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- A. NEW FEATURES IN XDIR VERSION 2.02
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- This Version of XDIR has been substantially rewritten. It
- is the first version to use Turbo Pascal 4.0 and incorporates
- a number of new features.
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- Comment field increased to 65 characters from 38.
- Scroll up and down through directory display.
- Number of directory elements increased to 1024.
- Number of files that can be copied or moved in one command is 1024.
- Directory now shows file attributes.
- Sort on comment field is included.
- Average comment file size is decreased.
- XDCNVRT.EXE is provided to change from earlier versions.
- Memory requirements have been decreased.
- Operation is noticeably faster.
- Compatibility with Keyboard enhancers has been improved.
- Comments can be attached to directories.
- Quick writing can be toggled off for improved compatability.
- XDIR defaults can be altered using the DOS SET command.
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- B. CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS TO MANUAL
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- P.7 Reference to F9 in first paragraph should be changed to
- Space Bar.
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- P.8 Users with IBM Color Graphics adapters will probably prefer
- to use the /Q option. See page 10 to customize XDIR to
- automatically use /Q.
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- P.9 Sec 2 needs further discussion of XDCOUNT:
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- The file is now XDCOUNT.EXE instead of XDCOUNT.COM.
- This makes no differnec to how it is to be used. The
- new version of XDCOUNT is more robust than earlier ones.
- You should find it more accomodating to the various
- other TSRs that you use.
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- We have tested XDCOUNT with no problems on the following
- machines:
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- IBM PC, XT and AT
- Leading Edge Model D
- Compaq DeskPro
- Compaq 386-20
- ARC PC-XT Turbo
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- Incompatibility between XDCount and two PC compatible
- machines has been reported. The machines are:
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- Leading Edge Model D2 (80286 processor)
- Columbia MPC-1600
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- In both cases, XDCOUNT loads properly, but the machine
- locks up when the first applications program tries to
- terminate. A hard reboot is required to gain control of
- the PC. If you have similar problems on thes or other
- machines, let us know. We are working to solve the
- problem.
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- XDCOUNT monitors all file openings, and writes the
- file path/name and current date to C:\XDIR.DTA. This
- file is not meant for direct access by people. It is
- used by XDUPDATE. If you load it into a text editor you
- will see a lot of garbage mixed in with recognizable
- names of files that you have accessed.
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- Whenever DOS executes a batch file, it OPENS the file once
- for each line in the file - more if there are loops in the
- batch program. XDCOUNT sees each of these as a file open-
- ing. Since we would like to count one actual use of a
- batch file only once, XDCOUNT recognizes the problem and
- reports only one usage to XDIR.DTA. We did not find a
- perfect solution to this problem however. There are a
- few cases where XDIR will report more than one batch
- file usage each time you call the batch file. If your
- batch file executes a .COM or .EXE program, and then
- returns for further lines, XDIR will show more than one
- 'use' of this file. For example, consider the following
- two batch files:
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- ONCE.BAT
- cls
- Echo This is Batch file first
- Echo Each time you run it, XDIR will
- Echo count only one usage.
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- THRICE.BAT
- XDIR
- Echo This line is the second use of THRICE
- Echo This line does NOT add one more usage
- XDIR
- Echo This line is counted as a third usage.
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- C. RECENT CHANGES
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- The version of XDIR included on this disk is 6K bytes smaller than the
- one distributed on bulletin boards. This reduction was obtained by
- packing some data fields. The changes from the previous version
- are:
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- 1. Found and fixed a bug that prevented the /c option from
- working properly when the default drive does not contain
- COMMAND.COM
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- 2. Added /h command option.
- In this version hidden files are hidden from XDIR unless /h is
- invoked. Then, hidden files are displayed and can have
- comments attached. But they cannot be copied or moved.
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- 3. The Serial number is now displayed on the Help screen.
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- The XDUPDATE included on this disk is a new release (7-01-88). It is
- functionally identical to the previous version but has been rewritten
- for speed. An earlier bug that resulted in occasional truncations of
- the comment field to 52 characters has been fixed.
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