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Recent Changes to InteliCat(tm) ------------------------------- If you need to contact me via US mail you can write to: Curtis Little PO Box 33613 Northglen, CO 80233 6/1/93 Released v1.89b Added a command line option to turn off the mouse. Specify /R to keep InteliCat from allowing use of the mouse. Corrected a minor bug that would allow the user to enter a filter list without first specifying the filter file name. This would cause an error message to be generated when InteliCat attempted to autosave the filter list on exit. Fixed a problem in the new code that checked to insure the version of InteliCat in used is capable of reading the config/filter file. 5/27/93 Modified the sort and selection portion of InteliCat to immediately recognize when the ESCape key is pressed instead of performing the selection or sort before realizing the user wanted to abort the operation. 5/13/93 Added file filtering to InteliCat. Editing the filter list can be done from the configuration menu. The filters can be saved/read from disk (via the files menu). Full regular expression support (as defined in the manual for selection criteria) is provided. Any files on logged disks that match one (or more) of specified filters will not be logged by InteliCat. For example if you setup a filter file and define the filters as README*.* and *.BAT, InteliCat will ignore files on disks that are logged that start with README or have a .BAT extension. When filtering is being used, a symbol will be displayed on InteliCat's status line in the first position of the status line (to the left of the Log Drive(s) data). The name of the filter file is saved in InteliCat's configuration file. When InteliCat is started it will attempt reading the configured filter list. Added an option to autosave the filter file. (Available from the autosave options selection on the configuration menu). Modified the list input function (i.e. what's used when you are entering selection criteria or filters), and made it so pressing ESCape while inputting doesn't cause the criteria to be zapped (although the abort is still performed). 5/12/93 Added a files menu. This menu will have the read and write selections for the various files used in InteliCat (they were previously located on the configuration menu). 5/9/93 Modified selection criteria to accept dates in the configured format (instead of requiring dates to be entered in USA format in selection criteria). 5/6/93 Modified InteliCat to allow users to backup to previously entered field when inputting a list of selection criteria. This can be done by pressing the up arrow. F10 now works as a 'complete' key when entering a set of selection data. 4/2/93 Optimized the options input code. 4/1/93 Added Switch! options to control how the Switch! DOS Shell utility works. Added an option to turn on/off the support for a mouse in InteliCat. 3/29/93 Fixed a bug in the merge routine that kept things from working properly when the merged database contained duplicate disk IDs. 12/19/92 Fixed a bug that kept the ALT-B (Next match backward toggle from working). Modified InteliCat to shut down the mouse completely before doing a DOS shell. Then, it is restarted when control returns to InteliCat. Added an option to rename the disk that is being logged when you are prompted if you want to replace it. (This helps when you have InteliCat set to automatically name a disk with it's volume label, and the disk name already exists. Using this option you can manually name the disk something different than it's volume label without having to go to configuration and turn off the use of volume label as the disk name). In conjunction with the new option outlined above, if you have InteliCat configured to automatically use the volume label as the disk name, and then manually rename the disk to something else using the option outlined above, InteliCat will prompt before writing the new volume label to the disk (this is only done if you have InteliCat configured to write the disk name as a volume label). 12/9/92 Modified the sort to also put disks in alpha order when sorting by filename and the disks are included in the selection set. 12/6/92 Released v1.89a Completed mouse support functions for all of InteliCat except the comment import utility. Added next match support while in the comment add/modify function. Added a toggle that allows you to reverse the search direction when searching for the next match. This key is valid in all parts of the program that allow searching for the next match. (I.E. the browse screens, report to screen, while adding comments, etc...). The new toggle key is ALT-B. Each time you press ALT-B it will reverse the search direction and then search for the next match to the criteria you've previously specified (or if you haven't initiated a search yet, it will cause you to be prompted for data to search for). The search direction flag is now stored in the configuration file. InteliCat will always default to the last search direction as maintained in the configuration. 