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New for ver. 2.01
Corrected a couple of minor bugs in FFV and SDC.
New for ver. 2.00
Once again the Friendly File Viewer has undergone some
major changes with a more attractive user interface, an
easier to read help section and more features. The directory
screens of SDC and SDL have been changed to match the new format
of FFV. The PDQCFG environment variable has been replaced with
a configuration file and colors can now be configured from
within FFV.
The Slick Directory Changer will now give you an opportunity
to rescan your drive if it fails to locate a directory. You
can also rescan from the directory screen by pressing F1. If
you wish PATH.SDC to reside on a drive other than C you can set
the evironment variable SDCROOT to the letter of the desired
drive.
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:
SET SDNOSCAN=D
More than one drive can be specified if you want to lock
out other drives such as network drives.
New for ver. 1.40
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.
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.
The escape key can now be used to terminate searches when
using GFF and to interrupt scans when using SDC.
Handling of switches and options has been improved in all
utilities.
New for ver. 1.31
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.
New for ver. 1.30
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.
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.
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.
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.
Last but not least FFV has a new option to switch your
display adaptor to extended text modes. The format is
ffv -n filename
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.
Gerald M. Vrooman
Chenango Shoreware