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- PCBDE v4.03
- Copyright (c)1996 by Practical Computer Services
-
- HISTORY OF CHANGES, FIXES, & ADDITIONS
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-
- BIG NEWS! BIG NEWS! BIG NEWS! BIG NEWS! BIG NEWS! BIG NEWS! BIG NEWS! BIG NEWS!
-
- 09/22/96
-
- Practical Computer Services is proud to be the new owner of this fine software.
- PCS will now be taking all registrations, releasing all new updates and
- handling all support questions. See v4.02 release notes for additional
- information.
-
- BIG NEWS! BIG NEWS! BIG NEWS! BIG NEWS! BIG NEWS! BIG NEWS! BIG NEWS! BIG NEWS!
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- v4.04 10/08/96
- Corrected a path problem within the PPE that I broke during the last
- compile. (OOPS!) Make sure to create a directory named DATA under
- your main PCBDE directory. See PCBDE.DOC for details.
-
-
- v4.03 10/03/96
-
- Corrected some problems with the key routines for detecting if the
- program is registered or not.
-
-
- v4.02 09/29/96
-
- Practical Computer Services has purchased the source and rights to
- PCBDE from GO/4 Software as of 09/22/96. Changes made to the code
- and related files to reflect this change of ownership. Please direct
- all questions and registrations to PCS, not GO/4 Software.
-
- Company info:
-
- Practical Computer Services
- 483 Klockner Road
- Hamilton, NJ 08619
-
- Voice: (609) 584-7947
- Support BBS: The TAO BBS (609)587-2672 33,600 USR v.everything
- Internet E-Mail: bob.watson@tao.com
-
-
- v4.01u 12/08/95 * Added Universal Key Routines.
-
- * Added code to make PCBDE Dbase capable, this
- will eliminate all the LST files (in the next
- version) and should greatly speed up the dispaly
- for all you people running 100's of doors.
-
- * Replaced alot of the internal code with Functions
- and procedures, making debugging much easier.
-
- v4.01 06/29/94 * Added a new configuration file, for those of you running
- with long path names, you can add the path to a file
- called LONGPATH.DAT, and have your path picked up from
- there, this is only neccesasry for PPE's. Format of
- LONGPATH.DAT is as follows:
- 9;C:\PCB\PPE\GAMES\ADVENTURE\TEXT\
- ┌───────────┘│└────────────┐
- The number as shown on │ Full path (remember no PPE name),
- the doors open menu! │ with the trailing slash!
- ┘
- A Semi-Colon
-
- Simple, No? Then the only thing you need to place in
- the PCBDE.CFG (in the slot for path) is the keyword
- LONG. Using the LONG parameter here, will tell PCBDE
- to look in the file LONGPATH.DAT.
- Any questions? Give a call.
-
- v4.00 06/08/94 * New owners! GO/4 Software are now the support, registration
- and programmers for the newly named PCBDE (previously called
- TCMDE).
-
- * Display modifications to reflect the new company name, added
- the (A)bout feature (all of our software has it in it, just
- basically a "who we are" screen, only those people who know
- about it bother with it anyway <G>.
-
- * Placed hooks into the code so that we can launch both PPE's
- and regular door programs and have them register in the
- counter display. This will be in ver 4.01.
-
- v3.62 12/06/93 * I finally broke down and called Clark to find out EXACTLY
- what was causing the Buffer errors. They gave me some
- hints, and I recoded a few segments! I sure hope this takes
- care of the problem!
-
- v3.61 12/02/93 * Recompiled with 12-01-93 beta of PPL 2.0. This should
- hopefully get rid of the nasty buffer errors that where
- cause by the Beta compiler!
-
- v3.60 11/15/93 * Fix a few spelling errors in the Display files! I was not
- an English major!!:)
-
- * Recompiled code with PPLC version 2! Optimized code for new
- compiler. Performance improvement noted on my system. Added
- a few incentives to register the code.
-
- v3.51 11/09/93 * Minor Bug Fix. Something went amiss with the 3.50 compile.
- The code was STILL not picking up the PPE Paths from
- the menu............................................FIXED!
- This one was a real pain to track down! Several code
- segments had to be changed.
