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- ZFV v1.2 - Changes
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- * ZFV now allows callers to extract 1 or more files from an archive into
- a "temp" archive file for download. The temp archive file that is
- created will be automatically Flagged when the caller is returned
- to PCBoard (if certain conditions are met ... keep reading ...).
-
- For this to work,
-
- 1). You must be running a version of PCBoard dated no earlier than
- 2/27/91.
-
- 2). ZFV must be run from PCB's "home" directory (ie. your PCBView.Bat
- file must not change the current directory)
-
- 3). The temporary archive file must be placed into a subdirectory
- that is part of your download path (see the /F switch below).
- By default, ZFV will put the temp archive into whatever
- subdirectory is used for PCBoard's "Temporary Work Files".
-
- New command line switches/options have been added to support this
- feature:
-
- /X will disallow archive file extraction
-
- /Fd:\path\ will cause ZFV to create any temporary archive files
- in d:\path\ rather than in the location specified by
- the PCBSetup "Temporary Work Files" entry which is
- the default. Note that the subdirectory name must
- immediately follow the switch (ie. no spaces between
- the /F and the d:\path\).
-
- Note that if both of these options are specified, /X will take
- precedence.
-
- Since you probably don't want these temporary archive files hanging
- around after the caller hangs up, ZFV will create a $$LOGOFF.BAT file
- in your PCBoard "home" directory to delete them. If you already
- have a $$LOGOFF.BAT file, then you'll have to modify it yourself to
- accomplish the cleanup. If you have told ZFV to put the temporary
- files into D:\PATH\, then add a line to your LOGOFF.BAT file that
- says "ERASE D:\PATH\ZTMP*.*" (or "ERASE D:\PATH\ZTMP%PCBNODE%" if you
- are running a multi-node board).
-
- * The selected archive file can now be FLAGged from within ZFV.
- It is assumed that if the entire archive is flagged for download
- the caller is basically done fiddling with it ... so ZFV will
- immediately return to PCBoard so the flag operation can be
- performed.
-
- * Patched the comm routines to remove a bug which sometimes caused
- the counters that track the number of characters in the I/O buffers
- to become corrupted.
-
- * Modified the way the program decides the speed at which to open the
- comm port when the "Hayes" flag is turned ON in PCBSetup.
-
- * The status line now shows both the comm port opening speed and the
- caller's connect speed.
-
- * Found a memory pointer that, in some cases, wasn't being initialized.
- While I doubt it's ever been fatal, it was sloppy.
-
- * Noticed that when reading a REDUCED file inside a .ZIP archive, 4K more
- bytes than is required could sometimes be allocated ... sloppy.
-
- * Fixed a runtime error 200 caused when an archive file contains all
- zero-byte files <sheesh! who'da thought it?>
-
-
- ZFV v1.1 - Changes
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-
- * If an archive contains stored path names along with file names, ZFV
- will now display them.
-
- * Documented the program's memory requirements . . . see the file
- Memory.Txt for the details.
-
- * The R)ead function was displaying FormFeed characters if they were
- found in the file. This causes some ANSI comm programs to clear the
- screen which results in some very strange pagination. Formfeeds are
- no longer displayed.
-
- * Fixed a problem that caused ZFV to think there was an error if it only
- read 128 bytes from the PCBoard.Sys file ... This causes a problem when
- trying to run in non-PCB environments via a converter utility.
-
- * Modified the program to accept any PCBoard 14.x PCBoard.Dat file ...
- this should help those folks attempting to run ZFV with another bbs
- package via a conversion utility.
-
- * Added code to support the /B switch when displaying files within an
- archive file. If the file is found to contain BINARY data, and if
- the /B switch has been specified on ZFV's command line, then the file
- will be uncompressed and displayed in a hex-dump format. If the file
- to be read contains ascii text, it will be displayed as usual.
-
- * Added a percent done figure to the More prompts when displaying files
- as in
- (15.3%) More: Y)es, N)o, NS)NonStop?
-
- * Added a H)elp command.
-
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