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Ver 1.0 -5600 lines of code
-A few minor display bugs fixed.
-Welcome screen changed.
-Fixed bug in the Dupe Search function where the files.bbs
was not saved if the search began from the second window.
-Added another feature to Dupe Search.
-Fixed a bug in Dupe Search, the second file list was always
sorted whether you wanted it or not.
-Dupe Search is now much faster.
-Cosmetic fixes for the menus.
Ver 1.01 -5850 lines of code
-Added Lora support
-If you removed too many descriptions or deleted too many
files at the end of a files.bbs, you could no longer scroll
up but pressing home still worked.
-It was impossible to open up a file area if a files.bbs did
not exist. Now fixed
-Inserting a new file description at the top of an empty
files.bbs caused a few problems. Now fixed.
-Fixed a bug in the dupe search that could cause MaxFile/2 to
go into a CPU hogging cycle that would cause it to hog a lot
of memory before dying (after a couple of minutes) during
which it cannot be killed by any means other than the three
fingered salute.
-Stripped the symbol table in the distribution which reduced
the size of the executable by about 30k. MaxFile/2 is now
about 126k in the distribution as compared to 280k for the
debugging version and 156k for the previous release. Very
small for the power of the app.
-Fixed small display bug so that an extra character can be
displayed on each line. I know, big deal... But, it is
fixed (and noone other than I noticed it was broken! :-)
Ver 1.02 -6050 lines of code
-Added support for SBBS.
-Added a little more threading at startup
-Read only files can now be displayed in a different color.
Ver 1.03 -6050 lines of code
-Cleaned up the "contents" window.
-Fixed a small bug in description editor.
Ver 1.04 -6700 lines of code
-Added support for a "generic" bbs
-Extracting file_id.diz now handles extended ascii codes a
little bit better now (high ascii changed to ' ', and any
sub string ' ' is replaced by ' ').
-Added several command line options for nightly maintinence:
Create allfiles list, adopt orphans in ALL areas, use
file_id.diz for every file in every area when the
file_id.diz exists in the archive, and sort the files in
every file area by name.
-Comments and offline files are now marked as read-only
(undeleteable)
-Allowed for both European or American format for the date.
-Reduced the total memory required for MaxFile/2. This is
especially apparent when large file areas are considered.
-Many of the Hot-keys did not work... Now fixed.
-Cleaned up some code for the area selection window.
Ver 1.05 -6700 lines of code
-Added support for extended file descriptions as used in some
BBS systems such as Lora and SuperBBS. FILE_ID.DIZ is now
read in as an extended description (no changes to the string
at all except to add the extended description character.)
Maximum description length is limited to 1024 chars.
Ver 1.06 -6400 lines of code
-Accidentally left some debugging code in for extracting the
file_id.diz for version 1.05... Sorry about that! :-|
-Tightened up a *LOT* of the code (reduction of 300 lines!)
-Bug fix: If there were not any files in a file area and one
hit alt-F/E, MaxFile/2 would not exit as it should.
Now fixed. Thanks Harald Finnaas for finding this
one!
-Delete key would not work for editing descriptions, only the
backspace key would work. Now, both work.
-The file maintinance utility is now run after adopting all
files in the nightly maintinance if you have autofbp set to
yes in the config file.
Ver 1.07 -6700 lines of code
-Bug Fix: When switching from a non-wrapped to wrapped
display MaxFile/2 would occationally get confused
and not allow scrolling until a page up/down or
home/end key was pressed. Fixed.
-Bug Fix: When moving a large number (20+) files from one
area to another area whose window was open, a core
dump could occur. Fixed.
-Bug Fix: full pathnames were broken, not sure how long they
have been broken but they now work again.
-Allfiles list is now a bit nicer looking.
-If you select a range of files and then select sort, just that
range will be sorted. If no files are selected, the entire
list is sorted (comments excluded).
