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FileDude 5.3 What's New
================================================================
FileDude 5.3 released
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See the WHATS.NEW file.
FileDude 5.2 released
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WHAT TO DO
Delete your FILEDIZ.DAT and VIRSCAN.DAT files and any files
ending with the .SWP extension in your FileDude directory.
Make sure to use the new FORMATS.DAT contained in this package.
THE GOOD STUFF
Add Added time slicing for Desqview, Windows 3.x, OS/2 2.0,
OS/2 2.1, and OS/2 3.0 to the DOS version of FileDude.
Add A few undocumented MCI codes from FileDude 5.1:
%FC 6 BODYINFO.ASC Number of credits required for
file
%FD 8 BODYINFO.ASC Date of file entry
BODY.ASC
EXTBODYx.ASC
%F9 6 BODYINFO.ASC Number of downloads of a file
The BODYINFO.ASC comes right after any BODY.ASC or
EXTBODYx.ASC lines.
In FileDude 5.1, the %FD was only valid in the
BODYINFO.ASC.
Change FileDude no longer lets you "Pack the EXTENDED.DAT" if
you have not tagged ALL file areas for processing.
Add "Fix Date" will now fix entry dates which are more
recent than "today's" date. i.e. 01/01/99 will be fixed
if you run FileDude on 01/01/95.
Fix Date stamping on file entries now works properly.
Before, new files might show up for up to 5 days after
they were uploaded by FileDude. Yikes!
Fix FileDude now resets the color of the DOS prompt to
LIGHTGRAY upon exiting -- even if you run with /NOMENU.
Fix CD-ROM Format associations went haywire if you pressed
PgUp or PgDn. Fixed now.
Fix FileDude would croak on blank first-line descriptions
when doing CD-ROM/FILES.BBS imports.
Fix FileDude would create empty TEMPLATE directories if you
ran it from somewhere other than its home directory. It
also would not correctly move the template files if you
ran it off a different drive. Fixed. Submitted by Carl
Morris.
Fix The first entry starting on the first line of a
FILES.BBS is now imported. Submitted by Carl Morris.
Change FILEDUDE.LOG streamlined; got rid of unnecessary
"Processing [AREA]" statements. Idea submitted by Carl
Morris.
Fix If FileDude packed one of its .DAT files while on a
different drive than its home directory, an error would
occur. Fixed.
Fix FileDude no longer packs its AREACFG.DAT an infinite
number of times whenever you add or delete a file area
near the beginning of the list.
Change Rewrote error-handling routines, so you get a more
useful message, and the error messages to FILEDUDE.LOG
are more uniform.
Fix The descriptions associated with padded filenames in a
FILES.BBS were not imported correctly, resulting in a
strange "P " in front of the description. Fixed.
Submitted by Carl Morris.
Add Added "FileDude will be running inside a window" option
to the Advanced Config menu. This option, when toggled
on, will force FileDude to always update the ACTUAL
position of the cursor. This positioning of the cursor
allows for easier viewing inside a DV, OS/2, or Windows
window (less than full-screen.) Submitted by Carl
Morris.
Add The FILEDUDE.LOG file will now be erased and started
over every time it reaches 64k.
Add FileDude has new grammar skills. In all template files,
you can now have FileDude choose between a singular or
plural form of a word. For example: %F3
%[directory/directories] This example will choose either
"directory" or "directories", depending on the value of
the %F3 code. 0 is considered plural. Inspired by Amit
Patel.
Add FileDude's new grammar skills extended to the "Stats"
display at the end of processing.
Fix Fixed the error when FileDude tried to upload a filelist
to a .DIR that was not accessible due to SHARE.
FileDude will now simply tell the user that it cannot
upload the filelist.
Fix FileDude no longer deletes the actual file when it
encounters a duplicate entry in the same area as the
original entry. The format of FILEDIZ.DAT and
VIRSCAN.DAT and the .SWP files was changed to make this
possible. Submitted by Daniel Osborn.
Add "Set Hatch Flag" option added to the Misc menu. This
option instructs FileDude to set the hatch flag on for
file entries which are uploaded or updated by FILES.BBS.
Submitted by Carl Morris.
