sent and received in glorious hex and characters
39 29Mar01=======================================================================
40 1. add better tracking of AGW circuits (possibly)
41 2. add set and unset/agwmonitor (ing) [for all the notice it seems to take]
42 28Mar01=======================================================================
43 1. AGW engine stuff now accepts incoming calls and at least attempts to do
45 2. fixed 'always' telnet on a client line in a connect script
46 27Mar01=======================================================================
47 1. add first cut at an AGW Engine. Copy /spider/perl/AGWConnect.pm to
48 /spider/local and edit it appropriately. You shouldn't need a login and passwd
49 if you are using the default setup. It may allow incoming connects (and then
50 again it may not - I don't have a reliable infrostructure to test with at the
51 moment). The AGW Engine is a M$ thingy, but that don't preclude you connecting
52 to it from a unix box.
53 22Mar01=======================================================================
54 1. edit the helpfile for set/debug and add help for show/debug
55 2. Allow ^Z again on messages
56 3. Added back onboard support for ax25 OUTBOUND connections. You will need
57 exactly the same facilities as before (ie netrom_call, ax25_call suid root
58 etc) but it is called direct from the cluster.pl - client.pl is DEAD!
59 19Mar01=======================================================================
60 1. Add 'not allowed' messages into sh/filter with callsign and reduce priv
61 2. decode %xx characters in winclient.pl
63 18Mar01=======================================================================
64 1. minor changes to user and admin manuals. Added revsion numbers
65 17Mar01=======================================================================
66 1. put block check back in, try a work around for EWOULDBLOCK/EINPROGRESS
68 16Mar01=======================================================================
69 1. integrate build number into main cluster and change the PC18 to show
70 version and build in the text portion
71 14Mar01=======================================================================
72 1. first cut at outgoing ax25 /external program connects
73 2. slight change of interface to connect
74 3. added a build number to sh/version
75 13Mar01=======================================================================
76 1. implemented first cut at non blocking connect
77 2. removed memory leakage in connects
78 3. add link IP address if available on who
79 4. made the \r\n work correctly on External connections
81 6. fixed memory leakages in DXMsg
82 7. fixed pc39/21 handling
83 8. fixed routing table issues and general disconnection tidy up
84 10Mar01=======================================================================
85 1. minor changes to the admin manual to reflect differences in distibutions
86 thanks to pa3ezl (g0vgs)
87 2. add (finally) the first draft of the usermanual (g0vgs)
88 05Mar01=======================================================================
89 1. do some major surgery on the connect logic to shorten the possibility of
90 duplicate connects happening
91 2. fix stupid error on sh/qrz queries that don't work
92 04Mar01=======================================================================
93 1. allow fallback to english for help
94 03Mar01=======================================================================
95 1. allow incoming and outgoing IP connects direct to cluster.pl
96 2. fixed (long standing)a hole in PC17 handling
97 3. added winclient.pl (actually just a very basic client) from Iain G0RDI
98 4. Added Spanish as a language (thanks ea1dav) (g0vgs)
99 5. ignore BUST(ED) spots
100 28Feb01=======================================================================
101 1. allow sh/c gb7 (ie show the config of all gb7 nodes)(for example)
102 2. get rid of spurious DXHash 'uninitialised' messages if no corresponding
104 3. changed policy of $censorpc in DXProt.pm so that badwords are looked for
105 in all text announces etc.
106 4. Unpad (remove excess spaces from) spotted callsigns in PC11.
107 5. test for opertaing system in various places and do different if M$
108 27Feb01=======================================================================
109 1. allow partial node callsigns on sh/c (eg sh/c gb7)
110 2. Changed Msg.pm to allow a more generalised interface with more than one
112 3. Added IntMsg.pm to implement the internal connection management that is
113 currently scattered about the cluster code.
114 25Feb01=======================================================================
115 1. Fixed watchdbg so that simple arguments work again
116 22Feb01=======================================================================
117 1. Added platform name to sh/version
118 2. changed client.pl so that it send \r\n instead of \n on telnet connects
119 3. added lineend '\r\n' command to connect scripts so you can override
121 03Feb01=======================================================================
122 1. Changes and additions to the manual and added a help file for sh/log (g0vgs)
123 13Jan01=======================================================================
124 1. Documentation alterations to match new commands etc (g0vgs)
125 08Jan01=======================================================================
126 1. Changed the way that badnodes, baddx etc work. There is a new general way
127 implemented (dunno why I didn't do this before - hey ho...) as a consequence
128 there are set/unset/show baddx (for bad dx callsigns) badnode (for dx from
129 bad nodes) badspotter (for bad spotters of dx eg VE2STN). Expect more of
130 this sort of thing...
131 2. Added one to the copyright dates...
132 06Jan01=======================================================================
133 1. Fix set/obscount so it actually works.
134 2. Allow different number formats for set/pingint eg: 5m for 5 minutes and
135 120s for 120 seconds (and 1h for 1 hour).
136 03Jan01=======================================================================
137 1. Added a txt directory for txt versions of manuals (g0vgs)
138 2. Various documentation changes
139 02Jan01=======================================================================
140 1. added a help file for forward/latlong and updated the admin manual to
142 2. Add spot2csv.pl to convert spot files into tab delimited .csv format.
143 3. Add show/route to see which interface a station is connected on.
144 31Dec00=======================================================================
145 1. add lat/long info to show/prefix
146 30Dec00=======================================================================
147 1. added latest version of the admin manual from Ian G0VGS.
148 23Dec00=======================================================================
149 1. don't route anything back down the channel it came from.
150 2. and, in the process, fix some silly errors in routing converted rcmd PCs
151 3. changed all occurrances of 'freq' in filter help to 'on' and corrected
152 some errors (eg freq/ssb).
153 4. added latest admin manual.
154 18Dec00=======================================================================
155 1. fix double printing of DB results
156 2. add new style filtering for WWV and WCY to complete the set
157 3. got the field nos right (hopefully) on Announces for filters
158 05Dec00=======================================================================
159 1. fix frequency hinting routine so it correctly handles things like 'on 23cm'
160 where digits are the 'wrong' way round.
161 2. made default max days to search for spots 3 months.
162 3. added hex decodes for those pesky 'national' characters that aren't really
163 in grepdbg and watchdbg.
164 4. decide that we are using Latin-1 and therefore characters 0x80-0x9f are
166 5. fix the announces so that they are all UPPER CASE for poor old DXTelnet.
167 03Dec00=======================================================================
168 1. change grepdbg and watchdbg so that you can see a number of lines before
169 the condx that you are looking for so:-
172 will show both the LOOP line and the preceeding 2 lines.
173 2. add PCPROT to all error condx lines in DXProt.pm so that you can watch
174 for them more easily.
175 30Nov00=======================================================================
176 1. remove %nn strings from dups of announces and spots
177 2. remove check for ssids on PC41s
178 29Nov00=======================================================================
179 1. make some small changes to DXmsg to try to track delete problems?
180 2. fix ann/full so it doesn't dup
181 27Nov00=======================================================================
182 1. alter sh/wcy output slightly
183 26Nov00=======================================================================
184 1. made it possible for sysop calls to be used on other nodes and still have
185 anti loop checking on PC16/17.
