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BOOT'R Revision History
07-17-95 ■ Version 2.17
. Fixed an obscure problem where the CRC values in the BOOTR.INI
file were not being updated if the user simply ran the BOOT'R
button menu without rebooting or writing any configuration
changes. This could have been a problem if the user changed
the file on disk called AUTOEXEC.BAT, for example. When BOOT'R
prompted the user whether or not to update these changes into the
master configuration file, the new CRC values would not be written
until the configuration files were written and the system had
been rebooted. So by entering and exiting the BOOT'R button menu
several times, the user could have been prompted multiple
times that the configuration file AUTOEXEC.BAT had been changed,
even though it had already been updated into the master
configuration file. The new CRC values are now automatically
written to the BOOTR.INI file whenever the master configuration
file is updated.
07-10-95 ■ Version 2.16
. Added support for BOOT'R to automatically detect when configura-
tion files such as C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT, C:\CONFIG.SYS have been
changed between rebooting sessions. BOOT'R now warns users that
changes have been made to a configuration file, and prompts the
user whether or not to place these changes in the current BOOT'R
configuration file. For example, if a user installs a program
within Microsoft Windows, and the installed program modifies the
file C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT, BOOT'R will now detect that this change has
been made, and will warn the user before rebooting. The user
can tell BOOT'R to add these new modifications into the current
configuration file, ensuring that they will be in the file
C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT the next time Windows is loaded using BOOT'R.
File modifications are detected using CRC values written to the
BOOTR.INI file.
. Enhanced the appearance of the prelog screen.
. Added support on the Defaults screen for the new Prelog Pause
option. This option is only selectable if the user's copy of
BOOT'R is registered.
05-25-95 ■ Version 2.15
. Added an option that allows users to select the type of reboot
method to use when rebooting the computer system. The default
is a "Warm Boot" (which is similar to pressing CTRL-ALT-DEL).
The second option is to perform a "Safe Boot", which flushes the
DOS buffers before rebooting, and the last option is to perform
a "Cold Boot" (which is similar to pressing the reset switch or
on/off button). This was added to address a problem we have
noticed on our computer systems where HIMEM.SYS issues an error
message similar to the following:
ERROR: HIMEM.SYS has detected unreliable XMS memory at address
0013F146h. XMS Driver not installed.
We believe this error message is caused by EMM386.EXE and/or
Microsoft Windows. Pressing the reset switch on our computer
systems will temporarily fix this situation. If you are
experiencing this problem, you may want to instruct BOOT'R to
perform a "Cold Boot" every time it reboots the computer.
. Changed the display of the help screen to use STSI's standard
backdrop.
. Changed the behavior of BOOT'R when the user presses
"Escape" from the button menu to return to the root directory,
instead of remaining in the current directory.
. Added an "Esc=Exit" header to the BOOT'R button menu to
inform users how to access DOS from the button menu.
. Fixed a problem where the INI file was not being re-read
after a user launched the BOOT'R Editor from the BOOT'R
button menu and returned. If the user registered his copy
of BOOT'R while using the BOOT'R Editor during this session,
the changes would not be updated on the prelog screen, and
would show that the copy of BOOT'R was still unregistered.
(After rebooting, this problem would go away.) The INI file
is now re-read after returning to the button menu.
. Created a literal string unit containing all strings that
are read from the INI file and used variable references
instead of literal strings, reducing the chance for typing
or spelling errors.
04-17-95 ■ Version 2.14
. Removed unnecessary code which was being mistakenly linked
into the final EXE file. The removal of this code reduced
the EXE size by about 14K.
. Fixed a display issue where the BOOT'R screen blanker was
not very readable in monochrome mode.
04-08-95 ■ Version 2.13
. Removed custom exit procedure, which could, at times produce
an invalid error location if a Runtime error occurred.
03-12-95 ■ Version 2.12
. Added a screen blanker to the BOOT'R button menu to allow
users to stay at the button menu for long periods of time,
using it as a menu interface for various configurations.
This screen blanker is NOT a TSR, and only operates when
BOOT'R is displaying its button menu. Default delay times
for the screen blanker can be edited from the BOOT'R Editor's
"Defaults" screen.
. Added support for an "F3=Edit" to allow keyboard users
to modify the file named on the highlighted button on the
button menu.
. Widened out the buttons on the button menu to 12 characters
to make room for the new hot-keys. Widened out the entire
dialog box to continue to allow room for up to 5 columns
of buttons (45 total buttons or configurations).
. Created "hot-keys" for the BOOT'R button menu. Assigned
keys A through Z, 1 through 9, and ! through ( as
available hot-keys for the button menu. This should make
execution of the various configurations more accessible
from the keyboard.
01-24-95 ■ Version 2.11
. Enabled the use of the arrow keys to move between buttons
on the button menu.
. Fixed a minor cosmetic problem where the backdrop on the
button menu was not being redisplayed after the first time
a .BTR file is created.
. Made a minor cosmetic change to the BOOT'R button menu
by changing the slant direction of the text in back of
the button menu.