Add "Auto Virus Validate" option added to the Misc menu.
This option, to be used in conjunction with "Set Hatch
Flag", instructs FileDude to automatically consider all
entries with the hatch flag ON to be free of viruses.
You only need to process the files with this option once
for it to take effect. Running it more than once will
not harm it, though. This option is intended to avoid
redudant virus checks when running a .TIC -> FILES.BBS
manager which does virus checking. Submitted by Carl
Morris.
Change Because the Misc menu was getting so big, all
filelist-related options have been moved to a brand new
menu called [gasp] the Filelist menu. The Misc menu has
also be reorganized.
Add "Process New Areas" option added to the Misc menu. This
option instructs FileDude to automatically place checks
next to new areas in the Area Config menu. In other
words, this option tells FileDude to scan for new areas
and add them to the processing list on the next run.
This option only affects the current config; the new
areas will not be automatically processed by other
configurations unless their "Process New Areas" flags
are toggled on. Submitted by Michael Glenn.
Add "Only List New Files" option added to the Filelist menu.
This option instructs FileDude to only include newly
uploaded files on the generated filelist. The number of
days limit for what is considered "new" is defined in
the Basic Config menu.
Fix FileDude would sometimes have an error if a FILEDIZ.DAT
was greater than 16,384 bytes and was not a multiple of
16,384. The problem was not as stupid as it sounds --
it was very interesting, in fact -- but the details are
"beyond the scope of this document." Submitted by Nick
Amento.
Add "Information" static window added to menu screen.
Inspired by Carl Morris (and his illogical need to know
which config he's working on...)
Fix FileDude now correctly virus scans non-archives and
files of unknown archive types. It wasn't copying the
files into the directory it virus scans.
Add "No Decompression" option added to Misc menu. This
option instructs FileDude to not decompress archives
before running the virus scanner defined in Basic
Configuration. This allows you to use upload
processors, such as THD, as your virus scanner.
Fix If "Check Version" was checked and you ran FileDude with
the /NOMENU option, it would bomb out with an array
overrun error. FileDude was having problems writing a
DEL.BBS for files with no extended descriptions.
New An OS/2 version of FileDude -- FileDude/2 -- has been
created.
Fix Fixed all the QEMM-type memory exceptions and other
problems resulting from memory corruption.
Add "Compression Wildcard" and "Decompression Wildcard"
fields added to the "Archive Config" menu. This allows
FileDude to use archivers which do not use "*.*" as
their wildcard specification. Most notably, this now
allows FileDude/2 for OS/2 to use Info-ZIP for OS/2.
Fix FileDude no longer uploads the WORKING.ASC file if
"Upload Everything in Sight" is toggled on.
FileDude 5.1 released
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WHAT TO DO
1) Delete your old FILEDUDE.DAT. This version uses a much
improved file format.
2) Make SURE you are using the new FORMATS.DAT included in this
package.
GOOD STUFF
Mod: Registration is now only US $10. That's a low price for
all the benefits you get when you register.
Fix: FileDude can how handle 1024 file areas, the maximum
Renegade allows.
New: Multiple template sets. You can now define a template
directory in the Basic Configuration menu. Each config
can have its own template directory.
Change: FILE_ID.DIZ is now always used before DESC.SDI. Many
people requested this. A LOT of people.
Fix: If a compressed filelist (such as FILELIST.ZIP) already
exists, FileDude will now delete it before creating a
new one. Before, programs such as PKZIP would just add
the file into an existing archive, and if you changed the
filelist filename, you'd end up with two different files
in the archive when you only wanted one.
Submitted by Carl Morris.
Fix: FileDude now correctly wraps descriptions with pipe color
codes. Before, it was not measuring the lines correctly.
Submitted by Carl Morris.
Fix: FileDude was not closing the FILES.BBS before deleting it.
It now closes it properly.
New: "Mark Filelist As New" toggle in the Misc menu. If
toggled on, the upload date on the filelist entry will
be updated so your users will see it on their newscan.
Regardless of this toggle, users will still find the
filelist on their newscan the first time FileDude uploads
it. Submitted by Carl Morris.