186 25Nov00=======================================================================
187 1. -l <nnn> now works on C client
188 2. -e toggles echo cancelling (normally on) on C client
189 20Nov00=======================================================================
190 1. added even more checking to PC16,17 and 39
191 19Nov00=======================================================================
192 1. improve reaping code a bit more.
193 2. put some extra checking in the PC16,17,19,21 code.
194 3. fix problem with the aliased user disappearing and loads of 'unitialised'
196 16Nov00=======================================================================
197 1. Alter the process reaping code in cluster.pl to use waitpid
198 12Nov00=======================================================================
199 1. Fix lack 't' action in Filter.pm
200 08Nov00=======================================================================
201 1. fix cosmetic errors in for/oper for 'users'.
202 07Nov00=======================================================================
203 1. removed sh/call because the owner isn't happy about us using it.
204 2. change sh/qrz to the new interface. MUCH QUICKER! you will need a user id
205 and password from qrz.com to use it and you will have to copy the
206 /spider/perl/Internet.pm to /spider/local and alter it accordingly. Do
207 remember to set $allow=1 as well! The new interface comes courtesy of Fred
208 LLoyd, the proprietor of http://www.qrz.com
209 06Nov00=======================================================================
210 1. Added sh/qrz to the list of callbook services
211 05Nov00=======================================================================
212 1. 75% speed up on sh/dx !, lower memory usage as well!
213 2. Fixed problem with clear/spot 0 (how did this one last so long!!!)
214 3. add 'on' in accept/reject spots as synonym for 'freq'
215 4. add the same speed up to general log printing
217 04Nov00=======================================================================
218 1. fix sh/filter so ity now works for any callsign (and not just connected
220 2. Have only one is_callsign and not an iscallsign as well.
221 3. Add set/hops and show/hops commands.
222 4. Add unset/badnode command and put some help in for these commands
223 03Nov00=======================================================================
224 1. allow - in filter strings
225 2. store only the filter expression NOTE BENE: you will need to clear all
226 your existing filters and re-enter them!!!!!!
227 3. Added announce filtering
228 4. Fixed problem with announce filtering on output to the node
229 02Nov00=======================================================================
230 1. updated filtering logic. You will need to RECREATE your filters (clear/spot
231 all, then start again) for testing.
232 2. allow PC73 for DXNet
233 3. added some help text for filtering and filtering spots in particular.
234 01Nov00=======================================================================
235 1. put PC11 field 2 check back to m for pc text.
236 2. improve 'simple' callsign checking
237 3. Added the first cut of the new user/sysop filtering code. This cut works
238 for spots and the syntax is:-
240 accept/spots [<call>] [input] [<filterno>] things ..
241 reject/spots [<call>] [input] [<filterno>] things ..
244 freq 0/30000 | hf | hf/cw | 6m,4m,2m
255 channel GB7DJK,GB7BAA
257 You can simply string these together on one line one after the other and
258 there is an implied 'and', you can also string together with 'or' 'not' (or
259 '!') and '(' and ')' - in otherwords an arbitrary expression.
261 You can see what you have done with:
265 You can clear your work with:
267 clear/spots [<call>] [input] [<filterno>|all]
269 Have fun and someone please write the documentation.
270 4. Added show/msg_status.pl sysop command (shows some info on what is busy in
272 31Oct00=======================================================================
273 1. add 0x8e to the list of characters we clobber (make xterm go into graphics
275 30Oct00=======================================================================
276 1. put in new Filter::it code and tested it. Now all we have to do is write
277 the user access routines (oh and the help files!).
278 29Oct00=======================================================================
279 1. put in echo cancelling measures into the clients. This doesn't mean you
280 shouldn't take steps to prevent echoing on node links, but it may help where
281 (whatever you do) it still bloody echos! This is experimental.
282 2. store dxchan and mynode as callsigns (and not references) in the routing
283 tables and do some checking in accessors to see if we can capture some errors.
284 3. tart up the stat/chan etc display to give more useful debugging info
285 28Oct00=======================================================================
286 1. updated show/sun and show/moon from stuff sent by Steve Franke K9AN
287 2. added show/call which queries jeifer.pineknot.com for any call in the
288 world (as opposed to UALR which only does US calls). Inspired by a bit of
289 perl sent to me by Steve Franke (again!) and also Angel EA7WA who gave me the
291 3. fixed clients so that they accept -0 as a valid SSID and then strip it off
292 as though they had come in without (why has this taken so long to appear? How
293 long have we been running this code ??????).
294 27Oct00=======================================================================
295 1. alter the code in clean_old of DXMsg system to see if we get some different
296 behaviour with random crashing
297 26Oct00=======================================================================
298 1. if there is a 'connected' file in /spider/data then the client will send
299 it out to the user after connection.
300 25Oct00=======================================================================
301 1. fix catchup and uncatchup commands so that they accept ranges
302 24Oct00=======================================================================
303 1. added cty.dat from http://www.k1ea.com/cty/index.htm to the prefix_data.pl
304 data file and modified create_prefix.pl accordingly.
305 2. the 'no text line' messages should now propagate correctly
306 3. added the dxcc, itu and cq zone numbers for announcer and origining node
307 on announce filters - see the /spider/filter/ann/*.issue files for more info.
308 4. you can now specify a 'user_default.pl', 'node_default.pl' and
309 'in_node_default.pl' in each of the filter directories
310 23Oct00=======================================================================
311 1. Added K5K as Kingman Reef
313 17Oct00=======================================================================
314 1. force frames to go down the local interface when doing a route. This is
315 particularly important for pings!
316 16Oct00=======================================================================
317 1. add a ':' after 'G7BRN de G1TLH' in a talk message.
318 2. added /J to the list of things to ignore (as in G1TLH/J) in prefix
319 processing (ie /J mean Jota not /JA [Japan]).
320 3. change all INCOMING 00-08 0A-1F and 9B characters that make it past the
321 intermediate client->server protocol to '.'.
322 04Sep00=======================================================================
323 1. made PC10,11,12 badword checking dependant on a flag variable ($censorpc)
325 02Sep00=======================================================================
326 1. fix a long standing talk bug to do with routing to specific nodes (t xxx >
328 2. Add badwords checking in various places. You put a list of words into
329 /spider/data/badwords one or several per line. Lines starting with # are
330 ignored. PC10, PC11, PC12 with words contained in this file will not be
331 sent on. Also ann, talk and dx commands have badword checking added. Words
332 are NOT case sensitive, but you will need to put all the endings in (eg
333 ...k, ...ker, ...king).
334 3. Added new version of admin manual from G0VGS.
335 01Sep00=======================================================================
336 1. allow blank on field 4 of PC10 (even though it's "illegal").
337 28Aug00=======================================================================
338 1. changes DXChannel::get_all_ak1a to get_all_nodes.
339 2. ignore PC21s coming in on the interface with that callsign (ie nodes
340 trying to disconnect themselves).
