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- Filefind Release Notes
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- Filefind
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- Release Notes
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- The following release notes describe the changes to Filefind
- in the various versions of the program.
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- Version 3.30 Version 3.30 Version 3.30 January 11, 1991
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- 1 Added a Within Within Within option that allows selecting files
- that match the file spec and and and that have been
- created or altered within the last 'n' days.
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- 2 Fixed bugs in Read Only and Archive attribute
- filtering.
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- Version 3.20 Version 3.20 Version 3.20 December 11, 1990
- Version 3.20 provides enhanced file selection filtering
- and optionally faster searches.
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- Functional Changes
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- 1 File Attribute Filtering is available.
- Desired attribute mathcing patterns may be
- saved to the win.ini file.
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- 2 The time required to build the directory tree
- can be shortened by as much as 50% by using a
- new option in the search dialog.
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- Presentation Changes
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- 1 The search dialog has been enhanced to
- include tree building from this dialog.
- Attribute selection is included in this
- dialog as well as the default dialog. The
- Build Tree Item in the File command is
- currently retained for compatability, but
- will be removed in future versions.
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- Version 3.00 Version 3.00 Version 3.00
- Version 3.00 is essentially a essentially a 1.7
- version upgraded to true Windows 3.0 rather than
- compatable to 3.0.
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- Version 1.70 Version 1.70 Version 1.70
- October 1, 1990
- Version 1.7 introduces a Windows 3.0 compatible version
- as well as several enhancements.
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- Functional Changes
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- 1 Filefind is MS Windows 3.0 compatible. It
- may also be run under MS Windows 2.x.
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- 2 The tree display allows the same multiple
- selections as the file list. The directory
- searches are performed on all selected
- directories.
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- 3 The FileSpec dialog has been changed to allow
- setting the search specification without
- actually invoking the search. This is useful
- for when the initial search is for a filespec
- in selected directories. The OK button has
- been renamed Search and the new button is
- named Set.
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- 4 Copying the selection list or the entire file
- list to the clipboard has been added. File
- times, dates, etc. may also be optionally
- copied to the clipboard.
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- 5 Running Selections has been enhanced.
- Filefind now checks the programs as it always
- did, and if it can not run the file as a
- program, looks for an associated program in
- the [Extensions] section of the WIN.INI file.
- If one is found, the associated program is
- started and the selected file is passed to it
- as a runtime parameter.
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- 6. FileView, a file browser, is included.
- FileView may be run stand alone or as a run
- option within Filefind. Windows 2.x/3.x and
- Windows 3.x versions are included.
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- Presentation Changes
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- 1 The majority of the dialog boxes have been
- changed from titled dialog boxes to bordered
- dialog boxes. This was done to conform with
- the application style guidelines. Similar
- changes have been made to certain controls
- (e.g. certain check boxes have been changed
- to radio buttons to keep with the style
- guidelines).
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- 2 Menu Changes
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- - The Run and Action menus have been combined
- into one Action menu. This was done mostly
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- because I dislike two line menus, was adding
- the Edit menu and wanted to keep the menu on
- a single line without forcing the horizontal
- size to cover the whole screen.
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- - An Edit menu has been added to support the
- Copy List and Copy Selections clipboard
- functions.
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- 3 View and Action menu items are grayed when
- they can not be used rather than giving an
- error message.
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- 4 The default window size has been increased.
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- 5 The destination path has been added to the
- move and copy dialogs.
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- Fixes
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- 1 Fixed crashes that occurred when exiting
- under Windows 3.0 386 enhanced mode. (rel
- beta.15)
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- 2 The tab key now stops at the disk drive
- scroll bars allowing the left and right
- cursor keys to scroll the drive list.
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- 3 Filefind is now fully functional from the
- keyboard. The mouse is now optional.
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- 4 The filespec edit box allows users to enter a
- specification containing drives or paths.
- Prior versions used whatever was entered in
- the search. This usually resulted in the
- file being found in all directories on the
- disk. The search specification is now parsed
- and everything but the filename and extension
- is ignored.
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- 5 Previously, the files listed by the first
- search done would be in DOS order. The same
- search performed a second time would match
- the tree order. Now the first search also
- matches the tree order.
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- 6 The <End> key in scrolling has been fixed to
- always show the last line in the scrolled
- list. Left and right cursor keys have been
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- changed to scroll one character rather than a
- full screen.
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- 7 The print function occasionally printed blank
- pages instead of the file.
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- Version 1.5 Version 1.5 Version 1.5
- December, 1989
- Version 1.5 includes a number of functional
- enhancements, significant presentation changes, and
- several fixes.
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- Functional Changes
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- 1 Directory Listing Support
- Filefind allows directories to be listed by
- selecting the desired directory from the tree
- display. All files or all files meeting the
- current search specification may be listed.
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- 2 Deselection Changes
- Deselecting the file list by clicking in the
- non-client area is no longer supported.
- Files are now deselected by clicking on a
- selected file.
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- 3 Drive Change Dialogs
- A separate drive only dialog allows you to
- bring up a new tree or file list depending on
- what mode Filefind is in.
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- 4 New Startup Options
- Filefind may now be started by initiating a
- file search, a tree listing, or neither.
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- 5 Separate Tree Displays
- Tree displays may now be invoked without
- going through a full file search.
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- 6 Directory Deletions
- Empty directories may be deleted.
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- Presentation Changes
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- 1 Menu Changes
- Filefind's menu has been totally revamped.
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- The file specification dialog may now be
- invoked from the main menu.
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- - The main menu contains a toggle to switch
- between the directory tree display and the
- file list display.
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- - The file path separation / concatenation is
- now a toggle rather than two menu items.
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- - The sort and display menus have been combined
- into one view menu.
- - Most menu items that can not be invoked are
- now grayed.
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- 2 The about box now contains the total file
- size in bytes of the files in the file list.
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- 3 The directory now defaults to a sorted tree.
- The tree may be optionally unsorted.
- 4 Highlighting in either display has been
- changed. The highlight now switches the text
- and background colors rather than inverting
- the colors.
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- 5 When Filefind can not find any files, a
- message is displayed and Filefind switches to
- the directory tree display.
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- Fixes
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- 1 A print abort dialog has been added. This
- was necessary for the print function to work
- when the windows spooler has been turned off.
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- 2 Selecting below the last file in a list
- caused intermittent failures.
- 3 Several internal memory management errors
- have been corrected.
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- Other Changes
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- 1 Subsequent Search Efficiencies
- Filefind no longer rebuilds the directory
- tree when a subsequent search is requested.
- This speeds up the new search considerably.
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- 2 Move and Copy research.
- The move and copy operations will cause
- Filefind to re-search the disk based on the
- current search specification.
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- 3 Miscellaneous changes to the messages.
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- Version 1.2 Version 1.2 Version 1.2
- July, 1989
- Original shareware release
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