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- POINT & SHOOT BACKUP/RESTORE REVISION HISTORY
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- Version 1.0 - June 1988
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- Original version of the program released
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- Version 2.0 - May 1990
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- Revised program SETUP to match drive specification of version 2.0 of the
- Point & Shoot Hard Disk Manager. Program now allows use of external
- floppy disk drives with letters higher than B and can be executed from
- any drive or directory.
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- Improved disk formatting routines
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- Increased directory tree capacity to 255 entries
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- Added file compression option (approx. 50% average compression ratio)
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- Enhanced backup speed with direct format/write loop. Backup approaches
- 1 megabyte per minute on 1.2MB or 1.44MB disks.
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- Added file selection list on restoration for easy single file restorations.
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- Added ability to make subdirectories during restoration if files are
- restored to other than the original path to allow user to have complete
- control over the structure of the hard disk to which files are restored.
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- Enhanced error detection/recovery
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- Added single file compression/decompression routines to assist
- in reconstruction of files outside of the restore process.
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- Added parameter option to immediately move into and execute any one
- of the 10 backup configurations: PASBR 1..10
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- Revised and enhanced program documentation