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Release 1.00
(Hopefully) everything fixed as reported until 1.7.91.
If you have problems:
(1) Read DOCs
(2) Contact friendly sysop in neighborhood running EFT
(3) Contact national EFT support if avail
(4) Contact The Wizard's Inn II BBS (see EFT.PRT)
Good luck, and give EFT a try!
Release 1.10
Reactions to EFT 1.0 were superb! Lots of sysops showed interest,
and some of them joined the team to support EFT in their country.
Situation is that EFT can become the state of the art transfer
manager for RA/SBBS systems if even more systems give it a try.
Welcome now to version 1.10 of EFT. Many new features awaiting you,
and also some bugs were fixed from version 1.0.
If you still have problems:
(1) Read DOCs
(2) Contact friendly sysop in neighborhood running EFT
(3) Contact national EFT support if avail
(4) Contact The Wizard's Inn II BBS (see EFT.PRT)
Good luck, and give EFT a try!
* Changed key policy to be able to spread EFT through SDS devices:
After key expired users will have to key in special random strings
to bring up the file tagger. Also additional beeps are generated
randomly. Please do register! $20 is not that much!
* Fixed bug in file tagger (after user selected abort files were still
taken as tagged).
* Fixed bug: If InfoFile <TIME> was set GetInfos was not functioning
correctly (Stuart Henderson)
* New behaviour "ArcExitinfo":
If enabled, EFT writes a small "EXITINFO" every time arctesting
is done. This special "EXITINFO" file is called "EXITINFO.EFT" and
will be created in the temporary upload dir. It is plain ASCII and
its contents will look like:
<full path and name of file to arc-text>
<full name of user>
<description of file to arctest>
On return from the arctest-commandline EFT reads in the EXITINFO.EFT,
and stores line 1 and 3 in its structures. Line 2 is ignored.
Great for converting uploads into different arc formats with changing
filenames or descriptions!
* Redesigned "too many files for this method". User can select if
he wants to take as many files as the driver allows.
* New .CFG statement SysopPassword lets you download any file from
any path if you had the correct level and gave the correct password
after activating with // at the download files prompt. See .CFG for
details.
* UploadCredit is now given for each file separately, so dupes are no
longer given credit.
* NEW! EFT now allows ENHANCED FILE MASKS at all places
(FILES.CTL, file tagger masking, BADFILES.CTL etc.!!!)
f*r*i?t*.*z* /FREE
-------------------------------------------------------------
as a FILES.CTL line will make the following files free files:
FRAINT16.ZIP
FORTITTS.LZH
FRISTING.UUZ
and so on ...
*3*.* /PWD=MogulTheFat
-------------------------------------------------------------
as a FILES.CTL line will protect all files haveing a 3 in their
file name with Mogul The Fat's favorite password ...
Imagine the power this new feature gives to your users:
The file tagger can now show all files with "ALL" in their name, if
the mask *ALL*.* is given in global mode, so that e.g. the files
ALLFILES.ZIP and even WHAALING.GIF are shown together in a single run!
And this works inside archives, too!
* New! Enhanced file masks now work with filepathes, too!
E.G. FILES.CTL
c:\bbs\pd\area*\*.* /free
-
marks all files in all pd areas as free file.
* This was a hard one: Tagger can now view files within ZIP and ARJ
files with pathes!
* Bug fixed with /PWD=xxx and /FREE in the same line in FILES.CTL
* Tagger will no longer show unknown arc entries.
* Intelligent LIMITS.CTL: If ratios at Remote Access position is out
of range (>1000) EFT will assume that the value describes baudrate
based download limits for extended baudrates of 19200 and 38700 bps,
like SBBS' LIMITS.CTL includes. EFT then reads 3 values to the right
and tries again ...
* EFT.PRT is no longer included in beta versions for faster transfers.
* Added /NULL parameter to FilesCount statement - This means zero
padding of download counters is NO LONGER DEFAULT.
* New statement TagFileMacro <path and name> lets EFT get already
tagged files from third party utils like MTS or RFW. Those tagfiles
must have the XFD/DISP format. If the given file is ok then /GET is
automatically enabled to the download files prompt. Limitcheckers
stay active, can be combines with free files, passwords etc. for
further information see EFT.CFG.