341 3. output correct PC29 on blank lines and escape ^ characters differently
342 (and transparently for spider nodes).
343 26Aug00=======================================================================
344 1. make blank origins on messages the node call.
345 2. added new version of FAQ from Ian G0VGS
346 3. added a dummy PC75 command (WCY merge?)
347 4. Don't allow mail routing for clx nodes
349 25Aug00=======================================================================
350 1. moan about and then delete empty message files
351 24Aug00=======================================================================
352 1. Removed WWV command so that users can't interfere (read mess up) the
353 automatic feeds which come from various places on the net.
354 23Aug00=======================================================================
355 1. Added persistant dupe file so that all dupes are stored here (including
356 announces) - announces are now kept for 5 days (as default).
357 2. limit the characters stored in a dupe for spots and announces
358 20Aug00=======================================================================
359 1. Added system Alias for set/nodxgrid => unset/dxgrid
360 2. Add full individual checking for all PC protocol fields in all messages
361 and removed any language dependant stuff (hopefully).
362 3. console.pl is now a bit more international (client.c/pl already are)
363 19Aug00=======================================================================
364 1. Added an efficiency thing for AUTOLOADed accessors from OO Perl by Conway.
365 2. Fiddled with the rtty and digital bandplan frequencies.
366 18Aug00=======================================================================
367 1. added a couple of changes for perl 5.6.0
368 2. removed del_dup from DXUser for earlier versions of DB '1.85' (ie real ones
369 not 2.x versions in 1.85 compatibility mode).
370 3. Started the OOing of the PC protocol stuff.
371 15Aug00=======================================================================
372 1. added 1.25 of the admin manual html
373 14Aug00=======================================================================
374 1. Added regex support to sh/dup_*.pl commands
375 2. fixed rcmd in crontab so that will work again
376 13Aug00=======================================================================
377 1. removed extra /60 in AnnTalk to make deduping of announces work a bit
379 05Aug00=======================================================================
380 1. Fixed hex character problem put in somewhen in the C Client
381 03Aug00=======================================================================
382 1. caught some more signals (are any of these causing the random stopping
384 2. the Console now requires 1.05 of the Curses module ^R REFRESHES THE SCREEN
385 (as does ^L) AT LAST!!!!!
386 02Aug00=======================================================================
387 1. put back hex check exception for PC29
388 01Aug00=======================================================================
389 1. made the export and import ascii system work finally. The user_asc file
390 generated (automatically and 0000Z Sunday morning) is autoloading. Just
391 execute it and it will automatically reload your user database.
392 2. remove import_users.pl no longer necessary
393 31Jul00=======================================================================
394 1. try to fix paging problem.
395 2. added help for spoof and set/forward
396 3. fixed bogus callsign check for field 2 of a PC12
397 4. Add DB_File to DXCommandmode to make it available for commands
398 30Jul00=======================================================================
399 1. Added talk mode so that I don't have to keep typing T <call> all the time.
400 2. fiddled around with storing of Debug messages a bit more.
401 3. bomb proofed the type command.
402 4. started the objectifying for talk, dx and announcements.
403 5. fix talkmode so that it only does 'via' PC10s when it really needs to.
404 6. SEND now displays a message if you try to do it in not prompt mode.
405 7. stopped a few more things being done by rcmd (eg send, talk, ann, dx)
406 8. tidied up the talking a bit more.
407 9. Increase default hop counts all round.
408 10. Adjust hex encoding so that 8 bit characters should now go thru
409 11. check more of the essential protocol fields for 8 bit characters.
410 29Jul00=======================================================================
411 1. added forward/latlong which will forward ALL the users that have a latitude
412 and longitude set on them to one or more locally connected nodes - with a hop
414 2. speeded up the show/node command by using the DB_File interface and
415 sequentially reading the data directly and only 'get'ting the ones that are
417 3. did the same for show/isolate and show/lockout.
418 28Jul00=======================================================================
419 1. fixed watchdbg midnight rollover loop and removed the date part of the
420 date/time translation to leave just the time.
421 27Jul00=======================================================================
422 1. made sure that 'en' is the default language on new users.
423 2. issue error message if shutdown is attempted by a low privileged user.
424 3. Make sure a privilege is defined for all users (even if it is 0).
425 4. Try to fix some more dups (and the time on them).
426 5. make the time stored on dups generated locally on spots an integer no of
428 6. send unsolicited PC[38]5s to the sysop if online.
429 7. merged current html from www.dxcluster.org with Ian's stuff
430 8. Added sgml files into the source tree
431 9. changed default paclen in client.c to 236
432 26Jul00=======================================================================
433 1. added wantgrid (to control display of grid square info on DX Broadcasts)
434 2. added lastoper for controlling periodic demands for user info from other
436 3. added spiderFAQ stuff from Ian G0VGS and latest update of the admin manual
437 4. changed updating and deleting from user file in an attempt to keep down
438 duplicates and possibly corruptions.
439 5. added a DXUser::export routine to allow the cluster to automatically
440 export the user data in ascii from cron.
441 6. added a line in the ISSUED crontab to do the export once a week
442 7. delete annok and dxok if set to 1 in user records.
443 8. added export_users command to allow arbitary exporting of user files
444 9. added set and unset/dxgrid command to allow control over the grid squares
446 10. Removed export_user.pl (no longer needed)
447 11. made import_users.pl accept a non related input filename and always
448 update the current user file.
449 12. added an 'auto rcmd <node> for/oper <call>' for people I can see on the
450 cluster that issue spots and for whom I have no qra info (no more than once
451 a month). This isn't the default - set $send_opernam in
452 /spider/local/DXProtVars.pm (copied from /spider/perl). Good for gateways.
453 13. Despace spot texts properly again for deduping purposes.
454 14. Corrected Pc84/85 handling a bit.
455 15. Sync the user database every 15 secs to see whether we can reduce the
456 corruptions and duplicates.
457 25Jul00=======================================================================
458 1. ignore \n in ax25 mode for C client.
459 2. remove extra space at the end of a DX spot announce when no grid square
461 3. added new admin manual from Ian G0VGS
462 20Jul00=======================================================================
463 1. Finally managed to update my source with the sourceforge one
464 2. added user->qra cleaning in various places
465 3. added four digit locator strings to broadcast DX spots (for users).
466 4. PC11 with blank callsigns should now be ignored.
467 5. put back the unpadding to the PC11 dup checking to catch spots with added
468 blanks at the end of lines.
469 25Jun00=======================================================================
470 1. added 0 to the regex that checks for valid data on the cluster.pl->client
471 channel - this will allow G0VGS and G0RDI to connect....
472 2. removed technically unnecessary /= 60 from the dup routines to see if
473 Arnold's Sparcs don't then crash.
474 19Jun00=======================================================================
475 1. move ann_dup, spot_dup etc to dup_ann, dup_spots etc
476 2. made mode 3 the default line ending convention for all out going connects
477 via telnet in client.pl
478 18Jun00=======================================================================
479 1. fixed line ending ambiguities (I think) for telnet connections. Well
480 actually only really band aided it. It works but isn't how I want it.
