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*********** PocketD Plus v5.1 - New features since v1.67 ************
PocketD has now been around since 1992 (v1.34-v4.1). I listen hard to
requests, and have successively produced new versions to incorporate
most of the features that users wanted, and much more.
This new version adds Windows 95 support (see below)
>>>>> The key improvements between v1.67-v3.0
1. Greatly improved ease-of-use, through the new program MenuD
2. Full screen directory and archive browsing
3. SFX scanning
4. Improved support of other products (4DOS, Novell, LANtastic, OS/2)
5. Improved and completely re-worked documentation
6. Security. PocketD v3.X protects itself against Virus Attack
7. Full scrolling execution templates
8. Dedicated colour configuration through SETCOL
>>>>> NEW WITH VERSION 3.1 Oct93
Support added for COMPACK v4.5 compression (shareware version is
now also compressed using it).
Copy option "b" now less zealous. Under some circumstances
re-named filenames were reported as "empty" names.
Extra protection within MenuD to prevent inappropriate options
from being mixed (for delete, view and copy).
Copy now reports "skipped" in response to user skip.
Corrections to errors in documentation for v3.0.
Template $B "backspace" now accepts "n". e.g. $5B "5" backspaces.
Additional options for registration in Canada.
>>>>> NEW WITH VERSION 4.0 Mar94
4DOS, OS/2 and string-search bug fixes. A serious flaw was
introduced with v3.1 which caused problems with OS/2 and
4DOS. Searching for strings in files also had a problem.
Browsing is now extended to allow viewing of contents of files
within archives. These feature is transparent, so unless you
pay close attention you might not even notice whether a file
being viewed is from inside or outside of an archive! The
feature makes the ARCVIEW.BAT script provided with v3.1
redundant. This extended feature requires the use of PKUNZIP,
ZOO, LHA, ARJ etc. (not needed for browsing names inside
archives).
Browse options also include UNCOMPRESS any archived file or whole
archive and COPY any file. This can also be modified by the
new option /.z which allows the user to treat all files as
potential ZIP archives.
Browsing now also has a true "user-defined" option that allows a
command to be added to the browser. Previously the user only
had the option to simply replace D.EXE's internal viewer by
Vernon Buerg's list program (or other viewer). This facility
is now largely redundant as D.EXE's new viewer is very
capable. The option to use LIST is still there, but is
overridden by the user command set up by the variable D_LIS.
The user can now use all the previous commands with their own
custom option for an editor, archiver or whatever command
required.
/Z has been extended to allow D.EXE to treat any file as a
specific archive type. e.g. some sources may distribute ARJ
or ZIP files as FILECHKD.001, FILECHKD.002 etc.
Template is enhanced by $x,y option to set screen coordinates, $K
files copied, $%X variable formating.
Copying under networks has been greatly improved to allow timeouts
on files that cannot be opened. Also improved error trapping
avoids the few instances when D.EXE could fail when trying to
read a file while another user attempts to modify or delete
it. Files that have been deleted during a cyclic copy are now
abandoned rather than waited for. These enhancements
significantly improve D.EXE usefulness as a network backup
tool.
D.EXE now has its own critical error and break handlers so that
the user has more than one method for breaking out of the
program. It is also less vulnerable to network errors
(above). D.EXE will return errorlevel 0 when a critical error
causes a copy to be abandonned.
File viewing now supports unix-type text files.
>>>>> NEW WITH VERSION 4.1 Jun94
The main reason for v4.1! -----> Added support for CRUSH - the new
Super-compressor for DOS (release date early June, with
WINCRUSH to follow soon). This archiving tool outperforms any
other compression tool available. CRUSH typically achieves
2:1 improvement over PKZIP with document/source files, 3:1
over Stacker 4.0 and 8:1 over uncompressed files! CRUSH works
with PKZIP, ARJ, LHA, ARJ, ZOO and HA.
Browsing now allows browsing of files inside archives inside other
archives, to any depth (limited by memory).
Reduced memory usage during browsing allows deeper directory and
archive browsing.
/Z[?] now also allows matching of files without extensions.
All Browsing selections will now still be valid, even if the user
externally changes the current selected drive/dir.
Bug fix with Shareware MENUD which fails to find D.EXE if the user
has an environment greater than 400 bytes.
Bug fix with archive scanning. v4.0 could fail if archives either
contained very long paths or the last file in the (LHA)
archive was very small.
>>>>> NEW WITH VERSION 4.2 Nov94
Support for ODI drivers under Novell 3.X/4.X added. The previous
version of PocketD was incompatible as the drivers modified
the specification of the findfirst DOS call.
Bug fix of string display during searching. Strings found on
adjacient lines in a file found by /"" were incorrectly
displayed.
/cm changed to exclude moving of subdirs, unless "p" (path) also
used. This is a minor philosophical change.
/ch new "c(h)ange name" copy option will move files/subdir to
specified name. e.g. D sub1 /ch sub2 will rename dir.
>>>>> NEW WITH VERSION 4.3 Jan95 (not released as shareware)
/.C new option allows the user to specify the cluster size used
when estimating disk space used. The user can directly
calculate the effect of partitioning a disk to use more
efficient cluster sizes without having to actually do it.
/Q New "jump to or mark tag" command while viewing to allow the
user to easily switch between 2 points in a file.
>>>>> NEW WITH VERSION 4.4 Feb95
New WINSTALL.EXE program to install PocketD Plus in Windows. MenuD
also modified to improve Windows startup.
Support for 4DOS BTM files (recognised as executable)
/.Q new option to simplify /Q display to remove command options
to leave 1 line per file while browsing (use with /Q + /S/W).
/.N new option to always force errorlevel to be number of files.