* New statement HideFiles gives access to files that have no description
in FILES.BBS to selected users (see EFT.CFG).
* You will surely like this one:
New statement UserMacro lets sysop define own macros for use on
download files prompt. Max 16 macros definable.
Macros are (of course) also combinable with enhanced
file masks and autosearch!
When defined
UserMacro EFT Y to_download_the_newest_EFT_package EFT???.ARJ 130
user can enter /EFT to get newest version.
When defined
UserMacro 3 Y to_download_files_with_a_3 *3*.*3*
user can enter /3 to get every file on the system that has a 3 in
its name (wow ;-)
For added info see EFT.CFG
* Corrected bug in picture checker
* Added UlMultiply statement - adds additional upload kbytes to
any upload from a user with given security (see EFT.CFG).
* New/changed hotkey:
cursor up : increment timelimit 1 min
cursor down: decrement timelimit 1 min
cursor right: increment downloadlimit 1k
cursor left : decrement downloadlimit 1k
home: increment uploadsk 1 k
end : decrement uploadsk 1 k
ctrl-home: increment uploadsk 10 k
ctrl-end: decrement uploadsk 10 k
pgup: increment downloadsk 1 k
pgdown: decrement downlaodsk 1 k
ctrl-pgup : increment downloadsk 10 k
ctrl-pgdown: decrement donwloadsk 10 k
* (Hopefully) fixed bug with Bimodem updating FILES/PFILES in
wrong pathes.
* Added global list pathes (see RA.DOC) to Bimodem routines.
Also combinable with private uploads PFILES.BBS, PFILES.x/FILES.x and
Leaveuploads.
* Changed and fixed upload log format.
* Changed TempDrive. Now you can specify a complete
path, under which EFT will create its transfer dirs, and in which
the file tagger will create its work files. Use RAM disk for warp 9
Mr. Sulu.
* Added ! sign to specific download. If you give
-dd!file.ext on the commandline EFT fill be forced to send the
file even if there is NO according FILES.BBS/PFILES.BBS/FILES.x or
PFILES.x entry. Note! (1) above stays active, too! '!' is only
for specific downloads.
* Fixed bug with Newfilesmacro security level. Works now.
* New EFT.CFG commandline macro *9 posts number of actual file area.
Good when running proto drivers from batch files, that shall behave
differently when run in different fileareas.
* Allowed several lines with same file in FILES.CTL
EFT*.ARJ /FREE
EFT100.ARJ /PWD=Jerk
will request JERK as a password for the free file EFT100.ARJ
will not request password for free file EFT099.ARJ
Note that this is not similar to
EFT*.ARJ /FREE /PWD=Jerk
* NEW! As the first BBS utility EFT is able of moving its
overlays to XMS memory to give even 286 machines with HIMEM.SYS
the speed advantage of cached overlays!!!
XMS overlays can be disabled by setting the environment
variable "NOXMSOVERLAYS" to a value of your choice. (I cannot do
a EFT.CFG statement, because the CFG file parser is already
overlayed)
* New statement NoNegativeDownloads prevents EFT from taking uploads
as negative downloads (like FileDoor 1.21 did it), extending the users
daily download limit if he uploads something to you (Like the newer
FileDoor from the Netherlands does it).
* File taggers sort can be interrupted, so fast switching between sort
modes is possible now.
* New display file "TAGVIEW.ANS" for special help on taggers file
browser will be shown if users presses '?' when the browser is in
use.
* NEW! The file taggers viewer now has a search function you surely
will like. Users can search forward and backwards, can repeat searches
and even if they browse through the document the viewer will highlight
each occurence of the search string!
* Fixed bug with locked FILES.BBS on multiline systems and networks.
* Bug fixed with file tagger and flsearch statement. Note - areanames
in FLSEARCH.CTL will have each underscore replaced with spaces.
* On multiline systems you can have one LIMITS.CTL for all lines. EFT
will first search in the startup directory. Second the path that is set
via SET RA= or SET SBBS= is searched for LIMITS.CTL.
Release 1.20
------------------------------------------------------------------------
* First I want to thank some people for making SUGGESTIONS and sending
BUG REPORTS - guys, I hate you all...