-Bug Fix: Video corruption could occur if moving alot of
files and line wrapping was on.
-Sorting has been speeded up. Will also be reflected in the
dupe search function.
-Bug Fix: When adopting files, the 14th file's read-only
attribute was changed to the attribute of the last
adopted file.
-Bug Fix: Forgot to clean up some temporary files when using
the external editor for extended file descriptions
-Added the ability to locate a text string in the file base
(Similar to Max's Locate) It is IMHO relatively slow but it
works
-A few minor enhancements in the general look and feel of
MaxFile/2
Ver 1.08 -6750 lines of code
-Bug Fix: MaxFile/2 would always core dump after
re-archiving. Fixed.
-Bug Fix: The dupe search would not find some of the dupes.
This has been fixed as well as the dupe search was
speeded up some.
-Bug Fix: Attempting to re-archive more than one file at once
resulted in failure. Fixed.
-Bug Fix: The 4-line error message windows often did not
display properly
-Added a config verb to allow either a vertical split for the
two windows or a horizontal split
Ver 1.09 7200 lines of code
-Bug Fix: Pressing home unmarks any marked files
-If you try to delete a file that is not deleteable, the
description is now removed anyway (due to popular request).
-Pressing END now brings one to the actual end of the file
list. Before, it would only display the last 4 files or so.
The same is true of pressing the pagedown key
-When sorting the file areas, the selection is no longer
moved to the top of the file list. It is left in (relatively)
the same position
-Bug Fix: When deleting a file, sometimes a the selection
would be moved up by two slots rather than one.
-Added a hot key for file->repOsition
-Added ability to have a different colour for the word
COMMENT so that one doesn't confuse them with offline files.
-Bug Fix: Delete key now works properly. Pressing Backspace
deletes the character to the left of the cursor and
moves the cursor left one space where pressing
delete deletes the character where the cursor is.
This is for when you edit strings...
-Added the ability to use the keys HOME and END when editing
strings. These keys bring the cursor to the begining or end
of the description.
-If autofbp is set to NO, then the file runfbp.cmd is created
in the present directory. This is a .cmd file that will
execute the file base management that would have been
performed if autofbp were set to YES.
-Bug Fix: Lora file database program would be run, even if no
files.bbs were modified. Now fixed.
-Whenever an area is to be selected (for a move or changing
the area), the window now comes up with the present area
selected.
-When moving a file and a file of the same name already
exists in the target directory, the date and size of both
files are displayed.
-Added ability to rename files
-Exit under the file menu now uses the key 'X' rather than
'E'
-Added ability to insert comments directly through the
description menu rather than forcing one to go through the
file menu and insert a file with the name "comments"
-Bug Fix: When inserting a file, the read only attribute was
not properly set.
-Bug Fix: Fixed an occational display problems when resizing a
window.
-Bug Fix: Sometimes, the adopt files option would adopt some
files that were already in the file list. Fixed.
-Bug Fix: The "-sort" command line option would core dump.
Fixed.
-Bug Fix: All command line options failed in version 1.08.
Fixed.
-When deleting or moving files, a window is created that
allows you to remove files from the list of files to be
either moved or deleted.
-Bug Fix: Adopt Orphans broke in version 1.08, now fixed.
-Bug Fix: If the path for the system info was longer than 20
characters, odd errors could happed (prepending
of strange data to the files.bbs line, core dumps
and other strange behaviour...)
-Bug Fix: If a files.bbs did not exist, then the reported
size of the files in that area did not change to
0k. Fixed.
-Added a different colour option for offline files as opposed
to read only files.
-Added a method to eliminate certain file areas from the
allfiles list.
Ver 1.10 -7500 lines of code
-Bug Fix: If you sorted files, the readonly/offline
attributes did not follow the files. Fixed.
-Bug Fix: If no files were selected for operation (move,
delete, ...) then, MaxFile/2 would become unstable
and eventually core dump.
