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Tower of Babel 1.3 ƒ
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Version History of Tower of Babel
1995,96 by Peter Schäfer
What's new in Version 1.3 ?
• Unicode based mapping tables
• Select a destination folder for newly created files
• Background processing
• Loose mapping: when no exact mapping is available, a similar
character is chosen. For example, many codes use the same character for
"ß" (sharp s) and "b" (greek beta)
• Convert text in the clipboard
• Improved Drag&Drop: drop folders, selective drag&drop
• File type suffixes (common on non-Mac systems);
works only with PC Exchange or Internet Config
1.0 6-Apr-95
known bugs; fixed in 1.1:
• under System 7.0, the program crashes when clicking in the "To:" menu
• if Low ASCII or High ASCII is checked, Line Breaks are converted, too
• if no resource fork is present, an empty one is created (wasting disk space);
• rarely, an irrelevant "System Error -39" is signalled;
fixed in 1.2:
• memory leak may cause crashes if many files (> 100) are processed
1.1 19-Jun-95
known bugs; fixed in 1.2:
• program crashes on 68K Macs with 32-bit addressing; bug fix released 2-Jul-95
• in the Filter Dialog: after selecting a different criterion,
balloon help still refers to the old items
new features:
• Preferences menu: save your preferred settings and switch quickly
between them
• Ask User: before renaming files, the user can edit the file name
• Keep Original File: files are copied rather than modified in place
• File Filter: displayed files can be filtered by a number of criteria (like name,
size, modification date, etc.); works much like the "Find File" dialog in
System 7.5
• Label: assign color labels to the selected files
• if no Text Conversion option is checked, Tower of Babel is much faster
• optical liftup, including color icons in file list and info dialog
• dictionary format changed (wild cards, etc.)
1.0 dictionary files have to be updated
• dictionary info dialog added
• DEC multinational encoding added
1.2 29-Sep-95
known bugs; fixed in 1.3
• Drag&Drop doesn't work in the background
• Crashes with Now Super Boomerang
new features:
• Tower of Babel can be put in the background
• Droplets; work like aliases, but remember settings; dropping files on
a droplet starts the conversion immediately (bypassing the main dialog)
• integrated Text Editor (simple, but effective for editing dictionary files)
• replace tabs by spaces or vice versa
• replace diacritical characters by TeX macros
• additional filter options: file kind, line break style,
contents (low/high ASCII chars); line break style is shown in info dialog
• new translation rules (two-way, one-way, exceptions)
• assign Command-Keys to Preference sets
• new encodings (Abicomp, BRASCII, several local Mac and DOS variants)
• improved behaviour with huge file sets and aliases (faster & safer).
• optical liftup (color, custom controls & menus)
1.3 23-Jan-96