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BEAT THE PRICE INCREASE
Effective March 1, 1993 the price of DOSNIX wil be $35.00.
This increase reflects the cumulative improvement in quality,
performance and number of features since I first priced it at
$25.00. A new site license schedule for commercial users goes
into effect immediately.
New for DOSNIX version 2.2
1. READ has a new command to search back through the file
for a previous occurence of the search string. This feature
was badly needed but I had been putting it off because I
thought it was going to be hard to do. A while back I started
handling my own file buffer and this made it a lot easier. The
new command works like a champ and you can use either a "?" or
F9 as in LIST.
2. I added another command to the enhanced version - DU. Most
UNIX DU commands report usage in 512 byte blocks, which is not
very useful unless you are copying files to a 1.2 mb. floppy
disk. The DOSNIX DU command has options to report usage in
in 1k, 2k, or 4k blocks or to determine cluster size from
the FAT.
New for DOSNIX version 2.1
1. Read has received more improvements and will now configure
itself to use available memory. This means that READ will
run on a system as small as 192k and handle files as large as
65500 lines on larger systems. READ has also been given another
increase in speed and is now about twice as fast in all modes as
the version provided with 1.2j.
When using F4 to display the directory, the previously
selected file if any will be highlighted. This seems to
work better than resetting to the begining of the directory
each time.
If a string search fails you will now be returned to your
previous position in the file instead of being left at the
end of the file.
READ was previously modified to write pages directly to video
memory instead of using BIOS interrupts. This resulted in much
faster displays. I have now added a -b option which will cause
READ to use the BIOS. It may be necessary to use this option
with some non-standard computers or display adaptors.
Because this version of READ will handle files over twice
as large as the previous version, READXL.EXE has been dropped
from the enhanced version to make room for other things. I am
still committed to providing a large version of READ, so users
who register will receive a new large version with all of the
above improvements. This version can handle files of more than
150000 lines and up to 16 megabytes, depending on available
memory. There is a modest speed penalty involved in indexing
arrays with long integers but it is still faster than the old
READXL.EXE.
2. Three new commands have been added to the enhanced version,
DF, HEAD and TAIL. The DF command is less cryptic than most
UNIX DF commands and will tell you free space in both clusters
and bytes. It also has an option to display cluster size and
sector size. The TAIL command is fast, will accept wild cards
and multiple arguments, and has UNIX -c and -b options.
3. In deference to the increased number of DOS 5.0 users
HELP.BAT has been renamed MANUAL.BAT.
4. Some small improvements have been made in SGREP. When
redirecting the ouput to a file, extra line feeds would be
generated which did not show up with READ but did with
other text file viewers.