Dan McCool, Bernd Rothbrust, Sven Ediger, Martin Schnitkemper, Mike
Paschen, Mike Ehlert, Mark Prado, Burkhardt Mueller, Leo Graper,
Marco Wijtkamp, Ron Huiskes, Fahazi Janos, Tero Kilkanen, Hansjoerg
Watzl, Ludovic Valois, Jens Fallesen many more betas and all
registered sysops of EFT. Without them it would not be such a big
success.
So now have a look at those goodies coming up in
Enhanced File Transfer V 1.20
------------------------------------------------------------------------
* Tagger can handle descriptions longer than 46 chars now. It will auto-
matically begin to scroll the description horizontally if the users
does not type anything for 2 secs. Also users can force scrolling with
the new ">" and "<" commands.
* Tagger will be forced into areas list if autosearch is on and there are
no files in the actual area to show or if you leave out the -a parameter
on the commandline.
* New commandline parameter -f lets you force EFT to lock a special
protocol, so that you can use a standard BBS menu as the EFT "select
method" screen and call up EFT with the protocol locked. With the
protocol locked EFT will immediately go to the "select files to download"
or "give first filename" prompt. There are additional display files for
you to give optionally additional information that will function like the
general DWNHINTS.*/UPHINTS.*:
ZU.* will be used in upload mode if -fZ is given on the
commandline
MD.* will be used if in download mode and -fM was given,
so the general format is
<char of locked protocol><U for uploading, D for downloading>.*
If no special DWNHINTS/UPHINTS file for a locked protocol could
be found like ZD.ANS for Zmodem Download or UM.ASC for MPt uploads,
EFT will check for a display file named _U.A?? i.r. _D.A?? that include
global description of a locked protocol transfer.
If you use forced protocols and special up/downhint files e.g.
ZD.ANS or ZU.ANS you can now have ZDAFTER.ANS and ZUAFTER.ANS, which
will be displayed right after the user gave the wanted filenames,
so you can reset any color setting or position the cursor for
any following EFT prompts to appear.
* Changed the way EFT handles global file pathes on RA 1.x systems.
If a FILES.BBS is found in a given filearea it will be used even if
a global list path was given.
* New statement LogFormat. Finally it lets you define the format of
the up and download log. Now you are on your own - and I am out of
that :-) har har ...
Macros (can be used up to 255 times each on one commandline):
#CPS ... CPS rate
#PATH ... path to actual area
#NAME ... filename
#EXT ... fileextension
#USERFIRST ... users first name
#USERLAST ... users last name
#SIZE ... filesize
#BBSNAME ... name of updated P/FILES.BBS P/FILES.x
#BBSPATH ... path of updated P/FILES.BBS P/FILES.x
#LINE ... current node number for RA01,RA02 entries
* Ok - Here it is: Multi language support that comes packed up with
free definable build in menus! Even input keys on prompts are now
definable. You can define over 180 strings and keys!!!
Have fun and please send me your native language definition, so I
can include them in the next release as an example.
TIP: If you see that EFT is sending texts somewhat slower if they
first appear on the screen don't worry as EFT will only read and
store those strings that are really needed, exact when they are
needed.
This saves a lot of RAM, and if texts are used more than once they
will be taken from memory for more speed. Besides you will find
that the speed decrease when reading strings for the first time
is not that much.
Added -LP (path) and -LN (name) commandline parameters for the
path and name of EFT.LNG and the selected language to read from it.
Example:
EFT.exe -lpx:\EFT\EFT.lng -lnGERMAN
will select language #GERMAN out of x:\EFT\EFT.lng
* UploadName has three versions now:
UploadName will log every username on uploads
UploadName <Seclevel> will only log the usernames with the upload
descriptions of users having a security
below the given parameter
UploadName <Flagsetting> same as above, uses ONE free definable
flag
Additional parameter HANDLE makes EFT log the user aliasses (handles
instead of their real names). Attention! I think this is only
possibble on RA100 systems as the SBBS exitinfo does not contain
the userhandle.
Example: UploadName A6 HANDLE
or
UploadName 60000
* Users hot-keys are hotter now.
