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PCBDE v4.06
Copyright (c)96,1997 by Practical Computer Services
HISTORY OF CHANGES, FIXES, & ADDITIONS
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BIG NEWS! BIG NEWS! BIG NEWS! BIG NEWS! BIG NEWS! BIG NEWS! BIG NEWS! BIG NEWS!
09/22/96
Practical Computer Services is proud to be the new owner of this fine software.
PCS will now be taking all registrations, releasing all new updates and
handling all support questions. See v4.02 release notes for additional
information.
BIG NEWS! BIG NEWS! BIG NEWS! BIG NEWS! BIG NEWS! BIG NEWS! BIG NEWS! BIG NEWS!
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v4.06 03/23/97
Updated documentation & text files to reflect updated contact
information.
v4.05 10/29/96
Correct a problem with the PPE reading the LONGPATH.DAT file. Make
sure your LONGPATH.DAT file looks like this:
6;c:\pcb\ppe\suggest\
^
Use a semi-colon (;) between the door # and path information
v4.04 10/08/96
Corrected a path problem within the PPE that I broke during the last
compile. (OOPS!) Make sure to create a directory named DATA under
your main PCBDE directory. See PCBDE.DOC for details.
v4.03 10/03/96
Corrected some problems with the key routines for detecting if the
program is registered or not.
v4.02 09/29/96
Practical Computer Services has purchased the source and rights to
PCBDE from GO/4 Software as of 09/22/96. Changes made to the code
and related files to reflect this change of ownership. Please direct
all questions and registrations to PCS, not GO/4 Software.
Company info:
Practical Computer Services
483 Klockner Road
Hamilton, NJ 08619
Voice: (609) 584-7947
Support BBS: The TAO BBS (609)587-2672 33,600 USR v.everything
Internet E-Mail: bob.watson@tao.com
v4.01u 12/08/95 * Added Universal Key Routines.
* Added code to make PCBDE Dbase capable, this
will eliminate all the LST files (in the next
version) and should greatly speed up the dispaly
for all you people running 100's of doors.
* Replaced alot of the internal code with Functions
and procedures, making debugging much easier.
v4.01 06/29/94 * Added a new configuration file, for those of you running
with long path names, you can add the path to a file
called LONGPATH.DAT, and have your path picked up from
there, this is only neccesasry for PPE's. Format of
LONGPATH.DAT is as follows:
9;C:\PCB\PPE\GAMES\ADVENTURE\TEXT\
┌───────────┘│└────────────┐
The number as shown on │ Full path (remember no PPE name),
the doors open menu! │ with the trailing slash!
┘
A Semi-Colon
Simple, No? Then the only thing you need to place in
the PCBDE.CFG (in the slot for path) is the keyword
LONG. Using the LONG parameter here, will tell PCBDE
to look in the file LONGPATH.DAT.
Any questions? Give a call.
v4.00 06/08/94 * New owners! GO/4 Software are now the support, registration
and programmers for the newly named PCBDE (previously called
TCMDE).
* Display modifications to reflect the new company name, added
the (A)bout feature (all of our software has it in it, just
basically a "who we are" screen, only those people who know
about it bother with it anyway <G>.
* Placed hooks into the code so that we can launch both PPE's
and regular door programs and have them register in the
counter display. This will be in ver 4.01.
v3.62 12/06/93 * I finally broke down and called Clark to find out EXACTLY
what was causing the Buffer errors. They gave me some
hints, and I recoded a few segments! I sure hope this takes
care of the problem!
v3.61 12/02/93 * Recompiled with 12-01-93 beta of PPL 2.0. This should
hopefully get rid of the nasty buffer errors that where
cause by the Beta compiler!
v3.60 11/15/93 * Fix a few spelling errors in the Display files! I was not
an English major!!:)
* Recompiled code with PPLC version 2! Optimized code for new
compiler. Performance improvement noted on my system. Added
a few incentives to register the code.
v3.51 11/09/93 * Minor Bug Fix. Something went amiss with the 3.50 compile.
