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- AVIEW V4.8 (09-May-1995) Beta-C, Public beta release (Minor bug-fix)
-
- - Fixed hang-up-bug when exiting AVIEW.
- - Fixed some cosmetic bugs.
- - Fixed some bugs in overlayed version of AVIEW.
-
- --[ New features in older Beta's of V4.8 ]-------------------------------------
- - You can print an archive-list by pressing SHIFT-F10.
- - Added command NOENVTEMP to .CTL-file to ignore the TEMP environment-variable.
- - Added /NT parameter to ignore the TEMP environment-variable.
- - Now up to 32 virus-scanners can be defined.
- - Fixed bugs with ALT-F3/F4 (Alternate view/edit) in archive-viewer.
- - Changed F4 (Filter) to CTRL-F2 in file-selector.
- - Added F4 (Edit) to file-selector.
- - Added ALT-F3 (Alternate view) to file-selector.
- - Added ALT-F4 (Alternate edit) to file-selector.
- - Fixed lots of bugs in the overlayed version of AVIEW.
- - Improved (lesser) memory usage of overlayed version of AVIEW.
- - Added an overlayed version of AVIEW, named AVIEWOVL.EXE, use this
- instead of AVIEW.EXE and AVIEW will take around 90 KB lesser memory,
- AVIEWOVL is slighty slower then the non-overlayed version.
- - Renamed SCANPROMPT parameter in AVIEW.CTL to ASKSCAN.
- - Added ASKEXIT command to AVIEW.CTL, when this command is used, AVIEW
- will ask if you are sure before exiting.
- - Added ASKDELETE command to AVIEW.CTL, when this command is used, AVIEW
- will ask if you are sure before deleting file.
- - In the file-manager now only the drives are shown when you are in
- the root-directory of any drive.
- - The right-arrow key in the file-manager will now enter a directory when
- the cursor-bar is on a directory-entry.
- - When pressing the left-arrow in the file-selector and the current-directory
- was the root, an error occurred, fixed.
- - Fixed all parameter-bus for ZOO, now all parameters work correctly.
- - Fixed some bugs when creating a new archive (ALT-F5 Comp) in the file-
- selector, the complete path of all the files were included, fixed.
- - Fixed some bugs in AVIEWNC.EXE and AVIEWNC4.EXE.
- - Fixed bug with 'double update' when a file in a archive was changed
- (edited or converted).
- - When a archive inside another archive was converted, the old-archive
- wasn't removed, fixed.
- - Added a text-file AVIEW.ME!, with information about the utilities i
- use as example in the sample AVIEW.CTL file.
- - My InterNet EMail address has changed into: cbuijs@xs4all.nl
- - NOTE: The VIEWER and EDITOR parameters are changed, they now need
- a full file-spec instead of only the extension, for example:
- VIEWER read.me or VIEWER *.me are now valid declarations.
- - Fixed bugs with Desqview/Windows detection.
- - Added IGNORE command to .CTL file, with this command you can define
- file-specs of files that MUST be viewed and not be tested if it is
- an archive.
- - Added xxx_to_xxx command to .CTL file to define external utility for
- converting from one archive-format to another, when this command is
- NOT used, AVIEW wil use it'w own build-in routines to convert the archive.
- - Rewrote archive-converting routines.
- - In the file-manager you can now also convert archives, you can also
- tag a bunch of files and convert them in one batch.
- - Added extracting with Password/Garble support, only ZIP, ARJ and RAR
- archives are supported at the moment.
- - Added xxxPASSWORD commands to AVIEW.CTL to define the parameters to
- use to supply a password to the archiver.
- - Fixed some problems with recognizing SQZ archives.
- - Fixed error 11 (Division by zero).
- - When the environment-variable TEMP exists, AVIEW will take the path
- given as TEMPPATH.
- - When the environment-variable AVIEW exists, AVIEW will also process the
- parameters given with it.
- - My Inter-Net address (to fido) has been changed to:
- Chris.Buijs@p16.f407.n280.z2.gds.nl
- - My BBS has a new modem, the BBS now supports 2400 -> 28800 Baud,
- HST, V32, V32Bis, V42, V42Bis, VFast and V34 (BBS: +31-75-704890).
- - Sometimes after using fast-key-search a 'lost' cursor-bar was on the
- screen and the list was screwed up, fixed it.
- - When a archive contains loooooooong paths, AVIEW would generate an
- error, this is fixed.
- - Fixed some ARJ/ZIP/RAR detection bugs (normal and SFX archives).
- - In the file-selector you can now press the back-slash (\) to jump
- directly to the ROOT directory.
- - In the file-selector when you are in a sub-directory, you can go back
- one directory by pressing the left-arrow key (you don't have to stand
- on the double dot (..)).
- - I can now also be reached by FAX (FAX: +31-75-704890).
- - Fixed lots of bugs in the help-screens, they now work properly.
- - WHen going to the main or index help-screen, the help-screen-stack is
- now cleared (no more pressing ESC six thousand times).
- - When TEMPREMOVE was used, an 'Access denied' error occurred, FIXED.
- - Fixed mouse-detection bug, when no mouse-driver was loaded, AVIEW would
- bleep all the time, fixed.
- - If an error occurred between conversion of one archive-type to another,
- the source archive was deleted and the target archive wasn't created or
- was zero bytes in length, this is fixed, now when an error occurres, AVIEW
- will report so and the original archive is kept intact.
- - Beter/faster self-extracting archive detection.
- - Fixed RAR-Recognition bug (in beta).
- - Fixed some cosmetic bugs.
- - Fixed file-date bug.
- - Removed ZOOMSPEED command from AVIEW.CTL.
