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Changes to READ 2.10
====================
- Used a more compatible method of cursor suppression. Some BIOSes
crashed the system with my old method under certain circumstances.
- BIOSes tend to do strange things if they feel they're right. Text
input in my home-made text modes messed up the screen. Now the
BIOS is out of charge for that...
- Line count gives you percentage of lines info.
- More international date style used.
Changes to READ 2.04
====================
- Since there's another text file browser out on the Internet that's
also called READ, I decided to rename the ZIP files READ comes in to
CREAD???.ZIP (C=Chris, ???=version number).
- The format of the "O" line in the config file has changed! So if you
want to use your old config file with the new release, remove the "O"
line, then start READ, then save the configuration with @, then set
your own mouse configuration. You are rewarded with a much more
flexible way to define the mouse operation.
- New parameter to K in the config file (keyboard settings) makes
functional keys pressed while help is being displayed effective to
the text display.
- Another parameter to K allows to make Esc work like Q if there's
just one file in the file list.
- Alternate horizontal stepsize is used if the left/right arrow keys
are pressed with Ctrl.
- READ now tries to keep track of the actual line in the file. Whenever
this is possible (and useful), it greatly speeds up line calculations
(that is, G and Shift-G).
Changes to READ 2.03
====================
- Bug fix: In the file selection menue, the right mouse button didn't
work properly when button mode 1 was selected... never release new
versions too soon...
- New text modes with EGA and VGA! See READ.ENG or READ.MOD.
- CBM charset no longer supported. Did anyone use this?
- Go to line is no longer limited to a maximum of 65535 lines and can
be cancelled with Esc or Q.
Changes to READ 2.02
====================
- Wrap around now exactly matches the line end
- When scrolling in wrap around mode, READ tries to estimate the line
starts in order to scroll screen line wise. More than just trying
costs too much time.
- Added a switch that allows to ignore EOF characters in texts
- Hitting Enter redraws the screen (useful with DesqView)
- For those of you used to Unix: Ctrl-Z is now equal to Alt-Z
- There was a severe bug when piping: READ hung regularly. And what's
even more, piping was not re-entrant, so whenever you READ piped
text, then shelled to DOS with Alt-Z and piped another text through
another READ, strange things happened. READ now looks for the
environment variable "TEMP" instead of "TMP" for a path to put
temporary files to and leaves the name choice to DOS.
- Mouse mode 2 (mouse locked if left button pressed) didn't work
properly in the file selection menue. Now it does.
- Fixed a bug in the printing routine: if you added a file to the file
list, previously deleted files could reoccur.
Changes to READ 2.01
====================
- Added an environment variable READPATH that allows to specify where
READ should look for its support files instead of the path of
READ.EXE.
- Fixed a bug in the find routine that could lead to messages in the
middle of the screen.
- Volume labels are no longer displayed in the file list
- The find routine is now case-sensitive if you press Shift-F instead
of F.
- The print routine is now capable of deleting and adding CRs (where
necessary).