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New for ver. 1.21
1. PDQ and DOSNIX now have a support BBS. John Morrison,
SYSOP of The Mailbox BBS in Binghamton, NY has graciously
provided a support conference. The number is (607) 798-0315.
2. PDQ can now be configured from the environment. Under
ordinary circumstances PDQ is self-configuring. You can
use CC to set your screen colors and PDQ will adapt itself
to your system. However there may be problems with not-so-
close compatibles. You can use the environment variable
PDQCFG to set the home drive for PATH.SDC, BIOS or direct
screen writes for FFV, screen colors and screen size.
New for ver. 1.20
1. The Friendly File Viewer can now handle EGA and VGA
extended text modes, even the ones I can't read with
my trifocals. Can anybody read 132 X 60 on a 14 inch
monitor?
2. When SDL and GFF were used with large (greater than 32mb)
DOS partitions the amount of free space reported was wrong.
This was caused by overflow when converting from clusters to
bytes. The problem should now be fixed. If anyone finds
that it isn't please drop me a line or leave me E-MAIL on
CompuServe or GENIE.
New for ver. 1.19
1. The Friendly File Viewer has received a few changes to
make it even friendlier. Lines are now written directly
to video memory for faster pages. CGA cards are detected
automatically and horizontal retrace checking is performed
to prevent snow. The action of the PgUp key has been
modified for better performance with floppy drives.
2. When SDL and GFF were used without ANSI.SYS being installed
there were some problems with the highlighting. SDC had a
similar problem when displaying the directory tree.
New for ver. 1.18
1. When using SDC, if the /t switch was combined with the /s
switch the path file would be removed and a new one would
not be generated. SDC would then have to scan the drives the
next time it was used. This problem has now been fixed.
New for ver. 1.17
1. In FFV, the Esc key did not work during string searches.
Now fixed. FFV also runs a little faster than before.
2. SDC and SDL can now handle up to 400 matching directories.
About the only way you can get this number of matches on a
large system is to use the backspace key in Speed Search. If
the buffer does fill up you can still use Speed Search to reduce
the number of matches. The total number of directories on a
system is limited only by the time that it takes to search the
database. On an XT Turbo with a slow hard disk I got acceptable
performance with over 400 directories. A fast system should be
able to handle more than 1000 before it bogs down.
New for ver. 1.16
1. SDC now uses just one path file for all hard disk
partitions, stored in the root directory of drive C.
This change improves the way the backspace key works
during speed searches and should allow SDC to run
faster on large systems with many logical drives. You
can still access drives explicitly but the speed advantage
won't be that great. Floppy drives still have a separate
path file for each floppy, and you will have to scan each
floppy disk to install the path file.
2. When a directory was created, removed or relocated
on a drive locked out with SDNOSCAN, SDC would still
try to access the path file. This problem has now been
fixed.
3. The Slick Directory Lister has been upgraded to work
with the new version of SDC. You should not try to use
an older version of SDL with the new version of SDC.