/.B new option to force minimum buffer (memory) usage, allowing
D.EXE to be run within the smallest memory. This makes it
easier for D.EXE to run other programs which need memory.
/gg new variant of /g graph plot uses a double-resolation plot
character, allowing finer detail in size assessment.
/rr no longer gives a spurious path for *.*.
"Out of memory" condition now always waits for user input
Support for DOS SHARE. PocketD now ensures that it will not leave
files open that may be accessed by a template to be run.
>>>>> NEW WITH VERSION 4.5 Mar95
(There will not be shareware release of this version, see below)
/f extended to give day of week and seconds for each file.
/_ allow named subdirectories to be excluded from searches.
$y new template option to give day of week of file.
$Y as above, for today.
$+x outputs character "x" + file number.
/., new tailoring option will insert commas in file sizes.
/.0 new tailoring option will suppress leading zeros in dates.
/.A new tailoring option will show absolute paths rather than the
default relative paths.
File sizes in the normal display will convert from bytes to Kbytes
if the size >9,999,999. The "actual space used" summary is
now given in Kb and "free space" in Kb or meg.
/h.x new sub-options /h.3 removes column headers, /h.4 removes
column header and tail summary.
Searches by D can be terminated early by holding down ALT+RSHIFT.
this allows the user to examine matches found so far.
/Q adds the option to use the END key to exit /Q giving a final
summary instead of simply breaking out using ESC.
Text searching while viewing files can now use DOSKEY/CED/ANARKEY
buffered strings to submit to searches.
Text searching now has both case-sensitive and case-insensitive
search keys "/" and "F" (as LIST)
/Q now allows viewing of files in archives that have been saved
with paths.
Searching... message now appears on the display, even if output is
re-directed.
/@ now turns off colour processing (as it should do!)
>>>>> NEW WITH VERSION 4.6 Jul95
/ct new copy option will copy new files and overwrite files that
have changed (including overwriting newer files). /ct can be
used with other copy options, e.g. /ctx will only overwrite
existing files that have changed.
>>>>> NEW WITH VERSION 5.1 Jul97
PocketD has at last caught up with Win95 after 2 years of shelved
development in favour of other pressing projects!
This release pushes the total number of template parameters to 71!
Windows 95 support. This provides support for the long file and
pathnames used by Win95 (but not NT). Since Win95 ignores
case when matching, PocketD also ignores case, although will
preserve it when copying. Unlike DOS 7.0 (Win95), PocketD
does not suffer from spurious matches such as *1* matching
LONGFILENAME (which is also stored as LONGFI~1). However
PocketD will match literal names such as LONGFI~1. PocketD
also allows display and testing of creation, update and
access date/times (see /f and /: below).
MenuD has been updated to support long filename functions and has
a greatly improved mouse interface which makes MENUD run more
comfortably under Windows.
D_n The user can set up 9 commands to add to the browsing option,
accessed by typing 1-9. These can include file arguments,
e.g.
SET D_1=MOVE %s C:\ADMIN
SET D_2=PKZIP -m C:\ARC %s
would allow the user to browse files and optionally move them
to ADMIN, move them to and archive ARC.ZIP in addition to the
generic delete, view, uncompress and copy options normally
provided. The user can list the commands available by typing
F1 or '?' during browsing.
/f This is extended to also display Creation an Access dates.
/f.a and /f.c allow display of full access and creation info.
/: This is extended to allow testing of access and creation date
times through /:a and /:c options. /& also modified.
$j Extra template option to display alternate 8.3 file name when
file has long and short version of name (same as $f if only
short version exists). This option will also extract the
truncated version of a long filename from within an archive
(not the same as the Win95 alternate name).
$i Extra template option to display 8 part of 8.3 filename. The
old companion parameter $n will take the "x" part of x.y
where x.y is a long file name.
$e $e and $x used to both give the 3 character file extension.
$x now gives the full Win95 extension and $e the old DOS
extension from the 8.3 name.
(The following are provided to support Win95 creation/access dates)
$.c Creation date (as $d standard "modify" date)
$.a Access date
$..tc Creation time (as $t)
$..tc Access time (as $t)
$.Y $.y $.m $.d yyyy, yy, mm and dd subfields of $d modify date
$..cY $..cy $..cm $..cd ditto creation date
$..aY $..ay $..am $..ad ditto access date
$^n Insert "n"th character from file name into template, e.g. the
template $^3$^4$^7.TXT would convert $_XX--Y.LST to XXY.TXT.
/.j Sub-option added to show alternate 8.3 name on right-hand
side of screen where a long filename does not exist. This
makes PocketD behave like the DOS 7.0 "DIR" command.
/.L Sub-option added to force D.EXE to only use short filenames.
This will allow D.EXE to only generate filenames that other
programs can handle, e.g. Using D.EXE to run an editor that
cannot handle long names etc.
A Percentage complete indicator for copy/move. No longer will you
have to stare at the screen while it copies a huge file,
wondering how far it has got!
Many minor enhancements to generally make PocketD more agreeable
to use, including added and improved error messages and
improved tests for corrupted archives (v4.6 could loop).
Bug fix to allow the user to search files created under Unix
without losing the current line position. Also modified to
cope with files with more than 32767 lines.
v5.1 is compatible with the new CRU file type that will be created
by the forthcoming CRUSH v2.0, which handles Win95 long
filenames.
"PocketD only" purchase is no longer available. Users can now only
purchase the full "PocketD Plus".
************** Registered PocketD users!! **************
A v5.1 disk upgrade is free for all users who register CRUSH. Just add
"(REG)" to your name when registering. e.g. Jack Smith (REG).
CRUSH is now at version 1.8.