WHAT'S NEW IN FORKEEPS VERSION 2.5?
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1. ForKeeps has now been released as both a 16-bit and a 32-bit version. Both
versions are functionally identical.

2. A Merge facility for merging Forum databases (not Mail) has been added. 
This will allow you to merge Forum databases that are one and the same, but that 
has been split up on one or more because of different GO FORUM word spelling. 

3. The duplicate identification for mail during import has been taken one step 
further. ForKeeps will now compare not only all header fields but also the message 
text length, to determine if a mail has already been imported or not.

4. The adjustment of non wellformed CIS addresses that was was previously included 
in the Duplicate Elimination procedure is now also included in the import procedure. 

5. Dates of the form 25-MAR-97 in imported messages can now also be decoded for 
German month abbreviations. 

6. The VCR navigation buttons for browsing mail and Forum messages have been removed 
from the listboxes and placed on the Toolbar. Three more navigational buttons have 
been added on the Toolbar: depending on the chosen view they will take you to the 
previous/next thread, thread within section, sender or receiver in the Forum message 
browse and the previous/next mail partner, sender or receiver in the Mail message
browse, and for enforcing a filter for the current value of the same parameters.

All navigational buttons can also be controlled from the key board as follows:

	First message   	CtrlPgUp
	Previous page		PgUp
	Previous message	Up
	Next message		Down
	Next page		PgDown
	Last message		CtrlPgDown

	Previous thread etc	CtrlUp
	Filter thread etc	CtrlF
	Next thread etc		CtrlDown


WHAT'S NEW IN FORKEEPS VERSION 2.3?
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All reported bugs have been fixed. Two of them are worth mentioning:

1. A bug in the 30 day time limit check of the unregistered program made the
program time out prematurely for users importing from TAPCIS and OZCIS. The 
bug was associated with the insertion of a new Forum in the ImportWizard.

2. A bug in the OZCIS mail import made OZCIS mail import impossible.

The HELP file has been enhanced with a better description of the MailBox 
Owner concept and Import in general.

New features:

1. Three new OLR formats have been added: AUTOSIG, CISCOMM and GoldenCompass.

2. ForKeeps uses standard Windows default colors with some exceptions: the
label color of the current TAB on TAB sheets, the background color for read
only fields and the Keep and Delete status colors on the message/mail browse
and status buttons. 

These hardcoded colors can now be set by the user under PREFERENCES.

3. Non wellformed CIS addresses are now corrected by the Eliminate Duplicate 
Members/MailPartners procedure, and this increases the amount of duplicate
elimination.


WHAT'S NEW IN FORKEEPS VERSION 2.21?
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The only difference to 2.2 is a bugfix related to import of WinCIM (DOSCIM,
CSNav) thread files (*.THD). 2.2 will import only the first message in the 
thread file, while 2.21 will import all messages. Versions prior to 2.2
did not contain this bug.


WHAT'S NEW IN FORKEEPS VERSION 2.2?
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NOTE: Version 2.2 fixes a bug in version 2.1 but is otherwise identical.

This is a maintenance release fixing some bugs (mostly concerning the mail
import) and adding only a few new features:

1.  The ToolBar is now a real ToolBar and not a ToolBox as before. 
    This means that it can no longer be toggled on/off. The reason for 
    this change was problems resizing the ToolBox when the ApplicationFrame 
    window was resized. This now works as it should.

2.  The MailBoxOwner must now be entered from File/MailBoxOwner before 
    import. If you have more than one MailBox the default can be set in 
    File/Control Panel. A new MailBoxOwner can no longer be entered in the 
    ImportWizard. (NOTE: The automatic setup of MailBox owner when importing 
    from WinCIM does not exist anymore!)

3.  Import PostProcessing can no longer be toggled on/off in the 
    ImportWizard, nor can it be set in the ControlPanel. The message 
    counting is now ALWAYS done after import, but it has been changed 
    from a total recount to an incremental count (of only the messages 
    that has been imported). This has been done to save total import time. 
    Total recounting is done as before with Messages/Count Messages and 
    after Messages/Purge Obsolete Messages.

4.  A better way to check for already existing mail before import has been 
    devised, minimizing the risk for duplicate mail messages.

5.  The Eliminate Duplicate Members/MailPartners process has been further 
    refined. Only one Member per address now remains after running this 
    procedure, and if more than one duplicate Member appears as Sender, 
    the one with the most recent message remains.

6.  ForKeeps can now handle also the new CIS mail adresses (with alias 
    names instead of CIS numbers).

7.  WinCIM mail messages without a named receiver will now be imported.

8.  The maximum number of import files that can be manually selected 
    for one batch has been increased from 20 to 175. The Directory option
    (for WinCIM import) still allows 2500 files to be selected.

9.  No windows can be maximized anymore. There are currently certain
    problems with maximize, but if these problems can be solved, the 
    maximize functionality will be restored in a future version.