- - Added NOSNOW command to AVIEW.CTL when used, AVIEW will suppress snow
- on (old) CGA-Cards.
- - AVIEW now recognizes archive-types much faster, totally rewrote
- and optimized the recognition-routines.
- - Updated AVIEWNC.EXE and AVIEWNC4.EXE, now RAR is also supported (forgot).
- - This is almost a complete rewrite of lots of the routines in AVIEW,
- almost all video, mouse and archive-routines have been rewritten
- and optimized, AVIEW now uses up to 80 KB LESSER memory then V4.7, and
- AVIEW is faster too.
- - AVIEW better checks if EMS/XMS is availble.
- - AVIEW now also uses conventional memory when no EMS/XMS is used, when
- not enough conventional memory is availble then disk-memory is allocated.
- - Improved ARJ-Archive-detection.
- - Updated manuals and help-screens.
-
-
-
-
- AVIEW V4.7 (13-Aug-1994) MAJOR RELEASE
-
- - Optimized memory-swapper.
- - Remove default respone-char for ZOO, ZOO doesn't support response-files.
- - Added F2 key to help-screens, acts like ESC (back one help-screen), so
- that you can flip back with the mouse.
- - Right mouse-button now also works like ESC in help-screens.
- - Added mouse-support to the prompt-dialogs.
- - Changed parameters of sample-virus-scanner for correct operation.
- - Now up to 64 viewers or/and editors can be defined instead of 20.
- - As default, AVIEW now uses for RAR the parameter -o+ for overwriting
- existing files.
- - Removed virus-scanning between conversion of an archive.
- - Added command SCANPROMPT to .CTL file, when this statment is used,
- AVIEW asks you if you want to execute the virus-scanner after
- extracting files from an archive.
- - Added mouse-support to the help-screens.
- - The up/down cursor-keys now work correctly in the help-screens.
- - AVIEW is now availble at InterNet via FTP:
- ftp.iaccess.za:/pub/bbsing/aview/ncav*.zip (or .exe).
- - Added CRC for UC2 archives to listing.
- - Descending sorting now only sorts the file-entries in the file-selector.
- - AVIEW now handles/detects spawned archives correctly.
- - Optimized/improved archive-detection routines.
- - AVIEW now automatically uses virtual-disk-memory when not enough EMS/XMS
- memory is availble.
- - AVIEW now sorts the archive-list after ALT-L (Alternate lay-out) is
- pressed.
- - PAK SFX Archives are now correctly detected.
- - Some SFX archives could not be recognized (mostly ZIP archives), AVIEW
- now correctly handles/detects all SFX archives.
- - Added support for SFX files, you can nor convert to or create a
- SFX archive.
- - Added SFX commands to .CTL file for creating SFX files, see the sample
- .CTL file and manual for more information.
- - Sometimes drive/directory-entries in the file-selector had a date/time,
- this is fixed.
- - Added -stdout parameter to RAR command-lines to suppress RAR-screens.
- - Added EMS/XMS support, AVIEW now runs with 256KB conventional and a
- minimum of 32 KB EMS or XMS memory.
- - Problems with paths and volume-labels in ZIP files are solved.
- - Added ALT-S to file-selector for sort-menu.
- - Added NOEMS and NOXMS commands to AVIEW.CTL to force AVIEW to
- not use any EMS or XMS memory.
- - Added /NE and /NX parameters to force AVIEW to not use any
- EMS or XMS memory.
- - Archive-lister now can handle up to 8192 entries.
- - File-selector now can handle up to 16384 entries.
- - Fixed some small bugs.
- - Updated manuals and help-files.
- - When files didn't had any extension, they dissapeared, fixed.
- - Fixed bugs with HYPER and PAK archive-reading, it now works correctly.
- - Added full RAR-Support (new russion archiver).
- - Added test-option for archivers (ALT-F7 in file-manager).
- - Added archive-test-options to .CTL file (see sample .CTL file and docs
- for more information).
- - Fixed bug with extract-path, AVIEW always asked for a extract-path, even
- when a default-path was defined.
- - AVIEW now only checks file-internals for archive-type, extension-checking
- is only done when internal-check fails.
- - With ESC file-scanning and list-sorting can be interrupted.
- - ALT-X will do an immidiate exit from AVIEW to DOS.
- - Fixed the 'hanging-bug'.
- - Added internet-address to end-screen and documentation for replies.
- - Added ALT-F6 (DeCompress) to file-manager, with this key you can
- decompress archives without viewing them.
- - .COM SFX-Files are now handled correctly.
- - Fixed startup-beeping (I hope!?), in some situations, on some machines
- AVIEW started up with a black screen and a lot of beeping, i hope this
- is fixed (LET ME KNOW!).
- - Fixed a bug with the sound-routines when a virus was found.
- - Added DesqView and Windows support, when DV or Windows are active,
- AVIEW will give back any unused time-slices, this results in a much
- faster multitasking-environment, speeding up the other tasks.
- - You can now tag files/directories in the file-selector and press
- ALT-F5 to add them to a newly created archive, in other words: you
- can now create new archives from within the file-selector.
- - Rewrote file-sharing routines, AVIEW now works faster in a
- network-environment.
- - Fixed some small bugs.
- - Updated manuals/help-screens.
- - Fixed some minor cosmetic bugs.
- - Updated manual and help-file.
-
-
-
- AVIEW V4.6 (12-Mar-1994) MAJOR RELEASE
-
- - Fixed AVIEW ERROR 55 (File already open).
- - Fixed DOS-ERROR 31, was a result on the AVIEW ERROR 55.
- - Fixed some minor bugs.
- - Archive-reading speeded up (about 10% against V4.51).
