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DF:
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Rewrote sort routines. They're now MUCH faster (at least 3x --
not counting time to read from disk) For the technically
inclined, the existing bubblesort was replaced with a quicksort
algorithm.
Sorts can now be done in ascending or descending order
Alt-N,E,S,D,T or Cntrl-N,E,S,D,T. Plus logical secondary sorts
(Extension when primary key is name; Name otherwise) now take
place automatically. Ascending and descending order can also be
specified on the command line with + or - suffices to the sort
letter.
Sorts in attribute order (T) added.
Drive table allows movement between drives by pressing left and
right arrows.
F11/F12 keys added to main menu. F11=Re-mark (equivalent to F6
followed by F7). F12=Secondary main viewer
Disable mouse switch added. Plus (for those of you who had been
given the patching information on how to disable the mouse
previously), disabling the mouse now skips ALL the mouse code.
This may help to correct some mouse incompatibilities some
people ran across.
DF now software initializes the mouse rather than hardware
initializing it. This gets DF started a bit more quickly.
Added RShift-F11/F12 to user-defined pool.
Added Secondary Create Archive key (RShift-F10) -- default is for
ARJ.
Increased length of user-defined command lines.
Function of numeric keypad <Enter> and main keypad <Enter> keys
may be swapped.
Increased SmartViewer line length. Increased number of
SmartViewers. Multiple extensions per SmartViewer command-line
plus single-character (i.e. ?) wildcards in extensions.
Pause and refresh switches added for SmartViewers.
Added new parameters in user-defined command lines
Eliminated dir checks from user-defined command lines (i.e. a
directory is now treated just like a filename)
Added configuration file option. It is now no longer necessary
to modify the executable DF file. This is particular interest
to those who run virus software in the background to detect
writes to executables. If a file called DF.CFG in xxx.COM's
directory (where xxx.COM is the name of DF.COM), it will be used
automatically. Else, the parameters stored within xxx.COM are
used. Alternate .CFG files can be specified on the command-line
using the /C switch. .CFG file checking can be turned off with
DFCONFIG setting.
Lots of large disk and large directory display problems fixed.
Also, most directory and disk sizes are now displayed with
comma separators to make them easier to read.
Cluster size for Dir size floppy estimates changed to 1024 bytes
(from 512 bytes).
Alt-F toggles file only (i.e. no directories) display
"Graceful degradation" when the number of files in a directory
exceeds DF's limit (512 to 1000 or so files depending upon max
memory, TSR's etc.)
Help screen modified to reflect changes and increase consistency.
It is "believed" that the snow problem is fixed. There was a
logic reversal problem and the display is now slower with
snow-checking on but I don't have a "snowy" old IBM CGA to
actually test on.
Bug with last character of a user-entered command line being
chopped off fixed.
X-Ray Viewers:
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ZOO SmartViewer written as addition to the XRAY viewers (ZR,
etc.).
Delete a file option added to SmartViewers ('D'). (Can be
disabled with patch)
DFCONFIG:
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DFCONFIG extensively rewritten to handle DF changes and relinked
with new versions of user interface libraries.
Context-sensitive help added.
"Print registration form" option added.
Fixes in libraries allowed me to put back in the up/down cursor
movement on the data-entry forms
Other:
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Documentation extensively rewritten.