+28Mar00=======================================================================
+1. Added buffering to client
+2. Fixed LOGIN so that you can login with an arbitrary callsign
+27Mar00=======================================================================
+1. updated wpxloc.raw and rsgb.cty for 4W and TX0.
+2. display 'start time' rather than 'last start time in' in who.
+3. Allow local users to see their own sh/talk or sh/log stuff.
+4. A more robust version of the C client.
+5. Added a message exporting command 'export'.
+6. allow swopping on all messages, including imported and manually sent ones
+7. S A < B @ C $BID now works from the command line and thus bbses ought to
+be able to send messages into the cluster. Bids are (currently) ignored.
+26Mar00=======================================================================
+1. first cut of C client
+18Mar00=======================================================================
+1. fixed convkeps.pl so that it accepts more formats for floating point.
+08Mar00=======================================================================
+1. tidied up Sun.pm and sh/sat
+2. fixed sh/qra so that the correct lat/long is displayed if only one locator
+is given.
+10Jan00=======================================================================
+1. added Steve Franke's new Sun.pm and show/satellite command
+08Jan00=======================================================================
+1. really removed the restriction on 0 length messages.
+2. added a periodic msg file import system a la FBB. Stick one or more files
+into /spider/msg/import with a suitable SEND line, subject and the text and
+it will import it. The importer will accept some BBS syntax (eg < GB7TLH) to
+allow you to customise the 'from' callsign.
+03Jan00=======================================================================
+1. changed the copyright statement in sh/version!
+2. added sh/date with special "be compatible with ak1a" syntax for the output
+of sh/date with no arguments, otherwise the same as sh/time. A special favour
+to G4PDQ...
+3. and another one, added show/node especially for G4PDQ.
+01Jan00=======================================================================
+1. Fixed Julian routines to get rid of the millenium bug! (do as I say, not
+as I do!).
+2. updated gdx.pl so that external programs can do a sh/dx just as a normal
+user can. On reflection this could be used as a model for all sorts of
+"external" interface routines.
+3. renamed gdx.pl as showdx.
+11Dec99=======================================================================
+1. added missing pc48 so that it calls the DXDb::process routine
+10Dec99=======================================================================
+1. allow msgs to marked as read or unread
+02Dec99=======================================================================
+1. DX command doesn't recognise '6M' as '6m' in SH/DX ON 6M.
+2. set/node now sets the homenode as the callsign.
+3. changed the label for the 18Mhz band from '18m' to '17m' in the bands
+table.
+01Dec99=======================================================================
+1. started the callbot which lives at n2tly.dxcluster.net 9000.
+2. added www.qrz.com
+3. added www.buck.com
+4. added k4ute at no4j.com
+28Nov99=======================================================================
+1. fixed all the stupid errors introduced in 1.36 confusing DXUser->get with
+DXCluster->get_exact.
+24Nov99=======================================================================
+1. extended badmsg.pl stuff so that it works like the forward file and allows
+one to reject on to, from, origin and subject fields.
+2. added a swop.pl again in a forward.pl like format that allows simple swop
+for a field or test on a field and set another.
+3. Fixed the problem that read private mail follows you around as well as
+unread private mail does.
+4. Change the logic of connections so that the node will accept callsigns with
+SSIDs to -8 as different entities from each other. SSIDs > 8 are subtracted
+from 15 and are assumed to be coming in via netrom diddled connections. This
+affects lots of the commands as well. I may not have got them all.
+5. Hangup clients on HUP signals. I originally ignored them, for reasons that
+are now lost in the mists of time. HUP signals now cause clients to die
+(cleanly) and disconnect everything correctly.
+6. Added show/time command
+21Nov99=======================================================================
+1. lose extraneous rubbish after the callsign as sent by BBSes.
+2. Change end label on sh/moon to RGain dB rather than Loss dB.
+3. Remove spurious call to DXCluster->get_exact in pc50.
+4. Allow rcmd to locally connected nodes that are not (for some reason) in the
+nodes table.
+5. Try and send a PC39 in more cases to a cluster that I want to disconnect
+from in the hope that it notices and disconnects its end.
+20Nov99=======================================================================
+1. Added set/unset logininfo which will tell anybody that has this set when
+someone has either logged in or out of this node.
