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REVISION HISTORY
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Version 1: First release - May 1991
Version 2: Internal
- Added F10 shortcut to quit editing.
- Added <Esc> to return directly to program.
- May now cursor up/down through fields while editing.
- Added the ability to specify a database on the command line.
- Added <Esc> to Quit via keyboard.
- Added the "Add a Record" menu item.
- Bug fixes.
Version 3: Internal, September 1991
- Added the "Display Entire Database" and "Display Matching
Records" menu items.
- Add "Print Matching Records" menu item.
- Changing the maximum number of records was causing crashes.
Hard-coded maximum at 600 records, and alloted memory
accordingly.
- Added the -s and -f command line options.
- Changed colors to make the screen more readable.
- Added the Progress Bar.
- Changed the sort algorithm from Bubble to Shell. Much faster.
- More bug fixes.
Version 4: Internal, October 1991
- Can now go directly to a record from the "Display Entire
Database" and "Display Matching Records" windows, by clicking
on it.
- Field Titles now stay neater after being changed.
Version 5.0: 77172 bytes. Released November 1991
- The Sort algorithm is now case independent.
- Added the Low Memory Warning.
- Bad bug: If the database was sorted decrementally, on a field
which was blank in some records, and a record was deleted,
one record's data would become corrupted. Now fixed.
- When Displaying Entire Database, or Matching Records, you can
now back up, and display the Previous Page.
- Still more bug fixes.
Version 5.3: 98544 bytes. Released January 1992
- Added hardcopy print-out options.
- Added support for mailing labels.
Version 5.31: 99448 bytes. Limited Release, April 1992
- A 1000 record version of 5.3, with some bugs fixed.
Version 5.32: 98764 bytes. Released May 1992
- A bug in V5.3 would crash the program if the default of 9
fields was accepted, while Creating a New Database. Corrected.
- Using the "-f" switch would sometimes cause an "Illegal
Function Error". Corrected by requiring an "!" to be placed
at the end of the filename.
- In an attempt to eliminate extraneous characters, the Input
Requester would not allow input of characters > Ascii 126.
Without thinking, I was hampering European users.
Ascii values of 140-255 are now also accepted.
- When using the Print Displayed Record (F8) option, the first
line of the database was sometimes being printed 4-6 characters
to the left of the requested column. At other times, a blank
line was inserted first, before printing the remainder
correctly. These problems have been corrected.
Version 5.4: Limited Release, June 1992
- Added the option to print the database to a file as well as to
the printer, and changed the selectors in the Print Options
Window from mutually exclusive, to "toggle" selectors.
- A "Device Unavailable" error was generated in V5.32 if, in the
Print Options Window, "Help" was selected just before a request
to "Print". Finger trouble - corrected.
- An "Error #9" was generated in the Print Options Window, if an
attempt was made to print in "aligned" mode when the database
had very few fields. More finger trouble - corrected.
- Changed the print-out in option "Block - 2 across" to include
the Field Titles along with the database contents. This
required changing the print mode from Elite (96 characters per
line) to Condensed (136 characters per line).
- Added a new item to the Print Menu, to allow a record to be
copied to a file. I would have prefered to copy it to the
Clipboard, but since I don't know how, I settled for this.
- Added a new item to the Delete Menu, to allow a selected Field
Title, and the contents of that field in ALL records of the
database, to be blanked in one operation.
- Added three items to the Change Menu, to allow the contents of
a data field, and the title, to be swapped with another field,
(IE. fields 3 and 7 may now change places in the database), and
to allow a new field to be added to the database, or to delete
the last field from the database.
Version 5.5: 117400 bytes. Released July 20, 1992
- Added "Range Search" capability: <, >, =<, and =>.
- Added the ability to store a 1K+ "Note" along with each record.
Storage capacity of each record is now increased by 270%.
Databases made for Versions 3 through 5.4 are now not
compatible with V5.5, but may be easily made compatible just
by running the enclosed "Convert" program.
- Any field may now be added to or deleted from the database.
The files comprising the Version 5.5 package should include:
Filename Bytes Description
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.info 111
bBase.doc 31426 Doc file suitable for reading
bBase.doc.info 2564
bBaseII 117400 The executable program
bBaseII.info 938
bBase_printme.doc 33129 Doc file suitable for printing
bBase_printme.doc.info 2564
Convert 31400 Convert databases to 5.5 format
Convert.info 938
IMPORTANT_Readme 2161 Information file
IMPORTANT_Readme.info 348
Note_to_Version1_Users 2436 Information file
Note_to_Version1_Users.info 348
Note_to_Version5.3_Users 1273 Information file
Note_to_Version5.3_Users.info 348
Recipes.bbase 3771 An example database
Revision_History 6745 This file
Revision_History.info 510
Plus the bBase5.5.LZH file.