The Manhattan Virtual Classroom

File Release Notes and Changelog

Release Name: 0.93.5

Notes:

		     README

20 September 2002
  
The Manhattan Virtual Classroom version 0.93.5
copyright (C) 1997-2001 Steven Narmontas

This is the 11th GPL release of The Manhattan 
Virtual Classroom.

See the CREDITS file for people who have
contributed to this project.

See the CHANGES file for a list of what has
changed with each release.

See the INSTALL file for installation 
instructions, then read the CREATING_CLASSROOMS 
file to learn how to begin setting up classrooms
to use the sytsem.

The TRANSLATE-HOWTO file includes instructions
for translating the software to languages other
than English.


Thanks,
--
Steven Narmontas
snarmont@users.sourceforge.net


Changes:
Manhattan Virtual Classroom
http://manhattan.sourceforge.net


                         CHANGE LOG
April 7 2003 Version 0.93.5

 - Leslaw Sieniawski <Leslaw.Sieniawski@pwr.wroc.pl> 
   contributed the Polish language translation included
   with version 0.93.5


September 20, 2002 Version 0.93.4

- Yannis Exidaridis, University of Athens
  contributed the Greek language trans-
  lation that is included in this 
  release.  Install it using
  'make greek'  His e-mail address is:
  jexi@noc.uoa.gr

- The Makefile has been modified to 
  (hopefully) do a complete 'clean'
  of binary files.


March 29, 2002 Version 0.93.3

- Joaquim Quinteiro Uchoa contributed the
  Portuguese (Brazil) language translation
  that is included in this release.  Install
  it using 'make portuguese' Joaquim's email
  address is joukim@comp.ufla.br

- added a flush(stdout); to news_list_members.c
  Some versions of gcc had a problem without it.

  Otherwise, this release is identical to 0.93.2


March 12, 2002 Version 0.93.2

- Jaakko Kosonen contributed the Finnish
  language translation that is included in this
  release.  Install it using 'make finnish'.
  Jaakko's email address is:
    jaakko.kosonen@edumail.lappeenranta.fi

- Changed the GERMAN lang.h file to correct
  an error that prevented the teacher from
  deleting messages.

  Otherwise, this release is identical to
  Version 0.93


October 15, 2001 Version 0.93.1

- Werner Bauer contributed the German language 
  translation that is included in this release.
  Do 'make german' to install it, or use a text 
  editor to view 
     manhat-x.x.x/src/languages/german/lang.h
  to see how he did it.  Werner Bauer's email 
  address is: werner_bauer@anon.at  Thank you!

  Besides the addition of the German translation,
  this release is identical to version 0.93



September 5, 2001 Version 0.93

- The Self-tests module was modified to work with the 
  Hot Potatoes quiz making software.  If you "Configure
  Output" for your Hot Potatoes to use the "form2mail.pl"
  CGI program, and if you post the quiz to the Self-tests
  module, Manhattan will save the quiz scores for the 
  student and teacher to see.  All such CGI-enabled 
  Hot Potato activity is also recorded in the statistics 
  portion of the program.  Look for full documentation in
  the forthcoming teacher's manual.

- A "Download Attached Website as ZIP file" button now 
  enables the teacher (only the teacher) to get a zipped
  version of any attached website.

- Hopefully fixed, for good, the problem some users were
  having with their web browsers cacheing web sites 
  attached to messages.  The symptom was that once an 
  attached web site was viewed, any other attempt to 
  view an attached web site showed the same web page unless
  the browser's cache was cleared.  

  The fix was to use the current time stamp as part of the 
  symbolic link name that gets generated when an attached 
  web site is viewed.

- The clipboard viewer now works properly.  There was a
  problem with viewing file and web site attachments in the
  clipboard in earlier releases.




July 13, 2001 Version 0.92.2

- Ovida Pena Rodriguez of Havana, Cuba submitted a Spanish 
  language translation that is included in this version.  
  Type 'make spanish' to install it, or use a text editor
  to view 
        manhat-x.x.x/src/languages/spanish/lang.h
  to see how he did it.  You can send Ovida a thank you 
  note at: ovidio@cien.energia.inf.cu

- A minor change was made to doorstep.c to better align the 
  username/password prompts to accomodate languages other
  than English.

