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- 22DISK Version 1.36 Release Notes
-
- April, 1991
-
- We had to do something. With over 320 definitions, the CPMDISKS.DEF
- file was getting out of hand. Version 1.35 is the result of our
- tinkering.
-
- If you're not given to playing with the 22DISK diskette defintiion
- file, you can skip the following--you'll notice no significant changes
- in the way 22DISK operates.
-
- However, if you "roll your own" definitions, you should know that
- the random (indexed) form of the CPMDISKS.DEF file is now "tokenized".
- That is, keywords are replaced with one-byte values. Redundant space
- characters are also removed and the text on the BEGIN line only appears
- in the index, not also in the body.
-
- Another change is that the .LBL files are now incorporated into the
- CPMDISKS.DEF file at GENINDEX time--you don't have to carry them along
- separately.
-
- STRIPIDX will now "re-constitute" the ASCII form of the CPMDISKS file,
- and extract the .LBL files. Because of the tokenizing process, there
- may be some small differences in line layout of the reconstituted form.
-
- Fear not, 22DISK will still accept the non-indexed ASCII form of
- CPMDISKS.DEF. So you can tweak and test without having to GENINDEX.
-
- All of this saves us about 51K on the distribution copy--not too shabby.
-
- Our next move is to combine all of the modules into a single program.
- We'll also buffer our directory reads and writes and introduce an ASCII
- configuration file. Should be out around August--watch for it.