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- Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1993 12:16 +1300
- From: Analog Digital Instruments <ANADIG@otago.ac.nz>
- Subject: UpdateMaker 1.3.1
-
- This is UpdateMaker 1.3.1, a maintenance release of UpdateMaker.
-
- UpdateMaker is a utility program for making and applying update documents,
- or for making custom update applications.
-
- An update document or application describes the differences between any two
- Macintosh files and the changes required to convert one file into the other.
-
- It is often advantageous to distribute update documents rather than a
- completely new version of a file, not only because the update document
- tends to be much smaller, but also because it is useless unless the old
- original file is available.
-
- Stand-alone update applications are some 13K larger than the equivalent
- document but have the advantage that the receiver does not need to have a copy
- of UpdateMaker to use them.
-
- UpdateMaker can create an update document for literally any two Macintosh
- files, be they applications, documents, system extensions, or whatever.
- For example, one can make an update document that will describe the differences
- between the Font/DA Mover application and Disk First Aid, and change one
- into the other.
-
- Documentation on how to use UpdateMaker is built into the Help menu of the
- application.
-
- UpdateMaker requires System 6 or later; it is fully System-7 compatible and
- slightly System-7 friendly. It was written with MacApp The Wonder Development
- System, which is the main reason for its size.
-
- UpdateMaker is copyright 1993 Analog Digital Instruments Ltd and is made
- available to you by the Shareware principle: try it out and if you find
- it useful enough to keep and use it, we ask for a shareware payment
- (address details are in the Help documentation). For non-commercial use, we
- ask for a $10 shareware payment, for commercial use we ask for $50. Large
- companies or institutions should contact us about site licensing.
-
- The author would be grateful for any bug reports or constructive suggestions
- not requiring the entire application to be rewritten :-).
-
- Changes from version 1.3 are:
- - it builds updates somewhat faster
- - it no longer underestimates the amount of free space on hard disks
- - it no longer dies on very large builds where many resources are involved
- - it correctly updates data forks when the final file is in another directory
- - the help can now be copied to the clipboard
- - the Save Description menu item works
- - it includes up-to-date information on UpdateMaker 2.0.
-
-
- Michael Hamel
- michael@otago.ac.nz
-
-