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File-Finder Version History Notes
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v1.13pl4 áeta (8 Dec 1996)
ù Urgent fix to the subject line parsing routine. On such descriptions
like 'desc {web}' for example (i.e. wrong ones), FF would freeze
dead! My sincere apologies about that, I hope you wasn't unfortunate
enough to go on holiday and then to leave your BBS running, only to
find FF had frozen everybody out for all that time! :(
v1.13pl3 áeta (21 Sep 1996)
ù Minor correction to the placement of the tear line at the end of
message replies.
ù Description searches made with the slash character (e.g. '/source')
can now be encapsulated in quotes. For example, '/"source code"'.
ù Minimum characters in file name requests changed to any 3 valid
characters - i.e. 0 to 9 or A to Z - before the extension.
ù File name requests with no extension are automatically regarded as a
description request.
ù Completely re-wrote search routines, multiple requests added. For
example, you can now do '/convert AND /GFA' of up to 8 requests at a
time. Possible operators are 'AND' and 'OR' (case not important),
and you can even search for file names as well as descriptions (e.g.
'POV*.* OR /POV AND /scene'). The upshot of this is that file and
description operations have been merged, so is no longer being able
to generate description-less requests (ie. you must have at least
one BBS system defined, not just use an Access path alone).
ù Subject line of reply message changed. Instead of "Location request
for file: <file>" or "Location request for description of
'<description>'", it merely uses 'Found <old subject line>'.
ù Tidied up message reply, including date and file size format.
ù Now allows *one* long Internet address to be declared with the
ADDRESS command. File-Finder puts it at the end of the address list
in the message reply header, no matter what order you specify it.
ù Assumes same FILES.BBS format as LiSTer expects - where each file
contains the area heading at the top of the list, seperated with a
blank line - thus File-Finder appropriately skips this bit.
v1.10 áeta (29 Aug 1995)
ù Users can now start a description search request with the slash '/'
character. This does the same as the conventional '{desc:' format.
For example, '/source' is the same as {desc:source}. Use a space to
terminate the search string if necessary, instead of '}'. Suggested
by Rich Tietjens. (This took me 30 seconds to do :]).
ù When using STKeep's description search feature, File-Finder would
say it found a description for the requested file when it didn't!
v1.09 àlpha (10 Aug 1995)
ù Mark Matts has unfortunately left the Atari scene for good, but has
been kind enough to leave us his v1.07 sources and permission to
develop it further. This version has no new features - in fact, it
goes back to v1.07 functionality - that means no verbose archive
listing. :( I'm afraid we just couldn't locate the latest sources,
so this is essentially a recompile of v1.07 to get us started...
ù Renamed as a .TOS program. File-Finder works like a .TOS program, so
I saw no reason to keep it as a .PRG... It doesn't look so good in a
GEM environment, anyway. Lemme know if you don't like this idea...
ù Taken out several HIDEM and DEFMOUSE statements which messed with
the mousey. Not needed for a .TOS, so we save a few bytes. :]
ù Released only to a few willing àlpha testers. Please do not spread!
v1.08 (17 Oct 1993)
ù Verbose archive listing now also supports ARJ. Many thanks to Steve
Basford for supplying the header information. Mind you, I still want
some ZOO header information, ZOO does work but it will sometimes not
recognise folders although the filename will always be found.
v1.07 (13 Oct 1993)
ù Major new feature added. A user can now request a verbose archive
listing of one file from a specific system. So far ARC, ZOO, ZIP &
LZH formats are supported without the need for an external archiver.
To do this they MUST use the {ADR:} parameter in the message subject
field and also the new command of {LIST:xxx} where xxx is the name
of the file to be listed, this should be just a filename, no path is
required. Wildcards (* & ?) are NOT allowed and only one request is
allowed per message, however, if more than one file of the same name
exists in your defined paths a listing foir each of those files will
be sent. The good news is... You, the sysop do not have to change
any thing in your present setup apart from replacing the existing
FILEFIND.PRG. Enjoy...
v1.06
ù Occassionally Filefinder would try to look for a file named '}',
this has now been fixed.
ù Fixed missing CR/LF's in the tearline.
ù FROMSYSTEM command now works correctly.
ù Added support for the new WIZfile v1.30 description files. The
config file command to use is NEWWIZFILE followed by the path and
filename of the WIZfile list in the new format.
ù Again I think I have fixed Terry May's problem with his
descriptions... Please let me know Terry.
ù RATSoft descriptions are now checked to see if the brief description
is a truncated version of the full description, if it is then only
the full description is used. The [BRIEF DESC] & [FULL DESC] lines
have also been removed.
ù Checks to see if a message is actually a quoted reply to a previous
request, this is simply done by checking whether the subject line is
a RE: line.
ù New config command... SCANALL. This will force File-Finder to scan
the entire message base each time it has been run rather than
scanning from the last read message.
v1.05 (2 Jun 1993)
ù Released mainly to overcome the CR/LF problem experienced by Terry
May.
ù Added RATSoft file/description search ability. Due to the extensive
RATSoft system all you need to do to access this function is to use
the command 'RATSOFT' followed by the path to your main RATSoft
folder and that is it. There is no need to have any 'ACCESS'
commands.
ù If you use the 'RATSOFT' command you can set the maximum access
level for files and areas to be scanned by using the 'RATLEVEL'
command followed by the maximum level to be allowed, if not used the
level will default to 254.
ù Fixed the user name parsing routine... Before a name such as 'David
J. Thomas' (Hi David) was converted to 'David J. thomas', note the
small t!
ù All descriptions will have any CR's & LF's removed before it is
reformatted for the message reply.
ù Added the commands 'FROMSYSOP' and 'FROMSYSTEM'. If used any replies
sent from your system will have the 'From: File-Finder' field
changed to either your name (FROMSYSOP) or your system name
(FROMSYSTEM).
