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- Ver 0.10:-First Beta release, several bugs as to be expected
- -3500 lines of code
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- Ver 0.11:-3600 lines of code
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- -Added support for external virus scanner
-
- -Removed restriction of maximum 500 files
-
- -Added support for an external GIF, JPG, and BMP viewer
-
- -Fixed bug where file_id.diz was extrated but then not
- deleted after the information was used.
-
- -Now optionally runs fb.exe (or fbp.exe) on exit
-
-
-
- Ver 0.12:-3600 lines of code
-
- -Fixed bug with displaying lists of files. Sometimes the
- display would get corruped when displaying with screen
- widths greater than 80 and a files.bbs window grew too much
-
- -Fixed bug where the target files.bbs was backed up and
- then deleted
-
-
-
- Ver 0.13:-3700 lines of code
-
- -Fixed bug with tabbing between windows. First window
- would often disappear
-
- -Fixed bug where second window was initially shown with
- a highlighted border rather than non-highlighted
-
- -Now supports up to 10 filearea.ctl files
-
- -Able to both grow and shrink windows now.
-
- -Able to extract FILE_ID.DIZ from archive and use it as the
- file description
-
- -Able to maximize a window
-
- -Pressing right or left arrows while in a menu window
- advances to the next menu window
-
- -Scrolling down is now more pleasing as the selection moves
- to the bottom of the window before scrolling the window.
-
- -Fixed crash when relative paths were given in filearea.ctl
-
- -Allows includes within the fileara.ctl
-
- -Fixed bug that caused MaxFile2 to crash if files.bbs DNE
-
- -Source code now included
-
- -Dos port will be attempted by Craig Morrison@1:201/60.0
-
- -Fixed parsing error of files.bbs. It was assumed that the
- file name took up exactly the first 12 characters.
-
- -Touch would not work from the files menu.
-
-
-
- Ver 0.20 -4000 lines of code.
-
- -Raised maximum number of file areas to 1000
-
- -Fixed a cosmetic bug with changing the window size
-
- -It is now possible to select multiple file archives
- and apply most of the file menu options to each selected
- archive. That is, Multiple move, contents, verify,
- re-archive, delete, Picture view, touch, and virus check
- is now possible and extract file_id.diz for the description.
-
- -Fixed a bug with the area selection window. The display
- would get out of synch with the area actually selected.
-
- -Fixed another small bug in the area selection window
-
- -added a display of the number of the area in the area
- selection window.
-
- -Added the ability to go more directly to an area in the
- area selection window by simply entering the area number.
-
- -Header comments for each files.bbs are now saved
-
- -Fixed bug where any punctuation or numbers at the end of
- a file description were lost.
-
- -Fixed a bug where the files.bbs was not written out after
- a description was changed by extracting the file_id.diz
-
- -Fixed a display bug with growing and shrinking windows
- (turned out to be a compiler bug).
-
- -Fixed a bug when pressing page down in a menu went to the
- second to last option rather than the last option.
-
- -Added wrapping of selection for menus when either at the
- first or last option.
-
- -Menu windows now close immediately upon selection.
-
- -When file does not exist but there is a description in the
- Files.bbs, Maxfile now shows it as offline.
-
- -Fixed a bug in the description editor: Pressing the right
- arrow at the end of a description moved the cursor up one
- line.
-
- -Virus scanner didn't. Now it does.
-
- -Removed some debugging messages in the virus scanner.
-
- -Files.bbs are no longer written every time they are
- modified. It is stored in memory and then you can save
- from the files menu, by switching areas (you will be
- given a choice) or by exiting where you will also be
- given a choice.
-
- -Fixed a display bug (sometimes caused core dumps) when the
- description at the bottom of the window was changed.
-
- -Fixed bug that caused a core dump and display corruption if
- the last file in a window was selected and the window was
- then repeatedly shrunk.
-
- -Fixed bug: When file_id.diz was extracted, too much was
- taken and the description for the file became too long.
-
- -File descriptions are now limited to 250 characters
-
- -Source code no longer included. Available on request.
-
- -Work was begun on a PM version.
-
- -Shrinking/growing windows is now more cosmeticaly attractive.
-
- -All C++ features of the code were removed to take care of
- any dependancy on GNU software.