481 Client.pl has got to go....
482 2. Added 1.21 of Ian G0VGS's admin manual
483 17Jun00=======================================================================
484 1. I believe I have fixed all the login/logout 'broken pipe' errors
485 2. Added G0RDI's 'links' command.
486 3. added update_sysop.pl which cleans out all previous versions of the sysops
487 information from the user database and recreates it with that in DXVars.pm
488 4. Added node type to links and who
489 5. Hardened up the cluster->client link in the cluster software so that
490 rubbish on port 27754 doesn't (usually) crash the cluster.
491 14Jun00=======================================================================
492 1. fixed sh/node crash
493 2. fixed RTT in who.pl
494 13Jun00=======================================================================
495 1. fixed looping bug in C client on ending.
496 12Jun00=======================================================================
497 1. Added RCMD for clx
498 2. Added WCY processing
499 3. Added new node types (clx, spider, dxnet, arcluster)
500 4. Store echo settings
501 5. Store pagelth settings
502 6. sort out source of DXVars for callbot.pl
505 11Jun00=======================================================================
506 1. removed extraneous DXDebug from DXUtil
507 2. added help for set/echo
508 3. Centralised all spot, wwv and ann dup handling into respective packages.
509 4. Created new AnnTalk package (for above and OOing announce and talk
511 5. Fixed problem with outputting lines with | in them to console.pl.
512 10Jun00=======================================================================
513 1. got rid of some more nasty bugs in sh/qra.
514 2. fixed 9A3xx to always be Croatia (and not Haiti!).
515 09Jun00=======================================================================
516 1. change some print commands in DXMsg to dbg('err'...
517 2. overloaded confess, croak et al into DXDebug and removed Carp from
518 everywhere and checked that the necessary debugging really does go into
520 3. changed print statements in cluster.pl to dbg('err',... so they go into
521 the debug files as well.
522 4. Altered the logic around duplicate spots, reduced the length of comment
523 checked to 20 characters (this should solve some problems including those
524 people sucking ar-cluster spots with prefixes in the extreme rh end).
525 08Jun00=======================================================================
526 1. fixed problem with binary characters from cluster->client
527 2. added set/echo and unset/echo commands
528 3. echo login characters on login: prompt for C client
529 4. Send \r\n on telnet connections for C Client
530 5. Make echoing the default option (for M$ telnet clients :-()
531 11May00=======================================================================
532 1. fixed looping in Msg.pm (at last)
533 10May00=======================================================================
534 1. wrote a cross between 'tail -f' and grepdbg so that you can watch the
535 debug files for particular strings and only have them print out.
536 05May00=======================================================================
537 1. rewrote parts of Msg.pm and client.c so that the messages no longer use
538 a length word at the front of each one. They are simply strings of characters
539 separated by a \n. No binary characters are allowed (they are encoded as %nn)
540 a la HTTP. This hopefully cures Arnold's problem and also make it more
541 secure anyway. It also paves the way for the ax25/ip multicast client.
542 30Apr00=======================================================================
543 1. put some extra checks and balances in to message send routine in Msg.pm to
544 see if I can prevent the error seen by Arnold (which I think is only likely to
545 appear in heavily loaded sites).
546 25Apr00=======================================================================
547 1. Changed reply so that you can reply to more than one address privately
548 31Mar00=======================================================================
549 1. fixed nnn-mmm in kill (erase/delete) msgs so that mmm is also deleted and
550 not just nnn -> mmm-1.
551 2. Added an autosplit to message importing so that messages are split
552 automagically into bits if the filename used in the import directory starts
553 with "split". This will add a [1/5] type string on the the end of the subject.
554 3. dedupe more aggressively on the text of Spots so that only the 1st 27 chars
555 of text are considered (as opposed to the whole lot).
556 30Mar00=======================================================================
557 1. altered client.pl connect code so that it doesn't falsely recognise
558 /spider/src/client as a 'client' instruction.
559 28Mar00=======================================================================
560 1. Added buffering to client
561 2. Fixed LOGIN so that you can login with an arbitrary callsign
562 27Mar00=======================================================================
563 1. updated wpxloc.raw and rsgb.cty for 4W and TX0.
564 2. display 'start time' rather than 'last start time in' in who.
565 3. Allow local users to see their own sh/talk or sh/log stuff.
566 4. A more robust version of the C client.
567 5. Added a message exporting command 'export'.
568 6. allow swopping on all messages, including imported and manually sent ones
569 7. S A < B @ C $BID now works from the command line and thus bbses ought to
570 be able to send messages into the cluster. Bids are (currently) ignored.
571 26Mar00=======================================================================
572 1. first cut of C client
573 18Mar00=======================================================================
574 1. fixed convkeps.pl so that it accepts more formats for floating point.
575 08Mar00=======================================================================
576 1. tidied up Sun.pm and sh/sat
577 2. fixed sh/qra so that the correct lat/long is displayed if only one locator
579 10Jan00=======================================================================
580 1. added Steve Franke's new Sun.pm and show/satellite command
581 08Jan00=======================================================================
582 1. really removed the restriction on 0 length messages.
583 2. added a periodic msg file import system a la FBB. Stick one or more files
584 into /spider/msg/import with a suitable SEND line, subject and the text and
585 it will import it. The importer will accept some BBS syntax (eg < GB7TLH) to
586 allow you to customise the 'from' callsign.
587 03Jan00=======================================================================
588 1. changed the copyright statement in sh/version!
589 2. added sh/date with special "be compatible with ak1a" syntax for the output
590 of sh/date with no arguments, otherwise the same as sh/time. A special favour
592 3. and another one, added show/node especially for G4PDQ.
593 01Jan00=======================================================================
594 1. Fixed Julian routines to get rid of the millenium bug! (do as I say, not
596 2. updated gdx.pl so that external programs can do a sh/dx just as a normal
597 user can. On reflection this could be used as a model for all sorts of
598 "external" interface routines.
599 3. renamed gdx.pl as showdx.
600 11Dec99=======================================================================
601 1. added missing pc48 so that it calls the DXDb::process routine
602 10Dec99=======================================================================
603 1. allow msgs to marked as read or unread
604 02Dec99=======================================================================
605 1. DX command doesn't recognise '6M' as '6m' in SH/DX ON 6M.
606 2. set/node now sets the homenode as the callsign.
607 3. changed the label for the 18Mhz band from '18m' to '17m' in the bands
609 01Dec99=======================================================================
610 1. started the callbot which lives at n2tly.dxcluster.net 9000.
612 3. added www.buck.com
613 4. added k4ute at no4j.com
614 28Nov99=======================================================================
615 1. fixed all the stupid errors introduced in 1.36 confusing DXUser->get with
616 DXCluster->get_exact.
617 24Nov99=======================================================================
618 1. extended badmsg.pl stuff so that it works like the forward file and allows
619 one to reject on to, from, origin and subject fields.
620 2. added a swop.pl again in a forward.pl like format that allows simple swop
621 for a field or test on a field and set another.
622 3. Fixed the problem that read private mail follows you around as well as
623 unread private mail does.