New: %TI = Current time. This MCI code is useful if you want
users to know when your filelist is created, for example.
Submitted by Carl Morris.
Fix: FileDude leaves a few more bytes of itself in memory
when shelling to DOS. This fixes a problem under
Desqview, where COMMAND.COM might have trouble reloading.
Submitted by Carl Morris.
Fix: Color was not reset upon exit. This resulted in a "nice
shade of magenta." FileDude now properly restores your
colors. Submitted by: Nicholas Loch
Fix: When extracting FILE_ID.DIZ from archives, FileDude will
now delete the previous one in the temporary directory no
matter what file attributes it has. Before, a FILE_ID.DIZ
with a read-only attribute, for example, would prevent
FileDude from deleting it, thus causing files with no
FILE_ID.DIZ to inherit the description. Yikes!
New: "Validated Filelist" toggle in the Misc menu. This toggle
will prevent unvalidated and resume files from showing up
on your filelist. Submitted by Carl Morris.
New: FileDude finds FILE_ID.DIZ and DESC.SDI files inside ZIP
and ARJ archives faster. It now internally recognizes
their header formats.
Fix: A very bad bug in the configuration file's packing routine
was corrected. This would lead to loss of data and
messages like "Data file tampered with!" But it's fixed
now, and the packing is actually faster.
New: When scanning for FILE_ID.DIZ and DESC.SDI files, FileDude
now keeps a record (in FILEDIZ.DAT) of which files it has
scanned. This "memory" is based on the CRC-32 of several
file statistics, so if anything about that file changes,
FileDude will rescan it.
If you want to rescan ALL files for DIZ or SDI
descriptions, simply delete the FILEDIZ.DAT file.
Fix: FileDude should now properly handle areas which you have
just set up and RG has not yet created a .DIR file for.
Fix: When processing areas, you can now abort between areas
which do not contain any files.
New: FileDude now contains a default "Virus scanner
commandline" (in the Basic Configuration menu) for McAfee
SCAN v.2.1.1 and up. This version is one of the first of a
new line of scanners from McAfee. It's much better than
the old line.
You can find this scanner on a board near you as the
filename SCN-2xxx.ZIP, where 'xxx' is an interesting
hexadecimal version number of some sort.
Fix: The "Delete Offline" toggle no longer requires the "Fix
Offline" toggle to be turned on. What a dumb dependency.
Fix: Nows finds files in the upload directory. Before,
FileDude marked any files in the upload directory as
offline, since the program only checked the download
directory. The FILES.BBS-type list, however, must still
be in the download directory.
New: "Fix Upload Date" toggle in the Fix menu. FileDude will
set the .DIR date to "today's date" when it finds a file
is newer than the .DIR entry's date. If you get a file
through a network file echo, for example, this means that
any new versions of a file will show up on a newscan
when FileDude updates the .DIR.
Mod: Filelists are now uploaded as VALIDATED, regardless of the
"Don't Validate" toggle.
New: Formatting of MCI codes in the filelist templates has been
completely revamped. See the new FDMCI.DOC for details.
Thanks to Carl Morris for suggesting the new method.
(Though, it's not exactly what he wanted...)
Mod: FileDude now imports descriptions from ZIP and ARJ
archives whose extensions aren't ".Zxx" or ".Axx".
Mod: Parsing during DIZ and SDI importing is noticeably faster.
Fix: Fixed the FILES.BBS-import wordwrap problems.
Fix: No longer cuts off the last line of a wrapped description.
New: "Wordwrap FILE_ID.DIZ" in the Description menu. By
default, FileDude no longer wraps DIZ descriptions. It
will still wrap DESC.SDI and FILES.BBS descriptions.
Mod: The default description is no longer configurable for
UNREGISTERED users of FileDude. Once you register, the
"UNREGISTERED" part will go away and you can change the
default description to whatever you want.
New: "Default Uploader" in the Advanced Menu. You can specify
a different uploader from the default, which is the sysop.
*** REGISTERED-only feature ***
Mod: Updates of DEL.LST and DEL.BBS should be much faster now.
New: "Delete Dups From Disk" in the Fix Menu. Forces
duplicates to be deleted from diskette, regardless of the
"Don't Delete Actual Files" toggle.
