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Palindrome KickOff! version history
(C) Copyright Darryl G. Whitmore 1990, 1991. All Rights Reserved.
1.0j (released 08-11-91)
This version was developed in about 2 hours from 05-29-91 to
08-10-91 (Ok, so it took 3 months to get around to updating the
documentation!). It added:
- The Weekday Macro feature. When the "%" macro is included in
the kickoff command, upon kickoff PKO will expand this macro
according the the current day (1=Sunday, 2=Monday, etc). The
Weekday Macro feature allows you to to use PKO to kickoff batch
files that do different things on different days.
1.0i (released 05-14-91)
This version was developed in about 6 hours from 04-19-91 to
04-22-91. It added:
- Further refinements to the disk I/O error handling that was
begun in 1.0h.
- The display of on-screen warnings at the start of Wait Mode
when the kickoff command can not be located. These warnings
were previously only entered in the log file (which was of
little help when discovered the next day!)
- Screen restoral when exiting to DOS from Menu Mode or Wait
Mode. This was suggested by a PKO user, and is a very nice
enhancement!
This version also marked PKO's official move to Shareware status.
Previously, PKO was distributed with a rather vague registration
policy. See 7.0 in PKO.DOC for more information.
1.0h (never released)
This version was developed in about 5 hours from 04-17-91 to
04-18-91. It introduced more robust error handling in the
areas of disk I/O (ie, PKO.CFG & PKO.LOG). Previously, when
disk access errors occurred, PKO would crash miserably,
displaying a useless QuickBASIC error message. Descriptive
diagnostics are now displayed on the screen and entered in the
log file (if possible). If in Wait Mode and an error occurs
when writing to PKO.LOG, PKO ignores the error and continues to
wait for kickoff time.
1.0g (released 03-03-91)
This version was developed in about 8 hours from 02-27-91 to
03-03-91. It introduced kickoff command verification:
- Upon entering Wait Mode, PKO tries to find the kickoff
command (configured or override) just like DOS would. PKO
uses DOS rules for searching directories and choosing
executable files (ie, .COM, .BAT, .EXE). PKO records the
results of its search in the log file.
1.0f (released 01-20-91)
This version was developed in about 9 hours from 12-17-90 to
01-15-91. It introduced command line override switches:
- /OT to override the configured kickoff time.
- /OC to override the configured kickoff command.
The format of PKO.LOG entries was also changed for clarity and
readability. Entries are now listed as "Notes" or "Errors".
1.0e (never released)
This version was developed in about 1.5 hours on 11-11-90. It
introduced a rudimentary command line switch to kickoff at
the top of the next hour, overriding the configured kickoff
time.
1.0d (released 05-05-90)
This version was developed in about 4 hours on 05-05-90. It
fixed some minor things:
- If you didn't change the default kickoff options (if
you entered only your password the first time you went
into Menu Mode), PKO would crash when you subsequently
attempted to go into Wait Mode.
- In version 1.0c, the bouncing status box tended to "hang
out" along the bottom and far right edge of the screen.
This version improved its randomness. Also, the box now
spends its first minute in the center of the screen
before starting to bounce.
This version also introduced a log file. Entries are made in
the log when interesting events occur while in Wait Mode.
1.0c (released 04-29-90)
This was the first workable version of PKO. It introduced:
- Menu Mode, with configurable password and kickoff options.
- Wait Mode, with password suspend and the "bouncing"
status box (to avoid screen burn-in).
This version was developed in about 25 hours from 04-15-90 to
04-29-90. It was written in Microsoft QuickBASIC 4.5 with a
lot of help from Crescent Software's QuickPak Professional
library and Software Interphase's QuickWindows Standard library.
1.0b (never released)
This was a mystery version of PKO! All I can remember is
that I fiddled with it on 02-17-90.
1.0a (never released)
This was the initial version of PKO. It was just a simple
little test program that stuffed a command into the keyboard buffer.
It was written in about 3 hours on 02-13-90.