+04Sep00=======================================================================
+1. made PC10,11,12 badword checking dependant on a flag variable ($censorpc)
+default = 0 (off).
+02Sep00=======================================================================
+1. fix a long standing talk bug to do with routing to specific nodes (t xxx >
+yyy .....)
+2. Add badwords checking in various places. You put a list of words into
+/spider/data/badwords one or several per line. Lines starting with # are
+ignored. PC10, PC11, PC12 with words contained in this file will not be
+sent on. Also ann, talk and dx commands have badword checking added. Words
+are NOT case sensitive, but you will need to put all the endings in (eg
+...k, ...ker, ...king).
+3. Added new version of admin manual from G0VGS.
+01Sep00=======================================================================
+1. allow blank on field 4 of PC10 (even though it's "illegal").
+28Aug00=======================================================================
+1. changes DXChannel::get_all_ak1a to get_all_nodes.
+2. ignore PC21s coming in on the interface with that callsign (ie nodes
+trying to disconnect themselves).
+3. output correct PC29 on blank lines and escape ^ characters differently
+(and transparently for spider nodes).
+26Aug00=======================================================================
+1. make blank origins on messages the node call.
+2. added new version of FAQ from Ian G0VGS
+3. added a dummy PC75 command (WCY merge?)
+4. Don't allow mail routing for clx nodes
+5. Log isolates
+25Aug00=======================================================================
+1. moan about and then delete empty message files
+24Aug00=======================================================================
+1. Removed WWV command so that users can't interfere (read mess up) the
+automatic feeds which come from various places on the net.
+23Aug00=======================================================================
+1. Added persistant dupe file so that all dupes are stored here (including
+announces) - announces are now kept for 5 days (as default).
+2. limit the characters stored in a dupe for spots and announces
+20Aug00=======================================================================
+1. Added system Alias for set/nodxgrid => unset/dxgrid
+2. Add full individual checking for all PC protocol fields in all messages
+and removed any language dependant stuff (hopefully).
+3. console.pl is now a bit more international (client.c/pl already are)
+19Aug00=======================================================================
+1. Added an efficiency thing for AUTOLOADed accessors from OO Perl by Conway.
+2. Fiddled with the rtty and digital bandplan frequencies.
+18Aug00=======================================================================
+1. added a couple of changes for perl 5.6.0
+2. removed del_dup from DXUser for earlier versions of DB '1.85' (ie real ones
+not 2.x versions in 1.85 compatibility mode).
+3. Started the OOing of the PC protocol stuff.
+15Aug00=======================================================================
+1. added 1.25 of the admin manual html
+14Aug00=======================================================================
+1. Added regex support to sh/dup_*.pl commands
+2. fixed rcmd in crontab so that will work again
+13Aug00=======================================================================
+1. removed extra /60 in AnnTalk to make deduping of announces work a bit
+better for longer...
+05Aug00=======================================================================
+1. Fixed hex character problem put in somewhen in the C Client
+03Aug00=======================================================================
+1. caught some more signals (are any of these causing the random stopping
+of the code?
+2. the Console now requires 1.05 of the Curses module ^R REFRESHES THE SCREEN
+(as does ^L) AT LAST!!!!!
+02Aug00=======================================================================
+1. put back hex check exception for PC29
+01Aug00=======================================================================
+1. made the export and import ascii system work finally. The user_asc file
+generated (automatically and 0000Z Sunday morning) is autoloading. Just
+execute it and it will automatically reload your user database.
+2. remove import_users.pl no longer necessary
+31Jul00=======================================================================
+1. try to fix paging problem.
+2. added help for spoof and set/forward
+3. fixed bogus callsign check for field 2 of a PC12
+4. Add DB_File to DXCommandmode to make it available for commands
+30Jul00=======================================================================
+1. Added talk mode so that I don't have to keep typing T <call> all the time.
+2. fiddled around with storing of Debug messages a bit more.
+3. bomb proofed the type command.
+4. started the objectifying for talk, dx and announcements.
+5. fix talkmode so that it only does 'via' PC10s when it really needs to.
+6. SEND now displays a message if you try to do it in not prompt mode.
+7. stopped a few more things being done by rcmd (eg send, talk, ann, dx)
+8. tidied up the talking a bit more.
+9. Increase default hop counts all round.