624 4. Change the logic of connections so that the node will accept callsigns with
625 SSIDs to -8 as different entities from each other. SSIDs > 8 are subtracted
626 from 15 and are assumed to be coming in via netrom diddled connections. This
627 affects lots of the commands as well. I may not have got them all.
628 5. Hangup clients on HUP signals. I originally ignored them, for reasons that
629 are now lost in the mists of time. HUP signals now cause clients to die
630 (cleanly) and disconnect everything correctly.
631 6. Added show/time command
632 21Nov99=======================================================================
633 1. lose extraneous rubbish after the callsign as sent by BBSes.
634 2. Change end label on sh/moon to RGain dB rather than Loss dB.
635 3. Remove spurious call to DXCluster->get_exact in pc50.
636 4. Allow rcmd to locally connected nodes that are not (for some reason) in the
638 5. Try and send a PC39 in more cases to a cluster that I want to disconnect
639 from in the hope that it notices and disconnects its end.
640 20Nov99=======================================================================
641 1. Added set/unset logininfo which will tell anybody that has this set when
642 someone has either logged in or out of this node.
643 2. Added set/pinginterval command which alters the length of time between
644 pings sent to nodes, the value is minutes < 120 and seconds above that, 0
645 means disable pinging (not recommended).
646 3. If someone does a sysop whilst connected via ax25, don't show privilege
647 level or passwd in stat/user.
648 4. Fixed the problem with the dx command where if the callsign ended in a ?
649 then the call and the freq would be replicated in the remarks.
650 5. Set/unset ann, dx, talk, beep, wx, wwv all are now permanent (ie stored in
652 19Nov99=======================================================================
653 1. Added new version of sh/sun and also sh/moon from Steve K9AN
655 3. added Aliase for show/tnc_sta to who.
656 4. added Alias for show/uptime to sh/cl
657 18Nov99=======================================================================
658 1. Added ping obs counter together with Time::HiRes timers. This will dis-
659 connect nodes that fail to respond to 3 ping requests (on the 4th attempt).
660 The default time is a ping every 3 mins, therefore a link will be struck out
661 after 12 minutes of nil response.
662 2. Maintain a table of outstanding connects to other nodes and prevent over-
663 laps (special favour to G0RDI).
664 17Nov99=======================================================================
665 1. Started using Data::Dumper for things again
666 2. 'Fixed' DXUser file corruption?
667 3. Allow multiline (ie lines with \n in them) output in $DXChannel::send
668 4. Added Andrew K9CW's updated wpxloc.raw, regenerated prefix_data.pl
669 5. Put in callsign matching and stuff into sh/sun.
670 14Nov99=======================================================================
671 1. added BBS.pm to start BBS input of mail
672 2. fixed eval in DXUser to log errors rather than banging out
673 12Nov99=======================================================================
674 1. added sh/sun command kindly supplied by Steve K9AN.
675 2. allow ^Z on its own on a line to terminate a message
676 08Nov99=======================================================================
677 1. added spoofing (mk1 version) for sysops, useful for those little jobs like
678 reseting a user's qra locator and such like "spoof g7brn set/qra jo02lq".
679 2. fixed set/location so it stores the qra locator in the qra locator slot,
680 NOT the lat/long (who wrote this stuff...?).
681 07Nov99=======================================================================
682 1. reduced the amount of stuff compared against for dup announces.
683 2. Check the regex for DK0WCY announces produces results before storing it as
685 3. Added some logging for set/priv (un)set/lockout.
686 4. Added test long path calc to sh/muf
687 5. Only wonder down the msg queue every minute
688 6. Put in the initial DB code (at last), you can create and remove local and
689 standard remote dbs, you can import AK1A style .FUL ascii databases, you can
690 enquire on a local or remote database.
691 7. A return ping to a node will clear down all outstanding pings to
692 that node (which might cause some confusion if more then one ping is
693 outstanding for a node, but then - shit happens).
694 04Nov99=======================================================================
695 1. Removed ~ from the end of the PC18.
696 2. Removed a hangover from duff character checking in cluster.pl
697 3. Stop PC frames that are to be routed, being routed back to themselves.
698 03Nov99=======================================================================
699 1. Simplified command caching so it uses anonymous subroutines, you should
700 also get error messages back on the console now when developing.
701 2. Allow locally connected AK1A clusters that for some obscure reason don't
702 issue PC19s to still appear as connected and allow them to acquire users.
703 31Oct99=======================================================================
704 1. updated Minimuf.pm and show/muf.pl to the fixed versions sent to me by
706 2. Made set/badnodes work, added show/badnodes. This is an interim fix until
707 input spot filtering works.
708 24Oct99=======================================================================
709 1. fixed announces so that nodes only get one of them (not two).
710 2. Altered the select timeouts to prevent apparent excessive CPU usage on
711 multiprocessor machines (or at least that is what seems to be the trouble
713 22Oct99=======================================================================
714 1. allow filter CALLSIGNS to be in upper or lower case.
715 2. create the concept of input and output filters, input filters are of the
716 form "in_$call.pl" eg: "in_g1tlh.pl" (or "in_G1TLH.pl"), output filters are
717 "g1tlh.pl" (or "G1TLH.pl").
718 3. all users can now filter on spots, ann and wwv (assuming the sysop has set
719 the filters up - still no user creatable filters. Nodes can filter on both
720 input for announces and output for all of these. I would recommend setting
721 up a few filters that are likely to be wanted and then symlinking callsigns
722 to them as you get requests.
723 4. added callsign and length of history/position of screen stats to console.
724 If you want to change the colour of the callsign you will need to copy the
725 Console.pm to your /spider/local directory and change the $mycallcolor equate.
726 21Oct99=======================================================================
727 1. fixed reply so that reply b or reply nop generate a bulletin with the
729 2. implemented sh/muf command.
730 3. reduced privilege of catchup and uncatchup to 5. This so that, suitably
731 privileged, nodes that occasionally link can rcmd a "catchup <nodecall> all"
732 to the node they are connecting to and thus prevent a large tranche of,
733 potentially duplicate, mail. This isn't an issue for DXSpider, but may be
734 an issue for any AK1A clusters you are connected to.
735 20Oct99=======================================================================
736 1. Translated all the subroutines of minimuf into perl as Minimuf.pm
737 2. Limited the length of an ANN that is saved for de-duping to $pc12_dup_lth
739 3. help command should now return stuff that you expect.
740 4. reduced necessary privilege to use 'MSG' command to 6.
741 5. Correct the count of spots and wwv for a merge.
742 6. Allow decodes of DK0WCY-3 WWV data beacon announces
743 7. rewrote send so that an SB doesn't send a buckshee bull to NOPRIVATE!
744 8. Changed default colouration on console so that all spots >= 50Mhz are red
745 9. Fixed init command so that PC21s are sent down non-initted channels
746 10. Allow forwarding of unknown private mail. This means that you can set up
747 forwarding of 'foreign' mail across to and by gateways using the same
748 mechanism as bulletins (/spider/msg/forward.pl).
749 11. Allow line wrapping on the console (G0RDI, G0VGS et al).