- - Added NOxxx commands for dis-abling archivers.
- - The total compressed size was calculated from all compressed sizes in
- the archive, now AVIEW will take the file-size of the archive as total
- compressed size, this will reflect the TRUE compression-ratio of the
- archive-file against all uncompressed files in the archive-file.
- - Updated documentation, control and help files.
-
-
- AVIEW V4.51 (11-Feb-1994) MINOR UPDATE
-
- - Sometimes AVIEW created invalid tempry files, resulting in some
- 'file already open' or 'file cannot be opened' errors, this is
- fixed.
- - Some tempry files weren't closed correctly after use, resulting
- in 'file already opened' errors, this is fixed.
- - Fixed some bugs in the command-line-parse routines.
- - When AVIEW is finished the original directory AVIEW was started
- from is restored.
- - Added some progress-bars to some 'busy' screens.
- - Added /W parameter to force AVIEW to wait on a keypress after each
- external utility executed.
-
-
- AVIEW V4.5 (09-Feb-1994) MAJOR RELEASE
-
- - Added UC2 (Ultra-Compressor II) support.
- - Rewrote AVIEWNC.EXE and AVIEWNC4.EXE, they now work correctly, they
- now also detect if AVIEW was already installed and will do an update
- instead of a replacement.
- - 75 % of all code that wasn't written in assembler now is, AVIEW is
- compacter, uses lesser memory, and is much faster, AVIEW runs about
- 15% faster (overall performance).
- - All file operations are about 10% faster (most notable on networks).
- - All archive operations are about 15% faster.
- - All sorting routines are about 5% faster.
- - Totally rewrote all memory-routines, no 'strange' memory-errors anymore,
- AVIEW also uses much lesser memory for the same operations in V4.4 or
- prior.
- - The overlayed version of AVIEW is not longer needed anymore,
- development is discontinued.
- - Fixed lots of bugs in the help-screen-routines, they now work correctly.
- - Sometimes when AVIEW tried to determine the archive-type of a non-sfx
- exe-file and error 63 occurred, this is fixed.
- - Fixed some bugs in the mouse-routines.
- - Fixed some bugs in the sort-routines.
- - Fixed some bugs in the command-line routines, when a filename with
- wildcards (* and/or ?) was supplied, some strange errors would occurr,
- this is fixed.
- - Removed UMB support, AVIEW now doesn't uses UMB anymore, too many
- problems.
- - Removed NOEMS, NOUMB and NOXMS keywords from .CTL file, AVIEW now
- automatically determines the best settings.
- - Removed /NE, /NU and /NX parameters.
- - Implemented 'fastkeys' like the norton-commander, when in a listing
- you can use the alpha-numeric keys to jump to a file-entry fast,
- the difference with the Norton Commander is that you don't have to
- hold the ALT key when typing.
- - AVIEW now also sorts on file-name when sorting on file-extension.
- - Detection of SFX files is faster.
- - Added SHOWSPECIAL keyword to the .CTL file, when this command is used,
- AVIEW will show special/hidden files in the archive-list, at the moment
- only the Ultra-Compressor supports this.
- - Added TEMPREMOVE keyword to the .CTL file, when this command is used,
- AVIEW totally remove the TEMPPATH directory including all it's contents
- when AVIEW is finished.
- - Updated the manual.
- - Updated the help-file.
-
-
- AVIEW V4.4 (15-Jan-1994) BUG-FIX RELEASE
-
- - There was a terrible bug in V4.3 which caused a error 7 or 14 for no
- reason at all, AVIEW allocated too much memory then needed, about 3 to 4
- times to much, this is fixed.
-
-
- AVIEW V4.3 (08-Jan-1994) OFFICIAL RELEASE
-
- - Added full support for HYPER (.HYP).
- - Added full support for Squeeze (.SQZ).
- - Rewrote the AVIEWNC.EXE and AVIEWNC4.EXE installation utilities, they now
- work correctly, they are also updated to support HYPER and Squeeze.
- - Optimized mouse-routines.
- - Optimized sorting routines.
- - Optimized file-listing routines, scrolling/selecting is now 250% faster.
- - Optimized archive-reading routines.
- - The standard version of AVIEW now uses about 25 KB lesser conventional
- memory.
- - The overlayed version of AVIEW now uses about 48 KB lesser conventional
- memory.
- - Some archivers are case-sensitive on file-names, AVIEW converted all
- filenames to upper-case, now AVIEW uses the original case.
- - When asking for an extract-path, AVIEW now uses as default the
- current directory.
- - You can now specify wildcards in a filename on the command-line, AVIEW
- will use the wildcards as filter for the file-selector.
- - You can now use a filter in the file-selector (F4), you can specify
- a filter to show for example only *.ZIP files.
- - You can now specify only a drive as extract-path, the active directory
- of that drive will be taken as extract-path (fixed).
- - Asc/Descending sorting function (CTRL-F1) now works correctly (fixed).
- - Added sort-options to the file-selector for sorting on filename, size and
- date/time.
- - Added CTRL-F keys for sorting to the file-selector.
- - Added FSSORT command to the .CTL file for defining the default sorting in
- the file-selector.
- - Added /C<Ctl-File> parameter, now you can define the CTL-File to use, for
- example: AVIEW file.ext /CC:\NORTON\AVIEW2.CTL.
- - Added detection when AVIEW is already running, AVIEW can not be started
- in a AVIEW dos-shell anymore.
- - When selecting drive A: or B: in the file-selector, AVIEW now first check
- if there is a readable diskette inserted.
- - Fixed some minor bugs.
- - Updated manuals.
- - Updated help-text.
