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                 SYSUTIL 1.0 - A GT Power Sysop Utility Program              
                     By Russell Kroll, GT Net/Node: 001/070                  
             [C]opyright 1990,1991,1992,1993, All Rights Reserved.           



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Beta #37                                                               01/25/93
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     1. The "External Programs" section looked odd when there were no
        programs numbered higher than 9.  It mainly involved the little
        borders above and below the program titles.

     2. Having the included files in ROUTING.BBS ($filename) would
        not work if the $ was not at column 1, or if there was a space
        between the $ and the actual filename.

        Thanks to Mike Schmieg for finding this.

     3. SYSUTIL will now optionally look in the NETECHO.BBS in addition
        to the echolist whenever it needs to find an echo. See the included
        SYSUTIL.CFG for more information.

        The line to add/change in SYSUTIL.CFG is NE=.

        Thanks to Mike Schmieg for suggesting this.

     4. There is a new option off the "Local Maintenance" menu:
        "Current Activity".  This will look in the PID_FILE.BBS in
        your LAN path and show you what is going on with your
        system.  If you are running DESQview or a LAN, you can
        see who's logged on, and what they're doing.  In the
        case of some doors with advanced logging features
        (BGQWK for example), you can even see what part of
        the program they're in.

     5. My SU_USER source code got crosslinked on January 15th.  I restored
        it from tape, and re-programmed the changes made since that backup.
        Please let me know if anything did not get back in.  The changes
        were quite small.


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Beta #36                                                               12/21/92
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SYSUTIL:

 - FIX: Using QEDIT to perform certain functions on lines in the GTMDIR.BBS
        would leave behind tabs rather than spaces.  SYSUTIL now treats
        any line in GTMDIR.BBS that begins with a tab as a comment.

 - NEW: SYSUTIL will now find $ files in the main routing file and
        will check them when looking for things.

        Thanks to Mike Schmieg for suggesting more $ support.

 - FIX: If there were any comments on the registration lines in SYSUTIL.CFG,
        it would act as unregistered.

        Thanks to Mike Schmieg for finding this.

 - NEW: When changing the source of echoes, you may now enter a / alone as
        the new source, and SYSUTIL will show you who is carrying that echo.

 - NEW: When adding echoes, SYSUTIL will now automatically update your
        routing file(s), and your GTMDIR.BBS if you are not skipping the
        echo.

 - FIX: Anything that asked "More?" would not take lowercase.

        Thanks to Mike Reish for finding this.

 - NEW: You can now have up to 20 external programs.  This is accomplished
        by using a leading zero as a placeholder for numbers less than 10.

        External program #7 would be E07=..... for example.
        Do not go higher than 20 or the program will bomb out. If you
        truely need more external programs, let me know and I'll see
        if I can add more.

        Thanks to Mike Reish for suggesting this.

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Beta #35                                                               12/07/92
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SU:

 - NEW: The GTMDIR indexing is now released.  There is a new option
        under Local Maintenance: Index GTMDIR.  This will create the
        previously mentioned GTMDIR index for the message maintenance
        area.  This also speeds up entry to that area a lot.

        NOTE: It will only run on registered versions of SYSUTIL.
              See the SYSUTIL.CFG file for information on configuring
              the index.

 - NEW: The "Find Echo Descriptions" has changed a bit.  More lines will
        now fit on the screen.  Also, a blank line will be placed between
        the newest and the oldest lines to distinguish between them.

 - NEW: "Message Maintenance" will now display the number of messages
        in that area next to the pathname.  Example:

                       E:\MESSAGE\GENERAL [7651]

        Thanks to Michael Arnett for suggesting this.

 - FIX: Uppercase and lowercase will now work at the origin editing
        selection.

        Thanks to April Strong for finding this.

 - NEW: The "drop echo" option now utilizes the automatic ROUTING.BBS
        editing function introduced in beta 33. Even though it was
        originally intended for changing lines, it works great
        deleting them too!

 - FIX: The drop echo option was opening GTPATH\echolist.bbs instead
        of the echolist path specified in the SYSUTIL.CFG file.
        This could have caused some problems on systems where the
        ECHOLIST.BBS is not in the GTPATH.

 - FIX: Several screens would not wrap the cursor from the first choice
        to the last.

SU_USER:

        The help screen has been re-done.

 - NEW: Access level searching has been introduced.

        Use the (A) command to activate and deactivate it.

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Beta #34                                                               11/15/92
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SU:

 - NEW: The SYSUTIL.CFG file should now be placed in your LAN path if you
        have one and if not, in your GTPATH.  If it is not found in the
        LAN path, SYSUTIL will check your GTPATH.  If it's not in your
        GTPATH, SYSUTIL will let you know.

