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Recent Changes to InteliCat(tm)
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If you need to contact me via US mail you can write to:
Curtis Little
PO Box 33613
Northglen, CO 80233
11/15/92
Released v1.89
Continued to increase the mouse functionality.
**NOTICE** Pressing return when prompted for the disk name to log will
no longer display the list of disks. To display this list, select the
dialog box option (tab to it and press enter, or press ALT-L) to list
the existings disks.
11/6/92
Fixed the delete file function to flag the database as being changed.
Fixed the delete file function to keep the scroll bar line active after
deleteing a disk.
Modified the functions to get a disk name from the user to use dialog
boxes, providing an option to list existing names for selection.
Fixed a bug that kept the merge utility from being able to save the
comment records when you merge into a database with no existing records.
11/1/92
Modified the Log Disk function to use dialog boxes and include an option to
log a disk starting at a specified subdirectory.
Changed InteliCat to remain on the same logging drive when the logging
of a disk is aborted.
10/31/92
Released v1.88 of InteliCat
The documentation is no longer distributed in a file separate from the
program file.
10/26/92
Added limited mouse support to InteliCat. Work included also added dialog
boxes to many of the prompts in InteliCat.
7/3/92
Fixed a bug that caused InteliCat to give an error message that the report
destination file couldn't be opened if you loaded a configuration file that
contained the option to automatically output to a file after having one
loaded that asked for the destination.
3/30/92
Released v1.87 to registered users.
3/8/92
Released v1.86
Fixed a bug that caused changed comments and keywords to not be flagged as
a change in the database.
Modified InteliCat to ask if you want to save the database anyway when you
request to write a database that had no changes.
2/24/92
Released v1.85
2/22/92
Fixed a bug in the comment editor that caused F10 to prematurely quit
(Previously, the F8 key would work around the problem).
2/15/92
Fixed the search to retain the previous search value (next match now works).
2/3/92
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** IMPORTANT --- ALL USERS SHOULD READ ABOUT THE CHANGES MADE SINCE **
** VERSION 1.83 BECAUSE NOT ONLY HAVE NEW OPTIONS BEEN ADDED, BUT **
** THE OLD FILE NAME DEFAULTS OF LC ARE NO LONGER USED! **
**********************************************************************
The following changes have been made in InteliCat which are addendums to
what InteliCat's documentation describes:
New Options
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o InteliCat now has options to configure how dates are
displayed. From the Configuration menu you may select
the date options to set the date format as well as the
separator. This should make things look a little better
for other countries that don't view dates in the typical
format used in the USA.
NOTE: At default InteliCat will detect the country (if you
have MSDOS v3.0 or above. For DOS versions older than 3.0
the USA format is used at default. You may change the
default by editing the date options.
o Auto save options - InteliCat now has autosave options to
allow you to specify whether it should automatically save
the configuration and/or database when exiting or reading
a new file (if changes were made to the previous one).
At default these items are both turned on.
o Added an option to specify whether comments extracted from
an archive should be put in InteliCat's keyword field instead
of the comment field. (Note: You must have the option for
extracting archive comments set for this option to work).
This option is located on the archive options page.
o Added an option to the import utility to allow you to
specify whether comments imported should be put in InteliCat's
keyword field instead of the comment field. (This is actually
an option that is stored in your configuration file, but can
only be modified from the comment import screen).
Other than those changes the following minor changes and fixes have been
added since v1.83 was released:
o Modified InteliCat to allow the user to abort changes made since the last
time a database was saved (autosave of the database must be off for you to
have this option though!).
NOTE: Comments that you modify are immediately written to disk, so the
changes you make to existing comments can't be aborted. New comments
you input for files that didn't have them will be aborted if you don't
save changes though.
WARNING: If you ZAP the database the changes can't be reversed! Once you
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confirm a ZAP, the database will be written to DISK with no records in it,
unless you have backups of both the database file and the comment database,
you won't be able to undo this action.
o Modified InteliCat to remove references to the old default files of LC.
