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Pan 0.11.2.91 Beta released

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This version fixes a pair of yEnc bugs. It also adds a button to jump back to the previous read article, recognition of non-standard quote prefix characters, support for articles that specify x-uuencode encoding in mime headers, and small usability improvements. March 28, 2002 - New Release:
0.11.2.91 "In Your Valley, Beneath Your Sky"

    New Features

  • Added the ability to specify which characters are recognized
    as quote prefix characters, so nonconformists not using '>' to
    quote text will still have their articles colored right in Pan. :)
    Thanks to Colin Leroy for contributing this code.
    (68159,
    75916)

  • Added "Go to previous article" navigation button. Thanks to
    Colin Leroy again for contributing this patch.
    (75716)

  • Add a new preference option, dictating whether failed tasks should
    be removed from the Task Manager. Thanks to
    Aric S. Campling for suggesting this.
    (75186)

  • Added support for mime articles which explicitly specify a
    Content-Transfer-Encoding of x-uuencode. Thanks to Sam Solon and
    Jeff Stedfast for this code.
    (74798)
    Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a memory corruption bug in decoding yEnc messages.
    Thanks to Bill Cattell for reporting this bug.
    (74946)

  • Fixed a crash that occurred when Pan couldn't connect to the news
    server. Thanks to Aurelien Gouny for reporting this bug.
    (70858)

  • Fixed a bug in Follow-Up that caused some new text typed in by
    the user to be colored in the quoted-text color rather than the
    normal text color. Thanks to Michael McIntyre for reporting this bug.
    (75993)

  • If a yenc block ends without a "=yend", or a uu block ends
    without an "end", treat the block as plaintext instead of encoded
    data. Looks like some M$ bashers are starting their posts with
    "begin 666" to tickle a similar bug in OE. :)
    Thanks to Jason Rumney and mr_p for reporting this bug.
    (76358)

  • Make sure that the default window size is large enough that a
    full line, up to the default number of wrap characters and with
    the default font, will fit without scrolling. Thanks to John Mellor
    for suggesting this obvious-in-hindsight improvement. :)
    (76062)