1 01Jan00=======================================================================
2 1. Fixed Julian routines to get rid of the millenium bug! (do as I say, not
4 2. updated gdx.pl so that external programs can do a sh/dx just as a normal
5 user can. On reflection this could be used as a model for all sorts of
6 "external" interface routines.
7 3. renamed gdx.pl as showdx.
8 11Dec99=======================================================================
9 1. added missing pc48 so that it calls the DXDb::process routine
10 10Dec99=======================================================================
11 1. allow msgs to marked as read or unread
12 02Dec99=======================================================================
13 1. DX command doesn't recognise '6M' as '6m' in SH/DX ON 6M.
14 2. set/node now sets the homenode as the callsign.
15 3. changed the label for the 18Mhz band from '18m' to '17m' in the bands
17 01Dec99=======================================================================
18 1. started the callbot which lives at n2tly.dxcluster.net 9000.
21 4. added k4ute at no4j.com
22 28Nov99=======================================================================
23 1. fixed all the stupid errors introduced in 1.36 confusing DXUser->get with
25 24Nov99=======================================================================
26 1. extended badmsg.pl stuff so that it works like the forward file and allows
27 one to reject on to, from, origin and subject fields.
28 2. added a swop.pl again in a forward.pl like format that allows simple swop
29 for a field or test on a field and set another.
30 3. Fixed the problem that read private mail follows you around as well as
31 unread private mail does.
32 4. Change the logic of connections so that the node will accept callsigns with
33 SSIDs to -8 as different entities from each other. SSIDs > 8 are subtracted
34 from 15 and are assumed to be coming in via netrom diddled connections. This
35 affects lots of the commands as well. I may not have got them all.
36 5. Hangup clients on HUP signals. I originally ignored them, for reasons that
37 are now lost in the mists of time. HUP signals now cause clients to die
38 (cleanly) and disconnect everything correctly.
39 6. Added show/time command
40 21Nov99=======================================================================
41 1. lose extraneous rubbish after the callsign as sent by BBSes.
42 2. Change end label on sh/moon to RGain dB rather than Loss dB.
43 3. Remove spurious call to DXCluster->get_exact in pc50.
44 4. Allow rcmd to locally connected nodes that are not (for some reason) in the
46 5. Try and send a PC39 in more cases to a cluster that I want to disconnect
47 from in the hope that it notices and disconnects its end.
48 20Nov99=======================================================================
49 1. Added set/unset logininfo which will tell anybody that has this set when
50 someone has either logged in or out of this node.
51 2. Added set/pinginterval command which alters the length of time between
52 pings sent to nodes, the value is minutes < 120 and seconds above that, 0
53 means disable pinging (not recommended).
54 3. If someone does a sysop whilst connected via ax25, don't show privilege
55 level or passwd in stat/user.
56 4. Fixed the problem with the dx command where if the callsign ended in a ?
57 then the call and the freq would be replicated in the remarks.
58 5. Set/unset ann, dx, talk, beep, wx, wwv all are now permanent (ie stored in
60 19Nov99=======================================================================
61 1. Added new version of sh/sun and also sh/moon from Steve K9AN
63 3. added Aliase for show/tnc_sta to who.
64 4. added Alias for show/uptime to sh/cl
65 18Nov99=======================================================================
66 1. Added ping obs counter together with Time::HiRes timers. This will dis-
67 connect nodes that fail to respond to 3 ping requests (on the 4th attempt).
68 The default time is a ping every 3 mins, therefore a link will be struck out
69 after 12 minutes of nil response.
70 2. Maintain a table of outstanding connects to other nodes and prevent over-
71 laps (special favour to G0RDI).
72 17Nov99=======================================================================
73 1. Started using Data::Dumper for things again
74 2. 'Fixed' DXUser file corruption?
75 3. Allow multiline (ie lines with \n in them) output in $DXChannel::send
76 4. Added Andrew K9CW's updated wpxloc.raw, regenerated prefix_data.pl
77 5. Put in callsign matching and stuff into sh/sun.
78 14Nov99=======================================================================
79 1. added BBS.pm to start BBS input of mail
80 2. fixed eval in DXUser to log errors rather than banging out
81 12Nov99=======================================================================
82 1. added sh/sun command kindly supplied by Steve K9AN.
