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DR ANSI HISTORY OF CHANGES
Version 1.2 (version adding slide-show, screen clearing, help,
─────────── download capability, Qmodem fix, and more)
■ Added local display of how sysop can get out of chat mode when
chat mode is selected.
■ Changed the "Returning you to BBS_name ..." message to
"Returning to BBS ..." since some BBS user drop files don't
contain the BBS name information.
■ Changed the "already-seen" filter so it now remembers what ANSI
screens have been viewed when changing to different categories.
■ (Suggestion by Jack Helser)
Added multiple screen selection. Screens can now be viewed in a
'slide show' manner by separating screen numbers with a space,
comma, or semi-colon.
A 'through' capability will permit a person to view screens X
through Y by separating screen numbers with a dash (minus).
Example slide-show selection: 1 5 10 20-30 40
The ESC key can be used to escape out of a slide-show. The slide-
show will return to the screen selection menu after the present
screen has drawn.
■ Added more instances of CPU time slice sharing when in DESQview.
The additional instances are the keyboard prompting after title
screen, after ANSI screen drawing, sysop chat, and when the
category or ANSI screen menus have been paused.
■ Forced screen clearing prior to viewing each ANSI since there are
some ANSI authors who don't have them built-in.
■ Added screen clear to 'Screen not found.' message since this may
appear in a multiple selection.
■ Added display of the user input to the 'Screen not found.' message
since multiple screen selection is available.
■ Added a [H]elp selection to the category and ANSI selection
screens. The help is in the form of a standard text file (not
ANSI) to ensure that DR ANSI will have full control of line count,
screen clear, and screen redraw, and 'More?' prompting, in the
event of a sysop chat, shell to DOS, etc.
Color code capability was added to the help file so the sysop can
customize with colors if desired (see DR ANSI documentation).
■ Changed '(Timeleft: X)' prompt to '(TL=X)' in the category and
screens menus. This change allowed for the [H]elp selection to fit
into the prompt better.
■ Eliminated need for DR ANSI to create a temporary user drop file
when run with a Local argument.
■ (Suggestion by Andy Nachbaur)
Added download capability.
■ Added optional configuration variables for DSZ/GSZ and download
capability. If download capability is turned on, and the DSZ
config. variable is not defined, then DR ANSI will search the
BBS system's path to find DSZ/GSZ.
■ DSZ/GSZ support.
■ DSZ.COM, DSZ.EXE, or GSZ.EXE.
■ Xmodem, Ymodem, and Zmodem support.
■ DR ANSI uses return errorlevels to distinguish between
successful and unsuccessful transfers.
■ "Already-downloaded" filter shows user what ANSIs have already
been downloaded.
■ Complete file info given (file size, estimated transfer time,
etc.)
■ Changed "[Q]uit to BBS" to "[Q]uit" to support added prompt length
because of download capability.
■ Changed DR ANSI to fix a problem when using high transfer rates and
slow CPUs (e.g. heavy multi-tasking). With these conditions, and
on some ANSI screens, the user would immediately be returned to the
ANSI selection screen without pressing return to quit viewing an
ANSI screen.
■ Fixed a bug in the "ANSI size/baud rate" filter where it would
not work at all.
■ Changed "Returning to BBS ..." so it doesn't display when running
with Local argument. This also eliminates the one second pause.
■ Changed menu prompt keys to parenthesis rather than square
brackets. Looks better.
■ Added change to DOS prompt when shelled to DOS so that it is a
reminder that DR ANSI is shelled to DOS. The new prompt inserts
"[DRANSI] " before the old prompt if there is sufficient
environment space memory in the process.
■ Added optional "[Enter]" prompt to be displayed at the end of each
ANSI screen. Default is ON.
■ Changed the prompt at the end of each ANSI screen to accept either
the Enter or Space key to continue, and ESC to abort a slide-show.
■ Revised sample DRANSI.CFG file included with original archive so
it contains info about added features in this version. Also
changed the default values specified for the baud rate/ANSI size
filter in case people are using the sample given.
■ Removed 'Sysop Next' key (Alt-N).
Version 1.1
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INITIAL RELEASE