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┌───────┬────────────────────────────┐
│ 4.10 │ Minor release │
└───────┴────────────────────────────┘
Bug fixes:
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■ Fixed a problem in the wildcard support. XXX.DL would also match the
file XXX.DLL;
■ Fixed some screen layouts and colors in the copyrights;
■ Fixed a problem where the user could supply ESC to the file-selection
during download (and bi-directional download);
■ Fixed a major problem with the FILE_ID.DIZ support in combination
with an exit-program. Though the FILEDOOR.XS3 file seemed ok, FDL
would store trashed entries in FILES.BBS;
■ Fixed some problems with the NOBEEP option. NOBEEP is now also an
option only available to registered users;
■ Fixed problems with the sharing of the DEBUG log. Previously, the log
was not shared. Now it is;
■ Fixed a potential problem with the ANSI settings and removed the ANSI
routines from the overlay (much faster);
■ Fixed a problem with dupe checks in combination with SQZ and the UC2
extensions;
■ Fixed potential problems with SysOp-2-User download that were created
with the FLU program;
■ Fixed potential problems with directories that were not removed after
termination of FDL;
■ Fixed a problem with pre-defined uploads. If the user supplied a name
twice, the second time FDL would FIRST start to search for dupes in
the BBS files areas and then inside memory to see if the name was
supplied before. This is now reversed;
■ Fixed a cosmetic problem in FLU. Some edit-windows contained trash
characters at the end of the edit-line (there was no harm involved
though);
■ Fixed a problem with the creation if FILES.BBS inside FLU;
New/enhanced features:
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■ Added support for the complete range of DISP-compatible wildcards in
FDL and FLU. See chapter 4.6 for a description;
■ Added the NoInternalExtendedWildcard option to switch the support for
the special wildcards OFF (internally). This also means that the user
can not supply special wildcards during file selection;
■ Added CRTL-L (#12) to the *.LAN macro's. When this macro is present,
FDL will clear the screen. Also added code inside FLL to check this
macro;
■ FDL will no longer add CD-ROM areas to the BIMODEM.ARE area-file. The
download from these devices (with programs like BiModem) causes too
many errors;
■ ALT-G would previously show the GOODBYE.Axx file and would disconnect
the user. Now ALT-G will display random 'high' characters (more than
40 of them, looking like line-noice) before the DTR is dropped. The
GOODBYE.A?? screen is no longer displayed;
■ Added options to ADDFILE to make it possible to add certain files for
different baud-rates and security levels. The syntax is backward
compatible, meaning that the old method still works;
■ Added the CheckCATDISKDupes option to make it possible to check all
uploaded files against CATDISK <tm> databases (up to 100);
■ Added the CheckUserDirDupes option to make it possible to check all
uploaded files against one or more (up to 100) different directories
that are not included in the BBS area-file;
■ Added an alternative upload directory to the UPLOADPATH option which
can be used when the original drive gets to crowded;
■ As FDL is still expanding, it consumes still more memory and many of
you now need the overlay version (if you have 450K or less). I have
optimized the default settings of the overlay again. It takes some
extra memory (around 10K) but runs much faster. You can still alter
the memory usage with the help of environment variables;
■ FLU will now ask if a message must be generated or not. The latter is
useful if you generate files for a certain user in a DOS shell while
the user is already on the BBS;
■ Added 2 macros to the FLU message-template. %DESC will be replaced by
the description of the file-set and %FILE will be replaced by the
name(s) of the file(s) that are available for the user;
■ Made it possible to run FLU unattended and/or from the command-line.
Added the -U, -F, -M and -X options for this reason;
■ Made it possible to run FLU unattended within a given period of time.
Added -T options for this reason;