83 2. allow ^Z on its own on a line to terminate a message
84 08Nov99=======================================================================
85 1. added spoofing (mk1 version) for sysops, useful for those little jobs like
86 reseting a user's qra locator and such like "spoof g7brn set/qra jo02lq".
87 2. fixed set/location so it stores the qra locator in the qra locator slot,
88 NOT the lat/long (who wrote this stuff...?).
89 07Nov99=======================================================================
90 1. reduced the amount of stuff compared against for dup announces.
91 2. Check the regex for DK0WCY announces produces results before storing it as
93 3. Added some logging for set/priv (un)set/lockout.
94 4. Added test long path calc to sh/muf
95 5. Only wonder down the msg queue every minute
96 6. Put in the initial DB code (at last), you can create and remove local and
97 standard remote dbs, you can import AK1A style .FUL ascii databases, you can
98 enquire on a local or remote database.
99 7. A return ping to a node will clear down all outstanding pings to
100 that node (which might cause some confusion if more then one ping is
101 outstanding for a node, but then - shit happens).
102 04Nov99=======================================================================
103 1. Removed ~ from the end of the PC18.
104 2. Removed a hangover from duff character checking in cluster.pl
105 3. Stop PC frames that are to be routed, being routed back to themselves.
106 03Nov99=======================================================================
107 1. Simplified command caching so it uses anonymous subroutines, you should
108 also get error messages back on the console now when developing.
109 2. Allow locally connected AK1A clusters that for some obscure reason don't
110 issue PC19s to still appear as connected and allow them to acquire users.
111 31Oct99=======================================================================
112 1. updated Minimuf.pm and show/muf.pl to the fixed versions sent to me by
114 2. Made set/badnodes work, added show/badnodes. This is an interim fix until
115 input spot filtering works.
116 24Oct99=======================================================================
117 1. fixed announces so that nodes only get one of them (not two).
118 2. Altered the select timeouts to prevent apparent excessive CPU usage on
119 multiprocessor machines (or at least that is what seems to be the trouble
121 22Oct99=======================================================================
122 1. allow filter CALLSIGNS to be in upper or lower case.
123 2. create the concept of input and output filters, input filters are of the
124 form "in_$call.pl" eg: "in_g1tlh.pl" (or "in_G1TLH.pl"), output filters are
125 "g1tlh.pl" (or "G1TLH.pl").
126 3. all users can now filter on spots, ann and wwv (assuming the sysop has set
127 the filters up - still no user creatable filters. Nodes can filter on both
128 input for announces and output for all of these. I would recommend setting
129 up a few filters that are likely to be wanted and then symlinking callsigns
130 to them as you get requests.
131 4. added callsign and length of history/position of screen stats to console.
132 If you want to change the colour of the callsign you will need to copy the
133 Console.pm to your /spider/local directory and change the $mycallcolor equate.
134 21Oct99=======================================================================
135 1. fixed reply so that reply b or reply nop generate a bulletin with the
137 2. implemented sh/muf command.
138 3. reduced privilege of catchup and uncatchup to 5. This so that, suitably
139 privileged, nodes that occasionally link can rcmd a "catchup <nodecall> all"
140 to the node they are connecting to and thus prevent a large tranche of,
141 potentially duplicate, mail. This isn't an issue for DXSpider, but may be
142 an issue for any AK1A clusters you are connected to.
143 20Oct99=======================================================================
144 1. Translated all the subroutines of minimuf into perl as Minimuf.pm
145 2. Limited the length of an ANN that is saved for de-duping to $pc12_dup_lth
147 3. help command should now return stuff that you expect.
148 4. reduced necessary privilege to use 'MSG' command to 6.
149 5. Correct the count of spots and wwv for a merge.
150 6. Allow decodes of DK0WCY-3 WWV data beacon announces
151 7. rewrote send so that an SB doesn't send a buckshee bull to NOPRIVATE!
152 8. Changed default colouration on console so that all spots >= 50Mhz are red
153 9. Fixed init command so that PC21s are sent down non-initted channels
154 10. Allow forwarding of unknown private mail. This means that you can set up
155 forwarding of 'foreign' mail across to and by gateways using the same
156 mechanism as bulletins (/spider/msg/forward.pl).
