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- WHAT'S NEW IN QFILER
- VERSION 3.1
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- February 14, 1988
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- QFILER 3.1 (QF3) is a major upgrade to QFILER versions 3.0-
- 3.0E which had previously replaced QFILER 2.x versions. As
- noted in other documentation, the 3.x series are a rewrite of
- the 2.x version and generally add substantial new features to
- this popular program. The following are new to version 3.1:
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- EXPLICIT SUPPORT FOR BOTH BUERG AND KATZ ARCHIVE UTILITIES.
- You may select which of these two popular user-supported
- archive utilities you wish to use though the use of QFINST
- (Buerg is the default). If PKARC has been selected, then the
- selection of Ctrl-A, A (Add or Update an ARC), will result in
- fewer calls to PKARC since multiple files are communicated to
- it by QFILER.
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- ADDITION OF INDIVIDUAL FILE EXTRACTING from an ARC'd file.
- Selection of Ctrl-A, E (Extract files from an ARC) now offers
- the choice "<A>ll or <I>ndividual files?". Pressing "I" will
- display a window in which all the files of the selected ARC
- are displayed. You may select one or more files to be
- extracted and the drive/directory to which they should be
- written. QFILER will send the appropriate commands to your
- selected ARChive utility and extract only those files you
- have tagged.
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- SINGLE KEY INVOCATION OF LIST AND FINDIT. Although you may
- continue to invoke both LIST and FINDIT by using the "List"
- submenu, the single keystroke keys "S" and "F" have been
- mapped to perform these functions without having to press "L"
- first. "S" = Show a file (using Buerg's LIST). "F" = Find
- file(s) (using FINDIT).
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- COMPOSITE VIDEO MONITOR SUPPORT has been added. Just run
- QFINST with a /M on the command line, then write the changes
- to QFILER. This solves the problem of a composite video
- monitor attached to a color video card by substituting normal
- mono "colors" for the default color table -- and runs QFINST
- in monochrome as well.
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- REFRESH OF SCREEN AFTER ARCA/ARCE. In most cases, the proper
- target directory of an ARC-Add/Update or ARC-Extract will be
- shown -- even if your selected target drive is other than the
- current drive/directory. Files are no longer "UnTagged"
- after an ARC-Add/Update.
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- "NOVICE" MODE ADDED. QFILER includes several advanced and
- potentially dangerous features -- especially in the hands of
- a novice computer user. There is now a procedure whereby
- Corporate Micro Managers or Trainers can disable a number of
- these more advanced features. (You are licensing those
- corporate copies, aren't you?) If QFINST is run with a
- /NOVICE on the command line, you will be shown the current
- level of QFILER and may toggle modes between Novice and
- Intermediate. Selection of the Novice mode will result in
- the following:
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- Set/Clear Attribute Bits (sht-F1/F2) disabled.
- Hide/Unhide (sht-F3/F4) disabled.
- Protect/UnProtect (sht-F5/F6) disabled.
- Set File Time/Date (sht-F9) disabled.
- Shell to DOS (ctrl-S) disabled.
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- System/Hidden/ReadOnly files are NOT displayed and
- consequently may neither be copied nor deleted.
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- EXIT TO CURRENT DIRECTORY added through the use of Ctrl-Q.
- In summary, <ESC> and <Q> will exit QFILER and return to the
- original directory -- Ctrl-Q returns to the directory
- currently active and displayed on the QFILER screen.
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- SIZES NOW DISPLAYED "CORRECTLY". Well, they weren't really
- wrong before, but they are now shown as a multiple of 1000
- bytes rather than 1024 bytes. In other words, an empty DS/DD
- floppy will show 362K free and be less confusing.
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- FLASHING POINTER RESTORED. It's tricky, by if someone REALLY
- wants to go back to the QF2.x-style flashing pointer instead
- of the inverse video for current and tagged files, it now
- happens automatically if you run QFINST and set the tagged
- color to the same as the current color. Suggest gray on blue
- for current (same as the normal display); white on blue for
- both tagged and tagged+current. Write the new defaults and
- rerun QFILER. You should now see a flashing pointer in the
- left margin.
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- QFILER is User-Supported and is Copyright 1986, 1987, 1988 by
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- Jamestown Software
- 2508 Valley Forge Drive
- Madison WI 53719
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- BBS: 608-271-3685
- Quantity purchase and site license information: 608-271-2090
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