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- HISTORY.DOC FSLOGIN 1.4
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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
- prefered. 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.
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- (c) Confirm 1993, All Rights Reserved. March 1994
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