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- Procopy Update
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- This file describes changes made to ProCopy since version 2.10. These
- have not yet been described in the Manual.
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- v2.12 1.7Mb Microsoft Distribution Discs
- ----------------------------------
- ProCopy can now read, write, and save/load to a hard disc the special
- 1.7Mb discs used to distribute some PC programs. As yet it cannot format
- these discs (the normal routines can't cope with this type of disc so it
- will need a lot of work) but I hope to be able to do so eventually.
-
-
- v2.13 Logfile
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- ProCopy can now keep a Logfile of all discs copied. This can be either
- Daily or Monthly. Whether a log is kept and which type is set by three
- new icons in the Options Window. Use of these should be self-evident.
-
- The logfile will be kept in the directory defined by the OS Variable
- ProCopyLog$Dir. If this does not exists then they will be kept in the
- sub-directory 'Logs' or the PropCopy application directory.
-
- A logfile is a simple textfile with the name of each disc copied, one
- per line. No time/date records are kept, but if anyone does want this
- information it could easily be included, so please let me know.
-
- The logfile is automatically created, and is in the form Log_<date>,
- where <date> is either two or four digits, YYMM for monthly logs, YYMMDD
- for daily. The 'backwards' date format was chosen because it will show
- the logfiles in sequence when viewed in a directory.
-
-
- v2.16 Can now format 1.7Mb discs. Now displays the name of the disc
- being read when reading begins instead of when completed.
-
-
- !CopyLog application
- --------------------
- This serves two purposes. Firstly as a repositary for logfiles. Its
- !Boot file defines the logfile directory as its sub-directory 'Logs', so
- as long as the filer has 'seen' !CopyLog before !ProCopy is run the logs
- will be kept within !CopyLog.
-
- Secondly it will have various tools for manipulating logfiles and
- putting them into formats more suitable for analysis.
-
- At present there is only one (very crude but functional) application.
- This takes all the logfiles and sorts the disc names, showing the number
- of copies of each disc made. This is probably what most people will want
- as it, in effect, creates a 'report' of each month/days activity and
- lets you see quickly which discs were most often copied.
-
- This list can be sorted in two ways - in alphabeticat order, or in
- descending order of the number of copies made.
-
- You can repeat the operations on a logfile if you add more discs to the
- same file, the program can operate with either 'raw' logfiles or ones
- already processed, or mixed files which have been processed and then had
- more data added.
-
- As the logfiles are just textfiles they can be joined together in a text
- editor for creating reports over larger time periods.
-
- Please let me know if there are any other functions you would like.
-
- David Holden - April 1996.
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