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- ║ HISTORY2.DOC ║ File Download Counter (tm) Version 3.10
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- Copyright (C) 1990-91 by Brandon M. Bachman, All Rights Reserved.
-
- This is a history of changes and improvments to File Download Counter
- since v2.60. Changes are recorded from a bottom up fassion where the
- most recent changes will be listed at the top.
-
- Becuase of the rather large size of the complete history of FDC I
- have been split the HISTORY file into two files HISTORY1.DOC and
- HISTORY2.DOC. HISTORY1.DOC is available apon request from the
- support BBS.
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- ┌───────────────────────────┐
- │ Improvements in FDC v3.10 │
- └───────────────────────────┘
-
- June 27 ■ FDC was not closing the .CFG file after updating the
- time and date stamp. Fixed.
-
- ■ Removed the bulletin maker from base FDC.EXE program.
- I am going to write a second program FDC-BLT.EXE which
- will do similiar bulletins and much more.
-
- ┌───────────────────────────┐
- │ Improvements in FDC v3.00 │
- └───────────────────────────┘
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- June 6 ■ Rewrote the database rountines to utiltize memory
- swapping routines, and make the program much faster.
- With completly new search and retrieve code FDC is
- 220% faster than v2.90 !!!!
-
- June 5 ■ Added disk swapping to the program. If conventional
- memory is low, FDC will automatically swap to disk
- information to free memory, and later reload that
- information as needed. No more memory problems!
-
- ■ Removed the MAX-FILES= and MAX-LINES= parameters from
- the .CFG files becuase these are no longer needed with
- the addition of automatic memory swapping.
-
- June 4 ■ Added the PURGE=x parameter in the .CFG files. This
- allows users to specify the number of days to keep
- a file name in the database on disk before removing
- it. This makes the database auto-cleanup so you don't
- need to delete it perodically. The defualt number of
- days is 7. If set to 0 a database will not be stored
- on disk.
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- ■ After a /START or /STRIP FDC will delete the database on
- disk coresponding to the configuration file.
-
- June 3 ■ Increased the maximum download count for each file
- from 35,000 to 2 billion. (for large BBS's)
-
- ■ Fixed a bug with time routines which would not tell
- the difference between 3:30 AM and 3:30 PM.
-
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- │ Improvements in FDC v2.90 │
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- May 26 ■ Fixed a bug in the /STRIP and /START command line
- options, and polished up the routines.
-
- May 13 ■ Rewrote the functions which found the date and time
- of a file. This one should be more reliable, and
- fix some weird bugs with DOS versions etc.
-
- May 7 ■ When a DIR file is not found by FDC, or is locked by
- another program (PCBoard) FDC will now RETRY to open
- the file 5 times every 10 seconds, if it still cannot
- open the file FDC will continue to the next file
- instead of aborting the program.
-
- May 5 ■ With certain EGA graphics cards FDC was returning the
- display mode to 80x24 and not 80x25. Fixed.
-
- ■ On unregistered versions of FDC I have removed the
- 'press a key to continue' before exiting to DOS.
-
- ■ On unregistered versions of FDC the download count
- for a file will stop at 25 and hold until registered.
-
- May 2 ■ Added the command line argument /CFG={name} which
- will allow users to specify a alternative name for
- the FDC.CFG and FDC.DAT file. Note FDC will append
- the .CFG and .DAT on the end of the name you specify.
- This allows users to have multiple configuration files
- in the same directory.
-
- April 29 ■ Removed the COLOR-START and COLOR-END parameter
- from the configuration file. The same results
- can still be achieved by adding the @Xhh codes
- to the new TEXT= paremter.
-
- ■ Removed STYLE=4 from the configuration. It is
- no longer need since the COLOR-START and COLOR-END
- options have been removed.
-
-
- Improvements in FDC v2.80
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- April 5 ■ Upgraded the complier to Borland C++ v2.0.
-
- ■ Found a minor bug in when STYLE=3, and FDC
- would output junk at random. Fixed.
-
- ■ Fixed an error in the FDC.CFG with a
- example of a TEXT= option. Sorry for the
- confusion.
-
-
- Improvements in FDC v2.70
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- March 31 ■ Upgraded the Salt City BBS to a USR HST v.42bis
- modem with 38,400 baud. Please do not hesitate
- to call directly to the Salt City to recieve
- support and download the most recent updates.
- I am more than happy to upgrade any sysop
- to Visiting Sysops level, and all registered
- users to an even higher level for support.
-
- ■ In v2.60 I rewrote a filename compare function
- which had a bug in it and consquently screwed
- up the bulletin. Fixed.
-
- ■ Changed all "10 second delays" on errors to be
- "10 seconds or press a key" timeouts.
-
- ■ Fixed the "Error" window so that is now has the
- the title screen in the back ground when it is
- displayed.
-
- ■ Added a new parameter TEXT= to the FDC.CFG file
- to allow users to specify the text that is displayed
- in the DIR files before and after the download
- counter. See the FDC.CFG file for an example.
-
- ■ FDC will now insert all lines of TEXT on STYLES=
- 3 or 4 on the last line of the description. FDC
- v2.60 and prior inserted the TEXT in between the
- "Uploaded By:" line and the last line of the
- description.
-
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- Improvements in FDC v2.60
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- March 23 ■ FDC will now handle DIR file lines upto 255
- characters long. Consquently I have removed the
- code to cut DIR file lines at the 79th char.
-
- ■ Rewrote a the file compare code wich has increased
- the program speeed by 10-25%!
-
- ■ Removed the opening screen and 10 second delay
- for unregistered users.
-
-