- Wednesday, February 18th, 1998, 12:58 am est
- http://www.vex.net/~x/yirx/: a new Yarn site is born! Yarn hasn't been updated in how long? OH well, lets make a new site anyhow! This Bells/2 site is now retired. YIRX is taking over from here on out.
- Wednesday, October 29th, 1997, 3:39 am est
- bells2.phtml: added link to Yexport, which is a DOS utility which sounds quite promising. It sounds similiar to the old Yarn-to-Soup-with-Grep utility, which never got updated to work with the Yarn 9.x format news.dat. This one searches 9.x news.dat and exports messages found to folder or rnews file.
- Wednesday, October 15th, 1997, 5:07 pm est
- yarnperl.phtml: not much action around here lately eh? Well here's a whole new page. Not much on it yet. It is meant to collect any PERL scripts for use with Yarn. It's a long story...
- Sunday, September 28th, 1997, 4:57 pm est
- yarnhack.html: added this small unofficial collection of yarn format/structure information for programmers/hackers.
- Friday, July 4st, 1997, 5:07 pm est
- bells2.phtml: Yep 1.7 - slight update. Really just a new tag "{DAYS:####/##/##}", which allows the insertion of the number of days to or from any date. That's the only change! No need to upgrade if you have no use for this tag.
- Friday, July 1st, 1997, 5:07 pm est
- rexxbells.phtml: Yarf 1.3 - New version... of this script to automate creating spam reports.
- bells2.phtml: Yarf 1.5 - New version... of this program to hack up your messages's From: field.
- Ah, 4 more days until we land on Mars. Woohoo!
- Friday, June 13st, 1997, 6:21 am est
- bells2.phtml: Vsoup - No update (although there is a new beta with a new -Q (query) switch on Hardy's web site) but it was pointed out to me how pathetically out of date my description was. (-: So now it's just pathetic, but not out of date. My apologies to Hardy for spreading malicious lies and misinformation all this time! I've even been using Vsoup myself lately, finally abandoning venerable old Uqwk...
- bells2.phtml: Dialers - Added a link to In-Joy. While not specifically for Yarn, it is very flexible, and with just a few batch files could easily be configured for automatically fetching mail. I've been playing with it also lately... shareware.
- Monday, June 2nd, 1997, 8:31 pm est
- bells2.phtml: Yang 1.0 - At last, a new yarn toy! "Yarn Automatic News Gadget" can be used to 'hide' newsgroups with no current unread messages from your newsgroup selection list.
- Canadian Trivia: We had a national election today here in Canada. Polls don't close until 10:30, so i can't tell you who won (though of course the media have had it all figured out for weeks in advance already). What do you care, anyhow! And besides, nothing much changes, regardless... sigh. Some interesting small changes in the election process however. It now costs 50 thousand dollars to enter a party into a national election; so some fringe parties are financially discriminated against. On a more positive note, election polling times were staggered this year: Canada crosses 7 time zones. And it can get rather complicated with the Newfoundland (island) province actually being in a bizarre timezone all by itself half an hour off from the rest of the world! Not to mention that one of our provinces refuses to use 'daylight savings time'. This year everyone will be voting 'at the same time' though their clocks will read different hours. And finally news organisations have been forbidden (for the first time in my memory) from reporting advanced polls all day until voting has closed. Why didn't someone think of this before now! It's amazing -- no media frenzy all night! This year British Columbia (province) won't be able to watch on TV the results from the rest of the country, the winner already decided, before polls have closed on their coast! Er.. sorry, just felt like writing all that. Oh well. But just let me try to assure you non-canadians if I can, honestly, Canada has no plans for world domination at the moment, and we probably won't be invading your country within the next six or eight months. Of course, what do I know.
- Thursday, May 1st, 1997, 11:33 am est
- bells2.phtml: Yarf 1.4 - bug fix.
- Friday, April 25th, 1997, 10:35 pm est
- bells2.phtml: Vsoup 1.2.8 - updated version. New scoring feature.
- bells2.phtml: Most of the links to files on Hobbes have been updated/corrected, and all converted from FTP to HTTP. Hobbes is still under re-organisation, so some links will sill have to change.