12/5/92 Fixed a bug that kept rename, delete, and replace from working properly. Replace and Delete had to be done previously using the disk list. Fixed a bug in the mouse routines that kept them from working after a hotkey (ALT-Z) was used to shell to DOS. 11/20/92 Fixed a minor bug in the mouse routines that could sometimes make InteliCat confused in a way it wouldn't recognize mouse selections until after a key was pressed. Continued to increase mouse support in InteliCat. 11/15/92 Released v1.89 Continued to increase the mouse functionality. **NOTICE** Pressing return when prompted for the disk name to log will no longer display the list of disks. To display this list, select the dialog box option (tab to it and press enter, or press ALT-L) to list the existings disks. 11/6/92 Fixed the delete file function to flag the database as being changed. Fixed the delete file function to keep the scroll bar line active after deleteing a disk. Modified the functions to get a disk name from the user to use dialog boxes, providing an option to list existing names for selection. Fixed a bug that kept the merge utility from being able to save the comment records when you merge into a database with no existing records. 11/1/92 Modified the Log Disk function to use dialog boxes and include an option to log a disk starting at a specified subdirectory. Changed InteliCat to remain on the same logging drive when the logging of a disk is aborted. 10/31/92 Released v1.88 of InteliCat The documentation is no longer distributed in a file separate from the program file. 10/26/92 Added limited mouse support to InteliCat. Work included also added dialog boxes to many of the prompts in InteliCat. 7/3/92 Fixed a bug that caused InteliCat to give an error message that the report destination file couldn't be opened if you loaded a configuration file that contained the option to automatically output to a file after having one loaded that asked for the destination. 3/30/92 Released v1.87 to registered users. 3/8/92 Released v1.86 Fixed a bug that caused changed comments and keywords to not be flagged as a change in the database. Modified InteliCat to ask if you want to save the database anyway when you request to write a database that had no changes. 2/24/92 Released v1.85 2/22/92 Fixed a bug in the comment editor that caused F10 to prematurely quit (Previously, the F8 key would work around the problem). 2/15/92 Fixed the search to retain the previous search value (next match now works). 2/3/92 ********************************************************************** ** IMPORTANT --- ALL USERS SHOULD READ ABOUT THE CHANGES MADE SINCE ** ** VERSION 1.83 BECAUSE NOT ONLY HAVE NEW OPTIONS BEEN ADDED, BUT ** ** THE OLD FILE NAME DEFAULTS OF LC ARE NO LONGER USED! ** ********************************************************************** The following changes have been made in InteliCat which are addendums to what InteliCat's documentation describes: New Options ----------- o InteliCat now has options to configure how dates are displayed. From the Configuration menu you may select the date options to set the date format as well as the separator. This should make things look a little better for other countries that don't view dates in the typical format used in the USA. NOTE: At default InteliCat will detect the country (if you have MSDOS v3.0 or above. For DOS versions older than 3.0 the USA format is used at default. You may change the default by editing the date options. o Auto save options - InteliCat now has autosave options to allow you to specify whether it should automatically save the configuration and/or database when exiting or reading a new file (if changes were made to the previous one). At default these items are both turned on. o Added an option to specify whether comments extracted from an archive should be put in InteliCat's keyword field instead of the comment field. (Note: You must have the option for extracting archive comments set for this option to work). This option is located on the archive options page. o Added an option to the import utility to allow you to specify whether comments imported should be put in InteliCat's keyword field instead of the comment field. (This is actually an option that is stored in your configuration file, but can only be modified from the comment import screen). Other than those changes the following minor changes and fixes have been added since v1.83 was released: o Modified InteliCat to allow the user to abort changes made since the last time a database was saved (autosave of the database must be off for you to have this option though!). NOTE: Comments that you modify are immediately written to disk, so the changes you make to existing comments can't be aborted. New comments you input for files that didn't have them will be aborted if you don't save changes though. WARNING: If you ZAP the database the changes can't be reversed! Once you -------- confirm a ZAP, the database will be written to DISK with no records in it, unless you have backups of both the database file and the comment database, you