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February 11, 1990
WHAT'S NEW IN WPTOOLS VERSION 5.0?
Version 5.0 contains revisions to permit use with both Versions 5.1
and 5.0 of WordPerfect (and some programs work with PlanPerfect 5.0
and perhaps the new DrawPerfect). There are also two new programs in
Supplemental Tools and some minor improvements and bug fixes beyond
revisions to handle 5.1. (Versions 4.0D and E were not widely
distributed, so that for most users, the 4.0D changes are also
relevant.)
New Programs (in Supplemental Tools -- not in shareware distribution)
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STYLEUSE -- Lists styles used in a document and styles found in
the prefix but not used. Optionally deletes unused (or
all) styles from the prefix. Optionally deletes style
on and off codes from document text, leaving the codes
added to the text by the styles.
WPGSIZE -- Extracts and lists information on the width and height
of the "image coordinate space" of WPG file graphics,
optionally sorted.
Revisions
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FIXPRE -- (a) Minor changes to handle WPerf 5.1.
(b) Now optionally traverses a directory tree.
(c) Minor modifications to handle PlanPerfect
set files.
FONTFILE -- Minor changes to handle WPerf 5.1.
FONTLIST -- (a) Improved deletion of non-fonts from output.
(b) New option for WPerf output allows use of a prefix
selected by the user.
IS50DOC -- Replaced by IS5XDOC, which returns different error
levels for 5.0 and 5.1 documents.
LISTMACS -- Revisions to handle PlanPerfect macro and keyboard
files, as well as similar macro and keyboard files
from any recent WPCorp program.
MERGESUM -- (a) Revised to handle the WP51 document summary
format. Output by default in new format, with option
to use format of prior versions of MERGESUM. New
format includes all information in WPerf 5.1
summaries, plus WPerf version number.
(b) Handles dates in WP50 document summary format
written in European format (e.g., 3 March 1990) and in
French and Spanish. Improved handling of dates in
Dutch.
PRSFONTS -- Minor changes to handle WPerf 5.1 PRS files.
STYLIST -- Revised to handle Outline Styles.
TARGETS -- Revised to handle Equation references.
WHATPTRS -- Revised to handle the new ALL file format.
WP5LOOK -- (a) Revisions to handle 5.1 documents.
(b) Revisions to provide display of caption for
various boxes, text for text boxes, etc.
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January 15, 1990
WHAT'S NEW IN WPTOOLS VERSION 4.0E?
MERGESUM -- Revision to handle months in Dutch spelling.
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December 11, 1989
WHAT'S NEW IN WPTOOLS VERSION 4.0D?
ENDFOOT -- Bug fixed that caused failure converting large files.
LISTMACS -- Revision to handle inability to process macros that
both are created in WPCorp's external macro editor and
lack descriptions. Problem had caused program crash
with error message. Problem did not affect macros
created within WPerf itself.
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November 13, 1989
WHAT'S NEW IN WPTOOLS VERSION 4.0C?
MAKETABS -- (a) Bug fixed in processing of right tabs. Bug
resulted in failure to delete spaces even though
right tab was inserted in certain circumstances;
(b) Will no longer insert a right tab before a string
that ends with a space and includes other
characters;
(c) New optional treatment of blanks within strings
to be right tabbed.
MERGESUM -- (a) Comment field for documents lacking
document summary revised to more closely
approximate the way WPerf creates comments (i.e.,
semicolons replace hard returns);
(b) Barry Zimmerman's WPDOCS.NB Notebook file is now
distributed with WPTOOLS to aid in manipulating
MERGESUM output.
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November 10, 1989
WHAT'S NEW IN WPTOOLS VERSION 4.0B?
FIXPRE -- Fixes for two bugs introduced in WPTOOLS 4.0A:
(a) Limitation of input file specification to 12
characters removed;
(b) Eliminates garbage output where -A option is
used and no files have archive bit set.
MERGESUM -- (a) Fixes potentially unreadable output when volume
has no label and DOS 3.0 or greater is used (bug
introduced in WPTOOLS 4.0);
(b) Fixes erroneous numerical version of file creation
date for months beginning with M (bug in all prior
versions of MERGESUM).
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October 22, 1989
WHAT'S NEW IN WPTOOLS VERSION 4.0A?
FIXPRE -- (a) New -A option: process files in wildcard spec
only if archive bit set.
(b) Skips over read-only files, without error
message or renaming.
(c) Eliminates renaming where user erroneously
specifies directory, rather than file(s), for
input.
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October 9, 1989
WHAT'S NEW IN WPTOOLS VERSION 4.0?
New Program
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IS50DOC -- Identifies WP5.0 document files, to allow branching
in batch files.
Enhancements
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DISKFONT -- Provides support for DeskJet as well as LaserJet soft
fonts.
FONTLIST -- (1) Printer and PRS file information added to output
(2) Cleaner treatment of garbage preceding font names
FIXPRE -- (1) Wildcard input file specification
(2) Optionally preserves original file date and time
(3) Optionally deletes styles from prefix
(4) Optionally deletes initial codes
(5) Optionally preserves printer information when
deleting other information
MAKETABS -- (1) New right tabs option for Method 1
(2) Trailing blanks stripped before conversion to
avoid ending lines with tabs
(3) New coding to avoid truncated output lines
(4) Optional parameter file for ease of use
(5) Improved treatment of columns for tab settings
matches WP5 treatment better. However, earlier
-t settings need to be changed. Subtracting 1
from every number should work.
MERGESUM -- (1) Volume label field added to output
(2) Optional appending to existing output file
(3) Reports number of summaries written to output file
(4) Optional method for using list of filenames as input
(5) Improved error handling
PRINTIT -- Errors in handling of title corrected.
PRSFONTS -- (1) Optional processing of protected PRS files
(2) Less likely to list non-fonts as fonts
WHATPTRS -- Accepts multiple file specifications for input, so
that it can handle ALL files in more than one
directory. Requires command line switch to identify
output file.
WP5LOOK -- (1) Accepts piped input
(2) Optionally writes screens to ASCII text file
(3) Adapts to screen modes with greater than 25 lines
(4) Improved centering
WPSNOOP -- Information on WP5 document files now includes PRS
file identification.
Supplemental Tools
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The following new programs are not included in the shareware
distribution of WPTOOLS4 but are provided to registered users:
COMMENTS -- Reads a WP5 document and writes to standard output
any comments it finds.
ENDFOOT -- Converts footnotes to endnotes (or endnotes to
footnotes), converting autoreferences as
appropriate.
MASTER -- Analyzes stucture of master document - subdocument
relationships.
TARGETS -- Lists autoreference targets, indentifying those who
are not referenced in the document. Lists
autoreference references identifying those which refer
to nonexistent targets.
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To save space, we are not including information on changes in versions
of WPTOOLS earlier than Version 4, but it is available on request.