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- Hello, I hope you enjoy using FV2.
-
- External discussion can occur in OS2EWS CFORUM on the OS2BBS.
-
- Internal discussion can occur in FV2 FORUM on IBMPC.
-
- --- Installation Instructions: ------------------------------------------------
-
- Download FV2 ZIPBIN as a binary file to a directory of your choice (not
- necessary for external users).
-
- Execute UNZIP against FV2.ZIP and the FV2 files will be extracted from
- FV2.ZIP. The resulting file - FV2.EXE need to be placed in a directory in
- your CONFIG.SYS PATH statement.
-
- --- Profiling Considerations: -------------------------------------------------
-
- FV2 is profiled via a CONFIG.SYS SET statement. Start FV2 against a file
- (perhaps itself: e.g. FV2 FV2.EXE) and press F1 (Help) for details.
-
- --- Revision history: ---------------------------------------------------------
-
- 03-15-96 - 1.09
- - Enhancements
- - Added 'Alt-B' for 'Blink off'. If you use FV2 in a fullscreen and
- switch (Ctrl-Esc) to the desktop, upon return to FV2 any field with a
- light background is blinking. 'Alt-B' will reset this OS/2 'feature'.
- - Bug Fixes
- - Binary files are now based on a 0x00 char in the 1st 100 bytes.
-
- 01-23-96 - 1.08
- - Enhancements
- - Modified search algorithm slightly, search times on very large files
- appears to have reduced by approximately one half.
- - Bug Fixes
- - Files where 'search' found 4095 hits (the maximum) trapped when on last
- hit and used F5 or when on 1st hit and used Cntl-F5.
- - Binary files with greater than 4095 hits didn't display hits correctly
- in wrap mode.
-
- 01-09-96 - 1.07
- - Bug Fixes
- - Files that included '0x0A' or '0x0D' as both characters and EOL
- indicators displayed with multiple 'End of File' indicators.
- - Certain files with line lengths longer than the display width could
- cause the 'wrapping' data internal to FV2 to be invalid, thus causing
- search hits to be non-displayable.
- - Starting a search after the 'last findable hit' did not wrap to show
- the first hit.
- - In 'WRAP' mode, search hits didn't 'wrap' to the next line.
-
- 11-08-95 - 1.06
- - Bug Fixes
- - Files with '0x0A' as the first character (without a following '0x0D')
- could display incorrectly.
- - Using NFS via a 14.4k line caused 'DosOpen rc = 50' errors. I resorted
- to loading the file in in 4k chunks (like T2/TEDIT). Thanks Tim!
- - Binary files less than 255 bytes displayed incorrectly.
-
- 10-05-95 - 1.05
- - Enhancements
- - 'line wrap' support via 'Alt-W' keystroke (toggles back and forth).
- NOTE: Tab expansion is not supported in 'wrap mode' and will be turned
- off.
- - If any of the first 50 characters of a file are 0x00, then it is
- assumed that the file is a binary file and 'wrap mode' is automatically
- entered.
- - Added 'suppress smileys' to 'line wrap' (Alt-S).
- - Bug Fixes
- - Last 1 or 2 characters on last line didn't display if that line didn't
- have the EOL chars in that line.
- - Search could trap trying to find chars before start of file.
- - Needed 'double ESC' to quit after search.
-
- 08-17-95 - 1.04 - DEVCON 9
- - Bug Fixes
- - F8 scrolling to an invalid column (in files narrower than display
- columns), and shifting display right by 5 columns (in files wider than
- display columns).
- - 'Retreive' misspelled (should be 'Retrieve').
- - Search hit highlighting was highlighting key line in hex mode.
- - Removed 'hard coded' line number limit. FV2 should now be limited only
- by available memory.
- - Abysmal search times if used '/ search' (e.g. not case search) in a
- file with all one case (e.g. all upper case).
- - 'Insert' key causing cursor to display with no command line.
- - Trap loading file with length equal 1.
- - Enhancements
- - Added 'suppress smiley' feature for hex display. Alt-S will change
- non-printable characters (e.g. smiley faces, etc.) to periods.
- - Added 'RecordLength' command (e.g. R hexnumber). Page up/down will
- scroll by this record length value. R0 resets page up/down.
- - 'Search' now searches based on character in search string that occurs
- with the least frequency.
- - 'Col xxx of yyy' yyy will now change based on tab expansion size.
- - Improved '/' search time when no alphabetic chars in search string.
- - Reduced EXE size by 1.7k, and reduced memory requirements.
-
- 07-26-95 - 1.03
- - Bug Fixes
- - In 'char display' search hits didn't display on bottom line when using
- down arrow key. That 'not displayed' hit would continue to not display
- as the down arrow key was pressed.
- - Display didn't update correctly if Ctrl-Left Arrow did not return to
- column 1 exactly.
- - Cursor displayed in help screen.
- - Colored screen incorrectly when error loading files.
- - Enhancements
- - 'Alt-K' toggles the PFKey line displayed at the bottom of the screen on
- and off. The commandline argument 'KEYSOFF', and the environment
- variable 'KEYSOFF' starts FV2 w/o the PFKey line displayed.
