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- CD ROM drives have come down in price and have increased
- in popularity since the last version of PDQ. SDC can take up
- to twenty minutes to scan a CD ROM drive because of the low
- speed and high capacity of this device. If you don't have
- the patience to wait for SDC to scan your CD ROM drive
- (I don't) you can lock it out with the SDNOSCAN environment
- variable. To do this, set SDNOSCAN to the letter of the drive
- that you want SDC to ignore. For example, if you want SDC to
- ignore drive D put the following line in your AUTOEXEC.BAT
- file:
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- SET SDNOSCAN=D
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- More than one drive can be specified if you want to lock
- out other drives such as network drives.
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- New for ver. 1.40
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- 1. The Friendly File Viewer has been completely reworked. It
- will now handle files containing over 150,000 lines depending
- on available memory. Pressing F5 will allow you to read in a
- new file from the main program and and pressing F5 from the
- directory screen will allow you to change the file mask. Line
- numbers can be displayed by pressing F6.
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- I have also added several command line switches. The /w
- switch will cause FFV to wrap lines in all modes, not just 40
- column modes. While adding this switch I discovered that the
- line wrap subroutine did not expand tabs correctly. This has
- now been fixed. I have added a /f switch to handle redirected
- input and a /b switch to use the BIOS when displaying pages.
- This last is identical to the "B" setting of PDQCFG.
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- 2. The escape key can now be used to terminate searches when
- using GFF and to interrupt scans when using SDC.
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- 3. Handling of switches and options has been improved in all
- utilities.
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- New for ver. 1.31
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- 1. The 40 column line wrap feature in the previous version
- had some problems with scrolling accurately. Each 40 column
- segment is now treated as a separate line and the line number
- at the bottom of the screen will reflect this.
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- New for ver. 1.30
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- 1. FFV has received more improvements and will now configure
- itself to use available memory. This means that FFV can
- run on a system as small as 192k and handle files as large
- as 65500 lines on 384k and larger systems. FFV has also
- been given another increase in speed and is much faster than
- previous versions.
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- When using F4 to display the directory, the previously
- selected file if any will be highlighted. This seems to
- work better than resetting to the begining of the directory
- each time.
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- If a string search fails you will now be returned to your
- previous position in the file instead of being left at the
- end of the file.
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- FFV can now search back through the file for a previous
- occurence of the search string. To invoke this command you
- can use either a "?" or F9 as in LIST.
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- Last but not least FFV has a new option to switch your
- display adaptor to extended text modes. The format is
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- ffv -n filename
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- where n is the actual number of the mode in decimal. To
- save you grief in converting from hex to decimal I have
- listed common mode numbers in the DOC's. FFV can even
- handle CGA 40 column modes although the help screen is
- not available in these modes. Lines will be automatically
- wrapped in 40 column modes.
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- Gerald M. Vrooman
- Chenango Shoreware
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