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FileDude 5.3
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WHAT TO DO
Go to the Advanced Settings menu and verify that "Maximum number
of file description lines" is set to ten, if you are using RG
04-05-96 or later.
If you are still using a version prior to 04-05-96, make sure
this field is set to five. When you upgrade to 04-05-96 or
later, make sure you set this field to ten.
THE GOOD STUFF
Fix Fixed a nasty problem with the word wrapping routines. Word
wrapping in FileDude should be much nicer now.
Fix FileDude would choke if the FILES.BBS-type list had exactly
60 characters in the first line of a description. The error
reported was "Str:[](uns)". Submitted by Timothy Phillips.
Add /NOSWAP commandline option. This option turns off swapping
altogether when shelling to DOS and running archivers and
virus scanners.
Fix If FileDude has been continually updating the size of a
file entry of yours, it should do it only once now.
Submitted by Mark Presley.
Mod FileDude now checks the download and upload paths of each
file area before processing it. If either of these two
paths are invalid, FileDude skips the file area, just as it
would if the file area was not accessible due to a SHARE
violation. This prevents FileDude from trashing all the
entries if you're moving directories around, and you
mistyped a path. Submitted by Carl Morris.
Fix FileDude/2 now upper-cases all filenames it reads from
disk, so "hello.txt" is the same file as "HELLO.TXT". Since
RG is a DOS-based BBS software, this method of handling
filenames is consistent with how RG sees lowercase
filenames. Submitted by Marc Weinmann.
Mod User interface goodie: when you hit SPACEBAR to toggle or
untoggle a file area in the Config Areas menu, the
highlight bar automatically moves to the next item.
Submitted by Brian Niegocki.
Fix Clicks of the mouse buttons are picked up better now in the
Processing screen.
Add You can now use the left mouse button to abort in the
Processing screen. Submitted by Heath Hampton.
Fix Garbled ASCII junk at the end of uploaded extended
descriptions.
Add Support for RG 04-05-96 and 10-line descriptions. If you
still want to use FileDude with an older version of RG,
change the "Maximum number of file description lines" in
Advanced Config to 5. For RG 04-05-96, it should be set to
10.
Add BMP type to Archive Config. This allows .BMP files to be
compressed with the "Convert Archives" feature.
Add FileDude now displays the current area it is processing in
the nonscrolling window at the top of the screen. This is
handy when the "Processing [area]" message has scrolled off
the lower window, and you want to know what area a
particular file is being uploaded to. Submitted by
Jennifer Therrien.
Mod When FileDude makes up a .DIR filename for an area in
"Create CD-ROM Areas", it now appends the hexadecimal
CRC-16 of the entire download path instead of the
8-character filename at the end of the download path.
FileDude can now create areas for both \BBS\WINDOWS and
\UTILS\WINDOWS; before, it could not do this. Submitted by
Timothy Phillips.
Fix FileDude now does a case-insensitive search for filenames
in FILES.BBS-type lists. Before, lowercase filenames were
not be found in lists which only had uppercase filenames,
and vice versa. Submitted by Brian Niegocki.
Fix "Create CD-ROM Areas" was not creating areas. It had the
FBASES.DAT open in read-only mode. FileDude now opens the
FBASES.DAT in read/write mode when creating CD-ROM areas.
Submitted by Timothy Phillips.
Add Was FileDude missing some of the files in your CD-ROM
lists?
It seems that there is a semi-wide problem of EMBEDDED
NULLs inside FILES.BBS-type files. This causes problems
when any C/C++ program tries to do a string compare or
substring search, as those functions rely on the NULL
character being the terminator. Basically, these EMBEDDED
NULLs were causing FileDude to prematurely terminate string
searches.
FileDude now eradicates EMBEDDED NULLs upon loading the
FILES.BBS-type list into its buffer.
Fix If a FILES.BBS was imported, and the entry for the first
file on the list was deleted from the .DIR, FileDude would
not reimport the entry.
Fix Plural forms (like %[file/files]) were not being processed
before being written to the SYSOP.LOG (so you would see
both the singular and plural forms.) Submitted by Don
Ludington.
Mod "Stats" display now gives separate and summary statistics
on old files and uploaded (new) files.
Add You can now add a prefix to .DIR names created by the
"Create CD-ROM Areas" feature. That means you can have
NOxxxxxx.DIR files for one CD-ROM, and POxxxxxx.DIR files
for another CD-ROM, etc. Submitted by Timothy Phillips.
Add You can now configure Archive Type and Comment Type in the
"Create CD-ROM Areas" menu. Submitted by Timothy Phillips.
Mod "Create CD-ROM Areas" reorganized.
Mod "Create CD-ROM Areas" will now detect duplicates based on
.DIR names rather than download paths.
Add "Create CD-ROM Areas" now supports both Night Owl's DIRxx
and DIRINFO.ROM formats for a listing of file area
descriptions. FileDude automatically detects these
formats, and the filename of the list is not important.
DIRINFO.ROM format submitted by Timothy Phillips.
Mod The maximum length of the first line of descriptions, used
when FileDude wraps descriptions, now defaults to 50
characters. You can still set this to 60 characters, but
because Renegade now only shows the user the first 50 in a
regular "List Files", it makes no sense for FileDude to
confuse the sysop into thinking its not wrapping
descriptions properly.
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