Release Notes AMADEUS Version 0.7 ALPHA 09/05/94 tdieting New Features ------------ This is the first version of AMADEUS. The improvments to the previous PC-Client for Hyper-G ("uniinfo") are too numerous to mention. Bug Fixes --------- Same as above. Known Bugs/Shortcomings ----------------------- o There is (almost) no on-line documentation yet o Some functions are not implemented yet. o The user interface needs improvement. o More configuration options in amadeus.ini and docman.ini. o Text Viewer: Works only with fixed fonts (such as Courier). Printing is not implemented yet Does currently not display inline images. o Image Viewer: Starts up as seperate process. Will be included in the main module in the future. Does not always display correctly on 16-colors display (256 color or more recommended) o WWW gateway: Does not really work, because links are not yet supported (will be fixed very soon!) Release Notes AMADEUS Version 0.71 ALPHA 13/05/94 tdieting New Features ------------ o WWW gateway: Supports links now o Gopher gateway: GIF-viewer program (default: viewer.exe) is user configurable through 'docman.ini' o Text viewer: text color/background, link color/background, marking color/background configurable through 'amadeus.ini' (no direct configuration support (eg. menus) yet) Bug Fixes --------- o Text viewer: some minor bugs removed, printer support disabled (not supported in this version) Known Bugs/Shortcomings ----------------------- o There is (almost) no on-line documentation yet o Some functions are not implemented yet. o The user interface needs improvement. o More configuration options in amadeus.ini and docman.ini. o Text Viewer: Works only with fixed fonts (such as Courier). Printing is not implemented yet Does currently not display inline images. o Image Viewer: Starts up as seperate process. Will be included in the main module in the future. Does not always display correctly on 16-colors display (256 color or more recommended) Due to a bug in Win32s, the Win32s-subsystem will crashe, if you open too many viewers simultanously, depends on the built in memory (eg. 8MB: not more than 3 viewers ...) This problem will vanish, if the viewer is included in the main module. o WWW gateway: Due to limitations in the text viewer, inline images are currently not displayed. Forms are not supported. Release Notes AMADEUS Version 0.72 ALPHA 26/05/94 tdieting New Features ------------ o RTF-parser: RTF to HTF convertion totally new (thanks to G. Mesaric) o new commands: "new collection", "new cluster", "Find" allows now search in whole database o some minor user interface improvements o Hyper-G protocol updated to version 0.07 Bug Fixes --------- o some minor bugs removed Known Bugs/Shortcomings ----------------------- o There is (almost) no on-line documentation yet o Some functions are not implemented yet. o The user interface needs improvement. o More configuration options in amadeus.ini and docman.ini. o Text Viewer: Works only with fixed fonts (such as Courier). (Proportional fonts: new release) Printing is not implemented yet Does currently not display inline images. o Image Viewer: Starts up as seperate process. Will be included in the main module in the future. Does not always display correctly on 16-colors display (256 color or more recommended) Due to a bug in Win32s, the Win32s-subsystem will crash, if you open too many viewers simultanously, depends on the built in memory (eg. 8MB: not more than 3 viewers ...) This problem will vanish, if the viewer is included in the main module. o WWW gateway: Due to limitations in the text viewer, inline images are currently not displayed. Forms are not supported. Release Notes AMADEUS Version 0.73 ALPHA 01/06/94 tdieting New Features ------------ o some minor user interface improvements Bug Fixes --------- o RTF2HTF: this is the reason for this release: rtf2htf did not work in most cases (especially, if it's called more than once), now called as an external program (until the bugs are fixed), new version also converts tables. Known Bugs/Shortcomings ----------------------- o There is (almost) no on-line documentation yet o Some functions are not implemented yet. o The user interface needs improvement. o More configuration options in amadeus.ini and docman.ini. o Text Viewer: Works only with fixed fonts (such as Courier). (Proportional fonts: new release) Printing is not implemented yet Does currently not display inline images. o Image Viewer: Starts up as seperate process. Will be included in the main module in the future. Does not always display correctly on 16-colors display (256 color or more recommended) Due to a bug in Win32s, the Win32s-subsystem will crash, if you open too many viewers simultanously, depends on the built in memory (eg. 8MB: not more than 3 viewers ...) This problem will vanish, if the viewer is included in the main module. o WWW gateway: Due to