BCI NET/BCI NET Dec 94.iso/archives/utilities/text/port-426.lha/Port.History

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Port History
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V1.00  29-Jan-93
- First release.

V1.01  31-Jan-93
- Fixed the mistakes in documentation.
- Support for more PC box drawing characters in PC->Amiga mode.

V1.10  05-Feb-93
- Endspace removal.
- Progress indicator.

V1.13  06-Feb-93
- Shows some information relating to the size change of the textfile in the
  end of conversion.
- No longer gives useless linefeeds on error messages etc.
- Strips CRs from the source during Amiga->PC conversion to avoid multiple
  CRs.

V1.16  10-Feb-93
- Pre-translation check in PC-> Amiga mode, resulting in
  25% speedup.
- Translation of 6 new box characters in PC-> Amiga.
- New helptext design, thanks to Toni Rantala for suggesting this and
  designing the preview for it.

V1.22  19-Feb-93
- The upper- and lowercase modes.
- Tab conversion to spaces.
- Redesigned documentation.
- Support for 3 new PC box characters.
- Space conversion to tabs.
- A bug fixed in which spaces in the end of the commandline confused Port
  and caused an error.

V1.24  21-Feb-93
- Code compressed and cleaned up.
- Bug fixed where "spaces to tabs" didn't work right when no spacesize was
  specified.
- Now checks for conflicting options.
- Quiet option added.

V1.25  12-Mar-93
- I noticed that if the converted block exceeds twice the original, some
  serious memory corruption will occur. This never happened to me, but it
  would if you tried converting 1024 consecutive tabs to 9 spaces each.
  (The worst possible case.) But even this can now be done without
  problems.
- A new conversion method was adapted for PC->Amiga, now adding new
  characters won't considerably add to the size of Port.
- Buffered input.  Huh, hope you enjoy it.
- ^C detection.
- Doesn't touch PowerPacker data files.
- 9 new characters added to PC-> Amiga. Right now Port knows how to handle
  nearly 40 non-ASCII characters in this mode.
- Now removes any LF's from the end of the file.
- No longer translates one space to a tab.

V1.28  19-Mar-93
- Code rationalized reducing the size of Port.
- Bugfix: Some bytes got cut off from the beginning of textfile if it's
  size was less that 4 bytes.
- Bugfix: Amiga->PC mode didn't form CR+LF pairs as it should have in
  V1.25. Same with Amiga->SF7.
- Most of the modes now use a table-conversion system.
- Priorities changed for endspace removal and translation. This fixes the
  bug where end-LF's didn't get removed if there were nulls or ^Z's etc.
- No longer triggers anything from CR's.
- Added: Make EOLs option.
- Added: Automatic mode.

V1.30  27-Mar-93
- Added: 13 new PC characters.
- Can no longer convert 1 space to a tab. This made no sense anyway since
  one space doesn't turn into a tab.

V1.37  30-Apr-93
- Added: Full PC->Amiga character support. ($80-$FF)
- Added: Automatically tries for various suffixes if sourcefile isn't
  found.
- Added: OnlyASCII mode.
- Added: Can use a directory as a destination, which causes the file to be
  written there.
- Changed texts.
- Improved the code.
- Bugfix: Slight flickering of various texts fixed.
- Bugfix: Endspace removal left a space after some lines when SpacesToTabs
  was on.

V1.38  19-May-93
- Bugfix: A small bug in commandline handling caused big problems. (65535
  bytes big to be exact. =) )
- Bugfix: Crashes happening in error situations fixed, they were caused by
  improper stack handling.

V1.39  4-Jun-93
- Bugfix: FromPC translation table was quite messed up, fixed it. I also
  made some better choices in character translation to match the original
  better.
- Bugfix: FromPC didn't remove CRs as it should've.
- Bugfix: ToPC and ToSF7 didn't work, mode was always FromPC.

V1.46  12-Sep-93
- Bugfix: Many accented characters didn't have the accents in FromPC until
  now, FINALLY, the FromPC SHOULD be as good as it will get.
- Now in ToPC or ToSF7, MakeEOLs also adds a CR.
- Better translation of PC corner characters.
- Uppercase and Lowercase modes should now support ALL characters.
- Code much improved, should now be safer.
- Disables break when converting to same file.
- Text output buffered == much faster.
- Output overflow buffering, Port now converts 10K at a time, and then
  flushes the output buffer.

V2.00 R417  26-Jun-94
- Changed a lot of internal things, and as a result, Port V2.00 is around
  twice as fast as V1.46.
- Wildcard support.
- Both 68000 and 68020 versions.
- Automatic decrunching of PowerPacked files.
- Documentation changed to AmigaGuide format.
- Sync'ed progress information, rate user adjustable.
- Added a combined PC-SF7 mode.
- Allocation of buffers based on free memory.
- Automatic packing of output file using PowerPacker or LhA format.
- Full Amiga->PC character support.
- A preferences file for all options.
- SF7 also converts å & Å characters.
- InterNet header & ANSI strippers.
- Dropped Quiet option, it really didn't affect anything.
- Dropped Automatic mode, since it was very unreliable.
- Progress information looks a lot better.
- Port is now assembled using PhxAss, with all optimizations on.
- Plus a lot of other small optimizations, changes and bug fixes.

V2.00 R422  17-Jul-94
- Bugfix: ToSF7 didn't translate 'å' & 'Å'.

V2.00 R426  01-Aug-94
- Bugfix: When converting on the original file, stack was mangled while
  writing.
- Bugfix: Null files caused Port to abort with error "not enough memory",
  now they are quietly skipped.