10. The handling of CCs during WinCIM mail import has been changed; 
    previously each CC (and Mail) was creating a record in the Temporary 
    import file, and the CC count was added to both converted Mail and 
    new imported Mail, which caused some confusing displays. Now CCs are 
    creating records in a separate temporary file (IDX019.TPS) and are not 
    counted as neither converted nor imported. The actual import of CCs to 
    the CarbonCopy file (IDX017.TPS) takes place in a separate routine 
    after the mail import, with it's own progress bar display.

11. Import of Mail when no registered MailBox owner exists is no longer 
    possible. Mail messages will be skipped before conversion.

12. On the ImportWizard's File Selection Sheet the Next button is now 
    disabled until a selection has been made.

13. An ICON on the ToolBar has been added for the MailBox setup. All 
    ICONs have been arranged in groups for better readability.

14. Menu Control Panel has been renamed Preferences.

15. Key words have been added to the HELP file.


WHAT'S NEW IN FORKEEPS VERSION 2.0?
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This is a major new release, with revamped user interface and with many
new and improved functions.

1.  ForKeeps now can handle not only Forum messages but also Mail messages.
    You don't have to separate message and mail import files as the decoding
    is completely automatic.

2.  All mail is imported to one common mail database called CIS:MAIL. When
    this database is selected a Mail browse appears, where you can browse by
    Date, Subject, MailPartner, Sender and Receiver. The mail browse has the
    same functionality as the Forum message browse with one exception - the
    Key Word Indexing is not yet available for mail.

3.  ForKeeps can handle multiple MailBoxes. This is a useful feature even if
    you are running a single user system, as this means that you can handle
    mail from and to more than one mail address (i.e. CompuServe and Internet).

4.  A new Skip Control file has been added to speed up skipping of already
    imported Forum messages during import. The effect of this addition is
    dramatic - you can expect 3 - 5 times faster skipping than before, which
    will shorten the import time considerably for all of you importing from a
    file with a low content of new messages. The Skip Control does not work for
    mail, as mail lacks the unique identification that Forum messages have.

    The Skip Control file will also prevent messages that have been deleted
    in ForKeeps to be re-imported. This functionality can be toggled off for a
    certain import if needed, by checking "Re-Import allowed" on the Import
    Wizard.

    NOTE: The Skip Control file will be built from scratch, so it will take at
    least one import before you will notice any effect.

5.  Another new features has been added to the import function: a database
    status field which can be set to allow or disallow import to a certain
    database.

6.  The setup of ForKeeps has been made less rigid: the program directory 
    can now have any name and the path to the temporary import files and to 
    the database directory tree can now be set separately on the Control 
    Panel.

7.  The main menu has been rearranged, so that all menu choices that are
    independant of the current database have been moved under File.

8.  The floating ToolBox has been changed to a fixed ToolBox (a pseudo 
    ToolBar) with smaller icons than before, to save screen space. The 
    ToolBox can still be toggled on and off. The ToolBox now covers all 
    important menu alternatives (more so than the previous ToolBox).

9.  A new Print menu has been added under File, and a Print icon has been 
    added to the Message browse. The right mouse click alternative to 
    pop-up the copy and print menu is still there, so now you have three 
    alternative ways to invoke this function.

10. The two FindText buttons have been merged into one, and the search
    alternatives "Text and Thread Subject" and "Thread subject" are now
    available as radio button controls instead of as separate FindText 
    buttons.

11. The Status buttons on the Message browse windows have been made smaller 
    to allow for horizontal resizing.

12. The Database look-up (former Forum look-up) can now be sorted also on 
    Forum name.

13. Elimination of duplicate Forum Members (and MailPartners) is now more
    radical than before - in most cases only one record with a certain 
    address will remain after running of the duplicate elimination process.

14. A splitter function has been added to the Forum Message and Mail Message
    browses. The splitter region is located just below the list box, and the
    cursor will change to a splitter cursor when the mouse is positioned 
    over this region.

    To rearrange the browse window layout - just press the left mouse 
    button when the splitter cursor is visible and keep it down while 
    dragging upwards or downwards, then release the mouse button to redraw 
    the window.

15. In addition to the window size and position, the splitter position and 
    the list box column widths are now being saved and restored.

16. A special bug fix is worth mentioning: in 1.3 you couldn't use the Up/Dn
    arrow keys to scroll the Message listbox if the Thread Tree window was
    opened; neither could you use the Delete button to change the message
    status to delete. This is now fixed.

17. ForKeeps is now available in three registered versions:

    - as a Mail Archiver                $34
    - as a Message Archiver             $49
    - as a Mail & Message Archiver      $64

    The evaluation program corresponds to the Mail & Message Archiver. When
    registering for the limited versions either Mail or Message Archiving
    will be blocked by a licence type number.







