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10-15-92 Initilize code written, not distributed.
10-18-92 Increased block size of copy buffers. In house testing only,
not released.
10-20-92 Added Communications support.
Changes to config file required.
In house testing only, Not released.
10-24-92 Added support to add Zip comments to files. Tweeked comm routines.
In house testing only, not released.
10-26-92 Added support for ARJ comments. Added swapping to EMS/EXT/DISK.
Tweeked Comm routines.
In house testing only, not released.
11-01-92 Optimized code for speed and reduced memory usage.
In house testing only, not released.
11-02-92 Added support to turn on/off add Comments routines, turn on/off
swapping to EMS/EXT/DISK.
Changes to config file required.
In house testing only, not released.
11-03-92 Added support for custom comm port configurations by entering
specific addresses.
Change to config file required.
In house testing only, not released.
11-08-92 Added support for caller info files other than PcBoard.sys,
(Dorinfox.def, CallInfo.bbs, and Door.sys).
Added support to specify path/filename to caller info file.
Added support to specify path/filename to 'Zfiles' list, now
can be any filename.
Added support for Max Baud rate of modem so high speed locked
modems no longer problem detecting callers/locked baud rate.
Added support to run as 'stand alone' mode or to run as a
pre-processor to file xfer programs and can now be
added directly to file xfer command line.
Change to config file required.
First public ßeta testing. First limited release.
11-14-92 More increased carrier detect on comm ports.
No problems reported from ßeta sites.
Minor code changes for optimizing speed.
QuickBBS users:
Just found out, QuickBBS does not have support for external
protocols, unless you are running a file door of some
type. File doors that use external protocols should not
be a problem. Using QuickBBS without a file door cannot
use this program as there are not any provisions to run
external programs before/after downloads and external
'command line driven' protocols does not exist.
Offical release for wide scale beta testing,
11-22-92 Changed file handling routines.
Problems found on PcBoard systems,
Will not work with PCB's internal file xfers.
This or any other program cannot operate if PCB never exits.
PCB has 2 methods for external xfers, one for single file xfers
and one for batch mode, working on a fix.
12-05-92 Major Re-write. Several speed related optimizations to code.
Should handle single file xfers now as well as batch mode. Initial
test indicated a problem on PcBoard systems by passing batch mode
transfers and single file transfers.
Changed Config file format, Remove line 14! as it is no longer used.
This should be the last config file change! (I think..<G ).
Limited Beta Testing.
Current Filename is now FM101.ZIP.
12-10-92 Was still having problems on PcBoard systems, new code and
updated docs should take care of the problem. ;-)
Upgrades to this version should check the doc file for
possible changes to batch/protocol definition file updates.
If this works, hope this is the last change.
No config file changes required for this release.
Command line options bascially the same, some new additions.
12-12-92 Added an option to purge the entire work directory, use
with caution, it deletes EVERTHING in that dir.
12-18-92 Official release! FM103.ZIP
01-04-93 FM104.ZIP
Added Support to keep new file date/time same as original file.
If upgrading, add a '1' or the word 'Yes' before the comm port line
if you wish to use this feature, else place a '0' or the word 'No'.
Do not use the ' marks of course.
FM104.ZIP new release name.
01-12-92 FM104A.ZIP
Released fm104.zip with an older verion of the sample config file,
the docs did show proper config file format, few people actually
read the docs..sigh..
Released as FM104a.zip with new sample config.
02-02-93 FM200.ZIP
■ Concerned with the # of people having a difficult time
with the config files, I've added support to put comments
into the config files which you may leave in there, seperate
actual commands/options and comments with a semi-colon, ';'
anything after the ; is ignored.
See the sample config file for an example.
■ Removed 50 file batch limits, no limits now.
■ Add 4 lines to end of current config files!
Additional Line 1: Added Support for max number of files to
process, 0 = no limit. 10 = 10 files etc
This would be Line # 16.
Additional Line 2; Added support for maximum file size to
process. 0 = no limit, 100000 = 100K max etc
This would be line # 17.
Additional Line 3: Added support to delete specified files from
.ZIP and .ARJ files (registered versions) to
delete those darn advertisements.
Specify full path/filename to ascii file
containing filenames or blank to disable
this option.
This would go on line # 18.
Additional Line 4: Send only brief processing information to
on-line caller? (1 or Yes, 0 or No),
may help improve processing speed when
callers baud rates are at 2400 or below.
This would go on line # 19.
■ Fixed problems with high speed connects that caused comm output
to be slooooooow.
■ Fixed Intermittent lockup problem with users running HS modems.
■ Automatic detection and useage of 16550 uarts for optimizing comm.
■ Caller's baud rate is now read for all locked port rates, previous
versions never read the caller info file if we determined you had
a locked port rate of greater than 2400, this is no longer the
case, if you have a problem with the program complaing that it
cannot find your caller info file and you didn't have that
problem before, it might be that we never needed to read it
before, but we do now. Check the path/filename of the caller
info file and make certain it is correct.
■ Added note: We can use Conventional memory, EMS, EXT, or disk
for swapping but you MUST remember to configure this properly!
If your system does not have EMS/EXT memory, do not set the
Swap option to Yes, if no EMS/EXT memory is available we will
use disk for swapping which is a slow process depending on your
disk speed.
■ All file handling, file processing, comm routines, heck basically
everything re-written from scratch. Works well but added about
20K to .exe file size (argh!). Most of the code size is dedicated
to accomidating almost every BBS software, being highly
configurable, and to work in a variety methods.
Will be working on reducing this some, if possible,
in future releases.
02-26-93 FM200A.ZIP
■ Fixed a possible problem not informing callers that
that File Massage was working with single file transfers.
■ Found out that some versions of Zmodem seem
to think that single file transfer protocols like XModem can't
have a batch list indicator even if the batch only contains
one filename. All other protocols on the planet handle it
just fine. This is a bug in the ZModem program as far as I'm
concerned, Fmassage can process the files, write the new list
reflecting the filenames etc, but if your version of Zmodem
won't take it, there's not too much I can do until this
is fixed.
For those using Xmodem variety of said protocol,
you'll need to add Fmassage on the same command line as
the protocol using something either:
Fmassage Fmassage.cfg Zmodem sx %3
Fmassage Fmassage.cfg /r Zmodem sx %3
etc.
Substitute 'Zmodem' above for real name of said protocol.
This feature was already built into Fmassage. If you're using
a /r or /p or /L in your current implementations, you should
still be able to use it here.
■ Input and output batch filename cannot be the same name!
example: fmassage fmassage.cfg @c:\bbs\batch.lst @c:\bbs\batch.lst
is not allowed!. Choose a different name for the last one.