Gold Medal Software 2/Gold Medal Software Volume 2 (Gold Medal) (1994).iso/bbsutils/ulp103.arj/HISTORY.TXT

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    ┌───────────────────┐
    │                   │ ║       UpLoadProcessor Revision History File
    │    ╥   ╥ ╥        │ ║
    │    ║   ║ ║ ╓──╖   │ ║
    │    ║   ║ ║ ║  ║   │ ║        The following is a list of the most
    │    ╙───╜ ╨ ║──╜   │ ║       recent changes made to the ULP system
    │            ╨      │ ║        by revision level, in reverse order.
    └───────────────────┘ ║
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1.03     - Changed the swapping code (yes, again) because the code installed in
(11/6/93)  version 1.02 was mangling the direct comm I/O after the first swap.
           Also, the type of swapping is now configurable (see the General
           Options menu). Options for swapping are now: (N)one, (E)MS, (X)MS,
           (D)isk and (A)uto. Be sure to set this parameter when upgrading, as
           the value has changed from your previous setting; (A)uto is
           equivalent to the old (Y)es selection and probably the best choice.

           Added the brain-dead newest file age checking algorithm back into
           ULP as an option (see the Age Checking menu). I *strongly* recommend
           you stick with average age checking, as it's much more resistant to
           tampering than simply basing acceptance off the newest file, but
           some people seem adament about using a newest file algorithm.

           Removed the "elapsed time" code, saving about 1.5K of executable
           size each on ULP, ULPTEST and ULPDB.

           Shortened the length of the @-variable names that ULP utilizes in
           order to free up a few more characters for the configuration
           information fields in ULPSM (refer to the documentation for the new
           variable names). You must go through your configuration file and
           update all @-variables (in the archivers, file checkers, GIF file
           checkers and description processing menus) according to the
           following translation:
               @ARCHIVE@  --->  @ARC@          @WIDTH@     --->  @WID@
               @FILES@    --->  @FILE@         @HEIGT@     --->  @HGT@
               @NEWEST@   --->  @NEW@          @COLORS@    --->  @COLOR@
               @OLDEST@   --->  @OLD@          @COMPRESS@  --->  @COMP@
               @BYTES@    --->  @BYTE@

           *** NOTE: ZDCS users must enter the Duplication Checking menu in
                     ULPSM (menu G) and save the values (press F10) in order to
                     reset an imbedded @FILE@ variable.

           Removed the erroneous FOSSIL port limitation of 8 (port numbers 0
           through 7). Any port number will now be accepted on the command
           line.

           Fixed a bug in ULPADS that, under certain conditions, incorrectly
           identified ads as having already been entered into the CRC database,
           when in fact, they had not.  The end result was the perception that
           ULP was not removing some BBS ads. It would be a good idea to use
           the distribution database included in the ULP archive and add your
           own BBS ad files back in.

           Fixed a problem where ULPTEST would still attempt to access the comm
           port regardless of the configuration. Also improved ULPTEST's
           handling of comm port detection and determination. Due to some users
           having problems with stray DSZPORT variables, the order of the comm
           port determination was changed to:
           1. It utilizes the information directly passed on the command line.
           2. It will search for the PCBDIR, PCBDAT and PCBDRIVE (optional)
              environment variables to locate the PCBOARD.SYS and PCBOARD.DAT
              files.
           3. It will look in the current subdirectory where ULPTEST was
              started from for the PCBOARD.SYS and PCBOARD.DAT files.
           4. It checks DSZPORT environment variable for the comm port
              information.

           Discovered that ULP and ULPTEST were not including GIF files in the
           byte counts, making the @BYTE@ variable incorrect for GIFs and
           archives with nested GIF files. Fixed.

           Fixed a bug where ULPTEST would not properly count the number of
           executable duplicates, thereby skewing the percentages. (I think
           this bug only affected ULP's internal duplication system).

           ULPTEST did not properly handle what PCBoard was passing for 115,200
           baud in the 5 character space allocated in PCBOARD.SYS for the DTE
           baud rate. Fixed.

           No UPDATE.EXE is included in this archive, as no change to the
           configuration file format(s) occurred.

           Mike Cocke is now a reseller of my shareware products, and can
           accept credit card registrations. Please see the REGISTER.FRM file
           for more information.

1.02     - In an effort to further improve ULP's already frugal memory usage,
(10/7/93)  the internal database buffer size is now user selectable. Three
           sizes are available for optimum database speed and memory usage:
           2.5K, 5K and 10K. The smallest should be used for small databases
           (less than 1 meg) or in severe memory conditions. The largest should
           prove *slightly* faster for large databases (greater than 3 megs).
           Previous versions of ULP had the database buffer hard-coded to 10K.
           (This buffer is used only for internal database users; no buffer is
           allocated when ZDCS is used).

