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The history of FEBBS
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- Represents a bug fix
+ Represents a new feature
* Just for Your information
Please save Your old configfile with the new Feppla before executing
Febbs. This way Feppla will update it to a new format.
1.95g1 1994 - April - 8th
* FEBBOK.TXT has been renamed to OKFILE.FEB.
* FEBBS.ERR has been renamed to ERROR.FEB.
* Rewrote the part of the code that checks to see if an area is tagged
for filelisting or not. Should speed up things a great deal on most
systems. Thanks Anders for the brainstorming :-)
* Once more rewrote the touch thingy. It is now in assembler to give
me more control over what goes wrong under OS/2. If a touch fails
an error message will be displayed on the status line telling you
the errorcode and filehandle. Please report both to me.
* Added info when RemoteAccess v2.xx is used that Febbs does not
support the filedatabase.
+ Febbs now supports overlays in XMS memory. Thanks to Bo Bendtsen
and Soren Ager for the code. Use the setup program to choose where
to put the overlays.
* The temporary file that Febbs creates when moving/hurling files
have been renamed to HURLTMP.FEB. This is all in the move towards
using the extension *.FEB for all files created by or used by
Febbs. Just to help people keep their files in order. The file
will also be created in the directory that the Febbs setup is
pointing to as a temporary directory. It was before created in
Febbs homedirectory.
* Temporary file created when shelling to hold tagged files if the
commandline parameter passed was ~@ has been renamed to
TAGTMP.FEB.
+ New feature. Febbs will when shelling to DOS and return check for
the prescence of a file called IMPORT.FEB residing in Febbs
temporary directory. If it is found Febbs will import the file
into files.bbs. This feature is usefull when looking at text files
either inside an archive or a non archived file and you want to
import some text as a description into Febbs.
There is no limitation of the size of IMPORT.FEB. Febbs will
import until the editor reaches its limit. Should i restrict the
import to the first 10 lines or?
I will supply You with a new stand-alone file browser within soon.
This browser will have the ability to mark lines and save them
easily to the file called IMPORT.FEB.
- If Feppla wasn't able to read any areainformation from an existing
areafile Feppla would hang. Fixed.
+ Febbs now understands SuperBBS extended descriptions when creating
the filelists. Febbs will when finding a > character in the second
position of a string in files.bbs remove this character and indent
the description to the position specified in the setup under
General items->Indent to column. Febbs does not yet understand that
this is an extended description inside the editor.
* Febbs can now handle 2000 file areas. Hi Anders :-)
+ Febbs can now import FILE_ID.DIZ from archives into the editor. Be
sure to run the keyboard setup part of Feppla since a new
keystroke has been added to this function. The function is also
added to the menu.
- Corrected a great deal of spelling and grammar errors in Febbs.
Thanks to Derrick Neve for helping me out with the lingo.
+ Redesigned the memory status info. It now shows all drives in
the system and not only the current one.
* Resized the filelist creation window.
* OS/2 2.1 kernel PJ09050 has problems when running Borland Pascal
generated code that uses the overlay manager. So my recomendation
is to NOT use this kernel if You plan to run Febbs.
* Better checking for out of memory errors when viewing archives and
You are tight on memory.
+ Support for ProBoard 2.xx implemented.
+ Support for areas with area numbers higher then 999 implemented.
This does not apply to Febbs in Maximus mode since Maximus is not
tied to using numeric characters as area "numbers"
* Febbs internal text viewer has been removed. It will be replaced
by an external program later on.
+ Febbs now strips Maximus codes /T /B and /TB that are first on
the description line in when creating the filelist. These codes
are used to indicate free byte download and free time download
in the Maximus BBS.
* Febbs now is able to view self extracting files created by the OS/2
archivers. These selfextractors are generally larger then their DOS
counterparts.
+ Febbs should now be able to support files.bbs files without any
extension.