- Well this log of changes is over a year old now, i've just noticed. I guess one of these days I'll have to trim it. (-:
- Wednesday, April 9th, 1997, 4:48 am est
- bells2.phtml: Yep 1.6 - updated version. Finally. Even though nothing really has changed since the months and months old beta -- finally it's "official".
- Saturday, March 29th, 8:59 am est
- bells2.phtml: Yarn Dial 1.53 - updated version includes support for multi-threaded Vsoup now, as well as good old Souper. Probably numerous other enhancements/fixes as well -- check it out.
- Going to be lots of fun updating all the links as soon as hobbes finishes the massive re-organisation.... wheee...
- Thursday, March 13th, 10:28 am est
- rexxbells.phtml: UCEreport - updated rexx script which automatically creates spam complaint messages when spam messages are piped to it.
- Thursday, March 6th, 10:28 am est
- rexxbells.phtml: UCEreport - new rexx script which automatically creates spam complaint messages when spam messages are piped to it.
- Sunday, February 12th, 11:39 pm est
- bells2.phtml: Vsoup - version 1.27 - (the link might not work quite yet, but it's there)
- Sunday, February 9th, 3:00 am est
- bells2.phtml: YarnPack - version 1.4. - /u switch caused problems.
- Sunday, February 9th, 3:00 am est
- bells2.phtml: YarnPack - version 1.3. - minor update.
- bells2.phtml: Vsoup - changed link from hobbes to cdrom.com (where did vsoup on hobbes disappear to?!)
- Saturday, January 25st, 1:26 am est
- bells2.phtml: Yarf - version 1.2. - support for LOGDIR and additional error messages.
- Tuesday, January 21st, 8:33 am est
- bells2.phtml: YarnPack - version 1.2! nasty bug found, nasty bug fixed! Hopefully less problems now
- Tuesday, January 21st, 2:37 am est
- bells2.phtml: ALL NEW! Well, it's not quite as done as I wanted it to be but, the new incarnation of this page is now active, such as it is. There is expanded information on many topics, and a bit more software added, as well as a general re-organisation. Any correction, submissions or bugs -- let me know. The text/lynx index isn't done yet.
- bells2.phtml: Yarf - Yarn "From:" header customiser added.
- bells2.phtml: YarnPack - Yarn newsdat "pack-in-place". Be careful with this one kids, some people have reported problems, though no extremely serious problems so far... nothing a rebuild won't fix. Heheh.
- Friday, December 13nd, 11:20 pm est
- bells2.phtml: Yarn INbox/Folder Checker (YIN) version 1.5 bug fix. Slow around here eh. I've actually started re-doing the entire bells2 thingy... but who knows when i might get done. It's looking good so far though... reorganised... added some tables and even a couple (one or two) graphics. (-: We'll see.
- Monday, December 2nd, 7:05 am est
- bells2.phtml: Yarn INbox/Folder Checker (YIN) version 1.4 upgrade.
- Monday, November 18th, 2:59 pm est
- bells2.phtml: Yarn INbox/Folder Checker (YIN) version 1.3 upgrade. Now includes DOS version, speach-friendly options, smarter folder finding.
- Sunday, September 29th, 7:32 pm est
- rexxbells.phtml: SoupPost 1.3 script upgraded.
- bells2.phtml: Briefly added a bunch of files from hobbes to the MISCELANIOUS area. Added are: AddLines F Order NewGrp Soup 2 Squish.
- rexxbells.phtml: Link to Phil's Yep2Html Yep URL Log to HTML script.
- Sunday, September 22th, 1:28 pm est
- rexxbells.phtml: Scripts to convert Yarn NEWS.DAT to RNEWS (which can be re-imported into yarn) batches. Folders to Mail (which can be reimported).
- bells2.phtml: NNIGN 2.1 is upgraded. Minor, unusual display bug fixed.
- bells2.phtml: Another tentative link to Phil's page.
- Friday, September 6th, 11:29 pm est
- rexxbells.phtml: Foldup 2.0 is upgraded. It now can delete messages from YARN folders based on AGE/DATE!
- Monday, Sep 2, 4:32 pm est
- bells2.phtml: Get News Groups now has it's very own web page at Phil's site.
