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- New for ver. 1.31
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- 1. The 40 column line wrap feature in the previous version
- had some problems with scrolling accurately. Each 40 column
- segment is now treated as a separate line and the line number
- at the bottom of the screen will reflect this.
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- New for ver. 1.30
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- 1. FFV has received more improvements and will now configure
- itself to use available memory. This means that FFV can
- run on a system as small as 192k and handle files as large
- as 65500 lines on 384k and larger systems. FFV has also
- been given another increase in speed and is much faster than
- previous versions.
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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.
- FFV can now search back through the file for a previous
- occurence of the search string. To invoke this command you
- can use either a "?" or F9 as in LIST.
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- Last but not least FFV has a new option to switch your
- display adaptor to extended text modes. The format is
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- ffv -n filename
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- where n is the actual number of the mode in decimal. To
- save you grief in converting from hex to decimal I have
- listed common mode numbers in the DOC's. FFV can even
- handle CGA 40 column modes although the help screen is
- not available in these modes. Lines will be automatically
- wrapped in 40 column modes.
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- New for ver. 1.22
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- 1. PDQ worked just fine on my VGA system with MSDOS and it
- worked fine on my CGA system with DRDOS. I just discovered
- it wouldn't work with MSDOS and CGA or Hercules. MSDOS does
- not store the number of screen rows in low memory with these
- monitors. You could get it going by using PDQCFG to set the
- screen size but it should be automatic. Now fixed.
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- 2. Fixed some minor problems with the way SDC handled floppy
- drives.
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- New for ver. 1.21a
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- 1. With the previous mod you could get some strange highlights
- if your normal screen color was different from what you set up
- with PDQCFG. I have changed it so the only colors affected by
- PDQCFG are the ones for FFV and the menu modes of SDC and SDL.
- I think it works much better this way.
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- New for ver. 1.21
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- 1. PDQ can now be configured from the environment. Under
- ordinary circumstances PDQ is self-configuring. You can
- use CC to set your screen colors and PDQ will adapt itself
- to your system. However there may be problems with not-so-
- close compatibles. You can use the environment variable
- PDQCFG to set the home drive for PATH.SDC, BIOS or direct
- screen writes for FFV, screen colors and screen size.
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- New for ver. 1.20
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- 1. The Friendly File Viewer can now handle EGA and VGA
- extended text modes, even the ones I can't read with
- my trifocals. Can anybody read 132 X 60 on a 14 inch
- monitor?
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- 2. When SDL and GFF were used with large (greater than 32mb)
- DOS partitions the amount of free space reported was wrong.
- This was caused by overflow when converting from clusters to
- bytes. The problem should now be fixed. If anyone finds
- that it isn't please drop me a line or leave me E-MAIL on
- CompuServe or GENIE.
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- New for ver. 1.19
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- 1. The Friendly File Viewer has received a few changes to
- make it even friendlier. Lines are now written directly
- to video memory for faster pages. CGA cards are detected
- automatically and horizontal retrace checking is performed
- to prevent snow. The action of the PgUp key has been
- modified for better performance with floppy drives.
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- 2. When SDL and GFF were used without ANSI.SYS being installed
- there were some problems with the highlighting. SDC had a
- similar problem when displaying the directory tree.
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- New for ver. 1.18
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- 1. When using SDC, if the /t switch was combined with the /s
- switch the path file would be removed and a new one would
- not be generated. SDC would then have to scan the drives the
- next time it was used. This problem has now been fixed.
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- New for ver. 1.17
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- 1. In FFV, the Esc key did not work during string searches.
- Now fixed. FFV also runs a little faster than before.
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- 2. SDC and SDL can now handle up to 400 matching directories.
- About the only way you can get this number of matches on a
- large system is to use the backspace key in Speed Search. If
- the buffer does fill up you can still use Speed Search to reduce
- the number of matches. The total number of directories on a
- system is limited only by the time that it takes to search the
- database. On an XT Turbo with a slow hard disk I got acceptable
- performance with over 400 directories. A fast system should be
- able to handle more than 1000 before it bogs down.
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- New for ver. 1.16
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- 1. SDC now uses just one path file for all hard disk
- partitions, stored in the root directory of drive C.
- This change improves the way the backspace key works
- during speed searches and should allow SDC to run
- faster on large systems with many logical drives. You
- can still access drives explicitly but the speed advantage
- won't be that great. Floppy drives still have a separate
- path file for each floppy, and you will have to scan each
- floppy disk to install the path file.
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- 2. When a directory was created, removed or relocated
- on a drive locked out with SDNOSCAN, SDC would still
- try to access the path file. This problem has now been
- fixed.
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- 3. The Slick Directory Lister has been upgraded to work
- with the new version of SDC. You should not try to use
- an older version of SDL with the new version of SDC.
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