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- The History of PowerData
-
- This file contains descriptions of the specific changes and fixes that
- occur in the different releases of PowerData. The most recent version is
- first in the list.
-
- The following list of abbreviations indicate the nature of the change:
-
- MIN - Minor bug fixed
- MAJ - Major bug fixed
- NEW - New feature
- CH - Change in operation
- OPT - Optimization or improvement of existing feature
-
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- PowerData 38.210 - Unintentional V39 dependency in 38.200 removed
-
- 23-Aug-1993 MAJ Due to a small oversigt on my part, 38.200 was
- actually 3.0-only. This manifested itself by oceans
- of Enforcer hits and wrong gadget settings in the
- main window, when this was opened. Fixed.
- NEW Swedish (svenska) translation graciously provided
- by Jonny Lundin
- MIN Files were not always being crunched, even when
- matching the filters. Fixed.
- CH 'Save' gadget now closes the window (like 'Use').
- OPT Gadget hotkey routine optimized, redundant code
- removed.
- NEW Added some built-in logic to automatically preclude
- certain special files as well as most archive formats
- from being crunched and/or decrunched. The filter is
- currently set to:
- #?.(lha|lzh|zip|zoo|arc|jpg|jpeg|arj|dms) and
- (#?startup-sequence)|(#?user-startup)|(#?PowerData.info)
- Please read the docs for a more detailed explanation
- of this.
- MIN PowerData did not close the catalog it was using.
- This made it very difficult to make new language
- translations for PowerData, since you had to reboot
- the machine to test a modified string. Fixed.
- CH Now uses keyfiles for registration.
- OPT Additional visual improvements:
- · More attractive gadget hotkey underscoring
- · No more double-refresh when zipping the window
- (thanks to Magnus 'ReqChange' Holmgren (2:204/404.6)
- for his help and advice :-)
- OPT Recompiled with SAS/C 6.3. This shaved an impressive
- 5032 bytes off the executable, and also made it much
- faster. Bye bye, Aztec... :-)
- NEW Dutch (nederlands) translation graciously provided
- by Paul van der Heu
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- PowerData 38.200 - Intermediate version before MAJOR new release
-
- 24-Jul-1993 CH ARexx interface is now compulsory. In stead of the
- previous non-arexx executable you now get a special
- 68020+ version (popular request)
- OPT Localizing code cleaned up and optimized
- OPT Miscellaneous GUI improvements, including
- · Backfilled window
- · Scalable checkbox gadgets (V39)
- · New-style menus (V39)
- · Hotkey shortcuts for gadgets
- MIN GUI Bevelboxes were not being refreshed during window
- zoom operations. Fixed.
- NEW Busypointer during crunch/decrunch is now switchable
- via a new checkbox gadget in the main window
- CH Distribution now includes reqtools 38.1042
- NEW Filenames are now expanded to include paths before
- being submitted to pattern matching. This allows you
- to use filters like "DH0{80MB}:Somedir/#?/s/#?.pp".
- You can still use the old "filenames-only" method
- via a checkbox gadget in the main window. The old
- method was retained because it is faster.
- NEW Decrunching can now be made to work for files that do
- NOT match the patterns. This allows applications to
- always read crunched files, but only have those files
- crunched that do match the patterns
- NEW Now also patches OpenFromLock() to provide more
- complete Powerpacker support. May cure many problems
- with software failing to read Powerpacked files even
- with PowerData running.
- CH ARexx port name changed to POWERDATA. Please fix
- whatever ARexx scripts you have.
- CH Default temporary directory changed from POWERDATA_T:
- to just T:
- NEW Distribution now includes full CatComp source
- NEW New icon for the PowerData executable. Hope you like
- it :-)
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- PowerData 38.115 - Basic ARexx interface, more bugs squashed
-
- 09-Mar-1993 MAJ/MIN Several bugs of different nature were found in the
- previous version. Hopefully I got them all now.
- NEW ARexx interface, finally! There are currently seven
- commands, doing everything from quitting PowerData,
- to making it show its window.
- NEW The installation scripts now ask which version of
- PowerData you wish to install (Rexx, or non-Rexx).
- CH New reqtools.library once again. This time v38.1022.
- NEW Italian localization [Mirco Zanca]
- NEW Windows are locked and made to display a wait pointer
- (clock image) when PowerData is either crunching
- or decrunching data.
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- PowerData 38.110 - Global crunch/decrunch switches, new prefs file format
-
- 08-Feb-1993 NEW Global switches enabling and disabling transparent
- crunching and/or decrunching.
- NEW/CH PowerData now reports if its prefs file is mangled
- when it starts up (a small bug, really :-)
- CH Prefs file format changed, allowing for more
- complex filename patterns and other, future
- enhancements.
- MIN Changed default hotkeys from "ctrl alt ..." to
- "control alt ...". Commodities.library v37 only
- understands the latter format [Finn Kettner]
- CH PowerData now comes with v38.1020 of
- reqtools.library. This version is a bit newer than
- the library contained in the 38.105 distribution.
- MAJ Pattern handling was not entirely consistant. An
- internal buffer was set to hold patterns of 30
- characters, even though patterns span much more
- than that. This problem caused spurious gurus to
- appear when editing the pattern gadgets.
- NEW Installer script now fully localized in French
- [Reza Elghazi]
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- PowerData 38.105 - Mostly bug fixes
-
- 17-Jan-1993 MAJ PowerData *required* locale.library to be present
- in order to work at all. Fixed.
- MIN The evaluation version of PowerData would hang if
- it could not open any one of the required libraries.
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- PowerData 38.100 - First public release. Hope you like it!
-
- 07-Jan-1993 NEW Added French localization file (Reza Elghazi)
- CH Updated installation scripts accordingly
- NEW Added German localization file (Norbert Fährmann)
- CH Updated installation scripts accordingly
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