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Release notes for FastEcho 1.46
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Copyright (c) 1991-1997 by Software Technik Burchhardt. All rights reserved.
Welcome to this intermediate release of FastEcho, which is an update to the
previous 1.45a release as of October 1995. Not all functions for 1.50 have
been implemented yet, a lot more features are about to come, amongst them is
the long-promised support for PCBoard and Wildcat as well as Win32 versions.
However, it contains some other goodies many users have been bugging me for
endlessly.
Amongst them are:
* native OS/2 FESetup as well as a 32 bit DOS extended version, now
no more out of memory problems for huge configurations
* 6 more groups (more can be expected for 1.50)
* 4096 areas (more to come as well)
* reporting of runtime errors and warnings by NetMail, so you don't
have to check your log file to see if something has gone wrong
* enhanced AreaFix functions including .RUL file handling
* quite a bunch of bug fixes and other smaller or bigger enhancements
For FESetup I've switched to a new version of the TCXL library to make the 32
bit and the OS/2 version possible. While doing this switch I also changed the
compiler, FESetup is now compiled with Watcom C++ 10.0a. I also got WC++ 11.0
but due to several reasons I chose to stay with 10.0a for now. The plan is to
use the Watcom compiler for FastEcho and FEUtil as well, but I didn't want to
let you wait any longer till this change is performed and the new .EXEs were
extensively tested, thus the release now. You will notice a major difference
in the size of FESETUP.EXE (though the memory consumption is not as big due
to overlay management) plus some cosmetical enhancements introduced with the
new TCXL version. You will also notice a reasonable delay when loading
FESetup and FESetup/32 before the setup screen pops up, but that's normal.
Even though this "new" FESetup has been tested for a few months, it still may
contain some bugs or may not behave as wanted in every place. If you find any
oddities which did not occur with 1.45a, please feel free to tell me so I can
change or fix it.
I will not make any promises for the release of 1.50, except that there WILL
be a version 1.50 (and maybe even another 1.4x in between). I don't know yet
when I'll come to get everything on my large to-do-list done, escpecially as
I'm about to come to the graduation phase of my studies. Though I promise
that I won't let you wait another 1 1/2 years for the next release/update.
This delay was mainly caused by other important projects both for university
and business and originally not intended.
Anyway, have fun with the new version and I hope it's not necessary to take
it as a April-1st kind of joke. ;-)
Waltrop, 01 Apr 1997
Tobias Burchhardt
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