+2. Added set/pinginterval command which alters the length of time between
+pings sent to nodes, the value is minutes < 120 and seconds above that, 0
+means disable pinging (not recommended).
+3. If someone does a sysop whilst connected via ax25, don't show privilege
+level or passwd in stat/user.
+4. Fixed the problem with the dx command where if the callsign ended in a ?
+then the call and the freq would be replicated in the remarks.
+5. Set/unset ann, dx, talk, beep, wx, wwv all are now permanent (ie stored in
+the user file)
+19Nov99=======================================================================
+1. Added new version of sh/sun and also sh/moon from Steve K9AN
+2. Added rtt to who.
+3. added Aliase for show/tnc_sta to who.
+4. added Alias for show/uptime to sh/cl
+18Nov99=======================================================================
+1. Added ping obs counter together with Time::HiRes timers. This will dis-
+connect nodes that fail to respond to 3 ping requests (on the 4th attempt).
+The default time is a ping every 3 mins, therefore a link will be struck out
+after 12 minutes of nil response.
+2. Maintain a table of outstanding connects to other nodes and prevent over-
+laps (special favour to G0RDI).
+17Nov99=======================================================================
+1. Started using Data::Dumper for things again
+2. 'Fixed' DXUser file corruption?
+3. Allow multiline (ie lines with \n in them) output in $DXChannel::send
+4. Added Andrew K9CW's updated wpxloc.raw, regenerated prefix_data.pl
+5. Put in callsign matching and stuff into sh/sun.
+14Nov99=======================================================================
+1. added BBS.pm to start BBS input of mail
+2. fixed eval in DXUser to log errors rather than banging out
+12Nov99=======================================================================
+1. added sh/sun command kindly supplied by Steve K9AN.
+2. allow ^Z on its own on a line to terminate a message
+08Nov99=======================================================================
+1. added spoofing (mk1 version) for sysops, useful for those little jobs like
+reseting a user's qra locator and such like "spoof g7brn set/qra jo02lq".
+2. fixed set/location so it stores the qra locator in the qra locator slot,
+NOT the lat/long (who wrote this stuff...?).
+07Nov99=======================================================================
+1. reduced the amount of stuff compared against for dup announces.
+2. Check the regex for DK0WCY announces produces results before storing it as
+a WWV.
+3. Added some logging for set/priv (un)set/lockout.
+4. Added test long path calc to sh/muf
+5. Only wonder down the msg queue every minute
+6. Put in the initial DB code (at last), you can create and remove local and
+standard remote dbs, you can import AK1A style .FUL ascii databases, you can
+enquire on a local or remote database.
+7. A return ping to a node will clear down all outstanding pings to
+that node (which might cause some confusion if more then one ping is
+outstanding for a node, but then - shit happens).
+04Nov99=======================================================================
+1. Removed ~ from the end of the PC18.
+2. Removed a hangover from duff character checking in cluster.pl
+3. Stop PC frames that are to be routed, being routed back to themselves.
+03Nov99=======================================================================
+1. Simplified command caching so it uses anonymous subroutines, you should
+also get error messages back on the console now when developing.
+2. Allow locally connected AK1A clusters that for some obscure reason don't
+issue PC19s to still appear as connected and allow them to acquire users.
+31Oct99=======================================================================
+1. updated Minimuf.pm and show/muf.pl to the fixed versions sent to me by
+Steve Franke K9AN.
+2. Made set/badnodes work, added show/badnodes. This is an interim fix until
+input spot filtering works.
+24Oct99=======================================================================
+1. fixed announces so that nodes only get one of them (not two).
+2. Altered the select timeouts to prevent apparent excessive CPU usage on
+multiprocessor machines (or at least that is what seems to be the trouble
+here).
+22Oct99=======================================================================
+1. allow filter CALLSIGNS to be in upper or lower case.
+2. create the concept of input and output filters, input filters are of the
+form "in_$call.pl" eg: "in_g1tlh.pl" (or "in_G1TLH.pl"), output filters are
+"g1tlh.pl" (or "G1TLH.pl").
+3. all users can now filter on spots, ann and wwv (assuming the sysop has set
+the filters up - still no user creatable filters. Nodes can filter on both
+input for announces and output for all of these. I would recommend setting
+up a few filters that are likely to be wanted and then symlinking callsigns
+to them as you get requests.
+4. added callsign and length of history/position of screen stats to console.