- Wednesday, Aug 14, 8:06 am est
- bells2.phtml: Get News Groups 0.05 updated again! Now shows CPS, and whatever else Phil did.
- Tuesday, July 30, 5:09 am est
- bells2.phtml: Get News Groups 0.04 updated! No more limits!
- bells2.phtml: Yarn Dialer 1.31, an internet updated.
- Tuesday, July 24, 12:17 am est
- bells2.phtml: Yarn Dialer 1.3, an internet dialer script specifically for use with Souper/Yarn added.
- bells2.phtml: UUcode uuencoder/decoder version updated.
- bells2.phtml: Speaking of versions, I just noticed the other day that the latest version of the International version of PGP is now 2.6.3ia (revision a -- it's been out a while, but I just noticed).
- Thursday, July 11th, 1996, 5:04 pm est
- rexxbells: Added simple slow'n'dirty REXX script to do ROT13 "encryption" from the command line. (Note FTE 0.43 text editor has this built in).
- Monday, July 8th, 1996, 12:59 pm est
- rexxbells: Zounds! I just found out that my REXX scripts (Expire Wildcards and Newsrc Sort) had been accidentally saved as Unix-type text! This means they would NOT run at all in OS/2. They have been fixed updated. I'm shocked no one has reported this before. I guess no one's using them. Heheh. That's ok.
- Tuesday, June 18th, 1996, 1:04 am est
- Friday, June 14th, 1996, 5:38 pm est
- bells2: all links have been updated to reflect Yarn's new official web site/archive.
- bells2: link to the new Yarn/Souper for OS/2 tutorial at the OS/2 E-Zine site.
- Sunday, June 9th, 1996, 4:07 pm est
- bells2: No News Is Good News 2.0 (NNIGN) updated. Now features crazy "map mode", which will draw a disk defragger-like ascii map of what the usage inside your news.dat looks like. Whee.
- Sunday, June 9th, 1996, 6:36 am est
- bells2: Yin 1.2 (Yarn In Box Checker) updated
- bells2: Added link to YEP beta page
- bells2: Mentioned that FTE 0.40 is out and my FTE info needs updating desperately! Soon...
- Monday, May 27, 1996, 2:07 am est
- Saturday, May 11, 1996, 10:52 pm est
- rexxbells: New script! FoldUP 1.0 will scan yarn folders, give stats, and optionally delete dupes.
- This Page: links directly to the new items. Nice eh! (-:
- Sunday, May 5, 1996, 08:35 pm est
- bells2: No News is Good News 1.7 new version updated
- bells2: Well I'm trying to be compatable as possible will all web browers (even Net-steamroller-scape!), and so i'm experimenting with using both allign=center and netscape center codes... so far it looks ok in Lynx 24-FM (which is the most important thing), and in WebExplorer -- hopefully in other browsers that support either of these sorts of centering as well. Just thought i'd let you know of my struggles!
- Saturday, May 4, 1996, 05:52 am est
- Wednesday, May 1, 1996, 02:15 pm est
- Thursday, April 25, 1996, 04:22 pm est
- bells2: New "Get Newsgroups" tcp/ip utility by Phil Crown added.
- all pages: Well I wanted to eliminate the only netscapism that was used in my pages: namely the <center> tag. The proper way to center text in the HTML format is using the slightly more complicated <p align="center">. The great irony of this is that IBM WebExplorer doesn't seem to support the paragraph alignment tag, so now that I've elimited this evil netscapism (which WebExplorer does support!) netscape will view my pages properly but WebExplorer won't. )-: Something is wrong here.
- Saturday, April 20, 1996, 05:24 am est
- bells2: Updated link to Souper (0410)... must keep up with all of Chin's releases!
- bells2: Updated link to Ytsg (3)... not new, but the latest.
- Wednesday, April 10, 1996, 05:34 pm est
- rexxbells: Text-2-Folder 1.1 (now adds X-Status, and supports PCDOS 7 REXX)
- Sunday, April 7, 1996, 11:27 pm est
- bells2: Updated link to Souper (0311)... just noticed the old link!
- Saturday, April 6, 1996, 3:00 pm est
- bells2: No News is Good News 1.5 updated
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