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The Accutek Shell v0.05α
Written by R. Marc Lewis
(C)opyright 1992-93 Accutek Software
All Rights Reserved.
File Name: REVISION.HST
Description: Revision History
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Version 0.05α
If the DOS CD command was used to change directories, ASh would revert
back to whatever directory was last displayed. This has been fixed.
Fixed a minor little annoyance in the file rename function. If a single
file was renamed, then the hilight bar would return to the top of the
display. It now hilights the file, using its new name.
Fixed a minor little bug in the prompt display. If there was no prompt
defined, ASh would only display a drive letter for the prompt. Now, if
there is no prompt, ASh defaults to displaying the path and greater sign
($p$g).
Added a new panel type, Compressed Files. This option displays a
compressed file created by PAK/PKPak, ARJ, LHA/LHArc, or ZIP (including
SFX's of all of them) in the form of a full directory listing. If there
is a recursed subdirectory, it is displayed in the Description zone of the
file panel (right below the time/date stamp at the bottom of the panel).
With this option you can list, tag, delete, or copy (in or out) files in
the compressed file. This option also affects the multiple file copy in a
normal (or brief) file panel in that if you specify a new file with an
extension that ASh recognizes (ARC, ARJ, LZH, or ZIP), it will create a
new compressed file using that archiver. Limitations: 1) All of the
archivers defined in SetupASh|File Manager|Archivers must be on the path,
if the archiver is not on the path, it won't work. 2) In order to create
a new archive from a directory listing, at least one file must be tagged
in order for it to check for the creation of an archive. This process is
automatic, and can't be overridden. 3) If ASh is running from a RAM
drive, there must be sufficient room to create a response file (which is
simply a listing of the files to manipulate). The response file is ALWAYS
created in the directory where ASh was run from, irregardless of the ASH
environmental variable.
Fixed a bug in the setup which would result in an the configuration file
failing the CRC check if SetupASh.EXE created the file AShFM.CFG.
Fixed a bug which would cause garbage to be displayed in the bottom of the
file panel when there was no file information in RAM.
Added a new panel type, Brief Directory listing. This will show two
columns of files instead of one. It is accessed through the main menu.
Changed the selection input routines so that the up & down arrows may now
select the action.
Version 0.04α
Found a bug which would not let ASh run on XT's. If attempted, ASh would
display a message stating that ASh requires a 286 processor or better to
run. This has been fixed.
The menus incorrectly reflected function keys which would start various
functions. These have been removed and the menus have been updated to
reflect the new functions.
Registered users can now use ASh as a front end for PKUnZip. The key is
the same as that for file UnStowage, simply hilight a ZIP file instead.
PKUnZip must be somewhere in the path for this to function. The intention
here is not to be an end all front end processor for ZIP, just a
functional system which follows ASh's file stowage format.
Added file encryption. ASh will now encrypt files using a lightning fast
algorithm (Quick method), or compress files as they encrypt them (Quick
w/Compress method). Files are processed individually, but multiple files
can be processed simultaniously (providing they have the same password).
After a file is encrypted, a security wipe is performed on the original
file to ensure that it can't be recovered.
DO NOT FORGET YOUR PASSWORD IF YOU ENCRYPT FILES!!! If you forget a
password for a file, we CAN NOT HELP. We don't have a program which will
decrypt a file without a password, so if you forget yours, you're on your
own.
Added several new file viewers: VSL, ARJ, ARC, LZH, PAK, ZIP, self
extracting archives and DBF (dBase). Now when the internal file viewer
is initiated, it will automatically determine what type of file it is
and use the appropriate viewer.
Added three new DOS command line editing keys. Ctrl-BackSpace now
deletes from the current cursor position backwards to the beginning of
the previous "word". Ctrl-End will move the cursor to the end of the
DOS command line. Ctrl-Home will move the cursor to the beginning of the
DOS command line. Also, the Ctrl-RightArrow key now will continue moving
to the end of the DOS command line.
Added data wiping to file deletion. Data may be wiped before deletion,
making recovery impossible. See the help topic on Deleting Files for more
information. USE EXTREME CAUTION WHEN WIPING FILES!!!
Occasionally, the hilight bar would be out of the window after deleting,
or otherwise removing files in the current directory. This has been
fixed.
The shift and control F1 keys were mislabeled. Ctrl-F1 displays a help
index, and Shift-F1 displays general help.
In input forms, you may now use the right and left cursor keys to move
off of a button field.
Fixed a problem with the Change Drive routine. If there were more than 5
drives available, the drive listing would go out of the window.
Fixed the screen saver so that Shift, Alt, and Ctrl will now exit it.
Version 0.03α
Added in a Directory Move routine. This is, for the most part, the same
as the Prune & Graft functions in other packages. There is only one major
difference: ASh can move directory trees across drives.
Since the memory requirements have been reduced by such a large amount,
it is now possible to run AShFM without using the loader. This will give
you a BIG increase in speed, but will limit you on the programs which can
run. When running without the loader, the main program stays in memory
and consumes about 256k of RAM, so whatever is left over out of the 640k
is what you have left to run programs.
Fixed a minor bug which wouldn't let you change fields with the tab key in
the Yes/No/Cancel confirmation window.
Added some new colors into the configuration routine: Function colors and
Subfunction colors. The function colors define all of the popup windows
over the file panel. Subfunction colors determine the colors of popup
windows from the function windows.
Fixed up the Stowage routines so all functions are now internal to the
main ASh program.
Reduced the memory requirements by a bunch. The program now only
requires 384k to run (rather than 440k). Even with the old 440k
limitation, ASh would do strange things unless you had 475k or more free.
I changed this because of numerous complaints from my DESQview
users/testers...Sorry guys, but its fixed now...Just a few notes,
if running under the minimum memory requirements (or close to it)
the right panel can't be a file panel.
You can now display a maximum of 1500 files in a file panel (over the
original 1200).
Fixed a minor bug in the clock display. If the program wasn't registered,
it would tweak the status bar in the view/edit windows.
Added a new feature which lets you change the size of the panel. <Ctrl-P>
toggles the panel length between small, normal, and full. The selection
is saved in the configuration file.
The wildcard selection/deselection buttons have changed. There is now a
single function for this. A window pops up and lets you select or deselct
from that window.
Added an exit function in the SetupAsh program's menu.