-
-
- AVIEW V4.2 (14-Dec-1993) OFFICIAL RELEASE
-
- - There are now two flavors of AVIEW, a standard executable, and an
- overlayed one, the overlayed one is especially designed to work on
- 386/486 machines with EMS, XMS or/and UMB's, the overlayed version
- uses about 64 KB lesser conventional memory then the standard-version.
- - Added a complete new help-system, with hyper-help style options.
- - Added parameters /NE, /NU and /NX to tell AVIEW not to swap to EMS, UMB
- or XMS.
- - Added parameters /A and /D for ascending/descending sorting.
- - Added parameters /SC, /SD, /SE, /SM, /SN, /SO, /SR and /SU for defining
- the key to sort on.
- - Added parameter /NP to tell AVIEW to not extract any path-information
- from an archive.
- - Added parameter /NV to tell AVIEW to not check for any viri.
- - Added NOEMS, NOUMB and NOXMS commands to AVIEW.CTL to tell AVIEW not
- to swap to EMS, UMB or XMS.
- - Added SWAPPATH command to AVIEW.CTL for defining the directory where
- AVIEW must write it's swapfiles in.
- - Added NOPATHS command to AVIEW.CTL to tell AVIEW not to extract any
- path-information from an archive.
- - Rewrote all swap-routines.
- - Resorting/rereading of the archive-list now only happens when the
- archive has changed.
- - Added ALT-F2 key for extracting to EXTRACTPATH without the path-information
- in the archive.
- - Fixed some small bugs.
-
-
-
- AVIEW V4.1 (18-Nov-1993) OFFICIAL RELEASE
-
- - Totally rewrote the routines for manipulating files, now AVIEW works
- correctly on network-based files (shared).
- - Enhanced the error-messages for the archivers, when an archiver gives an
- error, AVIEW will now explain what the error means instead of displaying
- the error-level returned by the archiver.
- - Rewrote all the sorting-routines, sorting is done faster now.
- - When there was not enough memory, the sort-routines would generate a
- memory error, this is fixed, the sort-routines now check memory while
- sorting.
- - The file-selector now sorts the file-listing correctly on filename.
- - Changed some colours to represent the colours used in the Norton Commander.
- - Removed the /N parameter, and the NOSWAP option in the AVIEW.CTL file.
- - Changed the default virus-scanner in AVIEW.CTL from McaFee's scanner to
- the Thunderbyte scanner which consume MUCH lesser memory and is MUCH
- faster.
- - Fixed some spelling mistakes.
- - Rewrote some AVIEW-Routines to optimize memory usage.
- - Fixed some memory-usage bugs.
- - Fixed lots of minor bugs.
-
-
-
- AVIEW V4.0 (10-Oct-1993) OFFICIAL RELEASE
-
- Well, this will be the last release of AVIEW for now, i'm now going to
- concetrate for a couple of months on some other projects, this means not
- that i will not fix any bugs when found or add new features.
-
- New features/fixes in V4.0:
-
- - Added LPT3, COM3 and COM4 for file printing, printing goes now via DOS/BIOS.
- - Maximum number of files per archive is now 1024.
- - Maximum number of files in file-selector now is 1536.
- - File-sizes now only are shortened to MB/GB only when greater then
- 9999999 bytes.
- - When file-sizes are shortend, now tenths of MB/GB are also shown.
- - Instead of MB/GB now only M/G is added to shortend file-sizes.
- - Added SHIFT-F7 for creating a new file to add to archive, you can choose
- an editor for creating a new file (Default is FILE_ID.DIZ).
- - Slightly faster sorting.
- - Slightly faster archive-reading.
- - When converting went wrong, original archive was deleted, this is fixed!
- - The archive list is now only re-readed when resorting the list or when the
- archive has been changed, this means instant access to the archive-list
- after a file-view (F3), list-layout (ALT-L) change or switching between
- 25 or ega/vga lines (ALT-F9).
- - When viewing the root-dir in the file-selector, the double point (..) for
- selecting the previous directory was shown, this is fixed.
- - Updating of archives is now only done when the file/archive to update has
- been changed after an edit.
- - Creating an unpack-directory in the current directory now also works, just
- enter a directory-name without path when pressing SHIFT-F2.
- - Added shadows to popup-windows.
- - Right mouse-button now acts as a (de)select key, like in Norton Commander.
- - Added DATEFORMAT parameter to .CTL file for defining the file-date-format.
- - Faster scrolling in archive-list and file-selector.
- - Fixed some mouse-button problems.
- - When the temppath does not exist, AVIEW will now try to create it.
- - When the extractpath (both default and entered), does not exist, AVIEW will
- now try to create it.
- - Some minor cosmetic changes.
- - Updated manuals.
-
-
-
- AVIEW V3.51 (05-Oct-1993) BUG-FIX RELEASE
-
- - This release fixes the bug which occurrs after a file view/edit, AVIEW
- exited with an error (Trying to remove current directory), now it works
- okay again.
-
-
-
- AVIEW V3.5 (05-Oct-1993) OFFICIAL RELEASE
-
- - The CONVERT option (F5) is now fully operational (at last!), when
- a virus-scanner is defined, AVIEW will use the scanner between conversion
- to check for virusses.
- - Added print-option, press SHIFT-F9 on a file and the file will be
- extracted from the archive and printed.
- - Brought back the maximum number of viewers/ediors to 20.
- - AVIEW now does a beter check on errors after unpacking files before
- printing/viewing/editing.
- - When an error was detected after a view or edit, AVIEW returned an
- archive error instead of a view/edit error, this is fixed.
- - In some situations the file-selector would show some files more then once
- in the list, this is fixed.
