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UX REVISION HISTORY
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Version 3.20 (02/20/92)
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+ UX now appends the file extension it is assuming to the path of files
specified without an extension. That is, if you entered a command
line of:
UX -V D:\COM\ULDL\FRED
and it found a file named "FRED.ZIP", UX will now append a file
extension of ".ZIP" to the end of the filename "FRED" before passing
the command line on to PKUNZIP. This is useful when dealing with
file types that do not use the decompression program's default
file extension, such as .QWK files.
+ Increased the maximum number of compressed file types supported from
10 to 15. May be useful if you have compressed files with renamed
extensions (like .QWK files) that you wish to be supported. And why
the hell not?
+ Revised and expanded the documentation.
+ UX now only looks through the records in UX.CFG that are actually
being used when it scans for files, instead of going through all 15
whether they've been actually configured or not.
Version 3.11 (02/09/92)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ UX will now allow you to specify a pathname for the decompression
programs you want to use. Where before you needed to have the
decompression programs in your PATH in CONFIG.SYS, now you need only
specify a path in which to find them in UX.CFG, and UX will search
for them there. Note that if you specify a path, UX will not search
your environment PATH for the programs if it doesn't find them in the
path you gave it. By specifying a directory for your decompression
programs, you save time that would be wasted while DOS searches your
PATH for them.
+ UXCFG now accepts two command line options. The first option should
always be the path and/or filename of UX.COM. Thus, if you renamed
UX.COM to GNORT.COM you should use GNORT.COM as the first parameter
to UXCFG. Likewise if you moved UX.COM to a path other than the
current directory. The second parameter is an alternate config file
other than UX.CFG, and/or a path in which to find it. Neither of
these parameters are required, and if you do not specify either, the
program will function as before, assuming UX.CFG and UX.COM in the
current directory.
Version 3.03 (04/14/90)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ Source code for UX now comes in another ZIP file inside the main
UX ZIP file, called "UXSOURCE.ZIP". This is to make life easier
for people who don't plan to use the source code.
+ Updated, revised and otherwise cleaned up the documentation in the
file UX.DOC.
+ You may now use the asterisk ("*") as a wild-card character for the
file extension. Before this was not allowed, but in version 3.03,
filenames with wild-card extensions are treated as if they had no
extension at all. UX will also interpret an extension of ".???" as
if the filename had no extension at all, but note that it will
still not understand a file extension for the compressed file if it
has mixed wildcard and regular characters. (Example: "FILE.Z??"
will not be understood by UX's filename interpreter, but "FILE",
"FILE.*" and "FILE.???" will.)
+ Inserting question marks ("?") as place-holders in unused fields of
UX.CFG is no longer necessary. So, if you only have 4 types of
compressed files for which you are configuring UX, your UX.CFG file
need only have four lines in it.
+ Changed the maximum number of compressed file types that UX can handle
from 7 to 10.
+ Updated the version number of UXCFG so that in this and future
releases, it will match that of the current version of UX.
Version 3.02 (09/10/89)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ Thanks to Dean Brunette at the Network 23 BBS (415) 355-7162; fixed a
bug where UX choked on filenames which began with a period, as in
"..\FILENAME.EXT". UX will now correctly interpret this as meaning the
parent directory, rather than the filename/extension separator.
+ Changed LHARC view command from "v" to "l" in the default UX.CFG.
+ Where, in earlier versions, UX would only perform the appropriate
actions on matching compressed files of the first type encountered,
it will now look for compressed files of all types. For instance, if
you had the files FILE1.ZIP, FILE2.ARC, and FILE3.LZH in the parent
directory of your current directory, you could type:
UX -v ..\FILE?
and UX would perform a View operation on all three files.
Version 3.01 (08/18/89)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ Changed the program name from UXARC to UX, and removed all references
to the term "archive".
+ Adjusted the number of compression types which may be supported from
5 to 7, and changed source code to make it easier to adjust the
number of programs supported further.
+ Removed the ability to pass any command line options or flags to the
target decompression program in favor of unifying the command syntax.
The same commands may now be used with programs such as LHARC which
do not use standard MS-DOS command line switches ("-" or "/"). UX
will now only support the View, Test, and Extract options for a
decompressor.
+ Changed the "not supported" field for the file "UX.CFG" from "nil"
to "?" to avoid confusion, since "nil" would be a valid file
extension under the previous version. UXCFG.COM now requires file
extensions include the dot (".") prefix.
+ Added more comprehensive documentation and this revision history.
+ Added copyright notice to comply with Borland's "No Nonsense
Licensing Agreement", on the inside covers of the Turbo C manuals.
UX.COM, and all support programs, documentation, and source code are
still entirely in the public domain -- the only right I reserve is
to distribute this program for profit. You may not do this; I won't
either.
+ Major source code re-write for better efficiency.
Version 2.1 (07-30-89) -- Not widely distributed
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ Bux fix when dealing with LHARC. UXARC was not prefixing a space to
the first command line option passed to the compressed file
extraction program. Since LHARC doesn't support command line
switches for command codes, this caused errors when passing options
to this program. Fixed.
Version 2.0 (07-26-89)
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+ Added the ability to configure the program to accept different
decompression programs, or different names for the programs. Also
added the ability to pass a default option (extract) to the
compressed file extractor, for programs such as LHARC which have no
default.
+ Added support for DOS wildcards to be passed to UXARC.
Version 1.0 (??-??-89)
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+ First BBS release of UXARC.