New: DEL.BBS now includes the extended description of files.
New: "Update SYSOP.LOG" in the Misc Menu. Logs session
statistics to SYSOP.LOG in RG's LOG directory.
Fix: No longer does DIZ and FILES.BBS checking, virus scanning,
or archive conversion on files with the RESUME flag.
Fix: The user-defined line lengths will now be used when
wrapping FILE_ID.ASC, *IF* those line lengths are less
than or equal to 45 characters. Why? The FILE_ID.DIZ
standard is 45 characters by 10 lines. FileDude is not
about to produce non-standard FILE_ID.DIZ descriptions.
Fix: Wordwrapping improved.
Mod: Swapping routines are now used when shelling to DOS for
archive functions.
Mod: When a processing event which is building a filelist is
aborted, the incomplete WORKING.ASC is now deleted.
Fix: FileDude now realizes the FILE_ID.DIZ standard is 45
characters, not 40. Thanks to Carl Morris for pointing
this out to me.
Mod: FILEDUDE.LOG is now opened in DENYWR mode (so you can read
the log in another window while FileDude is processing.)
Fix: FileDude will now prompt you to save your configuration
if you change a toggle such as "Fix Offline". Finally!
Mod: FileDude now requires a 286 or higher.
Mod: FILEDUDE.LOG is now more readable, and processing should
be faster with the log option toggled on.
Mod: Every time a new filelist was produced, a new entry was
made in FILEDIZ.DAT, and the old entry was still there.
Mod: FileDude now scans all files it uploads for viruses, when
the virus scanning option is toggled, regardless of
whether it has been scanned before.
REMOVED: Duplicate extended description checking.
(What the heck was the point?)
FileDude v5.0 released
----------------------
FileDude was almost completely rewritten for this release.
The result was a much faster, extremely reliable product.
Speed If you saw version 4.0, you will be simply amazed at how
fast this version runs. Even on the slowest features,
version 5.0 can outrun 4.0.
Size Version 4.0 was around 357k.
Version 5.0 is around 253k.
Yeah!!
Rem I _strongly_ suggest you register this version. The
registered copy of FileDude v5.0 has many new, NICE
features. See BENEFITS.REG and REGISTER.FRM for more
details.
Fixed Archive conversion. It's ten times better than before.
Fixed CD-ROM import array errors. FileDude can now import a
CD-ROM list up to 64k (for one file area.)
Fixed One whopping memory leak. FileDude can now handle a
file base of any size, so you never have to worry about
it overloading.
Fixed Word-wrapping and general handling of descriptions.
FileDude now has a fabulous system of making the
description look good and exactly what the FILE_ID.DIZ
meant it to look like (except it's only 5 lines.)
Fixed FILES.BBS deletion. Before, it would delete the
FILES.BBS before having a chance to upload it. Eek!
Fixed FileDude would forget to turn the DOS cursor back on
when shelling to DOS. Whoops!
Discovered by Lars Hellsten.
Fixed FileDude would not account for midnight rollover when
calculating the time it took to process.
Discovered by Lars Hellsten.
Fixed When finding OFFLINE files, FileDude wiped out the
extended description.
Discovered by Robert Kennedy.
Fixed SHARE support. FileDude now has _much_ better SHARE
support in general. It acts much "smarter" now, turning
off certain features whenever it doesn't have the
necessary access to the necessary files.
Gone Prompting for descriptions.
Gone "Press ESCAPE" thing on the unregistered version.
Gone Extra long extended descriptions. Sorry, folks -- I
began writing this version to only handle what Renegade
itself can handle. That means the stupid four line
limit. I don't rule this feature out for future
versions, since someone did submit a better way of
naming the duplicate entries.
Mod FileDude now defaults to NOT wanting to upload every
file in the universe. Whereas before there was an
option "Don't Upload," now there is an option to "Upload
Ever File in Sight" for times when you feel nostalgic.
Mod FileDude now uses RENEGADE.DAT to find FBASES.DAT,
EXTENDED.DAT, and all your .DIRs.
