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MegaD V1.01 (C) 1990 John L. Jones, All Rights Reserved.
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Bug fix and changes from MegaD V1.0 to MegaD V1.01
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1. A bug with Auto Boot and user defined menu commands has been
fixed. If MegaD executed an external program such as a file
viewer and that program required an input channel from the
keyboard, that channel was not provided. It would just skip
past the input and sometimes confuse the executed program.
Sometimes it would crash the system. Also if the program
needed an Output channel and MegaD was run from the
Workbench, no output channel was provided, this was a
guaranteed CRASH or lockup of MegaD and the executed
program. The visible changes that you will see is that in
Add Auto Boot and Edit Auto Boot will refer to a possible
Input channel or not. If you choose not to have an Input
channel the you will still have a small CON: window open for
display of text on Auto Boot options. If an Input channel
is to be provided you will have a Full size CON: window open
for display of output and a way to type input to the
executed program.
NOTE: this bug is the main reason that this update is
so soon after the original release and that there are
so few changes to the program.
2. Directory windows will try to re-size if items are added to
or removed from the Directory.
3. The memory display section of the main window is now updated
about every 5 seconds if one of the MegaD windows are
active.
Known BUGS!
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1. If MegaD is booted from the Workbench and UnPack is used,
MegaD will not be able to change the current directory for
the executed archiver. The unarch files will be sent to the
Root device. The Root device is usually the drive that the
Amiga system was booted from. The problem does not exist
if MegaD is started from the CLI.
NOTE: If any of you reading this know how to correct
this problem please send me a letter describing how to
change the current directory for programs Executed()
from a program that was started from the Workbench:
About the only thing that I can offer for this is a
registered version of MegaD.
Planed changes and improvements
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1. Have Auto Boot recognize extensions found in the Set
Defaults Menu Sets and execute the proper command if found.
What this would do is if an .LZH extension is found after
double clicking a file .LZH MegaD will execute the Menu Set
command that has been designated to be executed under this
condition. You will be able to tell it to use one of the
Menu Set commands which are Pack, UnPack, List, Command 1 or
Command 2 under this condition.
2. Once I find out how, if MegaD is started from the Workbench,
MegaD will define the current directory for executed
programs from Auto Boot or the Menu Sets to be defined the
same as the active directory on the MegaD screen. This is
not a problem if started from the CLI.
3. Add a global filter to work on all windows. This will work
the same as the filters available for single window except
that you will be able to filter out a type of file from all
windows in MegaD.
4. In the Copy/Format Disk option, it will have an option to
actually read the full disk into memory and then make all
available drives open to become destination drives. This
will be for mass production of disks such as a users group
librarian that needs to duplicate the Fred Fish disk for the
month. The Librarian could read the one disk into memory.
and then if there are four drives available she could write
that disk to all four time after time until all disk have
be created. The disk copy on MegaD does virtually nothing
to make the Amiga Trackdisk device work faster than it does
in normal mode. This make it about the same speed as your
Workbench Disk Copy command. But in this instant you could
save about a quarter of the time being the disk only needs
to be read once and all drives can be become destination
drives. If only one drive is available and duplicate copies
are needed the time savings will be even greater.