+If you want to change the colour of the callsign you will need to copy the
+Console.pm to your /spider/local directory and change the $mycallcolor equate.
+21Oct99=======================================================================
+1. fixed reply so that reply b or reply nop generate a bulletin with the
+correct address.
+2. implemented sh/muf command.
+3. reduced privilege of catchup and uncatchup to 5. This so that, suitably
+privileged, nodes that occasionally link can rcmd a "catchup <nodecall> all"
+to the node they are connecting to and thus prevent a large tranche of,
+potentially duplicate, mail. This isn't an issue for DXSpider, but may be
+an issue for any AK1A clusters you are connected to.
+20Oct99=======================================================================
+1. Translated all the subroutines of minimuf into perl as Minimuf.pm
+2. Limited the length of an ANN that is saved for de-duping to $pc12_dup_lth
+(def 72)
+3. help command should now return stuff that you expect.
+4. reduced necessary privilege to use 'MSG' command to 6.
+5. Correct the count of spots and wwv for a merge.
+6. Allow decodes of DK0WCY-3 WWV data beacon announces
+7. rewrote send so that an SB doesn't send a buckshee bull to NOPRIVATE!
+8. Changed default colouration on console so that all spots >= 50Mhz are red
+9. Fixed init command so that PC21s are sent down non-initted channels
+10. Allow forwarding of unknown private mail. This means that you can set up
+forwarding of 'foreign' mail across to and by gateways using the same
+mechanism as bulletins (/spider/msg/forward.pl).
+11. Allow line wrapping on the console (G0RDI, G0VGS et al).
+18Oct99=======================================================================
+1. changed help command so that it works correctly with multiple title lines.
+2. added to address to the list of things a message checks to see whether it
+is a duplicate (how on earth did it take _this_ long to find this one?).
+3. Changes S CC so that the callsign it says it has sent to is the real one
+(request from G8TIC)
+21Sep99=======================================================================
+1. allow zero messages to be stored (request from G4PDQ)
+2. make DX more flexible and change spotter syntax to be consistant with
+sh/dx (request from K9AN)
+30Aug99=======================================================================
+1. remove -@ as well as \d from SSIDs for spots
+2. remove WEB and/or NET from the front or rear of callsigns in Prefix.pm
+29Aug99=======================================================================
+1. Added msg command to allow the changing of To, From, Subject and so on the
+messages. This seems particularly important just now as a whole raft of G3's
+seem to be putting out non private bulls to callsigns.
+2. While I am at set messages to TO fields that appear to be users to private
+if they have been sent as bulls.
+3. Add DISTROs, if a callsign field appears in /spider/msg/distro in upper
+use that as a list of callsigns to send further. Note this is potentially
+recursive as callsigns in a distro can be distros.
+25Aug99=======================================================================
+1. check the date of a WWV much more carefully.
+24Aug99=======================================================================
+1. Prevented spots with lowercase callsigns being forwarded. This opens a
+much bigger can of worms which I shall have to address later.
+17Aug99=======================================================================
+1. all protocol except PC29 containing %XX characters will be dumped.
+2. Changed console.pl so that if you start typing it moves the top window
+back to the bottom.
+19Jul99=======================================================================
+1. Added iota and qra clauses to sh/dx as well, these take optional arguments
+and will look for the appropriate strings.
+17Jul99=======================================================================
+1. Started database integration.
+2. added qsl clause to sh/dx that searches for qsl or via in the dx info
+16Jul99=======================================================================
+1. drop frames with 'illegal' characters in them (but pass frames with
+embedded %XX characters).
+15Jul99=======================================================================
+1. Changed grepdbg to accept a regexp. More useful (to me anyway).
+2. Altered init command so that it doesn't send PC21s down the initted
+channel.
+10Jul99=======================================================================
+1. added an explicit disconnect from my side for already connected calls. This
+appears to have fixed a problem where if two consoles connect at the same time
+with the same (sysop?) callsign the cluster would stop.
+2. added some debugging in the Message handler to allow more state to be seen.
+3. Message handler now seems to work better for longer and doesn't spew out
+PC42 aborts with quite such gay abandon.
+05Jul99=======================================================================
+1. added stat/msg and stat/cluster commands to allow me to poke about inside
+the msg and cluster node tables.
