2000-08-20 I'm back
Yes, I have been away down in Sydney (personal family reasons) so NICOLE has been rather neglected as of late. I'm aiming for a new release in the next week or so, and all being well, it will be a STABLE release.

2000-07-31 Release 0.1.6
I've released 0.1.6 in the hope that once the bugs are sorted out, and that I've written a manual for NICOLE, I can release 0.2.0

What we need to do is build up a starting knowledge base so that everyone can use a 'base' database to expand their own knowledge bases.

0.1.6 has a few new utilities, namely exportdb and importdb. These allow to exchange databases with other people. :)

2000-07-13 Release 0.1.5
Hi there again,

I've just released a development version of NICOLE. While this is still a development version, it is quite stable and could almost pass off as a stable one.

The main reason I have released this version is to accelerate the growth of the knowledge base. For a while now, NICOLE has been logging its conversations into a text file at /tmp/history.txt

This file records the conversation threads in NICOLE. You can then email this file to other NICOLE users, who can then 'learn' this file into their own database.

I intent to create a master copy of a 'learn' text file so that users can import a common database, if they wish to.

So the next time you install and setup NICOLE. Remove any existing /tmp/history.txt files, and start communicating with NICOLE. Send the new /tmp/history.txt file either to myself (pghowlett@ozemail.com.au) or other users of NICOLE.

Hopefully we can get a master knowledge base happening.

Cheers,

Phil.

2000-07-09 Release 0.1.4
I've released 0.1.4. This is a development release only and could be quite unstable.

2000-07-03 Release 0.1.2
I've just released 0.1.2 of NICOLE.

While this isn't a major release, mainly bug fixes and a few extra features.

You will have to reset your database if you are upgrading (use the /ERASE ME command inside nicole once you have compiled)

The main reason for this release is that I've written a 'learn' utility. This utility makes it easier to import a conversation into nicole (it works kinda like the old 'import' utility).

I haven't had the time yet to write up any decent documentation for it (volunteers anyone?) but it basically works like this.

You create a text file (there is a sample.txt file provided with this new release). Each line of the text file is a single sentence, each line follows the previous sentence. It is kinda like having a conversation with yourself. If you wish to start a new conversation then create a line with three (3) dashes (---). You can have a look at the sample.txt file, or you can always email me.

What I would like to see is people creating their own 'conversation' text files that we can swap around and have our own copies of NICOLE 'learn' from others.

Eventually, I would like to compile a large text file to import into NICOLE so that there is a standard base, if people wish it.

Anyway, have fun playing with 0.1.2

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