Mark's Lab

Just a quick page to put some of the stuff I've worked on.

16Bit Version 1.65 for Windows 3.1+	32/64Bit Version 2.36 for Windows 95+/NT+
New features in 16bit version: * no new features what do you expect? it's for Windows 3.1!	New features in this version: * Portable Mode * Reads links, directories, alternate data streams * No file size limits! * Vista UAC compatible file execute * Disable auto duplicate-file-renaming option * Native x64 version

Download and installation instructions:

1. Click on a link to begin downloading:

   Platform	With Install/Uninstall	Zip Archive Only
   32bit NT4 to Vista	UUD32Inst.exe Installer V2.36 (711KB)	uud32-236.zip Manual Install V2.36 (357KB)
   64bit x64 XP+	UUD64Inst.exe Installer V2.36 (742KB)	uud64-236.zip Manual Install V2.36 (533KB)
   32/64 portable		uud32pe-236.zip Portable version (EXE renamed, same files) (357KB) uud64pe-236.zip Portable version x64 (533KB)
   32bit older versions		uud32-235.zip previous version (353KB) uud32-234.zip older version (320KB) uud32-230.zip older version (318KB)
   16bit (Window 3.1)	setup165.exe Old version with Installer Ver 1.65 (458KB)	uud165.zip Old version manual install Ver 1.65 (244KB)

2. Locate and run the file you downloaded by choosing the Run option in the Start menu. (You need to point to the location your Web browser saved the file in.) Once the file is run, the self extractor will begin.
3. Zip archive file: You will need to download a zip archive extraction utility such as 7-Zip, available at http://www.7-zip.org

WinVN Usenet News Reader

Last update May-29-2009
My favorite News reader WinVn has, been dormant in the development department for the last decade. I initially updated the original NASA maintained source from here , but later found a much improved German version maintained by Peter Heirich. I've incorporated my earlier changes into these versions. I used Jordan Russell's nice, free, installation program INNO Setup to handle WinVn's install/uninstall.

• 2009-05-29 (0.99.15) Preview multipart articles, Deselect duplicate messages, new Font & Color picker, bug fixes.
• 2009-01-10 (0.99.14) Bug fixes for Reconnect, support server article ranges exceeding 4 billion, fix 64bit install icon path.
• 2008-07-22 Created x64 version, Relative paths for newsrc in Winvn.ini, SSL bug fixes, Restored Keep-Alive feature, NZB export
• Full list of changes: changes.txt
• 2007-12-15 Added NNTPS (SSL) support, SMTP Authentication and SMTP w/ SSL, TLS support
• 2007-11-27 Added Cancel-Lock/Cancel-Key support, Article Supersede
• 2007-07-12 Fix Catch-up & exit, minor bug fixes.
• 2007-05-29 Custom Message-ID, new filters dlg, preview decode
• 2007-03-28 Add HTML help for Vista, FACE: header support & strip sig option
• 2007-03-18 support quote wrapped command line & other minor bugs
• 2006-12-26 A few reconnect while downloading bug fixes
• 2006-10-16 User configurable Threshold Dialog button values. Save Article list.
• 2006-09-12 On-demand reconnect, no more external support files,
  XRef: full support means filtering on number of crossposted groups or group names is no longer expensive,
  better tracking of crossposted articles, better seen article list memory management.
• (Previous fixes)
  WinVn now supports > 65K newsgroups. Long newsgroups do not crash WinVn. Better decoding. Proportional scrollbars in 32bit version.
• 2006-03-08 Can write files >4GB. Compose editor functionality restored. Reconnect bugfix (+more)
• 2005-02-07 Reconnect option when server quits, X-Face decoding support, Multigroup download/decode. WinXP U/I update
• 2004-03-15 Added NNTP-Posting Host filter, multisize toolbar, Download complete sound, Explorer-style file browser dialogs etc.
• 2003-07-21 Added experimental sort by filename.
• 2000-12-06 Subject sorting now sorts using numerical value order.
• 2000-12-06 Ability to set default sorting under Article List Preferences.
• 2000-11-27 Added true kill file operation which removes articles from list
• 2000-11-27 Added pattern match filter - allows more powerful filters
  Path names are stripped from MIME B64 downloads
• 2000-01-22 Restored TAB operation in compose window; Fixes for Lyris servers; Correct default dir for WinVn.ini on Win98+
• 2000-01-07 Fixed Keep-Alive interval; Corrected decoding sequence number bug; Included correct help files

• Fixed major bug tracking crossposted articles in other groups.
• Added multi-level sorting to Subject, Author & Date
• Catch-Up and Exit marks all articles as read, even those not retrieved.
• When a window closes, set focus to the next logical window

• Added Keep-Alive timer. See Communications Setup dialog.
• Added support for Mouse Wheel mouse.