-Bug Fix: If a file collision was detected on a move, the
window displaying the two different files with
their sizes and dates was displayed incorrectly
-Added keyboard macros. Now there are up to 8 user definable
keys that will run external programs on the selected files.
Two sample REXX scripts are also included.
Ver 1.11 -7600 lines of code
-Bug Fix: Sorry guys. Again, the command line options were
somewhat screwed up. Now they work.
-removed some of the information displayed after re-archiving
a(some) file(s)
-Bug Fix: In v1.10, the cleanup of the re-archiving broke. It
has, of course, now been fixed.
-Added a config variable to wrap or not wrap descriptions by
default.
-Bug Fix: Fixed some mysterious core dumps that occured.
-Added a config variable to strip or not strip the high ascii
characters as the user desires.
-The FILE_ID.DIZ is now read in completely, no truncation.
-The internal description editor now allows much longer
strings to be edited. This should help those running BBS
systems that allow long descriptions but don't use an
extended description character or those who want the entire
file_id.diz extracted even though the Max user cannot read
all of it (except in allfiles lists). Note that if you try
to edit a string longer than possible, the string is simply
truncated at the appropriate position.
-Maximum number of extensions for adoption was raised to 25
-On a file collision, the window giving information on the
two files still needed to be cleaned up a bit and has been
done so.
-Cleaned up the select area code some. Should look a bit
better now.
-Bug Fix: After re-archiving a file, the file list now
displays the size of the re-archived file rather
than the size of the old archive.
-Re-archiving is now done in a minimized window rather than
in a background window
-Bug Fix: <alt-F>->insert caused a core dump, not sure how
long this has been broken but it is now fixed.
-Bug Fix: After renaming a file (or attempting to do so) the
selected entry was not highlighted as it was
supposed to be. Fixed
Ver 1.12 -7900 lines of code
-Bug Fix/enhancement: Wildcards are now accepted in the
files.bbs.
-Bug Fix: When renaming a file, the fully qualified file
name was written to the files.bbs rather than just
the file name. Fixed.
-Bug Fix: When a files.bbs included a fully qualified file
name, the file was ocationally indicated as
being off-line when in fact it was there. Fixed.
-Bug Fix: When removing a description, the highlight marker
was moved upwards two files for every description
that was removed. Fixed.
-Bug Fix: After editing a description with an external
editor, and extra space was written out to the
files.bbs after that description.
-Bug Fix: Added a bit more error trapping.
-Bug Fix: When extracting a file_id.diz with a defined
extended description character, the file_id.diz
is read in as is with the correct carriage returns
to display as the file_id.diz author intended.
-This file (the HISTORY) was trimmed to only include releases
that were a non-beta variety.
-Bug Fix: If a file rename failed, then the rename window
displayed the failed file name rather than the
original file name. Fixed.
-Bug Fix: When extracting a file_id.diz, MaxFile/2 would at
times core dump if the resulting file description
exceeded 1000 characters. Fixed.
-Bug Fix: Fixed some problems that were encountered with
really long descriptions.
-Bug Fix: If the last description was larger than the window
size and one scrolled down to the end, pressing
the down arrow could cause MaxFile/2 to become
unstable and core dump.
-Bug Fix: Tracked down and mashed some annoying pointer
bugs.
-Several minor cosmetic improvements.
-Bug Fix: Avantar graphics are now (I think) handled
properly
-Bug Fix: If the defined picture viewer did not lie in the
path and the full path was defined in maxfile.cfg,
MaxFile/2 could not run the picture viewer.
Fixed.
-Bug Fix: If using the locate feature and one deleted a file
in the files.bbs and then a second match was found
in the same files.bbs, the previous change (the
delete) was not recorded. Fixed.
-Bug Fix: Regression: When selecting an area, if a person
hit a number key, the window that then opened to
read in the number displayed the selections of 0-0
rather than 0-(numareas-1). Fixed.