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ATTENTION: ---------- In past releases of Stowaway, the Stowaway files HAD to be located in \STOWAWAY. Now, Stowaway looks for the help files and the indexes in the directory where STOW.EXE is located. This means that if you want to continue using the indexes from previous versions of Stowaway, you must either put STOW.EXE in the \STOWAWAY directory, or copy the indexes to the location of STOW.EXE. If you have any questions regarding any of this material, PLEASE call us at 909-352-2820. Version 2.0 ----------- Fixes: o Fixed a problem with the "restore TO directory" field o Corrected the I/O error handling routines Enhancements: o Added volume compaction of archive sets Volume compaction is a new feature to Stowaway. It reclaims space on the floppy disks, and makes the space available for future archivals. This function has been tested EXTENSIVELY, but we want to be SURE that it is working properly before making an official release of Stowaway. Volume compaction removes the active files off of disks which are more than 60% empty, and appends these active files onto the end of the archive set, freeing up the disks for reuse. In the event of a problem: 1. Contact Patri-Soft at 909-352-2820 2. The disks may be reclaimed UNLESS you write over them In the event of a SUCESS 1. Contact Patri-Soft, just to let us know how it worked. 909-352-1257 Fax 909-352-2825 BBS 909-352-2820 Voice o Increased the sorting speed of file listings by 50% o Compression is now 25% faster o Ability to edit archive group names and file descriptions Version 1.91 ------------ Fixes: o Fixed a problem with deleting files from archives o Restoring files that came from a drive that no longer exists would cause problems. Fixed. o When restoring, if you want to put the files from other drives onto the same directory structure of a DIFFERENT drive, just specify the drive letter in the target directory restore field. Version 1.90 ------------ Enhancments: o Added NEW AUTO RESTORE capability. Now, Stowaway will archive files, and a TSR called Auto Restore can be installed to automatically restore files that you or any application attempts to access. For more information, see AUTOREST.INF. This option is set in the "Specify system options" menu. o Added advanced options for more flexible operation. Added were: Media type directory to archive to Default sort order o 4Dos description support is now available. Stowaway will automatically extract and use 4DOS descriptons when appropriate. (See advanced options to set this flag) o Added print to file as well as LTP1 and LPT2 in the restore lists. Version 1.85· ------------- This version is being released as an interim release. Many changes were made to fairly critical areas of the code, that we would like to publish this version as a test version. We have tested it extensivly and have had normal operation, so we hope that our concern will be unwarranted. Fixes: Groups were limited to 200 in number. If exceeded, garbage was displayed on the screen. Changed to 500, with further increases expected in a subsequent release. F9 was fixed in Restore, so that it would work in Restore mode as well as list mode. Enhancements: I/O was further buffered to increase speed and performance. Several minor cosemetic changes have been made to the archive/restore processing screen. Version 1.8 ----------- Enhancments: Starting with this release, a new Stowaway utility is now available. This program STOWRGEN.EXE is used to recover your archive indexes when both the hard disk copy and the floppy disk copy are either lost or corrupted. This utility is FREE with a Stowaway registration or can be obtained from Patri-Soft BBS. Now you can print a record of your archive indexes! In the restore or the list facitlity, press <F8> to print out the current information about all of the listed files! Added continuous No replace for overlaying files on restore. Fixes: When archiving from the command line, Stowaway would crash. Command line restore was repaired and is now working properly. When restoring files without listing them, the very LAST file in the list was not selected for restore. At times, the group processing screen was filled with garbage. This cause related minor problems, and is not corrected. While listing files to be restored, 'T' and 'U' cause Stowaway to crash. Stowaway behaived erratically when press ESC on the second (or later) disk mount request. When in group processing, you could "delete" the line which adds a group When listing files and viewing the group name that they are in, if the group had been deleted, garbage was displayed. Restore sometime had problems with I/O recovery. After archiving, if a directory tree was empty, the top directory may not have been removed if there were empty subs below it. When the option to verify the volume by re-reading it was turned on, a disk may not have been verified until it was completely full. Version 1.70 ------------ Fixes: When restoring indexes under an alternate ID, the indexes were restored with the main index names. Fixed to be restored with the current ID, no matter what ID they were archived under. Enhancments: Implemented I/O buffering on