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- History of Disk eXPress:
-
- 1.01 11/25/91 First release of DSKEXP (Disk Express). Package
- includes this history file, the documentation file,
- DSKEXP.EXE (DOS version of the program) and
- DSKEXP2.EXE (OS/2 version of the program).
- 1.02 12/04/91 Bug fix for version 1.01.
- DSKEXP:
- - Failed to read diskette correctly if a new
- diskette is insert in drive. If the diskette
- has been previously accessed by DOS, DSKEXP
- will read the diskette correctly.
- - Failed to read 160K/180K diskettes.
- - Diskette conversion failed for 160K/180K
- diskettes.
- DSKEXP and DSKEXP2:
- - Incorrect diskette fragmentation report for
- 1.2M diskette.
- - Diskette conversion is now limited to different
- form factor diskettes (5.25" to 5.25" conversion
- and 3.5" to 3.5" conversion are not allowed).
- - Corrections to documentation.
- 1.04 02/19/92 DSKEXP:
- - /f not working in version 1.02 is fixed.
- DSKEXP and DSKEXP2:
- - New logic for FAT scanning. Previous versions
- may not correctly determine the actual last
- sector used unless /a is specified.
- - New Ctrl-C and Ctrl-Break routines.
- - Incomplete output file will be deleted when user
- hits Ctrl-C/Ctrl-Break.
-
- New major release:
-
- 2.00 05/19/92 Name changed to DXP.EXE. Added Xtract as a standlone
- diskette image extractor. DXP and XTRACT are now
- dual mode applications (OS/2 and DOS). Refer to
- DXP.DOC for all the new features for Version 2
- release.
-
- Bugs fixed in 1.04 are carried over to version 2.
- The known ones under 1.04 are:
- - Ran out of near heap under OS/2 if a CMD.EXE
- replacement shell is used.
- - FAT scanning logic may miss sparsely allocated
- clusters and the bad clusters count may be off
- by one.
- - /c conversion switch under OS/2 is now working.
- 2.01 09/04/92 Minor image description display code bug fix.
-
- Reworked all display routines so that all errors
- and warning messages are sent to stderr. Normal
- messages are sent to stdout.
-
- Corrections to spelling errors in documentation.
- 2.02 10/17/92 Improved error messages and error logic.
- (internal release)
- Better detection of invalid image header by DXP.
-
- Improved documentation.
- 2.03 10/23/92 Improved error handling when reading an unformatted
- diskette when running the program under OS/2.
-