* You can put the contents of ANY environment variable on a
protocol's commandline in EFT.CFG now:
Use: %NAME_OF_ENVIRONMENT_VAR%
Example: dsz dsz.com port $1 speed $2 sz %dszlog%
* Format of the embedded code ^KI corrected to leading zeros. Also it
is now configurable via EFT.LNG line 186.
* FILES.RA can be in local, startup dir or in SET RA= SET SBBS= dir.
Same goes for FLSEARCH.BBS, CONFIG.RA, SCONFIG.BBS, FLSEARCH.BBS etc.
* NEW! Build in full/spilt-screen chat for ansi users. Control-R redraws
screen.
Users screen is restored on exit from full/split screen chat
mode, so you can even break into a fullscreen tagger session! Uses
new colors from COLORS statement in EFT.CFG!
Sysops name is read from DORINFOx.DEF if found else defaults to
SYSTEM OPERATOR.
* NEW! Textmacro files EFTCHAT1.A?? .. EFTCHAT9.A?? are sent from chat
mode if sysop presses ALT-1 .. ALT-9. No embedded codes allowed in
EFTCHAT1.A?? .. EFTCHAT9.A??.
Sysop can still type while file is being sent. ALT-0 aborts sending of
textmacro file. If in split screen chat, the textmacro file is sent
through the sysops window. Great for phrases, byestrings etc...
ALT-S sends any file from chat mode (sysop gets prompted for full path
and name).
Hotkeys work while chatting now (exception: ALT-C).
* The beginnig of each log line is also definable now.
EFT.LNG lines 193 194 195 refer to the date part of a logline
OPUS FD SBBS
EFT.LNG lines 196 197 198 refer to the time part of a logline
OPUS FD SBBS
Please check if the logs are correct when using the default values,
and drop me a mail if you discover errors in your log format, so I
can correct them in the default EFT.LNG, that comes with the
EFT package.
* Fixed bug with double echo of the selection character on the
lastchance menu if not using hotkeys.
* Added AUTO parameter to TagfilesMacro so that all tagfiles are loaded
automatically without /GET. See also EFT.LNG line 202/203
* Replaced HLP_CMD.A?? with DWN_CMD.A?? for download mode and
UP_CMD.A?? for uploading.
* Fixed bug with more prompting, added corresponding EFT.LNG line 201.
* Dupecheckers are now switched off when using /LIST for
automatic transfers. Dupecheckers still active after transfer is
complete.
* Fixed bug with EFT loosing files when a users drops carrier
after transfer but before transfer report. EFT will now try to
continue processing files without user input.
* FILES.EFT is only rejected if the used protocol does not
support 'Behavior GetInfos'.
* Changed filearea related code. EFT will use 30-40K less memory.
* Same goes for protocol support. Additional 20-25k saved.
* USERON.BBS updating is now automatically RA 1.0x / RA 1.1x compatible.
* Fixed bug with Bimodem uploads not being dupechecked, and ArcExitInfo
behavior.
* The following file stati are definable now:
OK,NOTFOUND,BROKEN U,BROKEN D,UNWANTED,UNEXPECT,DUPE,NOT SENT,SENT,
FREEFILE,NO TIME,NO LIMIT,RATIO K,RATIO F,WRONG PW,ILLEGAL
Warning! If editing EFT.LNG line 1 make sure each status is 8 chars long!
* Files not in FILES.BBS / PFILES.BBS thus hidden files will not be
download-counted.
* The file tagger now supports ANSI ESC-sequences to control the cursor.
So your users are allowed to leave NUMLOCK off.
As far as I know there are no sequences for Pg-Up and Pg-Down!
ANSI cursor control also active in filetagger's areas selection.
* New CFG statement RA110AREAS makes EFT recognize the RA 1.1x flag
settings for UL, LIST and DL for each area. If you do not specify
RA110AREAS even on a RA 1.1x system EFT will only use the RA 1.0x
security and private files security flags. Note! RA 1.10 does not
support private files. Those settings are replaced with the list
security.
* Added UpDayCredit statement:
You can grant extra boni to users uploading brandnew stuff and reduce
users uploadcredit if they send old shit. Of course fully definable.
Non archived uploads can not gain bonus credits above 100%
EFT now determines what dayperiod matches most of the files in the
given archive and will give credit according to that period.
