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History of BShow
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05-09-92 - 1.0 - Initial release. After 1 full year of development and about
8 months of beta testing, it's finally ready!
05-18-92 - 1.01 - A couple of bug fixes, plus elimination of delay. Now
freeware - not shareware.
06-10-92 - 1.02 - Added support for abnormal file compressors such as PAK...
If you tried to configure BShow for PAK, you know what I
did.
06-25-92 - 1.10 - Completed port to C++, and added nested archive viewing.
Also, the load time has been decreased dramatically, while
still retaining the self-check on the EXE file.
Seems very stable... As usual, many minor bug fixes, and a
few minor enhancements.
Also, added 'T'oggle option when viewing a file. This let's
the user go into binary view mode when in normal view mode
and vice versa. Of course, some characters are stripped
when going binary->normal, but that's the way the
cookie crumbles...
01-24-93 - 1.11 - Added cfg file tweaks to setup for use with PKZip 2.04c
and to add ARC support for CD-ROM users stuck with that
format.
07-01-93 - 1.20 - Some problems fixed. Nesting now works better. Sample
cfg file has had more tweaks. This was like a beta, but
open to all.
08-08-93 - 1.21 - No bug fixes. Doc's updated, etc... End of open beta.
CURRENT LONG-TERM OBJECTIVES (MAYBE THIS CENTURY...)
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I am in the midst of several other projects right now, but I plan to add
some form of support for self extracting EXE's soon. Maybe that'll go
with the rewrite I'm planning. The rewrite that may or may not happen
will turn BShow into more of a "shell" for the programs YOU write.
A mini (easy to use) programming language will be implemented in which
you get to control the output to the screens 100% etc... The end result
of this would be a highly configurable program. Of course, it would come
preconfigured for ZIP, ARJ, LZH and PAK still, but you could easily
change these. No programming would be necessary to use the defaults.
Let me know what you think of these ideas people.