* The area descriptions have been increased to 45 chars. This is to
make some extra room for Maximus users that likes to have long
descriptions. Please remember to update Your area headers to
accomodate this new length.
* Allthough Febbs is able to handle areanames up to 45 characters i have
decided to strip them donw to 40 characters when creating the lists.
This way the headers can be made to work with the old header files and
also it is a whole lot easier to make nice headers with the shorter
names. If anyone has something to say about this please speak up.
* Changed the display some when hurling/copying files.
* Removed the ability to change the areas to list configuration from
within Febbs. It can now only be changed from within Feppla.
* Febbs picklist is now showing all area listing info (areas to list,
frequable area and password areas) just as Feppla does.
- Fixed Fepplas edit file functions that was broken.
- Fixed the files.bbs preview wich was broken in some parts.
+ A lot of work done to bring Febbs up to date with the new
version of Squeeze (1.08.3). Febbs should now be fully
compatible with this great packer.
+ Febbs is now able to let You view files inside Squeeze (SQZ)
archives. Please install SQZ.EXE in the setup program.
+ Limited RemoteAccess 2.xx support. RA2 is now using a binary
filebase. Febbs does not support this filebase (yet) but
Febbs will read the RA2 areafile. This means that You can keep
Your files.bbs files around and Febbs will use them. One
restriction is though that the files.bbs file must reside in
the same place as the files. CD-ROM support is therefore not
possible. Feppla and FBA is also updated.
* Enhanced the display of numbers in the filelists. They are now
displayed in groups of three to enhance the readability.
This means that You most likely must update Your headers so that
they do not get out of shape.
+ Febbs will now replace all character 255 found in the files.bbs
file with character 32 (space). This is to fix a bug in the
Maximus filebase compiler.
- Febbs is now opening all area files in share-deny-none mode so that
no problems should occur in a LAN/multitasking environment.
- Tubbs is numbering its areas starting with zero not one. Fixed.
Reported by Lars Gustafsson.
- The lists was not using full Maximus areanumbers allthough specified.
+ The text lines inserted when creating a files.bbs file is now
configurable. HEADTEXT.FEB wich is a textfile placed in the
same directory as Febbs contains the text to be inserted.
This file can be edited from within Feppla.
Suggested by Herman Verbrugge.
* Support for QuickBBS 2.76 added. Support for Maximus 2.00 area
index files added. This should cure the areas out of order problem
when in Maximus mode. Support for Tubbs/TubFile 1.00 added.
Support for RemoteAccess 0.xx dropped. Support for Maximus 1.xx
dropped. Support for Opus 1.10 dropped.
* All BBS area reading routines have been rewritten totaly.
This should be a totaly transparent modification for You.
+ Added a new program to the distribution package, FBA.EXE.
FBA will dump all fileareas found in Your BBS configuration
to screen. This tool is handy when You suspect that Febbs is
missing out on something when reading Your areas.
- Febbs is now able to properly view files in archives
that have paths associated with them.
* Febbs will now display memory left in the lower right corner
of the status line.
+ A lot of work done to bring Febbs up to date with the new
version of Squeeze (1.08.3). Febbs should now be fully
compatible with this great packer. Allthough You can at
the moment not view files inside the archives.
- Corrected some problems with very large download counters.
+ Febbs no longer adopts hidden files when adopting files to
files.bbs.
* Corrected a minor problem when viewing certain ARJ SFX archives
and also fixed a problem with directory entries in ARJ archives.
* The view files.bbs feature is now included in the nonregistered
version.
* EMS and XMS swapping is now included in the nonregistered version.
+ Feppla now asks if You are sure if You want to leave if You
have done changes to an entry screen.
Suggested by Robert Jernberg
* Feppla no longer clears the whole entry field if You enter a
char in the first column.
* Febbs no longer saves the files.bbs as soon as You have imported
hurled files. Don't ask me why it did in the first place.
+ Febbs now handles JPEG/JFIFF images (.JPG) just as it does with
GIF images. That is, Febbs will add the image info for the image.
