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- Skeleton Key - Changes up to version 2.0 (6 Mar 1992):
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- Skeleton Key has been completely re-written in 'C' and recompiled. The end
- result is that it's 1/3 the size of the original and 100% faster. With
- this re-write, though, come some major changes:
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- The command line is now sent "as is". Before it was always converted to
- uppercase before being sent on to your named program. See the *C command
- below.
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- Two new commands: *E and *C
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- *C - Forces the command line to uppercase. Versions 1.0 and 1.1 always
- sent an uppercase command line through. Now it's optional. Add the *C to
- your parameters list if you'd like to remain backward compatible. This
- shouldn't make much difference to many programs.
-
- *E - Environmental Variable. This is the BIG addition. You can now send
- environmental variables to programs that want them (I've only run across a
- couple, such as FastTalk, but what the heck). Format for this special
- command is as follows:
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- *E:<variable name>=<value>
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- The colon is mandatory. Environmental variables are also case-sensitive
- (*C won't capitalize them either). Some programs overcome the
- case-sensitive problem, but most don't check - be careful.
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- Changes from 1.0 to 1.1 (16 Dec 1991)
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- KEY.SET no longer has to be in the root directory. It can now be in the
- current directory (accoring to Express). This allows you to have multiple
- KEY.SETs for varied configurations.
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- New File: KEYNAME.DAT
- If Skeleton Key finds this file in either the current or root directories,
- the name contained in the first line of the file will become the name
- Skeleton Key will use for the user's name. This allows "quick and dirty"
- name substitution.
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