-
- -Fixed a small display bug when view contents. Now, page
- down will not overshoot the display of contents.
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-
-
- Ver 0.21 -4300 lines of code.
-
- -Choosing Description->Use File_id would only scan the
- selected file for a file_id.diz. It now scans all selected
- files. It also does not replace the present description
- unless the file_id.diz exists
-
- -!!!!Picture viewing is now multi-threaded. The name of the
- presently display picture is displayed on the top line of
- the main window at the right..
-
- -Selections appeared to remain selected after viewing the
- contents of file when in fact they weren't.
-
- -!!!Re-archiving files is now multi-threaded. The window that
- contains the files being re-archived is then locked to that
- area until the re-archiving is done. The file presently
- being re-archived is displayed at the top of the main
- window.
-
- -Fixed bug: re-archiving a file to the same type resulted in
- deleting the file.
-
- -Added config variable that allows for low priority
- re-archiving of files.
-
- -Selections remained after the window had been resorted.
- Since the order had changed, the selections often changed.
- Now, after a sort, nothing is selected.
-
- -When the highlighted file was two away from the bottom, the
- window would both scroll down and the highlighted file would
- go to the bottom. Annoying and now fixed.
-
- -Letter for Pic view in the file menu was not capitolized.
-
- -Now, MaxFile/2 uses the environment variable TMP for
- re-archiving and virus scanning. If it is not defined, a
- user defineable temporary directory is used. If that is
- also not defined, the present directory is used.
-
-
- Ver 0.22 -4400 lines of code
-
- -Now releases some memory that was used for the thread but
- not released before.
-
- -Number to the left of the area would get out of synch with
- the area when hitting the page up key. Fixed.
-
- -Due to popular request, the colour for file name,
- description, date, size and highlight colour are now
- configurable through the maxfile.cfg
-
- -Added config variable to allow the automatic adoption of
- orphans when a new file list is read in.
-
- -Bug fix: directory where file was extracted for a virus
- scan was not removed.
-
- -Bug fix: Selection was not re-highlighted after viewing a
- picture
-
- -Bug fix: In update from 0.20 to 0.21, a bug entered where
- attempting to extract a file_id.diz when one did not exist
- resulted in a core dump.
-
- -Bug Fix: WHen selecting an area, if END was pressed, the
- area selected was one greater than the area shown
-
- -FileArea.ctl is no longer needed or used. All the needed
- information is obtained from the areas.dat (Hooray!!)
-
- -Bug fix: If you tried to edit a description in an empty file
- area, you would get garbage.
-
- -Bug Fix: actions in an empty area could result in the
- program locking or core-dumping. Now you cannot do anything
- in an empty area except change to a new area, adopt orphans,
- exit, or resan the area
-
- -Selection not re-highlighted after a file->contents or a
- file->verify.
-
- -FBP is now run on the correct areas (was not previously but
- no one ever noticed this).
-
- -Added ability to open up initial two windows in areas of
- your choosing.
-
- Ver 0.23 -4600 lines of code.
-
- -Scanning of file info is now *MUCH* faster. Before, it took
- about 50sec for a CD-ROM area with ~300 files. Now it takes
- about 2 sec.
-
- -Added a large number of hotkeys to perform many of the menu
- options. The menu options still work but many will prefer
- the hotkeys.
-
- -Added on-line help. Pressing <F1> gets help at many
- different stages.
-
- -Trying to move a file that does not exist now results in the
- description of the file being moved.
-
- -When selecting an area and entering the number of that area,
- the title of that window showed "0-xxxx" where xxxx was one
- more than the maximum enterable number. Now fixed.
-
- -Now, extract file_id.diz also works for DESC.SDI files
-
- -Added ability to grow/shrink top or bottom of windows
-
- -Released into the FWBBS file echo for general availablity
- beta testing
-
-
- Ver 0.24 -4700 lines of code.
-
- -Found a simple and quite nice method of saving comments that
- are in the files.bbs. Now all comments are saved and can be
- edited just like a file description.
-
- -Bug fix: The date displayed was the last access date rather
- than the last write date (Max uses the last write date on
- HPFS). On FAT, there was no problem.
-
- -Scrolling up in a window is now as fast as scrolling down.
-
- -Bug fix: If you deleted the last couple of files in a
- window, the display could become corruped and a core dump
- might occur.