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| ~OLNews~RS | This is an adult chat, but the dirty words are
------ not allowed! Please, don't swear, don't kill,
don't lie, and don't sleep !...
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~FR~OL Don't ask for promotions and, after reading the mail, delete
~FR~OL the messages! We don't have too much free space on the disk!
~FG~OL ~LIYour account must be unique!
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>>>Please use ~OL.set~RS to specify your real name, age, gender, e-mail, and
city/country. Complete your profile (using ~OL.entpro~RS) with other useful
information about you... Thanks!
>>>For informations about ranking and promoting, see ~OL.help ranks
~OL~FG--->>> GAEN M (18.2) - May 2002 <<<---
* two new 'colours' (black and white) of Paintball game munition
* new optimized and enhanced version of "go" bash script
* minor changes of GAEN sources and interface
~OL~FG--->>> GAEN M (18) - December 2001 <<<---
* .who and .people commands accept the new 'brief' parameter to show
only the users information ('brief' can be substituted by '-')
* increased compatibility on UNIX platforms which don't support
some of the facilities used by .gsh who/last.
Compile GAEN sources with "make nosupport" for this
* more 'spatiality' provided by .stereo command
* more hints (total of 130)
* minor fixes of .lusers command to correctly generate the XML files
* minor changes of .rename command
* other minor modifications of internal code
* enhanced version of "go" bash script
~OL~FG--->>> GAEN L (17.8) - September 2001 <<<---
* .examine will accept 'setmsg' parameter instead of 'msg'
* more flexible method to safety unerase files
* increased readability of source code
(complete indentation of code using 'indent' tool)
* other minor modifications of code
* more quotes (total of 700)
* for developers GAEN distribution provides a simple Makefile
* minor changes of the DTD used by XML files generated by GAEN
* minor modifications of easy.compile script
~OL~FG--->>> GAEN L (17.6) - March 2001 <<<---
* a new short-cut: ~OL`~RS is used for ~OL.who~RS command
* any command can be prefixed by ~OL.~RS or ~OL/ ~RS characters
(~OL.people~RS or ~OL/people~RS are equivalent)
* ~OL/ ~RS alone is still short-cut for ~OL.think~RS
* some minor internal modifications and corrections
* new hints (total of 125)
~OL~FG--->>> GAEN L (17.5) - January 2001 <<<---
* new ~OL.to~RS command (a public .tell); ~OL\~RS is shortcut for .to
* ~OL.born~RS and ~OL.lusers~RS bugs removed
* ~OL.lock~RS accepts an additional <message> option
* ~OL.passwd~RS works only for full username (abbreviations are not allowed)
* "Excellent!" message showed if the user answers "N" at
.reboot, .shutdown, .suicide commands
* more information showed by ~OL.listafks~RS and ~OL.param~RS
* new ~OLallow_born_maxlev~RS option in config to allow to
.born max-level users
* security check of 'newuser_deflevel' config parameter
* more quotes (650)
* minor modifications of ~OL.gsh ps~RS command
* some minor interface changes
* other internal modifications
~OL~FG--->>> GAEN L (17) - July 2000 <<<---
* new ~OL.sweep~RS parameters: ~OLonlyrestr~RS and ~OLonlyrun~RS criteria
* new erase option of ~OL.environ~RS command; the command supports
multiple user environment files
* more pre-login messages
* new quotes (a total of 600 wisdom phrases)
* GSL 4.2: ~OL.set~RS accepts the special values ~OL_name~RS and ~OL_level~RS
* gsh 2.7: new ~OL.gsh ps~RS command to show the current processes of the
machine who run GAEN
* new version (1.0) of GAEN XML DTD specification used by ~OL.lusers~RS
command to generate XML documents
* minor modifications of easy.script file: new ~OL--help~RS command line
parameter to show the script's syntax
* .wipe is available from SPIRIT or superior levels
* new design of GAEN Web page, compatible with XHTML 1.0 standard
* more help and more internal comments
~OL~FG--->>> GAEN K (16) - July 1999 <<<---
* ~OL.terminal wrap~RS enables auto-wrapping of long lines on
dumb terminals.
* new restriction: ~OLexecmds~RS to restrict the execution of all
commands except .quit, .say, .help and .suicide
* new log files: ~OLswears~RS and ~OLunlink~RS. The .logging and
.viewlog commands accept now symbolic log types instead of numbers.
Swearing text is now written to log file.
* new config parameters and enhanced .param
* customizable examine/status reply message: ~OL.examine msg <text>~RS
(see ~OL.help examine~RS)
* Auto hints at help concept: at each help usage a hint will be showed.
You can enable/disable this facility by using ~OL.hint auto~RS.
* environment file loaded/saved by .environ contain also the wrap
and hint at help flags.
* new quotes (500) and new hints (100)
* user pseudo-variables ~OL{name} {level}~RS in profile and
~OL{name}~RS in .desc or .examine reply message which replace the
user's name and level.
* ~OL.site~RS shows also the login port and the idle time for an user.
* ~OL.lusers~RS generates a SGML/XML file instead of unstructured
text file.
* interface changes
* more help topics and additions
* new command line parameter: ~OL--version
* some minor bug fixes
