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- REV 2.00b
- =========
- 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
- =========
- 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
- ========
- 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
- ========
- 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
- ========
-
-
- REV 2.06
- ========
- 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
- ========
-