restore to increase performance. When archiving, an unlimited number of files can be archived using the automatic scanning menu option or the command line. Previously, Stowaway was limited by memory to processing only 1700 files. Restore can list an unlimited number of files at any time. Previously restore was limited to 1500 files due to memory restrictions. Now, the restore list is kept on disk, which sacrifices performance, but allows to process large amount of files. Version 1.53 - Version 1.60 (1.53 not released for general ------------ distibutions) Fixes: The input form in the "list archived files" menu option had no mention on how to continue, only on how to go back. Changed to reflect the proper instructions. During restore and listing of archived files, F9, now returns to the "group processing" screen, enabling you to quickly switch between groups. (if restoring, all tagged files are lost) When press F6 for alternate information in restore, all information was not always cleared properly. When using the "Automatic scanning" to archive files, if the path was not complete, it caused later problems on restore/verify etc. Fixed so that the path is ALWAYS complete with drive letter and full path name. Due to a bug in Borland's Turbo C++ version 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0, I/O errors were not properly processed. By reverting to an early version of Turbo C, the problem was circumvented. Disks were sometimes not properly formatted. Enhancements: Stowaway will ask to remove directories after archival if they are empty. Version 1.5 ----------- Fixes: Stowaway had problems restoring files archive on an 8088 class machine. The data was intact, but at times got CRC errors on restore. Enhancements: Input/Output is now buffered in archive and restore. This translates to better performance while processing files. For example, a file that used to take 75 seconds to be archived, now is completed in 48 seconds. Version 1.4 ------------ Fixes: The instructions on the restore screen were somewhat confusing. In this version, the information has been organized better. File sizes in file selection screens are right justified, to increase readability. If Stowaway detected a bad file during verification, it acknowledged the error and terminated with the message "All files verified OK." Despite this error, Stowaway still verified the files correctly and identified bad files. When verifying files twice in one session, Stowaway bypassed the disk mount message and began to read the disk without verifying that a disk was mounted. Enhancements: In any file selection screen, PGDN, PGUP, END, and HOME no longer "scroll." The screen instantly displays the desired line. This results in a tremendous speed difference when scrolling. In all file selection screens, 'T' tags all files and 'U' untags all files. While selecting files for archival, Sort by Extenstion is now available. In the archive file selection screen, F2 toggles the "Reset archive Attribute." This is designed so that Stowaway can turn off the DOS archive attribute, and effectivly "backup" a file. Chages in STOWAWAY version 1.30 ------------------------------- Fixes: If F3 was pressed to perform a DOS command, and then the user press ESC, Stowaway did not reupdate the help which resulted in an old help panel being displayed next time F1 was pressed. The main menu "Print order form" used two hotkeys that were the same: Ltp1 and Lpt2. While formatting a disk, the displayed cylinders formatted was 1 off - this was a cosmetic change only. Group names are now sorted case insensitive. While in manual file selection, directories that had numbers as names sorted above the <PARENT> and <ROOT>. Enhancements: Some users expressed a desire to be able to toggle the textured background on and off. This is available in the "Set alternate colors" menu. Also, shadow colors are switched to black if textured background is off. Stowaway now provides a facility to view the files which have been archived. This enables the user to quickly and easily verify what files have been archived. While selecting files in archive file selection, STOWAWAy "remembers" the location of the highlight bar if you switch to an alternate directory. Then, when returning to the original directory, the highlight bar is returned to the original location. If files are tagged for archival, and ESC is hit, Stowaway will confirm the action. Added a menu option in the utilities to display archive statistics. This options shows active, deleted, and expired files, compression ratio and more. When tagging a directory, the "Yes No" prompt was not standard. Changed to the button type "Yes No" message. Added F1=HELP reminders to all the headers. WordStar conrol keys are now available in all file selection screens Changes in Stowaway version 1.20: -------------------------------- Fixes: Stowaway did not properly save the indexes to disk when using an alternate ID. This posed no threat to the integrity of the data. When using the automatic disk formatting capability, Stowaway did not properly display the format message on the second disk. Archiving in auto mode would abort before completing. All data was intact and unthreatened though.