limitations in the text viewer, inline images are currently not displayed. Forms are not supported. Release Notes AMADEUS Version 0.74 ALPHA 21/06/94 tdieting New Features ------------ o new textviewer o limited save text (only HTF) o multimedia documents now work also over distributed servers The helper program 'docman.exe' exists no longer. The settings specified in 'docman.ini' reside now in 'amadeus.ini' o Amadeus now works also with Daytona Bug Fixes --------- o RTF2HTF: works now quite well (including tables!) Known Bugs/Shortcomings ----------------------- o There is (almost) no on-line documentation yet o Some functions are not implemented yet. o The user interface needs improvement. o Text Viewer: Printing is not implemented yet Does currently not display inline images. o Image Viewer: Starts up as seperate process. Will be included in the main module in the future. Does not always display correctly on 16-colors display (256 color or more recommended) Due to a bug in Win32s, the Win32s-subsystem will crash, if you open too many viewers simultanously, depends on the built in memory (eg. 8MB: not more than 3 viewers ...) This problem will vanish, if the viewer is included in the main module. o WWW gateway: Due to limitations in the text viewer, inline images are currently not displayed. Forms are not supported. Release Notes AMADEUS Version 0.75 ALPHA 24/06/94 tdieting New Features ------------ o ImageViewer now directly implemented in Amadeus o a bit of online help (written by Ch. Huber) Bug Fixes --------- o TextViewer: some severe resource leakages removed (winhelp crashes no longer!) printing menu entry disabled (does still not work) Known Bugs/Shortcomings ----------------------- o There is (almost) no on-line documentation yet o Some functions are not implemented yet. o The user interface needs improvement. o Text Viewer: Printing is not implemented yet Does currently not display inline images. o Image Viewer: Starts up as seperate process. Will be included in the main module in the future. On 16-colors displays images are sometime not displayed initialy (256 color or more recommended) o others: Due to a bug in Win32s, the Win32s-subsystem will crash, if you open too many viewers simultanously, depends on the built in memory (eg. 8MB: not more than 3 viewers ...) This problem will vanish, if the viewer is included in the main module. o WWW gateway: Due to limitations in the text viewer, inline images are currently not displayed. Forms are not supported. o PC/TCP 2.2: MultiMedia documents cause a crash with this version, but PC/TCP 2.30 works perfectly Note: The hostname of your PC must be listed in the TCP/IP host file (Otherwise the document cache server can't connect to the PC !) Release Notes AMADEUS Version 0.76c ALPHA 23/07/94 tdieting Note: version 0.76c is a bugfix-version to 0.76, differences shown below refer to 0.75 vs. 0.76c ! New Features ------------ o new commands: new image (File/New) new movie (File/New) new scene (File/New) new sound (File/New) new postscript (File/New) new generic document (File/New) send message (Administration) o ImageViewer improved o much more online help (written by Ch. Huber) o new Win32s version (v1.15a) Bug Fixes --------- o many, many bugs removed (Amadeus should be much more stable now !) Known Bugs/Shortcomings ----------------------- o The following functions are not implemented yet: new remote (File/New) new attributes (File/New) modify attributes (File/Modify) copy (File) move (File) unlink (File) print (File) print preview (File) make link (Edit) cut (Edit) copy (Edit) paste (Edit) set bookmark (Navigation) sort order (Search) full text option (Search) o The user interface still needs improvement. o Text Viewer: printing is not implemented yet does currently not display inline images. o Image Viewer: does not support links yet Dithering speed should be improved o others: Due to a bug in Win32s, the Win32s-subsystem will crash, if you open too many external viewers simultanously (depending on the built-in memory (eg. 8MB: not more than 3 viewers ...) This problem will disappear when most viewers are contained within the main module. o WWW gateway: Due to limitations in the text viewer, inline images are currently not displayed. Forms are not supported. o PC/TCP 2.2: MultiMedia documents cause a crash with this version, but PC/TCP 2.3x works perfectly Note: The hostname of your PC must be listed in the TCP/IP host file (Otherwise the document cache server can't connect to the PC !) Release Notes AMADEUS Version 0.77 ALPHA 27/07/94 tdieting New Features ------------ o new commands: move (object to other location) (File) copy (link object to an additional location) (File) unlink (remove link to this object from a parent collection) (File) Bug Fixes --------- o bug in inserting multimedia documents removed (was only in v0.76c/d) Known Bugs/Shortcomings ----------------------- o