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VERSION CHANGES & UPDATES
Thanks to everyone that has helped out in enhancing First Impression to
become a first class installation utility! Keep on sending in your
suggestions!!!
Version 2.6 6/1/93
Fixed three bugs, first being a problem when DOS' SHARE.EXE command was
running and multiple source disks were used. The second was when the
AUTOEXEC.BAT file was edited it would corrupt the memory on occasion(never all
the time). And finally batch files would not run in the exit program mode.
It was running out of memory trying to executed another copy of COMMAND.COM.
The system files may now be Prepended or Appended with your commands. Also
if the line is not long enough to fit all of your parameters onto you may
enter a '\' (without the ') in the first space on the following line to
continue your statement. The '\' will be replaced with a space.
Check out the "Default" section under the "Enhancements Menu". There are
many changes there as well. You may now skip asking the user for the source
drive since First Impression already senses where it is being called from and
also bypass the "Press ENTER to Continue, Any Other Key To Edit" message as
well. The phrase that used to pop up during the DOS Command execution may
now also be customized to your liking. These changes only take place in
Media Selection Window #2 though. There are now three overwrite methods to
choose from; prompt to overwrite first duplicate only, prompt on all
duplicates, or don't prompt at all. If No is answered it will continue on to
the next file.
Media selection #2 has gone through an overhaul. You may now position the
window, not prompt the user for the source drive and the colors used for the
input fields, previously yellow on red are not the colors of the status
window. You may also change the default prompting text in this window. This
only applies to #2, #1 remains unchanged.
Under the System menu you can now choose where to leave your user at the end
of a successful install. Choices are; source disk, destination directory or
original location when the install was executed.
The exit program is now called after the Exit window instead of before.
The Directory Window may now be positioned anywhere on the screen.
You may call programs either before or after the displaying of the greeting
window. If you have a GIF or PCX you wish to display you can do this before
the greeting screen by entering the program to spawn and the GIF file as the
parameter. The Post greeting screen function can be used for something like
trying to call .WAV player or something of that sort that will not destruct
the screen.
You may also have subdirectories on your source disk now. To instruct the
install you must use the # followed by the directory name in the "files to
copy" section. For instance:
!Disk #1
*.exe
#data
*.dat
#picture
*.gif
Will prompt the user for "Disk #1" then copy all the EXE files from the root
directory. Then it will copy all the DAT files from the "\DATA" directory
and then copy all the .GIF files from the "\PICTURE" directory.
The file browser was changed back to a black and white viewer. To much
confusion was caused by the page break characters and so forth.
Version 2.5 2/1/93
WYSIWYG Screen designer was added to make the generation even easier and
more flexibility was given to designing your screens. Justification &
Positioning to name a few. Background window is also adjustable.
Monitor Detection
Novell Aware; either require a network or refuse installation to a net drive.
Two switches were added: /M for monochrome install and /N to bypass monitor
detection
EXIT program was changed to allow .BAT files to be called.
If multiple .CFG files are found a menu will appear giving the user the
choice to pick which to install.
And a few more things that I forgot already!<g>
Version 2.1b 7/27/92
Using the /V command with INSTALL.EXE you can find out what version of the
installation program you are using.
Finally fixed the bug that blanked out the screen after the user viewed a
file!!! Not an easy one to nail down. Line by line scrolling was improved
so it will not "flash" on the screen.
Fixed the (: ): parameters in the DOS COMMANDS section to handle an install
that was from a subdirectory on a hard drive to another sub on the same
drive.
Exit Program was not being executed if the autoexec.bat or config.sys files
were edited. Fixed that one to.
Version 2.1a 7/01/92
Enhanced the i/o error routines in IMPRESS.EXE
Fixed some flaky bugs that would occur when updating the CONFIG.SYS
and AUTOEXEC.BAT.
Fixed a bug in the Distribution Disk Generator. If the first disk was left
in after it was filled and the developer pressed a key some peculiar things
would happen.
Version 2.1 6/7/92
Distribution disk generator was added to create your disk set.
Will allow two types of installs. The normal installation and an update
installation. By using two different configuration files there can be two
types of installs.
Ability to add an ENVIRONMENT variable to the autoexec.bat file.
Ability to add device drivers to the config.sys file.
Files that were set to print can now be sent to a user selectable printer
port. Error routines were also improved.
Users can install from a subdirectory on a hard drive to another subdirectory
on the drive. Great for users that pull your application from a BBS.
An UNINSTALL option was added. By typing INSTALL /U and several
confirmations, it will erase all the subdirectories and child subs along
with the files. READ THE MANUAL REGARDING THIS!!!!
The most important one of all......you may now order using VISA/MC through
Software Excitement!. Check out the order form for details!
Version 2.0 2/8/92
Renamed to FIRST IMPRESSION and down to less that 45k!
Hard error recovery was added. This will prevent thing from going awry
if a user takes out the disk or uses a write protected disk and the like.
Now checks for game port, math coprocessor and base memory.
Developers now have the option of letting the user have the option to add
the subdirectory to the PATH statement in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
Graphical Display Amusers(GDA) were added. One of six may be displayed
as the files are being copied. This may prevent the user from falling
asleep while the installation is occurring.
A file browser was also added to let users view up to four README.1ST files.
Improved multiple directory installations.
Added a windowing utility, SETUP.EXE, that will allow developers to create
customized windows.
Sound was added and is optional.
The fill character that appeared in all the fields to fill in, '_', was
changed to a small dot. When the character was used in text it was converted
to a space.
Version 1.5c
Allows the CONFIG.SYS file to update the FILES and BUFFERS statements.
If the subdirectory is not added to the path statement in the AUTOEXEC.BAT
the user will be prompt for the drive that the computer boots from,
otherwise it uses the same drive that the autoexec.bat file was located.
This routine will not ask the user if they want to do this or not, it is
performed automatically. After all, your program will not work without it.
The values are filled in in the INSTALL ENHANCEMENTS menu option.
The ability to Shell to DOS was added when in INSTALIT.
Version 1.5b
The window that copies files from source to destination was not clearing
itself and kept showing files being copied as Error Opening: filename
after it needed the next disk with the following file.
You can now hardcode the user name into two files. This was originally
done for internal purposes but I thought others might be interested in
it as well.
Version 1.5a
Four more border types have been added to the window sections.
INSTALL.EXE will now check if the DOS version on the system running
meets your minimum required version.