Changes and fixes since the 26 October build. If you reported one of these, thank you.
New
- Objective notes in the 1996 prologue. The yellow corner note and the NEW OBJECTIVE / OBJECTIVE COMPLETE cues now show on the Doors 95 desktop too. A to-do appears only after you have read the mail it comes from, and the desk Post-its turn pale blue so you can tell them apart.
- Rewriting of crew messages for a distinct "voice". The crew, your contacts and the people you meet on jobs were rewritten in their own voices. Instructions are made clearer, with the command written out.
- Clearer crew help on IRC. Razor, Phantom, Zero and Ghost now answer the question you actually have at that step, and they type faster.
- People log off. After saying goodbye, NPCs go offline until their next window, and come back when the story needs them. Their goodbyes fit the hour where they live.
- Smaller download. The playtest only ships the music it plays.
Commands
- Pipes into line filters work: last | head, ps | grep sshd, cat file | wc -l. Other pipes still answer the way an unsupported pipe did.
- scp with a wildcard on the remote side (scp user@host:/dir/* .) copies the matching files, as real scp does.
- Reading a mailbox with cat, less, more, head or tail counts as reading the mail, just like mailx. So does copying the mailbox home with ftp or scp.
- vi deletes one line with dd.
- last reads a log that crosses New Year in the right order.
- pgp removes a key with -kr, and pgp -kv lists your public keyring when you name no file.
Changed
- Doing things early counts. A download, key import or decryption you did before the step that asks for it is credited when you reach that step, and the story plays out as if you had done it then.
- Notifications stay up long enough to read. How long they stay depends on how long the text is, your notification setting in the Style Manager applies to the objective cues too, and hovering over one keeps it open.
- The front panel clock agrees with date, before and after the story moves the calendar forward. It used to run up to a minute behind.
Fixed
- Greenfield Dental: copying the whole mail queue home with scp now works, an scp copy or ftp login is treated like any other login, and the job no longer claims you did steps you have not done yet.
- Hendricks Accounting: the hint no longer says the answer is in the banner, and it points out that the FTP config has two lines for the same setting and the last one wins.
- Gridwalk's Clean logs stayed greyed out after you got the log cleaner the way Razor teaches.
- Zero's warnings about getting noticed called you by someone else's handle, and replayed after a reload.
- The jukebox bot answered nothing.
- A password in someone's notes did not open the account it was for.
- On Windows, a save you had left could not be deleted from the Boot Manager or with Start Over.
- A save you had left kept collecting server logs while you sat in the menu.