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*** Version 1.00 Released 05/13/92 ***
- Initial Release
*** Version 1.10 Released 07/18/92 ***
- Option to copy files to hard drive before download
- If above option is on, then RomDoor will add the file ROMDOOR.CMT to
the comment field of a ZIP file before the user downloads it.
Perfect for BBS ads!
- If your CD-ROMs have Volume labels and you have setup the CD Names
as the volume labels on the disks, then RomDoor will check the
drives to see which CD-ROMs are On-Line. This eliminates the need
for setting the CDSONLINE environmental variable.
(* NOTE *) You may still use the environmental variable, and you must if
your CDs don't have volume labels.
- DIRTODAT has been redesigned. Now you are presented with a screen
similar to WCFILE from WC! 3.5. This is a little easier to
understand.
- In addition DIRTODAT will now import multi-area file areas, that way
you don't have to separate the file areas for separate imports. To
import a multi-area text file, go to the area in MakeRom that is the
same as the first area in the text file. RomDoor will start
importing at that directory and will increment the area counter each
time it meets the end of a area (Blank line).
- Also now it will not import a invalid file name. So that means you
don't need to worry about headers or blank lines.
- MakeRom has more places where you can use PickLists, hopefully
making it easier to configure.
- PcBoard 14.5 is now supported. RomDoor will read in all the
pertinent data files. In addition to updating the DOOR.SYS so that
the PcBoard database is updated.
- Extended descriptions are now supported (PcBoard style), up to 10
lines of 40 characters each. Note: If you are upgrading you can
re-import you file areas and RomDoor will Update the record with
the multiline descriptions.
- Option to write directly to WC!'s log files. ACTIVITY.xxx
- You can now group the file areas together using group names, this is
extremely useful on multi-CD-ROM-drive systems, where you offer 100+
file areas to the user at a time. Press ALT-G from MakeRom to edit
the names and press F2 from that screen to select the areas that are
in the group.
- New VGA font, changes text appearance on local screen and in the
other utilities.
- Improved checking for files on the disk, you will get no incorrect
errors (Unless of course you setup the area paths incorrectly)
- Works perfectly with WC! 3.5. And looks more like it too, now it
puts *'s near the marked files.
(* NOTE *) If you are using WC! 3.5's autonode feature make sure that
you are loading up RomDoor directly from the node work
directory, that means simply changing your DOORx.BAT which
loads up RomDoor to something like this:
@ECHO OFF
C:\ROMDOOR\ROMDOOR
*** Starting with this release of RomDoor, all REGISTERED users will
have access to download premade RomDoor databases! That means if
you send in your money you can save hours by downloading the
databases instead of making them yourself!
If you already have the registered version, call IDS and logon,
once you get on the system leave me a message (JEFF BISSON) saying
that you are a registered user of RomDoor. I will upgrade you and
then you will have access to all of the PreMade databases and the
update for the RomDoor extra utilities, RDEXTRA.ZIP.
*** Version 1.11 Released 07/22/92 ***
This version is just a bug fix. It fixed a couple of bugs, they are:
1) In MakeRom when you said that the text file was a multi-area text file
MakeRom ignored this and didn't tell DIRTODAT. So it turns out that
DIRTODAT would not increment the area number each time it ran into a
blank line. (FIXED)
2) Also in Makerom when you told it to remove a file area it didn't.
This was also a result of MakeRom not passing a parameter to
DIRTODAT. (FIXED)
3) When you had setup RomDoor to add a comment to zip files it worked
fine for the internal protocols but didn't add them when the user
selected an external protocol. In fact RomDoor didn't even copy
files to the hard drive. (FIXED)
Now for batch downloads it copys all the files before the transfer
over to the HD, and for non-batch downloads it copys the files one
at a time. If there is not enough space on the drive for a certain
file it does not try to copy it and downloads directly from the
CD-ROM disk.
4) You will notice that v1.11 is smaller than v1.10. Do not be alarmed,
nothing import was taken out. In fact, for some reason (probably
stupidity on my part) there was duplicate code in the source code and
it turns out it was causing the EXE to become 9k larger than it
should be.
5) From the Add files prompt RomDoor wasn't printing the insufficient time
error to the user. This was quite confusing to the user since
RomDoor just dropped down to the next prompt and asked them to enter
in the next file giving no error, although it wasn't marking the
file. (FIXED)
For example:
File #1 name ? [NATURE.GIF ]
File #1 name ? [ ]
Now RomDoor tells them they have insufficient time by saying "Time
Limit would be exceeded".
There a couple of undocumented features related to DIRTODAT and what it
does. DIRTODAT is a separate EXE and doesn't need MakeRom to run. If
you ever encounter a problem importing in MakeRom try it from the command
line. Just type DIRTODAT from the command line and it will tell you the
available options.
*** Note DirTypeNum is the position number of the text file definition
*** record in DIRTODAT's configuration program (ALT-D from MakeRom).
***
*** For example you have the following text file definitions in
*** DIRTODAT's configuration program.
***
*** 1) CARRS
*** 2) FAO
*** 3) STORM
***
*** And you want to import the FAO2 disk. You would put a 2 in the
*** DirTypeNum field.
DIRTODAT can also be used to remove files from the database. There are
two ways you can delete the files. By deleting just one area or by
deleted all the files areas that are on one CD-ROM disk.
DIRTODAT REMOVE AREA 2 ; Delete files in file area number 2
DIRTODAT REMOVE CD 3 ; Delete files in the file areas on the 3rd
; CD-ROM disk
*** Version 2.00 Released 10/15/92 ***
RomDoor v2.00 has many new improvements over the previous versions
of RomDoor. Here is a list of the added features and changes.