- - The 3rd line is no more. The top line now includes the 'hits' info,
- and when you enter a character the command line pops up over the top
- line.
- - 'ESCAPE' now clears the commandline if it exists and has characters,
- else it removes the commandline if it exists, else it quits FV2.
-
- 06-28-95 - 1.02
- - Enhancements
- - Improved error messages in some situations.
- - Improved HELP screen a bit.
- - 'ESCAPE' quits FV2, unless at help screen (returns to file view) or
- there is a command line string (erases the string).
- - PGUP/PGDN now scrolls 1 line less than the number of visible lines,
- thus allowing a 'one line point of reference' when paging up or down.
- - F7/F8 now scroll 5 characters less than the display width, also to
- allow for some referencing when scrolling left/right.
- - Alt-1 through Alt-0 set the 'tab expansion size' to 1 through 10 blank
- characters. The default is 8.
- - Left and right arrow now move screen by one character (as opposed to
- control left and right arrow previously).
- - Tab/Control right arrow and Shift Tab/Control left arrow now move the
- screen by the 'tab expansion size'.
- - Alt-P 'print file in hex mode' feature, works only in 'Hex mode'.
- Unprintable characters are printed as '.'. Includes a short header
- (FV2 version, d:\path\filename.ext, and filesize).
- - Alt-F 'print to FV2.OUT' feature. Same as Alt-P except it outputs to
- FV2.OUT (in current directory).
- - 'Hex display' now has a 'hex address' header line to help in locating
- items across the display.
- - 'Hex display' now has the 'End of File' line after the last line of the
- file (just like 'Character display' did before).
- - Moved filename left in header to allow more room for long file names.
- - Bug Fixes
- - In 'hex display' search couldn't find last lineend characters.
- - 'hex display' key line was incorrect.
-
- 06-13-95 - 1.01 - DEVCON 8
- - Enhancements
- - FV2 now comes in ZIP file, and includes LICENSE.TXT and FV2.ABS for
- OS2EWS.
-
- 05-31-95 - 1.00
- - Bug Fixes
- - Fix spelling typo in help screen.
- - Enhancements
- - When switching back to 'character mode' (alt-c) the display will now
- start in column 1.
- - Added startup copyright message for DEVCON/OS2EWS release.
-
- 05-26-95 - 0.09
- - Bug Fixes
- - Lines which crossed a 64k boundary displayed part of 1st line of file.
- - Enhancements
- - Add IBM copyright to help screen in preparation for DEVCON CD & OS2EWS.
-
- 04-28-95 - 0.08
- - Bug Fixes
- - Total columns was off by 2 or 1 (depending on line end characters).
- - Trap when searching binary files.
- - Files starting in 0A (hex) didn't get browsed (could trap).
- - Hex search (e.g. 'hxhx) with more than 2 chars looped endlessly.
-
- 04-25-95 - 0.07
- - Bug Fixes
- - Search with 'Tabs On' and subsequent F5 could highlight incorrect text.
- - Ctrl-F8 did not work with 'Tabs On'.
- - Trap at line 32750. This is a temporary fix, there is a hardcoded line
- limit in FV2 (I've set it to 64k for now) that I need to eliminate.
-
- 04-19-95 - 0.06
- - Bug Fixes
- - When using F5 to see the next search hit, on files with long line
- lengths, FV2 had multiple display problems (e.g.missing some hits, some
- hits displayed multiple times, sometimes get stuck at a hit).
- - Enhancements
- - Alt-T function - expand/unexpand tabs (hex 09).
- - Improved (and sometimes faster) search routine.
- - Hex 0A0D, 0D0A, and 0A line ends recognized.
-
- 04-12-95 - 0.05
- - Bug Fixes
- - Single line down screen scrolling caused search hits to highlight areas
- of the pfkey line and possibly trap.
- - Trap when hitting PF5 during search (when done before search complete).
-
- 04-03-95 - 0.04 ** (now on OS2TOOLS) ******************************************
- - Bug Fixes
- - Characters after hex00 weren't displaying (e.g. if viewing binary
- file).
-
- 04-03-95 - 0.03
- - Bug Fixes
- - Ctrl-F8 (max right) trapped on some files.
- - Cursor didn't return to non-insert mode (in VIO windows).
- - First hit from previous search might be shown if on same screen and no
- hits in current search.
- - If last search hits were on same line - search didn't wrap.
- - Backspace now deletes the character to the left of the cursor and moves
- each character to the right of the cursor left one position.
- - Display problems with greater than 80 column display modes.
- - Enhancements
- - Less screen flashing with pgup/pgdn in 'help'.
- - Put more info on 'PFKEY' line.
- - Previous screen color remembered for exit.
- - Reduced redundant searching when there are no hits, or if all hits are
- before current position.
- - If (when invoking search) there are no search hits after current line,
- the first hit in file is shown.
- - Reduced screen shifting (left/right) when using F5 to see next hits.
- - Screen doesn't redraw when 'delete'ing a character from the command
- line.
- - Escape now clears the command line.
-
- 03-30-95 - 0.02
- - Bug Fixes
- - Search could have locked up.
- - Enhancements
- - Less screen flashing with pgup/pgdn.
-
- 03-29-95 - 0.01
- - First release ready via REQUEST.
-