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- Progress has come to Chenango Forks. PDQ and DOSNIX
- have a new address. In the greatest event since Caroline's
- Convenience Store opened, the one street and all the roads
- have been numbered and RD box numbers are being eliminated.
- I still have to cross the road to get the mail, and the
- snowplow will still knock over the mailbox in the winter,
- but progress is progress.
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- For the benefit of those who think all New Yorkers live
- in highrise apartments and get mugged once a week, Chenango
- Forks is a small village in upstate New York just north of
- Binghamton. It lies at the confluence of the Chenango and
- Tioughnioga rivers. Nobody can pronounce "Tioughnioga", so
- we usually avoid talking about it or we call it "the other
- river".
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- Because I am located approximately 15 feet (less in the
- springtime) from the Chenango River, I am in the process
- of naming my business Chenango Shoreware. Aren't you glad
- that I don't live on the Tioughnioga? For the time being
- please make checks payable to me personally because this
- change is still tentative. Anyway my new address is:
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- Gerald M. Vrooman
- Chenango Shoreware
- 6400 NY Rt 79
- Chenango Forks, NY
- 13746
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- New for ver. 1.19
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- 1. The Friendly File Viewer has received a few changes to
- make it even friendlier. Lines are now written directly
- to video memory for faster pages. CGA cards are detected
- automatically and horizontal retrace checking is performed
- to prevent snow. The action of the PgUp key has been
- modified for better performance with floppy drives.
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- 2. When SDL and GFF were used without ANSI.SYS being installed
- there were some problems with the highlighting. SDC had a
- similar problem when displaying the directory tree.
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- New for ver. 1.18
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- 1. When using SDC, if the /t switch was combined with the /s
- switch the path file would be removed and a new one would
- not be generated. SDC would then have to scan the drives the
- next time it was used. This problem has now been fixed.
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- New for ver. 1.17
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- 1. In FFV, the Esc key did not work during string searches.
- Now fixed. FFV also runs a little faster than before.
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- 2. SDC and SDL can now handle up to 400 matching directories.
- About the only way you can get this number of matches on a
- large system is to use the backspace key in Speed Search. If
- the buffer does fill up you can still use Speed Search to reduce
- the number of matches. The total number of directories on a
- system is limited only by the time that it takes to search the
- database. On an XT Turbo with a slow hard disk I got acceptable
- performance with over 400 directories. A fast system should be
- able to handle more than 1000 before it bogs down.
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- New for ver. 1.16
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- 1. SDC now uses just one path file for all hard disk
- partitions, stored in the root directory of drive C.
- This change improves the way the backspace key works
- during speed searches and should allow SDC to run
- faster on large systems with many logical drives. You
- can still access drives explicitly but the speed advantage
- won't be that great. Floppy drives still have a separate
- path file for each floppy, and you will have to scan each
- floppy disk to install the path file.
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- 2. When a directory was created, removed or relocated
- on a drive locked out with SDNOSCAN, SDC would still
- try to access the path file. This problem has now been
- fixed.
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- 3. The Slick Directory Lister has been upgraded to work
- with the new version of SDC. You should not try to use
- an older version of SDL with the new version of SDC.
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