- - All DOS-Functions are now correclty monitored for any errors, so when
- AVIEW created/deletes/moves files/directorys and an error occurres, AVIEW
- now detects it correctly and will give a full error-message.
- - Tempory directorys now are now completly erased when not needed anymore,
- all files and subdirectorys in the tempory directory and the tempory
- directory itself are completly deleted when not needed anymore by AVIEW.
- - The delete function in the file-selector now also removes directorys which
- are not empty.
- - Because the tempory directorys are erased entirly, the use of the
- BACKUP command in the AVIEW.CTL file is no longer needed, the
- command is removed from AVIEW.
- - Added ALT-F3 function key for viewing files, same as F3 but now you can
- select the viewer you want to use from the viewers list.
- - Added ALT-F4 function key for editing files, same as F4 but now you cam
- select the editor you want to use from the editors list.
- - Sometimes AVIEW would not switch correctly back to text-mode after an
- graphical viewer was used, now it does.
- - Added -E parameter as default to the ARJ Update command.
- - Speeded up some routines.
- - Updated help-screens.
- - Updated manuals.
-
-
-
- AVIEW V3.4 (26-Sep-1993) OFFICIAL RELEASE
-
- - AVIEW now uses memory in a different way, i tried to squeeze as much out
- of availble memory, this resulted that in combination with NC V4.0 and
- AVIEW, only 570 KB of free memory is needed instead of 610 KB, the
- virus-scanner (McaFee) will not work because the scanner will need about
- 300 KB free memory and we simply don't have it under NC V4.0 (when will
- this darn BUG be fixed by symantec?, simply SWAP out of memory before
- executing a viewer, cannot be a hard thing to do, it also happens when
- an editor is executed).
- The Thunderbyte scanner will work okay because of lesser memory usage.
- - AVIEW will shrink the allocation of the file-selector and archive list when
- not enough memory is availble, when a directory or archive contains more
- files then AVIEW can fit in memory, AVIEW will say so and only read the
- files which do fit into memory.
- - Maximum number of viewers is now 32.
- - Maximum number of files in archive is now 512.
- - Maximum number of files in file-selector is now 1536.
- - Fixed the bug with selection-bar at startup when an archive only contained
- one file.
- - Now up to 32 editors can be defined for files like the viewers.
- - When sizes of files are bigger then a mega-byte or gigabyte, AVIEW will
- automatically add MB or GB and will divide the size by 1 MB or GB.
- - The File-selector-list is now sorted on name.
- - Faster sorting (about 350%), the archive-list is now sorted when reading
- the file-info from an archive.
- - Added key CTRL-F1 for switching between ascending/descending sorting.
- - Added key CTRL-F2 for extracting to current path.
- - Added key CTRL-F3 for sorting on name.
- - Added key CTRL-F4 for sorting on extension.
- - Added key CTRL-F5 for sorting on original size.
- - Added key CTRL-F6 for sorting on compressed size.
- - Added key CTRL-F7 for sorting on ratio.
- - Added key CTRL-F8 for sorting on date/time.
- - Added key CTRL-F9 for sorting on method.
- - Added key CTRL-F10 for unsorted.
- - Added key ALT-F9 for EGA/VGA lines toggle (like NC).
- - Fixed bug with 35 lines on screen under EGA, an error 5 occurred because
- AVIEW would switch to 43 line mode in VGA, fixed.
- - Added UNSORTED option to SORT in the AVIEW.CTL file.
- - Using SHIFT/CTRL or ALT function-keys with mouse work now correctly, AVIEW
- would default to unshifted function keys when you pressed down SHIFT/CTRL
- or ALT and clicked on a function-key, fixed.
- - Fixed some minor bugs.
- - Updated help-screens.
- - Updated manuals.
-
-
-
- AVIEW V3.3 (11-Sep-1993) OFFICIAL RELEASE
-
- - Speeded up some sort-routines, about 5-15%.
- - Speeded up the fast-keys routines in the menu's en lists.
- - Speeded up building-up the file-lists.
- - Archives are now readed faster, an archive was opened/closed several times
- when scanning for information, this now only happens once.
- - The selection-bar in the file-selector is now 'sticky', when going up in
- the directory-tree, the file-selector will place the selection-bar onto the
- directory you came from instead at the top of the file-list.
- - After selection a file from the file-selector and returning after viewing
- a file, the selection-bar is placed on the file instead at the top of
- the file-list.
- - Added NOSWAP parameter to .CTL file for forcing AVIEW not to swap itself
- out of memory when executing an external utility.
- - Added ALTERNATELAYOUT parameter to .CTL file for selecting an alternate
- file-list-layout in the archive-file-list as the default, this alternate
- layout shows less information but shows the full path of each file, this
- can also be toggles in AVIEW with ALT-L.
- - Added /N parameter for forcing AVIEW not to swap itself out of memory when
- executing an external utility.
- - You can no toggle between two kinds of list-layouts in the archive-lister,
- press ALT-L to toggle.
- - Fixed a typo in the sample AVIEW.CTL file, the command for deleting files
- from a ZIP-File used the parameter d instead of -d.
- - Updated help-screens.
- - Updated manuals.
-
-
-
-
- AVIEW V3.2 (04-Sep-1993) OFFICIAL RELEASE
-
- - Well after lots of debugging AVIEW will now work correctly under NC V4.0
- (Pfew...), AVIEW now doesn't use any fixed size memory-allocation schemes
- anymore, but instead it looks how many memory is free and will adjust the
- memory-allocation to fit the free-memory.
- - The error 9 is fixed, the .CTL file-reading routine contained a bug which
- used an incorrect variable.
- - Removed the startup-banner of AVIEW for speed.
