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- │ 14.01 │ Major release │
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- ■ When MTA detected an archive inside an archive for which you did
- not supply a archiver (no ???Path option), MTA would move this
- archive to the error-path, then swap back to the parent MTA and
- would compress the new archive without this file. This was a
- nasty bug. Fixed;
- Reported by: Dirk Astrath
-
- ■ When the user wanted to terminate MTA (hitting ESC), MTA would
- not stop if multiple directories had to be processed. This is
- now fixed.
- Reported by: Many users, beta-team
-
- ■ Touching would (in some cases) go wild. This was caused by the
- the fact that MTA also used the included/excluded files for the
- test. These files would normally have a recent date, so all
- archives would get this high date (TouchHig).
- Reported by: Many users
-
- ■ With the introduction of volume-labels in PKZIP, MTA would report
- a file with invalid attributes when the ReportSpecialAttribute
- option was set to on. This file was also altered to a normal
- file and sometimes gone after this change. This is fixed. MTA
- will now ignore files with a attribute VOLUMEID.
- Reported by: Hanstheo Wolf
-
- ■ If MTA was unable to obtain the PROMPT environment variable from
- your master environment, MTA would use not prompt at all. Now,
- when MTA can not obtain a prompt, $P$G is substituded and when
- your prompt does not contain $P or $G, MTA will add this to the
- prompt even when you did not ask for it. This is done because it
- could be the case, you are left in a (for you) unknown directory
- and this little trick will fix that. The $P$G is only used inside
- MTA. When MTA is finished, you get your old prompt back (if any);
- Reported by: Dirk Astrath
-
- ■ If MTA was called with the /CTL command-line option, and this option
- was not the last command in the command-line, MTA would abort with
- something like '[next command] file not found'. You had to use the
- /CTL as the last option. This is fixed;
- Reported by: Hanstheo Wolf and Author
-
- ■ MTA contained a little flaw. The password-list (MTA.PWD or something
- supplied by user) was longer than 80 bytes. In some BBS implementa-
- tions, this caused a problem.
- Reported by: Hanstheo Wolf
-
- ■ MTA could hang on large archives. When the total number of DISPLAYED
- bytes inside the (de)compress shell was more than a certain number,
- MTA would hang the machine. See StowBuffer option. Fixed;
- Reported by: Author
-
- ■ Added a LogStartStyleFormat option to create extra log-records at
- the start of the new log. Also the LogStyleFormat option is en-
- hanced with ^M to reflect a CRLF combination. This feature is al-
- so added to the LogStartStyleFormat;
- Suggested by: Dirk Astrath
-
- ■ When a compressed file is in error, MTA will now COPY (not MOVE)
- the entry in the FILES.BBS-alike file to a file of the same type
- inside the error-path. This only works when the FilesBBS option
- is set to on;
- Suggested by: Dirk Astrath
-
- ■ Somewhat enhanced the ZIPAutodescription option to make it usable
- for ZIP, ZOO and PAK. Renamed the option to AutoDescription and
- made the old version obsolete in this release;
- Suggested by: Dirk Astrath
-
- ■ Changed the PasswordListPath option to RandomPasswordListPath and
- made the first obsolete. Also added a NormalPasswordListPath op-
- tion to MTA.CTL to log files with a normal password (supplied
- with /OPpassword);
- Sugested by: Hanstheo Wolf
-
- ■ Added full recursive support to all archivers that support such a
- feature. Added the SubstDrive option;
- Suggested by: Hanstheo Wolf
-
- ■ Added full EGA/VGA support to MTA (in all shells and in MTA itself)
- so users with default enlarged screens don't have to look to a
- very little MTA, running in the upper left corner of their huge
- screen.
- Suggested by: Joerg Dassler, Reinier de Groot, Hanstheo Wolf and
- Dirk Astrath
-
- ■ Older releases of MTA (nobody is perfect) could not detect arc-
- in-arc files when they did not occur in the (relative) root of
- the archive, so when a ZIP-file contained TEST.ME and \NEW\TEST.LZH
- (the directory \NEW also stored in the ZIP), MTA did not detect such
- a situation and the TEST.LZH was not converted to ZIP. This is now
- fixed.
- Suggested by: Dirk Astrath and author
-
- ■ MTA could add funny lines with trash in the FILES.BBS-alike file
- along with the CarryComment statement. This occurred with new
- files that were not already present in this file. This is fixed;
- Suggested by: Hanstheo Wolf
-
- ■ Added /LVL0 to process all files in the current directory, over-
- ruling any DefaultPath option. /LVL0 is the same as /W without a
- directory-name.
- Suggested by: Author
-
- ■ Added /LVL1 to process all files in all sub-directories under the
- current directory and NOT including the current directory itself,
- thus also overruling any DefaultPath option.
- Suggested by: Hanstheo Wolf
-
- ■ Added /LVL2 to process all files in all sub-directories under the
- current directory AND INCLUDING the current directory itself, thus
- also overruling any DefaultPath option.
- Suggested by: Hanstheo Wolf
-
- ■ Added /LVL3 to process all files in all directories on the current
- drive (starting from the root-directory), thus also overruling the
- DefaultPath option(s).
- Suggested by: Author & Hanstheo Wolf
-
- ■ Added the name of the directory that MTA is working on in the
- alternate display (the last 22 characters, or the last 24 when
- working in 132x?? extended text mode).
- Suggested by: Author
-
- ■ MTA could display 'path not found' messages in the little shell.
- This is fixed.
- Suggested by: Reinier de Groot
-
- ■ MTA could seem to hang with a AV-ed file when comments were
- added and/or deleted. Could only occur under 4Dos. This is
- (more or less) fixed (see notes on MTA and 4Dos).
- Suggested by: Reinier de Groot
-
- ■ MTA could seem to hang with a AV-ed file, when deleting files
- from the archive (ExcludeFile option). This could only occur
- when the filename started with a '-' (like --------.---). This
- is also fixed.
- Suggested by: Hanstheo Wolf
-
- ■ Fixed some display errors in /D option.
- Suggested by: Author
-
- ■ Changed the chained file MTA.CH1, called to display a pick-list.
- The pick-list will now test all files in the directory and will
- only display archives, independent of the extension. In this way
- you get .SDN, .SDS, .OWN or whatever files in the list if they
- are archives and even when you did set SFXFiles (/SFX) to off !
- Suggested by: Hanstheo Wolf
-
- ■ Removed the 4DosAware option and changed it to the Not4DosAware
- option. MTA will detect a full 4Dos environment itself. This
- can now be switched off, rather than switched on.
- Suggested by: Author
-
- ■ MTA's file-access if fully changed. When SHARE.EXE is present in
- the PC (networks, multitasking environment like DesqView and
- Windows), MTA will test and place the correct locks and sharing
- on the accessed file(s). If a file is denied by SHARE, MTA will
- wait until the file is released. The wait-period is configurable
- in MTA.CTL by means of the ShareWait option.
- Suggested by: Dirk Astrath
-
- ■ You can now, officially, run multiple copies of MTA at the same
- time. You must make your own checks to overcome any problems that
- would occur when you start to convert the same files in the dif-
- ferent copies.
- Suggested by: Author
-