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Revision History of FIPS
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Version 0.9 beta - november 7, 1993
- Save files on floppy (root and boot sector) are not overwritten -
there may be up to ten save files on a disk.
- Verbose error messages are now displayed by default, -verbose switch
has been removed.
- A minor error resulting in a 'division by zero' error with some invalid
bootsectors has been corrected
Version 0.8 beta - july 23, 1993
- A minor correction to the documentation
- No changes in the program from version 0.3. This is the first beta re-
lease. It is intended to be available to a wider audience.
Version 0.3 alpha - june 8, 1993
- FIPS is now completely translated to C++ (for easier maintenance and
programming experience)
- Explanation of the calculation of the new starting cylinder improved
- FIPS was reported to work with Stacker and SuperStor
Version 0.2.2 alpha - may 26, 1993 (not publicly released)
- partition table reordering improved - non-dos partitions remain in their
slots
- all necessary header files now included (sorry about that, my compiler
does not complain about missing prototypes)
Version 0.2.1 alpha - may 5, 1993 (not publicly released)
- bugfix: minimal cylinder number for start of new partition now calculated
correctly on drives with 16 sectors per cluster
- some improvements/simplifications to the code
Version 0.2 alpha - april 27, 1993
- added commandline switches to override certain error messages and
use FIPS non-interactively
- test mode without writing added
- debug mode added (writes a session transcript + additional info to a file)
- more informative error messages
- display of verbose error messages may be selected
- error checking is now more 'dos-like' (more unusual configurations
accepted)
- possibility to reedit the partition table without restarting the program
- added the number of megabytes to the partition table display
- now works correctly with drives that only have one free partition
- now supports more than two harddisks on a PC
- some minor fixes
Version 0.1 alpha - april 12, 1993
Initial Release