157 11. Allow line wrapping on the console (G0RDI, G0VGS et al).
158 18Oct99=======================================================================
159 1. changed help command so that it works correctly with multiple title lines.
160 2. added to address to the list of things a message checks to see whether it
161 is a duplicate (how on earth did it take _this_ long to find this one?).
162 3. Changes S CC so that the callsign it says it has sent to is the real one
164 21Sep99=======================================================================
165 1. allow zero messages to be stored (request from G4PDQ)
166 2. make DX more flexible and change spotter syntax to be consistant with
167 sh/dx (request from K9AN)
168 30Aug99=======================================================================
169 1. remove -@ as well as \d from SSIDs for spots
170 2. remove WEB and/or NET from the front or rear of callsigns in Prefix.pm
171 29Aug99=======================================================================
172 1. Added msg command to allow the changing of To, From, Subject and so on the
173 messages. This seems particularly important just now as a whole raft of G3's
174 seem to be putting out non private bulls to callsigns.
175 2. While I am at set messages to TO fields that appear to be users to private
176 if they have been sent as bulls.
177 3. Add DISTROs, if a callsign field appears in /spider/msg/distro in upper
178 use that as a list of callsigns to send further. Note this is potentially
179 recursive as callsigns in a distro can be distros.
180 25Aug99=======================================================================
181 1. check the date of a WWV much more carefully.
182 24Aug99=======================================================================
183 1. Prevented spots with lowercase callsigns being forwarded. This opens a
184 much bigger can of worms which I shall have to address later.
185 17Aug99=======================================================================
186 1. all protocol except PC29 containing %XX characters will be dumped.
187 2. Changed console.pl so that if you start typing it moves the top window
189 19Jul99=======================================================================
190 1. Added iota and qra clauses to sh/dx as well, these take optional arguments
191 and will look for the appropriate strings.
192 17Jul99=======================================================================
193 1. Started database integration.
194 2. added qsl clause to sh/dx that searches for qsl or via in the dx info
195 16Jul99=======================================================================
196 1. drop frames with 'illegal' characters in them (but pass frames with
197 embedded %XX characters).
198 15Jul99=======================================================================
199 1. Changed grepdbg to accept a regexp. More useful (to me anyway).
200 2. Altered init command so that it doesn't send PC21s down the initted
202 10Jul99=======================================================================
203 1. added an explicit disconnect from my side for already connected calls. This
204 appears to have fixed a problem where if two consoles connect at the same time
205 with the same (sysop?) callsign the cluster would stop.
206 2. added some debugging in the Message handler to allow more state to be seen.
207 3. Message handler now seems to work better for longer and doesn't spew out
208 PC42 aborts with quite such gay abandon.
209 05Jul99=======================================================================
210 1. added stat/msg and stat/cluster commands to allow me to poke about inside
211 the msg and cluster node tables.
212 04Jul99=======================================================================
213 1. removed silly 'new message has arrived' to connected nodes
214 2. added a ! command to the console.pl program; works like the bash shell.
215 01Jul99=======================================================================
216 1. Altered priv to 5 for connect.pl to match disconnect for nodes
217 29Jun99=======================================================================
218 1. fixed merge command that I broke.
219 2. added some randomness in waittimes for aborted outgoing messages
220 3. Message Queuing now only occurs every 5 minutes (configurable if anyone
221 wants to write the command for doing it) and on receipt of a PC16. This is
222 a further attempt at sorting the crossing of messages!
223 4. a PC33 will cause another attempt at queuing. If you are on a roll, keep
225 28Jun99=======================================================================
226 1. console.pl now works with history and editting.
227 2. added scrolling to stuff sent by the cluster.
228 3. added colours to things.
229 27Jun99=======================================================================
230 1. added WWV filtering
231 2. added timeouts to for forwarding Messages, also added a waiting time for
232 failed (stalled) outgoing messages.
233 3. Incoming messages will now have priority over outgoing messages to the
235 4. Added 'catchup' command which will 'catchup' messages to date for a node.
236 This means that when you start forwarding to a node, it doesn't get all the
237 messages queued up that are probably old.
238 5. added 'uncatchup' which does the opposite of the above.
239 6. fixed kill full and PC49 handling so that it actually works.
