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------------------------------ 23 AUG 93
Last Minute Notes BGTOP 2.2
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***** 2.2 *****
It's been seven months since the last BGTOP release. This version
adds a small speed increase, as it is now using a 100 user record
buffer instead of the 25 record buffer used in BGTOP 2.1. Also,
the number of maximum users BGTOP supports has been increased from
2500 to 4096. New memory routines are used to see if they work well
enough to be used in the next version of BGQWK. Background colors
are now supported for those who use them. Something new has been
added to the display. A "total box" will now appear. To suppress
the "total box", i.e., to make it appear similar to BGTOP 2.1 and
below, use the new "/NT" parameter.
***** 2.1 *****
Another long period of time before this release--twelve months.
I have updated the program to be more LAN friendly. It will now
read multiple records from the USER.CTL file at once and store it
in a buffer rather than reading records one at a time. This
increases performance on non-LAN systems by about 20% and on LAN
systems, performance is several times faster. The program has
also been recompiled under Borland's Turbo Pascal 6.0.
***** 2.0 *****
Oh my goodness--fifteen months since the release of BGTOP 1.9. I
have included some new goodies for you guys. Many features are
explained in the document. The 'door' mode has been reworked and
the maximum number of users BGTOP supports has been increased from
1800 to 2500. Hopefully this helps. I can't push it any more!
***** 1.9 *****
It's been over five months since the last release of BGTOP. The
reason is because I lost the source code and had to rebuild this
version from scratch. I have tried to make it identical to the
other version, but it is still prone to errors.
GT 15.50 systems can now run BGTOP without the /FC parameter. I
fixed the color locate error. As a result, the /FC parmeter has
been removed.
The maximum number of users BGTOP supports has been increased from
1500 to 1800 for you higher capacity systems.
***** 1.8 *****
This is just a minor bug fix release. Stephen Deplatter informed
me that BGTOP was not registering names of people that had
uploaded or downloaded more than 32 megabytes. BGTOP now supports
up to a full 64 megabytes! (They must do alot of file tranfers in
OZ, eh?)
***** 1.7 *****
Someone requested that I allow BGTOP to be run as a logon door,
and not have to make a bulletin everytime. BGTOP now uses
special direct screen writes (by Marshall Brain) for the "passing"
mode and then writes to the console when it prints the report.
To invoke this mode, simply saye "BGTOP DOOR [parameters]", and
it will work fine with GATEWAY. You can also redirect output to
a different device by "BGTOP DOOR [parameters] > DEVICE" where
DEVICE can be "COM1", "C:\GT\TOPUSER.CBS", etc. Note that you
will still see the "passing" screen, however, the user will only
see the "bulletin".
***** 1.6 *****
There have been both minor and major changes in the way that BGTOP
handles things. Hopefully none of the changes will cause you any
trouble, as it seems to work fine over here now.
In order for me to find the bugs, I need a complete description of
what the problem is. I may request a copy of your USER.CTL and/or
GT.CNF.
There is a new command '/FC' which will force BGTOP to use a set
of hard coded colors if it cannot read the GT.CNF properly, or
you wish to use the set yourselves. BGTOP will inform you to
use the /NF parameter when necessary.
Please leave me a netmail message to 001/040 telling me of your
successes or failures with BGTOP 1.6.
Finally, special thanks go to Bob Camp. He gave me a little
lesson on Turbo Pascal structure and directives and actually fixed
some of the coding in version 1.6. Thanks Bob!
Regards,
B.J. Guillot