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- BEAT THE PRICE INCREASE
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- Effective March 1, 1993 the price of DOSNIX wil be $35.00.
- This increase reflects the cumulative improvement in quality,
- performance and number of features since I first priced it at
- $25.00. A new site license schedule for commercial users goes
- into effect immediately.
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- New for DOSNIX version 2.2
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- 1. READ has a new command to search back through the file
- for a previous occurence of the search string. This feature
- was badly needed but I had been putting it off because I
- thought it was going to be hard to do. A while back I started
- handling my own file buffer and this made it a lot easier. The
- new command works like a champ and you can use either a "?" or
- F9 as in LIST.
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- 2. I added another command to the enhanced version - DU. Most
- UNIX DU commands report usage in 512 byte blocks, which is not
- very useful unless you are copying files to a 1.2 mb. floppy
- disk. The DOSNIX DU command has options to report usage in
- in 1k, 2k, or 4k blocks or to determine cluster size from
- the FAT.
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- New for DOSNIX version 2.1
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- 1. Read has received more improvements and will now configure
- itself to use available memory. This means that READ will
- run on a system as small as 192k and handle files as large as
- 65500 lines on larger systems. READ has also been given another
- increase in speed and is now about twice as fast in all modes as
- the version provided with 1.2j.
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- When using F4 to display the directory, the previously
- selected file if any will be highlighted. This seems to
- work better than resetting to the begining of the directory
- each time.
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- If a string search fails you will now be returned to your
- previous position in the file instead of being left at the
- end of the file.
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- READ was previously modified to write pages directly to video
- memory instead of using BIOS interrupts. This resulted in much
- faster displays. I have now added a -b option which will cause
- READ to use the BIOS. It may be necessary to use this option
- with some non-standard computers or display adaptors.
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- Because this version of READ will handle files over twice
- as large as the previous version, READXL.EXE has been dropped
- from the enhanced version to make room for other things. I am
- still committed to providing a large version of READ, so users
- who register will receive a new large version with all of the
- above improvements. This version can handle files of more than
- 150000 lines and up to 16 megabytes, depending on available
- memory. There is a modest speed penalty involved in indexing
- arrays with long integers but it is still faster than the old
- READXL.EXE.
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- 2. Three new commands have been added to the enhanced version,
- DF, HEAD and TAIL. The DF command is less cryptic than most
- UNIX DF commands and will tell you free space in both clusters
- and bytes. It also has an option to display cluster size and
- sector size. The TAIL command is fast, will accept wild cards
- and multiple arguments, and has UNIX -c and -b options.
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- 3. In deference to the increased number of DOS 5.0 users
- HELP.BAT has been renamed MANUAL.BAT.
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- 4. Some small improvements have been made in SGREP. When
- redirecting the ouput to a file, extra line feeds would be
- generated which did not show up with READ but did with
- other text file viewers.
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