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New for ver. 1.31
1. The 40 column line wrap feature in the previous version
had some problems with scrolling accurately. Each 40 column
segment is now treated as a separate line and the line number
at the bottom of the screen will reflect this.
New for ver. 1.30
1. FFV has received more improvements and will now configure
itself to use available memory. This means that FFV can
run on a system as small as 192k and handle files as large
as 65500 lines on 384k and larger systems. FFV has also
been given another increase in speed and is much faster than
previous versions.
When using F4 to display the directory, the previously
selected file if any will be highlighted. This seems to
work better than resetting to the begining of the directory
each time.
If a string search fails you will now be returned to your
previous position in the file instead of being left at the
end of the file.
FFV can now search back through the file for a previous
occurence of the search string. To invoke this command you
can use either a "?" or F9 as in LIST.
Last but not least FFV has a new option to switch your
display adaptor to extended text modes. The format is
ffv -n filename
where n is the actual number of the mode in decimal. To
save you grief in converting from hex to decimal I have
listed common mode numbers in the DOC's. FFV can even
handle CGA 40 column modes although the help screen is
not available in these modes. Lines will be automatically
wrapped in 40 column modes.
New for ver. 1.22
1. PDQ worked just fine on my VGA system with MSDOS and it
worked fine on my CGA system with DRDOS. I just discovered
it wouldn't work with MSDOS and CGA or Hercules. MSDOS does
not store the number of screen rows in low memory with these
monitors. You could get it going by using PDQCFG to set the
screen size but it should be automatic. Now fixed.
2. Fixed some minor problems with the way SDC handled floppy
drives.
New for ver. 1.21a
1. With the previous mod you could get some strange highlights
if your normal screen color was different from what you set up
with PDQCFG. I have changed it so the only colors affected by
PDQCFG are the ones for FFV and the menu modes of SDC and SDL.
I think it works much better this way.
New for ver. 1.21
1. PDQ can now be configured from the environment. Under
ordinary circumstances PDQ is self-configuring. You can
use CC to set your screen colors and PDQ will adapt itself
to your system. However there may be problems with not-so-
close compatibles. You can use the environment variable
PDQCFG to set the home drive for PATH.SDC, BIOS or direct
screen writes for FFV, screen colors and screen size.
New for ver. 1.20
1. The Friendly File Viewer can now handle EGA and VGA
extended text modes, even the ones I can't read with
my trifocals. Can anybody read 132 X 60 on a 14 inch
monitor?
2. When SDL and GFF were used with large (greater than 32mb)
DOS partitions the amount of free space reported was wrong.
This was caused by overflow when converting from clusters to
bytes. The problem should now be fixed. If anyone finds
that it isn't please drop me a line or leave me E-MAIL on
CompuServe or GENIE.
New for ver. 1.19
1. The Friendly File Viewer has received a few changes to
make it even friendlier. Lines are now written directly
to video memory for faster pages. CGA cards are detected
automatically and horizontal retrace checking is performed
to prevent snow. The action of the PgUp key has been
modified for better performance with floppy drives.
2. When SDL and GFF were used without ANSI.SYS being installed
there were some problems with the highlighting. SDC had a
similar problem when displaying the directory tree.
New for ver. 1.18
1. When using SDC, if the /t switch was combined with the /s
switch the path file would be removed and a new one would
not be generated. SDC would then have to scan the drives the
next time it was used. This problem has now been fixed.
New for ver. 1.17
1. In FFV, the Esc key did not work during string searches.
Now fixed. FFV also runs a little faster than before.
2. SDC and SDL can now handle up to 400 matching directories.
About the only way you can get this number of matches on a
large system is to use the backspace key in Speed Search. If
the buffer does fill up you can still use Speed Search to reduce
the number of matches. The total number of directories on a
system is limited only by the time that it takes to search the
database. On an XT Turbo with a slow hard disk I got acceptable
performance with over 400 directories. A fast system should be
able to handle more than 1000 before it bogs down.
New for ver. 1.16
1. SDC now uses just one path file for all hard disk
partitions, stored in the root directory of drive C.
This change improves the way the backspace key works
during speed searches and should allow SDC to run
faster on large systems with many logical drives. You
can still access drives explicitly but the speed advantage
won't be that great. Floppy drives still have a separate
path file for each floppy, and you will have to scan each
floppy disk to install the path file.
2. When a directory was created, removed or relocated
on a drive locked out with SDNOSCAN, SDC would still
try to access the path file. This problem has now been
fixed.
3. The Slick Directory Lister has been upgraded to work
with the new version of SDC. You should not try to use
an older version of SDL with the new version of SDC.