750 18Oct99=======================================================================
751 1. changed help command so that it works correctly with multiple title lines.
752 2. added to address to the list of things a message checks to see whether it
753 is a duplicate (how on earth did it take _this_ long to find this one?).
754 3. Changes S CC so that the callsign it says it has sent to is the real one
756 21Sep99=======================================================================
757 1. allow zero messages to be stored (request from G4PDQ)
758 2. make DX more flexible and change spotter syntax to be consistant with
759 sh/dx (request from K9AN)
760 30Aug99=======================================================================
761 1. remove -@ as well as \d from SSIDs for spots
762 2. remove WEB and/or NET from the front or rear of callsigns in Prefix.pm
763 29Aug99=======================================================================
764 1. Added msg command to allow the changing of To, From, Subject and so on the
765 messages. This seems particularly important just now as a whole raft of G3's
766 seem to be putting out non private bulls to callsigns.
767 2. While I am at set messages to TO fields that appear to be users to private
768 if they have been sent as bulls.
769 3. Add DISTROs, if a callsign field appears in /spider/msg/distro in upper
770 use that as a list of callsigns to send further. Note this is potentially
771 recursive as callsigns in a distro can be distros.
772 25Aug99=======================================================================
773 1. check the date of a WWV much more carefully.
774 24Aug99=======================================================================
775 1. Prevented spots with lowercase callsigns being forwarded. This opens a
776 much bigger can of worms which I shall have to address later.
777 17Aug99=======================================================================
778 1. all protocol except PC29 containing %XX characters will be dumped.
779 2. Changed console.pl so that if you start typing it moves the top window
781 19Jul99=======================================================================
782 1. Added iota and qra clauses to sh/dx as well, these take optional arguments
783 and will look for the appropriate strings.
784 17Jul99=======================================================================
785 1. Started database integration.
786 2. added qsl clause to sh/dx that searches for qsl or via in the dx info
787 16Jul99=======================================================================
788 1. drop frames with 'illegal' characters in them (but pass frames with
789 embedded %XX characters).
790 15Jul99=======================================================================
791 1. Changed grepdbg to accept a regexp. More useful (to me anyway).
792 2. Altered init command so that it doesn't send PC21s down the initted
794 10Jul99=======================================================================
795 1. added an explicit disconnect from my side for already connected calls. This
796 appears to have fixed a problem where if two consoles connect at the same time
797 with the same (sysop?) callsign the cluster would stop.
798 2. added some debugging in the Message handler to allow more state to be seen.
799 3. Message handler now seems to work better for longer and doesn't spew out
800 PC42 aborts with quite such gay abandon.
801 05Jul99=======================================================================
802 1. added stat/msg and stat/cluster commands to allow me to poke about inside
803 the msg and cluster node tables.
804 04Jul99=======================================================================
805 1. removed silly 'new message has arrived' to connected nodes
806 2. added a ! command to the console.pl program; works like the bash shell.
807 01Jul99=======================================================================
808 1. Altered priv to 5 for connect.pl to match disconnect for nodes
809 29Jun99=======================================================================
810 1. fixed merge command that I broke.
811 2. added some randomness in waittimes for aborted outgoing messages
812 3. Message Queuing now only occurs every 5 minutes (configurable if anyone
813 wants to write the command for doing it) and on receipt of a PC16. This is
814 a further attempt at sorting the crossing of messages!
815 4. a PC33 will cause another attempt at queuing. If you are on a roll, keep
817 28Jun99=======================================================================
818 1. console.pl now works with history and editting.
819 2. added scrolling to stuff sent by the cluster.
820 3. added colours to things.
821 27Jun99=======================================================================
822 1. added WWV filtering
823 2. added timeouts to for forwarding Messages, also added a waiting time for
824 failed (stalled) outgoing messages.
825 3. Incoming messages will now have priority over outgoing messages to the
827 4. Added 'catchup' command which will 'catchup' messages to date for a node.
828 This means that when you start forwarding to a node, it doesn't get all the
829 messages queued up that are probably old.
830 5. added 'uncatchup' which does the opposite of the above.
831 6. fixed kill full and PC49 handling so that it actually works.
832 7. Fixed local aliases so they add to the front of the standard ones. This
833 means you only need to add your specials or override the system ones you need
835 21Jun99=======================================================================
836 1. changed regex for cluster->client msgs so that strings like |---| are no
838 20Jun99=======================================================================
839 1. prevented a merge to myself (causes a loop)
840 18Jun99=======================================================================
841 1. fixed a problem with DXLogPrint repeating log entries.
842 2. altered the permissions on disconnnect so that priv 5 users can disconnect
843 clusters, but still require priv 8 to disconnect users.
844 3. made sure that an incoming PC18 clears out all the cluster info for
845 that channel before re-initialising.
847 5. disconnect users before nodess on shutdown
848 15Jun99=======================================================================
849 1. added grepdbg program (so you can search your debug files and get times
850 and dates of incidents).
851 2. Moved DXVars.pm to DXVars.pm.issue to force new users to cp it to their
853 3. added $allowzero to DXProt to allow thru PC19s with zero protocol versions.
854 14Jun99=======================================================================
855 1. changed IO::File in help and apropos to IO::File
856 2. added a check for isa('DXNode') for PC50s
857 08Jun99=======================================================================
858 1. Started work on the curses based operator console.
859 03Jun99=======================================================================
860 1. cluster seems to have a memory leak, put DESTROY functions in where
862 2. try to make sure that PC21 commands are not issued inappropriately and
863 also reformat PC19 for onward broadcast so that nodes coming in on loops are
864 dropped from those broadcasts.
865 3. make sure PC16,17,19,21 doen't affect locally connected nodes.
866 4. Changed all instances of FileHandle to IO::File.
867 01Jun99=======================================================================
868 1. removed a output of an unwanted pc21 for isolated nodes
869 31May99=======================================================================
870 1. Added checking for PC16,17,19 and 21 to make sure that they come in from
871 the channels that they are supposed to.
872 2. Pass the RCMDing node's priv level to the command (rather than the
873 connecting node's privilege level).
874 3. Pass thru merge requests for other nodes.
875 4. Removed a warning from client.pl
876 5. routed external DB commands and drop them (for now) locally
877 6. routed external mail commands (ie those addressed elsewhere)
878 7. routed external PC26/27 lines
879 25May99=======================================================================
880 1. try to make the lastin value correct even for local users
881 2. got rid of the stupid bug that failed to print out the offline message
882 but put a "*main::STDOUTmain" for every line of that message instead.
883 3. Ported to 5.00503 (well actually just installed it and it just runs).
885 23May99=======================================================================
886 1. Got rid of some of the useless error messages on global destruction when
888 2. Stuck -w back on client.pl
889 23May99=======================================================================
890 1. tried to change connection to raw mode for cluster connections
891 2. sh/c and sh/u are now sorted in alphabetical order
892 3. Limited the number of queued dx spots when composing messages to 20 (the
893 oldest one is lost for every one added above 20).