- - Removed the paths of the filenames in the archive-list, now only the
- file-names are shown, when extracting the path-info will still be used.
- - Added compression-ratio information to the archive-list.
- - Added CRC information to the archive-list.
- - When the SORT command is NOT used in the .CTL file, AVIEW will NOT sort
- the archive-list, this will speed-up AVIEW on large archives dramatically.
- - Added UNSORT and RATIO sort to the sort-menu.
- - Added RATIO keyword to the SORT command in the .CTL file.
- - When an error occurres AVIEW will now give full information instead of a
- error-number.
- - Added an extra check for the TEMPPATH directory, when the directory doesn't
- exist (ramdrive not active or something like that), the root-directory of
- the drive AVIEW is started from is used, AVIEW uses this directory to create
- directorys and response-files in.
- - Speeded up lots of routines, AVIEW operates 20% faster now.
- - Fixed some minor bugs.
- - Updated manuals.
-
-
-
-
- AVIEW V3.1a (29-Aug-1993) BUG-FIX RELEASE (Not really a bug!)
-
- - Well, under Norton Commander V4.0, AVIEW didn't got any enough memory when
- using it with F3, when the view option in NC V4.0 is used, NC stays in
- memory, all 384 KB, this leaves not enough memory for AVIEW to execute
- some external utilitys (ARJ, SCANNER etc.), or even in some cases to
- execute AVIEW itself.
- AVIEW swappes itself out when executing an external utility (it always did),
- leaving only 2 KB of AVIEW in memory for swapping back, this still wasn't
- enough, several users reported error 5, 7 and 9, which all are memory
- errors, so i optimized AVIEW a lot, and made the code compacter, V3.1a will
- run under NC V4.0 when you use the view (F3) function, the only problem i
- discovered was that the virus-scanner cannot be run, (SCAN from McaFee,
- needs about 390 KB free).
- I've tested AVIEW with NC V3.0 and that combination works without any
- problems.
- You'll need about 600 KB free memory to run NC V4.0 and AVIEW together
- without any errors (if you use F3 to startup AVIEW).
- - A solution: (not a nice one), install AVIEW.EXE as external EDITOR and
- use F4 (or ALT-F4) to startup AVIEW, NC V4.0 will swap and enough memory
- will be availble, i think this is a major BUG in NC V4.0, the viewers are
- the only thing NC V4.0 will not swap for, maybe this is configurable?, I
- couldn't find something in the docs so i don't think so.
- - If some-one has any suggestions for resolving this problem, please let me
- know, i'm reachable on my BBS or CompuServe: Chris Buijs, 100117,3242.
-
-
-
-
- AVIEW V3.1 (28-Aug-1993) OFFICIAL RELEASE
-
- - Added parameters to AVIEW, /? for help, /M for monochrome operation,
- /25, /35, /40, /43 and /50 for number of lines per screen to use.
- - When started in the file-selector (startup AVIEW without parameters or
- only with a drive or path, thus no filename), the file-selector will act
- as shell, so when finished viewing a selected file, you'll return to the
- file-selector.
- - Added more information to the file-selector, now the size, date, time and
- attributes of a file is shown.
- - At the top of the file-selector now the current directory is shown.
- - The file-selector now also has his own function-key-bar at the bottom of
- the screen.
- - You can now tag/untag directory/file entrys in the file-selector, simply
- press INS or SPACE for tagging/untagging per file, or the gray +, gray -
- or gray * for wilcard tagging.
- - You can now enter a new drive and/or directory in the file-selector with F2.
- - You can now rename files/directorys in the file-selector with F6.
- - You can now create directories in the file-selector with F7.
- - You can now delete files in the file-selector with F8 or DEL.
- - You can now do a DOS-Shell from the file-selector with F9 or ALT-J.
- - The SORT option in the AVIEW.CTL file was ignored by AVIEW, it now works
- okay.
- - The maximum number of files in an archive is raised from 256 to 384.
- - The maximum number of files in the file-selector is raised from 512 to 1536.
- - The maximum number of viewers is raised from 16 to 64.
- - The drive-space check before extracting files didn't work correcltly, now
- it does.
- - AVIEW aborted some times with an error 14 at start-up, this has been fixed.
- - Fixed errors that occurred when files in an archive contained paths.
- - Updated files in an archive included the tempory-path from AVIEW, this
- is fixed.
- - Some errors didn't gave a beep, now it does.
- - AVIEW now uses maximum compression on updated-files.
- - The interface between AVIEW and the external archive-utilitys is now fully
- configurable, see the sample AVIEW.CTL for more info.
- - When an error occurres with an external archiver utility, AVIEW will now
- show the return-code.
- - When a filename in an archive contained a path, and there were
- forward-slashes used (ZIP), and error occurred, this is fixed.
- - Rewrited lots of archive-routines, they are now more compact and faster.
- - Added ARC support with PKPAK/PKUNPAK instead of PAK, PAK is still used for
- PAK files.
- - Added BACKUP command to RAFT.CTL for identifing backup-files created by
- the editor used in the edit-function, these backup-files are deleted after
- an edit/update now, so you can now also use editors which create
- backup-files.
- - ADDED SCREENMODE command to RAFT.CTL for defining number of lines per screen
- to use.
- - On EGA and VGA adapters, AVIEW now detects when the screen has more then 25
- lines and will automatically use them.
- - AVIEW detects SFX files faster now.
- - AVIEW reads the contents of archives faster now.
- - All files are opened shared now.
- - Cleaned up code
- - Updated help-screens.
- - Fixed some bugs in the user-interface.
- - Fixed some mouse bugs.
- - Beter memory support.
- - Optimized some archive routines.
