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- What's new, what has been changed, what bugs have been fixed:
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- Version 1.00 (Shareware)
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- Original release uploaded solely to ASP Forum on Compuserve
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- Version 1.10 (SW & General Business)
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- First large scale release to BBS and shareware vendors.
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- Version 2.00 (SW & GB)
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- The user now has the ability to select the quick list or
- the single item full screen description as the primary
- interface through the compiler.
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- Version 2.01 (SW & GB)
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- Added a (Y/N) confirmation menu before quitting the program
- to prevent one too many [ESC]'s from quitting the program
- before the user really intended to quit.
-
- CATALOG.EXE will now load a VGA 640 x 480 16 color self-
- executable graphic image if HELLO.EXE and/or GOODBYE.EXE
- exists.
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- Version 2.02 (SW & GB)
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- Changed maximum number of categories from 256 to 512
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- Changed maximum number of items per category from 256 to 512
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- Version 2.02 (Shareware)
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- A funny bug would occur when the customer selects a disk
- title was selected that would terminate the CATALOG.EXE
- It only occurred when the fifth line of a description
- field contained a numeral "1". Yes, I know this is odd
- sounding, but that's what caused the error. (You would have
- to see the "code" to understand why this happened.) It has
- now been fixed.
-
-
- Version 2.03 (SW & GB)
-
- Added COMPILE.EXE command line parameter COLORS that will
- allow access to color configuration prompts.
-
- Added ability to customize customer order form address
- prompts to correspond to USA, Australia, Canada and UK formats.
-
- Fixed F1 search function with CATALOG where beginning search
- category would sometimes be incorrect.
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-
- Version 2.04 (Shareware)
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- The billing method would occasionally display "Bill to my
- account" even though this was not a selection available in
- the compiler. This bug has been fixed.
-
- If a shareware vendor distributes only one size disk format,
- the confirmation/disk format menu that lists the disk format
- sizes has been replaced with a "Thank you" message. Since there
- was no reason to have the customer confirm a selection box
- containing only 1 choice, it was therefore replaced.
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- Version 2.04 (SW & GB)
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- When displaying ASCII ".TXT" files from CATALOG.EXE, the user is
- now prompted to "Press any key" from the "Wait" screen. Previously,
- as soon as the text file was read into memory, it was displayed.
- Some users complained that this occurred too quickly and kept them
- from finishing reading the "WAIT.TXT" file that displays during this
- process.
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- Version 2.1 (SW & GB)
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- From the CATALOG.EXE, a customer's ordered items are now sorted
- for easier reading whenever an order form is printed, and when
- the customer reviews their order on the screen.
-
- Version 2.1 (Shareware)
-
- The total number of disks that the customer has selected is
- now displayed at the bottom of the description window so that
- the customer can keep track of his order easier. This is useful
- as an incentive if you tell your customer in advance that a
- quantity discount will "kick in" after a certain number of disks
- have been purchased.
-
- The ability to filter in and out certain disk size formats with
- the use of the key words "360", "720", "1_2", "1_4" has been added.
- These key word "flags" are placed on the title description line
- inside your *.CAT files and override the selection you have made
- from the compiler in respect to the disk sizes that you offer.
- Example, let's say that you normally sell low density disks to
- your customers, but in the case of a huge disk set (e.g. The
- Online Bible) you wish to only offer this title in high-density
- formats. By using the "1_2" and "1_4" key words, the 360K and
- 720K selections will be disabled when your customers attempt to
- order this title. The only drawback to this use of key words
- is that you must then specify explicitly in each program title
- the normal sizes available such as "360" and "720". This means
- more typing and eventually a larger final CATALOG.DAT file.
- Key words (if used) are not displayed to the customer. Like the
- multi-disk flags ("*"), key word flags are hidden from the
- customer's view.
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- F7 function key has been added that will display the customer's
- computer system information (DOS version, video card, RAM, etc.)
-
- A warning message to the user that their order has not been saved
- to disk prior to exiting the program...has been added.
-
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- Version 2.11 (Shareware)
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- Fixed a bug that placed a price next to a "note file" when the
- catalog is printed.
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- Version 2.11 (SW & GB)
-
- Provided the option to have free shipping by simply indicating
- the cost "=0.00" in the SHIPPING.TXT file next to the corresponding
- free shipping method. Previous versions would not accept a
- value of "0.00" causing the compiler to abort. Should the
- SHIPPING.TXT be missing altogether, shipping will be free and
- no prompt menu will ever appear for the customer to choose from.
-
- The word "Check" will automatically be spelled "Cheque" if the
- address format is specified as "United Kingdom" from within the
- compiler.
