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- WHAT'S NEW
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- Version 3.25 has had added to it the information concerning registration by
- credit card using the Public (software) Libary. A problem has been corrected
- which occurred occasionally as a result of a memory conflict in returning to
- the 50 line hi-res screen from a help call. An immediate refusal to proceed
- with the further narrowing of a search once no "hits" remain has been added to
- the search screen.
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- The only changes to version 3.24 are those necessary to permit the system to
- run from read-only media such as a CD ROM. To run that way, the current
- directory must be one with write access and the ROM directory must be in the
- path, or appended with the APPEND drive:\dir /X:ON /PATH:ON command. If running
- a registered version from read-only media the LICENCE.PGF file (the "key file")
- should be in the current directory where it will override the (unregistered)
- one on the ROM.
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- Different STOPWORD and DELIMIT files may also be included in the current
- directory to override those on the ROM.
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- LAN use from a shared read-only drive or directory may be achieved by treating
- the directory as a ROM.
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- Racontex 3.23 differed from 3.1 in only a few ways. A few bugs have been fixed
- and the display routine has been altered so that pressing => at the last
- occurrence of a search criterion no longer returns you automatically to the
- "search criterion" screen, you have to press ESC to get back.
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- Racontex now runs under WINDOWS, using a single screen for user dialog. It
- also still runs under DOS.
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- Association of Shareware Professionals documentation has been added to this
- release, but apart from minor changes to the Registration Reminder Screen to
- comply with ASP requirements there has been no chnage in function to what is
- now a very stable program.
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- DOS 4.01 is not fully compatible with earlier versions of DOS and many programs
- have had to be revised to work with it. Racontex is one of them, and version
- 3.23 will work with DOS 4.01, 5.0 and 6.0 as well as with previous versions.
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- The program may now be navigated using a mouse, as well as the keyboard.
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- The main addition is WordPerfect 5.1 support in the search program. When the
- [P] option is used to write to a WordPerfect file, version 3.1 wrote in
- WordPerfect 4.2 format, which WordPerfect 5.0 automatically converted.
- WordPerfect 5.1 does not, but it will read WordPerfect 5.0 files. Racontex now
- writes as a default in WordPerfect 5.0 format. If you only have WordPerfect
- version 4.2 you may still obtain files it can read by putting the option /WP42
- on the command line when starting RACONTEX.
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- Virtually all of the major word processors will read WordPerfect 5.0 files
- successfully, including MicroSoft Word for Windows.
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- Since Racontex appends to a file if you give it the name of an existing
- file, it now checks the file type and if the file is written in WP 5.0 or 5.1
- it writes in that format, even if the /WP42 option is set. If the file is in
- WP 4.2 format it writes in that format even if /WP42 is not set.
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- Printer and File export has been expanded so that all pages of a document, or
- all pages matching the search criteria may be exported (previously only the
- currently displayed page could be exported for each key press).
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- To aid in protecting proprietary information published in Racontex form, an
- option has been added which makes a database "non-portable" (illicit copies
- won't work) and limits file export to the current page.
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- The REGISTER program makes possible registration by the use of a "registration
- number" which may be given by telephone or other means, principally intended to
- allow the author to correct misspellings on the identification line of
- registered copies.
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- The LOAD routine now operates on larger files (or breaks them into larger
- pieces) which speeds up the load by 30% or so.
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- The limit on document size has been raised from 8,000 pages to 16,000 pages.
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- If RACONTEX is invoked without a filename on the command line, it now presents
- a menu of files it finds in the current subdirectory, and these may be selected
- by mouse or arrow keys.
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- A new module RCNTXWIN.EXE is now included, which is a windows program. It
- looks after all of the user dialogue, and runs the the other programs for you.
- PIF files and an icon for RACONTEX are included. You start it by the command
- WIN RCNTXWIN from the subdirectory in which you keep your RACONTEX files.
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- The delay in the "Commercial" screen for unregistered users has been reduced to
- 3 seconds from 5 seconds to comply with ASP requirements.
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- The INSTALL procedure now sets up on-line documentation, to be read within
- RACONTEX, as a RACONTEX database.