Mod "Default uploader" is now automatically determined by
FileDude as the SysOp name in RENEGADE.DAT.
Mod "Fix Points" is now "Fix Credits" to conform to
Renegade's new credit system. The credits per K is now
automatically determined from the RENEGADE.DAT.
Mod When looking for internal description files, FileDude
will automatically try to find FILE_ID.DIZ _and_
DESC.SDI. FILE_ID.DIZ overrides DESC.SDI if an archive
contains both.
Mod FileDude will now find duplicates across ALL file areas,
rather than just within one area.
Mod The template files now use a new set of FiledudeMCI
codes which look more like Renegade's new MCI system.
Some codes are the same as Renegade's, some are made up.
Mod All .CFG configuration files have been replaced with an
integrated editing system accessible in the menu system.
You can now edit your CD-ROM, archive, and multiple
setups configurations directly inside the menu system.
FILEDUDE.DAT is where custom data is stored.
FORMATS.DAT is where CD-ROM and archive formats are
stored.
Mod Configuration of filelist maker and archive conversion
is now done in the "Basic Configuration."
Mod Most of the menus have been changed.
Mod Zillions of cosmetic changes.
Mod Registration system completely rewritten.
Mod Archive conversion is now so advanced so that it's been
reclassified as a ***REGISTERED-ONLY FEATURE***.
Added Virus scanning.
***REGISTERED-ONLY FEATURE***
Added Version checking (delete PROG10.XXX if you have
PROG20.XXX) ***REGISTERED-ONLY FEATURE***
Added Packing of EXTENDED.DAT.
***REGISTERED-ONLY FEATURE***
Added Fixing of duplicate extended descriptions.
***REGISTERED-ONLY FEATURE***
Added FileDude can now compress your filelist and add a
FILE_ID.DIZ description (FILE_ID.ASC is the template).
Added Support for Renegade-style FILES.BBS. FileDude will now
support padded filenames in ANY CD-ROM/FILES.BBS list,
in addition to the regular non-padded filenames. In
other words, FILEDUDE SUPPORTS BOTH WAYS! First
requested by Ray Smith.
FileDude v4.0 released
----------------------
Speed Dramatically increased speed of file lister (if all
functional options are off.) On my system, for example,
it went from 10 minutes to 52 seconds. On another, it
went from 15 minutes to just under 3 minutes.
Rem Please remember that SET TEMP= in your AUTOEXEC.BAT will
determine where the swap file (which FileDude creates
when it drops to DOS for conversion) will be located.
Added Word wrapping configuring (especially useful for
FILES.BBS importing) in FILEDUDE.CFG. Not on the menu,
however.
Added Three commandline arguments:
/NoMenu Run in automatic mode
/Config= Use a configuration file other
than default (FILEDUDE.CFG)
/TempFiles= Redirect all temporary files to
RAM drive
Added CD-ROMs are now COMPLETELY supported.
FILESBBS.CFG Configuration file for setting up
different CD-ROM formats
You can now specify a path and file format for each file
area (in the "Config Areas" menu)
Added Mouse support. Like one someone once said,
"It's the '90s - we point and click!"
Mod Can now chose which archive-types to convert in "Convert
Archive" option
Mod Can now produce all three file list type (ASCII,
ANSI,AVATAR) at the same time
Mod File points setting is now in two parts: numerator and
denomenator. The role of each is explained in the "File
Points" menu.
Added Pulldown menu system! Finally!
Added Extra long description support (in FILE_ID.DIZ) If this
option is checked in the "Basic Configuration" menu,
FileDude will simulate unlimited lines for extended
descriptions by allocating extra file entries.
BE CAREFUL!! DO NOT TRY THIS UNLESS YOU HAVE BACKED UP
YOUR .DIR FILES! (you never know...)
Added Configuration file (FILEDUDE.CFG) support.
Gone Old commandline system.
Fixed SHARE violations. Thanks for Jack Brahce for providing
some example C files for doing DOS sharing (these
examples were almost impossible for me to find! Argh!)
Fixed The program couldn't run on a drive other than where
Renegade was located.
Fixed ERROR.LOG was popping up everywhere after the program
finished.
FileDude v3.0 released
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