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What's New in Version 2.0 of DL.EXE
Previous versions of DL allowed directory names of eight
characters. Version 2.0 allows for a full 12 characters.
When making a new directory in DL, the new directory is now
highlighted.
When searching for a file in DL, you can specify that DL skips
to the next directory to continue its search.
When searching for a file, DL previously loaded up DB sorted by
filename. Now DB shows the files as they appear on the disk
(not sorted).
DL now shows hidden directories and gives you the ability
to hide and unhide them,
In DL F9 gets you a UTIL menu where you can
1 Print the Directory List
2 Hide or Unhide directories
3 Get Information about DB
The loading of DL and the screen I/O are a little faster.
What's New in Version 2.50 of DL.EXE
DL now works with partitions larger than 32 MB in DOS 4.XX
and Compaq DOS 3.31. Because of the size of the file allocation
table in these large partitions, DL will need at least 140 KB of
memory to run when using large disk partitions.
DL now comes with a configuration program, DLCONFIG.EXE. You can
use DLCONFIG to modify DL to run in black and white and change the
way it prints the directory tree.
DL.EXE will now work in 43 line EGA mode and 50 line VGA mode.
DOS 2.XX will not allow you to rename a directory. When previous
versions of DL were run under DOS 2.XX and you tried to rename a
directory, you got an error message saying that your entry was
incorrect. This has been fixed. In version 2.50 of DL, it says
"Not Avail" under the menu choice "Rename Dir", when running under
DOS 2.XX.
What's New in Version 2.0 of DB.EXE
After printing a file list, DB now does a form feed.
If the target disk is full, DB will stop copying or moving
and will no longer scroll through the directory entries beeping.
There was a bug in DB where it might sometimes give an extra
directory entry after performing a copy or move, that has been
fixed.
When DB sorts by date, the most recent files are now displayed
first.
DB now supports command line switches for different sorts.
"/e" sort by extension.
"/d" sort by date.
"/s" sort by size.
"/u" unsorted
DB how shows the System attribute.
PGDN now goes all the way to the last file.
In DB F9 gets you a UTIL menu where you can
1 Print File List
2 Print File Text
3 Change Attributes
4 Get Information about DB
In DB if when copying or moving to another drive, if you don't
specify a directory, it will copy or move to the current
directory.
You can now print a file list or file text when using DOS 2.XX
DB uses DOS calls to perform all its file work. Therefore it will
not be able to delete or copy or rename a file with characters not
recognized by DOS. In earlier versions, if you tried to delete a
file with illegal characters in the name, the file name was
removed from the display even though the file was not deleted. In
version 2.0, if the file cannot be deleted, the file name will
remain on the screen.
What's New in Version 2.0 of DB.EXE
In version 1.0 of DB, if a file list was being printed and the
printer became inoperative, you would get a disk-error message.
In version 2.0, if the printer goes off-line, DB will just abort
the printing operation and not give you an error message.
Version 1.0 of DB used DOS's print spooler to do file printing.
As it turned out, this was not such a good idea. When printing a
file, DB spawned DOS's program PRINT.COM. When you finished
working in DB, PRINT.COM, being a memory resident program, stayed
in memory in the space above the top of DB thereby partitioning
your memory and making it impossible to get to the memory above
PRINT.COM. Version 2.0 uses simple bios commands to print a file.
Though this not as convenient; you now have to wait while your
document is printed before doing anything else, at least you won't
have to reboot your computer to run any program larger than 128k.
In DB if you don't have a mouse and mouse driver installed, there
won't be a scroll bar in the view and you will be able to view 80
columns of text. If you do have a mouse installed, you will first
have a scroll bar in the view section and have 78 columns of text.
You can remove the scroll bar and view 80 columns of text by
pressing F9 or clicking on Scroll Bar. Subsequent presses of F9
or clicks on scroll bar will toggle the scroll bar on and off.
The screen I/O routines in DB have been rewritten for greater
speed.
You have the ability to change a files name when copying and
moving though I didn't make it clear in the original
documentation. In version 2 if the path you entered is ambiguous,
DB will query you before changing the file's name.
What's New in Version 2.50 of DB.EXE
DB now comes with a configuration program called DBCONFIG.EXE.
By running this program you can install your favorite text editor
or word processor in DB and change many of DB's defaults.
When a text editor is installed, pressing ^Enter will load the
text editor and the highlighted file.
Against my better judgement but by popular demand, DB will now run
programs. You can run any highlighted BAT, COM or EXE program by
pressing ^X or picking Execute from the UTIL menu.
DB will now run in EGA 43 line mode and VGA 50 line mode.
What's New in Version 2.53 of DB.EXE
DB works more like DIR in that it will accept a filename on the
command line. For instance, DB *.exe will display all the files
in the current directory with the EXE extension.
What is DIRECTOR?
OR
What's New in Versions 3.0 of DL.EXE and DB.EXE
I'm a programmer not a marketing man so it was fine with me that
these programs were known by the names or their EXE files, DL.EXE
and DB.EXE. However, even I agree that DL and DB are hardly
memorable names; so after sifting through all the suggestions of my
friends, I've decided upon the name DIRECTOR. From now on, these
programs and any additions to them will be released under the name
of DIRECTOR.
So besides a name, what's new?
Well to start with DL now contains all of DB. There were too many
features that I wanted to add to these programs, that their being
separate programs made very cumbersome so I combined them into one
program. DL is still very fast and is even faster when you want to
see a file list of a particular directory. DL will now let you
remove directories that have files in them, but only after first
warning you. It will also let you move directories. You'll notice
that the menu bar in DL has changed. (Please don't hate me for it.
I have trouble with it too.) That was necessary because I wanted
to have some consistency be