01-14-95 ■ Version 2.10
. Enabled BOOT'R to use XMS memory, if available. (For use
in the DOS swapping routines.)
. Added a new prelog delay screen to BOOT'R with a more
attractive appearance.
. Added a push-button menu to BOOT'R. When a user types "BOOTR"
without any command line parameters, instead of executing the
BOOT'R Editor, a dialog box containing push buttons will be
displayed. Each push button will have the name of a
configuration. Pushing the right mouse button when the cursor
is over a push button will allow the user to edit the config-
uration files. Pushing the left mouse button when the cursor
is over a push button will launch BOOT'R with the configuration
name specified.
. Added a countdown to the BOOT'R "Waiting For Cache To Flush"
screen to give users an indication of how long the delay
process will last.
. Fixed a display problem where the Filename #4 slot on the
Prelog display screen would display the Filename #2 instead.
. Added a custom exit procedure to be executed in the event
that a Runtime error occurs.
10-19-94 ■ Version 2.05
. Reduced the default prelog delay time to 3 seconds to comply
with ASP standards. STSI is now an author member of the
Association of Shareware Professionals!
07-09-94 ■ Version 2.04
. No changes made.
06-28-94 ■ Version 2.03
. Fixed a problem in the INSTALL.EXE program distributed
with the previous version where a Runtime Error #3 would
occur when Ok was selected to install BOOT'R. I/O checking
was not disabled in the stIsDirectory routine that was
being called to verify the validity of the directory.
06-24-94 ■ Version 2.02
. Corrected a problem where the IsDirectory function
was not correctly handling a directory with a
trailing backslash.
. Removed a redundant procedure that was checking for
a configuration description when processing the .BTR
file for statements to be written to the various
configuration files.
. Added a default description to the prelog display when
none was entered in the .BTR file.
. Corrected a problem where leading spaces (such as
statements in a NET.CFG file) were not being preserved.
. Added a command to clear the keyboard buffer before
processing commands from a dialog box. This prevents
problems if an extra key is accidentally pressed before
a dialog box is displayed.
. Fixed a problem where the BOOT'R Editor would run out of
heap space when launched through BOOT'R. This problem
appeared only when the available memory was above 450K.
causing BOOT'R not to swap itself out during execution.
Modified code to always swap when executing the BOOT'R
Editor.
. Added a clear-screen command to the end of the program
when the /TEST parameter is being used. Screen was not
being cleared properly after execution.
05-26-94 ■ Version 2.01
. No changes made.
05-13-94 ■ Version 2.00
. Clarified some of the error messages.
. Added the new BOOT'R background to all displays.
. Added automatic detection of DESQview, Windows, and
OS/2, to prevent rebooting when running under a
multi-tasker.
. Changed the "TEST" parameter to "/TEST".
. Added information boxes to replace the plain-looking
information bars uses in previous versions of BOOT'R.
. Added support for the new Pre-Reboot Delay parameter which
provides a user-configurable delay to allow disk caches to
finish writing data to the hard disk before rebooting.
. Increased available stack space to 32,768, to allow enough
stack space for procedures such as file copying, etc.
. Terminated use of BOOTRWBT.COM program. New programming
language allows internal use of commands necessary to
reboot the machine.
. Rewrote BOOT'R in a new programming language due to a
couple of bugs found in the previous programming language
which caused some obscure problems in BOOT'R. Problems
that are fixed with this rewrite include the following:
Lines longer than 121 characters were previously truncated
when BOOTR.EXE wrote them to the configuration files.
DOS environment variables, such as %PATH% or %USER% were
written to the configuration file incorrectly.
10-25-93 ■ Version 1.11
. No changes to BOOTR.EXE. Changes only to BOOTRED.EXE.
09-19-93 ■ Version 1.10
. Added support to display the BOOT'R help screen if a "/H",
"/h", "/?", or "?" is entered as the first parameter on the
command line.
. Modified code to use the .BTR filename as the configuration
name to be displayed on the prelog screen instead of the
configuration name stored internally in the .BTR file. This
eliminates potential conflicts where the filename and the
internal configuration name do not match.
. Added date code to indicate the date of the last internal
code change.
. Added code to perform a cold boot if the warm boot fails,
or if the BOOTRWBT.COM file can not be found.
. Fixed problem where the configuration description would
be displayed improperly if it was blank.
06-24-93 ■ Version 1.0 (Released To The General Public.)
06-24-93 ■ Version 0.8 (Internal BETA Version. Not Released.)
. Eliminated using the swapping routine before issuing
the command to reboot the system. (This eliminates the
possibility of having a swap file left on the disk
after rebooting.)
. Eliminated using the swapping routine before issuing
pre-reboot commands. (Much faster.)
. Replaced all hard-coded references to COMMAND.COM with
COMSPEC variable. (Also replaced System declarations.)
. Changed second display line on prelog screen for unregistered
copies of BOOT'R.
. Added support for master registration numbers.
. Changed the way Registration Names and Numbers are handled.