240 7. Fixed local aliases so they add to the front of the standard ones. This
241 means you only need to add your specials or override the system ones you need
243 21Jun99=======================================================================
244 1. changed regex for cluster->client msgs so that strings like |---| are no
246 20Jun99=======================================================================
247 1. prevented a merge to myself (causes a loop)
248 18Jun99=======================================================================
249 1. fixed a problem with DXLogPrint repeating log entries.
250 2. altered the permissions on disconnnect so that priv 5 users can disconnect
251 clusters, but still require priv 8 to disconnect users.
252 3. made sure that an incoming PC18 clears out all the cluster info for
253 that channel before re-initialising.
255 5. disconnect users before nodess on shutdown
256 15Jun99=======================================================================
257 1. added grepdbg program (so you can search your debug files and get times
258 and dates of incidents).
259 2. Moved DXVars.pm to DXVars.pm.issue to force new users to cp it to their
261 3. added $allowzero to DXProt to allow thru PC19s with zero protocol versions.
262 14Jun99=======================================================================
263 1. changed IO::File in help and apropos to IO::File
264 2. added a check for isa('DXNode') for PC50s
265 08Jun99=======================================================================
266 1. Started work on the curses based operator console.
267 03Jun99=======================================================================
268 1. cluster seems to have a memory leak, put DESTROY functions in where
270 2. try to make sure that PC21 commands are not issued inappropriately and
271 also reformat PC19 for onward broadcast so that nodes coming in on loops are
272 dropped from those broadcasts.
273 3. make sure PC16,17,19,21 doen't affect locally connected nodes.
274 4. Changed all instances of FileHandle to IO::File.
275 01Jun99=======================================================================
276 1. removed a output of an unwanted pc21 for isolated nodes
277 31May99=======================================================================
278 1. Added checking for PC16,17,19 and 21 to make sure that they come in from
279 the channels that they are supposed to.
280 2. Pass the RCMDing node's priv level to the command (rather than the
281 connecting node's privilege level).
282 3. Pass thru merge requests for other nodes.
283 4. Removed a warning from client.pl
284 5. routed external DB commands and drop them (for now) locally
285 6. routed external mail commands (ie those addressed elsewhere)
286 7. routed external PC26/27 lines
287 25May99=======================================================================
288 1. try to make the lastin value correct even for local users
289 2. got rid of the stupid bug that failed to print out the offline message
290 but put a "*main::STDOUTmain" for every line of that message instead.
291 3. Ported to 5.00503 (well actually just installed it and it just runs).
293 23May99=======================================================================
294 1. Got rid of some of the useless error messages on global destruction when
296 2. Stuck -w back on client.pl
297 23May99=======================================================================
298 1. tried to change connection to raw mode for cluster connections
299 2. sh/c and sh/u are now sorted in alphabetical order
300 3. Limited the number of queued dx spots when composing messages to 20 (the
301 oldest one is lost for every one added above 20).
302 4. Added generalised shell globbing everywhere I think it is useful, including
303 sh/dx, dir, sh/files etc
304 5. Made dir more compatible with ak1a and added 'to' and 'from' call searching
305 it should now do everything that ak1a does except counts.
306 6. added similar functionality to kill command so that you can kill ranges, to
307 and from callsigns etc.
308 22May99=======================================================================
309 1. added check for -1 from Date::Parse and return undef for out of range dates
310 2. added show/files and type commands
311 21May99=======================================================================
312 1. made set/nodx work again.
313 2. made dx stuff queue nicely again when sending messages.
314 18May99=======================================================================
315 1. Added announce dup checking.
316 2. Added system announce filtering.
317 08May99=======================================================================
318 1. Added a bit more checking to the rcmd thing to make more sure that this
319 rcmd isn't coming from an imposter. Not possible to prevent everything
320 ofcourse, just make it a bit harder.
321 2. altered set/lockout and set/privilege so that they can't executed remotely.
322 3. Added some code to reject rubbish (with invalid binary characters) protocol
323 or user lines as input.
324 4. prevented PC command being executed remotely :-)
325 05May99=======================================================================
326 1. change the connection overlap from an abort to a disconnect.
327 02May99=======================================================================
328 1. Added the mechanism for doing user spot filtering for spots in the cluster
329 (no user control just yet - but sysops can do it).