894 4. Added generalised shell globbing everywhere I think it is useful, including
895 sh/dx, dir, sh/files etc
896 5. Made dir more compatible with ak1a and added 'to' and 'from' call searching
897 it should now do everything that ak1a does except counts.
898 6. added similar functionality to kill command so that you can kill ranges, to
899 and from callsigns etc.
900 22May99=======================================================================
901 1. added check for -1 from Date::Parse and return undef for out of range dates
902 2. added show/files and type commands
903 21May99=======================================================================
904 1. made set/nodx work again.
905 2. made dx stuff queue nicely again when sending messages.
906 18May99=======================================================================
907 1. Added announce dup checking.
908 2. Added system announce filtering.
909 08May99=======================================================================
910 1. Added a bit more checking to the rcmd thing to make more sure that this
911 rcmd isn't coming from an imposter. Not possible to prevent everything
912 ofcourse, just make it a bit harder.
913 2. altered set/lockout and set/privilege so that they can't executed remotely.
914 3. Added some code to reject rubbish (with invalid binary characters) protocol
915 or user lines as input.
916 4. prevented PC command being executed remotely :-)
917 05May99=======================================================================
918 1. change the connection overlap from an abort to a disconnect.
919 02May99=======================================================================
920 1. Added the mechanism for doing user spot filtering for spots in the cluster
921 (no user control just yet - but sysops can do it).
922 2. Fixed problem with nodes sending out the node lists of isolated nodes.
923 30Apr99=======================================================================
924 1. Try to make it even more AK1A friendly by putting the node list out in the
926 2. added code so that local users and commands go to all connected nodes
927 INCLUDING the isolated ones.
928 26Apr99=======================================================================
929 1. added set/user command as a hack, please use this with care, there is
930 very little checking.
931 2. added export_opernam.pl which is a basic reader of AK1A opernam.dat files
933 25Apr99=======================================================================
934 1. Fixed problem with filtered spots not coming out.
935 2. Added the possibility of filtering on channel callsign
936 20Apr99=======================================================================
937 1. altered order of undefing and closing of user file in an attempt to make
938 corruptions/missing users less likely.
939 2. made messages that are addressed to the node call appear to the alias call
940 3. check dates much more rigourously.
941 4. ignore SIGTERM and SIGINT during shutdown of the cluster
942 15Mar99=======================================================================
943 1. added $actiondata to filter line to allow per action data such as no of hops
944 2. fixed a silly problem in talk for non-existant callsigns
945 3. Added sysop command
946 02Mar99========================================================================
947 1. Changed DXUser so that it uses a homemade import/export hash routine
948 2. DXUser now uses a DB_BTREE file
949 3. Added export_users.pl, import_users.pl and convert_users.pl
950 25Feb99========================================================================
951 1. added NL language stuff.
952 2. added set/language
953 21Feb99========================================================================
954 1. Allowed multiple 'on <freq>' for show/dx
955 2. Made sure the 'on 20m/ssb' thing worked (also 'on hf/cw').
956 3. first cut of the Filtering code, no user commands yet but the file
957 format is defined and manually added filters should work for spots
958 17Feb99========================================================================
959 1. added export_user.pl to export user files (for interest and safety)
960 2. changed DXUser::init to allow O_RDONLY access which may limit the number
961 of coredumps G0RDI seems to get.
962 15Feb99========================================================================
963 1. Added msg forwarding code which uses $main::root/msg/forward.pl.
964 14Feb99========================================================================
965 1. Changed A & K in WWV to be the other way around (I am told by G3IOR that
966 this will mean that we won't have pole to pole aurora nor all the power lines
967 overloading everywhere as well as a result of having values of K > 10).
968 2. allow the '~' character in message bodies.
969 3. Moved $main::data/badmsg.pl to $main::root/msg/badmsg.pl.
970 11Feb99========================================================================
971 1. Fixed a problem with isolated nodes' configurations being sent on sending
972 local configs to new connections.
973 08Feb99========================================================================
974 1. added a $SIG{ALRM} in the client to actually catch the alarm when it goes
975 off which means that the netrom/ax25 call programs terminate properly (and not
976 loop as fast as their little legs can paddle, soaking up CPU time).
977 2. Implemented read receipts as an especial request from G4PDQ.
978 3. Fiddled with DXUser a bit to see whether I can stop it core dumping on new
979 users in PC16s on G0RDI's machine.
980 4. Added E4 (Palestine) to Prefix data.
981 30Jan99========================================================================
982 1. Some of the dates we get can cause crashes, tried to make it more robust (oh
984 2. PC16 seem to come in with missing callsigns from somewhere
985 3. added $main::data/baddx.pl which prevents callsigns that are in the list being
986 a) forwarded b) stored and c) (except for the originator, if local) being
988 4. added $main::data/badmsg.pl which deletes any messages whose TO address is
989 in this list (this is largely for european sensibilities).
990 18Jan99========================================================================
991 1. added present(),presentish() and disconnect() to DXCron so that you can see
992 (easily) if a station is on the cluster anywhere and also disconnect them
994 2. added rcmd() to DXCron so you can send an rcmd to someone else from crontab.
995 3. <embarrassment>Fixed create_sysop.pl so that longitude is spelt correctly
996 there as well</embarrassment> made the update work properly. NOTE create_sysop
997 will only do what you expect if all cluster.pl and client.pl programs are
999 4. DXCron wasn't reading in reliably on startup, this is now (hopefully) fixed.
1000 the -M semantics are rather strange!
1001 5. The -w switch is now standard on cluster.pl
1002 6. Added last_connect() which gives the last connect time of a user (or now
1004 7. Added present_on(call, node) and presentish_on(ditto) which returns true if
1005 the call is connected to the node.
1006 8. incoming messages for users will now send a 'new message' message (instead
1007 of merely generating the message)[who wrote this rubbish?].
1008 9. Hooked $SIG{__WARN__} and $SIG{__DIE__} so we store these nasty error
1010 10. Print the no of users on restricted protocol links if we have had PC50
1011 11. Had a go at making the sh/cl stats more accurate.
1012 12. PC11 was trying to call Local::spot1 instead of Local::spot, no warning
1014 13. Added a simple lockfile to prevent more than one cluster running at a time
1015 17Jan99========================================================================
1016 1. fixed some permission problems on DXLog.
1017 2. There is a circumstance in DXMsg which caused the cluster to stop on an
1018 null ref pointer which I can't get to the bottom of but have bandaided out
1020 3. Started filter and Database code.
1021 4. Upper cased all the TO callsigns for sending to more than one station in
1023 07Jan99========================================================================
1024 1. Fixed Geomag after emacs reformatted it wrong so sh/wwv works again.
1025 2. Added more range checking in WWV spots (they really are a heap of ...)
1026 3. Changed create_sysop.pl so that you can update as well as create the user
1028 4. Remove spotter's SSID from WWV spots
1029 06Jan99========================================================================
1030 1. Do some range checking for spots and WWV in the future (got a WWV for Oct
1031 2034 whhich caused a bit of confusion!)
1032 2. Make WWV spots broadcast them to the users! (as opposed to merely storing
1033 them)(thank you G0RDI).
1034 3. Allow users to do show/announce (thank you JE1SGH).
