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The AutoShell
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Copyright 1993, 1994 ~ Ben Van Bokkem
A complete GEMmed interface for AutoFile and more....
I do not intend to write a complete document on all its features, as
they are self-explanatory once the program is running.
Apart from which, the AutoFile docs provide an in depth explanation of
AutoFile's features....
The usual disclaimers apply of course, ie I take no responsibility for
havoc that the program may create on your system.
Not that it will, you understand....<grin>
AutoFile is Copyright David Thomas.
A special "Thank You" to Roy and David for their useful tips.....
Any bug reports, suggestions for new features etc, can be addressed to
myself at TurboNet address 100:100/0.0
But would prefer to hear them in the T-NETDEV Echo on TurboNet....
Enjoy the program......
Revision History
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7th March 1994 ~ v1.30 Full Release
Name and Key options added in the 'Paths' menu to cope with AutoFile's new
registration changes for v1.07. Still compatible with older versions though.
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1st February 1994 ~ v1.21 Full Release
Expanded the Hatch descriptions from 58 characters to 116. (Requested by
Laurence MacDonald and a few others).
Cursor was left on the screen after running AutoFile in colour mode. Never
noticed this myself as i run in mono. (Requested by Terry May)
Should be fixed now Terry... ;-)
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30th December 1993 ~ v1.20 Full Release
Bug Report - Mark Butler
Although i expanded the available areas, i totally forgot to expand the
selection display as well. Now expanded to match the areas.
I was also informed that someone on AtariNet was mentioning some of the
shortcomings of AutoShell. Pity he couldn't inform ME of them instead, as
that would've proved a bit more fruitful... <grin>
However, just for that someone.... Area groups can now be entered and
saved in mixed case. I've also added the additional outbound areas, which
can be found in an additional option in the 'Paths' menu.
Actually, this is really a bug-fix for Binkley as TICs should not even be
received in the 'Known' or 'Other' areas! Think about it.... ;-)
Semper has no such problem of course.... <grin>
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26th June 1993 ~ v1.12 Full Release
Bug Report - Kevin Osborne
AutoSend was failing to work due to '*.*' not being present at the end of
the path. Slight misread of the docs on my part i guess, which I took to
be just a pathname....
Added the 'StopDupe' option in the Paths menu. The presence of a path will
turn on this option, allowing AutoFile to create .DUP lists in the path
specified, for preventing file dupes.
Also expanded available areas to a max of 300, after a lot of nagging by
Mark Butler. <grin> Overboard or what?..... ;-)
Finally, a quick way to remove an area, is to clear the area name from the
Area Edit menu, and save the config.
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29th May 1993 ~ v1.11 Full Release Update
Bug Report - Kevin Osborne
Fix names weren't being deleted from the CTL when removed. Now corrected.
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27th May 1993 ~ v1.10 Full Release
NEW ~ Echo report menu for AutoFile's Echo reporting feature.
Bug Report - David Thomas
Dividing line wasn't written to the CTL if the Area contained no nodes.
Now corrected, as well as extra dividing lines not written to the CTL if
that section contained no information.
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16th March 1993 ~ v1.07 Full Release
NEW ~ File delete/keep feature. (Suggested by Roy Florentine).
Allows you to either keep or delete a file in the 'Send Private' menu
after it's been mailed to the specified node.
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13th March 1993 ~ v1.06 Full Release
Bug report - Flemming Nielsen
Bad Editor wasn't updating missing password entries. Discovered i wasn't
searching for a null terminator as well as white space. Now corrected.
Corrected an omission to check for valid request in the File request menu.
Previously it was possible to send a zero length request packet. :-(
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6th March 1993 ~ v1.05 Full Release
Bug report - Anonymous on AtariNet
Some addresses were getting screwed up. Tracked it down to being one digit
out in a string parse which only affected addresses with 4-digit nodes.
Whilst i was sorting that out, i also discovered that the missing Fakenet
in the Address menu wasn't fixed after all. Instead of entering a resulting
'y' string after parsing 'x' string, i was being silly and putting the 'x'
string back in.
The extra 'LocalGroup *' entries being added to the end of the CTL in the
last version is also fixed now.
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27th Feb 1993 ~ v1.04 Full Release
*IMPORTANT!* - This version will only work fully with AutoFile v0.15 or
greater as the code has been changed to cope with AutoFile's changes.
NEW ~ Extra field added in the Paths menu to enter the Uploader name
feature for AutoFile. This is the uploader name which will be inserted in
the Turbo .FIL when a new file is added.
NEW ~ Search feature in the File viewer. (Suggested by Roy Florentine)
Note that this is case sensitive! I thought that preferable as upper case
will normally be restricted to filenames and lower case to descriptions.
Except where some idiot's used upper case on descriptions of course.<grin>
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14th Feb 1993 ~ v1.03B Restricted Beta
Bug report - Mark Butler & Mark Taylor
Changed file selector routines as they were not restoring the screen.