+ Restyled the way external utilities are accessed. Before if You
installed a textviewer or any other viewer Febbs would automaticaly
add as the last parameter when calling that program the name of the
file on the current line. This is not the fact anymore. Now You must
in the setup supply the proper metastrings to get this working.
Theese are the meta strings.
~C = Current directory
~P = Path and Name of Current files.bbs
~N = Name and full path to file on current line
~@ = Text list containing full names of all tagged files in area
~D = Description of file on current line
~F = Name of file on current line without path
~A = AreaName of current Area
The same meta strings work in the external1-external5 programs that
You can install.
* Feppla's helpfile has been put through mayor internal surgery :-)
Hopefully You will notice nothing of it but if the help in
Feppla behaves in a non expected mannor let me know.
- The most downloaded files report was producing empty
entries with 999 as number of downloads, fixed.
Reported by several.
- When removing files on drives with path resolution (\\SERVER\FILES)
Febbs will no longer report Path not found after having deleted
the file successfully. This is a bug in TurboPascal and has been
cured by writing the erase routines in assembler.
* Febbs will no longer use an evaluation key that will expire.
It did bring in a whole lot of registrations but as usual
there were a lot of noise from thoose that will never register
anyway. Well, i am removing it and we will see if the registrations
keep coming.
- Fixed a possible problem when Febbs sometimes was unable to
open an archive file for viewing its contents. Also made the
error report in such errors a bit more eleborate.
* Rewrote some parts of the list part of Febbs and decreased
the time when creating the filelists. It is now a lot faster.
* Changed the display of the menus.
* Rewamped the mouse behavior. Now the mouse is visible all the time.
If You want to invoke the menu in the editor with the mouse simply
position the mouse at row 1 of the screen and press the left button.
* The Scrollbar on the side is just operatable if You click on the
up and down arrows of it. It will be fully operatable in the future.
* A bunch of new headers supplied by some very nice users of
Febbs. Enjoy!
- If a description did not have a Download counter it was
counted as -1 when Febbs was summing all downloads for
an area.
Reported by Willem Van Pelt
- Fixed a bug in the detection of OS/2 as multitasker.
+ Support for peeking at files inside ZOO archives. Please install
Your ZOO unarchiver in the setup program.
- If the current Files.Bbs file was edited by You and locked by another
task and You shelled to DOS Febbs would inform You that the file could
not be saved and then simply shell to DOS. Dropping all changes. Fixed.
Reported by Malte Erikson.
+ The ability to peek on ANSI and Avatar pictures have been added.
When You execute this function Febbs will view the following files.
.ANS, .AVT, .ASC, .MUS, .GBS.
+ When viewing archives and peeking at files inside the archives Febbs
will now display ansi and avatar files in the same smart manner it does
use the binary viewer when You view EXE/COM files inside the archive
viewer.
+ Febbs can now output a report of missing and Zerolength files that
resides in Your files.bbs files.
Suggested by Matthias Duesterhoeft
+ The header files can once again be used by not registered users.
+ While adding the headers Febbs was adding some hardcoded lines that
told You when the list was created and so on. Those are gone and new
are 2 meta strings. ~D = The current date and ~N = How old files that
are marked as new are. Please see the two new header files that are
sent along the Febbs archive for some examples (febbhead.new and
febbhead.txt).
Suggested by Christian Bauer
+ Febbs now has the ability to "fix" bad dates when creating lists.
If a date is found to be ahead of the current date Febbs will take
action and add the number of days that is found in the "Error Date
handling" field under the list setup in Feppla. If You specify a
negative vallue larger then the number of days of files to include
in the news list You will no longer have these files showing up in
the list of new files. This option is handy when You have a
CD-ROM with some bad dates on it.
Suggested by Anders Brink
- Corrected some colour errors in Feppla. The colours wouldn't get
updated if You changed them.
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