1035 4. Delay broadcasts to users if they are not in a 'prompt' state (means you can
1036 add messages and see what you are doing on a busy system)
1037 5. Made set/unset dx,ann,wx,talk,wwv do what is expected
1038 6. added set/sys_location and set/set_qra to set the cluster lat/long and qra
1039 7. New messages will now be announced on logon (if there are any)
1040 03Jan99========================================================================
1041 1. Upped the version no !!!!
1042 2. made the DXProtocol routines much less sensitive to '~' characters (JE1SGH)
1043 3. added '^' -> ':' conversions on ann, talk and dx commands
1044 4. You can now send messages containing blank lines.
1045 5. Fixed merge command problem reported by G0RDI
1046 28Dec98========================================================================
1047 1. Crossed fingers, got rid of the instabilities caused by execing programs
1048 at vast speed (reduced it significantly anyway).
1049 2. Personals will now move if homenode is known.
1050 3. Added Local.pm for doing local specials
1051 27Dec98========================================================================
1052 1. Various detail changes to remove some more warning with -w on
1053 2. Added DXCron handling - you can do crontabs now.
1054 3. Added show/program command so you can see where it is loading your .pm files
1056 4. Added pc26/27 replies to locally connected cluster's merge (pc25) requests
1057 5. Added spotters DXCC and original cluster to Spot data files.
1058 23Dec98========================================================================
1059 1. Reindented various things
1060 2. Added missing $main::mycall on the end of outgoing PC11s (!)
1061 3. Check that PC16/17 node calls really are nodes (AFAIAC).
1062 22Dec98========================================================================
1063 1. Added brackets round callsign if not here for prompt
1064 2. Added Iain's set/password routine
1065 3. Fixed sh/dx problems (the xemacs indent region messed Spot.pm up!)
1067 21Dec98============= late! ====================================================
1068 1. fixed problem with missing DXDebug in DXProt.
1069 2. Fixed DXDebug so that it actually works as advertised with and without
1071 3. Added deduping of WWV spots as well (at for date,time,sfi,k and i) dups
1072 4. Replaced the 0 in "02-Dec-1998" with ' ' so it reads " 2-Dec-1998", it seems
1073 hard to credit it but some 'programs' out there that connect to clusters have
1074 problems with the leading '0'!
1075 5. In the same vain, included a strictly AK1A compatible sh/heading, apparently
1076 this is necessary for the same reason as 4.
1077 6. Started contrib tree stored the old show/heading in contrib/g0rdi/show.
1078 7. Because I now correctly dedupe spots and wwv (there's a hostage to fortune..)
1079 I have added a merge command.
1080 21Dec98========================================================================
1081 1. Added "issue" to the client program for 'login' connections
1082 2. Added more docs for client program.
1083 3. Fixed problem introduced in 1.12 where a connect locally with a callsign of
1084 someone connected remotely would stop the cluster.
1085 4. issue release 1.13
1086 20Dec98========================================================================
1087 1. Removed all the warnings I get with perl -w (at least for just starting the
1088 cluster and running a few commands).
1089 2. Added per node hop control.
1090 3. Added some docs on how to use it and isolation
1091 4. Made talk command more intelligent in that if the user isn't seen and the
1092 user's last node is visible it tries the talk anyway.
1093 19Dec98========================================================================
1094 1. Fixed problems with sh/rcmd (talk/ann/log) with a callsign as argument and
1095 also made what G0RDI wanted work as well!
1096 2. Added isolate flag to allow isolation of different networks at a gateway.
1097 3. Changed make Makefile.PL to perl Makefile.PL in instructions
1098 4. Copied latest instructions to html directory
1099 5. Had another attempt at making clients disconnect without hanging everytime.
1100 6. Changed msg queuing semantics so that the system routes on exact callsign.
1101 7. Changed the protocol version so that it increments with the DXSpider version.
1102 14Dec98========================================================================
1103 1. Made the telnet thing work a bit better. It still will not work reliably to
1104 a real telnetd on port 23.
1105 2. Allowed network logins on client by specifying login instead of call.
1106 3. made msg handling more robust (PC30 with unknown streams cause PC42), queueing
1107 is only done on channels that are in state 'normal'.
1108 4. Added pc command which takes a callsign and some text and sends it without
1109 mods to the callsign, useful for sending manual PC protocol to unstick things.
1110 Also for sending anonymous messages to online users.
1111 5. Stopped duplicate messages being stored (it receives them and then bins them)
1112 6. Implemented PC49 delete/full from outside (kill full on the inside)
1113 7. Implemented the client command in connect scripts so that you can have
1114 different scripts for the same callsign.
1115 8. Added sh/wwv command
1116 13Dec98========================================================================
1117 1. Fixed VS6 lat/long in prefix_data and wpxloc.raw
1118 2. Sorted out last in times for remote users
1119 3. editted and substitued G0RDI's version of the install instructions over
1121 4. fixed telnet connections
1122 5. added connect instructions to html tree.
1123 6. Added some more help
1125 12Dec98========================================================================
1126 1. Incorporated sh/st, (un)set/lockout, forward/opername from Iain G0RDI
1127 2. Added group handling with (un)set/group, show/group. This allows arbitrary
1128 groups to be formed (for ann/<group> for example) and is also used to 'filter'
1129 spots, announces, wwvs etc into groups of cluster nodes (useful for creating
1130 disjoint cluster networks)
1131 3. **** CHANGE mylongtitude to mylongitude in DXVars.pm ****
1132 4. Altered QRA locator routines so they work correctly!
1133 5. Fixed all commands that had the wrong mylat(itude) and mylong(itude) names
1135 07Dec98========================================================================
1136 1. Added set/name, set/qra, set/location, set/qth, set/homenode, set/bbs,
1138 2. changed the Msg socket close to a shutdown (hopefully more reliable), this
1139 should stop clients hanging on exit.
1140 3. Added Alias support for help
1141 4. Added lltos and stoll routines to DXBearing
1142 5. Added auto prompting for name, qth, location and homenode if any of these
1144 06Dec98========================================================================
1145 1. Fixed DXBearing::is_qra so that it correctly detects full QRA locators
1146 2. Added sh/qra for doing locator distances and bearings
1147 3. Added some stuff to Notes.txt on hints for command writers
1148 4. Changed help system to use just one file per language
1149 5. Started adding more help
1150 6. Fixed 24Mhz band limits
1151 7. Added apropos command and lots of new help text
1152 05Dec98========================================================================
1153 1. Added sh/heading and QRA locator calculation stuff
1154 04Dec98========================================================================
1155 1. Started Changes file
1156 2. Added load/cmd_cache.pl to clear cmd cache shortcuts (use this if cluster.pl
1157 get confused about where it is getting its commands from eg if you have
1158 removed a file from local_cmd 'cos you want to go back to standard one)
1159 3. Fixed bull handling at least to the extent that it stores them and
1160 doesn't mess up the normal directory handling.
1161 4. Fixed the unset/debug command so that it actually does the job!
1162 5. Removed the middle line 'written in perl for unix' from show/version.pl