I, and no doubt many others, were not aware of this as UIS has its own
routine to restore the screen. Will now work correctly for non-UIS users.
Added lots more error checking just for those people who only provide
half the information to AutoShell. If any information is missing, AutoShell
will insert defaults in most cases when reading the CTL file.
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2nd Feb 1993 ~ v1.02 Full Release
Removed the Area display from the Area name box in the Area editor.
Bit pointless having it there really, as it would only be used to add a
new area, which would not exist in the display when selected.
NEW ~ File Advice NetMail now added when sending a 'Private File'.
The description line is optional and can be used to enter a brief note
to the recipient.
Many thanks Roy, for your great help on the Intel/packet stuff... ;-)
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20th Jan 1993 ~ v1.01 Intermediate Release
Bug report - Flemming Nielsen & Kevin Osborne
Seems the file listing i was testing in the viewer/selector was 18K short
of the maximum and didn't show the 'Out of memory' bug.
Changed the code quite a bit there, to read the file listing in 50K chunks,
rather than read the whole file into memory.
Won't be any problems reading in 1Mb lists now. Does anyone have a file
listing that long?? <grin>
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18th Jan 1993 ~ v1.00 Full release version
Bug report - Flemming Nielsen
Wasn't checking for missing FakeNet numbers as i wrongly assumed they
would be present. Now causes no problems if they are missing.
Bug report - Paul Baker
Re-process in the BAD editor wasn't letting AutoFile do the correct thing.
Found i omitted to change the parameter when i block copied that section
of code from another area.....
Re-wrote most of the code in the File Request menu. Removing file entries
from anywhere in there will now result in the correct total byte display.
I took it one step further so that any changes can be updated by simply
clicking on the 'Byte' button.
Generally tightened up the code in many places and tidied up.
NEW ~ Any box which requires an Area name can now be clicked on, and will
bring up a display of available Areas. These, in turn, can be clicked on
and will insert the Area name into the box.
NEW ~ Added the CRC checking routines in the BAD editor. Many thanks to
David Thomas for the CRC32 routines.
NEW ~ Added the 'Private' file send option. This will allow you to send
a file to a single node, as opposed to sending in a FileEcho.
Had intended to have it send an attached Netmail as well, but that's going
to require some studying of packet formats so, i'll get around to that in
the next version.
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13th Jan 1993 ~ v0.05B Wide Beta release
Bug report - Ben Van Bokkem
Disabled a few lines of code in the previous version for testing. Didn't
re-enable them before compiling, resulting in an error message 'AutoFile
not found' in the BAD editor. Added lots more error checking in that area
whilst enabling them again.
Bug report - Paul Baker
Password was getting corrupted on occasions in the 'Fix' area.
Discovered that it only happened if more than one save was made in the
same session. Silly me, i was using the previously parsed string on the
subsequent saves.....
NEW ~ File request feature added, including file reader/selector. Note
that the reader/selector will only work with a QBBS type file listing.
NEW ~ File request added in the BAD editor. This is useful when a TIC
is received with no attached file. One click will request the file from
the connecting node, and can be re-processed with the editor when it
arrives after the next connect.
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10th Jan 1993 ~ v0.04B Wide Beta release
A few fixes for rare situations....
Expanded amount of available areas from 60 to 120 after seeing a certain
control file with 95 entries! <grin>
Increased 'Area' length to 12 characters in all menus to cater for those
people that go overboard with area names. Slight shifting of options in
the Area Edit menu due to this.
Modified the parser to handle 3D addresses correctly.
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8th Jan 1993 ~ v0.03B Restriced Beta update
Bug Report - Kevin Osborne
Seems like i didn't allow a large enough buffer for Fix entries.
I overlooked the fact that each direct connect could have more than one
entry in this area. Now expanded to cope with Multi-Network nodes.
Information in 'Send Network' menu now retained until processed, or until
program is terminated.
File selector was showing null bytes when first selected, and previous
selections thereafter. Now fixed.
The 'DeBug' button will now also toggle the new 'RenUsedTics' feature in
AutoFile(v0.14) and will rename incoming TICs as opposed to deleting them.
Rather than add a special button for that, i figured that one would want
DeBug on anyway, when using this feature.
NEW ~ Button added to take advantage of the 'Replace-Del' feature in TICs.
'Delete Old' will use the feature, and 'Keep Old' disables it.
Refer to the AutoFile(v0.14) docs for more information on this.
NEW ~ Another path added to the Paths menu to store the path to Turbo's
FIL directory. If a path exists, AutoFile(v0.14) will write incoming file
info to a *.FIL file instead of a FILES.BBS file if it exists.
I decided against a special box for access level as most would probably
use the default. However, if an access level does need to be set, simply
add it to the end of the path line, seperated by a space.
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7th Jan 1993 ~ v0.02B Wide Beta release
BAD editor basics now functional. Will be adding the CRC checking in
the next version, and hopefully file requesting.
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5th Jan 1993 ~ v0.01B Restricted Beta release
All basic AutoFile functions implemented. Work started on the BAD editor.
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