• v1.20 - changes by William McBrine
  • .newspost values were sometimes not zero-terminated on rereading, resulting in garbled settings; fixed
  • messages that had a '.' in the first position on a line could be posted incorrectly; fixed
  • changed status display to show "Posting n of n" instead of hash marks
  • lines in the body of the article now end correctly in CRLF, instead of just LF
  • temporary files are no longer created, except in the case of SFVs generated by newspost
  • CRLF vs. LF is now handled correctly in reading and writing files (and should now work under Windows as well as Unix)
  • "Organization" line is now optional; "Subject" parameter is optionally optional (see source)
  • corrected format of "User-Agent" line
  • special makefiles for AIX and OSF no longer needed
  • much internal reorganization; faster, smaller, and probably easier to compile
• v1.13
  • fixed endless loop that occurs with -v option when one of the files is deleted before posting is complete
  • no longer prints out your password when displaying help
  • added a makefile and made changes to support DEC alpha OSF1 V4.0 (thanks Chris Gentle)
  • added a makefile for AIX
  • documentation updated
• v1.12
  • file permissions on ~/.newspost are now 600
  • fixed bug in creating headers when -t option is used
  • homepage is now included in the user-agent line
  • new -V switch to check the version
• v1.11
  • the number of digits in the part number field matches the number of digits in the total part count (thanks Mike Liang)
• v1.1
  • no longer uses uulib
  • added a makefile for solaris
  • now can reply to messages using -r
  • misc bugfixes
• v1.01a Fixed typo in newspost -h
• v1.01 Fixed problems with some news servers.