The maximum of CD-ROM disks you can configure for RomDoor has been
increased from 25 to 32.
RomDoor now keeps a separate database for each CD-ROM drive. This
makes maintenance on the databases less risky. (You don't need to
worry about losing the whole database when your database gets
corrupted.) The directories are named ROMxx (xx being a number
between 01 and 32) and are created off of your RomDoor directory.
As you will notice MakeRom was COMPLETELY rewritten! It has a
totally different structure and you don't need to memorize a lot
of ALT keys anymore! This should make it much easier to use.
If you have more CD-ROM disks than CD-ROM drives (which is usually
the case you have the option to allow users to request files from
the offline file areas. This allows you to put your most
frequently used CD-ROM disks online while allowing your users to
request files from the offline disks. Read the section,
"Configuring and maintaining the Request feature" found in
ROMDOOR.DOC.
There is now an extra field in the CD-ROM info screen for volume
labels, this allows you to have a more explanatory name for the CD
than the volume label. You will also notice that there is another
field on the screen, "File To Look For", this field is used if you
have a CD-ROM disk which doesn't have a volume label. RomDoor will
check for this file when it is determining the online CD-ROM disks
and if found it will mark that CD as "online".
NOTE You will need to include the full path to the file, so for
example if you were going to use FILENAME.EXT which is located in
the root directory of the drive you would enter:
\FILENAME.EXT
Instead of just FILENAME.EXT.
If you have multiple CD-ROM drives and don't want to keep track of
the drive letters than you have the option to leave the "Drive
Letter" field blank in MakeRom. To use this feature make sure you
enter valid info in the "Volume Label" and/or "File To Look For"
fields. Also note to use this function properly you HAVE to leave
the drive letters out of the area paths when you are defining the
areas on the CD-ROM disks. For example:
\GIF\SCENERY\ instead of D:\GIF\SCENERY\
When a user does a text search for a text string in the description,
RomDoor will print out the record and put the text string found in
red (if they have color ON). This allows the user to see where the
text was found.
DIRTODAT.EXE no longer exists. It has been totally integrated with
MakeRom. You can delete the DIRTODAT.EXE from your disk. When you
run the upgrade program DIRTODAT.CFG will be renamed to TEXTDEF.DAT.
Do not delete the DIRTODAT.CFG.
The AT codes have been changed to match the way WildCat prints them
out. And finally I have made a list of the AT codes like promised.
(The list is in ATCODES.LST)
The "File Areas, (XX-XX) ..." prompt has two new options.
[C]hange CD : Allows the user to change the current CD from this
prompt in addition to the main menu as before.
[F]ind : Allows the user to search for text in the file areas'
name. Saves time looking for the numbers of file
areas!
On the -Pause- prompt while listing file areas there is a new
options.
[F]ind : Allows the user to jump to any file name in the
current file area that they are listing. Note that
this is not allowed on the very last screen of a file
area and while doing a text search.
*** Version 2.01 Released 11/10/92 ***
RomDoor v2.01 is mainly a bug fix, but it does include a couple new
features.
New Features:
Gets the user's default protocol from WildCat! or PcBoard and uses
that as their download protocol.
MakeRom can now import and remove file areas from the command line
for the parameters simply type MAKEROM /?.
Added the @FROM@ AT-Code.
Bug Fixes:
Major problem with the internal protocols where it would only allow
one download at a time at 2400 and 1200 non-MNP connections.
Request feature, if you were encountering a problem with fulfilling
the files that your users had requested then delete the files that
are in the REQUESTS directory (don't delete the directory itself).
You shouldn't encounter this problem again. Sorry for the
inconvience.
If the user has selected AUTO LOGOFF after download then RomDoor
will not send the GOODBYE screen. (That is to prevent -Pause-
prompts in the GOODBYE screen.)
MakeRom frequently froze on importations if you had problems with
MakeRom give it another try.
Fixed problem where RomDoor would repeat the file numbers during a
search.
*** Version 2.02 Released 12/25/92 ***
Bug Fixes:
When "Copy Files To HD" was set to "YES" and a user made an online
text file listing of some areas RomDoor would error out with a
runtime error 158. Fixed.
When you "Removed" a file area using ALT-R, MakeRom wouldn't free up
the memory used for BTree when it was finished. Fixed.
Well it turned out that I hadn't fixed the request feature and
sysops were still having major problems with it. To tell you the
truth I still don't know why the problem was occuring but I gave up
on BTree for that database since it wasn't really required for
operation. Currently it uses a simple database which "shouldn't"
encounter any problems. To use the request feature simply delete
the files that are in the REQUESTS directory off of your RomDoor main
directory (Don't delete the directory itself, just the files in it).
Fixed the bug with RomDoor selecting the incorrect external protocol.
When a user entered in a file name to download which didn't exist in
the databases, RomDoor would report "0 second(s)" as the transfer time
instead of "File not found". This only occured if you had the
request feature turned off and CD-ROM number 1 was not online. Fixed.
RomDoor would sometimes think that certain CD-ROM disks were not
online when they actually were online, this only occured when you left
the CD-ROM drive letter blank. It resulted from improper
initialization of the CD-ROM record. To correct simply go and "Edit
CD-ROM Information" move the bar to the CD-ROM disk and press ENTER.
Next press ENTER again to "Edit CD-ROM Info" and then press F10. It
will save the CD-ROM correctly and you shouldn't have the problem
again.
New Features:
RomDoor is now DESQView aware and will pass the time slices to
another window when it is inactive.