. Removed references to RegistrationCity.
. Combined all BOOTR.INI read routines into one sub-routine.
. Added code to make sure that all opened files are at the
beginning of the file.
. Re-wrote entire BOOTR.INI read routine to prevent possible
problems when reading this file. (Symptoms include hanging
when reading the registration information.)
06-23-93 ■ Version 0.7 (Internal BETA Version. Not Released.)
. Corrected a problem where the .BAK files were being created
with a .BAB extension. (Wasn't calculating a new variable
length after using the MidStr function.)
. Added code to truncate the configuration description if
it exceeds 41 characters.
. Added support for temporary registration numbers.
. Added code to truncate the beginning of the configuration
filename, if the length exceeds 19 characters.
. Added area on prelog screen to display the configuration
description contained in the .BTR file.
. Added area on prelog screen to display the configuration
files that will be written by BOOT'R.
. Revised BOOT'R prelog screen to present information in
a more visually appealing format.
. Added code to check for alternate command processors.
. Added code to automatically execute the BOOT'R Editor
if no command-line parameters are passed to BOOT'R.
. Corrected a problem where the configuration files were
not being written properly when BOOT'R was executed twice
without rebooting. (Using the TEST option.) A file was
inadvertently being left open after the configurations
had been written, causing the first character of each
line to be lost. (Weird.)
. Removed unnecessary file variables.
. Re-wrote .BTR file read/write routine to handle errors
more gracefully. (Also reduced code size, and increased
execution speed.)
. Added a check to see if an old configuration file exists,
before attempting to copy it to a .BAK file.
06-11-93 ■ Version 0.6 (Internal BETA Version. Not Released.)
. Fixed a problem where the !End Section! label was being
written to the configuration files.
. Moved redundant routines to separate sub-routines to
simplify code.
. Modified BOOT'R subroutines to read old and new style
BOOTR.INI files.
. Added code to read the !End Section! fields in the
new style .BTR files. This will allow embedded
blank lines to appear in the configurations.
. Added code to read {Description} field in the new
style .BTR files.
. Changed BOOT'R configuration file extensions to .BTR
in order to prevent possible conflicts with other
.INI files. (BOOTR.INI is still used to contain
configuration information for BOOT'R.)
05-22-93 ■ Version 0.5
. Trim leading and trailing spaces when registration
information is read to compensate for potential
problems when BOOTR.INI file is edited manually.
03-28-93 ■ Version 0.4
. Fixed potential problem with BOOT'R closing files that
may not have been opened previously.
. Now using time stamp for all BOOT'R files to indicate
the version number.
. Compressed BOOTR.EXE file to reduce disk space
requirements.
. Removed beta designation from BOOT'R. No problems
noted or reported.
02-20-93 ■ Version 0.3ß
. Changed the way BOOT'R reads configuration information.
Instead of reading through all the configurations in the
BOOTR.INI file, separate .INI files are now maintained
for each configuration. This speeds up the operation of
BOOT'R substantially.
. Added BOOT'R command line display area to error message
screens. Command line is displayed only on those screens
where it is relevant.
. Added code to display error message if configuration
specified on the command line does not exist. BOOT'R
will not reboot the machine under this circumstance.
. Modified command line display area on the prelog screen
to only show "BOOTR" instead of the fully qualified path.
02-14-93 ■ Version 0.2ß
. Added code to create .BAK files for all configuration
files modified by BOOT'R. .BAK files are created in
the same directory as the modified files.
02-07-93 ■ Version 0.1ß
. Changed default BOOT'R path to C:\BOOTR.
. Added external BOOTRWBT.COM file to perform a warm boot.
(Internal compiler command was generating a cold boot on
most machines, which was too slow.)
. Speeded up the reading of the BOOTR.INI file.
. Corrected a problem where BOOT'R would read additional
information from the BOOTR.INI file and overwrite
existing configuration information.
. Added "Writing configuration files. Do NOT interrupt!"
message.
. Added "Reading BOOTR.INI file. Do NOT interrupt!" message.
. Removed extra information from BOOT'R prelog screen to
prevent any possible memory manager conflicts.
. Added support to test BOOT'R operation without rebooting.
If the second passed parameter on the command line is TEST,
BOOT'R will update all files, but will not reboot the
machine. Example: BOOTR NOVELL TEST
01-26-93 ■ Version 0.0ß
. Added background to error message screens.
. Fixed problem where [REBOOT] section code was reading
a blank line.
. Added [REBOOT] section to BOOTR.INI file. This section
allows a command or sequence of commands to be executed
prior to rebooting the machine. This feature is
necessary to force the flushing and disabling of disk
caches that use write-caching.
. Added help and error message screens.
. Added support for up to five different files under
each configuration.
. Added support to read various [????????] configuration
sections of the BOOTR.INI file.
. Added [DELAYS] section to BOOTR.INI file.
. Added [REGISTRATION] section to BOOTR.INI file.
. Added support to read BOOTR.INI file.
. Initial coding on BOOT'R begun.