- A rather serious bug affecting the Team/Teacher module was
  corrected.  If the teacher used the Configuration menu item
  to change her team, all messages would disappear from her
  view of the Team/Teacher module.  The fix was to add one line
  to the source file admin_chg_student.c  The function 
  'handle_group_change()' in admin_chg_student.c was changed 
  from:

   static void
   handle_group_change (char *username, char *newgroup)
   {
    replace_team_files (username, newgroup, "team");
    replace_team_files (username, newgroup, "team_teach");
   }

  to this:

  static void
   handle_group_change (char *username, char *newgroup)
   {
    replace_team_files (username, newgroup, "team");
    if(user.group != FACULTY)
      replace_team_files (username, newgroup, "team_teach");
  }
   



June 14, 2001 Version 0.92.1

- Users reported that Manhattan releases would not compile
  under RedHat Linux version 7.1, which uses version 2.96
  of the GCC compiler.  The fix was simply to add the line

  #include <time.h> 

   to 
   
  ../manhat-0.92/src/melange/src/server/melange.h

  I also fixed several warnings that the new compiler 
  complains about.  Still to do is the warning that use
  of mktmp is dangerous!!! Geez, I didn't know we were living
  on the edge!

  There is no reason to upgrade from 0.92 if that compiled ok
  on your system.


May 24, 2001 Version 0.92

- First translatable version of Manhattan.  All of the English
  language strings have been extracted to a single header file
  named lang.h.  See the TRANSLATE-HOWTO file for details.

- The Makefile has been rewritten, eliminating (hopefully) a
  problem that caused people running older versions of Linux some
  difficulties.

- The source for 'unzip' has been included in the distribution,
  in src/unzip-5.40 and is re-compiled upon installation.  
  Previous versions packaged a binary version of unzip. The 
  source for the Eric Kim's cgi-html library also is now
  included in the directory src/cgihtml-1.69, and is compiled
  with the Makefile.  Previous versions packaged a binary 
  version of the library.  These steps might make a BSD or other
  Un*x port feasible.

- Removed source file "real_stream.c" from the distribution.
  It wasn't used ;-)

- The web_page_start program now sends the tag:
  <META http-equiv=\"EXPIRES\" CONTENT=\"January 1, 1980\">
  which hopefully will resolve a problem with browsers caching 
  attached web sites.

- The admin_list_passwd program now gives a count of students 
  in the class.

- The TAB key now properly advances the cursor through the forms
  used to compose new messages.  This was a problem for Netscape
  users.

- Within the Configuration menus, the word links, such as 
  "Return to Previous Menu" were replaced with the "back arrow"
   image for more consistency.  The back arrow from the stats
   menu now leads back to the Configuration menu instead of the
   Main Menu.


Feb 1, 2001  version 0.91

- Fixed bug in copy_dir() function in shared_clipboard_util.c
  which prevented "Copy this message to your clipboard" 
  feature from working with messages that had an attached 
  website when website contained subdirectories.

- The way dates are displayed (eg. European "12 Dec. 2000"
  versus US "Dec 12 2000" can now be controlled by editing
  appropriate #defines in a new 'custom.h' header file prior
  to compiling the system (see INSTALL and/or custom.h files
  for details)

- Fixed bug in Internet Resources module which caused an error
  when posted web addresses contained the characters &, ?, or =

- Fixed bug in Internet Resources module which caused an error
  when posted web addresses were typed with leading spaces.

- The date and time Anonymous Discussion messages were posted 
  is no longer displayed.  It is possible under certain 
  circumstances to deduce who sent an anonymous message if the 
  date and time the message was posted is known.  (A #define 
  in custom.h controls whether or not the dates are displayed, 
  so this change can be undone if you prefer to show the time 
  sent for anonymous messages.)

- Corrected potential string overflow problem with 'id'
  parameter in several programs.  In get_parameters(), 'id'
  was assumed to be of length MAX_PATH, when the correct 
  length is MAX_KEY.

- Removed the unused 'assign_expand_topic' and 'janitor'
  programs from the distribution. 

- The 'cleantmp' program, which can be used to remove stale 
  files from Manhattan's tmp directory, is now compiled with 
  the Makefile, which puts the executable is the distribution's
  sbin directory.

- Replaced all sprintf() and strcpy() calls with 
  snprintf() and strncpy() for improved security/robustness

- Replaced the spiral.gif background image with a wider one, 
  to better support screen widths up to 1280 pixels.


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Nov 5, 2000   	version 0.90.1	

Fixed bug that happened only with MS
Internet Explorer which reported "crs
parameter not found" when returning to
news_gather, assign_gather,
post_inbox_gather, or post_outbox_gather




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Oct 6, 2000	version 0.90	

First GPL release