won't be able to undo this action. o Modified InteliCat to remove references to the old default files of LC. NOTE: Existing users should rename their configuration to IC.CFG, delete the old configuration file, or add the following to your autoexec.bat file: ICCFG=LC.CFG o If you set up the configuration properly with your database name you don't really need to change from the old default of LC (if that's what you use). Note however, that if you do choose to modify the name of your database that there are TWO DATABASES that must be renamed. Please refer to the documentation in a section titled 'Two Files per Database' if you're not sure how InteliCat names it's database files. o Fixed InteliCat to not adjust the number of files, disk, dirs, etc when a configuration file with a lower number is read. Note however, that if you read a configuration file with more files/disks/dirs configured than what you currently have available, InteliCat will try to increase the number available. o Fixed the skip input of keywords option to really work. o Modified the program to default to XMS instead of EMS as a first choice (This is done because there appear to be a number of TSR programs out there that don't understand they are supposed to restore the state of the resources they use to make their operation transparent to other programs.). InteliCat's use of EMS ***REQUIRES*** that pages it maps in are not mapped out until it tells the EMM driver to do so. To solve the problem at default XMS appears to be a better solution for use when possible. o Fixed keywords to be carried over for files within an archive when replacing a disk. o Added the banner to show Switch! is active when the temp file is going to a disk file. o Added a display of the file date and the listing file date when the import utility asks if you want to replace an existing comment/keyword. o Fixed the DOS Shell to restore the cursor to the way it was before the shell when the user invokes the shell from something other than an input prompt. ------------------------------------------------------------ Changes made prior to v1.83: 12/15/91 Released v1.83 Modified the archive view functions to once again use non-buffered i/o (as v1.78 used to). This change was made because the time to expand archives (i.e. ZIP files) has doubled since v1.78 due to the overhead involved with the buffering. The non-buffered i/o may be slower under some multi-tasking environments, but for the majority of users it will be faster. 12/01/91 Released v1.82 11/30/91 Changed InteliCat to delete usage of comments when a file is deleted (this change doesn't change most setups, but if you're short on disk space it works better than the old method of determing deleted comments when the database is read). Fixed a few bugs in the registered users upgrade utility that kept the old field width settings from being moved over when the configuration file is formatted for v1.8+. Modified the comment editor to issue a message when you press F10 to save & advance while on the last file. After the message, pressing a key now returns you to the menu. Fixed other methods of advancing out of range when editing comments to cause a beep. Made cosmetic changes on the report headers to show 'InteliCat'. Fixed a bug that kept the keyword field width from being honored. Fixed a minor bug that caused the files time stamp to be displayed wrong by 32 minutes in some cases. 11/17/91 Fixed a bug in the expansion of ARJ archives. Released v1.81 10/5/91 Due to a naming conflict, v1.8 of my program begins with a new name. From this point forward, this program will be called InteliCat. This version is starting with a clean version of this file as the documenation has been completely rewritten. In short, this version has the following enhancments over what was previously v1.78: EMS/XMS can be utilized allowing databases to have 32,000 files. Advanced selection criteria can now be specified (using logical operators). A merge utility has been added to allow combining multiple databases. Individual files may now be deleted from the database. Disk names are now treated as non-case sensitive, and an option is provided to allow you to force all disk names to upper case as they are added to the database. InteliCat won't accept disk names that are unique by their case only. The comment entry screen has been completely reworked to allow easier input of comments. The comment import utility has been expanded to allow import of a greater variety of file/comment listings. Reworked the options input screens to provide a consistent user interface. (Also added several new options, and changed the format of the configuration file. LCNEW - available to registered users - will upgrade the old format configuration files to the new format. InteliCat supports startup in extended VGA/EGA modes. InteliCat now initializes faster on many computers. GIF Files are now support as ARChive types. 4DOS descript.ion comment files can be imported automatically. Many other minor changes help round out the most significant upgrade of InteliCat to date.