- - Optimized the file/directory routines.
- - Updated the manuals.
-
-
-
- AVIEW V3.0 (23-Aug-1993) OFFICIAL RELEASE
-
- Well, after a crash i lost some bits of the source code of AVIEW, so i decided
- one day to rewrite the darn thing, after struggling with the code i did a
- couple of things, i rewrote totally the user-interface and the archive-
- routines, they are blazing fast now!
-
- The following things are new/changed since V2.0:
-
- - AVIEW now recognize ARC, PAK, LZH, ZIP, ZOO and ARJ files by looking into
- the internals of the file, also LZH, ZIP and ARJ self-extracting files can
- now be manipulated, strange file-extensions are not a problem anymore also.
- - An Archive can have now any file-extension, AVIEW will determine what type
- of archive it is by looking into the internals of the file.
- - Everything operates faster, the archive routines are speeded up dramatically.
- - Added mouse-support, you can now use AVIEW with a mouse.
- - Now you can define up to 16 viewers to use for viewing files from an archive,
- very handy for backups of pictures or documents (i use it myself :-).
- - Added NOMOUSE command to AVIEW.CTL, with this parameter you can force AVIEW
- to ignore a mouse when detected.
- - Added SORT command to AVIEW.CTL, with this parameter you can tell AVIEW how
- to sort the file-list as default.
- - The temppath is now used for creating tempory directorys in, the temppath
- can now be a any directory, only the tempory directorys in it will be
- deleted.
- - When AVIEW now is started without any parameters, or only with a path,
- a file-selector will be poped up, with this file-selector you can choose
- a file from any drive and/or directory.
- - Enchanced the sort-option, more sort-keys and you can sort ascending
- or descending.
- - The syntax of some commands in the .CTL file are changed, for external
- utilitys (VIEWER, EDITOR and SCANNER) you can now use a %F variable to pass
- the full path+filename off the file under the cursor-bar
- - SCANNERPARM in the .CTL file is gone, not needed anymore.
- - Added some keys, and some keys work differently.
- - Added an ADD function to add file(s) to the archive, press F7 to activate.
- - Added fast-keys to the menu's/file-list, jump to an entry by simply pressing
- the first charachter of the entry.
- - Added AVIEWNC.EXE utility for easy installation into Norton Commander
- versions prior to V4.0.
- - Added AVIEWNC4.EXE utility for easy installation into Norton Commander V4.0.
- - Operation of archives-in-archives is now much faster/beter, up to 16
- archives can be stacked in archives.
- - All operations will work now also on archive-in-archive, some functions in
- prior versions would only allow to update the head-archive, now all archives
- can be manipulated up to 16 deep.
- - Support for PKPAK and PKUNPAK has been removed, for ARC files now the PAK
- routines are used.
- - Some cosmetic changes (it is a rewrite).
- - On a input-box you can now press F2 for a file-selector, when selected a
- file, the full drive+path+filename is inserted into the input-box, so that
- you can select or edit it.
- - Some problems are fixed automatically because of the rewrite.
- - Updated the docs.
-
-
-
- AVIEW V3.0 (22-Aug-1993) PRE-RELEASE
-
- - Aaaarrrgghh!!, the wrong executable was packed in this package, DON'T USE
- IT!, it doens't work good at all!
-
-
-
- AVIEW V2.0 (31-Jan-1993)
-
- - Before extraction AVIEW now asks if you want to expand/create directorys
- that are included in an archive, you can now extract all files to one path,
- also the files that were originally in a subdirectory when packed.
- - When editing a file and NO was answered on the question to update the
- archive, AVIEW reported an incorrect error (Edited file cannnot be found),
- this is fixed.
- - When you convert an archive, AVIEW asks after converting if you want to
- delete the old archive.
- - When using Shift-F2, and only a drive was given as extraction-path an
- error occurred, this is fixed.
- - Drive-space is checked now before extraction and converting.
- - Removed some routines that were used double.
- - Fixed some minor bugs.
- - Updated the manual, some cosmetic changes also.
-
-
-
- AVIEW V1.95 (20-Jan-1993) BUG-FIX Release.
-
- - There was a serious bug in V1.9 when no EMS/XMS could be used for swapping,
- the swapper didn't opened a swapfile before swapping which resulted in an
- error, this is fixed.
- - Modified some colours so that it looks more like a norton viewer.
- - Modified some messages, now the appear in message-boxes.
-
-
-
- AVIEW V1.9 (17-Jan-1993)
-
- Sorry about the quick update, there were several things that could be done
- in a jiffy...
-
- - Optimized some menu/input and message routines.
- - Updated the swapper and fixed some small bugs in the file-swapper.
- - Added sort option (F6), now you can sort the listing on filename, date and
- size, default is filename.
- - The grey '+' and '-' keys now remember the last select/deselection strings.
- - When converting from ARC files, PKUNPAK was called for every file, now it
- goes in one pass (PKUNPAK is called once for all files).
- - The position of the selection-bar in the list isn't resetted to the first
- file anymore, the position is restored after an operation (Viewing/Editing/
- converting etc.).
- - Number and size of tagged files are now shown in upper status-bar.
- - Now you can use the current-path as extraction-path, just enter NO path.
- - ARJ files with security-envelopes are now also recognized.
- - When no EMS, XMS or disk-file could be used for swapping, a normal EXECUTE
- is perfomed without swapping, former AVIEW would exited with an error.
- - When a swapfile is used by the swapper, it is now put on the drive of the
- TEMPPATH instead of the current drive.
- - Updated the manual.
-
-
-
- AVIEW V1.8
-
- - Fixed a bug when AVIEW wanted to view an archive in the root-directory of
- a disk, the message 'File not found' appeared, FIXED!
