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- Revision History of FIPS
- ------------------------
-
-
- Version 1.0 - may 3, 1994
-
- - Added code to detect the OS FIPS is running under (thanks to Dave
- McCaldon). This is to make sure that FIPS is not run in a multitasking
- OS. Does not yet detect OS/2 and Novell Task Manager.
-
- - First official release. There have been few bug reports in the test phase
- and only one serious problem (with OS/2 dual boot). It is addressed in
- detail in the doc.
-
-
- Version 0.9.3 beta - march 31, 1994 (not publicly released)
-
- - Some minor corrections for compatibility with Borland C++ 4.0
-
- - Bugfix: "FAT too small" error with some configurations corrected
-
-
- Version 0.9.2 beta - march 25, 1994 (not publicly released)
-
- - Documentation revised, information about use with OS/2 added, features
- of DOS 6.x taken into account
-
- - -quiet and -s switches removed
-
- - Drive detection code changed, this hopefully solves the problem with
- the 'Too many drives found' error
-
-
- Version 0.9.1 beta - january 21, 1994 (not publicly released)
-
- - Select the start cylinder for the new partition with the cursor keys
-
- - Automatically check for free space even before prompting for the
- new start sector
-
- - A nasty bug in the partition reordering procedure that caused FIPS to
- fail in some cases was removed
-
- - Slight bug in class definition corrected
-
-
- Version 0.9 beta - november 7, 1993
-
- - Save files on floppy (root and boot sector) are not overwritten -
- there may be up to ten save files on a disk.
-
- - Verbose error messages are now displayed by default, -verbose switch
- has been removed.
-
- - A minor error resulting in a 'division by zero' error with some invalid
- bootsectors has been corrected
-
-
- Version 0.8 beta - july 23, 1993
-
- - A minor correction to the documentation
-
- - No changes in the program from version 0.3. This is the first beta re-
- lease. It is intended to be available to a wider audience.
-
-
- Version 0.3 alpha - june 8, 1993
-
- - FIPS is now completely translated to C++ (for easier maintenance and
- programming experience)
-
- - Explanation of the calculation of the new starting cylinder improved
-
- - FIPS was reported to work with Stacker and SuperStor
-
-
- Version 0.2.2 alpha - may 26, 1993 (not publicly released)
-
- - partition table reordering improved - non-dos partitions remain in their
- slots
-
- - all necessary header files now included (sorry about that, my compiler
- does not complain about missing prototypes)
-
-
- Version 0.2.1 alpha - may 5, 1993 (not publicly released)
-
- - bugfix: minimal cylinder number for start of new partition now calculated
- correctly on drives with 16 sectors per cluster
-
- - some improvements/simplifications to the code
-
-
- Version 0.2 alpha - april 27, 1993
-
- - added commandline switches to override certain error messages and
- use FIPS non-interactively
-
- - test mode without writing added
-
- - debug mode added (writes a session transcript + additional info to a file)
-
- - more informative error messages
-
- - display of verbose error messages may be selected
-
- - error checking is now more 'dos-like' (more unusual configurations
- accepted)
-
- - possibility to reedit the partition table without restarting the program
-
- - added the number of megabytes to the partition table display
-
- - now works correctly with drives that only have one free partition
-
- - now supports more than two harddisks on a PC
-
- - some minor fixes
-
-
- Version 0.1 alpha - april 12, 1993
-
- Initial Release
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