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What's new in PFM version 2.31, (release date: 06 JUN 1992).
GENERAL PROGRAM:
Inside program
- Improved Speed
- Correct Video-offset if in multitasking environment
- Different mono/color table's
- Don't keep comspecvariable larger than 32 bytes
- Search automaticly for PFM.COM if wanted extended help
- No fileclosing after error to open a showed file
- Correct keeping of long pathnames
Outside
- Help always available with F1 ('h' no longer works)
- Max 1 extra helpscreen, if more errors: only message
- Ignore PgUp on first and PgDn on last helpscreen
- Delete last line if Errormessage
- Selfcorrecting wrong user input if asked for numbers
- Even more than 25 lines if color screen configured as mono
- If asked for input: Ctrl-Right not past end of max. colomn
MAIN FILESCREEN:
Changed
- Changed key's: F1 = PgUp, F2 = PgDn, F3/F4 = +/-
- Removed option F9 (back)
- Removed display of current dir ('.')
- Display Disk total size and volumelabel
- Display size's up to 4 GB
- Keep mark's after deleting dir in multiple screen
- Correct error checking after DOS function 36h (get free disk space)
- Correct display of filenames with ASCII > 127
- Corrected Sort on Time with time > 19:00
- With Sort on Size: Directory's on name/ext
- Put cursor before correct filename backing up after Swapping
- No display of Attrib 'D'
- Display attrib's in order BWSH (Backup Write-protect System Hidden)
New/added
- Display Memory total, free before, free after running PFM
- Space inverts mark and moves down one entry
- Display subdir's and files in current directory
- Enter to show the dir/file
- 'Every' in select files
- Pressing Esc in Select Attributes now works correct
- Select automaticly correct date format (USA, EUR, JAP)
- If no marked files: Sort Unsorted results in reread current dir
- Sort increased or decreased (+/-)
- If Incl/Excl Before/After not select if equal
- Message and direct retry if syntax error in Date/Time entry
SHOWSCREEN:
Changed
- Changed key's: F3/F4 = Curs-Left/Right, F6 = F2, F7 = F4,
F5 = Ctrl-Home; maybe, someone has a another good suggestion which
key to assign for this option (Restore Left)
- Show byte's with ASCII value 0Ah
- Correct show of line numbers > 65535
- Scroll not more than 16000 to the right
- No rewrite of screen if more than once pressed Variable or Fixed
- Begin show on column zero when swapping from fixed to variable
- Showmode swap only between 7 and 8 bit codes
- Don't search/move if search with no searchtext
New/added:
- Display Line / Column on last line
- Use Tab to display tab's with different length's
- Use Enter to scroll down one page
- Use Color to display in three different colormodes
- Display message 'Search' and 'Read' on last line
- Display 'Read Top', 'Read End', 'Reading'
- Display the direction when reading from disk (should be on screen
at the same time the diskdrive light burn's)
- No read if Curs-Up on first line
- Pressing a key stops reading/searching
- Use Text to show only ASCII value's between 20h and 7Dh
- Use Ctrl-Left/Right moves sideways by 40 columns
- No read if Curs-Left/Ctrl-Left on first column