-
- v3.50 11/08/93 * Yet another bug release! v3.40 was getting PPE paths from
- the command line, but not if the user picked it from the
- menu................................................FIXED!
-
- v3.40 10/18/93 * Bug squashing release only! v3.30 was not reading in the
- PPE path from the PCBDE.CFG properly................FIXED!
-
- v3.30 10/18/93 * Added SysOp definable header for registered users.
- - By request, I aim to please.
- PCBDE defaults to *NOT* use the .HDR file. If you
- want to define your own header create a file called
- PCBDE.HDR and edit it as you please. HDR.DAT is
- included as an example.
-
- * Did some serious code optimization. PCBDE should now
- run faster. I removed many lines of redundant code!
-
- * NEW! PCBDEBLT.EXE by Chuck Valecek. This little
- executable will create a nifty bulletin with
- all your door info.
-
- * UPDATED! PCBEED3.EXE by Chuck Valecek. Now includes
- option to pick your highlight color.
-
- * Had a request to add a column the display to show if the
- door registered. I'm interested in hearing what you
- folks think about this.
-
- v3.20 10/11/93 * YOU MUST DELETE *EVERYTHING* IN THE PCBDE SUBDIRECTORY
- TO UPGRADE TO THIS VERSION.
-
- * Added ability to pass command line parameters to
- the door that is called. For example users can
- automatically start their Qmail download with the
- "OPEN QMAIL D" command. This feature does not work
- with PPE's yet!
-
- * If user entered 007 instead of 7 at the prompt, it
- was creating 2 different LST files. This caused
- the times opened and last opened indicators to be
- off.........................................FIXED!
-
- * Added 2 additional highlight colors for a total of
- 3. You may now choose which color to use on a
- particular entry. Because of this you MUST edit
- the PCBDE.COL file and add 2 lines. see UPGRADE.DOC.
-
- v2.60 09/23/93 * No bugs to squash, but I had some requests that
- I thought would improve the code.
-
- Request 1 - Improve display speed.
- Request 2 - Keep LST files static so they
- don't grow so huge!
-
- These two are actually related so I went back to
- work..........
-
- * YOU MUST DELETE *EVERYTHING* IN THE PCBDE SUBDIRECTORY
- TO UPGRADE TO THIS VERSION. The way I was calculating
- Times opened for each door was pretty slow so I changed
- it. the .LST files stored in the PCBDE directory are
- now *STATIC* in size! They will NEVER get any bigger!
-
- * I re-wrote a ton of code for this release so holler
- if a bug pops up!
-
- v2.51 09/22/93 * I went and fiddled with the Command line!
- v2.50 wasn't allowing you to go right into
- a door from the command line................FIXED!
- The High price of Progress! ;)
-
- * ADDED: PCBDE_ED.EXE - This is a little configuration
- file editor written by Chuck Valecek! Fire
- this up for quick changes without the comma
- headaches normally associated with a file
- like PCBDE.CFG!
-
- Say it with me guys.......Thanks Chuck!
-
- * Unless someone finds a bug, this is the last
- version of PCBDE for a week or 2! I have an
- article to work on for the PPE Newsletter!
-
- v2.50 09/21/93 * Slight Display bug with new colors..........FIXED!
-
- If your system had less than 15 doors which
- is less than 1 page, they were not displayed
- correctly...................................FIXED!
-
- * ADDED: Ability to categorize Doors!
-
- * ADDED: Command line switches!
-
- OPEN A - displays ALL doors
- OPEN C - asks category
-
- v2.11 09/20/93 * v2.10 sent out on the wire with no REGISTER.DOC!
- Optimized some code which should improve speed.
- Still working on categorizing doors.
-
- v2.10 09/19/93 * ALL Color's are now SysOp configurable.
-
- v2.05 09/16/93 * PPE's were not loading properly.......FIXED!
-
- v2.01 09/15/93 * Initial Shareware release
-
- v1.00 07/25/93 * Limited Initial Release. Wanted to work out the major
- bugs.
-
- 08/01/93 * Author gets side tracked due to major abdominal
- surgery. Doesn't write any code for several weeks
- for obvious reasons.
-