+04Jul99=======================================================================
+1. removed silly 'new message has arrived' to connected nodes
+2. added a ! command to the console.pl program; works like the bash shell.
+01Jul99=======================================================================
+1. Altered priv to 5 for connect.pl to match disconnect for nodes
+29Jun99=======================================================================
+1. fixed merge command that I broke.
+2. added some randomness in waittimes for aborted outgoing messages
+3. Message Queuing now only occurs every 5 minutes (configurable if anyone
+wants to write the command for doing it) and on receipt of a PC16. This is
+a further attempt at sorting the crossing of messages!
+4. a PC33 will cause another attempt at queuing. If you are on a roll, keep
+going!
+28Jun99=======================================================================
+1. console.pl now works with history and editting.
+2. added scrolling to stuff sent by the cluster.
+3. added colours to things.
+27Jun99=======================================================================
+1. added WWV filtering
+2. added timeouts to for forwarding Messages, also added a waiting time for
+failed (stalled) outgoing messages.
+3. Incoming messages will now have priority over outgoing messages to the
+same node.
+4. Added 'catchup' command which will 'catchup' messages to date for a node.
+This means that when you start forwarding to a node, it doesn't get all the
+messages queued up that are probably old.
+5. added 'uncatchup' which does the opposite of the above.
+6. fixed kill full and PC49 handling so that it actually works.
+7. Fixed local aliases so they add to the front of the standard ones. This
+means you only need to add your specials or override the system ones you need
+to.
+21Jun99=======================================================================
+1. changed regex for cluster->client msgs so that strings like |---| are no
+longer ignored.
+20Jun99=======================================================================
+1. prevented a merge to myself (causes a loop)
+18Jun99=======================================================================
+1. fixed a problem with DXLogPrint repeating log entries.
+2. altered the permissions on disconnnect so that priv 5 users can disconnect
+clusters, but still require priv 8 to disconnect users.
+3. made sure that an incoming PC18 clears out all the cluster info for
+that channel before re-initialising.
+4. add init command.
+5. disconnect users before nodess on shutdown
+15Jun99=======================================================================
+1. added grepdbg program (so you can search your debug files and get times
+and dates of incidents).
+2. Moved DXVars.pm to DXVars.pm.issue to force new users to cp it to their
+local directory.
+3. added $allowzero to DXProt to allow thru PC19s with zero protocol versions.
+14Jun99=======================================================================
+1. changed IO::File in help and apropos to IO::File
+2. added a check for isa('DXNode') for PC50s
+08Jun99=======================================================================
+1. Started work on the curses based operator console.
+03Jun99=======================================================================
+1. cluster seems to have a memory leak, put DESTROY functions in where
+appropriate.
+2. try to make sure that PC21 commands are not issued inappropriately and
+also reformat PC19 for onward broadcast so that nodes coming in on loops are
+dropped from those broadcasts.
+3. make sure PC16,17,19,21 doen't affect locally connected nodes.
+4. Changed all instances of FileHandle to IO::File.
+01Jun99=======================================================================
+1. removed a output of an unwanted pc21 for isolated nodes
+31May99=======================================================================
+1. Added checking for PC16,17,19 and 21 to make sure that they come in from
+the channels that they are supposed to.
+2. Pass the RCMDing node's priv level to the command (rather than the
+connecting node's privilege level).
+3. Pass thru merge requests for other nodes.
+4. Removed a warning from client.pl
+5. routed external DB commands and drop them (for now) locally
+6. routed external mail commands (ie those addressed elsewhere)
+7. routed external PC26/27 lines
+25May99=======================================================================
+1. try to make the lastin value correct even for local users
+2. got rid of the stupid bug that failed to print out the offline message
+but put a "*main::STDOUTmain" for every line of that message instead.
+3. Ported to 5.00503 (well actually just installed it and it just runs).
+4. Added who command
23May99=======================================================================
1. Got rid of some of the useless error messages on global destruction when
quiting a program.
3. Limited the number of queued dx spots when composing messages to 20 (the
oldest one is lost for every one added above 20).
4. Added generalised shell globbing everywhere I think it is useful, including
-sh/dx, dir
+sh/dx, dir, sh/files etc
5. Made dir more compatible with ak1a and added 'to' and 'from' call searching
it should now do everything that ak1a does except counts.
6. added similar functionality to kill command so that you can kill ranges, to
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