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FileDude 5.3 What's New
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FileDude 5.3 released
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See the WHATS.NEW file.
FileDude 5.2 released
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WHAT TO DO
Delete your FILEDIZ.DAT and VIRSCAN.DAT files and any files
ending with the .SWP extension in your FileDude directory.
Make sure to use the new FORMATS.DAT contained in this package.
THE GOOD STUFF
Add Added time slicing for Desqview, Windows 3.x, OS/2 2.0,
OS/2 2.1, and OS/2 3.0 to the DOS version of FileDude.
Add A few undocumented MCI codes from FileDude 5.1:
%FC 6 BODYINFO.ASC Number of credits required for
file
%FD 8 BODYINFO.ASC Date of file entry
BODY.ASC
EXTBODYx.ASC
%F9 6 BODYINFO.ASC Number of downloads of a file
The BODYINFO.ASC comes right after any BODY.ASC or
EXTBODYx.ASC lines.
In FileDude 5.1, the %FD was only valid in the
BODYINFO.ASC.
Change FileDude no longer lets you "Pack the EXTENDED.DAT" if
you have not tagged ALL file areas for processing.
Add "Fix Date" will now fix entry dates which are more
recent than "today's" date. i.e. 01/01/99 will be fixed
if you run FileDude on 01/01/95.
Fix Date stamping on file entries now works properly.
Before, new files might show up for up to 5 days after
they were uploaded by FileDude. Yikes!
Fix FileDude now resets the color of the DOS prompt to
LIGHTGRAY upon exiting -- even if you run with /NOMENU.
Fix CD-ROM Format associations went haywire if you pressed
PgUp or PgDn. Fixed now.
Fix FileDude would croak on blank first-line descriptions
when doing CD-ROM/FILES.BBS imports.
Fix FileDude would create empty TEMPLATE directories if you
ran it from somewhere other than its home directory. It
also would not correctly move the template files if you
ran it off a different drive. Fixed. Submitted by Carl
Morris.
Fix The first entry starting on the first line of a
FILES.BBS is now imported. Submitted by Carl Morris.
Change FILEDUDE.LOG streamlined; got rid of unnecessary
"Processing [AREA]" statements. Idea submitted by Carl
Morris.
Fix If FileDude packed one of its .DAT files while on a
different drive than its home directory, an error would
occur. Fixed.
Fix FileDude no longer packs its AREACFG.DAT an infinite
number of times whenever you add or delete a file area
near the beginning of the list.
Change Rewrote error-handling routines, so you get a more
useful message, and the error messages to FILEDUDE.LOG
are more uniform.
Fix The descriptions associated with padded filenames in a
FILES.BBS were not imported correctly, resulting in a
strange "P " in front of the description. Fixed.
Submitted by Carl Morris.
Add Added "FileDude will be running inside a window" option
to the Advanced Config menu. This option, when toggled
on, will force FileDude to always update the ACTUAL
position of the cursor. This positioning of the cursor
allows for easier viewing inside a DV, OS/2, or Windows
window (less than full-screen.) Submitted by Carl
Morris.
Add The FILEDUDE.LOG file will now be erased and started
over every time it reaches 64k.
Add FileDude has new grammar skills. In all template files,
you can now have FileDude choose between a singular or
plural form of a word. For example: %F3
%[directory/directories] This example will choose either
"directory" or "directories", depending on the value of
the %F3 code. 0 is considered plural. Inspired by Amit
Patel.
Add FileDude's new grammar skills extended to the "Stats"
display at the end of processing.
Fix Fixed the error when FileDude tried to upload a filelist
to a .DIR that was not accessible due to SHARE.
FileDude will now simply tell the user that it cannot
upload the filelist.
Fix FileDude no longer deletes the actual file when it
encounters a duplicate entry in the same area as the
original entry. The format of FILEDIZ.DAT and
VIRSCAN.DAT and the .SWP files was changed to make this
possible. Submitted by Daniel Osborn.
Add "Set Hatch Flag" option added to the Misc menu. This
option instructs FileDude to set the hatch flag on for
file entries which are uploaded or updated by FILES.BBS.
Submitted by Carl Morris.
Add "Auto Virus Validate" option added to the Misc menu.
This option, to be used in conjunction with "Set Hatch
Flag", instructs FileDude to automatically consider all
entries with the hatch flag ON to be free of viruses.
You only need to process the files with this option once
for it to take effect. Running it more than once will
not harm it, though. This option is intended to avoid
redudant virus checks when running a .TIC -> FILES.BBS
manager which does virus checking. Submitted by Carl
Morris.
Change Because the Misc menu was getting so big, all
filelist-related options have been moved to a brand new
menu called [gasp] the Filelist menu. The Misc menu has
also be reorganized.
Add "Process New Areas" option added to the Misc menu. This
option instructs FileDude to automatically place checks
next to new areas in the Area Config menu. In other
words, this option tells FileDude to scan for new areas
and add them to the processing list on the next run.
This option only affects the current config; the new
areas will not be automatically processed by other
configurations unless their "Process New Areas" flags
are toggled on. Submitted by Michael Glenn.
Add "Only List New Files" option added to the Filelist menu.
This option instructs FileDude to only include newly
uploaded files on the generated filelist. The number of
days limit for what is considered "new" is defined in
the Basic Config menu.
Fix FileDude would sometimes have an error if a FILEDIZ.DAT
was greater than 16,384 bytes and was not a multiple of
16,384. The problem was not as stupid as it sounds --
it was very interesting, in fact -- but the details are
"beyond the scope of this document." Submitted by Nick
Amento.
Add "Information" static window added to menu screen.
Inspired by Carl Morris (and his illogical need to know
which config he's working on...)
Fix FileDude now corre