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- Summary of changes for DOWNSORT VERSION 5.1
-
- ■ Since the ORPhan report is optional (changed with version 5.0), orphan
- entries could and now will be removed from internal storage during the
- information collection phase of DOWNSORT, but only when no orphan-list
- is requested! This is especially useful for the situation where a
- single large directory contains the files of several area's, and whereby
- the file descriptions are contained in different FILES.BBS files.
- Normally this will result in reporting lots of duplicate orphans
- (according to the definition of 'orphan' in DOWNSORT!). With this
- change memory utilisation is lower and sorting faster.
- ■ Another change of this kind: area's with a privilege exceeding any
- reporting privilege are not scanned anymore. Apart from lower memory
- utilisation, this might be useful for CDROM and slow disk(ette) systems.
- ■ The maximum number of Top-, Sub- and Bottom-Title lines has been
- extended to 20.
- ■ In addition all lists may now include a 'logo'-file with a new -I
- parameter on the individual report request specification (see sample
- DOWNSORT.CFG). The file will be copied into the list without any
- editing or translation. It will be positioned directly behind the
- block-title and before the subtitle (if any). For example: you may
- include your BBS-logo or a picture of your system configuration, or
- anything else you want to tell the file-requestors of FILES, ALLFILES
- and/or NEWFILES. The IPF-list may also include IPF tags, with artwork,
- etc. It may even include other files itself! For FILES.BBS the
- contents of this Include-file will immediately follow the 'standard'
- header.
- ■ All block-fonts have now a new special character <`> (reversed quote),
- which will be 'printed' as blank (space) with half the width of a normal
- character. This is useful for fine-alignment (e.g. manually centering)
- the BLOCK-title.
- ■ The chapter on 'titles and headers' has been rewritten to clarify the
- use of all title-options, please read it!.
- ■ In the SUMMARY of ALL- and IPF-lists the areas themselves are not sorted
- anymore, but presented in sequence of AREAS.CTL specification. This is
- based on the assumption that the file area's are in some kind of
- 'natural' order in AREAS.CTL (or maybe it is time to do that now!).
- ■ Descriptions in FILES.BBS are now (again) aligned on column 14 of the
- FILES.bbs file records.
- ■ IPF-list again a little more user-friendly (linking of area's).
- ■ A number of improvements have been applied to the executiontime messages
- (when running in VERBOSE mode).
-