330 2. Fixed problem with nodes sending out the node lists of isolated nodes.
331 30Apr99=======================================================================
332 1. Try to make it even more AK1A friendly by putting the node list out in the
334 2. added code so that local users and commands go to all connected nodes
335 INCLUDING the isolated ones.
336 26Apr99=======================================================================
337 1. added set/user command as a hack, please use this with care, there is
338 very little checking.
339 2. added export_opernam.pl which is a basic reader of AK1A opernam.dat files
341 25Apr99=======================================================================
342 1. Fixed problem with filtered spots not coming out.
343 2. Added the possibility of filtering on channel callsign
344 20Apr99=======================================================================
345 1. altered order of undefing and closing of user file in an attempt to make
346 corruptions/missing users less likely.
347 2. made messages that are addressed to the node call appear to the alias call
348 3. check dates much more rigourously.
349 4. ignore SIGTERM and SIGINT during shutdown of the cluster
350 15Mar99=======================================================================
351 1. added $actiondata to filter line to allow per action data such as no of hops
352 2. fixed a silly problem in talk for non-existant callsigns
353 3. Added sysop command
354 02Mar99========================================================================
355 1. Changed DXUser so that it uses a homemade import/export hash routine
356 2. DXUser now uses a DB_BTREE file
357 3. Added export_users.pl, import_users.pl and convert_users.pl
358 25Feb99========================================================================
359 1. added NL language stuff.
360 2. added set/language
361 21Feb99========================================================================
362 1. Allowed multiple 'on <freq>' for show/dx
363 2. Made sure the 'on 20m/ssb' thing worked (also 'on hf/cw').
364 3. first cut of the Filtering code, no user commands yet but the file
365 format is defined and manually added filters should work for spots
366 17Feb99========================================================================
367 1. added export_user.pl to export user files (for interest and safety)
368 2. changed DXUser::init to allow O_RDONLY access which may limit the number
369 of coredumps G0RDI seems to get.
370 15Feb99========================================================================
371 1. Added msg forwarding code which uses $main::root/msg/forward.pl.
372 14Feb99========================================================================
373 1. Changed A & K in WWV to be the other way around (I am told by G3IOR that
374 this will mean that we won't have pole to pole aurora nor all the power lines
375 overloading everywhere as well as a result of having values of K > 10).
376 2. allow the '~' character in message bodies.
377 3. Moved $main::data/badmsg.pl to $main::root/msg/badmsg.pl.
378 11Feb99========================================================================
379 1. Fixed a problem with isolated nodes' configurations being sent on sending
380 local configs to new connections.
381 08Feb99========================================================================
382 1. added a $SIG{ALRM} in the client to actually catch the alarm when it goes
383 off which means that the netrom/ax25 call programs terminate properly (and not
384 loop as fast as their little legs can paddle, soaking up CPU time).
385 2. Implemented read receipts as an especial request from G4PDQ.
386 3. Fiddled with DXUser a bit to see whether I can stop it core dumping on new
387 users in PC16s on G0RDI's machine.
388 4. Added E4 (Palestine) to Prefix data.
389 30Jan99========================================================================
390 1. Some of the dates we get can cause crashes, tried to make it more robust (oh
392 2. PC16 seem to come in with missing callsigns from somewhere
393 3. added $main::data/baddx.pl which prevents callsigns that are in the list being
394 a) forwarded b) stored and c) (except for the originator, if local) being
396 4. added $main::data/badmsg.pl which deletes any messages whose TO address is
397 in this list (this is largely for european sensibilities).
398 18Jan99========================================================================
399 1. added present(),presentish() and disconnect() to DXCron so that you can see
400 (easily) if a station is on the cluster anywhere and also disconnect them
402 2. added rcmd() to DXCron so you can send an rcmd to someone else from crontab.
403 3. <embarrassment>Fixed create_sysop.pl so that longitude is spelt correctly
404 there as well</embarrassment> made the update work properly. NOTE create_sysop
405 will only do what you expect if all cluster.pl and client.pl programs are
407 4. DXCron wasn't reading in reliably on startup, this is now (hopefully) fixed.
408 the -M semantics are rather strange!
