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HISTORY.DOC FSLOGIN 1.50
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This document contains information about the changes that were
made to the Full Screen Login program in time. From version to
version there have been small bug fixes, textual changes,
functional enhancements as well as documentation enhancements.
Version 1.0 March 1993
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After beta testing several months with a group of seven
volunteering supervisors and their users this version was
released in the first week of march 1993 on a Dutch BBS.
From version 1.0 to 1.1 April 1993
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The detection of monochrome displays connected to a VGA
adapter has been improved. There have been some cases of
'grey', almost unreadable screens on some types of machines.
The user interaction has been enhanced by using an Accept
button field in the Login Data and the Password Expired forms.
This makes it more intuitive that the form as a whole must be
acknowledged.
A RRS (Registration Reminder Screen) has been added. This
small window will contain the name of the company and/or
department for registered users.
An installation batch file has been added. Not that
installation has been difficult, but this will save some time
and make an eventual update easier to do.
The fslogin.com file has been optimized. So it's even smaller
then it was before. There are however no functional
differences between fslogin.com (1.0) and fslogin.com (1.1).
The two versions can be mixed.
The fslogin.ovl has been optimized as well. Despite the added
code for the accept button it is about 10 kb smaller.
From 1.1 to 1.2 May 1993
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This version comes in two languages now, English and Dutch.
Choosing a language is a matter of installing the right
support files. The INSTALL.BAT file has been changed to do
this.
The documentation and help file have been changed to reflect
the membership of the Association of Shareware Professionals
(ASP).
The keyboard buffer is cleared at the very beginning of the
program, thus preventing some 'stuff' to go into the form
unexpectedly.
A bug has been resolved regarding the setting of the SYS:LOGIN
directory to the first network drive. This could occur when
the first network drive was not mapped to the default server
but to another (attached) server.
The Alt_F10 key has been disabled. The Alt-F10 is a standard
C-Worthy function to exit a program, but there is no way I
could assign an errorlevel to it.
From 1.2 to 1.2a June 1993
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A new palette has been defined for monochrome VGA displays. It
now looks as it should be.
Support for the Novell Security fase 1 enhancement has been
added.
From 1.2a to 1.2b July 1993
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The cursor is always visible in the input fields now, and the
cursor moves when typing in a password field, indicating that
something is happening.
The highlight (and cursor) is positioned in the password field
instead of the Accept field, when leaving the Password Expired
form with escape.
The file fslogin.cwa is closed as soon as possible. In
previous versions an update of FSLOGIN could run incomplete,
because 'someone' had fslogin active and fslogin.cwa was still
opened.
From 1.2b to 1.2c August 1993
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The keyboard buffer clear has been moved from fslogin.com to
fslogin.ovl. This ensures compatibility with the NetWare
Access Server login method.
Several options are offered in the file fslogin.ini. There are
options for the screen dimmer, the escape key, the serverlist
function and the number of days before a password expires. See
the file fslogin.ini for more details.
There are some command line parameters to override the global
setting of the fslogin.ini file. These are:
!ne No Escape.
!nd No Dimmer.
!ns No Serverlist.
From 1.2c to 1.2d September 1993
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New options have been added to fslogin.ini regarding the
presentation of the windows and the password fields (see
fslogin.ini).
The Accept button has gone.
From 1.2d to 1.3 December 1993
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NetWare Name Service support has been added. FSLOGIN now
synchronizes new passwords in an NNS domain and provides a new
Login Data form with Domain specific information.
The new feature 'ServerGroup' can be used to define a logical
group of servers. FSLOGIN will synchronize new passwords of
users within this ServerGroup.
When using the variable FS_SRV=NONE there will be no default
in the Server field.
The ServerList function was enhanced. A custom list of servers
can be specified.
From 1.3 to 1.3a January 1994
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The environment variable FS_PRO was added. The default profile
for NNS usage can be customized this way on a per workstation
basis.
Some textual changes in the English text in the password
synchronisation status. Same for the Dutch text.
From 1.3a to 1.4 March 1994
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Version 1.4 is compatible with the Dos Requester (VLM's or
Virtual Loadable Modules). Novell has updated the Dos
Requester several times since the first introduction. By the
time of this writing VLM version 1.10 is the current one.
Version 1.4 can be installed on a local hard disk in addition
to installation on a file server. In general this should not
be done, because it creates a maintenance problem. However,
there are situations where installation on a local disk is
preferred. For example when a workstation is connected to a
LAN through a wide area link, program loading from a server is
considerably slower compared to LAN speed.
Up until version 1.3a the keyboard was always cleared when
started. This can be turned off or on now using the
fslogin.ini statement KBC=0 or KBC=1.
Up until version 1.3a the current account was not logged out
when FSLOGIN was started. In other words when the user did not
actually login but pressed the escape key, he was back exactly
where he was. Immediate Logout can be turned on using the
fslogin.ini statement LWS=1.
From 1.4 to 1.4a March 1994
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A bug fix has been applied for the command line parameters to
work.
A bug fix has been applied for VLM support. In certain
situations in a multi-server environment fslogin.com was not
able to load it's overlays.
German language support has been added.
All ASCII documentation files except PACKING.LST have the
extension .TXT now.
From 1.4a to 1.41 May 1994
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Yet another bug fix related to VLMs in a multi server
environment fixed.
A lowercase bug in combination with 'Psp=0' for the password
fields was fixed.
The ini file (fslogin.ini) is always read from the server,
designated by the environment variable FS_SRV.
The F7 key (supervisor) has been enhanced. It can be turned
off. It can contain another name or it can contain a list of
(often used) names. See fslogin.ini, the 'Ulist=' keyword.
The NNS Profile field can be set to automatically synchronise
with the name in the Server field. See fslogin.ini, the 'Pro='
keyword.
There is a prompted Escape from the program now. See
fslogin.ini, the 'Esc=' keyword.
The Severfield can be restricted to view only. The user can
change the server name, but only from the (restricted) list
which comes with the F5 key. See fslogin.ini, the 'Slist='
keyword.
From 1.41 to 1.42 August 1994
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An User eXlude list feature has been added. See also
fslogin.ini.
The result of password synchronisation in an NNS domain or
Server Group can be supressed with the PSS statement in
fslogin.ini.
Two dimmer bugs fixed. One deals with PC's with power saving
features and the other with possible hangups around midnight.
The field edit has been changed. When a user starts typing at
the beginning of a field that has a value, the remainder of
the value is cleared.
From 1.42 to 1.50 October 1994
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Extra security features for use on dialin servers have been
added. These features are diMax, diTim, diAct in fslogin.ini
and the corresponding !di command line parameter. See also the
readme.txt.
French language support has been added.
(c) Confirm 1993, All Rights Reserved. October 1994
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