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Downsort Version 5.9
Please read also the commentlines marked '5.9' in Downsort.Cfg!
■ Considerable changes in parameter specifications:
∙ Support of most commandline parameters removed!
∙ Support for keywords 'MaxNewFiles' and 'TitleFont' in
Downsort.Cfg also removed: use xxxFileList for individual
specifications for each list.
∙ Multiple 'xxxFileList' lines in Downsort.Cfg are supported now:
- You may now specify as many xxxFileLists with the same(!) or
different list types as you need.
- Each xxxFileList, regardless of same or different list, will
generate one and only one list according to its own set of
parameters.
- Only a single privilege is now accepted per xxxFileList line,
but this may now be accompanied by 'userkeys'; specification
in the form: p/kkk.
∙ File sort sequence (GROUP-sort) added for NEWFileList: primary
sort on area, then on filename. Each group will be preceeded in
the list by a line with areaname and description. GROUP-sort
works also for ORPHAN-lists, but is for all other lists synonym
with ALPHA.
■ The contents of ALLFileList can now be limited by file-age, so it
can be called a NEWFileList in the format of ALLFileList or vice
versa. But the SUMMARY-report ignores the file age limitation!
■ FILES.BBS-files will be (re-)generated also when area does not
contain any files.
■ Full support of Maximus' key/lock mechanism for filearea selection.
Key-characters follow the xxxFileList privilege, separated with a
slash, exactly the same as the area privilege specification in
MAX.CTL. The privilege line in area heading will now also show the
arealocks.
■ With the new keyword 'FileEXclude' you can define filespecs (with
wildcards) of files which should not appear in any list.
■ Tired of the complaints about specification limits, I removed most
of these. For example now unlimited number of title-lines,
areaIN/EXclude strings, non-duplicate file extensions, xxxFileList
lines, etc.
■ AreaINclude and AreaEXclude can now be used simultaneously.
■ Files with 'future' date will be excluded from NEW-, BBS- and
EMI-lists (special feature for certain CDROMs!).
■ All block fonts now support same characterset (fonts 3 and 4 have
been extended with the characters supported in fonts 1 and 2), and
specification of block-font parameter now honored in all lists.
Default font for all lists changed to 3.
■ Performance improvements with sorts on filedate, and during
directory scan (the latter only of 32-bits version).
■ bugfixes:
∙ Filedates beyond 2037(!) could cause empty BBS-, NEW- and
EMI-FileLists.
∙ No 'duplicates' with only case differences in short OKList
anymore.
■ Downsort's companion program HPFSDATE (and the 32-bit version
HPFSD386) can now reset the creationdate of files also in other than
current working directory.