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WHAT'S.NEW
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RELEASE 3.3
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03/19/89
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SCOUT will now display the directories of .PAK and .ZIP files in
addition to displaying .ARC file contents.
02/18/89
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RUNFILE will now drop you off back in the default (base) directory if
you answer no to the query "Return to SCOUT (Y/N)?". Added a keyboard
flush routine to prevent undesired keystrokes being processed by SCOUT
when returning from RUNFILE.
02/04/89
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Improved the Ctrl-X/Alt-X program menus by increasing the number of
programs on the menu from 6 to 10 and by adding a special utility
program (CTRL-X) to configure the menu with any ten programs
desired. The difference between the Ctrl-X menu and the "\" menu is
that the programs on the Ctrl-X menu only need reside in a directory
identified in the DOS PATH statement. You can execute a program
from the Ctrl-X menu with a cursor over a specific file and pass that
file name as a command line program to the program being called.
01/28/89
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Another fix made to the memory allocation display ("W" command)
function.
01/25/89
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Added command line switch ('X' or 'x') to disable checking for call
from DOS when executing programs. If this check is disabled, SCOUT
will attempt to call RUNFILE.COM even if you are in an applications
program, which will dump an unwanted string into the program.
01/22/89
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Fixed catalog update ("S" command) to scan only valid fixed drives.
01/17/89
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Added Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) checking to the file copy modes.
^C will permit enabling or disabling CRC checking during file copying.
The CRC checking default can be set to ON at runtime by placing a "C"
(or "c") on the command line, i.e., SCOUT c. The feature that uses a
CGA memory for data storage is now enabled with a "U" (or "u") on the
command line.
Fixed bug in memory allocation report routine that caused system hang-up
on some machines.
Fixed bug in file browse routine that occurred when viewing files larger
than 64K. The browse routine is now limited to 400 pages of 23 lines
each. Since line lengths can vary widely, there is no way to determine
just how large a file can be fully browsed. Therefore the number of
pages is limited to 400 and when that limit is reached, SCOUT will show
END OF FILE even though the actual end of the file has not been reached.
04/29/88
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SCOUT now supports formatting of both 5 1/4 and 3 1/2 inch floppy drives.
Both 720K and 1.4M 3 1/2" floppy formatting is supported. In addition,
SCOUT no longer restricts the formatting to drives A and/or B. Any floppy
drive in your system may be formatted. If a hard disk drive designator is
entered by mistake, SCOUT will report a formatting error and exit the
formatting routine. No damage will be done to the hard disk as a result.
The only restriction is that SCOUT will format high density (1.2M and 1.4M)
disks only in dual density drives that support high density formatting.
You may now elect to have the changes you make by running CONFIG.COM
become effective immediately. CONFIG will update SCOUT in RAM and you
will be given the opportunity to go back pop-up SCOUT, test the changes you
made, and go back to the main CONFIG menu if you want to make more changes.
There are two new items on the CONFIG.COM main menu. Item K, Set CGA snow
avoidance, toggles the check for CGA snow on or off as desired. Item L,
Set floppy drive parameters, configures SCOUT to format your floppy disks.
Item L is used to set SCOUT to properly format your floppy disk
drives. SCOUT uses BIOS calls to effect a format of a floppy
disk drive, not DOS. The BIOS only recognizes up to 4 floppy
drives and numbers them from 0 (A) to 3 (D). It is up to you
configure SCOUT so that it will properly format the type of drives
you have in your system. Many systems will have 2 floppy drives,
one as DOS drive A (BIOS drive 0) and a second as drive B (BIOS
drive 1). In most AT (or AT clone) systems, drive A is a dual
density drive that is capable of formatting both 360K and 1.2M
diskettes. Some AT systems have a normal single density 5 1/4"
drive as drive B and some systems have a 3 1/2" drive as drive
B. When you select item L from the main CONFIG.COM menu, you
will be shown the current SCOUT settings. All systems will have
some type of floppy drive as drive A (BIOS drive 0). In order
to properly enter the settings, you MUST know how your system
BIOS is addressing the drives in your system. Normally, using
BIOS 0 (DOS drive A) and BIOS 1 (DOS drive B) will suffice. All
that will be necessary in this case is to answer the prompts to
set the size (5 1/4" or 3 1/2") and the density (SINGLE or DUAL)
for each drive. Some systems with an add-on 3 1/2" drive are
non-standard. For example, I know of one system with a 3 1/2"
drive that is accessed via DOS as drive E: and yet the BIOS treats
it as drive 3. If you designate a drive as DUAL density, SCOUT
will prompt you (when you attempt a format) to indicate whether
you are formatting a low or high density disk. In a 5 1/4" drive,
this will be either a 360K (low) or 1.2M (high) disk. In a 3 1/2"
drive, this will be a 720K (low) or 1.4M (high) disk. If your
drive does not support high density formatting and you attempt a
high density format, the format will fail. Be sure you don't
trick SCOUT. Once you have set the floppy drive parameters for
your system, there will be no need to change them unless you add
or replace a drive.
05/15/88
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Added a new command. Alt-V will verify a floppy disk. This function
works exactly like the FORMAT function except that it verifies a
diskette instead of formatting it. This type of verification is
NOT a read/write verification nor does it verify the data on the disk.
It verifies that sectors can be read and that the CRC checksum for
each sector is correct.
03/01/89
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The SCOUT package now contains a utility named CTRLX.EXE. This
utility is executed in the same directory that SCOUT.000 is
located and allows re-configuration of the Ctrl-X (alternate
program exectution menu);
03/30/89
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SCOUT will now display the directory listing of PKWare ZIP (.ZIP)
and LHARC (.LZH) files as well as for ARC files. In additon,
SCOUT will display the contents of LHARC created .COM or .EXE
self-extracting files.