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- REVISION HISTORY
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- Version 1: First release - May 1991
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- Version 2: Internal
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- - Added F10 shortcut to quit editing.
- - Added <Esc> to return directly to program.
- - May now cursor up/down through fields while editing.
- - Added the ability to specify a database on the command line.
- - Added <Esc> to Quit via keyboard.
- - Added the "Add a Record" menu item.
- - Bug fixes.
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- Version 3: Internal, September 1991
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- - Added the "Display Entire Database" and "Display Matching
- Records" menu items.
- - Add "Print Matching Records" menu item.
- - Changing the maximum number of records was causing crashes.
- Hard-coded maximum at 600 records, and alloted memory
- accordingly.
- - Added the -s and -f command line options.
- - Changed colors to make the screen more readable.
- - Added the Progress Bar.
- - Changed the sort algorithm from Bubble to Shell. Much faster.
- - More bug fixes.
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- Version 4: Internal, October 1991
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- - Can now go directly to a record from the "Display Entire
- Database" and "Display Matching Records" windows, by clicking
- on it.
- - Field Titles now stay neater after being changed.
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- Version 5.0: 77172 bytes. Released November 1991
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- - The Sort algorithm is now case independent.
- - Added the Low Memory Warning.
- - Bad bug: If the database was sorted decrementally, on a field
- which was blank in some records, and a record was deleted,
- one record's data would become corrupted. Now fixed.
- - When Displaying Entire Database, or Matching Records, you can
- now back up, and display the Previous Page.
- - Still more bug fixes.
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- Version 5.3: 98544 bytes. Released January 1992
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- - Added hardcopy print-out options.
- - Added support for mailing labels.
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- Version 5.31: 99448 bytes. Limited Release, April 1992
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- - A 1000 record version of 5.3, with some bugs fixed.
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- Version 5.32: 98764 bytes. Released May 1992
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- - A bug in V5.3 would crash the program if the default of 9
- fields was accepted, while Creating a New Database. Corrected.
- - Using the "-f" switch would sometimes cause an "Illegal
- Function Error". Corrected by requiring an "!" to be placed
- at the end of the filename.
- - In an attempt to eliminate extraneous characters, the Input
- Requester would not allow input of characters > Ascii 126.
- Without thinking, I was hampering European users.
- Ascii values of 140-255 are now also accepted.
- - When using the Print Displayed Record (F8) option, the first
- line of the database was sometimes being printed 4-6 characters
- to the left of the requested column. At other times, a blank
- line was inserted first, before printing the remainder
- correctly. These problems have been corrected.
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- Version 5.4: Limited Release, June 1992
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- - Added the option to print the database to a file as well as to
- the printer, and changed the selectors in the Print Options
- Window from mutually exclusive, to "toggle" selectors.
- - A "Device Unavailable" error was generated in V5.32 if, in the
- Print Options Window, "Help" was selected just before a request
- to "Print". Finger trouble - corrected.
- - An "Error #9" was generated in the Print Options Window, if an
- attempt was made to print in "aligned" mode when the database
- had very few fields. More finger trouble - corrected.
- - Changed the print-out in option "Block - 2 across" to include
- the Field Titles along with the database contents. This
- required changing the print mode from Elite (96 characters per
- line) to Condensed (136 characters per line).
- - Added a new item to the Print Menu, to allow a record to be
- copied to a file. I would have prefered to copy it to the
- Clipboard, but since I don't know how, I settled for this.
- - Added a new item to the Delete Menu, to allow a selected Field
- Title, and the contents of that field in ALL records of the
- database, to be blanked in one operation.
- - Added three items to the Change Menu, to allow the contents of
- a data field, and the title, to be swapped with another field,
- (IE. fields 3 and 7 may now change places in the database), and
- to allow a new field to be added to the database, or to delete
- the last field from the database.
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- Version 5.5: 117400 bytes. Released July 20, 1992
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- - Added "Range Search" capability: <, >, =<, and =>.
- - Added the ability to store a 1K+ "Note" along with each record.
- Storage capacity of each record is now increased by 270%.
- Databases made for Versions 3 through 5.4 are now not
- compatible with V5.5, but may be easily made compatible just
- by running the enclosed "Convert" program.
- - Any field may now be added to or deleted from the database.
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- The files comprising the Version 5.5 package should include:
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- Filename Bytes Description
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- .info 111
- bBase.doc 31426 Doc file suitable for reading
- bBase.doc.info 2564
- bBaseII 117400 The executable program
- bBaseII.info 938
- bBase_printme.doc 33129 Doc file suitable for printing
- bBase_printme.doc.info 2564
- Convert 31400 Convert databases to 5.5 format
- Convert.info 938
- IMPORTANT_Readme 2161 Information file
- IMPORTANT_Readme.info 348
- Note_to_Version1_Users 2436 Information file
- Note_to_Version1_Users.info 348
- Note_to_Version5.3_Users 1273 Information file
- Note_to_Version5.3_Users.info 348
- Recipes.bbase 3771 An example database
- Revision_History 6745 This file
- Revision_History.info 510
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- Plus the bBase5.5.LZH file.
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