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02/04/94
Several users have reported that the program goes too slow on their system,
so I pondered ways on speeding the process up. After a while, I remembered
that PCBoard itself maintains an index file on all DIR files. After asking
tech support the layout, I implemented a new system that reads the indexes
first to locate a file, then pull out that description from the DIR file.
The result is a much faster program. Instead of having to scan through 100k
of text to find a file, I can read in a 3k index and find it much faster!
Enjoy!
01/30/94
It was requested of me to make the description file appear first in the batch
so that if the user's transfer got aborted, he would still have a complete
list of the files he was downloading. So, I did!
Fixed an obscure bug. If a files description contained a filename of it's
own, i.e. FILENME1.ZIP This a cool game. Also get FILENME2.ZIP!
FILENME2.ZIP Disk 2 of this game
When the program came across FILENME2.ZIP in the batch file, then it would
locate that file in the FILENME1.ZIP description and not pull the description
out correctly. Fixed!
Changed the default for Do You Wish to Download Descriptions to Yes! It
doesn't add any additional time to their transfer to speak of, and I noticed
alot of users didn't really understand what they would be getting. So now,
if they know they don't want it, then they just hit N.
01/28/94
Found out that single line BBS's did not use the same extension on the FLIST.
file that PCBoard maintains with the batch download list. Fixed!
01/27/94
First release!