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EDDY (TM)
REVISION HISTORY
Since the first public release of EDDY, many intermediate versions have
been produced, but they had very limited distribution. There does not
seem to be any useful purpose in detailing the history of all of them.
This document describes functionality changes other than minor bug
fixes. Changes in the current version of EDDY are described first.
Changes to versions prior to 5.01 have been deleted from this file, as
there seems to be little interest in ancient history among the user
base. If you have one of the older versions, and feel that you need
this information, I'll be glad to send it to you. Just ask.
Version 6c (changes since 6b2)
==============================
1. If tree directory selection method is used, and an EDDYTREE file
exists, the file will be updated automatically if it is found to be
inaccurate.
2. If files are excluded from the working directory display because
attribute or timestamp filters are in use, an asterisk will appear
next to the file count field in the heading.
3. Numeric option /3 is introduced. If this option is used, the
modules needed for updating and for LOOK mode operation will be
loaded from EDDY.AUX when the program starts, and will be locked in
memory until EDDY terminates. This option is primarily useful for
running EDDY from a floppy. Using /3 ensures that EDDY's basic
functionality is always available, even if the diskette containing
EDDY.AUX is removed.
4. When comparing files -- [Alt+Shift+F3] -- the values of the bytes
where differences are found are now displayed along with the file
offset.
Version 6b2 (changes since 6b)
==============================
1. Point-n-shoot and the DOS Gateway features sometimes caused systems
which have no expanded memory to "hang", requiring a red-button
reboot. This is fixed.
Version 6b (changes since 6a)
=============================
1. Directories may be selected from a tree diagram, rather than typing
in the directory names. This involves lots of new functions and
commands; certainly too much to describe here. See Sections 5.1 -
5.3 of EDDY.DOC for more information.
2. Empty (zero-length) files may be copied and moved.
3. After executing EDDY interactively (rather than in batch mode),
ERRORLEVEL will always be set to zero.
4. Option /L means "Set top of LIST to current cursor position" (for
use with repeating commands. This was formerly option /T.
5. When customizing, a list of customizable features is provided for
review just before the new EDDY.COM is written.
6. Mouse sensitivity is adjustable - press [Alt+Shift+m].
7. [^c] is used to terminate a repeating command - formerly [BackSpace].
8. When building commands for "point-n-shoot' (EDDY.USE file or [F8]),
the extension for the program file involved is no longer required.
9. The "speed search" facility for directories and filenames has been
modified slightly. It is described in EDDY.DOC Section 4.1.
Version 6a (changes since 5.53)
=================================
1. With this release, EDDY begins his move into the modern world.
There is now support for mice (Microsoft-compatible variety, since
that's all I've got to test with). Details are in Section 2.1.2 of
EDDY.DOC.
2. Another major addition to user-friendliness (and without which a
mouse wouldn't be all that useful) is pull-down menus. Menus are
described in Section 2.2.2 of EDDY.DOC.
In the following paragraphs, you may note that some command keys are
now used in different places with different meanings. In the past,
I've tried to avoid this, to maintain consistency and reduce
complexity. With the addition of the menus, however, there's not
nearly so much to remember in order to use EDDY efficiently.
Overloading certain keys seems to simplify operations in some cases.
3. After an UPDATE, any files moved or deleted from the working
directory will be shown grouped together at the end of the directory
display, rather than in their original locations before the UPDATE.
If there are more files in the directory than can be displayed by
EDDY (currently, about 400), files deleted or moved will not be
shown; instead, additional files from the working directory will be
displayed.
4. Point-n-shoot capabilities are improved in 3 major ways:
a. When you select a .COM, .EXE or .BAT file to execute ([Alt+F9]),
you may edit the command line first, to add filenames, switches,
or whatever is appropriate for the file involved.
b. Commands from EDDY.USE ([Shift+F9]/[Shift+^F9]) may also be
edited before they are used.
c. You may specify a default command, which may be executed when
there is no command found in EDDY.USE for the current file, or
if you have no EDDY.USE file. The default command may be edited,
made permanent (by customizing EDDY), or executed directly (by
pressing [Shift+F8]).
5. You may UNDO the COPY, MOVE, DELETE and DESTROY commands without
affecting other changes that may be pending for the file. Just
press the key for the same command again; i.e., if a file is tagged
for COPY, and you decide not to COPY, press [F5] and the tagging
will disappear, but any other changes will remain.
6. When the copy/move confirmation window is displayed (as when the
file in the target is newer than the one in the working directory),
[Alt+a], [Alt+c] and [Alt+o] are accepted as valid responses.
7. After using the DOS Gateway - with [F9], [Alt+F9] or [Shift+F9] -
the working directory will be reprocessed to insure that any changes
made outside of EDDY will be reflected properly in the display.
8. You may tag a file for copy with TAB expansion and/or bit-stripping
directly, by pressing [Alt+number] or [Alt+b]. No need to tag the
file first by pressing [F5].
9. The treatment of the archive attribute for files copied has changed
slightly. If option /A is on, the archive attribute on the new copy
of the file will be the same as the original file. If option /A is
off, the archive setting depends on the type of disks involved:
a. Floppy to floppy - copy set same as original
b. Hard disk to hard disk - copy set same as original
c. Floppy to hard disk - archive attribute in copy turned off,
original unchanged
d. Hard disk to floppy - archive attribute in copy turned on,
original turned off
10. [Alt+r] from EDIT or LOOK modes displays a "FIND & REPLACE" dialog
box directly. Before, you first had to press [Alt+f], then [Alt+r].
11. When LOOKing at a text-format display with lines longer than 80
characters, moving to the left or right edge of the display may be
done by pressing [Home] or [End], respectively. [^Left] and
[^Right] are still available for this, as well.
12. Pressing [Home] twice in a row has the same effect as [^Home] -
i.e., in EDIT mode, the cursor moves to the top of the directory
display, and in LOOK the display moves to the start of the file.
Similarly, [End][End] is the same as [^End].
13. Pressing [s] in LOOK toggles [Up] and [Down] between their normal
scrolling speed of one-line-per-keypress and half-page-per-keypress.
A half page is defined by the number of text lines in the display,
not the phy