Example:
20 files in TREETS.ZIP
7 files that are 5 days old.
10 files that are 270 days old.
3 files that are 370 days old.
Using the following EFT.CFG file segment,
UpDayCredit 14 150
UpDayCredit 60 100
UpDayCredit 120 80
UpDayCredit 200 50
UpDayCredit 356 10
EFT will give 10% for TREETS.ZIP, because most of the files will
match the period 356..200 days.
That will teach 'em a lesson :-) ...
* Your users will love this:
New statement OLDSTUFF <text> in EFT.CFG let's you define
a text that is added to a file if it does not fit in any
age-class you would have defines using UpDayCredit.
* Enhanced multilanguage support for tagger onscreen menus. Still you
will have to pay attention if you change those menus, but EFT will
help you where possible.
* Hopefully fixed bug with file are being sent across the users time
limit.
* New display file BADPIC.ASC/ANS is displayed every time an uploaded
picture file is rejected.
* FILES.CTL now can include /UNWANTED flags, to give you another chance
to mark files as unwanted on your system. This is to keep compatibility
with SBBS's FILES.CTL. Of course this can be combined with EFT's
enhanced filemasks.
* New commandline parameter -#<name and path of paramfile> lets
you define a parameter file from which EFT shall read the commandline
parameters if your EFT commandline exceeds the BBS's capabilities.
-# can be mixed with other commandline parameter. Each given parameter
will be executed. Also the format of the parameterfile is free.
Simply give the parameters as if you had given them on the commandline.
There can be several parameters on one line. Max length is 255 chars.
There can be unlimited lines.
* For those using "AskAnother SWITCH" in EFT.CFG there are 2 new
commandline parameters -au<upload path> and -ad<download path>
EFT will use the upload path when switching from download mode.
You can still use -a<path> but beware of the path beginning with U or D.
You will then have to use -ad or -au respectively.
* New commandline parameter -TAG forces file tagger mode after a user
selected a protocol. No hintfiles or build-in download hints are shown.
This can also be combined with forced protocols.
-TAG has some sub-functions:
If you want the tagger to come up with the new date prompt
give -TAG:DATE.
If you want the tagger to come up in filemask-search use
-TAG:MASK.
-TAG:KEY lets the user give a search keyword.
-TAG:LAST will start in new-files-only mode with the users
last-on date set.
-TAG:GLOBAL will start the tagger in global mode.
Forced behaviours are combinable with each other and with
forced protocols.
Example:
EFT ... -tag:global -tag:last -fZ
is an replacement for the list-new-files function in RA - PLUS
immediate tagging and downloading via Z-Modem.
* Enhanced ALT-H.
* Tagger's defaults are now *.* for masking and nothing for keyword
search.
* Fixed SEVERE bug with global mode using non-allocated memory!
* EFT will not longer leave a EFTFILES.? in a filearea if UNSOLVABLE
(mostly sharing) problems occur during FILES.BBS update. Instead
EFTFILES.?, containing the updated FILES.BBS information is moved
into the break directory.
* Enhanced taggers Time:/Files: line according to multilanguage support,
numeric output will adjust to the new length of your EFT.LNG lines
130, 131. Same goes for taggers on-screen menus. EFT.LNG line
* Enter does no longer tag files. Instead it is used for speed-searching
Example: ^M^E^M finds MEMKIT.ZIP
Only '5' and 'T' will still tag a file.
* Added /P parameter to the download files prompt. This will tell EFT
to ask the user if he wants to download an occurence of the given
filemask. This functions like some sort of low-tech tagger.
Example:
Enter files to download blabla ...
? all*.* /p newfiles.* die*das.*/P mogul.fat
will make EFT ask for every occurence of all*.* and die*das.*.
EFT takes all occurences of newfiles.* and mogul.fat automatically.
Note the space after all*.* is allowed and the enhanced filemask in
die*das.*.
In addition the user has also some options to select:
T.ag the file
S.kip the file
N.ext area continue scan with next area
E.nd scan end scan and proceed to last chance menu
A.bort abort the transfer
?.help sends WANTFILE.ASC/ANS if avail else beep
Note the new display file and the new lines 222 and 223 in EFT.LNG.