           Changed swapping code to what appears to be a more stable and
           compatible routine. In addition, an additional 25K of memory is now
           available with swapping enabled.

           Since ULPTEST fast and normal modes do not repack archives, the BBS
           ad checking was not enabled. This posed other problems, such as
           inaccurate duplication levels due to the BBS ads being included in
           the statistics. ULPTEST fast and normal modes now perform BBS ad
           checking but do not remove the ads until ULP.EXE reprocesses the
           file in the event.

           Argh! Under certain circumstances, ULPTEST would create an archive
           of the same name as being tested, except with the extension .ULP,
           containing only a comment.

           ULPSM would not allow a non-zero errorlevel to be configured for a
           GIF file checker. Fixed.

           With some help from the Fidonet C echo, I was able to fix my FOSSIL
           code for the Microsoft compiler, and have switched ULPTEST back to
           Microsoft C 7.0.

           Updated my direct comm libraries to the latest version.

1.01     - The "error disposition" and "virus disposition" functions now have a
(9/22/93)  third option: (K)eep. When (K)eep is selected, ULP will keep the
           defective uploads, but will not rename them. Note that selecting
           (K)eep prevents the use of ULP's override mode, since override mode
           keys off of the file extension that (R)ename produces. However, the
           purpose of the (K)eep function is to allow systems to more easily
           retain a rejected file.

           The "insert information line" flag has been removed from ULPSM. ULP
           and ULPTEST will now insert a line only if one is defined, giving
           the increased flexibility to add an archive info line, but not a GIF
           info line, vice versa or both.

           Added a new function to ULPSM's description processing menu: "Insert
           lack of description line". By setting this to 'Y', ULP.EXE will move
           files that have no description to the destination area, inserting
           the description line "No description available". Setting this to 'N'
           operates in the same manner as previous versions, where the file is
           not moved.

           ULPSM will also accept an environment variable, defined using the
           %VARIABLE% convention DOS uses, in the work subdirectory field. Note
           that the environment variable must still conform to the requirements
           for the work directory paremeter (trailing backslash, path length,
           etc.).

           Increased the maximum allowable number of description lines to 60,
           to match PCBoard 15's limit. Note that setting the limit higher will
           use more memory in ULP and ULPTEST.

           Extended ULPDB's segmented sorting algorithm to allow a complete
           recompile of a duplication database of up to 128 megs in size (I had
           one ULP user creeping up on the previous limit of 8 megs in size).

           Prior to this release, GIF file testing within ULP could not be
           disabled; ULP would always detect the GIF file and attempt to test
           it. It is now possible to disable GIF detection and testing entirely
           if all minimum image parameters are set to 0 and the GIF file tester
           command line is blanked out.

           Removed the bomb archive checking code in ULP and ULPTEST in favor
           of the improved disk space checking routine. Previously, ULP and
           ULPTEST would fail an archive if a file contained within was over
           the hard-coded limit of 5 megabytes in size; this is no longer the
           case (unless there is insufficient disk space to decompress the
           archive).

           Due to the ever-increasing memory requirements of SCAN, an example
           F-PROT command line has been added to the default ULP configuration
           file for those who wish to change virus testers, or simply want the
           extra safety of two virus testers.

           ULPTEST slow mode was not following the archiving flags for nested
           archives and nested SFX archives. ULPTEST also did not detect ZIP
           -AV stamps or ARJ security envelopes (this was by design when only
           normal and fast modes were available; I forgot to install it when
           slow mode was added).

           ULPSM would not allow numerals to be included in the special case
           file extensions. Fixed so all valid filename characters are
           accepted.

           Finally tracked down a long-standing bug that would process nested
           archives twice under certain circumstances.

           Fixed a problem where the privileged user list handling wasn't
           working exactly as planned when ULPTEST was run in normal or fast
           modes.

           Fixed a problem where ULPTEST normal and fast modes would not detect
           that the same file uploaded twice between events were duplicates.

           ULPSM would erase the unpacking command line in the archivers entry
           screen if the pack command was edited. This error also produced
           archiving errors if the command line extended to within 3 characters
           of the end of the packing command line field. Fixed.

           Cleaned up a few "Divide by zero" errors that would appear under
           some conditions.

1.00     - First non-beta production release.
(8/28/93)

0.91ß through 0.99ß - Beta test versions...

0.90α/A through 0.90α/I - Alpha test versions...