• Changed the talk mode exit character from ctrl-c to ctrl-z. Left it to ctlr-c by accident!
• The console now accepts all the CTRL key combinations as input from the keyboard. CTRL-Z, CTRL-C, CTRL-G... etc...
• Changed the shutdown key combination from CTRL-X to ALT-X. F10 does it, too. Changed the action monitoring toggle switch from F6 to CTRL-F5 and cut links from F10 to CTRL-F9. See the help text on F1.
• Split the expiry procedure to smaller parts. Clusse now processes the files one by one, serving the users between every file. Expiring all the files at a time looked like a total lockup of the software to the users. Now it looks like 7 shorter lockups 8-) ALT-F8 triggers expiry. If expiry is already running and waiting for the next section, ALT-F8 skips directly to the next one.
• A new command: AWay. It's the opposite for HERe, which doesn't have any parameters any more. AWay accepts a parameter string, which can then be seen using the User command, like "user oh7lzb". It's also sent as a response to talk messages to the user. Can be used to tell when the user is coming back, where did he go etc...
• Modified user socket send buffer flushing a bit. They're now flushed (sent to the user, even if not as long as paclen) once per second, and never on completion of command or after some other message. Saves a (small) bit of bandwidth again... allows several messages to be combined in one frame.
• When a PC link gets disconnected, Clusse tries to relink in one minute. When linking fails, Clusse waits for the time specified in links.ini. CTRL and ALT-F9 link drop commands set the link tries count to 1 to prevent linking again in one minute.
• Reorganized the talk system (again!). Now correctly forwards messages to non-local users, when the sender has forced the message to be sent to the local node (the T call@node trick, t call > node on PacketCluster, i'd call them hand-routed talks). Talks to clx systems (the Linux cluster software) should now work, too. The current version of clx doesn't accept PacketCluster's talk mode messages and hand-routed talks (a small bug in clx code).
• Internet FTP to Zone didn't work for some time. Someone broke into Zone and we disabled all connections from untrusted hosts... ftp access is now available.
• The ftp.funet.fi /pub/ham/packet/cluster/clusse/ directory is now a mirror of the pub/oh7lzb/clu/ directory on zone.pspt.fi, updated every night. This means that the latest version is always available on ftp.funet.fi.
• WHEN INSTALLING/UPDATING CLUSSE, PLEASE use the pkunzip -d parameter when uncompressing the .ZIP file. The archive file includes the necessary directory structure, -d parameter tells pkunzip to create it on the destination disk! There's a suggested installation/updating procedure in readme.txt now.
• New command: UPtime.
• Changed the % command's name to STatus. More logical, and KAM TNC's have the streamswitch key set to % by default.
• The SU (SuperUser) command works now. See the password.ini file for details. Used to gain access to the sysop functions of Clusse. For now, only the user specified as sysop in clusse.ini can use the SU command. After i get the edit user command working, a sysop can give others the sysop flag so that they can use the SU command...
• New sysop commands:
  • DIsconnect (stream/callsign) - disconnects a stream.
  • Reboot - Exits clusse with errorlevel 100. See clu.bat!
  • SHUtdown - Exits clusse with errorlevel 0.
• An example clu.bat for starting up clusse and restarting it on exit, if necessary. Uses errorlevel checking.
• Fixed the expiry system quite a bit.
• Added some protection for weird node add and drop messages PC19 and PC21. PC21 for the local node call (from a link loop) made Clusse go crazy. New node callsigns are checked for validity (length > 3 chars, includes both characters and digits).
• Added timestamps in the link tracing file.
• Started working on clusse.doc - the gonna-be official Clusse manual.

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