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REV 2.00b
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New REQDIR, REQFIL and FNDFIL servers designed to work with FBB V.14d
and later started. As 5.14d requires access of (up to) eight real or
virtual drives and therefore extensive modifications to my code, I
decided on a complete rewrite (Ver 2.nn). This will include more
advanced features later on. The three programs, without additional
features released on beta test to a number of GB7 stations. This
is mainly to prove the new drive/directory structure.
1st July 1992
REV 2.01b
=========
All three server facilities now extended to provide the following
facilities :-
1. Optional "Downloaded from GB7$$$" at end of REQFIL reply.
2. If a reply to a REQFIL message exceeds approx 4Kb, the replies
are broken into seperate messages.
3. The reply to REQDIR, REQFIL and FNDFIL requests show all user
accessable drives. (eg. C:\ D:\ F:\).
4. SysOp configurable text may be sent with each reply, to assist
with user error or just general help. This facility uses
standard ASCII files which are read by the servers. If a file
does not exist the default text contained within the program
will be sent.
5. The FBB labels may be included in a REQDIR listing. This
facility is completely SysOp configurable. Labels may be
supressed for a particular directory, even if they do exist.
Please see the SysOp document for full details.
Released for beta test.
8th July 1992
REV 2.02
========
General release version.
Problem with reading labels fixed.
Reply message splitting now extended to REQDIR as well as REQFIL.
The parameters are to split reply messages if messages with directory
labels exceed 80 files and those without labels exceed 112 files.
One further SysOp configurable text now allowed. This is text to
replace the :-
Best 73,
Name Callsign
SysOp BBS.
The file is called SALUT.SYS
13/07/92
REV 2.02a
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Applies to REQDIR server only. REQFIL and FNDFIL are still V2.02.
Problem found when reading very long YAPPLBL.SYS in that labels
would not be sent. Hopefully all is now well.
When reading a very long YAPPLBL.SYS the server takes longer to
complete than I would like. This is because all access is from disk
not memory, to keep down the server memory overhead. I hope to
improve on this by recoding in a later version.
22/07/92
REV 2.03
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There was a chance that a crafty user could "back-step" from your users
area to another directory or even the root, by entering a path such as :-
C:\..\..\*.*
Such attempts have now been trapped.
Please don't make this information available as SysOp's who have not yet
upgraded to V2.03 are still vunerable.
02/08/92
REV 2.04
========
This version was released only for beta testing, following improvements
listed on REV 2.05 below.
01/09/92
REV 2.05
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A number of changes. The REQDIR server should now run much more quickly.
This is achieved by holding some data in memory instead of reading from
disk each time. This saving is most noticable when using the the label
send facility. A considerable increase in server speed has been reported
by beta testers.
The method of comparing files names and paths with the data held in
YAPPLBL.SYS has been completely rewritten and a couple of minor bugs
hopefully removed at the same time.
The drives line in INIT.SRV, which looks something like :-
*,*,C:\FBB\USERS\,*,*,* or * * C:\FBB\USERS\ * * *
could be written either way as shown above. The server has now been
coded to read in correctly whether spaces or commas are used as
seperators.
All three programs, REQDIR, REQFIL and FNDFIL now carry the version
number V 2.05.
During the course of these changes, I wrote a small program called
EDITLBL.EXE, which will allow manipulation of the file YAPPLBL.SYS.
It will provide a text listing of all files and paths which may
be altered with an ASCII editor. This file may then be recompiled
back into a new YAPPLBL.SYS. This program is available for SysOps
as a seperate package.
18/09/92
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REV 2.06
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A request originating at a BBS which had a short (R:) header, (i.e.
no text after the callsign) e.g. :-
R:921021/1010Z @:GB7TOY.#11.GBR.EU
rather than :-
R:921021/1010Z @:GB7TOY.#11.GBR.EU [Toytown BBS] FBB V514D
caused the server reply to place it's title where the first line of
message text should be. It also placed a < GB7TOY in the title line.
Fixed.
21/10/92
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