The code was STILL not picking up the PPE Paths from
the menu............................................FIXED!
This one was a real pain to track down! Several code
segments had to be changed.
v3.50 11/08/93 * Yet another bug release! v3.40 was getting PPE paths from
the command line, but not if the user picked it from the
menu................................................FIXED!
v3.40 10/18/93 * Bug squashing release only! v3.30 was not reading in the
PPE path from the PCBDE.CFG properly................FIXED!
v3.30 10/18/93 * Added SysOp definable header for registered users.
- By request, I aim to please.
PCBDE defaults to *NOT* use the .HDR file. If you
want to define your own header create a file called
PCBDE.HDR and edit it as you please. HDR.DAT is
included as an example.
* Did some serious code optimization. PCBDE should now
run faster. I removed many lines of redundant code!
* NEW! PCBDEBLT.EXE by Chuck Valecek. This little
executable will create a nifty bulletin with
all your door info.
* UPDATED! PCBEED3.EXE by Chuck Valecek. Now includes
option to pick your highlight color.
* Had a request to add a column the display to show if the
door registered. I'm interested in hearing what you
folks think about this.
v3.20 10/11/93 * YOU MUST DELETE *EVERYTHING* IN THE PCBDE SUBDIRECTORY
TO UPGRADE TO THIS VERSION.
* Added ability to pass command line parameters to
the door that is called. For example users can
automatically start their Qmail download with the
"OPEN QMAIL D" command. This feature does not work
with PPE's yet!
* If user entered 007 instead of 7 at the prompt, it
was creating 2 different LST files. This caused
the times opened and last opened indicators to be
off.........................................FIXED!
* Added 2 additional highlight colors for a total of
3. You may now choose which color to use on a
particular entry. Because of this you MUST edit
the PCBDE.COL file and add 2 lines. see UPGRADE.DOC.
v2.60 09/23/93 * No bugs to squash, but I had some requests that
I thought would improve the code.
Request 1 - Improve display speed.
Request 2 - Keep LST files static so they
don't grow so huge!
These two are actually related so I went back to
work..........
* YOU MUST DELETE *EVERYTHING* IN THE PCBDE SUBDIRECTORY
TO UPGRADE TO THIS VERSION. The way I was calculating
Times opened for each door was pretty slow so I changed
it. the .LST files stored in the PCBDE directory are
now *STATIC* in size! They will NEVER get any bigger!
* I re-wrote a ton of code for this release so holler
if a bug pops up!
v2.51 09/22/93 * I went and fiddled with the Command line!
v2.50 wasn't allowing you to go right into
a door from the command line................FIXED!
The High price of Progress! ;)
* ADDED: PCBDE_ED.EXE - This is a little configuration
file editor written by Chuck Valecek! Fire
this up for quick changes without the comma
headaches normally associated with a file
like PCBDE.CFG!
Say it with me guys.......Thanks Chuck!
* Unless someone finds a bug, this is the last
version of PCBDE for a week or 2! I have an
article to work on for the PPE Newsletter!
v2.50 09/21/93 * Slight Display bug with new colors..........FIXED!
If your system had less than 15 doors which
is less than 1 page, they were not displayed
correctly...................................FIXED!
* ADDED: Ability to categorize Doors!
* ADDED: Command line switches!
OPEN A - displays ALL doors
OPEN C - asks category
v2.11 09/20/93 * v2.10 sent out on the wire with no REGISTER.DOC!
Optimized some code which should improve speed.
Still working on categorizing doors.
v2.10 09/19/93 * ALL Color's are now SysOp configurable.
v2.05 09/16/93 * PPE's were not loading properly.......FIXED!
v2.01 09/15/93 * Initial Shareware release
v1.00 07/25/93 * Limited Initial Release. Wanted to work out the major
bugs.
08/01/93 * Author gets side tracked due to major abdominal
surgery. Doesn't write any code for several weeks
for obvious reasons.