ù If a folder name match any file search mask it would be treated as a
file with 0 byte size. This is now fixed... I HOPE!
v1.04 (23 Apr 1993)
ù A reply sent out from Terry May's system seemed corrupted, this was
because there were some CR/LF codes within the file description
which broke up the display of the description text. Now all
instances of these codes are removed from a description before it is
reformatted for File-Finders use.
ù Added support for WIZfile description files, please note the format
supported is PRE WIZfile v1.30 although v1.30 and above still
support the earlier format as an option. Support of the newer format
will be added if required, anyone interested, if so send me an
example of the format produced. See manual for details of the ACCESS
command needed in conjunction with the WIZFILE command.
ù It seems my idea of where FoReM stores it's DIR files was wrong, I
thought they were kept in a named folder, but it seems they are kept
in the folder which holds the actual files for each download area. I
have now changed the code to look for a DIR file in the path given
by each ACCESS command.
ù A message base will only be scanned if there are any new messages
since the last run, this should make it much quicker when running if
it does not really have anything to do.
v1.03
ù How embarressing!! I cannot spell FOREM!! Steve Caple rang me the
morning after I released v1.02 informing me that the Forem package
was NOT spelt FORUM!!! Many apologies for this, I guess you can
really tell I have never used the package eh... Anyway, I have now
changed all instances of the word FORUM into FOREM, this includes
the config file command for activating Forem description searches.
ù Added support for STKEEP and EXPRESS BBS packages. Refer to manual
for the syntax of the ACCESS command format.
v1.02
ù The Description search and Forem support need a good testing,
especially the Forem support since I do not have a Forem setup to
test it on, please let me know how it goes...
ù Fixed small bug in search routine when finding a TAB character in a
description.
ù Added ability to search for a description on a FOREM BBS system. Use
the FOREM keyword in config file. See FILEFIND.DOC for further
details. This does need testing so please let me know if it works
(Especially John Curtis who requested this feature <grin>)
ù You can now abort File-Finder safely by holding down both shift
keys. 'Safely' means when the program is aborted the present
operation is finsihed first, this should avoid the possibility of a
half written reply which would corrupt your message base.
ù Much faster at initialising.
ù Changed screen output slightly (What the heck, I was bored!) Let me
know if you prefered the old output... The majority wins!!
ù A description match can now be searched for instead of a file match.
This is done by using {desc:????????} on the subject line. There is
a minimum of 5 characters allowed in a request to avoid any
excessive abuse of the system. Spaces are compressed so a request
for 'the__' will be compressed to 'the' and will therefore be
ignored.
ù The NODESC (no description) request has been changed to {nodesc}...
This will hopefully allow me to add further subject line options
which will all be enclosed in curly brackets as in the description
search command.
v1.01
ù Added ability to scan more than one message base. This allows you to
use file-Finder on different networks which offer a file finding
facility, for example N_ALLFIX on NeST and UK_FILEFIND on Fidonet...
This is done by defining multiple MSGBASE commands in the config
file. (Requested by Steve Caple so blame him :-]).
ù Now exits with errorlevel 1 if any replies have been written
v1.00
ù Released via 90_NESTWARE file echo.
v0.02 áeta
ù Brian Watters supplied the file structure for the TurboBoard 2 *.FIL
file so it has now been implemented. As I do not run TurboBoard I
would appreciate it if anyone could tell me how well it operates on
their live TurboBoard system. (Thanks Brian)
ù Format of ACCESS command changed to accomodate the name for
TurboBoard FIL file names for each area. Please refer to the
FILEFIND.DOC for a complete description of the new format.
ù Added command 'LOCK' which allows you to lock a named file from
being included in a File-Finder reply. You can define upto 100
locked files. FILES.BBS and FILES.BAK file will all be
automatically treated as locked files.
ù Checks are now made on all paths and filenames given in the config
file and if errors are found they will be reported to the screen and
logged to a file called ERROR.LOG which will be created in the
current work directory.
v0.01 áeta (21 Feb 1993)
ù Fixed formatting of info header.
ù The Sysop can now send a File-Finder request on their own system and
the reply will be given a 'SENT/LOCAL' status so that the mail
exporter will not export the reply, this has been tested with
Jetmail and seems to work. Let me know about other mailer systems
please.
v0.00.03
ù Again I changed the title bar as above with the intention of making
it stand out better by using '>~~~~~~'. In most message editors this
line would be treated as a quote and therefore be highlighted in
whatever way the user has set in their editor! The same has also
been done for the AREA title if one is to be used.
ù If no AREA title was given 2 blank lines were inserted instead.
Fixed.
ù Users can now choose whether they would like a description included
in any replies they may receive. This is done by adding 'NODESC'
after the filename search string (seperated by at least one space)
on the subject line, therefore a subj: line of 'FINDER*.* nodesc'
will return the filename only if found.
ù Added new config command 'LOGFILE' to allow you to log File-Finders
activity to disk. You must follow the command with the full path &
filename to use. A binkley log format is used with FFDR being used
to identify File-Finders entries if added to universal log files.
ù Added new config command 'MAXDESC' which is used to limit the number
of descriptions allowed in any one reply.
v0.00.02
ù Changed title bar starting with '------<' into '======<' since my
mail tosser was treating it as a tagline and moving it to the end of
a reply.
ù Request messages from a sysop will be ignored on their own system.
ù No longer allows the use of '?' as a wildcard... Only a minimum of
xxx*.* is now allowed. All ?'s will be removed making ST?.* into ST.*
ù Released developers copy via 90_NW_DEV
v0.00.01 (15 Feb 1993)
ù Original code created.
ù Released developers copy via 90_NW_DEV