NOTE: Existing users should rename their configuration to IC.CFG, delete
the old configuration file, or add the following to your autoexec.bat file:
ICCFG=LC.CFG
o If you set up the configuration properly with your database name you don't
really need to change from the old default of LC (if that's what you use).
Note however, that if you do choose to modify the name of your database
that there are TWO DATABASES that must be renamed. Please refer to the
documentation in a section titled 'Two Files per Database' if you're not
sure how InteliCat names it's database files.
o Fixed InteliCat to not adjust the number of files, disk, dirs, etc when a
configuration file with a lower number is read. Note however, that if you
read a configuration file with more files/disks/dirs configured than what
you currently have available, InteliCat will try to increase the number
available.
o Fixed the skip input of keywords option to really work.
o Modified the program to default to XMS instead of EMS as a first choice
(This is done because there appear to be a number of TSR programs out
there that don't understand they are supposed to restore the state of the
resources they use to make their operation transparent to other programs.).
InteliCat's use of EMS ***REQUIRES*** that pages it maps in are not mapped
out until it tells the EMM driver to do so. To solve the problem at
default XMS appears to be a better solution for use when possible.
o Fixed keywords to be carried over for files within an archive when
replacing a disk.
o Added the banner to show Switch! is active when the temp file is going
to a disk file.
o Added a display of the file date and the listing file date when the import
utility asks if you want to replace an existing comment/keyword.
o Fixed the DOS Shell to restore the cursor to the way it was before the
shell when the user invokes the shell from something other than an input
prompt.
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Changes made prior to v1.83:
12/15/91
Released v1.83
Modified the archive view functions to once again use non-buffered i/o
(as v1.78 used to). This change was made because the time to expand
archives (i.e. ZIP files) has doubled since v1.78 due to the overhead
involved with the buffering. The non-buffered i/o may be slower under
some multi-tasking environments, but for the majority of users it will be
faster.
12/01/91
Released v1.82
11/30/91
Changed InteliCat to delete usage of comments when a file is deleted (this
change doesn't change most setups, but if you're short on disk space it works
better than the old method of determing deleted comments when the database
is read).
Fixed a few bugs in the registered users upgrade utility that kept the old
field width settings from being moved over when the configuration file is
formatted for v1.8+.
Modified the comment editor to issue a message when you press F10 to save
& advance while on the last file. After the message, pressing a key now
returns you to the menu. Fixed other methods of advancing out of range when
editing comments to cause a beep.
Made cosmetic changes on the report headers to show 'InteliCat'.
Fixed a bug that kept the keyword field width from being honored.
Fixed a minor bug that caused the files time stamp to be displayed wrong by
32 minutes in some cases.
11/17/91
Fixed a bug in the expansion of ARJ archives.
Released v1.81
10/5/91
Due to a naming conflict, v1.8 of my program begins with a new name. From
this point forward, this program will be called InteliCat.
This version is starting with a clean version of this file as
the documenation has been completely rewritten. In short, this version
has the following enhancments over what was previously v1.78:
EMS/XMS can be utilized allowing databases to have 32,000 files.
Advanced selection criteria can now be specified (using logical
operators).
A merge utility has been added to allow combining multiple databases.
Individual files may now be deleted from the database.
Disk names are now treated as non-case sensitive, and an option is
provided to allow you to force all disk names to upper case as
they are added to the database. InteliCat won't accept disk names
that are unique by their case only.
The comment entry screen has been completely reworked to allow
easier input of comments.
The comment import utility has been expanded to allow import of
a greater variety of file/comment listings.
Reworked the options input screens to provide a consistent user
interface. (Also added several new options, and changed the
format of the configuration file. LCNEW - available to registered
users - will upgrade the old format configuration files to the
new format.
InteliCat supports startup in extended VGA/EGA modes.
InteliCat now initializes faster on many computers.
GIF Files are now support as ARChive types.
4DOS descript.ion comment files can be imported automatically.
Many other minor changes help round out the most significant upgrade of
InteliCat to date.