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- VERSION CHANGES & UPDATES
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- Thanks to everyone that has helped out in enhancing First Impression to
- become a first class installation utility!
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- Version 2.5 2/1/93
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- WYSIWYG Screen designer was added to make the generation even easier and
- more flexibility was given to designing your screens. Justification &
- Positioning to name a few. Background window is also adjustable.
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- Monitor Detection
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- Novell Aware; either require a network or refuse installation to a net drive.
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- Two switches were added: /M for monochrome install and /N to bypass monitor
- detection
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- EXIT program was changed to allow .BAT files to be called.
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- If multiple .CFG files are found a menu will appear giving the user the
- choice to pick which to install.
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- And a few more things that I forgot already!<g>
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- Version 2.1b 7/27/92
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- Using the /V command with INSTALL.EXE you can find out what version of the
- installation program you are using.
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- Finally fixed the bug that blanked out the screen after the user viewed a
- file!!! Not an easy one to nail down. Line by line scrolling was improved
- so it will not "flash" on the screen.
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- Fixed the (: ): parameters in the DOS COMMANDS section to handle an install
- that was from a subdirectory on a hard drive to another sub on the same
- drive.
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- Exit Program was not being executed if the autoexec.bat or config.sys files
- were edited. Fixed that one to.
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- Version 2.1a 7/01/92
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- Enhanced the i/o error routines in IMPRESS.EXE
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- Fixed some flakey bugs that would occur when updating the CONFIG.SYS
- and AUTOEXEC.BAT.
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- Fixed a bug in the Distribution Disk Generator. If the first disk was left
- in after it was filled and the developer pressed a key some peculiar things
- would happen.
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- Version 2.1 6/7/92
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- Distribution disk generator was added to create your disk set.
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- Will allow two types of installs. The normal installation and an update
- installation. By using two different configuration files there can be two
- types of installs.
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- Ability to add an ENVIRONMENT variable to the autoexec.bat file.
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- Ability to add device drivers to the config.sys file.
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- Files that were set to print can now be sent to a user selectable printer
- port. Error routines were also improved.
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- Users can install from a subdirectory on a hard drive to another subdirectory
- on the drive. Great for users that pull your application from a BBS.
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- An UNINSTALL option was added. By typing INSTALL /U and several
- confirmations, it will erase all the subdirectories and child subs along
- with the files. READ THE MANUAL REGARDING THIS!!!!
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- The most important one of all......you may now order using VISA/MC through
- Software Excitement!. Check out the order form for details!
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- Version 2.0 2/8/92
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- Renamed to FIRST IMPRESSION and down to less that 45k!
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- Hard error recovery was added. This will prevent thing from going awry
- if a user takes out the disk or uses a write protected disk and the like.
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- Now checks for game port, math coprocessor and base memory.
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- Developers now have the option of letting the user have the option to add
- the subdirectory to the PATH statement in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
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- Graphical Display Amusers(GDA) were added. One of six may be displayed
- as the files are being copied. This may prevent the user from falling
- asleep while the installation is occuring.
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- A file browser was also added to let users view up to four README.1ST files.
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- Improved multiple directory installations.
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- Added a windowing utility, SETUP.EXE, that will allow developers to create
- customized windows.
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- Sound was added and is optional.
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- The fill character that appeared in all the fields to fill in, '_', was
- changed to a small dot. When the character was used in text it was converted
- to a space.
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- Version 1.5c
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- Allows the CONFIG.SYS file to update the FILES and BUFFERS statements.
- If the subdirectory is not added to the path statement in the AUTOEXEC.BAT
- the user will be prompt for the drive that the computer boots from,
- otherwise it uses the same drive that the autoexec.bat file was located.
- This routine will not ask the user if they want to do this or not, it is
- performed automatically. After all, your program will not work without it.
- The values are filled in in the INSTALL ENHANCEMENTS menu option.
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- The ability to Shell to DOS was added when in INSTALIT.
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- Version 1.5b
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- The window that copies files from source to destination was not clearing
- itself and kept showing files being copied as Error Opening: filename
- after it needed the next disk with the following file.
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- You can now hardcode the user name into two files. This was orginally
- done for internal purposes but I thought others might be interested in
- it as well.
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- Version 1.5a
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- Four more border types have been added to the window sections.
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- INSTALL.EXE will now check if the DOS version on the system running
- meets your minimum required version.
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