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- DOSNIX now has a support BBS. John Morrison, SYSOP of the
- MAILBOX BBS, has graciously provided a support conference for
- DOSNIX and PDQ Utilities. If you have any questions, comments
- or problems just leave a message and I will be happy to help
- you. You can also download the latest versions of DOSNIX and
- PDQ. The number of The Mailbox is (607) 798-0315.
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- New for DOSNIX version 2.0e
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- 1. The mods made in 2.0c worked fine with MSDOS on my VGA
- system. They also worked with DRDOS on my CGA system. I
- just tried MSDOS on my CGA system and could not use READ,
- LS, or FFIND. Turns out that MSDOS wiil not store the
- number of screen rows in low memory unless you are using
- EGA or VGA. DOSNIX now defaults to 25 rows for CGA and
- Hercules monitors.
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- New for DOSNIX version 2.0d
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- 1. A DOSNIX user reported the following problem: When
- LS and FFIND were used with extremely large DOS partitions
- (greater than 32mb) the amount of free space reported was
- wrong. This was due to overflow when converting from
- clusters to bytes. The problem has now been fixed.
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- New for DOSNIX version 2.0c
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- 1. When LS and FFIND were used without ANSI.SYS being
- installed, there were some problems with highlighting.
- EDC had a problem of this nature when displaying the
- directory tree. These problems have now been fixed.
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- 2. Both versions of READ now use direct screen writes for
- faster pages. CGA cards are automatically detected and
- horizontal retrace checking is performed to avoid snow.
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- 3. READ can now handle text modes other than 80 X 25 and
- will configure itself to the mode in use, including 132
- column modes. LS, EDC, FFIND and CLR have also been
- modified to work properly in extended text modes.
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- New for DOSNIX version 2.0b
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- 1. When using EDC, if the -t option was combined with the
- -s option, the path file would be removed but a new one would
- not be generated. EDC would then have to scan the drives
- the next time it was used. The problem has now been fixed.
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- New for DOSNIX version 2.0a
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- 1. EDC now uses just one path file for all hard disk
- partitions, stored in the root directory of drive C.
- This change improves the way the backspace key works
- during speed searches, and should allow EDC to run
- faster on large systems with many logical drives. You
- can still access drives explicitly but the speed advantage
- won't be that great. Floppy drives still have a separate
- path file for each floppy, and you will have to scan each
- floppy disk to install the path file.
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- 2. When a directory was created, removed or renamed
- on a drive locked out with EDNOSCAN, EDC would still
- try to access the path file. This problem has now been
- fixed.
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- 3. LS has been upgraded to work with the new version of EDC.
- You should not try to use an older version of LS with this
- version of EDC.
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- New for DOSNIX version 2.0
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- 1. READ will now allow you to pull in a new file without
- leaving the program. Pressing F4 will display the current
- directory. You can then use the arrow keys to select a
- new file or a new directory. You can start the program in
- this mode by using a directory as an argument. F2 and F3
- can now be used to start and continue string searches.
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- 2. EDC has been completely reworked and can change to any
- directory on any hard drive without using a drive spec.
- EDC will automatically scan your drives the first time it
- is run. Unwanted drives can be locked out by setting the
- environment variable EDNOSCAN to the letters of the drives
- you want to ignore. When displaying the directory tree,
- EDC will now give you an opportunity to choose a directory
- at the end of each page. A new menu for matching directories
- has been installed in both EDC and LS.
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- 3. FFIND can now locate files either by date or number of
- days back.
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- 4. SGREP is now a lot faster than it used to be.
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- Gerald M. Vrooman
- Chenango Shoreware
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