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- ADVBAS 2.6, 9/19/86:
-
- XQPRINTD will allow you to print to the screen using direct screen
- writes. This is the fastest possible print method, but will produce
- snow on some color displays if you are printing to the active display
- page. SCRRESTP and SCRSAVEP will allow you to save and restore any
- screen page to/from an array. SCRRESTPD and SCRSAVEPD will do the
- same using direct screen reads/writes (see note at XQPRINTD).
- SETCOMM will allow you to reset the parameters on an open communi-
- cations "file" without having to close the file (and thus drop the
- DTR signal) first. In addition, it lets you set the baud rate to
- speeds beyond the normal limitation of 9600 bps. An error in DMPRINT
- was fixed.
-
-
- ADVBAS 2.5, 8/04/86:
-
- DMPRINT now allows screen display directly through MS-DOS output.
- This differs from MPRINT, which uses some BIOS routines. It is a
- less sophisticated routine than MPRINT, which makes it faster than
- MPRINT. XQPRINT and RECOLOR screen flicker (on color monitors) has
- been wiped out, thanks to Steven Gibson. This and the other
- direct-access screen routines have been modified so as to cause less
- interference with interrupts. The manual, ADVBAS.DOC, has been
- reformatted so it will print correctly on printers which have more
- than 80 columns and/or do not feature line wrap.
-
-
- ADVBAS 2.4, 7/21/86:
-
- Functions have been added to convert numbers from one base to another
- (DEC2ANY, ANY2DEC), and incidentally to allow use of unsigned
- integers in your programs, with some twiddling. Space compression
- has been added via BSQ, BUSQLEN and BUSQ, which allow you to compress
- text information. Space savings range from a reliable 16% for normal
- text, to up around 50% for files with many blanks (such as structured
- C, Pascal, or assembly files).
-
-
- ADVBAS 2.3, 6/28/86:
-
- An error in the documentation for the MPRINT and MPRINTC routines has
- been fixed. You can now set a file's time and date stamp using
- SETFTD. A host of functions which allow you access to disk
- directories has been added, giving the ability to search for a file
- using wildcards, or to duplicate the DOS directory command:
- FINDFIRSTF, FINDNEXTF, GETNAMEF, GETATTRF, GETDATEF, GETTIMEF,
- GETSIZEF. The manual has been revised to list functions in
- alphabetical order, allowing the elimination of the index. This
- file, ADVBAS.NEW, is now listed in reverse chronological order, so
- the newest things come first instead of at the end.
-
-
- ADVBAS 2.2, 6/20/86:
-
- Character insert/delete support for windows was added via MINSCHR and
- MDELCHR. This can also be used to simulate left and right scrolling
- of a window. The day of the week can now be gotten using WEEKDAY.
- The most interesting new function is SOUNDEX, which returns the
- soundex code of a word. Soundex codes allow you to identify similar
- sounding words, so that you could do a phone directory search that
- matches on the sound of a name rather than the precise spelling, for
- instance.
-
-
- ADVBAS 2.1, 6/14/86:
-
- Window handling was added. The MPRINT and MPRINTC routines can now
- be set to use Turbo Pascal-style screen windows, via the MWINDOW
- function.
-
-
- ADVBAS 2.0, 3/28/86:
-
- Four functions were added. KEYPRESS tells you if a key is waiting in
- the keyboard input buffer. RECOLOR quickly resets all characters on
- the screen with a given color/attribute to a new color/attribute
- (text mode only). SETMATI sets the first "x" elements of an integer
- array to a given value. ADDMATI adds or subtracts a given value from
- the first "x" elements of an integer array. The documentation now
- includes notes on how PC-compatible a machine needs to be before any
- given routine will work on it.
-
-
- ADVBAS 1.9, 12/12/85:
-
- An error in the documentation for XLATE (introduced in v1.7?) has
- been fixed. XLATE will now work with a string as well as single
- characters. MPRINT will work with a string, replacing the old MPRINTC
- which could only print out a single character at a time. The
- functions STRIPRANGE, REVERSE, LROTATE, RROTATE, EXTRACT, READBITF
- and WRITEBITF have been added. The documentation now includes
- numbered pages with an index and a reference listing of the ADVBAS
- functions.
-
-
- ADVBAS 1.8: Not released to the public.
-
-
- ADVBAS 1.7, 11/28/85:
-
- An error in the documentation for CRC has been fixed. The functions
- DELCHR and INSCHR have been added.
-