* EFT will now search for EFT.LNG in the startup dir, next in the
path-dir if EFT was started via a c:\bbs\EFT.exe type call and
last in the dir that is referenced by the environment variable
RA or SBBS. Same handshake goes for the overlay file EFT.EXE.
This could have caused the system to hang!
* Finally it's here: Multiple-line file descriptions!
But as always EFT does it the enhanced way:
You get SCROLLING prompts remote for file descriptions and the
files-to-download prompt.
Note the new parameters to the DESCLEN statement in EFT.CFG.
* Updated and enhacned ArcHead utility to 4DOS V 4.x
* Added behavior window to SHUTUP statement. You can now define
a start and stop event and EFT will only beep on the sysops
console if the actual time matched the shutup-window.
* Added border parameter to WINDOW= and ARCWINDOW= behavior:
This will put a frame around a child process' window.
This is the usage of the bits in the border parameter:
+Display child's parameters
!
!
bit7 xxxx xxxx bit 0
! !!
! Type of frame:
!
Display name 0= no frame
of child process
as window title 1= ┌─┐
└─┘
2= ╔═╗
╚═╝
3= ╓─╖
╙─╜
4= ╒═╕
╘═╛
Example:
window=10,10,70,20,27,129
will put a type 1 frame around the child process and
display its name but not its parameters as the window
title (all in cyan on blue).
New LNG line 224 for low tech tagger. Leave empty if you do not want
that line to be added to your download hints.
* The BBS config file is no longer locked while running eft.
* New embedded codes for display files:
^K% ... amount of k left for downloading today. (taken from SBBS)
^K\ ... Erase to end of line (ANSI only)
* New embedded code for display files AND all prompts and texts in
EFT.LNG:
^K[cc ... Set color regarding the following table:
Foreground Background Colours
(2nd "cc" digit) (1st "cc" digit)
------------------ ---------------------
0 - Black 0 - Black
1 - Blue 1 - Blue
2 - Green 2 - Green
3 - Cyan 3 - Cyan
4 - Red 4 - Red
5 - Purple 5 - Purple
6 - Brown 6 - Brown
7 - White 7 - White
8 - Grey
9 - Bright Blue
A - Bright Green
B - Bright Cyan
C - Bright Red
D - Bright Purple
E - Bright Yellow
F - Bright White
0 - Flashing Black 8 - Black
1 - Flashing Blue 9 - Blue
2 - Flashing Green A - Green
3 - Flashing Cyan B - Cyan
4 - Flashing Red C - Red
5 - Flashing Purple D - Purple
6 - Flashing Brown E - Brown
7 - Flashing White F - White
8 - Flashing Grey
9 - Flashing Bright Blue
A - Flashing Bright Green
B - Flashing Bright Cyan
C - Flashing Bright Red
D - Flashing Bright Purple
E - Flashing Bright Yellow
F - Flashing Bright White
Examples:
43 - Red foreground on a Cyan background.
01 - Blue on a black background.
FB - Flashing Bright White on a Cyan background.
A colourful "ENTER" - [01E[03N[05T[04E[0ER
*******************************************************************************
* *
* If you want your native EFT.LNG to be included in the package WITH your *
* name and BBS adress included as header please send it to one of the support *
* sites mentioned in SUPPORT.EFT! *
* *
*******************************************************************************
Release 1.30
------------------------------------------------------------------------
I was not finished with EFT 1.30 - but you users were impatient.
Anyway-I think there are pretty much new and goodies already build into
Enhanced File Transfer V 1.30
------------------------------------------------------------------------
* Ejected several inactive support sites. Please check who is in charge
for your area now. PLEASE DO NOT REGISTER THROUGH EFT SUPPORT USA IF
YOU LIVE IN GERMANY (that really happened) !
* You will get two sets of display files along with this release,
and a bonus filearea list utility called RAFF (Remote Access File
Find). It will work under RA and SBBS and it is THE FASTEST lister
on the market today. It will also support s small set of embedded
control characters, help files, menu files and it supports the new
EFT FILES.BBS format for CD-ROM fileareas. As it is not written by
myself please check the DOCs that come with RAFF for further details.