409 5. The -w switch is now standard on cluster.pl
410 6. Added last_connect() which gives the last connect time of a user (or now
412 7. Added present_on(call, node) and presentish_on(ditto) which returns true if
413 the call is connected to the node.
414 8. incoming messages for users will now send a 'new message' message (instead
415 of merely generating the message)[who wrote this rubbish?].
416 9. Hooked $SIG{__WARN__} and $SIG{__DIE__} so we store these nasty error
418 10. Print the no of users on restricted protocol links if we have had PC50
419 11. Had a go at making the sh/cl stats more accurate.
420 12. PC11 was trying to call Local::spot1 instead of Local::spot, no warning
422 13. Added a simple lockfile to prevent more than one cluster running at a time
423 17Jan99========================================================================
424 1. fixed some permission problems on DXLog.
425 2. There is a circumstance in DXMsg which caused the cluster to stop on an
426 null ref pointer which I can't get to the bottom of but have bandaided out
428 3. Started filter and Database code.
429 4. Upper cased all the TO callsigns for sending to more than one station in
431 07Jan99========================================================================
432 1. Fixed Geomag after emacs reformatted it wrong so sh/wwv works again.
433 2. Added more range checking in WWV spots (they really are a heap of ...)
434 3. Changed create_sysop.pl so that you can update as well as create the user
436 4. Remove spotter's SSID from WWV spots
437 06Jan99========================================================================
438 1. Do some range checking for spots and WWV in the future (got a WWV for Oct
439 2034 whhich caused a bit of confusion!)
440 2. Make WWV spots broadcast them to the users! (as opposed to merely storing
441 them)(thank you G0RDI).
442 3. Allow users to do show/announce (thank you JE1SGH).
443 4. Delay broadcasts to users if they are not in a 'prompt' state (means you can
444 add messages and see what you are doing on a busy system)
445 5. Made set/unset dx,ann,wx,talk,wwv do what is expected
446 6. added set/sys_location and set/set_qra to set the cluster lat/long and qra
447 7. New messages will now be announced on logon (if there are any)
448 03Jan99========================================================================
449 1. Upped the version no !!!!
450 2. made the DXProtocol routines much less sensitive to '~' characters (JE1SGH)
451 3. added '^' -> ':' conversions on ann, talk and dx commands
452 4. You can now send messages containing blank lines.
453 5. Fixed merge command problem reported by G0RDI
454 28Dec98========================================================================
455 1. Crossed fingers, got rid of the instabilities caused by execing programs
456 at vast speed (reduced it significantly anyway).
457 2. Personals will now move if homenode is known.
458 3. Added Local.pm for doing local specials
459 27Dec98========================================================================
460 1. Various detail changes to remove some more warning with -w on
461 2. Added DXCron handling - you can do crontabs now.
462 3. Added show/program command so you can see where it is loading your .pm files
464 4. Added pc26/27 replies to locally connected cluster's merge (pc25) requests
465 5. Added spotters DXCC and original cluster to Spot data files.
466 23Dec98========================================================================
467 1. Reindented various things
468 2. Added missing $main::mycall on the end of outgoing PC11s (!)
469 3. Check that PC16/17 node calls really are nodes (AFAIAC).
470 22Dec98========================================================================
471 1. Added brackets round callsign if not here for prompt
472 2. Added Iain's set/password routine
473 3. Fixed sh/dx problems (the xemacs indent region messed Spot.pm up!)
475 21Dec98============= late! ====================================================
476 1. fixed problem with missing DXDebug in DXProt.
477 2. Fixed DXDebug so that it actually works as advertised with and without
479 3. Added deduping of WWV spots as well (at for date,time,sfi,k and i) dups
480 4. Replaced the 0 in "02-Dec-1998" with ' ' so it reads " 2-Dec-1998", it seems
481 hard to credit it but some 'programs' out there that connect to clusters have
482 problems with the leading '0'!
483 5. In the same vain, included a strictly AK1A compatible sh/heading, apparently
484 this is necessary for the same reason as 4.
485 6. Started contrib tree stored the old show/heading in contrib/g0rdi/show.
486 7. Because I now correctly dedupe spots and wwv (there's a hostage to fortune..)
487 I have added a merge command.
488 21Dec98========================================================================
489 1. Added "issue" to the client program for 'login' connections
490 2. Added more docs for client program.