- - When swapping between drives when unarchiving or converting, AVIEW sometimes
- forgot to which drive to return after the operation, the message
- 'File not found' or 'Path not found' appeared, FIXED!
- - Now you can only define a drive (e.d. C: or D: etc.) as temppath, a
- path is added automatically, the root-directory is not used anymore
- on the drive of the temppath.
- - Fixed bug with ZOO extractor, wrong parameter was used, only 'x' was
- used instead of '-e', FIXED!
- - When you pressed ESC after choosing the convert-option (F5), an
- 'access denied' would occurr in some situations, FIXED!
- - ARJ, LZH and ZIP Self-extracting archives can now also be processed.
- - Fixed lots of bugs in the EMS/XMS/Disk swapper, and made it faster too.
- - Added NOCOLOR command to AVIEW.CTL, handy for users with a LCD-Screen.
- - Fixed some minor (cosmetic) bugs.
- - Optimized some file-routines, AVIEW executes faster now (about 5 %).
- - Updated manual.
- - Added the file TODO.DOC.
-
-
-
- AVIEW V1.7
-
- - When only a file-name was given as parameter, the viewer and editor
- couldn't find the file you specified to view/edit, this is fixed.
- - The delete-function now also works on ZIP and ARC archives.
- - The tempory-directory AVIEW uses can now be freely defined, normally
- AVIEW would create one on the actual drive, this was not very handy
- when using AVIEW on a floppy-drive, the tempory-directory can be
- defined in the AVIEW.CTL file with the TEMPPATH command.
- - After a dos-shell, AVIEW returns to the directory before the dos-shell,
- this fixes the problems occurring after a dos-shell (lots of files
- couldn't be found).
- - The path+filename in the upper-leftcorner of the screen is now also
- truncated like the path+filenames of the archive when it gets to long.
- - ARJ and ZIP now uses maximum compression when used.
- - AVIEW now trys to swap to EMS, XMS or DISK before any program is
- executed or before a dos-shell.
- - All return-codes of the archivers and virus-scanner are now checked,
- and a message is displayed when something went wrong.
- - If the extraction-path does not exist it is created automatically.
- - Added Convert-option, now you can convert archives between ARC, ARJ, LZH,
- PAK, ZIP and ZOO with function-key F5.
- - Optimized lots of routines and fixed some minor bugs.
- - Updated the manual.
-
-
-
- AVIEW V1.6
-
- - Changed screen-layout, the colomn with the ratio and CRC are gone, instead
- the full path (when availble in an archive) and filename is shown.
- - When Shift-F2 (unpack) is pressed, AVIEW will always ask for an
- extraction-path before unpacking.
- - Fixed bug when using the wildcard (de)selection (grey + and -), when a
- file didn't had any extension, it couldn't be (de)select with the wildcard
- (de)selector.
- - The default viewer is now WPVIEW instead of LIST.
- - Gained some speed after optimisation.
- - Fixed some minor bugs.
-
-
-
- AVIEW V1.5
-
- - Changed name of archive from AVIEWnn.ARJ to NCAVnn.ARJ, there was already
- a utility called AVIEW with a higher version-number, so My AVIEW was
- removed from lots of BBSes because the sysops thought it was a old version.
- - Added .LHA and .SDN file recognition, now these files are also seen as
- archives.
- - Added support for a virus-scanner, now you can define a virus-scanner
- in the AVIEW.CTL file, this scanner wil be used on files unpacked with
- the unpack (F2) function.
- - Added SCANNER keyword to AVIEW.CTL for defining virus-scanner.
- - Added SCANNERPARM keryword to AVIEW.CTL for defining parameters for
- the virus-scanner.
- - Removed function-keys F6 (tag) and F7 (untag).
- - Added wildcard selection/deselection, press the grey + for wildcard
- selection, press the grey - for wildcard deselection.
- - By mistake the error-capture routine was switched off, this would generate
- some illigal error-messages in some cases, this is fixed.
- - Fixed some minor bugs.
- - Updated documentation
-
-
-
- AVIEW V1.4
-
- - Never released
-
-
-
- AVIEW V1.3
-
- - Added an edit-function (F4), when a file is edited, and your editor
- returns to AVIEW, the file in the archive is updated with the edited
- version, before updating, AVIEW prompts you with a yes/no question.
- - Added a control-file, AVIEW.CTL, must be in the same directory as
- AVIEW.EXE, you can define your own viewer, editor and default
- extraction-path in it.
- - Optimized some memory-routines
- - Fixed some minor bugs.
- - Updated the doc-file.
-
-
-
- AVIEW V1.2
-
- - Fixed a huge memory-bug, when an archive was viewed with lots of files
- a error 14 would occurr, this is fixed.
- - Memory-limits weren't checked, this sometimes resulted in a 'hang', this
- is fixed, all limits are checked.
- - Multiple file-extraction (tagged file) from ARC file works now also,
- in version 1.0 and 1.1 AVIEW only allowed one file to be extracted,
- this is fixed.
- - Added full error-handling and messages.
- - Added delete-function (F8).
- - Optimized some routines.
-
-
-
- AVIEW V1.1
-
- - When standing on the last entry in the file-list and you would
- press arrow-down, a strange jumping of the list occurred, this is fixed.
- - Now you can use all the cursor-keys (Home, End, Pgup, Pgdn, etc.).
- - The filelist is now sorted.
- - Now all archives unpack into the extraction-path you give, sometimes
- an archive was unpacked into the current directory, this is fixed.
- - Optimize some routines.
- - Updated documentation.
-
-
-
- AVIEW V1.0
-
- - Initial release.
-