The following functions are not implemented yet: new remote (File/New) new attributes (File/New) modify attributes (File/Modify) print (File) print preview (File) make link (Edit) cut (Edit) copy (Edit) paste (Edit) set bookmark (Navigation) sort order (Search) full text option (Search) o The user interface still needs improvement. o Text Viewer: printing is not implemented yet does currently not display inline images. o Image Viewer: does not support links yet Dithering speed should be improved o others: Due to a bug in Win32s, the Win32s-subsystem will crash, if you open too many external viewers simultanously (depending on the built-in memory (eg. 8MB: not more than 3 viewers ...) This problem will disappear when most viewers are contained within the main module. o WWW gateway: Due to limitations in the text viewer, inline images are currently not displayed. Forms are not supported. o PC/TCP 2.2: MultiMedia documents cause a crash with this version, but PC/TCP 2.3x works perfectly Note: The hostname of your PC must be listed in the TCP/IP host file (Otherwise the document cache server can't connect to the PC !) Release Notes AMADEUS Version 0.78 ALPHA 13/08/94 tdieting New Features ------------ o new commands: play (plays a multimedia document, if it's handled by an internal viewer) (File) stop (stops a multimedia document from playing) (File) print (currently prints only a text document) (File) page setup (change page layout settings for printing) (File) print preview (let's you preview what will come out of the printer) (File) make link (generates a link within a text doc.) (Edit) attributes (get info/modify/add document attributes, this substitues File/Modify/Attribute, File/Add/Attribute and File/Info) (Edit) hyperroot (show all Hyper-G servers) (Navigation) o internal MPEG viewer (without size limitations) o several enhancements concerning the text viewer Bug Fixes --------- o many small bugs removed Known Bugs/Shortcomings ----------------------- o The following functions are not implemented yet: new remote (File/New) cut (Edit) copy (Edit) paste (Edit) set bookmark (Navigation) sort order (Search) full text option (Search) o The user interface still needs improvement. o Text Viewer: does currently not display inline images. o Image Viewer: does not support links yet Dithering speed should be improved o others: Due to a bug in Win32s, the Win32s-subsystem will crash, if you open too many external viewers simultanously (depending on the built-in memory (eg. 8MB: not more than 3 viewers ...) This problem will disappear when most viewers are contained within the main module. o WWW gateway: Due to limitations in the text viewer, inline images are currently not displayed. Forms are not supported. o PC/TCP 2.2: MultiMedia documents cause a crash with this version, but PC/TCP 2.3x works perfectly Note: The hostname of your PC must be listed in the TCP/IP host file (Otherwise the document cache server can't connect to the PC !) Release Notes AMADEUS Version 0.79 ALPHA 24/08/94 tdieting New Features ------------ o new commands: new remote (insertion of telnet/gopher/www/ wais/ftp links in the database) (File/New) full text option' (Search) viewer options' (Options) o extensions: goto command extended: allows now to specifiy not only collection names, but also links with different protocols. The format is: ://{:port}/path E.g.: http://www.tu-graz.ac.at/ gopher://gopher.tu-graz.ac.at/1~anonymous For 'hyperg':hyperg://{:port{:{:}}}/path hyperg://hyperg.tu-graz.ac.at:418;0;1/~anonymous Amadeus can now be used to directly access a Gopher server by specifiying '-r gopher://{:port}/1path' in the commandline e.g.: -r gopher://gopher.tu-graz.ac.at/1 P.S.: this should also work with the other protocols supported in the 'goto' command, but they are NOT tested so far ! added 'CollectionHead' feature (info page describing collection) Bug Fixes --------- Known Bugs/Shortcomings ----------------------- o The following functions are not implemented yet: cut (Edit) copy (Edit) paste (Edit) set bookmark (Navigation) sort order (Search) o The user interface still needs improvement. o Text Viewer: does currently not display inline images. o Image Viewer: does not support links yet Dithering speed should be improved o others: Due to a bug in Win32s, the Win32s-subsystem will crash, if you open too many external viewers simultanously (depending on the built-in memory (eg. 8MB: not more than 3 viewers ...) This problem will disappear when most viewers are contained within the main module. o WWW gateway: Due to limitations in the text viewer, inline images are currently not displayed. Forms are not supported. o PC/TCP 2.2: MultiMedia documents cause a crash with this version, but PC/TCP 2.3x works perfectly Note: The hostname of your PC must be listed in the TCP/IP host file (Otherwise the document cache server can't connect to the PC !) .