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- Version 2.12 (SW & GB)
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- Australians do not use Discover credit cards, but rather a card
- called "Bankcard". I have made this card available when the
- Country format is set to Australia.
-
-
- Version 2.13 (SW & GB)
-
- Due to the International response, the program now supports
- currency symbols/characters greater than one. No longer are
- you limited to $ and £, but three character currency units
- can be used (e.g. Lra, DM...for Lira and Deutsche Marks).
-
-
- Version 2.2 (SW & GB)
-
- You can now specify a different .DAT file name to be used
- with the catalog module. In the past, CATALOG.DAT was always
- used, and should CATALOG.DAT be missing, an error message
- would be displayed. Since some folks would like to maintain
- separate catalogs, for instance a catalog for Avon products,
- and another catalog for Amway products, this made things
- difficult since each catalog would end up with the file name
- CATALOG.DAT. New with this version 2.2 is the ability to
- manually rename your CATALOG.DAT file to whatever you wish,
- and then pass that new .DAT file name to the catalog module
- through a batch file or command line parameter. For example,
- once you have compiled your Avon product .CAT files into a
- CATALOG.DAT file, go to DOS and rename CATALOG.DAT to
- AVON.DAT. Then you can compile a new catalog .DAT file
- using your Amway product files. Once this CATALOG.DAT file
- is created, rename it to AMWAY.DAT. With me so far? OK,
- then to use the catalog module CATALOG.EXE with both .DAT
- files, you can set up a batch file for each catalog. For
- your Avon products, you can create an AVON.BAT file that
- simply contains the words --> CATALOG AVON For your
- Amway catalog, create another batch file, for instance
- AMWAY.BAT, and place the words --> CATALOG AMWAY in it.
- This way you can keep just one copy of the catalog module
- on your distribution floppy disk, and still be able to
- present two (or three, or more) different .DAT files to your
- customers.
-
- Modification to how vendor can setup his SHIPPING.TXT
- file... If you leave a shipping method withOUT a price
- and withOUT an equal symbol (=), then there will be no
- shipping charges computed on your customer's order. This
- feature has been added for those vendors who wish to
- determine the shipping cost after they have received an
- order from the customer (due to weight considerations).
-
- When a selected item is removed from the "Review order"
- listing, a short reminder message is displayed, stating,
- "Avon Beauty Cream removed from order!"
-
- The catalog run-time module (CATALOG.EXE) will now auto-
- detect the disk and drive where the program was started
- from and seek the .DAT file from the same path. In other
- words, if your CATALOG.EXE & .DAT files are on drive A:
- but your customer starts the catalog from the C:> prompt
- with C:>A:CATALOG, the catalog program will also open
- the .DAT file on drive A:, since that is where the
- program resides. Earlier versions would have looked for
- the .DAT file on the current drive/directory (C: in the
- example above).
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- Version 2.2 (General Business)
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- An additional discount can be applied to the customer's
- order based upon their subtotal of all items ordered.
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- Version 2.2 (Shareware)
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- Some foreign countries have large numbers associated with
- the cost of their disks. For example, in Italy, a 360K
- disk may sell for 1400 lira. Provision has now been made to
- accomodate the large numbers, where this was not available
- before.
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- Version 2.21 (GB)
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- Previous versions only supported item prices up to $9,999.99.
- We have now increased the maximum item price to $999,999.99
- for those of you who are selling houses or other high-dollar
- items.
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- Version 2.21 (SW & GB)
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- When a customer now attempts to remove an already selected
- item from their current order, an "Are you sure" dialog box
- will be displayed, prompting them to confirm their deletion.
-
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- Version 2.22 (General Business)
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- Catalog item descriptions can now be more than 18 lines in
- length - no more limited to size of viewport.
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- Version 3.0 (General Business)
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- Added graphic support. Displays graphic images saved to
- self-executing .EXEs, and then renamed to use one of the
- three graphic file extensions: .4CE, .OPT or .CHO (see
- documentation for details on how to use).
-
- Fixed a bug related to sub-totals over $9999.99 rounding
- off and losing a .01 or two. You can now have an order
- totaling over $1,000,000 without worring about being
- cheated out of a few cents! I doubt anyone would have
- ever discovered this bug, and if they did, I guess they
- would not have been too upset over losing a penny on a
- $10,000 sale. <g>
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- Version 3.01
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- Fixed a bug that did not allow for shipping rates less than
- $1.00 in the SHIPPING.TXT file.
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- A new option has been added in the compiler that allows the
- customer to redirect their order form from a printer to an
- ASCII text file.
-
- The custom color configuration option has been enhanced and
- fixed (see version 2.03).
-