491 3. Fixed problem introduced in 1.12 where a connect locally with a callsign of
492 someone connected remotely would stop the cluster.
493 4. issue release 1.13
494 20Dec98========================================================================
495 1. Removed all the warnings I get with perl -w (at least for just starting the
496 cluster and running a few commands).
497 2. Added per node hop control.
498 3. Added some docs on how to use it and isolation
499 4. Made talk command more intelligent in that if the user isn't seen and the
500 user's last node is visible it tries the talk anyway.
501 19Dec98========================================================================
502 1. Fixed problems with sh/rcmd (talk/ann/log) with a callsign as argument and
503 also made what G0RDI wanted work as well!
504 2. Added isolate flag to allow isolation of different networks at a gateway.
505 3. Changed make Makefile.PL to perl Makefile.PL in instructions
506 4. Copied latest instructions to html directory
507 5. Had another attempt at making clients disconnect without hanging everytime.
508 6. Changed msg queuing semantics so that the system routes on exact callsign.
509 7. Changed the protocol version so that it increments with the DXSpider version.
510 14Dec98========================================================================
511 1. Made the telnet thing work a bit better. It still will not work reliably to
512 a real telnetd on port 23.
513 2. Allowed network logins on client by specifying login instead of call.
514 3. made msg handling more robust (PC30 with unknown streams cause PC42), queueing
515 is only done on channels that are in state 'normal'.
516 4. Added pc command which takes a callsign and some text and sends it without
517 mods to the callsign, useful for sending manual PC protocol to unstick things.
518 Also for sending anonymous messages to online users.
519 5. Stopped duplicate messages being stored (it receives them and then bins them)
520 6. Implemented PC49 delete/full from outside (kill full on the inside)
521 7. Implemented the client command in connect scripts so that you can have
522 different scripts for the same callsign.
523 8. Added sh/wwv command
524 13Dec98========================================================================
525 1. Fixed VS6 lat/long in prefix_data and wpxloc.raw
526 2. Sorted out last in times for remote users
527 3. editted and substitued G0RDI's version of the install instructions over
529 4. fixed telnet connections
530 5. added connect instructions to html tree.
531 6. Added some more help
533 12Dec98========================================================================
534 1. Incorporated sh/st, (un)set/lockout, forward/opername from Iain G0RDI
535 2. Added group handling with (un)set/group, show/group. This allows arbitrary
536 groups to be formed (for ann/<group> for example) and is also used to 'filter'
537 spots, announces, wwvs etc into groups of cluster nodes (useful for creating
538 disjoint cluster networks)
539 3. **** CHANGE mylongtitude to mylongitude in DXVars.pm ****
540 4. Altered QRA locator routines so they work correctly!
541 5. Fixed all commands that had the wrong mylat(itude) and mylong(itude) names
543 07Dec98========================================================================
544 1. Added set/name, set/qra, set/location, set/qth, set/homenode, set/bbs,
546 2. changed the Msg socket close to a shutdown (hopefully more reliable), this
547 should stop clients hanging on exit.
548 3. Added Alias support for help
549 4. Added lltos and stoll routines to DXBearing
550 5. Added auto prompting for name, qth, location and homenode if any of these
552 06Dec98========================================================================
553 1. Fixed DXBearing::is_qra so that it correctly detects full QRA locators
554 2. Added sh/qra for doing locator distances and bearings
555 3. Added some stuff to Notes.txt on hints for command writers
556 4. Changed help system to use just one file per language
557 5. Started adding more help
558 6. Fixed 24Mhz band limits
559 7. Added apropos command and lots of new help text
560 05Dec98========================================================================
561 1. Added sh/heading and QRA locator calculation stuff
562 04Dec98========================================================================
563 1. Started Changes file
564 2. Added load/cmd_cache.pl to clear cmd cache shortcuts (use this if cluster.pl
565 get confused about where it is getting its commands from eg if you have
566 removed a file from local_cmd 'cos you want to go back to standard one)
567 3. Fixed bull handling at least to the extent that it stores them and
568 doesn't mess up the normal directory handling.
569 4. Fixed the unset/debug command so that it actually does the job!
570 5. Removed the middle line 'written in perl for unix' from show/version.pl