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FileIN! 5.0
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An incompatibilty with Pkzip has been corrected. Basically, Filein was unable
to convert to Pkzip format becuase they require a *.* on the end of all
paths to create an archive(of all files in a directory). Rather wierd, ARJ
nor any other archiver I've had the time to mess with requires that.
Secondly, the log routines have been totally revamped. They now follow a
binkley-style setup. Its not "Binkley Log", but its more organized and easier
to follow with timestamps on each line. I think everyone would breathe a
collective sigh of relief over this one. :-) Thanks go out to Bryan Rapp
for suggesting the new format, and I'll admit, the old format just plain
sucked.
Thirdly, all users of Archive conversion. If you convert to ARJ, make sure you
place a '-e' on the COMPRESSION commandline. Why? Because, ARJ stores the path
of each file, meaning, if you convert to arj, if you ran a test on the archive
you'd get filenames like "D:\REN\FILE\RGSDN\!FILEIN!.TMP\JOEBLOW.DOC" etc.
The -E tells arj not to store the path, which that is not only sloppy but
those paths add size to the archive. Sorry about that, for the rest of the
archives you may use, its a "Read the docs" thing to prevent this.
A bug in the file point calculation routines has been corrected.
A bug that made the MCI's in HEADER.TXT and FOOTER.TXT work with lowercase
only is fixed.
Also, my system is back up. (602)545-9458, and more to come on this. For now
send all bug reports to Patrick as it will be a few weeks before I get all
my node numbers back.
And last but not least, we now have a neet-o menu driven config program. :)
This is pretty rad, and for you programmer types, it is -NOT- a TurboVision
app. It's 100% original code by yours truly. The config program has new input
routines. There is a scroll-bar driven base tagging feature now, and ALL
text fields(i.e. where you type a path etc) have the following keys active:
INS,DEL,HOME,END,Left/Right arros. Its a 'line editor' input procedure.
FileIN! 5.1
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Yes, it took a whole day for 5.0 to crash and burn. Listed are the fixes:
Filecfg would nuke the first file base in the tag menu. Its fixed, go check
your bases if you use a custom scan list.
If you had logs disabled, you would get an error 105. Fixed.
The version numbers in the log, and the message posting have been fixed.