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RELEASE NOTES FOR EUDORA 2.0.1 AND EUDORA 1.4.1.

These release notes describe in detail the changes that were made between Eudora 2.0 and Eudora 2.0.1.  Most of those changes also apply to Eudora 1.4.1; where they do not, the notation "(2.0.1 ONLY)" appears.

Most of these changes involve obscure features and situations.  There are two important compatibility issues, involving EuIM/EuOM resources and transliteration; these are covered in the next section.

IMPORTANT CHANGES

EuIM and EuOM Resource Formats Have Changed

The formats for the 'EuIM' and 'EuOM' resources HAVE CHANGED.  If you have put EuIM or EuOM resources in your Eudora Settings file or in Plug-In files, you MUST remove them.  Use the templates in the new Eudora to rebuild them.  Documentation on the EuIM and EuOM resources can now be found in Appendix G of the manual.  You don't have to worry about this unless you have added your own EuIM or EuOM resources.

Transliteration Table Names Have Changed

Eudora now uses standard MIME names for its character sets.  With the new version comes two plug-in files; EudoraTables, which you should use, and EudoraTables Helper, which you can give to your correspondents who use older versions of Eudora.  Explanations of the changes to the transliteration facility can be found in Appendix E of the manual.  You don't have to worry about this unless you are using the Swedish, Danish, or Norwegian transliteration tables.

OTHER CHANGES

The other changes in this document are grouped into six areas; AppleEvents, Filters, MIME, Attachments, Miscellaneous Features, and Bugs.

APPLEEVENTS

Eudora's AppleEvent support has been broadened somewhat in the new version.  A few more objects support a few more operations, and some simplified means of reference are provided.  Also, UserLand Frontier's "MenuSharing" protocol is supported, so that Frontier owners can add menu commands (2.0.1 ONLY).

- UserLand Frontier MenuSharing (2.0.1 ONLY).  Eudora 2.0.1 supports Userland's "MenuSharing" protocol.  This allows you to add a menu of Frontier scripts to Eudora's menu bar.  For more information on Frontier, contact Userland Software, Inc., 400 Seaport Court, Redwood City, CA 94063, USA.  (415) 369-6600, FAX (415) 369-6618.

- Get Data can now be used on a whole message.

- Open event now supported for messages and mailboxes.

- Close now supported for messages and mailboxes.

- Name property now supported for mailboxes and mail folders.

- Specifying a message without an enclosing mailbox and mailfolder now means the current message.  (keyForm and keyData do not matter.)

- Omitting the direct object from most events will mean to perform the event on the current message.

- Mailboxes and mailfolders may be counted.

- formAbsolutePosition supported for mailboxes and mailfolders.

- The 'aete' resource has been improved.