I use it on my board, so it must be the best one around ...
* I changed the key policy again: There is no eval period any more.
Instead unregistered keys will make EFT ask the users those random
strings sometimes when they enter the tagger.
Note that this is NOT CRIPPLEWARE! The product is still full featured,
so please consider registration, you will see that EFT 1.30 is worth it!
* WARNING! I have discovered a nasty bug in GSZ by Omen Tech!
If you set your DSZLOG environment variable to a value without
a path: E.G. SET DSZLOG=DSZ.LOG one would expect GSZ to create that
file in the actual directory, which would be the best for EFT as it
then can expect the log in its own transfer dir.
That is not always so!
If GSZ finds a DSZ.LOG on the search path especially in the root dir
of the actual partition it will erroreously use THAT one instead of
the one you specified!!! THIS IS A SERIOUS PROBLEM, because EFT will
not know what files were transferred by GSZ!
Even worse: On multiline systems GSZ causes network errors because
two simultaneously running GSZs are not able of sharing on DSZ.LOG
thus "Network error during open a file". BUG-S-Z by Omen Tech!
Normally you avoid that problem too with letting GSZ create its
logs in EFTs directories, because EFT of course creates one unique
dir for each line.
Solution 1 is to give an additional path as your DSZLOG environment
variable BE SURE TO SET THAT TO A DIFFERENT VALUE for each line!!
Solution 2 is to erase all occurences of DSZ.LOG from your search
pathes and especially from your root directories! GSZ then works
O.K.
Solution 3 is SET DSZLOG=DSZLOG.LOG, so that GSZ does not find any
occurences of DSZ.LOG any more.
* Hopefully fixed problem with private uploads bringing their OLD-STUFF
texts into the filearea rather than into the private directory.
* OldStuff changed: The OLDSTUFF text is now taken from EFT.LNG line
225. In addition you can now give a directory as a parameter to
OldStuff in EFT.CFG and EFT will move your old uploads into that
path. Downloadcounters are now initialized for OLD-STUFF files, too.
* Also changed ULmultiply according to the changes in Updaycredit/Oldstuff:
Added EFT.LNG Line 226 (an ULmultiply bonus is shown as
"SYSOP: 150% bonus").
Note that ULmultiply is processed last: If Noarccredit or Updaycredit
reduced the file's size to 1% the user will get 2% in result if
ULmultiply was set to 200%!
* Removed DESC statement from EFT.CFG - You have EFT.LNG line 200 for
that. $1 is version of EFT.
* New logline macro #BONUS puts the size of uploaded file after it
has passed add bonus-giving routines. #BONUS will post 0 on downloads.
Stripped #BBSNAME macro.
* Bug fixed when sorting an empty area.
* Added multitasker Support:
1) Timeslicing:
EFT will release ticks to the multitasker if it is
momentary idle.
2) Virtual Video Memory Support:
EFT will use MTVB virtual memory for direct screen writing. So
be sure to set the task EFT is running in to the following
statements:
Directly writes to video Memory: N
Virtualize text and graphics : Y
Display graphics : N
EFT detects the presence of DESQview, TopView, TaskView, OmniView,
MS Windows and IBM 3270 PC multi-tasking systems.
* CorrectkBytes now adjusts uploadsk and downloadsk according to
ratio settings. E.G. if ratio on k is 1:2 correctkbytes may
take 4000k from uploadsk and 8000k from downloadsk.
* Fixed several bugs concerning read-only media support in RA and
SBBS. (FILES.x and list path support)
* Build in CD-ROM manager:
EFT introduces a new method of accessing CD-ROM in a fast and
easy way as there are several problems with the conventional RA/SBBS
read-only media support:
Nearly every CD on the market consists of hunderts of directories.
How to connect those into a BBS? Installing hundrets of fileareas?
No way.
EFT now brings you a new FILES.BBS format:
<filename and PATH> <filesize> <filedate MM-DD-YY> <description>
or
<filedate MM/DD/YY>
or
<filedate MM.DD.YY>
1) With this you can combine files from different directories TO
FORM ONE SINGLE FILEAREA! Note: If you skip the path information
from a line in a CD-ROM FILES.BBS EFT will assume the normal
filepath to the given file as installed in FILES.RA/FLSEARCH.BBS.