 - NEW: SYSUTIL will now delete the Q, E, F, B, and C files for echoes that
        you drop.  This means that SYSUTIL will need to know which
        drive you run netmail on. See the entry below.

        Thanks to Mike Schmieg for suggesting this.

 - NEW: There is a new field in SYSUTIL.CFG: mail drive. All that is
        needed is the letter of the drive you run netmail on.

 - FIX: Editing the GTMDIR.BBS was missing a \ in the filename.

 - NEW: The configuration selection from the main menu now drops
        directly into your ASCII editor. The ; comments added a few
        versions back made the "View configuration" obsolete.

 - FIX: I believe I finally fixed the message maintenance bug.
        Please try it out and let me know how it works.

SU_USER:

 - FIX: Editing the access level (or the protocol field) would not
        "stick". It would change back as soon as you left the record.

        Thanks to Ed Cavender for finding this.

 - FIX: Using just / on the command line was causing a search for blanks.

 - NEW: The registration file now goes in the LAN path.  If you don't
        have a LAN path, put it in the GTPATH.  If it is not found in
        either place, SU_USER will act as unregistered.

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                               Welcome!!
                               =========

This is a short note to welcome everyone into the new WIDE BETA cycle
of Sysutil 1.0. If you have any problems, comments, suggestions, or
need to send me mail, try E02/761 echomail or 001/070 netmail.

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Beta #33                                                               11/01/92
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SU:

 - FIX: Using "Message maintenance" twice would make an error 55.

 - NEW: If you press ENTER at the prompt for editing ANSI files,
        SU will now ask if you want to start up your ANSI editor.

 - NEW: SU now takes even more of the load of editing ROUTING.BBS
	off your hands!  The "Change source" command of "Modify echo params"
        will now show you the old line and the new line.  Just say YES
        and it changes it for you.  Say NO and it doesn't.  Say MANUAL
        and you get to visit your ASCII editor like before.

        It still sends the GM's and GQ's regardless of Yes/No/Manual.

SU_USER:

 - FIX: The delete key was doing some strange things when editing a field.
        Also, some of the fields were going over length a bit. This could
        cause some strange problems when editing long fields.

 - FIX: The ENTER and N keys will ALWAYS go forward in the user file.
        The P key will ALWAYS go backwards in the user file.

        Having search mode enabled does not change that.

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Beta #32                                                               10/17/92
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SU:

 ** BUG FIXES **

 - Anything that would post a message broke when 10/1 rolled around.
   SU was putting "10-xx-1992" instead of "10-xx-92" into the MESSAGE.CTL.

 - The message area maintenance would go into a loop when a message area
   had a USER_MSG.CTL, but nobody joined to it. This may occur when
   the MMR pointer program creates USER_MSG.CTL files.

 - The cursor routines for "Message area maintenance" were buggy.
   Eight cursor downs would result in 11! I also changed the operation
   of PGDN and PGUP. They still scroll 11 lines, but they no longer
   move the cursor. This way, you can skip around and keep the cursor
   wherever on the screen you want.

 ** CHANGES **

 - "Drop echo" and "Change echo source" now drop into your editor
   to modify ROUTING.BBS and GTMDIR.BBS. It has also been cleaned up
   considerably.

 - The "Find Echo Description" has been cleaned up a bit. The "More?"
   prompt now blinks to let you know if it is waiting for input.

 - The log file summary command has changed considerably! It now
   updates on the screen as it reads from the log file. On some
   systems, SU was taking far too long. In some cases, it was
   even running out of memory! It has been recoded to run faster, too.

 - Free string memory has been increased about 20K. Some arrays have
   been redone to clear themselves out when they're not being used.
   This should help those with large user files trying to use the
   message area maintenance option.

 - The message area maintenance option will now edit USER_MSG.CTL files!
   You can edit both the last read pointer and the high scan pointer.
   You can also edit the banned flag. This is set when a user attempts
   to join an "application" area. It must be cleared for entry.

 - If you add an echo to an existing directory, SU will now allow
   you to continue. However, it will not let you add an echo if
   the MESSAGE.CTL already exists in that directory.

   SU will also now return to the netmail menu if it stops
   due to a MESSAGE.CTL existing. (Bug fix)

 - SU now supports the enhanced GTMDIR.BBS format.

SU_USER:

 ** CHANGES **

 - There is now a command line search option for registered users!

   Usage:

   SU_USER /<searchstring>    example:   SU_USER /kroll

   Case of the searchstring is ignored. SU_USER will display a special
   screen and jump to the first matching record. From there, it works
   just like normal search-mode. If a match is not found, SU will stop
   at the last record.

Other:
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   I've been working on the documentation.  The top part of it has
   changed to the new format.  The rest should be looking like that
   in the next beta release.


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