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QFB
Changes and Additions
1.09 Jun 21 1996
- Added -q switch.
- Improved doc.
- New NT version.
1.08 Mar 31 1996
- The logic of the "-s" switch has changed: now ALL areas
except the "slow" ones are processed and the global
indexes are updated (not re-built) when this switch is
used.
Previously the "-s" switch only caused slow areas to be
skipped, so that they were usually removed from the
global indexes.
1.07 Feb 29 1996
- Added "-d" switch to avoid multi-line descriptions in
FILES.DMP, the file where Maximus looks for the file
descriptions when using the filebase (Locate and NewFiles
commands).
When multi-line description support is enabled, QFB
outputs the entire description string (line feeds
included) to the FILES.DMP, so that the Maximus Locate
and New Files commands respect the original formatting.
Unfortunately there is a side-effect: the continuation
lines are aligned at left, and this is not appreciated by
some SysOps.
When the "-d" switch is used, QFB changes the linefeeds
to spaces, so that the DMP description is made of a
long unique line: the original formatting is lost but the
description will be aligned and word-wrapped by Maximus
when the Locate or NewFiles commands are used.
- To disable multi-line description support, you can now
use the "-c" switch alone. Previously you had to use
"-c-1" and that was not documented.
- Added INF documentation.
1.06 Restricted Beta
- OS/2: Problem with remote (LAN) directories fixed.
The C stat function had problems: substituted with
direct OS/2 API calls.
- Improved multi-line support.
1.05 - Support for multi-line descriptions (see Qfb.Doc).
1.04 - New "out of memory" handler and exit errorlevel.
Previously an out of memory error could result in
strange behaviour.
- Some internal changes in the filebase routines to
improve consistency with Max 3.00
- New ApWorks addresses and phone numbers
1.03 - Update to support Max 3.00;
Max 2.0x is NOT supported.
- The specification of a path in the files.bbs to include
a file that resides in a directory other than the
default "Download" is now allowed.
- The specification of an alternate files.bbs in
"FileList" is now allowed with any extension (previously
the .BBS was required).
- The files that are not found are now included in the
filebase and marked as "OFFLINE".
- If an area is marked of "Type CD" and you do not specify
an alternate "FileList", the local DAT/DMP/IDX files are
not generated.
- The DateAuto/DateManual/DateList are now fully supported
(previously DateAuto was assumed).
- New -n switch to allow the update of the filebase by
compiling all the areas that have a files.bbs newer than
the files.idx. CD areas skipped.
- QFB and other ApWorks programs that update the filebase
generate a "FileBase.Bsy" flag in the Maximus system
directory to avoid concurrent writes to the same
filebase. There is no need to manually delete this flag
in case of power failure or abnormal termination.
- The command line syntax has been modified to be
consistent with that of the Max 3.00 FB/FBP.
Switches -x and -r not implemented.
Wildcards are more flexible (? and * in the OS/2 way).
1.02 - Fixed bug that caused some dupes not to be removed
from UniFiles.Idx.
- Separate "/t /b" flags in FILES.BBS are now recognized.
1.01 - Now more CD-ROM / MO friendly.
QFB does not abort in case of path not found,
drive not ready, read only dir, write protected unit.
When QFB cannot write local DAT/DMP/IDX files it simply
skips: if you do not really need these files, you can
avoid copying files.bbs to a hard-disk directory.
- More informative output.
- New -g command line switch to avoid generation of local
DAT/DMP/IDX files.
1.00 - First public release.