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- RELEASE 3.3
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- 03/19/89
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- SCOUT will now display the directories of .PAK and .ZIP files in
- addition to displaying .ARC file contents.
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- 02/18/89
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- RUNFILE will now drop you off back in the default (base) directory if
- you answer no to the query "Return to SCOUT (Y/N)?". Added a keyboard
- flush routine to prevent undesired keystrokes being processed by SCOUT
- when returning from RUNFILE.
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- 02/04/89
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- Improved the Ctrl-X/Alt-X program menus by increasing the number of
- programs on the menu from 6 to 10 and by adding a special utility
- program (CTRL-X) to configure the menu with any ten programs
- desired. The difference between the Ctrl-X menu and the "\" menu is
- that the programs on the Ctrl-X menu only need reside in a directory
- identified in the DOS PATH statement. You can execute a program
- from the Ctrl-X menu with a cursor over a specific file and pass that
- file name as a command line program to the program being called.
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- 01/28/89
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- Another fix made to the memory allocation display ("W" command)
- function.
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- 01/25/89
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- Added command line switch ('X' or 'x') to disable checking for call
- from DOS when executing programs. If this check is disabled, SCOUT
- will attempt to call RUNFILE.COM even if you are in an applications
- program, which will dump an unwanted string into the program.
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- 01/22/89
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- Fixed catalog update ("S" command) to scan only valid fixed drives.
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- 01/17/89
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- Added Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) checking to the file copy modes.
- ^C will permit enabling or disabling CRC checking during file copying.
- The CRC checking default can be set to ON at runtime by placing a "C"
- (or "c") on the command line, i.e., SCOUT c. The feature that uses a
- CGA memory for data storage is now enabled with a "U" (or "u") on the
- command line.
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- Fixed bug in memory allocation report routine that caused system hang-up
- on some machines.
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- Fixed bug in file browse routine that occurred when viewing files larger
- than 64K. The browse routine is now limited to 400 pages of 23 lines
- each. Since line lengths can vary widely, there is no way to determine
- just how large a file can be fully browsed. Therefore the number of
- pages is limited to 400 and when that limit is reached, SCOUT will show
- END OF FILE even though the actual end of the file has not been reached.
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- 04/29/88
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- SCOUT now supports formatting of both 5 1/4 and 3 1/2 inch floppy drives.
- Both 720K and 1.4M 3 1/2" floppy formatting is supported. In addition,
- SCOUT no longer restricts the formatting to drives A and/or B. Any floppy
- drive in your system may be formatted. If a hard disk drive designator is
- entered by mistake, SCOUT will report a formatting error and exit the
- formatting routine. No damage will be done to the hard disk as a result.
- The only restriction is that SCOUT will format high density (1.2M and 1.4M)
- disks only in dual density drives that support high density formatting.
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- You may now elect to have the changes you make by running CONFIG.COM
- become effective immediately. CONFIG will update SCOUT in RAM and you
- will be given the opportunity to go back pop-up SCOUT, test the changes you
- made, and go back to the main CONFIG menu if you want to make more changes.
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- There are two new items on the CONFIG.COM main menu. Item K, Set CGA snow
- avoidance, toggles the check for CGA snow on or off as desired. Item L,
- Set floppy drive parameters, configures SCOUT to format your floppy disks.
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- Item L is used to set SCOUT to properly format your floppy disk
- drives. SCOUT uses BIOS calls to effect a format of a floppy
- disk drive, not DOS. The BIOS only recognizes up to 4 floppy
- drives and numbers them from 0 (A) to 3 (D). It is up to you
- configure SCOUT so that it will properly format the type of drives
- you have in your system. Many systems will have 2 floppy drives,
- one as DOS drive A (BIOS drive 0) and a second as drive B (BIOS
- drive 1). In most AT (or AT clone) systems, drive A is a dual
- density drive that is capable of formatting both 360K and 1.2M
- diskettes. Some AT systems have a normal single density 5 1/4"
- drive as drive B and some systems have a 3 1/2" drive as drive
- B. When you select item L from the main CONFIG.COM menu, you
- will be shown the current SCOUT settings. All systems will have
- some type of floppy drive as drive A (BIOS drive 0). In order
- to properly enter the settings, you MUST know how your system
- BIOS is addressing the drives in your system. Normally, using
- BIOS 0 (DOS drive A) and BIOS 1 (DOS drive B) will suffice. All
- that will be necessary in this case is to answer the prompts to
- set the size (5 1/4" or 3 1/2") and the density (SINGLE or DUAL)
- for each drive. Some systems with an add-on 3 1/2" drive are
- non-standard. For example, I know of one system with a 3 1/2"
- drive that is accessed via DOS as drive E: and yet the BIOS treats
- it as drive 3. If you designate a drive as DUAL density, SCOUT
- will prompt you (when you attempt a format) to indicate whether
- you are formatting a low or high density disk. In a 5 1/4" drive,
- this will be either a 360K (low) or 1.2M (high) disk. In a 3 1/2"
- drive, this will be a 720K (low) or 1.4M (high) disk. If your
- drive does not support high density formatting and you attempt a
- high density format, the format will fail. Be sure you don't
- trick SCOUT. Once you have set the floppy drive parameters for
- your system, there will be no need to change them unless you add
- or replace a drive.
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- 05/15/88
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- Added a new command. Alt-V will verify a floppy disk. This function
- works exactly like the FORMAT function except that it verifies a
- diskette instead of formatting it. This type of verification is
- NOT a read/write verification nor does it verify the data on the disk.
- It verifies that sectors can be read and that the CRC checksum for
- each sector is correct.
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- 03/01/89
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- The SCOUT package now contains a utility named CTRLX.EXE. This
- utility is executed in the same directory that SCOUT.000 is
- located and allows re-configuration of the Ctrl-X (alternate
- program exectution menu);
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- 03/30/89
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- SCOUT will now display the directory listing of PKWare ZIP (.ZIP)
- and LHARC (.LZH) files as well as for ARC files. In additon,
- SCOUT will display the contents of LHARC created .COM or .EXE
- self-extracting files.
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