+10. Adjust hex encoding so that 8 bit characters should now go thru
+11. check more of the essential protocol fields for 8 bit characters.
+29Jul00=======================================================================
+1. added forward/latlong which will forward ALL the users that have a latitude
+and longitude set on them to one or more locally connected nodes - with a hop
+count of 1.
+2. speeded up the show/node command by using the DB_File interface and
+sequentially reading the data directly and only 'get'ting the ones that are
+nodes.
+3. did the same for show/isolate and show/lockout.
+28Jul00=======================================================================
+1. fixed watchdbg midnight rollover loop and removed the date part of the
+date/time translation to leave just the time.
+27Jul00=======================================================================
+1. made sure that 'en' is the default language on new users.
+2. issue error message if shutdown is attempted by a low privileged user.
+3. Make sure a privilege is defined for all users (even if it is 0).
+4. Try to fix some more dups (and the time on them).
+5. make the time stored on dups generated locally on spots an integer no of
+minutes * 60
+6. send unsolicited PC[38]5s to the sysop if online.
+7. merged current html from www.dxcluster.org with Ian's stuff
+8. Added sgml files into the source tree
+9. changed default paclen in client.c to 236
+26Jul00=======================================================================
+1. added wantgrid (to control display of grid square info on DX Broadcasts)
+2. added lastoper for controlling periodic demands for user info from other
+nodes.
+3. added spiderFAQ stuff from Ian G0VGS and latest update of the admin manual
+4. changed updating and deleting from user file in an attempt to keep down
+duplicates and possibly corruptions.
+5. added a DXUser::export routine to allow the cluster to automatically
+export the user data in ascii from cron.
+6. added a line in the ISSUED crontab to do the export once a week
+7. delete annok and dxok if set to 1 in user records.
+8. added export_users command to allow arbitary exporting of user files
+9. added set and unset/dxgrid command to allow control over the grid squares
+on DX announcements
+10. Removed export_user.pl (no longer needed)
+11. made import_users.pl accept a non related input filename and always
+update the current user file.
+12. added an 'auto rcmd <node> for/oper <call>' for people I can see on the
+cluster that issue spots and for whom I have no qra info (no more than once
+a month). This isn't the default - set $send_opernam in
+/spider/local/DXProtVars.pm (copied from /spider/perl). Good for gateways.
+13. Despace spot texts properly again for deduping purposes.
+14. Corrected Pc84/85 handling a bit.
+15. Sync the user database every 15 secs to see whether we can reduce the
+corruptions and duplicates.
+25Jul00=======================================================================
+1. ignore \n in ax25 mode for C client.
+2. remove extra space at the end of a DX spot announce when no grid square
+is output.
+3. added new admin manual from Ian G0VGS
+20Jul00=======================================================================
+1. Finally managed to update my source with the sourceforge one
+2. added user->qra cleaning in various places
+3. added four digit locator strings to broadcast DX spots (for users).
+4. PC11 with blank callsigns should now be ignored.
+5. put back the unpadding to the PC11 dup checking to catch spots with added
+blanks at the end of lines.
+25Jun00=======================================================================
+1. added 0 to the regex that checks for valid data on the cluster.pl->client
+channel - this will allow G0VGS and G0RDI to connect....
+2. removed technically unnecessary /= 60 from the dup routines to see if
+Arnold's Sparcs don't then crash.
+19Jun00=======================================================================
+1. move ann_dup, spot_dup etc to dup_ann, dup_spots etc
+2. made mode 3 the default line ending convention for all out going connects
+via telnet in client.pl
+18Jun00=======================================================================
+1. fixed line ending ambiguities (I think) for telnet connections. Well
+actually only really band aided it. It works but isn't how I want it.
+Client.pl has got to go....
+2. Added 1.21 of Ian G0VGS's admin manual
17Jun00=======================================================================
1. I believe I have fixed all the login/logout 'broken pipe' errors
2. Added G0RDI's 'links' command.
3. added update_sysop.pl which cleans out all previous versions of the sysops
information from the user database and recreates it with that in DXVars.pm
+4. Added node type to links and who
+5. Hardened up the cluster->client link in the cluster software so that
+rubbish on port 27754 doesn't (usually) crash the cluster.
14Jun00=======================================================================
1. fixed sh/node crash
2. fixed RTT in who.pl
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