2) In addition I included the filesize and filedate in the new
FILES.BBS. EFT will not access the CD when listing the CDROM
based filearea e.g. when tagging files with the full-screen
tagger. This gives you LIGHTNING FAST access to CD-ROM files,
and lets you even change the filedate of files on the CD-ROM,
so if you install a new CD you can have all or several or some
or the files on the CD-ROM included in your new-files list.
New statement CDROM in EFT.CFG lets you define those areas from
FILES.RA / FLSEARCH.BBS, that should be under control of EFT's
CD-ROM manager. Be sure you have set the global list-path in
RACONFIG and the listpathes for each area in FLSEARCH.BBS.
There is also private files support for CD-ROMs:
EFT supports PFILES.x in RA's global list path and PFILES.BBS in
SBBS' list pathes.
If you erroreously try to let EFT move files into a CD-ROM path
(bidirectional uploading into a CD-ROM area), EFT will move
those uploads into the break directory. Be sure to use the -au
parameter correctly.
Changed EFT.LNG line 154 for CDROM support.
Be sure to set the ULsecurity for your CDROM areas to an appropriate
value (mine are at seclevel=60000)
* Stripped RA110AREAS statement, PFILES support and RA 0.04 support!
* General cleanup of code, speed up, optimizations. Check everything
closely, especially SBBS sysops!
* Corrected date format EFT.LNG line 80 for file tagging etc.
* Corrected R command in file tagger not refreshing the files and
time stats.
* Hopefully fixed bug with /UNWANTED lines in FILES.CTL
* The tagger's keyword-search mode will switch back to mask mode if
an empty keyword is given.
* Tags will be remembered and shown when switching from Display All to
Display New and back. In EFT 1.20 the tags were not shown any more,
in fact they were there and processed.
* Now supporting SBBS' AGE, NO-UPLOADS and NO-DOWNLOADS flags/values
in FLSEARCH.BBS.
Note! Depending on EFT's internals users with a security>65000 will
have access to every area regardless of flags or age settings.
* Added standard search algo to FILES.CTL:
1. Startup dir,
2. f:\bbs\eft.exe call path (f:\bbs\)
3. 3 set SBBS= / set ra= environment variable
Corrected little bug concerning enhanced pathes in FILES.CTL
Example: E:\*\*.* will now match e:\110g\cdrom.zip
* New macro $1 on EFT.LNG line 85/86 contains amount of cummulated
bonus time (if any else zero) the user gained with his uploads.
* ? now works in the taggers areas screen. The tagger now has three
help files: TAGGER.A?? TAGVIEW.A?? and TAGAREA.A??
* The ARCWINDOW and WINDOW parameters are not longer checked to fit on
the screen. So you can now even give EGA-screen-sized parameters even
if EFT is not in EGA mode when reading the CFG file.
* Hopefully fixed bug that caused uploads to disapear if the filenames
WERE given on uploading.
* Fixed bug that caused EFT to send files from areas the user had list
acces but indeed no download access to.
* Hopefully fixed FCREATE bug.
* EFT's ANSI manager now supports quoted graphics chars.
* String input routines have been improved: If a user types BS in
an input field with default value he will edit that value. If
he types anything else the prompt field is cleared. This works
like in normal SAA applications.
* Ok lets have it your way: Enter tags files instead of searching
for "M"
* Filescount now works also in CDROM areas that are under control of
EFT's CDROM manager and the new FILES.BBS format.
* The low-tech tagger now correctly gives only those users access
to files not in FILES.BBS, that have a security >= HideFiles (see
EFT.CFG).
* Added LNG line that will show the selected forced protocol before
displaying the according display file ?D.ANS rspt. ?U.ANS.
* NEW! Full automated DIZ file support. You can even define up to
16 DIZ filenames that EFT will search for to extract the upload
description from. This of course works not only with ZIP, but with
all archivers. New CFG statement DIZFile (see there).
EFT will strip all borders from FILE_ID.DIZ files.
* EFT will now seek the following pathes for display files:
FileDoorDir path from EFT.CFG
Language path out of the BBS's language configuration (RA only)
Textfile path out of the BBS's configuration