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DF 4.60:
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Directory Size item removed -- this was really an anachronism since the
size of the current directory was added to the DF display a few revs back.
This menu item was replaced by System Info
The System Info menu item is a full-fledged system information screen
which tells you lots of neat things. You can move among the logical
drives on your system (less A&B) with left/right arrows. Control-
left/right arrows include A&B. (Note: the system frequency will probably
not be exactly correct. It gets the frequency through some timing
analysis which is, by its nature, only an approximation.)
Rewrote memory management. Unless you choose the "small model", you now
have a full 64KB segment for the directory -- about 1500 files. Plus you
can swap out to XMS or EMS when you shell to a user-defined program.
These are specified on the command-line (/M0 [Small], /MC [Large
conventional], /MT [XMS], /MP [Expanded]) or through DFCONFIG (see the
Memory Allocation item under Attributes)
Fixed a variety of fairly obscure sort oddities. Greater than 10MB files,
secondary key sorts with files which differed only in the last letter, etc.
Fixed an intermittent bug in F-Move
Fixed color settings in .CFG files not being recognized
DF is now Desqview and Windows aware. Desqview video buffers are used and
idle keystroke polling loops release themselves for more effcient
multitasking operation. There was also a problem at least with Desqview/X
going crazy because of an Ultravision-aware video call. This has been
patched around.
The display was cleaned up a lot especially for large directories and
disks. The Source/Working/Displayed and Destination/Default/Target
terminology has also been cleaned up. Bottom line offset also fixed for
non-EGA/VGA systems. >100MB files now also have their size totalled
correctly.
The help screen was rewritten. Also, all command letter keys are now
documented as Control keys (e.g. Control-Z for help) although the Alt Key
still works (for the time being) as well
Control-B added as equivalent to F12 (Secondary viewer)
Control-W sends a form-feed to the defined printer
Backspace added for a one keystroke Up Directory. This is primarily aimed
at Netware users for whom the .. parent directory doesn't show up unless
DOTS=ON has been defined in the Netware SHELL.CFG file. This same problem
doesn't occur with most other network software such as FTP Systems TCP/IP
idrive.
Critical error handling was completely rewritten and is (I think) much
improved including print directory error handling problems
A couple of bugs fixed/additions made/and one change to user-defined
parameters.
%p was adding an additional backslash when the source path was the root.
All trailing backslashes have been removed from %p. This could
conceivably mean that you may have to rewrite a user-defined command
line or two
%b added for base filename of highlighted file. i.e. DF.COM is DF
%e wasn't changed but the 4.50 docs were wrong. The leading . is not
returned.
Moved the initial settings for the internal viewer to user-settable data
area, and documented wordwrap patch
Drive Table will now use logical drives (less A & B) if nothing
is specified unless a switch setting (in the patch locations) is activated
to prevent it.
An ASCII text help file can now be read in through DFCONFIG. This lets
you use your own editor rather than having to make the edits from within
DFCONFIG. Using a separate editor is probably easier if you want to make
large scale changes, use high ASCII box characters, etc.
Intermittent bug with deleting directories should be corrected
"Destination not directory" warnings were given on moves and copies
whenever files were marked and the target was specified on-the-fly (i.e.
not to the default target) -- even if only one file was marked. Now does
not warn on single marked files.
Problem with copying files to directories with archive, etc. flags
set when directory name specified "on the fly" corrected
Minor changes to default user-defined command definitions from
previous definitions and added reminder in unused menu slots that
external software must be present for default control keys to work
Changes to critical error termination code so that the clear screen to
original attributes code path executes
In the DFCONFIG main menu: You are returned to the selected menu item from
submenus rather than always being returned to commands
Additions to the Attribute menu (Memory Allocation and Drive Table key).
There may also have been a problem in some cases when allocating space for
the read-in file (and naturally this particular function didn't return a
fatal memory error like it should have). A problem in version reporting
was also fixed.
DF 4.50:
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Rewrote sort routines. They're now MUCH faster (at least 3x -- not
counting time to read from disk)
Sorts can now be done in ascending or descending order Alt-N,E,S,D,T or
Cntrl-N,E,S,D,T. Plus logical secondary sorts (Extension when primary key
is name; Name otherwise) now take place automatically. Ascending and
descending order can also be specified on the command line with + or -
suffices to the sort letter.
Sorts in attribute order (T) added.
Drive table allows movement between drives by pressing left and
right arrows. Note: Drive table must be manually specified in DFCONFIG.
F11/F12 keys added to main menu. F11=Re-mark (equivalent to F6 followed
by F7). F12=Secondary main viewer
Disable mouse switch added. Plus (for those of you who had been given the
patching information on how to disable the mouse previously), disabling
the mouse now skips ALL the mouse code. This may help to correct some
mouse incompatibilities some people ran across.
Mouse now uses software reset instead of hardware reset. This seems to
cut a second or so off DF's initialization on some systems.
Added Rshift-F11/F12 to user-defined pool.
Added Secondary Create Archive key (Rshift-F10) -- default is for ARJ.
Increased length of user-defined command lines.
Function of numeric keypad <Enter> and main keypad <Enter> keys may be
swapped.
Increased length of Smart Viewer command lines. Increased number of
SmartViewers. Added ability to configure multiple extensions per
SmartViewer command line together with '?' wildcards.
Pause and refresh switches added for SmartViewers.
Added new parameters in user-defined command lines:
%n (synonym for ~) highlighted filename with drive & path
(e.g. c:\work\DF.COM)
%d work/displayed drive (e.g. c:)
%p highlighted pathname (e.g. c:\work\)
%f highlighted filename only (e.g. DF.COM)
%e currently highlighted extension only
%c current DOS drive (destination drive)
%% literal %
Eliminated dir checks from user-defined command lines (i.e. a directory is
now treated just like a filename)
Added configuration file option. It is now no longer necessary to modify
the executable DF file. This is particular interest to those who run
virus software in the background to detect writes to executables. If a
file called DF.CFG in in xxx.COM's directory (where xxx.COM is the name
of DF.COM), it will be used automatically. Else, the parameters stored
within xxx.COM are used. Alternate .CFG files can be specified on the
command-line using the /C switch. .CFG file checking can be turned off
with DFCONFIG setting.
Lots of large disk and large directory display problems fixed. Also, most
directory and disk sizes are now displayed with comma separators to make
them easier to read.
Cluster size for Dir size floppy estimates changed to 1024 bytes (from 512
bytes).
Alt-F toggles file only (i.e. no directories) display
"Graceful degradation" when the number of files in a directory exceeds
DF's limit (512 to 1000 or so files depending upon max memory, TSR's etc.)
Help screen modified to reflect changes and increase consistency.
It is "believed" that the snow problem is fixed. There was a logic
reversal problem and the display is now slower with snow-checking on but I
don't have a "snowy" old IBM CGA to actually test on.
Bug with last character of a user-entered command line being chopped off
fixed.
ZOO SmartViewer written as addition to the XRAY viewers (ZR, etc.).
Delete a file option added to XRay Viewers ('D').
DFCONFIG extensively rewritten to handle DF changes and relinked with new
versions of user interface libraries.
Context-sensitive help added to DFCONFIG.
"Print registration form" option added to DFCONFIG.
Documentation extensively rewritten.
Earlier Revisions
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Deleted for brevity